The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. OFFIOR N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadwa © WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broad -VINTER GARDEN, Broad: OLYMPIC THBATEE, Broadway.—Ove Wira—Lora- uN. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ciravpe Duvat— Jack's we Lap—Teppy ie Tek. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowers—Pour or Cunso's Cava— Korvas BARNUM’S MUSEUM. Broadway.—Two Giants, Two Vuat Is It, dc. at allbours, Cupso’ Dwanrs, Ab on, Wass aa te P. 1Ds0'3 Cave—Down BRYANTS’ MINS?RELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way,—Lruioviay Songs, Dances, BURLESQUES, &C.—iLuR Usiox Ausy. WOO!'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway,—Eraiorian Fence, Ps¥ces, &6.—P MILMARMONICGERMANLARKBRARSAL. SALON DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Rosanr Hatuem, AMSRICAN THEATRE. No. 4it , Pawroumuts, BUaLesgces, &c.—-Dox uate eee HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street. ~] Dogs 4xD MOsKRYS.' Afternoon aud Eventog. ee eese eg BOP® CHAPEL 718 broadway.— ‘MimmoR or Universe. Afiernoon and Evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF AN. roadway.— Cunrositms and Lecrunns, from Eye rain HOOLEWS OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eemio: taren Manone, eens ee pe ie - WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Monday, April 25. 1864. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, The public will find it to their advantage to send in their advertisements before nine o'clock in the evening. All business notices, to be wholly useful and valuable, should be clearly and properly arranged and classified. Advertisers, by having their notices in our office before nine o’clock, can accomplish this desi ji THE SITUATION. Rumors wero rife in Washington yesterday that activo movemonts on tbe part of both armies to Virginia would not be delayed many days.. It was whispered that a fight had taken place at Warrenton, and that the Union troops had fallen back from that place a few miles. Major Bragg, of the rebel army, was captured on Satur- ay, near Warrenton, by a squad of General Grogg’s cav- airy. He was formerly Mayor of that town. A body of the rebels who were marauding in the neigh borbood of Acotink, near Alexandria, were pursued and © nearly all captured by a equad of the First Michigan cav- alry on Saturday evening. The rebel report of the affair at Plymouth, N. C., a8 published in the Richmond Sentinel of the 224 states, on the faith of a despatch from General Hoke to Gevoral Bragg, that the rebels stormed and captured that place, together with the garrison, nambering one thou- saad hundred men, brigadier general, twouty five pieces of artillery and all the stores. Jef, Davis also received a telegram from Colonel J T. Wood, ot Rocky Mound, confirming this statement and giving fuller particulars. The samo journal says that Burneide’s expedition, comprising sixty gunboats and transports, bad advanced up the Rappahannock as far as Bonlware’s wharf on Weduesday last, where tnree bundred men wore linded. six one The Governors of tho several Statcs are taking active measures to place (he militia in service, eo as to place the voluntecrs aud regulars entirely at the disposal of the yeneral government, The President has acce; do the part of the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Iilinois, Wis jonsin and fowa, of an aggregate of eighty-five thousand Foluoteor infantry, to servo one bundred days from Joe time o” their being mustered ia as rogimcnts. These troope are to be paid, clothed, eubsisted and transported nd employed tn fortifications, either by the govern in their severa' tes or wherever required. Govervors 5, of Iinois, and Morton, of Indi ana, have issued proclamations calling on the citizen sol diery to tura out and assist tn rendering the approaching Brough, of Ohio; campaign a decisive victory. Our despatches from'New Orleans report the burning by the rebels o” large qnantities of cotton on the Red river as somewhat exaggerated. Not more than 75,000 bates have been thus destroyed. A fight between Gfty Union soldiers and a fo-ce of the enemy one-third larger took place a few days since upon the plantation of ex-Governor Johnson. The rebels were repulsed, Twenty prisoners, two captains, two lieuten- anis and $10,000 worth of smuggled goods were cap- tured, ‘The fight iasted about an hour. Our correspondent at Key West sends some fateresting nowsfrom that quarter, Another blockade runner bad reached Havana. That port 1s said to be swarming with this kind of cratt. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our Mexican news is interesting. Our correspondent fo Matamoros furnishes us the particulars of the recent flight (rom Monterey of Governor Vidaurri, after he had @eciared his hostility to President Juarez, and boasted of his ability to defend himeelf ngainst any force the latter might send to attack bim. He left the city in the night, ‘with all the forces he could muster, some time before the solders of the liberal army made their appearance. Me fied towards tPTexas border, being last heard of at Mo- Felia, The constitutional forces occupied Monterey on Bbe 3d inet. Our Havana correspondent, writing on the 10th snst., explains the mystery connected with a steamer on the Dudas coast repsesented in recent advices asthe rebel pirate Florida. The mysterious vessel proves to have ‘deen one of the numerous slavers engaged in supplying the Cuban piaoters with African laborers. Five sbip- ods were known to bave been safely and seerotly landed ‘within a little over @ month, notwithstanding the vigi- lant efforts of some of the Spanish officials to suppress the trade. Blockade runners from Mobile continued to arrive at Havana. In the United States Commissionor’s office the exam!- mation into the charge against Mr. Hunter for the al'eged Sub-Treasury forgeries was resumed on Saturday before Commissioner White. During the procecdings the counsel for the prosecution consented to a proposition that Mr. Hunter bimseif be examined under oath. The accused declired that he had neither sighed the two forged checks nor filled up avy portion of them, nor had he any fides by whom they were signed or filled up. The Dis- trict Attorney deciared himself satirfied with the iono- wence of Mr. Hunter,and be wished the case to be dis missed in such @ way a8 would best tend to make somo Feparation for the wrong which had been unintentionally Enflicted upon him. The Commissioner also expressed his entire conviction of the innocence of Mr. Hunter, and ‘wan glad to bear the frank admission of the prosecuting Counsel. The case was then dism iased. Affidavits were made yesterday afternoon, before Jus- fice Shandiey,at the Essex Market Police Court, in re erence to the conspiracy to murder Mr. Jobn H. Ander Bon, a Chambers street merchant, which was noticed in yesterday morving's Herat. The statemen:s of the va Pious efliants are very positive as to the employment of Galvin, McOsrty and Ackerman by some person to com- mit persona) violence upon Mr. Anderson. There are Other afMdavits yet to be made ‘The examination of witnosses in relation to the causes Of the recent explosion on board the United States gun- ost Chenango was continued on Saturday last before Coroner Norria, of Brooklyn. The witnessss examiued George B. Riggins, of the Morgan Irom Works, asristed im (he engines of the Che- during tho hours’ trial trip, testi od ‘NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1864.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. | siterabiy. There wasn nreseare ou foriy pounds, and he was tn dread {| board the vessel. Joseph Belknap and Fdwto Farron ex- Plained the constraction of the Martin boilors. Hesry oilman, a boiler maker, gave it as his opinios that the explosion was caused by a deficiency of water, which wn caused by fcaming., Frauk J. Bell, Joba Dolam, Joby F Powers, Eldridge Lawton and Mortimer Kelogg aiso gave interesting testimony as to the character of the boilers and the probable cause of the explosion. Dr. Thos. 8. Smith testified that twenty-six @eaths had already re- sulted from this deplorable ocourrence. The inquest will be resumed at three o’clock this afternoon, The architectural iron Works, in East Fourteenth Street, near avenue C, were destroyed by fire iast even- ting. The loss is estimeted at about one hundred thousand dollars, which 1s said to be covered by insurance. About one bundred workmen are thrown out of employment by this disaster, The Presidential Deddle im the Repub- lea rty=! 7 on Chase. We lay before our readers to-day the re- markable debate in which General F. P. Blair answered in the House on Saturday the charges made against him of corrupt practices while in the army on the Missis- sippi. The committee charged with the inves- tigation of this subject showed that General Blair was not guilty of the charges made, but that the real culprit was an agent of the Trea- sury Department. This man had been autho- rized, as a sutler might be, te buy some sup- plies for the use of the General and his mili- tary family. These supplies consisted of to- bacco, segars and brandy, and the value of all the goods bought under this authority would not have been more than one hundred and seventy-five dollars. But the agent, to carry on a private speculation, so altered the figures in the order that he was enabled to carry down the river for sale similar goods to the value of eight thousand dollars. General Blair said that this baseless charge was maliciously urged against him in the House, in the full knowledge of its falsehood, by members in the interest of the Secretary ef the Treasury; and further, that his denunciation of the corrupt trade regula- tions of the Treasury Department was at the bottom of the Secretary’s evumity. He de- clared, in the course of his speech, that Secre- tary Chase was a peace man—“opposed to the employment of troops against the South’ — and that the Secretary “had never aban- doned this position, and was now en- deavoring to frame a programme by which there would be s permanent dissolu- tion of the Union;”’ that under the Secretary’s trade regulations five barrels of peroussion caps lately went to the enemy; that contraband goods go the same way constantly, and that through those regulations the Secretary’s son- in-law, Senator Sprague, will make two million dollars; and that, finally, the Secretary uses his position only to further his interests in the Presidential game, playing Fremont against Lincoln only that he may betray both and come in at the last moment as an uncompromised man, upon whom the friends of both parties can consistently unite. From this it will be seen that General Blair is an animal with “hay on his horns,” whom it would be advisable for men like Secretary Chase to leave alone. His eharges against the Secretary are of a very grave nature, and if the least of them is true that functionary ought not to be in the Cabinet another day. He who believes that the Southern States should be permitted to “go in peace” cannot serve faith- fully a people who wage a great war on the theory that absolute success is mecessary for their national honor and existence. General Biair’s sudden exploitation of the Presidential manceuvres of Chase will not simplify the contest that is at present going on in the. republican party between the friends of the several candidates. Doubtless the friends of Fremont and of Lin- coln will be more bitter than-ever against eack other, and the contest will rage the fiercer for this unpleasaut glimpse behind the curtain. It is doubtful whether this will help Butler any. It is probable, also, that another candidate may now be added to thel ist. General Banks, by his recent brilliant victory in Louisiana, has come forward prominently as a hero, and is by all odds the strongest manin that light that the republicans can look to asa party man. His claims will, in all like!fiood, now be urged by many republicans East and West, and thus there will be added another complication to the dissension that promises to tear the repub- lican party to pieces. And while all these party quarrels rage, and while crimination and recrimination are in order in all political circles, General Grant goes on quietly and earnestly with his preparations against the rebel capital, and if he takes it, it isns clear as daylight that all the political” schemers who now labor so zealously for their special faverites will have labored in vain, General Grant will then override all opposition, and be President without an effort. Wuar tue Resers Expecr to Do.—A very learned writer in the World on rebel strategy, tactics and expectations, tells us that they ex- pect Joe Johnston, with an army of one bun- dred and twenty thousand men, to carry the war across Tennessee and Kentucky and into the heart of Ohio, while General Lee, with ninety thousand men, all veterans, and two hundred and fifty pieces of artillery, makes another invasion of Pennsylvania. But how Johnston fs to get by General Thomas, and how he is to subsist his one hundred and twenty thousand men across the mountainous and destitute country of those hundred miles which he will have to cross to reach the Ohio river we are not informed. In regard to General Lee’s movements, it Is based upon the eld theory that Gen. Grant will bave to abandon his designs against Rich- mond in order to protect the rear of Washing- ton. But what if Gen. Grant, in addition to an army abundantly able to eope with the whole rebel force in Virginia, should have an- other army provided for this very contingency of a march by Lee down the Shenandoah val- ley. What, then, becomes of Richmond and of Lee? We guess that he has been considering this question, and is preparing for the very pro- bable necessity of a forced march to Rich- mond, instead of another trip to Pennsylvania. The events of the next ten days will be very apt to solve the problem. Treavs Fever at Betevon Hosrrrat.—One of the medical papers states that typhus fever is very prevalent at Bellevue Hospital, and that five out of the ten resident physicians have died of this dreadful disease during the past year. It also recommends that all fever cises be isolated from the general hospital wards, and rebukes the commissioners for erecting « fever barrack “in one of the least Ventilated and most public corners of the grounds.” These statements, if correct, ere very important, and the matter oeeds looking after. dotlers of aboot the time he waron brilliant victory gained by the Union forces in the South, giving also a list of the, casualties. To-day we furnish some additional items of in- terest regarding this affair, whioh in its results must prove very important. General Grant at Vicksburg aod General Banks at Port Hudson severed the rebellious States leat year. Gen- eral Banks, in addition, .by {his late victory crushes the hopes of the rebels in the trans- Mississippi region, and obtains control over the States of Louisians, Texas and the southern portion of Arkatisas. The rebels east of the Mississippi, who counted upon as- sistance from their forees in Louisiana and Texas, and fully expeoted them to make im- portant diversions, will become discouraged when they hear of their defeat. They will realize the fact that thelr supplies wil! be cut off, and that the Union forces will be enabled now to obtain complete control of a large portion of the cotton regions, thus depriving the rebels of a bait wherewith to hook Euro- pean speculators. Besides these material advantages, we must count upon the moral effect which this victory will produce throughout the confederacy. The people have been led to believe, by their spe- cious leaders, that great victories would ac- crue to them through their valiant forces—the trans-Mississippi army—which, added to the advantages to be gained by Loe against Grant, were to resuli in the recognition of the con- federacy’s independence and the utter con- fusion of the North. Now that the “heroes” of this Southern army have been so compleciely defeated in the Southwest, the disheartened rebels east of the Mississippi may well infer that a similar fate awaits the armies under the command of their most popular general— Lee—and ask themsolyes “What next!” Nothing but surrentler and immediate return to the Union, if theve is yet left the power of reasoning to those Weluded followers of the arch traitor Davis. We are surely and wapidly closing around the rebels, and they, sw all the world, must realize that the fate o.” their mad, traitorous scheme is sealed. The advantages they may still gain can but delay a few weeks their ulti- mate reduction. Whole i3tates have been re- deemed from the contamination of rebellion. We have conquered the great rivers, which gave the rebels means of flight; have rendered their ‘intercourse with foreign Powers impos- sible, beyond the enterprise of some unusually daring smuggler, and have!.now an immense force, under the command of’ @ most fortunate and able commander, ready tot march upon their capital. We have crushed tlwir hopes in the Southwest, Gen. Banks, by t.tis late victory, having completely deprived {hem of all con- trol beyond the Mississippi; an @ when we shall have taken Richmond the rebe {lion will virtu- ally be ended. {In co-operatioit with this en- terprise the effects of the late vi ttories in Lon- isiana must prove immense, aitd were most timely. How to Tax—A Hint to Congress. Congress is doing good work upon the Tax bill, though we are sorry that the whiskey speculators are spared. The criti-tal financial situation of the country demans the vory strongest remedies, and the best of these reme- dies is heavy taxation. The people are not afraid of taxes —not half so much af, taid as cer- tain members of Congress appear to: be of do- ing their duty in the matter. But tlhe people are afraid—terribly afraid—of the: fiaancial crash and the consequent ruin which must and will come upon them if the government does not avert it by speedy and emphatic taxas upon everything taxable. The patient prefeirs the most nauseous medicine to death, and the coun- try prefers taxation to destraction. For slmost the first time in history, therefore, heavy taxes are popular, and Congress ought to take ad- vantage of this feeling and impose such taxes immediately. There are two practical points in jregard tc, the Tax Dill to which we especially fuvite thi: atteation of our legislators. The first point is, that all incomes ought to be taxed. The lavr at present exempts incomes under six hundre dollars, and it should be at once amenderi. Why should a man who receives an intome of four or five hundred dollars a year be excus:sd from paying his tax to support the govern- ment? Or, if he ought to be excused, why riot exempt the man whose income is only six or seven hundred? Exemption always breeds (lis- content. There are men in reeeipt of five thou- sand dollars a year who are actually powrer than those who receive only five hundred, If the exemption line is to be drawn anywher‘e, it ought to include the poor rich mon and exilude } the rich poor men. But the fact is that no such line should be drawn. Every man, poor er rich, ought to feel it an honor, as well as a duly, to pay a trifle towards the support of the best nation that ever existed. And then, again, the men whose incomes are under sit hun- dred dollars—after making those that the present law allows—are’ actually the majority of the population. By what right does Congress compel the minority to pay not only their own taxes, but the taxes of the majority also? Is such a lew in ac- cordance with the genius of @ republican form of government? Not at all. Every man has the privilege of voting, and every man ought to have the privilege of pay- ing 8 tax in proportion to his means. LetCo gress amend the bill in the manner we gest, and it will doa just and popular There can be no objection to it, ex timid politicians; and if any Co: mits political considerations to upon such a question as this he deserves to be disgracefully drammed out of Washington. ‘The second and only other point to which we eball refer to-day is: tax all the nows- papers largely, but tax them all alike. At present the taxes are varied according to the circulation, and some newspapers of very small circulation are exempted altogether. This is offering s government premium «for lack of ability and enterprise, and is aa im- Plied encouragement to petty partisan papers. Good newspapers can stand heavy taxes. If bad newspapers cannot stand taxstion let them die, and the country will be all the better off when they are dead. We raised thix same point when the Tax bill was first passed, and we sepa fo any newspapér reader if thw press has not been improved since the passage of that bill. A heavier tax upon newspapers would the press still mote. Of course ft would tax about half of them out of exist- ence; but that would be an improvement of itself, to ony nothing of the improvement We published yesterday the details of the + cost to build a good and formidable ram. Devers that survived. ‘here ase oleaty of PRONE ong NG aera of Py | room for improvement in those that ought to | - ‘NEWS live. We, have, tpo many Kutanspill Gazeites : among us, disgractng joursaligm and insult ing civilization. “We have too many coun- try editors, ‘without ‘principle and with- out brains, who are now spoiling white paper with black lies, when they ought to be serving thelr country im the army, doing penance for .thelr sins, or earn- ing an honest living by. digging ditohes and sawing wood. “A heavy tax, resting equally upon all newspapers, regardless of olr- culation, would soon crush out these disre- putable shedts and forcé these bogus editors to. their proper vocations, We have also too many copperhead and too many partisan FROM WASHINGTON. STONE AIS * 2008 Wasumarom, ageit $4, 1666. ‘THE CNCOMS TO DE DERIVED FROM THE or TERNAL BRVONUE Law. — ‘The amendavents already made and to be made to the Internal Reveoue bill wit, tt te supposed, eecure from ‘that measure a revenue of $300,000,000 annually, ‘MR, STEVENS’ TARIFS BILL. 4p effort ts expested to be made by Mr. Thaddeus ‘Stevens to-morrow 40 eall up the Tariff bill introauced by dim a tow days ago: but it will aot be successtul, as i will Be essential to arrange the new tariff with reference to the provieions of the internal revenue tax, and the Commitios of Ways and Means are waiting for the set- “SMemens Of this tax before completing the Tariff bill. GENERALS GRANT AND BUTLER IN ACCORD. Notwithstanding the ramors in circulation of # eon- wary import, there is authority for stating that there exist between General Grant and Gener Butler a perfect journals among us. Perhaps those of the | cordiatity and excellent understanding, former class that survive the tax will love @unuRaL as IN WASHINGTON. their country better when they pay more to.| General Burnside, accompanied by his staff, a in town, support it; for the Scripture declares that | GENERAL HANCOCK AND THK APPROACHING CaM- Palin, General Hancock's wounds have recently.given rise to the apprehension that ho may not be able to participate where one’s treasure is there will his heart be algo. As for the party journals, the tax- gatherer will continually remind them that the | tm the approaching campaign. welfare of the whole mation isof more im- | THE FORRIGN MINISTERS AND THE NEW MEXICAN MONARCHY. portance than the success of any faction, and they will either learn this lesson or dle— benefiting the world in either case. For tho wake of reforming the press, aq well as for the sake of increasing the internal revenue, we urge upon Congress this plan of heavily taxing all newspapers alike; and, for the reasons above given, we are decidedly in favor of taxing all incomes, without exception or ex- emption. Orgrations of THe REBEL Raw at PLyMovra.— We think that the country has a right at this time to ask why some of the sixty millions of dollars which have been expended upon our iron-clads has not been used for the construc- tion of some light draught iron-clad rams, éne of which might have been stationed so as to have met the rebel ram at Plymouth. We have bad a timely warning of such a disaster, and there fs no excuse of the want of time or money, and we could have had the plans of vessels of this class if the Secretary of the Navy had been willing to tolerate anything made of iron, ex- cept such things as planned by Ericsson. It is time these matters of our iron-clad navy were thoroughly ventilated. The rebel ram will do more damage in two days than it would have There ig much commotion in diplomatic circles here in regard to Franoo-Mexican affairs, The Ministers from France, Russia, Belgium, and even Bruzil, are very sig- nificantly active in efforts to promote tho recognition of Maximilian in Mexico. The matter is assuming quite a ‘serious abape, PRESENTATION TO GENERAL BLATR—HIS DEF ARTURB FOR THE FIRLD. Last night a party of personal friends of General Frank P. Blair, Jr., without reference to politics, waited upon bim, and, through Col. Wm. R. Morrison, presented bim a magnificent sword, sash, belt, &c. The whole af- fair was olegant in design and modestly executed. Gen. Blair started to-day to assume the command of the Sev- ‘enteenth army corps, GENERAL AUUUR DESIROUS OF ACTIVE SERVICE. Rumors are rife that Major General Augut, command- ing this department, Js to be assigned to an important command in the Army of the Potomac. Active service has been bis desire, and, haying recovered irom his wounds, the commanding officers have expressed a wish that his talent and experience should be given to this army in the impending battles. STRINGENT ORDER IN REFERENCE TO ARMY THAM- ' STBRS. Great inconvenience and injury to the public service having arison from the failure or refusal of teamsters and other employes of the Quartermaster’s Department to go to the front and other poiits when so required, it bas been ordered by the War Department that hereafter any employe who tails or refuses to obey such orders shall forfeit all pay and allowances which may be due bim, and will also be liable to arrest and triai bo ore a mili- tary tribunal for disobedience of orders according tothe sixtieth article of war. THE TEN-FORTY LOAN. The amount of subscriptions to the ten-forty loan re. ported at the Treasury leparment yestorday amounted to $1,064,000. SETTLEMENS OF ALL REQUISITIONS ON THE TREASURY. It has been ascertained that all the requisitions on the Treasury, which have pessed through the preliminary stage.of examination, have been paid. { RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF GENERAL TOTTEN. ‘The War Popartment has ordered appropriaie honors to be paid to the memory of brevet Major General Totten, his military career of more than half a century having been onc of continued usefulness and distinguished ser- viccs. For the past twenty six yoars hewas at the head of the Engineer Dopartment, admioistering with untiring Reset View or Geverat Bayks’ Rep River Exreprtion.—The Richmond Examiner is of the opinion that the Red river,movement of Gen. Banks and Admiral Porter is nothing more than a cotton stealing expedition, and that if it has any otber purpose it is to clear out the gueril- las that interfere with the Yankee cotton plan- tations on the Mississippi. But according to the recent news from that section, we may ex- pect soon to hear that it has effected another object—the complete expulsion of Kirby Smith, Dick Taylor, Price and Company, from Arkan- gas and Louisiana into Texas, and on the road to Mexico. INTERESTING FROM ALBANY. daties, (he financial responsibilities aad the professioval tabors of that arm of the service, go essential to our va- tional defence. The order further says that our extended line of lake de ences and sea coast fortifications, many of which were planned by bimself, are the enduring monu- moots to his memury. REFUGEKS FROM THE SOUTH. The Provost Marshal at Leonardstown, Md., has for- warded to this city.s number of refugocs from the South, who bad reported to him ater crossing the Potomac ‘The party was composed of sixteen women, seven men and nine children, the majority of whom were British subjects and bad passes bearing the signature of the rebel General Winder. The men and women were quite comfortably dressed, but the children were shoe. less and preseuted a esd ‘appearance. the men ndmitted that they bad worked for the rebvet government two years, but devied having been in the rebel army, and gave as ® reason for coming North that they were unable to support their families ag they desired, owing to the exorbitant prices at the South. Many of these refugees bad British pro- tection papers, and were willing to take the oatn of fidelity, and intimated that if that privilege was retused ‘them they would return to Europe. Owing to ¢he fact of their baying taken au oath not to reveal anything that would be injurious to the rebel cause, they kept silent as to the State of affairs in the South. LISUTENANT COMMANDER FILLEDROWN TO COMMAND HB PASSAIC. Lieutenant Commander F, Scott Fitisbrown has been appointed to the command of the iron-clad steamer Passaic. County Tax Levies—Thi E xpendita for the Year. Acuayy, April 24, 1864, HE CITY, TAX IRVY. The following gre the items in the city Tax Levy, as it passed both houses on Saturday evoning:—Advertising for the Common Council, $20,000; aqueduct repairs and improvements, $51,000; Belgian pavement, $50,000; Board of Health, $5,000; construction of burnt piers Nos. 51, 52, 68 and 64 North river, $40,000; cleaning streets, under contract, for five years, $300,000 annually; cloan- ing markets, $13,500; city contingencies, $50,000; Johu M. Harrington, $4,680; city dispensaries, $7,000; contin- geacics in Mayor’s office, $10,000; Central Park defi. ciencies, 1863, $30,000; contingencies Comptroller’s contingencies, Law Department, $21,000 ; contingencies, Street Dopartment, $10,000 ; contingencies, City Inspector’s Department, $15,000; con. tingeucies, Crotom Aqueduct Board, $5,000; Blind Mechan- ic's Association, $1,000; douations fur charitable pur. poses, $30, jghteenth precinct station house, $25,000; ‘Twenty seventh preciact, $35,000: Twenty-third precinct, $2,500, election expenses, $34,000: fire machines and ap- paratus, $125,000; fire alarm telegraph, $5,000; interest on revenue penis. 985,000; interest on volunteer soldiers’ family aid fund bonds No. 3, $30,000; same on bonds No 4, $30,000; judgments recovered against the city, $174,000; lamps ‘and gas, $420,000; lands and places, $36,000; 155th street, working as a contract, $10,000; opening new streets, exrenses of $10,000; poiice station houses, rent of, $12,025: printing for Common Council, by contract, $75,000; printing for departments, 000; pablic’ buildings, constructions and repairs $176,000; rents, $44,000; real estate expevses, $164,000; real estate, purchase of, $40,000; removing night soil, offel, dead ‘animals, &c., $34,500; roads and avenues, $71,000; salaries, Logisiative Department, pay of clerks ‘and attoadauts, $41,800; calaries, Mayor's office, $25.250; salaries, Department of Finance, $149,244; sularies, Street Department, $108,155 85; salaries, Croton Aque- duct Department, $79,367 52; ries, Law Department, $39,500; salaries, City Lnspec' Department, $133,160; salaries, Commissioners of Health, $5,346; salaries, Fire Department, $51,106; salaries, Board of Assessors, THE CALIFORNIA IND'ANS, Many newspapers have, by typographical errors, repre- sented the Indians in Southern California to bo in. a state of tnsurrection instead of starvation, owing to the drought. THE GOODYEAR INDIA RUBBER PATENT. The Goodyear Rubber Patonts case was up before the $7,000; salaries, Board of Revision and Correction | House Committee on Patents yesterday, and dessra. of Assessment, $3,000; salaries, city courts, | Payne and Parsons, of Providence, N. H.; Day and Gris. poh capgroet tationery and bank books, 000; | wold, of New York, and others, were heard in opposition to the application for the extension of the patent. To- morrow counsel will be heard in favor of the applicants, and the committee will soon be ready to report on It. There is no probubiiity of a favorable report either from the House or Seuate Committee. pairs and cleaning, $35,000; sewerage sysiem surveys, $10,000; street improvemen: repairing aod repairs, by contract, $10,000; Society for Keformation of Juvenile Delinquents, $8,000; to the com- missioners for laying out that portion of New York lying north of 165th street, $0,600; supplies for and cleaning oy offices, $60,000; water pipes and laying 173,000; wells and pumps, $8,500; wharves, Blips, $100,000; Eighth avenue, from 140th street. $20. st Catholic children, society tor protection. of, $15,000. ‘TAR COUNTY TAX LEVY. The fol are the items in the New York ts, $5.000; streets, and civic ball by the Twelfth regiment Natioual Guard, at the Academy of Music to-night, are fast hurrying to completion, @ed Irving Hall and the Academy will on this oseasion be decorated with a taste and clegaace out- Vieing all previous eflorts to that end. The members of i mara os for county aD Bi $55,008 ‘Cisoeseen, 860 000; pei 4 ee Mnotoe, repairs ef county baldlngee’ $10,000 ery, 3 i, i a Febio, 4,000; laren, Logtative, Department, $0000, pretense ge id a ae beads comes: ie they have to face as killing glances, an@ as many of them $0,000, ‘support of ated witnesses, $2,600; in- | &8 the stoutest hearts could desire; but the more of salaries of offers, men, &ec., &0., of the these the greater will be the sutcess of the benevolent é MENTS OF THE SQUADRONS, ETO. ‘The following is @ list of foreign ‘vessels now in our barbor:— RUSSIAN FLERT. poner cet oon ha Fedorovaky. Copetof. GQuaboet maz —captata ores. a non Ore to secure a place at the Dall. Phioseton, corvette. Kansas Political News. Marceau, gunboat. Laavarworrn, April 23, 1864. * wpm -reabe At the State Convention Bold at Topeka yesterday the ‘The departure of snow and ice from our shores and waters and the opening of fine weather bring again into our bay the war vessels of France and Russia, which have been hovering along our coast for several months following delegates were elected to the Baltimore Con- Yontion:—A. C, Wilder, f, M. Bowen, M. H. Insley, T. W. Potter, J. H. Lave and B. H. Lawrenpe, They were ia. structed to vote for Mr. Lincoln. Governor Carney bas writtes, a letter withdrawing from the Senatorial content, which leaves the electicn of United States Senator with aur next Legislature. po seeseltahorntnen Harrower Persomat Intelligences. Colonel Jobn MoOonihe, Une Mundred and Sizty-0,th regiment, New York Volunteers, bas, tn obsdien.9 to orders, resummed command of the First brigade, ‘second divin yn, United States Army, dletelot pf Florid’,, Depart. mer,tot the South, hendauarters ak JecksoeytlY In place of P eigndior General Foster, whe if re, datalog om General Gordan wt as ‘Pierce, of the One Hert Some of the Russians have gone no further south than Hampton Roads, while others have visited Havana and cruised io the Gulf of Mexico, exercising their crews. The Alranz bas spent ber winter in Boston, All of them are undergoing extensive repairs to their engines and boilers, ‘which will detain them here for six weeks to two months. Late advices from Russia do not give, as yet,to the Ad. miral a clue as to thé future movements of his fleet, or aoy part ot it. They will probably be retained ia these waters, waiting for anything which may turn up in Bus rope, regarding the present aiMealties, which may in the end interest them. Of the movements of the Frenchmen one can find or, sate sy ay myer ee much less, The affable Admiral Renaud ts not the map to or tte same regiment, aa aid-4% camp. telt much of what he knows; but learns al! he can v nich will beneft bim or bis coustry. This port is tly, nead. quarters of the French naval force in the North Atientic ‘and the flagship seldom moves except to give/ine mon an opportunity to exercise, The Admiral will 7 ropabty visit ‘Mow Landon 004 Mewnert thin exssams Niels Gansen—Me-and Mrs Barnoy Williams com menoe an engagement (0-night £1 Niblo’s Garden, limited to twelve mights. The Oho! seat pieces id the repertoire Of tht talented comedian will be pat upon the étage oak evening. THE MILITIA CALL IN THE WEST. Eighty-five Thousand ‘Troops Offered trom Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wiscon- sin and Iowa, ‘The President’s Acceptance and the Proclamations ef the Governors, 0, &e., ae. The President’s Accepta: Sve Theasand Mem for Days. Wasnmaton, spell 24, 1864. ‘The President bag accepted the tender on the part ot the Governors of Obio, indiana, Utineis, Wisconsin ané Towa of am aggregate of eighty-five thousend voluntecr fofantry, to serve one hundred days from the time of their being mustered in as regiments, These troops are to be paid, clothed, subsisted and transported vy the government, and employed in fortifications, either ts their several States or wherever required. Governors Morton and Brough have gone home. of Kighty- Hunares Proclamation of Goveraor Brough, ef ¥ Onto. Cuncoswatt, April 24, 1864. Governor Brough has tssued an order culling the Na- tional Guard of Ohio into active service for one hundred days, They will be clothed, armod, equipped end paid by the United States government, and report for duty May 2 ‘The order says our armies in the field are marshalling for a decisive biow, aud the citizen soldiery will share the glory of crowning victories of campaigns by roliev- ‘ng our veteran regiments from poss aod garrison, to af low thei to engage in the more arduous duties of the held The Call of the Governor of Indiana. Cixeresamt, April 24, 1864. Governor Morton has issued a preciamation to the people of Indiana, saylog the Governors of Illinois, Obio, Jowa, Wisoonsin and Indiana bavo offeted ¢o daizo for the service of the genoral governme st cighty-tive thousané mes, fur a period of one hundred days, to perform such military services as may bo required of them in any State. ‘The Governor éalls for qwenty thousead volunteers, and says the importance of making the apuroachiog cam- Pprigu successful and decisive is not to be over estimated, He feels confident that this call will be promptly an@ fully responded to, Proclamation of the Governor of lIlllnois, ‘Wasarxctox, Aprit 24, 1864, » Governor Yates has issued @ stirring preciamation to tho people of Illinois, calling upon them to fill up im twenty days the queta of twenty thousand of the volunteers for that State. He expects to have thom im camp and ready to be armed and equipped in fittesn days. “Bounty Jan Executed at Fort Warren. ORDER OF GENERAL DIX APP::OVING THBIR GEN: TENCES—‘BOUNTY STEALING’? AN ONGANIZEB BUSINESS WHICH MUST BE SUPPRESSED, In approving the sentences of Matthew Riley, alias Roach, and Charles Carpenter, unassigned recruits of the Vermont Volunteers, who were shot Iast Friday at Fort Warren, Boston harbor, for the crime cf repested deser. tion—otherwise known as ‘‘bounty jumping’’—Goneral Dix used tho following language, which should serve ‘as a warning to the many {n:amous gangs bow organized in this city, who make it their business to eulist at different points throughout the coantry, reccive the county and then immediately desert—ooly returning te the city to play the same game over again :— ‘The Major General commanding approves of the pro- ceedings, findings and sentences in the ceaes of privates Ch.rles Carpenter and Matthew Ri'ey, alias John Roach, unxgetzned recruits for the Vermont Voluateors. The crime of which thee men ore eouvict:d ts among the most heinous to the Militery cude. They were com foderated with three other persous 10 enlist. obtuin the bounty and desert the serviee of the government imme diately after swearing allegiance to it. Feoratting of- ficers were warned of thoir intention; but ooiw:thstand. log every precaution they succeedeil the day after they were mustered into the service lu cilecting their escape Carpenter, after bie desertion, dyed bis beir and other. wise disguised himself, and commenced the business of bounty aod substitute broker. Kiley was ono of bis com. federat:8 io enlisting and deserting, and they were found together when they were arrested, the coutinue | axsocia- tiou Indicating that they were leagued together lor the commission of further crimes. Voaertion ts iu all countries one of the most int of mititary crimes. {t ts compounded of perjury, iuddelity to the government, and a cowardly ebandunment of the national flag. In sexs0ns of public peril it puts on ite darost dye, It is,s0 far as the guilty perpetrator cas make it, the surrender of the cause of the country to ita encm. In ¢hese cases it was complicated with the base and pre. Moeditited prrpose of defrauding the Treesury by a rre- tended engagement ia the military eorvice of the count y, to be followed by an immediate repudiation of it Ata Period when the government is making the strrngest ‘appeals to the people to rally to its support against the desperate effuris of its enemios to destroy it, a ciass ot mea, diess of ail moral ‘ob! ij fnstibets of honor and ace thrusting thera. junto the service ‘the purpose of making » mer. profit out of tho public necessities, aud retring Two tions, and of all the ample of falsehood and iniidelity calculated to ive allthe ties which should biod a community together in the hour of adversity and peril. it is due to the cause of public justice that this example should be rebuked, and that the prevalence of desertion should be checked, if the inftiction of the highest penalty of the law can restrain it; and the Major Geveral commanding hereby announces his determination: to carry into execution, with unytelding: firmuess. the sentence of death ‘shall be deliberately pro~ fair and impartial trial, yo crime ehall hive beew clearly proved. wever painful the duty, every co- siderat on of public justice and public policy domunds: ‘Vhat it shal! be inflexibly enforced. Privates Carpenter and Riley alias will, be shot to death et Fort Warren, in the harbor of tm, Mass, on Friday, the 22d day of April instant, between toe afternoon. The command- By command of MAJOR GENERAL DIX. D. T. Van Burex, Colonel and it General. Official—Gno, Erexstepr, Aid-de-Camp. i 5g t i i i g g i 3 if $ 5 i it i i ii il ii th a iy ih i £ way ‘hen prepared, Ly Grait fs made at the present time the excoss will bn Tie i TT Tg next PEA Tig Grats eee trope Se Foquired. iTING, Solicitor of the War meat. Mr. Eowin Boors and Miss Avorts Jones state that the announcement of thelr intention to play foe the benefit of Count Jounues, at the Academy of Muaie on Saturday wholly ithoat sanction. ve either pay) rricletine recoteet lnveoiian sf perverts