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

a NEW YORK-HERALD. OFFICE N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Veiume XXIX ., severeeli@e 110 ANUSEM! THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Iranian Orsns— Pause. BIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Mansce Heaar. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux WosPER, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Lapr oF Lroxs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Ocs Wirs—Lora- uaxa, NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tar Hentew's CuRse—TaaLana—Beran O'LINN. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Poxr oF Cupso's Cave— Buack Erep Sosay. NUM’S MUSEUM. Broadway.—Two Guaers, Two pwarrs, Amnon Wuat In Is, 40, sl all Sour, CUDs0's Cave—At 3 and 736 P. Me BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, €72 Broad. way. EsmOrtan Sones, Dances, Buatxsquss, £0.—Tux Uxiow ARMY. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Eraroriuan Sonca, Dances, de —l’HILHARMONICGERMANLARERRARSAL. SALON DIABOLIQUE. 585 Broadway.—Rosazt Bevurr. AMERICAN THEATRE. Pantoxtmrs, BURLEsQtEs, Juan. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street.—! AND Mosxeve. Afvsrnoon and vesting omen? HOPS CHAPEL. 718 Broaaway.— Minor oF Univansm, 4xD ‘Twasrt-anvents Sreser Guose La my rig 618 Broadway.— 444 Broadway.—Batiers, —Dox NEW YORE MUSEUM Cumositins and Leorunzs, from 9 A.M, till 10 P. M. HOOLEY’S OPERA “Housi Brooklyn. —! Songs, Dances, Burtesquss, al read WITH SUPPLEMENT. w Xerk, Wednesday, April 20. 1864. CHE SITUATION. ‘The most interesting feature in the news from the war to-day is the reported repulse of the Union troops at Pleasant Hill, on the Red river, on the 8tb iustaat, by a vastly superior force of rebels. General Ransom, in ¢om- mand of the Third and Fourth brigades of cavalry, bore the brant of the Aight for several hours and was wounded. Geverai Stone, of General Banks’ staff, was in command. After a resolute attempt to stem the advance of the rebels, who oumbered ten thousand, the cavalry became Aisorganized and fell back upon the infaatry,who re- treated in disorder. Finally the Nineteenth army corps, with seven thou Gand men, came up and formed in line. They checked the eoemy and beld them until all the trains, except that Of the cavalry were saved. The Chicago Mercantile bat- tery lost all ts guns. The loss of the battery in killed and captured is thirty-one. One hundred and ten of the men returned to camp after the disaster. While the Fourth ¢ivision was [ailing beck io disorder the Third division, numbering Only one thousend eight hundred men, came up and were immediately routed. Our total loss is probabiy two thousand. The rebel accounts state that ‘Banks was defeated, with a lees of fourteen thousand men.’’ We give a map of the vicinity of the condict fa another columa. General Grant, accompanied by General Meade, review- e4 the Sixth army corps“on Monday. They presented a tmaguilicent appearance. General Prince has been sent West, to repert to General Sherman. General Ricketts succeeds bim iu command of his division in the Third eorps. The rebel guerillas in Virginia are very active. No ope can venture outside our picket lines with safety, A large force of rebel cavalry appeared at the Sulphur Springs, oa the Rappahannock, six miles from Warren- ten, on Monday night, and it is understood has been mov- fog to day iv the direction of Leesburg. Gur correspondent at Paducah, Ky., gives a full de- ‘scription to-day of the late Forrest raid in that vicinity, tom which t would appear that Forrest was not {n com- paad in person. A despatch from Louisville yesterday says that General hackelford, Provost Marshal and several citizens, were captured by the enemy (Bennett’s guerillas), at Madison- ville, Dut were subsequently released. Oar reports from Cairo last night state that Captain Phelps, of the gunboat Ne. 26, captured a rebel mail carrier near Crockett’s Bluff, Arkansas, on the 4th, with five bundred leters from Richmond and other points, and sixty thousand percussion caps for General Price’s army. The letters contained official communications for Shreveport, aud a considerable sum of federal money. Our files from Bermuda report the departure of six vessels, four of them steamers, from that island (or Nassau, N. P., during the period from the 23d to the 20th of March, The vessels took away four thousand one hun- dred and ten packages of foreign “merchandise” —goods evidentiy intended to be run through the blocksde into Ube rebel States. The British steamer North Heath, one { the vessels so engaged, bad put back to Bermoda, leaky. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, the select committee on the Pacific Reilroad reported Mr. Sherman’s bil! granting funds in aid of the construction of the road, with import. ant amendments. The House bill giving the Provost Marsbai Govera! the rank and psy of « brigadier was passed. The disagreement between the two houses Tegarding the amendments to the bill for the Organization of Montana Territory occupied some time, but oo action was taken om the subjest, ‘The bili making appropriations for the executive, legislative and judicial expenses of the government was passe. As the Senate’s amendments are unimportant, Lis supposed that the bill will speedily pass the House. fee Dill repeating all laws relating to the rendition of ugitive slaves to their owners was then taken up and passed to athird reading. When, however, the voteon the foal passage of the bill was about to be takes, Mr. Shermans moved to except the law of 1793, and after con- Siderabie donate the motion was agreed to by a vote of twenty foer against seventeen. Mr. Conness moved to ley the Dil! 08 the table. This was negatived—nme yeas to thirty-cpe aays, Mr. Foster obtained the floor, and shortly after the Beate adjourned. In the House of Representatives tie Senate's verbal ‘amendment to the resolution directing inquiry into the circumstances attending the disaster at Fort Pillo: agreed to. The House then went into Committee of the Whole aod considered the Internal Revenue bm. After speeches by Messrs. Morrill, of Ver- mont, and Stebbins, Brooks and Fernasdo Word, of New York, the committee rose. No further genera! debate will take place on the bill. but amendments will be discussed in five minute speeches. At the evening sesgion the bili making the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad @ post and military road was taken up A substitute was offered autborizing every railroad operated by steam to transport freight and pas- sengers from one State to another, State laws to the contrary sbtwithstanding, end the furtber dis- cussion of the subject was then postponed for two wesks. Tbe bill authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Ubio river, near Loutsville, was passed: also a Dill setting apart the old Hall of Represen tatives as a national stetuary gallery, each State to send two statues, in marble or bronze, of their most illus- trives civic or military men. The bill providing for the reconstruction of tbe rebel Slates was then taken up and obated till the adjournment THE LEGISLATURE. tm tho Sonate yesterday avery large amount of busi ous was travsacted. A larger number of bills were nased than ov any previous day of the session. Among hom were those for (be completion o fon, annexiog Manhattan square to our Park, and placing {s improvement oder the extro! of the Park ‘ommis Jwoors; relative lo the district courts of this city, and for ppropristing $30,000 ‘Brockivo Arsenal fhe bill tmoreasing (he salary of our Metropolitan police, = and ~ending the Police act is Corteis jnportaat re. Bevoprien | | @ Baviery exten | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1664.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. epects, was ordered to its third reading ft abot: ishee the Board of Excise Commissioners, vesting their powers in the Metropolitas Police Commissionora; makes the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday a mi. demeanor, to be prosecuted by che Treasurer of the Po lice Board, and abolishes the twenty (recholders require ment io the case of licenses. This bill has already passed the Assombly. The bill providing for # public market in the Righteeuth ward of this city was referred to the Committee of the Whole. In the Assembly the bill authorizing the State banks to organize and do business under the national Banking act was reported to the House complete and ordered to its third reading. These for the relief of the New York People’s Gaslight Company and to incorporate the East India Telegraph Company were also reported complete. Among the bills passed were those amending the charter of the Rudgon and Harlem Rivers Canal Company, incor- porating the New York and Brooklyn Passenger and Baggage Company and the Union Trust Company, authorizing our Corporation to expend two hundred thou. sand dollars in building a reservoir and extending the Crotoa water on the upper end of New York Island, and appropriating eight hundred thousand dollars to complete the new Court House in the City Hall Park, The two latter bills have passed the Senate, and the Court House bill last night received the Governor’s signature. The bill changing the location of the Hudson river bridge at Aibany was also passed, Tt, too, bas passed the Senate. The annual Tax bill, for the support of the State government during the fiscal year commencing in October next, was ordered to a third reading, The New York city and county tax levies were reported favorably by the Committee on Cities, and made the special order for to.day. As reported, the members of the Common Council are allowed annual salaries of twelve hundred dollars; but a reduction in the total of nearly four hundred thousand dollars has been made on the Comptroller's estimates. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Tue extra Cunard screw steamer Sidon, which left Liverpool on the afternoon of the 5th, and Queenstown on the 7th of April, arrived at this port early yesterday morning. Her news has been anticipated by the Saxonia. The steamer Pekin, one of the disbanded Angio-Ohinese fleet (and concerning which there were rumors that they were to be transferred to the robel service), had errived in England, The British brig Oak, from Sicrra Leone, which ar. rived at this port yesterday, was boarded on the 18th inst. by pilotboat No. 2, and gupplied with provisions, they having been liviog on arrowroot for the previous week. ‘We have files of Bermuda papers dated to the 5th of April. The British war ship Duncan, bearing the flag of Admiral Sir J, Hope, K. 0. B., had left Bermuds for the Wost Indies. The Admiral will visit Barbados, and after- wards proceed to some of the other islands, accompanied by the Immortalite, Capt. Hancock. The British war sbip Buzzard had left for Fortress Monroe, and the Shan- non for Vera Cruz. The schooner Jane Davis, at Bermu da from Wilmington, with cotton and naval stores, re- ports the arrival at one of the inlets in North Carolina, through the blockade, of the schooner Purse, from Ber- muda, The United States sloop-of-war Shenandoah, Capt. Ridgely, out fourteen days from Beaufort, N. C., ou a cruise, arrived on the 17th of March, and proceeded to Treland isiaad, She left again ou March 21 Miss Auna K, Dickinson delivered an address last even- tng at the Cooper Institute in this city, The audience that waited on ner eloquence was not « Iarge, though a rather fashionable one, The fair lecturer was introduced by Mr. Theodore Tilton, who in a few approprints words assured those present that the discourse of Miss Dickin- gon would command full attention. On coming forward the lady dashed very suddenly into her subject, which it would be somewhat of « difficult matter to qualify. Her remarks were, however, by no moans favorable to the policy of the administration. On the eontrary, throughout her address she arged the most ex- treme arguments of ultra abolitionism. In a passing allusion to the doctrine of amalgamation, she said that this was (denticai witb reconstructioe—s system on which Southera society bad been supported for more than eighty years. A direct allusion to Fremont brought down the bouse, She reviewed at some length the services of negro soldiers in the armies of thé republic, and demanded that they should be faithfully rewarded for their faithful ser- vices. She concluded her address by expressing an car- nest desire for the success of the Union arms ana the pro- gress of the repubiic to the broadest basis of freedom. ‘The closing days of the Fair are still characterized by & very large attendance. The receipts yesterday amounted to over eighteen thousand dollars. In the sword contest Grant leads McCiellan, according to last night’s Ggures, seventy-eight votes. A large coilec- tion of paintings were sold at auction in the Art Depart- ment last evening, which brought between eight and nine thousand dollars. Valentine J. Soody, aGerman in indigent circumstances, appeared before Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court, & few days ago, and stated that, while endeavoring to pro- core the discharge ot. his son from military service on the ground of his being a miuor, Bis lawyers retained the bounty money ($150), and theo wanted to charge him $100 more, without haviog procured the boy's release. | The Court ordered a reference to J. V. W. Doty, who ro. ported that $60 was ample compensation for all the ser- vices rendered. Tuo Teport was confirmed, with costs, and an order was made requiring the lawyers to refund the money, or an attachment would be issued against them for contempt. In the Supreme Court yesterday, before Judge Miller, the case of Alexander Bounell vs. Alanson T. Briggs at- tracted considerable attention, The plaintiff, as assignee, sought to recover six hundred and five dollars for second hand barrels furnished the defendant, through an agent named Stone. The defence set up was that the barrels were bought from Stone, and paid for, irrespective of any third party, and that the defendant bad no dealings whatever with the piaintiff, who was a perfect stranger tohim. The jury, after deliberating a few moments, ren- dered a verdict for the de/endaat. ‘The Sevator insurance case was resumed yesterday in the Superior Court. before Jadge Garvia. The evidence for the defence was closed, and the plaintiff was engaged in rebutting. The trial will probably be conciuded to-day. The case of Clark vs. Brooks, iu the Court of Common Pleas, general term, was not reached yesterday. It will be the first case on this morning. Judge Peckham granted @ decree of divorce yesterday in the case of Emily J. Keeler vs. Alexander W. Keeler. The husband was charged with baving committed adul- tery with a Brooklyn lady, and for this indiscretion the plajotiff asked to be relieved from the marriage contract. ‘There was po defence offered, and upon the report of the referee the decree was granted. In the divorce case of George ©, Sharp vs. Anna Sharp an appiiestion was made yesterday before Judge Peck- bam, in the Sapreme Court, chambers, for a commission to examine a witoess in Pennsylvania on the part of the plaintk?, The motion was opposed, on the ground that the defendant was sioue ia this city and without the ‘Means to litigate the case, while the pialotiff had a rich father, Jeeob Sharp, who was willing to sid and assist him The motion was graated, upon the plaiotiff paying twenty-five dollars to evable the defendast to join in the commission. In the Court of Genera! Sessions yesterday, before Judge Russel, Peter Burke, the man who, during the Joly riote, is alleged w have riaden around on horseback, Hourishing a sword, and urging on the rioters to deeds of violence, was brought up. His counsel ebjected to bis being tried on a charge of robbery in the first degree, on the plea that Burke bad already pleaded guilty on an indietment for riot; but Judge Russet overruled § the objection, and ordered that the trial should be proceeded with. Victoria Zaegel, “aGerman servant girl, and Delis Burns,» servant girl, ‘were convicted of attempts at grand lareeny, and sen- tenced to the Penitentiary, the former for six months, aud the latter for one year. Mary Hautensples, a Ger- mao servant girl, was oonvicted of petit larceny, and sen- tenced to the Penitentiary for six months. Catharine Fitagerald, a Mercer street girl, was convicted of robbing © soldier of $201, and sent to the State Prison for two years. Aaron P. Fisher, & colored man, was convicted of Petit larceny, and remanded for seatence. The panic loosened ite grasp upon the stock market yesterday, and comparative quiet was restored. Many shares, after pussing the depression that lingered in the morning, were in demand, and geld at an advance, while nearly all the others wore saved from a further decline. Gold fluctusted eonsiderably, the outside figures being 166', and 169, Government securities agein Coll off, the five.cwenties selling down t 104, and the seven-thirties going as low af 108. Money was « trifle caster; but the rate of interest ruled above seve por cent. The Wall street panic @xorted u very depressing influ | ence on business places yesterday, and operations wore the improvement of the | extremely light, the merchants and dealers haviog boon | rendered very cautious by the great losses occasioned by the panic 10 stocks, &o, There was n0 apparent desire to operate, evee on the most tempting terms Petroleum and nominal. Cotton wag also dull and Groceries wore wasottied gad tended ta vominal favor of the buyor would have bees necessary. Gt lower figures. Freights wore greatly depressed, and American vessels wore reported to have taken froight without charge, the shipper to put it ea board. ‘The market for beef cattle, though apparently firm, ruled in favor of the buyer this week, The range of at, the cattle wore better than last week, and the estimates more favorable to the butchers. Sales were at 123;¢. to 17 , the general sales 1éc. @ 16c,, and the average price about 15c, Cows were in demand and firm. Veals were very plenty, but active, end higher, in sympathy with beef cattle, Prices varied from 1c. to 10c. Sheep and lambs were active and decidedly higher, Saics were made as high as $14 a $15 60 head for choice extras. ‘Hogs old at 8Xc. a 93(0, The regeipts were 4,506 beeves, ‘203 cows, 1,732 veals, 7,790 cheep and jambs, and 11,232 Prices was muoh the same, though searcely so wide; hogs. Revolution. discussion, and our whole population runs and, while the people are thus amused and interested with their various trivialities, the earnest consideration of the war seems to have passed out of the popular thought, though the war was never so imminently near as it is at the present time to a crisis that should over- shadow in the mind of every citizen every other topic, great or small. We stand at a great turning point, not only in our own his- tory, but in the history of the buman race. Our own institutions, the integrity of the “great republic,” whose requiem has been already chanted in monarchical Europe, and even the question of the ability of an intelli- gent people to govern themselves, are at stake on the great battle that is soon to be fought in Virginia. And that battle will be wortby of struggle—the greatest battle of any civil war — bave been waged between rival nations. ter it will in all probability equal Waterloo. Our growth in this war,bas been rapid. Be- surprise. We have grown, and that growth has greatly changed us. In addition to the great social revolution that the war has made, it has made such changes in the minds of the people, and has so changed the practical work- ing of the government, as to have substantially revolutionized both government and people. We are a greater, larger-thoughted and utterly different people now from what we were when this war began; and the changes that have taken place in the people must necessarily be impressed upon that utterauce of the peo- ple, the government. The government that suited us in the past will not suit us in All the practical changes in the admipistration of the government that took place between the Presidency of Washington and the present President—and they were maoy—will be dwarfed by the changes that the future. are to take place in the immediate future. Constitutions are impressible, and assume almost any shape, and withia the limits of the constitution great changes may take place in the people and in the government; and we are to change to the extent of that limit. Without any noisy overthrow of @ dynasty, without ostensible change in the forms of our political life, we have gone and are going naturally through changes as great and distinct as Great Britain went through in the “great re- bellion” of 1640, or as France weat through in 1798. Under the influence of these changes our government will in the future be greater and stronger than ever, and our people, if possible, more secure in their persons and their rights. If the great battle so soon to be fought shall be decided in our favor, we shall go on grow- ing stronger every year in our wonderful pro- gress; but if it be decided against us it will interrupt this great development, and may prove to be the greatest disaster in moderna bistory. Tue Recent Fires mw Watt SrReet.— There have been several flurries in Wall street lately. One was about the Harlem Railroad matter in the Legislature. Thurlow Weed, the politician, and one of the Jeromes, a bro- ker, bad a set-to with Commodore Vanderbilt and his immense steam power. The result was that the Commodore was successful, as he usu- ally is in steamboats, stocks or horses, and the politician and the broker retired with their eyes pretty bedly blacked. Many of the other bright boys of Wall street met the same fate. Last week gold took a tumble, and stocks went with it, aod there was 9 gencral smasb up. Seeretary Chase, the banks, the bears, the gold bill and half dozen other influences all worked together to produce this crash. Besides all these causes, the fact that about one hundred and fifty millions of dollars have been invested, in New York and Boston, in mining companies, mostly bubbles, contributed in no small degree to the result. These bub- bles are strongly supported by euch journals as the World, and, more weakly, by the Commer- cial Advertiser. Nobody pities the sufferers from this flurry. The popular verdict is, “served them right.” Everybody is glad. when the speculators are damaged; for it is now thoroughly understood that honest men gain by the losses of the stock gamblers. These recent flurries in Wall street are quite natural, and must only be regarded as the pre- monitory symptoms of the grand, final, finan- cial breakdewn which will come sooner of later, as the fortunes ef war vary, but which must inevitably end the brief, eventful histery of this new ora of speculation. The experience of the past fifty years shows us that such flur- ries happen at intervals of two or three months daring periods of great fmaocial ex- citement, and experience shows us also that the final flurry—whbat the whalers call the death flurry—is beyond all comparison the worst of ail. We advise those interested to look out for that flurry; for there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in Well street then, and failuses will be as plen- ee a famous thorough. ‘Chiings” busloess’ was ex: tremely Gull; ands further decline of 15c. a Bic. was established on flour. Whest' remained ipactive, and to efect eales to any considerable extent some concession Cora was 1c. 8 26, lower. Whiskey felt 2c. a 4c, Pork and other hog products sold The Battle of the Giants—Our Politica! Stocks attract their usual share of attention, and run up or down, to the amazement or despair of intensely interested thousands in every Northern city. Secretary Chase’s green- backed promises to pay are discussed in turn as if there were no other subject for possible wild over its chosen charity of sanitary fairs; these great issues. It will be a true Titanic and comparable to the greatest struggles that In the numbers engaged it will be a parallel to Leipsic, and in its desperately decisive charac- fore it the gréat battles of our history were the battles of very small armies, and at'its oom- mencement seventy-five thousand men were re- garded as a large number to enforce the laws and repossess all the places from which the forces of the government had been driven. But now military preparations on the most stupend: ous scale are regarded with apathy—excite no —The Hon. Boa Wood, of the Daily News, should try to keep cool. We have nothing to do with his personal honor in connection with his private affairs. Wehave been dealing with him in his public character and in reference to his public reaponaibilities as a politician, member of Congress, newspaper editor and lottery policy dealer. As the man- aging chiefs of the Mozart Hall faction, we bave intimated that the Hon. Ben and his enterprising brother Fernando have made a good thing of it in looking out for No. 1 and No. 2; and we guess that this is the general opinion of the community. Secondly, we hold that upon the “more vigorous prosecution of the war” platform, upon which the democracy carried the New York November elections of 1862, the Wood brothers were elected to Con- gress upon false pretences, and by a bad bar- gain to the war demoorats, and that the Hon. Ben and the Hon. Fernando, in advocating peace at any price with Jeff. Davis, misrepre- sent the city of New York, and are un- worthy members of the Congress of the United States. Thirdly, we contend that the Hon. Ben Wood, as a newspaper editor, does not subserve the cause of honor, peace, truth or justice, but the cause of the rebellion and dis- union, and the cause of sedition and insurreo- tion in the North. Lastly, we submit that if the vending of lottery tickets in violation of law be consistent with the principles of morality and public virtue, the Hon. Ben Wood may take his position among the Twelve Apostles. Genera Butter Razegp.—General Grant, it appears, in a short visit to Fortress Monroe, found out the true vocation for General Butler, and has accordingly razeed him to the civil aad uncivil duties of chief of police and mili- tary magistrate of the Peninsular Department. In this role he is unsurpassed, and in defining the laws of loyalty, chapter and verse, to eun- ning secessionists, intractable rebels in crino- line, negro claimants and other injured ad- mirers of Jeff. Davis, General Butler will be in all his glory. He luxuriates in the skinning of a doubtful character who stakes his case upon the chances of slipping through the loopholes of the law, and, as a strict constructionist he plays with a Southern expounder as a cat plays with a mouse. Aw Egotvanent ror Warertoo.—Lord Pal- merston asserts in the British House of Com- mons that the “personal and dynastic safety of Louis Napoleon are essential to the welfare of Burope.” When Blucher snd Wellington get a spiritual knowledge of this admission on the part of “Old Pam” their bones will turn in their grave: IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. Occupation of Colima by the French— Jaas ez Refuses to Liston to the Proposals of the Invaders, &. Saw Francisco, April 18, 1864. Sailed, ship Carrier Dove, for Gallao. ‘The steamer Orizaba, from Panama, brings letters from Acapulco to the Sth iast, ‘The occupation of Colima by two thousand French ‘s confirmed. Proposals bave been made to old Juan Alva- rez to acknowledge the ompire. He declined to listen to them, and said that the French were the enemies of bis country, and he would resist them to the last extromity. It ie believed that the Freach will find the mountaineers of Guerrero among their most unconquerable enemies ia Mexico. The latest advices from Onjaca state that General Diaz held the city with 6,000 Mexicans. He was confident of his ability to defend the State against the present French force. In an emergency he eould safely retreat to Chia- pas or Guerrero. The natives of these States are all hostile to the Freach ‘Sr. Loors, april 19, 1864. A prominent Frenchman of New Orleans predicts atreaty of friendship between the rebels and Maxi- milian, backed by Napoleon The French Commaader-in-Chief has ordered Admiral Borse to make an offective demonstration against Cortinas. Santa Anna has returned to St. Thomas. The Three Hundredth Anniversary of Shakspere’s Birth. Mr. Hackett, Mr, William Wheatley and Mr. Edwin Booth have, as we are informed, resolved themselves into a committee, and are to be assisted by Judge Daly as its chairman, for the purpose of erecting a statue of Shakspere in our Park, the spot for which, we under- stand, has been selected and appropriated by the Com- missioners. A deep, strong, capacious and elaborate foundation {s already in preparation, and the corner ‘Stone will be laid at noon on Saturdsy next, the 23d inst., that being tue tercentenary anniversary of the poet’s birth, Iv order to ald a fund for detraying the expense of such a statue or memento as would be creditable to our metropolis, and algo an ornament to the Park, Niblo’s theatre will give a benefit on Saturday evening next, when King Henry IV. will be acted, Mr. Hackett per- forming Falstaff and Mr. Wheatley the Prince of Wales; and the Winter Garden will perform Romeo and Juliet, Mr. Fdwin Booth acting Romeo acd Miss Avonia Jones Juliet. Mr. Maretzek has liberally offered to contribute to thie object by giving 2 matinee, on Saturday after- noon, mainly composed of selections from operas founded upon Shakepere’s plays, in bonor of the occasion, and by donating also the entire profits to such fund. ‘The ceremonies in the Park at noon on Saturday next will be of the most interesting character. The leading part in the exercises will be assumed by Mr. Hackett, by whose assiduous and timely exertions this memorial ia donor of the immortal Shakspere has been placed on the bighway of prompt compietien. Mr. H. will be assisted in the ceremonies by all the leading theatrical personages in the city, and by many of the prominent musical ebaracters, as well as by a number of the devotees of the immortal bard whe are not strictly professional. The work is one in which all may ardently engage, whether Delonging to the tragic or the lyric drama, orto the closets of the scholar and the student, tn all of which the genius of the great dramatist has for three centaries leat an inspiring influence. A more Sitting place for such a tes- timonial coald not be selected on the Americam contineat thas our own magnificent Park; and there, on y next, a scene will be witnessed which will be remem vered for many years by af) who may be present. City Intelligenee. Sacre op Unwno.esoms Msate.—Quantitien of up wholesome meats are attempted to be disposed of in the various markets of this city. Cattle brought in freight cars, and smethered by the crowding, are frequently prepared for the stalls, and the public In some instances @Teatiy aefrauded. Through the vigilance of the City Inspector, however, the bulk of this meat is seized and general protection afforded. A case occurred yesterday, Messrs. Johneon and Haight, Inspectors of Meat, acting under the immediate direstion of Mr. Boole, received in- aero aa pads tapas Was focton Market, wore’ ba, the sleet for ite detection. At it came, nicely dressed, and was exhibited for sale, but immediately seized and disposed of as is cus- tomary in such cases. Ramaosp Mar ov Tan Ammnwan Conninewt.—A very valuable topographical and railroad map of the United ‘States, British possessions, Mexico, West Indies and Cen- tral Amorica, has beon issued, drawn by Colonel It ie ‘8 fine map, and will prove useful to any persod who may require it. Fe im Leonanp Stamer.—The alarm of fire last oven. og, betwooe seven and eight o’olook, was caused by fire ! i ee Amother Busy Day—Sale of Paintiags im the Art Department—Over Hight Thousand Dollars Realized—The Sword Contest—Graat Seventy-eight Ahead, Se., shop there was added yesterday a very interesting article tn the shape of a walking-stick, contributed by Sergeant Keifer, a blind soldier, who lost his sight by a wouad re- ‘The cane is whittled out of ‘8 piece of maple, and contains a neat piece of carving, run- ceived in the Mexican war. iotag nor a arpeniine seen at THE &e., &e. ‘Wasameton, D. 0., April 19, 1864. curiousiy FAIR. Passage of the Mis¢ollancous Appre- priation Bill by the Senate, Debate on the Tax Bill in the House. Senatorial Discussion on the Repeal ef the Fugitive Slave Law. A Check to the Radical Re- publicans. THE MATIONAL HALL OF STATUARY, = has. hendie. waes Sce TSe s e aee Leaee Sika ‘But these facts are not the most curious enes connected ae. &e., &e. with the article, Sergeant Keifer, a totally blind soldier, who lost his sight by the explosion of @ caisson at the Bodierst Home erie oe ar te eeanae alee he, ame We coloring, ornaments and all, ‘assisted ouly by 8 commoa RR UES Sn See BES. ten Mia naon pooss or Coulicee sot sais | The Tax bill ts et last finally under way in the Howse, now Shia te, Secee. Oana sete ne See aren ‘and thus far there is no indication of any factious oppe- cut a stected te the Superintendent ‘of ihe Soldiers’ Home, | sition. The speeches of Messrs. Morrill and Stebbia, ie attested Mr. B. P. Snyder, the manag ‘Telegraph Company's office in this city, and hundreds of the visit- who never went away without paying @ present the cane, with itary Fair for disposal, the e ora to the Home, visit to the famous * Keifer Sergeant Keifer desires bis ormpllmente, to the gen ‘blind whittler.”” me to “his contribution to soldiers that can’t whittle.” Trusting that you will see that it safely reaches its to be it Ber- contination, t have the it of N.°Y. Humaty, Army of pondent To James G. Bawnerr, Faq., your F. G. CHAPMAN, y of Potomac. Herald office, New York . GALE OF PAINTINGS IN THE ABT DEPARTMBNT. From an early bour io the large the Art Department was filled with buyers and spectators. ‘The splendid collection of patutings which were offered number of the elite both be seen below, the sum for attracted thither a lat of fashion and art, and, as wil Teulized on the occasion came somewhat upto the ex. pectations of the managers of the fair. ‘The sale commenced precisely at half-past seven o'clock, Mr. John H. Austen, auctioneer, of the same. Owing to the rapidity with which the sale Teeeenboee sehns oe At is ty ent Lt marks relative to che sale. or as regards the different paintings. Below we subjoin a list of the names of the palatings, the price t] t and the of the purchasers: “<Mealtime,”’ $50—! “Drummer Boy W! $o—E. Sunrise, After Rey’ hey brought R. Sturges. so Home,” $85—F. Whitney. |. nolds, $10—Kensatt. Apples, $10—A. R. Stewart. Landscape, herr! 60—Cash. er Fase $17 ‘50—Williams, On the Plains, $30—G. W. Grifio. White Mountain soenery, Mountain 4 60—Livingstoa. to Cash. $75—Kaston. “<Under the Maples,” $18 60—Gibboo. «“Falstai?’ (scene from the $30— is sdscabe $16—4A. T. Hatch. Landscape, Fruit, $20—Rudley. Landscape, ’ Peasant," 31 “a Roman “7 “Green Mountain Brook, ” (2 50—Barabam. .”? $46—Williams, LAnaeeane, S111 80._Prate, «<Decatur’s Attack on Tripoli,” $37 60—Yousg, spear aoe ‘Catal ul coun 7 $30—Bamcon, A Cavalier, $25—Potts. § the Soldiers’ Widow,” $100—A. Blurges rime George,” $20—Henry. « Jerome,’ “Cam 5 ot ‘Domeniouiao's Last Commuaion of 8s, ” $10—A, T. Potts. na of Rome,’’ $65—Moore, “ Pratt ene $10. Janne “Winter.” ‘Moore, Landscape , with deer,’ $00—Moore. “Knitting,” $85—Rogers, “Cherries,” $42 60—Potts. it and Vegetables.’ $60—Rogers. ‘Florence,’ $75—Convers. “Hon. C. Godfrey Sai gna in. “Frail Landscape, “Study of Oranges,’ $60—Cash. “Sketch from Nature,” $16—Browa. “The Brook,” $1 “ “Lake bs in 1862,” $160—Reilly. America 5 wh ‘Bancroft, Natare “the np tsor sop $276--Caab. pong taht “The ow J Lands,” |—Faston, Meadow “Fruit.” $27 60—Cash. Creek. Piece,” $165— *Bpanish Girl,’ $200—Potts. “Portrait of Richard Codben,”’ $1,000—W. O, Bryant. ..? $200—Davis. a en “Scott's Entry int Dity of Mexico,” 5 “Landing of the Piigrime,”? $100—Roberts, “The Morning Lesson,”” W Scene," $2 inter "7 $265 Florence Nightiagale,” ‘Early Summer .”” $40—' Hage on che Coast —Cash. ’ $310—Roberts. ‘Tracy. of Normandy,” $55—McKeozie. " You Sunset,”’ $30—' “Newsboy ,’’ $75—Morgan. “Coast Scene,” The Shad: “Right pdent o— y . it and Left,” $1 }125—W iley. “Ancient Mariner,’ $32 60—Kensett. “London Bridge,’’ $26- Candle Light,’’ $25. “*Kate Kearney’s Cottage, ‘Cash. Faust), $25—Young. oavey —Caah. \—Cash. on the banks of Killarney,”’ Italian Opera in Brookiyn. The immensely crowded house at the Brooklyn Acade- ball of having conduct which it concluded, te. the merits of Merry Wives of Windsor), explanation and support of the bill, attracted much ate tention, while those of Messrs, Brooks and Fernandes Wood were more directly relating to the currency them the subject under immediate cousideration. Mr. Steb- bine’ argument was a masterly vindication of the ability of tho nation to maintain its credit and carey on the war for the restoration of the Unsten to its foal triumph. General debate is mow closed upen the bill, and to-morrow the House commences its ogs- sideration in detail, and will perfect it as rapidly as pos- sible. The policy whieh will be pursued by the redient Portion of the opposition has not yet been indicated; bus, 1a view of the universal demand for the enactment of Such @ measare as‘will provide the amount of revenue needed, it is not believed that any serious attempt wil be made to delay or defeat its passage. INTBRESTING REVELATIONS REGARDING TRAITOR ‘Mr. Garfield to-day introduced copies of the letters te which be referred recently as having been written bye former member of Congress, recommending a young man to a rebel general for employment im the ranks of the rebel army. The letters were addressed to JohaG@ Breckinridge, and were written by Judge Rokies and Jobu G. Davis, the latter of whom was a member of the Thirty sixth Congress, and both of whom aro now mem- bers of the copperhead organization in Indiana. Mr. Voorhees attempted to defend them, bat evidently ap- Prociated the difficulty of the task which he had under- takea. The affair will, ao doubt, create considerable ex- citement, at least in Indiana, where those geatlemea re TAR GEVATE AND THE NEGRO QUBSTION. Me. Suainer is disgusted. For some time past the die cuanions io the Senate have been preguant with tndiea- tons of alarm, upon the part of radicals, at the modifies toa of popular opinion upon the negro question; but the dodate to-day clearly demonstrates that Senators acca: tomed to votiog afirmatively upon all questions of an. treme radicalism are not only regarding with anxioas atteation the spirit of conservatiom, but are careful act THE ORGAMIZATION. OF MONTANA TERRITORE ABD THE REPEAL OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. border State Senators to their feet; but not one man te oppose his favorite measures; bat the majority were determined to secure time for matare reflection; and, after the adoption of Mr. Sherman’s amendment, hastily e@ jourued, pags at aii, it will be with important modifications, affes®- ing in @ great degroo the prime object of the extreme radicals. THS F.R9T REGULAR EVENING SESSION OF TRB HOUSE. The Rouge held ite firat evening seaston under the sew Qrrangement to-night. There was a very good attendases of members, and they were generally in « good humer and disposed to attend to business. Daring the morniag hour two or three bills were disposed of which have bean some time before the House, THE MISCBLLANBOUS APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED BY THE SENATE. The Executive, Legislative and Judicial appropriation bill, goss back to the House from the Senate changed much less than was soticipated, and will, it ts under- stood, be passed without dolay, the Senate amendmests Rot being of a character likely to occasion any great de- gree Of opposition. ‘Tae TEN-FORTY LOAN. The subgoriptions to the 10-40 loan reported at the ‘Treasury to day, amounted to $2,400,000, MOVEMENTS OF GENEHAL PRIWOB. Gonerai Prince arrived in tows to-night, om route Iw bie new comaaod in the West, RETORN OF GENERAL CANBY PROM THE FROM. General Canby returned from the front to-day, whither he weat several days since for the parpose of consulting with General Grant and General Patrick relative to the establishment of General Patriok’s system of governing the interaal ecomomy ef our armies by provost marshals. THR PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION. President Linoola held his last reception of the seasee to-night. The Cabinet, Congress, the army, navy and eltte of the city, were largely represented, reudering the teave one of unasoal rilliancy. CLVIL(ANS FOR TEAMSTERS. Much complaint is made of the great namber of enlisted men serving as teamsters, and strenvcas efforts are being mado to supply their places with citizen drivers, under strict disgipline, so as te return soldiers te they regiments, THDIAN AGSNCIRS. ‘The Secretary of the Interior haa recommended to Gse- gress the appointment of an Iedian Agent for the Kioway, Apache and Canvaoche Iodians. THIRTY-EKIGHTH CONGRESS. ‘PIRST SESSION. Senate. ‘Wasmmatow, Apri! 10, 1986. ‘Aw TOR TUE PACIFIC RAILROAD, Me. Howaan, (rep.) of Mich., from the Committees en the Pacific Railroed, reported Mr. Sherman's bill with base, and easterly from the Western base of Sierra Ne Nevada; forty-eight for each mile between the moustain nections, and twenty-four for each mile west bem f'srta Novela. “On” those bonds the Secretary poet le ke soriorh frog in Interest absotutely t Fratuity Iv authorizes the construction, of Mississippi and Missouri rivers, Bot lone nor more than i j Hd 3 i é | & sf Ht see Hi PE i i : i 1 Meaaago was received thoir adherence to the Iisting a Territorial for a committee of conference. Mr. Stumwan, (pop, of Obio, oe fy might ~ igponed to was that in ite fade covld come inte the Territory. without