The New York Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIOR N. W. COKNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Irauian Orkna— foxx Foo.'s Revenge. XUBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. WALLAOK'S THRATRS, Brosdway.—Moxsy. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway —Jupirs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Iuisa Exicnant— Lavemine Hyena NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Fuexcn Srr~ Lawpsmarks Axo Sea GULIS—JACK SUBPPARD—ANTONY AnD Cinorarna. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery —Poxr or Cvps0's Cave— No ORMINA—ALICN May. USEUM, Broadw wos, Wuat Is It, £0. as or Beauty Sand Ths a Pr BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way —Braiorian Songs, Danons, humsnsqves, Ao—Kun- muna THK BLOCKADs. OOD'S MINSTRRL HALL, 516 Broadway. er ee reicae Conene amerae Batuers, AMERICAN TREATRE, No. 444 Broadway. —! Parrowmes, Buxtasques. &c—OLv Guanny Grumry, BROADWAY AMPAITHEATRE, 485 Broadway.—Gru- suse ano Equestus Fiuroudances ne HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourtee: Dogs anv MONKxYs. Afternoon street. —PERPORMING id Kvening HOPE CHAPEL. 718 Broaaway.— Srenxoscorti Minnow oF Uxivense, axp TWRUTY seyrnTu BRENT GiiOse NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Comostrnes anv Leotunes, from 9 a. M. till 10 P.M HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Ermioriay Bonga, Dances, Buriesquus, &c. x WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Sacurday, April 9. 1864. THE SITUATION. A Jiltle more sunshine will put the roads in Virginia in Available condition for the contemplated movements, Parties of onginosrs and pioncers aro putting the damaged Dridges, whicm suffered from the recent flood, in order. Gonora! ee continues actively to strengthen his position by dofensive works on the south of the Rapidan. Our despatches from Fortress Monroe report a gunboat expedition to the Chickabominy of a mysterious character, which reached safely within fifteen miles of Richmond, and returned on Friday with forty negro prisoners. The Union gunboats had a fight with tho rebels at Hickman, Ky., on Tuesday, and captured some of them. ‘There is nothing further of importance from the south. went, It was rumored at Momphis that the rebel Forrest ‘was contomplating au attack on that place. CONGRESS. Our reports of the proceedings of Congress yesterday are interesi:ng aud important. ‘Ye the Senate the debate on the amecdment to the con- NEW YORK HEKALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1864.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. had full power under the aot of Congraas to reurove Mr. | Comgress, the Adiminigtvetion and the Opdyke, and that the Court had no right t> intorferé @ith the directors im the exercise of their discretion. The Court took the papers und reserved its decision, A meot- ing of (bo stockholders of this bank will be held oa Timreday next for the purpose of considering the matter of Mr. Opdyke's romoval and for (he traneaction of other important business. The case of John W. Hunter was yesterday again under examination before the United States Commissioner. Mr. Cisco, the Assistant Treasurer, was examined as a wit- hors. He gave some very important @vidence, The case stands adjourned till Monday next. Judge Miller, of the Supreme Court, is engaged in try- ing the caso of William H. Little va. Herrick & Son and others. The plaintiff claims that in May, 1863, he sold one bundred and fifty barrels of flour to a man namod Hicks; bat before the latter bad paid for the same he re- moved the property from the place whore it was stored, and transferred it to Messrs. Herrick & Son for a con- sideration, Hicks absconded immediately after this transaction, teaving Little completely in the luroh, and the flour was subsequently removed to the store of Sher- wood & Allen, who refuse to deliver it up to the plaintift unless ordered to do so by Herrick & Son. The latter claim that the flour came into their hands in the legiti- mate course of trade, and refuse to deliver it up, Tne cage is still on, In the Court of Common Pieas yesterday, before Judge Cardoza, the case of Brown’s Water Furnace Company vs. Richard French attracted some attention. The plaintifisa sue for a balance of dive hundred doliars-alleged vo be dae them in the construction of a heating apparatus {or the de- fendant’s house in Gramercy Pari. The defence set up 18 that the work was not done uccording to agreement, and that the defendant's house was never warm above the se- cond story. Mr. French says he suffered a great deal {rom the inconvenience, and was put to the expense of having grate fires through the upper part of his dwelling, which entailed an increased expense of no inconsiderable amount. The jury were unable to agree when the court adiourned for the day. Henry H. Morange vs. Stephen Burkhalter, in the Ma- Tine Court, before Judge Hearn, proved somewhat inter- esting. The plaintiff sought to recover five hundred dol- lars for services rendered the defendant as counsellor at- law. Burkhalter’s son, it appears, got into trouble with & woman vamed Eccleston, and was sued for abandon- ment, but, through the exertions of his lawyer, was re- lieved of the incubus and got a divorce. For successfully accomplishing this delicate task Morange asked sevon hundred dollars; but Burkhalter refused to give any more than three hundred, which ho had already paid on account. The jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, assessing the damages at four hundred and thirty dollars. Maria L, Lacroix obtained a verdict against the city in the Court of Common Pleas, before Judge Brady, vester. day, in consequence of injuries done her property by the July rioters, The plaintiff owned the premises No. 75 Roosevelt street, and claimed damage to the amount of fifteen hundred dollars, but through the exertions of Mr. Hackett, the Corporation Counsel, the amount was cut down to nine hundred and sixty doilars. ‘The will of Robert McClellan has been admitted to pro- bate. The testator bequeathed $2,500 to the Princeton Country. There are some signs in the tate proceedings’ of the two houses of an “irrepressibie conflict” between the present Congress and thp adminis- tration. In the unmeasured financial, military and civil powers voted to the President by the last Congress he was amply provided with the ways and means for bringing the war to a speedy conelusion. But in a military view, and financially and politically, he has signally failed. The leading members of the present Congress, who were the leading members of the last, thus finding him unequal to the great requirements of his position, are evidently re- solved to drop him, ard to act in reference to their legislative measures without consulting his peculiar whims and fancies, ; In this view the first and the moat urgently needed measure adopted at the present session was that which has resulted in placing Gencral Grant in the active command of all the armies of the United States. But a leading motive, if not the principal object, of the two houses in this measure was the dis- placement of General Halleck from tbe su- preme managing military bureau at Washing-, ton; and this object bas been defeated in the retention by the President of General Halleck at his side as his Chief of Staff. From this partial and qualified fulfilment—from this adroit evasion, we may say, of the purpose of the law—Mr. Lincoln has only added another to those frequent cases of offence in which he has construed or disregarded, enlarged or dimin- ished, the measures of Congress to suit his own ideas of expediency. It is not surprising, therefore, that, in con- tempt of his preposterous projects of emanci- pation and reconstruction, the Senate should proceed, as it has proceeded, to that broad, practical and comprehensive measure of the abolition of slavery through an amendment of the federal constitution. In this proceeding the Senate substantially warns Mr. Lincoln that his petty tinkering devices of emancipation will not answer, and that if he desires the abolition of slavery in the reconstruction ot the Union there is but one course to pursue—the course of action ordained in the supreme law ofthe land. Let us hope that this commenda- ble movement of the Senate will not be lost upon the administration, although our amiable President, in his rustic simplicity, may still ima- Theological Seminary. Wm. Donovan’s will has also been admitted. It contains charitable bequests of seve- ral small sums, amounting altogether to three hundred dollars to various Roman Catholic institutions. The great billiard match for the championshlp and one thousand dollars, between Dudley Kavanagh, of this city, and Philip Tieman, of Cincinnati, which came off at Irving Hall on Thursday night, resulted in a triumph for Kavanagh. The game (a carom one of one thousand five hundred pointe) was well contested, and produced uni- stitution, whereby slavery is to be forever prohibited | versal satisfaction among the thousands who witnossed ‘throughout the land, was coacladed, and after some futite eforta oa the part of its opponents to delay final action, the jcipt resolution of the Judiciary Committees was aaopted. A two-thirds volo was necessary to secure the success of tae measure, but the record stands as fol tows: — For tho amendment... ‘Against the amendinent 44 5 Powell, of Kontucky; Sauisbury aud Riddle, of Delaware; McDougall, of California; and Hendricks, of Indiana The absentees were Messrs. Buckalew, (opp.) of Pennsyl- o varlile, (opp ) of West Virginia; Hicks, (opp.) of Maryland, Richardson, (opp.) of Mlinois; and Wright, Copp.) of New Jersey. The Senate also adopted the bill repealing the first Section of the joint resolution authorizing the transfer of men from the army to the navy. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to provide for a national @urrency socurea by the pledge of United States stocks, and to provide for the circulation ard redemption thereo’. Tho bill is vearly the s»me as that proposed by Mr. Hooper io tbe House. {t was referred to the Committee on Finance, A bill regulating the foreign and coasting trade was referred to the Committee on Commerce. Seve- rai wowmportant subjects were introduced and appropri- ately diepoaed of, and the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives the bill providing for ‘the rection of a new jal! in the District of Columbia came up for consideration, and Mr. Patterson, of New Hampshire, and Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, induiged in ‘what pugitists would call a lively “turn up,” the former repudiating with scorn and contempt, &c., and hurling in ‘Mr. Weehburne’s teeth, the imputation that be supported & swindis in voting for an appropriation to purchase land in Charlestown for naval purposes, The Committee on Flectious reported that oeither Mr. Loan nor Mr. Bruce 45 entitled to represent the Seventh district of Mis souri, A minority roport, declaring Mr. Loan entitled & retain bis seat, was submitted. The Committee of Ways and Means were instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting a Dill laying ad valorem taxes on all sales of bonds, stocks. specte, merchandise of all descriptions, and on the re oeipts.of railroads, con!, gas and all other incorporated companies, The Senate bill extending the time for Stares to accept grants of Innd for agricuitural colieges was amended #0 as to include West Virginia in its provisions, and thon passed, The House then went into Committee Of tho Whote, and Mr. Long, of Obio, made a speech on the war, and in tho course of bis remarks boldly declared in favor of the recognition of the rebel confedera: en Garfield, of Ohio, replied with much patriotic warmth | ry Committee. the performance, Tieman wes beaten two hundred and thirty-five pointe. There was a breakdown in the share market yester- day, and the whole list, with the exception of Harlem, which advanced five per cent, declined from @ half to four and a baif. Very tittle was doing in the gold ex- change, and the quotations—169*; to 170—were merely nominal. Government securities were firm, and the five- twenties advanced to 112. Money was active at the full legal rate of interest. There was considerable activity in commercial circles yesterday, and the sales were fair in many articles, chiefly on speculation, at a higher range of prices. All imported commodities were firmer, and some were al. together higher, with some considerable business at the advanced prices. Groceries were firmer. Cotton was firm. Petrolevm was more active and higher, with a large busi- ness. On ’Change, the leading feature was the steady rise in flour, pork, whiakey and tallow, with large transac- tions in each. Wheat was Ic. a 2c. better, but not active, owing to the reduced supply. Corn was firmly held, but comparatively quiet from the same cause. Oats closed in favor of the buyer. Lard was firm, but not higher. Freighte were extremely dull. In fact, yesterday was conceded to be the dullest day in freights for mouths, Even at the present extremely low rates (which are not much better than those for ballast), it is bard to procure cargoes. The Abolition of Slavery by the Amend- ment of the Constitution. The views which the Heratp has so strongly urged for a long time past with regard to the constitutional abolition of slavery, as a neces- sity of the age, as well as a safeguard against the agitation stimulated by fanaticism for cor- rupt or dangerous purposes, have been most triumphantly endorsed by the vote in the Senate yesterday, on the report of the Judicia- The joint resolution amending the constitution so as virtually to abolish slave- | ty—if the lower house should concur in a two- | thirds vote—passed the Senate by a vote of | thirty-eight to six—the two Senators from Dela- ware, Saulsbury and Riddle: the two from Ken- McDougall, of Cali- fornia, and Hendricks, of Indiana, alone voting tucky, Powell and Davi: against it. It now remains to be seen whether the and eloquence. The discussion was continued till after six o'clock, when the House adjourned, THE LEGISLATURE. ‘Tho proceedings of the Legislature yesterday were un- usually igteresting, especially to those connected with city railroad projects. In the Senate the Committee on Railroads made a fa- vorable report on the bill authorizing the Harlem Rail road Company to iocrease its capital stock three millions of doliars and convert its mortgage bonds into stock ‘The game committee reported adversely upon the Broadway Underground and fThirty.second street Railroad projects, and aiso against the bili im Posing ® tax of ten per cent on the gross reoeipta of New York city railroads for the benefit ‘Of the city troasury. These adverse reports wore aid on the tabic. The Assembly bill to enable the Children's Aid Society of the city of New York to hold real and per- gona! estate was reported favorably; also the bill to tax dividends of Massachusetts stockboiderr in New York corporations, The Assembly bill regulating the mode for foldiers to east their votes was reported favora- bly, without amendment. A petition of Fawley D. Clapp & prisoner in Fort Lafayette, invoking the protection | of the State, was received and referred to the Judiciary Commities. The vote by which the Dill regulating wharves in New York that may be used by the Raritan aod Delaware Ratiroad was lost, was reconsidered, and the bili passed, The bills to amend the charter of the New York Medical College for Women; to amend the obartor of the Home Insurance Company of the city of New York, and that to incorporate the Erie Dock Com pany basin in the city of Brooklyn, were also passed. In the Assembly soveral bills were passed, among them One providing that divorces may be granted and mar- Fiages dissolved whenever there has been a wilful and Continued desertion of a wife by her husband, or of a bus band by bis wife, for ten consecutive years, provided Chore is at the time of the commencement of the action 00 living insue of the marriage MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The aumber of visitors to the Sanitary Fair yesterday, Doth in Fourteonth stroet and Union square, amounted to about thirty-four thousand. The gross receipts up to the present time are about $400,000. McClellan is eight pages @hoad in the sword contest, and last evening lead Grant by two hundred aod nine on yesterday's vote. ‘The dirootors of the Fourth Natioual Bank of this city ere seeking to remove thoir President, ex Mayor Upayke, and the matter came up in the Supreme Court Chambers yesterday, before Judge Pockham, on a motion made by Devid D, Field to enjoin the directors from removing Mr. Optyke from office. Judge Woodrufl, who appeared for Wg Raek end the directure, urs Wal Ue ashe House of Representatives will ratify the pro- gressive action of the Senate. We have great hopes that it will. Then the Legislatures of the different States, or State Conventions, as Congress may decide, will be called upon to pronounce as to the amendment of the conati- tution. This they must do bya vote of three- fourths of their number in order to make the action valid. Tue Repvpiican Convention.—There is a controversy in the republican party as to when its Convention shall be held for the nomination of acandidate for the next Presidency. The Republican National Committee has designated the 6th of June as the day on which the Con- vention shail be held; but some members of | that committee desire that it shall be held later, and there is a movement on foot to change the doy. Jt is supposed that those who are in favor of the Convention meeting in June, as desig- nated, favor the oomination of Lincoln; while those who favor the postponement are regarded as opposed to him, as the movement for postponement is regarded as @ movement to gain time for his defeat. All this controversy is fruitless, bootless and ridiculous. It makes no difference when the Convention meets, or whether it meets at all. Both this shoddy Convention of those in favor of Lincoln or another republican and the shent-per-shent Convention are bodies without constituente—bodies with whose organization the people have nothing to do, and as to whose actions the people are indifferent. Congress is the legitimate representative of the American people, entitled to speak for the people with authority, and to be heard over all the clamor of the corrupt coteries of contractors and placeholders; and the members opposed te the re-election, or even the renomination, of Lincoln should take such definite and unmis- takable action on this mastey ay will eugersede Aye Gunrantion, gine that his way is better than the constitutional’ way of action. In any event, it is a matter of satisfaction that the Senate has resolved to fol- low his abolition jack-o’-lanterns no longer. The House of Representatives, next, in its late emphatic and unanimously adopted resolution against the Napoleonic seizure of Mexico, has not only given great satisfaction to the country, but has administered a deliberate rebuke against the namby-pamby, wish-washy foreign policy of the administration. The House de- clares that we have had too much of this, and that the country is strong enough, and ready, even with this great rebellion upon its hands, to maintain its dignity before the nations of Europe. If this administration cannot be bronght to face these responsibilities it must be superseded. This is really the position of the House of Representatives, without a dissenting voice. In yet another matter—the new Tax bill -the House is laboring to extricate the country from its perils without special regard to the policy of the administration—the foolish policy of put- ting off the payment of its debts. A new Tax bill to the extent of three or four hundred millions will give something of substantial value to our Treasury notes. Nothing else will keep them from depreciating to a fearful collapse. A general bank bill is a mere matter of form, and will afford no solid relief in any shape short of taxation. But there is yet one thing, and the most important of all, upon which this Congress is called to act, and without further delay. We mean this thing of setting aside this blundering and incompetent administration, beginning with Abraham Lincoln. There is but a sorry pros- pect that, under his management, the Union will be restored or the war ended by March, 1865, or by March, 1869. Why, then, with this opinion evidently pre- dominant in both houses—why is it that there is no movement in either to secure an acceptable Union candidate for the succession? Why wait upon that self-constituted and irresponsible gathering of vagrant politicians known as the National Party Convention! Let it be super- seded and abolished by the independent action of the responsible representatives of the people in Congress. Why not? A general caucus of the war and Union members of both houses, regardless of party lines, could in a single sit- ting do away with all the packed conventions appointed upon this business. Let Congress, then, while about it, make thorough work of the present incapable administration by pro- viding for the people the candidate and the op- portunity for a complete reform. We have had twenty-cight years of these con- vention nominated Presidenta, and every one of them bas been a failure; till here we are, in the midst of the most terrible war in the his- tory of mankind. Now let us have a change. Tue Strme Question.—The excitement cre- ated amongst the working classes by the bill now before the Legislature prohibiting trade strikes is assuming @ very serious aspect. If the measure be persisted in there is ne an- ewering for the consequences. Workingmen say that the Legislature has no right to inter- fere with their trade arrangements; and no more has it, 60 long as they are confined within proper limits. Why should operatives be made exceptions to the privileges enjoyed by other classes’ The manufacturer strikes for higher prices, 80 does the butcher, the baker, the fisb- monger, the greengrocer, the milkman and the storekeepers and boss employers of every kind. People grumble against them for doing it; but they do not rush to the Legislature with their complaints or withdraw their cus- tom. They know that there are natural laws which regulate these things, and that any at- tempt they may make to control them by arti- ficial means will only render matters worse. Legislation in regard to strikes, except 60 far as it goes to prohibit violence, is just now not only impolitic, but dangerous. At a time when the necessaries of life are being forced up to prices which place them almost beyond the reach of the workingman the Legislature is asked to pass a law to prevent him exacting for his labor wages commensurate with the present high rates of living. The thing is so manifestly unfair that it is not to be wondered at that it has excited a great deal of bad feeling. If the Legislature will interfere in such matters, let it begin at the right end, and take in hand the monopoliats who speculate on the necessitios of Wo Tuten Chaat aah abe Cocoa Aaa a combine for the purpose of protecting themselves. ‘There are measures which it could legitimaiMy pass for this object, and which, though pressed upon its attention, it has not as yet even notiged. Why, for instance, does it not at once give us a law preventing railways charging more tha $wo cents a ton freight on coal, which they have it in contem- plation to do as soon as the Legislatuxe adjourns? That would be one of the legitimate ways to prevent trade strikes, Reduce the coat of living by judicious legislation, and workmen will not be forced to combine to defend their interests. Our Albany Solons do not appear to comprehend this, or, if they do, they find it to their interest to ignore it. We tell them em- phatically that the people will not stand any more class legislation. If it be the object of their mission merely to protect the interests of monopolists and speculators, they will be taught at the polls that their duties had a wider range. Some of them may acquire sooner an unpleasant consciousness of the fact, if recent indications are to be taken as an evi- dence of the feeling of the working classes iu thoir regard. Fino~wa =Borroa.—We are approaching: soundings ia the way of taxation at a tolerably fair rate-of speed, but not fast enough. The pace should be accelerated, so that we can find bottom as soon as possible. The quicker the better. The tax levy of the city of New York for the next fiscal year amounts to fif- teen millions of dollars—three millions more than last year; and committees of rich men and Knickerbocker wiseacres are going to Al- bany to have the tax reduced. This is sheer nonsense. What is the use of lobbying on the subject? Are not all our tax burdens and tre- mendous public debt the offsprings of the moral, religious, political and financial false trainings of past years? The bitter fruits of bad and corrupt legislation? How are committees to correct the evil? The State of New York, it is authoritatively stated, is now—including city, county and town debts—one thousand millions of dollars in debt—two-thirds the ag- gregate value of all the property of the peo- ple, which, according to the last valuation, does not quite reach fifteen hundred millions. What is the use, then, of trying to cut off a pal- try couple of millions or so in the matter of taxation? Instead of reducing the tax levy for the city it should be increased from fifteen to twenty millions of dollars; and twenty-five millions will not be too small a sum for the succeeding fiscal year. Let the State debt be increased from a thousand millions to two thousand millions, and let us have an entire change in property holding in the State. Let us get at the bottom as soon ss possible, and begin again. Look at the presont state of legis- lation: workingmen appealing to their ser- vants in Albany to perform for them an act of plain justice. We shall probably next have the Solons in Albany proposing to sell the workingmen in order to defray the expenses of freeing the niggers. We are living in wonder- ful times, in very costly times, and the sooner we get at the bottom the better. Pile on tax- ation. Ovr Pustic Scnoors AGary.--The necessity for a reform in our public school system is now generally admitted. We have not heard a single objection to it. But the people de- mand a real, not a sham, reform. Mr. Bene- dict’s bill, now before the Legislature, is a sham reform. It is a half-and-half arrange- ment, a politician's measure, a miserable, bungling abortion. Is there not a member of the Legislature from this city who has the sense and wisdom to draw up and present a good, efficient bill? We want school commissioners appointed by the Governor, to consist of one editor, one clergyman, one lawyer, one merchant, one me- chanic, and so on, including every class of society; but of course not every class of busi- ness men. The groggeries and the ward poli- ticians who meet in them must be excluded altogether. They have nearly ruined our school system already. Is not this plan very clear, plain and practical? If so, why cannot it be adopted instead of Benedict’s blundering, bungling bill ? “But,” says some of the Albany sticklers, “this would be unconstitutional.” Nonsense. The same objection was made to the Metropo- litan Police bill, but was obviated by erecting two or three counties into a police district, thus creating entirely new offices. Now, let us have a Metropolitan School district, composed of New York, Brooklyn and Williamsburg. We are in favor of including Jersey City and Hoboken also, if New Jersey will let them come in. Then the bill will create new offices and the constitutional difficulty will be obvi-, ated. It is always easy enongh to do these things if legislators have the mind to do them. Have our legislators the mind to make a tho- rough reform in the school system? Ifso, they must vote down Benedict’s abortive bill, and draw a new one as above suggested. Tar Taxes—Tue Sivews or War.—It is evident that the present Congress must take the responsibility that was avoided by the last one of providing by taxation a revenue that shall be equal to the extraordinary expenses of the government. Our present taxes are totally in- adequate to meet those expenses, and in some respects the Tax bill is a failure. Several of the States, for instance, have made no return at all from the income tax, and others have made avery small one. Congress must go over this whole matter earnestly, and must give us @ tax bill that will yield three or four hundred million dollars a year, or the credit of the country is gone. It matters not what kind of a bank bill we have. Our present bank system and the greenbacks seem to be sufficient for the busi- ness of the country. But with the question of taxes it is different. Congress has a great and all important duty to perform in the prepara- tion of a new tax bill that it must face boldly and go through with. National bankruptcy will otherwise be the result, and our finances will fall jato as lamentable a condition as the finances of the rebel States are in now. Lookout Lighthouse Destroyed by the Rebels. Fortress Mownor, April 6, 1864. The steamer Spaulding, just arrived from Newbern, reports that Capo Lookout Lighthouse was partially de- stroyed by the rebels, and there will probably be no light there for a week. Lieutenant Colonel W. T. Jonhson, United States Army, Modical Inspector of this Department, arrived on the Spaulding. Navigation Westward. Craveran, April 8, 1864, The propeller Olean arrived from Dunkirk Isat evening. No joo in sight woat of Dunkirk. ‘The Keio Railaray Company's boots will pew commence Abeic cosaleg teins Coq Ye annsOme. “=. NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA. Adjournwent of the Leg Priation for the Pac: Shipping NOWs, d&e. Saw Faancssco, April 4, 1864. Arrived, ships Swallow, (rom Boston; Franklin, from New York, The Legisiatare adjourns finalig at twelve o’clock to- might. The only act passed of intdeet outside of Cali- fornia is one whereby the State engages 0 pay the inte. rest on a million and a half doliars of the Central Pacific Rattroad Company's bonds for twenty years. Jn approving this act the Governor expressed the belief that auy fu- ture Logisiature will have the power to repeal it San FRawcisoo, April 5, 1864, Arrived, ship Hornet, from New York. She reports having spoken, April 1, in latitude thirty north, ship Eo- terprise, from New York for San Francisco. Lieut. Col. Geo H. Ringgold died yesterday. A mitli- ven him from St. Mary’s cathedrat tary funeral will be to-morrow, istature adjourned at midnight, not to mect wo years. Many bills of local interest were tained in the Governor's possession. The bill submitting to a vote of the people a proposi- tion to iesuo balf @ million dollars of State bonds to ¢! Western Pacific Railroad Company, and a million and a half to the Central Pacific Railroad Company, was vetoed on the ground of unconstitutionality. Under another bill the Central Company bas the inter- eat on a million afd a half of its bonds part by the State for twenty years, as reported yesterday. San Franovco, April 6, 1864, Arrived, eMps Haze, Witch of the Wave, Katerprise, Moravia and Valparaiso, from New York. Sailed, steamer Jobo L. Stephens, for northwestern “ports of Moxico, with merchandise and mining machine- rv, valued at ove hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ‘This is the. second -large Sepan-stonmecnae piles Ne. ny maa and Mexico, each making t mon: rips. Business generatly is-very dull. Blasting powder has declined to six dollars per keg. ‘The last bill passed by the late Logislature was one do- ating $250 per month during the ensuing five years to Captain Sutter, the California pioneer. Volunteering for the Navy. SCENES AT HEADQUARTERS—NEGROBS AND WHITE WOMEN—BLACK SAILORS IN EMBRYO. A case of practical miscegenation came before Chairman Blunt, of the Supervisors’ Volunteering Committee, yesterday, which was a pretty clear illustration of the morality of the new doctrine of the Tribunc. A big six foot black fellow, blacker than the ace of spades—as a bystander expressed it, so black you could’nt see him—came yesterday toto the office of the committee for his bounty money, he having enlisted in the navy. He was closely followed by a sharp visaged white woman, who, on his receiving his money, asked him if he was going to leave her, without giving hor avything to support herself. ‘Tho appeal was evidently expected by the darkey, for he suddenly and roughly exclaimed, “What hab dis chile to do with you!’ The woman, with Yankee proclivities, for she was evidently from ‘“‘deown East,” replied— “Noow Robert, yeou know yeou have beou living with me for more than a year. Yeou know my situa- tion, Haven't I been keind to yeou? And neow yeou're goin’ away and leave me nothing. Heow can I aupport myself, and——” and the flowing tears showed that she bad some apprehension of the future, Mr. Blunt said to the negro, ‘‘Is this your wife?’ “Oh, no 6a, no sa, not by uo means whataomdever; no sa, she am not clly my wife’? “Ab! exclaims the Supervisor. “And he has got my watch too, he has,” says the woman to Mr. Blunt. “Have you got ber watcb, Robert?” “Wall, yes, yes, sir, [believe T has.” ‘Why do you not give it to ber, then’ “Lis perfectly willin’ to do dat. but ye seo Bill Jonsin has it.’’ “Well, give her an order to get 1t.’’ “Yet is perfectly wiilin’.”’ Soan order was written ov Bill Jonsin for the watch, which Sambo signed with “bis mark.’’ Sasannah, for that wag her name, left with the document, but returned in the course of an hour and said she bad seen Bill; but he wouldn’t give it up until the money Robert owed him was paid. “Theo you owe him money,” says the chairman. ‘I does,” says Jupiter. “You see, sa, my financiums was exhaust, and I wanted some of do currency to investigate, and I got Bill to advance me three dollars on de clicker.’’ ‘Three dollars,’ exclaimed Susan- nah, passionately; ‘why, you black heathen, "twas worth more’n three times that, Thad it when I lived to bum.’’ ‘You know berry well,” says Bob, ‘* that when 1 took her sho hadn’t rum more daa half the time fora month. You see, sa, 1 went one mornin’ into Miss Robin- son's and drop ber on the stove. After dat she did’nt run a bit. I rather guess I scorched her.”’ ‘But you bad better give the woman the value of it and settle.” «Well, Su- sannah, here's ten dollar for tle old thing, which aint no * that all you're goin’ to better dan a white turnip.” + give me?’ ‘Well, you come ober to de ship, and we'll settle.” “Yes, yoau want to git away, and then Wil never ‘see any more of yeau.”? “Susannah, yon are full of suspicions. Dare, dare, is ten more; dat 18 ten for de watct and ton for lub.””” “On, yeou brute; look, sir, (to Mr. Bivnt) he's got my watch, got_ my character. got my, imy—and all he has given to show for it is twenty doliars. Is that justice, sir?’ But the negro had put hie heel down, and would not budge. ITis constancy had oozed ont, and he was ready to cast off his “white trash,” like big betters. “Oh, you benthen brute,’’ she exclaimed, ‘I wish you would soon get into a fight and a big fourteen hundred-pounder would hit yer—not on yer head, for there it would’at hurt; but somewhere whore ‘it ’d T hope {robbing loudly) that—that they’! take yeou prisone: put yeou on a plantation to pick Sweet potatoes and dig cotton. I aint opposed to slavery any more, I a'nt.” “I hope (with an ener- getic stamp of the foot) they'll get you and all the rest of your black, greasy, nasty tribe—I do—I say I do.” The Supervisor, thinking the colloquy had gone on long enough, sent Susannah off, and turned Robert, who looked black and savage as an ebony Richard the Third, into select quarters for Such is practical miscegenatioa. The Robbery the volunteers, H. B. Claflin & Store. TWO RECEIVERS AND ONE PORTER PLEAD GUILTY— STABBING AFFRAY IN A CHURCH STREET BALL ROOM. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before City Judge A. D. Russel. Apnit 8.—The court opened at eleven o’clock this morn. ing, City Judge A.D. Russel presiding. A number of prisoners were brought down who bad been indicted for complicity in the extensive robberioa which have recent- ly taken piace at the store of Messrs. H. B. Claflin & Co., in Church street, John Jobman,a German, thirty-nine years of age, was placed at the bar on an indictment charging him with having received goods knowing them to have been stolen from the above mentioned store. He pleaded = guilty, and was remanded for sentence, Louis Andressen, also a German, who bas been carrying on the dry go ess in Fifth street. pleaded guilty to asimilar indictment, and was remanded for sentence. Daniel Fginton, an Irishman, who bad been employed as a porter in the store of Moesrs. Claflin & Co., pleaded guilty of haying stolen a piece of grenadine valued at fitty dollars Te acknowledged to Mr. Daniel H. Conkling, mew ber of tho firm, that it was afterwards sold to Job- man. Eginton was sent to the State Prison for two years, The amount of property stolen from tue store of Messrs. Claftin & Co. is estimated at about thirty thousand dol- bat, through the exertions of Captain Jourdan, of the Sixth pr@cinct, ten thousand dollars, in money and goods, has already been recoved. John H. Beckett, a colored man, was placed at the bar on an indictment for murder, which charged him with having caused the death of a man named Richard Jobn- son, also colored, by stabbing him with a knife,on the 16th of February last. The affray took place in a ball- room in Church street, where deceased ond prisoner got into an altercation about a quadrilie. From words they proceeded to blows, when Beckett stabbed Johnson in the back, which cansed his death in abont one week after- wards. The Court decided to accept a plea [arg ter im the fourth degree, and sentenced Reckett to t State Prison for two years. to ple ‘then adjourned until Monday next, at eleven o'clock. Max Maretzek haga hard fight to make against the Fair; but he battles it out bravely. The twin magnots in Palace Garden and Union square draw many of the seck- ers of pleasure a well as the votaries of morcy to their shrines, and therefore it is not to be expected that the Opera House or the theatres will be ax well filled as usual, Last night saw the twenty eighth performance of Faust at the Academy, and although there was not a crush, such ag this opera previously commanded, yet the house was well and Loi gem ie ie B..: need = to complain of in regard e renderi e opera. Maz. ‘0s usual, finely, and exhibited bis dramatic powers well. Hermanns was, if possibie, more full of vigor than over, and was heartily encored in two or three of his principal parte. The Soldiers’ Chorus—the sensation portion of] the ope- Facwee Yepented, of ovurte; in obedience to a hearty all tr 5 To-might ave a Benefit atthe Academy. Mazzoleni appeals to the public whose favor he has al ly 80 well earned. Potrella’s oj ‘of Jone will be given on the occasion, We expect to seo a crowded house, and we ‘opine we shall not be disappointed. On Monday Robert Je Diable will be produced, with Brignoli and Medor!. On Wodnesday Faust will be repeated. Fine 1 Canat Seneet.—Shortly after six o'clock yestor day even: fire broke out on the fourth Soor of the building No, 308 Canal street, in the promises of Witliam S, Domerell, manufacturer of artificial flowers. The flames were jebed the firemen before the fre extended Soyond’ the oor” on eae antes, bs Demorell’s stock wilt! % to Mr. ore fame pg cle ‘ tasured occupied by fg Feoone aeree saree ‘of hair nets; loss about $200; vers and dealers in laces ae, Their Erstad "8, isi ade n't, eo a Slt, iy acest, Sa th 2 at POSTSC SATURDAY, APRIL 9-4 A, M. RIPT. IMPORTANT FROM LOUISIANA: Battle Between General Smith and Dick Taylor’s Forces on Cane River. DEFEAT OF THE REBELS. FIVE HUNDRED PRISONERS TAKEN PURSUIT OF THE BETREATING ENE ae ee, a. Gaino, April 6, 1664. ‘The oteamer Contivental, from New Orleans 08 he evening.of the 34 inst., has arrived, bringing a large ‘number of governmont mules and wagons from Vicks- burg. Officers of steamers from Red river, report a consider- able fight on Cane river, thirty-five miles above Alexan- Gria, on the 28th ult., between General Smith’s forces, consisting of 8,000 infantry under General Mewor, and Dudley's brigade of Lee’s cavalry corps, and Dick Tay- lor’s army, estimated at 12,000 strong, posted in an ad- vantageous position. The fight lasted about three hours. Our loss is reported at eighteen killed and about aixty wounded. That of the rebels was much greater, ome placing it at two hundred killed and wounded. ‘Wo captured five hundred prisouers, and others are still being brought in. Dudley’s brigade in the advance, greatly distinguished themseives. Our troops did not halt on the battle ground, but pushed on in pursuit of tho retreating foo. No rest ‘would be given the rebels, It was General Smith’s design to force the enemy to make a stand, and defeat them in a pitched battle, if pos- sible. Aconsiderable number of deserters havo ontered our lines. Nine hundred contrabands, men women and children, had arrived from Alexandria. The steamer La Crosse was captured and burned by guerillas on the 25th ult. below Alexandria, and her crew were released on parole; but their officers were not re- leased. The same band fired into the Mattie Stevens on the night of the 30th. No injury was reported. Alarge number of Mississippi refugees are gathering within our lines at Fort Pike and vicinity. Seven hua- dred, in one lot, are reported to be leaving reboldom, Sales of cotton in New Orleans on the 1st inst. 400 bales, Ordinary, 66 a 58c.; low middling, 68 069. ; middling, Toc. ‘Sugar, new crop, 15% a 174c. NEWS FROM THE SOUTHWEST. Fight Between Union Gunboatse and Guerillas at Hickman, Ky., dic. Camo, Aprit 6, 1868. The gunboate had a fight with guerillas at Hickmea yes- terday, and captured a few of them. ‘The small propeller Golden Gate was burned by guerit- las on the 2d inst., sixteen miles below Momphis. It is reported that the rebe! General McCrea hung @ number of robbers and murderers who infested bis neigh- Dorhood and robbed friend and foe alike. Memphis cotton market less active. Receipts light. Shipments since last report six hundred bales. Ship- ments for the quarter ending March 31, thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty seven bales, The steamer Liberty took two bundred and thirty-five bales in her to-day for Cincinnati. During the past sixty days the steamer Holliday, for Cairo, shipped two thousand six hundredbates of cotton out of the Tennessee river for Evansville, thence going Fast, on which the government tax amounted to forty thonsand dollars. The steamer Joc Jayes, bound down, loaded mostly with flour, collided last night with the steamer Generat Anderson below Metropolis, the Jacobs breaking into her. No lives were lost. ‘The steamer Forsythe, after leaving this port yesterday ‘was brought back by a shot from the fort. Her officers are charged with having contraband goods on board. ‘The boat is under a guard, the captain under arrest aud the clork in the guard house. Rebel Accounts of the Fight at Padu- cah—Bauford’s Address to His Troops— Western Kentucky to be Heid by the Rebels, &c. Carmo, Aprit 7, 1864. The Cairo News has been furnished with an order, is- sued by General Buford, commanding the Second divi- sion of Forrest's cavalry, congratulating the troops on the success of their Kentucky campaign, He praises their conduct during the attack on the fort at Paducah, and al- Indes feelingly to the loss of Colonel Thompson, command- ing the Third brigade, He aseerts that they silenced the guns of the fort and compelled one of the gunboats to withdraw from action. The rebel joss is set down at afty killed and forty wounded, and the Union loss at twenty- seven killed and seventy or eighty wounded. He con- cludes by informing the division of his intention to hold Western Kentucky. ‘The actual loss of the Union forces was fourteen killed and forty-two wounded Rebel prisoners admit a loas of three husdred killed and three times as many wounded. ‘The latest Memphis advices report nothing later from Forrest or Grierson. It was rumored that the former was: preparing to attack Memphis. Confiscated goods to the amount of $49,000, consisting mostly of cotton and sugar, were sold here to-day by order of the United States District Court. Fighteen hum- dred bales ofcotton yet remain to be sold, Two hundred ‘and two bales mixed and inferior quality, in bad condi- tion, sold at auction at 41c. a 571g0. Over one hundred bales of cotton have been brought up by the naval despatch boat New National from Red river, as have also two nine-inch Dahigren guns, being part of the armament of Fort De Russy. These guns are part of those taken from the Harriet Lane and Indianola. The steamer Forsythe has been released and loft for Memphis. Several thousand dollars’ worth of contraband goods wore found in ber hold. The first clerk is heid for examination. Tho election returns received indicate that L. Hun- mick, republican, bas probably beon elected Judge of tho Thirteenth circuit, In the Memphis cotton market rates for low qualities are unchanged; the better qualities tend upward; re- coipta 366 bales; ordinary to good, 65¢. a 56c., low mid: dling, 57c. a 68¢.; good middling, 62c. @ O3c.; fair, ¢. from Kentucky. Parapecruta, April 8, 1864, A despatch from Cincinnatt says:— Notwithstanding the rebel Buford’s assurance thet he intends to remain permanently in Kentuoky, It {is re ported that Forrest is mancouvring to get out of the State by dividing his forces into small detachments, and slip. ping them off by byways. Ratiroad Accident at Cave City, Ky. Lovrsvitia, April 7, 1864. ‘The upward morning passenger train from Nashiile rua off the track at Cave City this afternoon, which will cause about ten hours’ delny. Only one person was iojured, and he but slightly. News from Red River=Large Amounts of Cotton Captured. Sr. Looms, April 8, 1964. A despate from Alexandria, La., says & large amount of cotton is being eaptured along Red river. Its re- that several naval officers bad been captured ported “= ad evved 8 ciroular to captains and Admiral Porter im nere of steamboats employ of the rebel govera- pay! ‘that it thoy will deliver, the io ‘afford them every opportun hie he wil to ro poms Lo property, while i thoy bare’ them they wilt ban total lose, ‘Tar Broortyn City RaitnoaD Comrant.—At a mecting of the Direetors of the Brooklyn City Railroad Company, held on Thursday night, it wae decided to inorense the of the conductors and drivers on thelr lines from $1 75 to $2 por day. Those who have been in the om. of the compan; Feceivo $1 80 por day. This gyalactort ta all The Rebels Retrea