The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1864, Page 4

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WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 5M Broadwas.—Ermoriaw Boxes, Dancws, &c,—Sickisr anv His Px xPorming Doos CAMPBELL MINSTRELS. 1:9 and 201 Bowerr,—Variep ap EXCITING NELANGE or ETHIOPIAN OppITIES BALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Rongrr Heuuea DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Anremos Wano Axona THE Monwoxs: AMERICAN THBATRE. No. 44 Broadway.—Bacuers Ponvonnies, BURLESQUKS, AC.—SCHNES ON THE MISSIS- wr ROPE CHAPEL 720 broesw: Mian 2.0 oF Giass KLows -—Woonrorrr’s Bons EW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATO! Broadway.< CUK.CRITS ann ey Tey. bias Awcrones. item 9a. M. UW? M, HOOLET'’S OPERA HOUSE, Ereokiyo. --B: Bones, Dances, Briimavts, dc. pail i New York, meneey, | October 16, 1864. <cHE SYTU ATION. An important reconnoissance, resulting in a consider- @ble engagoment, was made ou Thursday last by two ci- vistops of the Tenth army corps, under General Terry. The expedition proceeded in @ direction to the right of our right wing, acd, after advancing some distance ame upon the enemy's pickets, whom they drove be fore them, and continued on t» the Centra! or Darby- town road, runing up to /icbmond. They nad vot goue ap this road far before they were met by opposing skirmishers, and, pressing on, Terry's men found thom. selves io front of a Lew and formidadie line of rebel works, strongly garrisonsd by Hoke's aud Fields’ divisions, This was an important discovery, ‘These works bave been built since tbe 2th ult, and are designed to supply the piace Of those taken from th» robels by our army on that day, and it was co ascertain their exact to- oality and eirength that the reconnoissance wi in which it was most success’! our men from these works, and a severe Aight ovsued, made, Tho enemy opened on General Terry made an assault on the fortiticatious; deeming tt impracticable tv take them with t ree at his disposal, ana baying most satisfactorily accomplished all the designs with which be be concluded to return to camp. as bis troope menced to withdraw, but, cet out, As 8900 com. (be rebes sallied out and at tacked them, but were :pecdily driven back, with heavy loss, their dead aad w ground. nded thickly etrewing the No (urther inter erencs wiih the Union sot diers was attempted, and they returned to their position «in killed, wounded end missing was about four buvdred, and the enemy is thought to bave :uflered to about the same extent. A portion of the Army of the Potomac, on the eouth Side of James river, 1s £0 close to the Southeide Ratiroad that our men can disti they pass along. At the iatest dates all was reported quiet both before Richmond and Petersburg, with the ex- Ception of occasional pick t fring. hes learned that ail the of tho morning unmolested. Our stly see and bear the trains as Our War Department Union deserters and Union Prisoners whe have been starved into eubmission io Richmond to the Je. D vis confederacy have been put to labor in the worksuops o @ngod in cartridge making and other employm: It te roported that the rebels are et D: force, aad that Genera! Sdermun is close on ‘heir rear, end prepared to make their position exceeding! uncom. fortable. It would appea> from our despaich that the evemy are attempting the besiegement of Chattanooga, Tonn., as Ht ts said that Colonel mander there, was prepared (o make a protracted wd successful defence, as he ie strongly fortified sud Baad a large force. Tie irc line rooning from Nasbville to At!snta, which were con- Biderably injured by th Fepaired, and w jl all be ‘n working order days. The guerilias Georgin and Tenn: ‘Out are in course of perfection. Interesting Mews from Soutb Carolina and Fiorida is furnished us by the arrival bere Iast cight of the stesm- hip Fulton, from Port Royal on the 13th inst. Cox, of the Fifty-G/th Ven eyivania regiment, who re orp'ly excaped from prison in Charleston, brought come Saformation relative to affsirs togtedeldom. Twenty Geaths from yellow fever are occurring daily in Charics. ton, though tbe gcourge bas cot made its appear Qooe witbia the Union lines atall The Usion prison- ere bi all been fest cut of the city. There Gre now about four thousend rebel troops in ond about Charleston. General Foster, commanding the Depart- ment of the South, tbat city, and are now en- on, Jebnaon, the Chion com. kk oid brides 90 the ratiroad e frecnete, are being rapidity @ ngoin very troublesome im {mes cree for driving thom recently Leen on a tour of inspece Won in Florida, «tamining Coiom fortiications being | erected at Jacksonville, Magnolia, St, Augustine and Other places, which, when completed, will be impregna- Die. Colvne! Noble tately captured @ camp of militia &t Enterprise, Florida, and it wae reported that bat- falion, under the rede! Mi or Church, had been made Privovers err Iniabsssee, A iurge side-wheel steamer, whicb was trying to run the blockade Into Charle i. (Was sunk by our feet at the entrance of the harbor on the evening of the Ith tnetant. Another steamer which @ttempted to ruB Out Lhe rame oight was driven back. The reer gaard of the rebel General Price's force in Missour) loft Boouevili@ Oo Thursday night, going in the Gireotion of Lamington. A detachment of Union cavalry wish & repu se in Cooper county on Wodnecday ast. Genesal Nosecrane reached Jefferson Cty, the capital of the Stute, on Friday aight. There fe Great excitement in Kansas ia reference to Price's inva sion of Missouri, and the militia bave been called ont. About (birty Germans were murdered at Lafayette on the 10th fost. by a party of rebel cutthroat. | We bave oo mews of lator movementa by Geoeral Bveriden. The trains on the Baltimore and Obio Ratlroad @revgso runoing roguiarly, and ao fearsof any more {yuerutn aepredations on the line are entortatned. > The gueriiian aro atilt at ibele work in Kentucky, & Weed of tem burced the jail in Ervin, B tole county, {en int Thursday night, and released four prisoners. The Wore ie Bravtendurg wore plana by them en the cad might. Oo Friday night the Bardsvown Raliroad ie waa fred upoa, The guard returned we Gre, wound: tox she toader of the ruoriiia gang Geo banded of Wegre’s guorinen ororved toe Foteseng, ena «amount of money. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, i864. into Maryland, near Edward's ferry, on Friday afternoon, and proceeded to Pooleaville, where they drove out the citizens, committing many outrages and doing much damage. Other bands of these marauders are reported to have been on the road leading to Rockville, Mary- land, on the same day. Secretaries Stanton and Fe-senden, accompanied by the Quartermaster General, the Commissary General, the Surgeon General and other officals of distinction, have goue to City Poiut to bold a consultation with Geueral Grant, iv reference to the war estimates to be laid be- fore Congress at its next session. EUROPEAN NEWS. The latest European mows by the Hecla at Halifax and mails of the Zuropa at New York is publiaped ia the Henatp to-day, The intelligonce ts dated to the bth of October. Joe Coburn appeared in the ring, which was pitchod at the village yof Dandrum, near Dublin, to fight Jem Mace, on the 4th of Octeber, as agreed on. Mace, how- ever, was non est, Coburn paced the ring amidst the cheers of thousands of spectators, and it ts sald he intends to claim the stakes. The details of the affair, which we give to-day, go to sbow that there was a “hitch” on Mace’s part which is not as yet fully explained. Mace’s representative bad returned to London from Irelaud, and said that the affair was merely postponed to tue 7th inst. Our special correspondence from Paris and London as- sures us thit General McClellan's letter of acceptance bad ‘astonished” the disunlonists, of every rank and class, in France and England, and dissipated the last chance of the rebels for recognition, or even mediation, on the basis of permanent separation. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Adrendful accident occurred yesterday forenoon on the Shore Lice Railroad, about four miles east of the Connecticut river. A train of six cars, carrying two hundred and seventy-five woundvd and sick soldiers from Readville, Mass., was thrown from the track by @ brokem rail, while passing through a rocky gorge. Nine soldiers and tly killed, ten or twelve sol- diers and a brakeman were seriously injured, aud about twenty of the soldiers received slighter injuries, The oars were dashed into the solid rock on either side, and their shattered fragments piled ap in inextricable confu sion. The Nicaragua Transit Company’s steamsbip Golden Rule, which left San Juan de! Norte on the 7th inst, ar- rived here yesterday The public excitement and indignation over the raise of fare om the city railroads are assuming a serious aspect, Many altercations and scufiles bet woen pacsen- gers and conductors took place yestetday, and a number of persons were put our of cars. The Aldermanic Com. mittee on Railroads held « mocting to consider the sub- Ject of the railroad advance, and, after hearing the com- plait o° J. P. Worstell, on bebal: of tho citizens of the vie cinity of Filtieth street, they agreed to request the opinion of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue as to the legality of the railroad companies’ proceedings, and then ad. Journed.. A conductor of one of the Secon4 avenue cars was arrested and taken to the Jefferson Market Police Court, whore he was required to give five hundred dollars bail to answer a complain: made by George W. Seymour, of 163 West Thirty-six'h street, for efection from the car on refusal to pay more than five cents fare, Additional causes were also yesterday brought to the attention of Mayor Gunther. Superintendent Kennedy bas inatructed the police to render assistance in putting passengers out of the cars when m quested by condactors to do so, and their services were yesterday called into requisitio numerous cases, It has been decided by our variou: rajiroad companies to issue tickets, on and aiter Thureday next, by’ which means they will be enabled to impose the exact additional two and a half per cevt ieviel on their gross receipts by the Internal Rerenve act, and which that law author- izes them to add to the fares of passeagers. Ove bun- dred of these tickets, each entitling the holder to oue Tide, will be eold for five dollars and thirteen cents, and eight of them for forty-one ceutr—-the lutter being the smailest number which can be sold so as to impose the exact tax, ‘he President of tbe Sixth Avenue Railroad Company publishes a statement, in which he represents tuat previous ty the war it cost (be companies three cents and threo quarters to trausport each passenger, aud that vow it costs them over five cents. Thoagh dificuitics between riders and drivers sre continually occurring on our city stages, the dis. turbances on ‘hese vehicles haye wot yet risen to the height of the t:ouhies on the cars A women who visited the Coroner's office 1a Brooklyn yesterday, a‘ter viewing the remains of the man’s body which have been picked up in the water by piecemeal at different times during the past two weeks, asserted posi- tively that they were those of ber son, The name af this woman has not yet been made public, the authorities Preeerving secrecy tm order to seit them in unravelling the mystery eurrounding the supposed murder. Shortly a'ter six o'clock Inst night @ fire broke out on the seocnd floor of tbe building No, 75 Jobn street, occu, pied by W. &C. K. Herrick, importers of staple and fancy stationery goods. The damage to the stock by fire and water will probably amount to about $30,000. There were insurances on it of $120,000, in city companies. The building is damaged about $2,000, and is fully insared. Tho stock market was dull at the opening yesterday, but afterwards became strong, and then heavy. The gold market was excited; the opening quotation was 4, {rom which it advanced to 220. It subsequently Geclined to 218, and closed at 216%. Governments were strong Foreign merchandise was quiet on Saturday, there be- tng no disposition to operate, even though the price of gold was higher, The merchants evidently have not sufficient confidence im the continued high price of goid for soy length of time to induce them to make any vew ventures tp the way of speculation, Hence foreiga mer- chandise remains quiet. Domestic produce w: erally higher, but the markets were not so firm at the close. On ‘Change the flour market was qnite active, and 302. a 400. bigher. Wheat advanced 4c. a 6¢. per bushel, with . demand, Corn was tc, a 2c. higher, but closed Gull, Oats were firmer, Putk openod active and deci- edly tirmer, but closed dull and heavy. Beef and lard wore stoady. Whiskey was firmer. Freighte continued dull. New Haven, Coun., to two brakemen were inst: The Results of the Uctober Elections= Both Sides Sheuting Victory. The exact results of the late eiections in Penn- sylvania, Obio and Indiana we ¢! all be able to furnish our readers with the receipt of the offi- cial returns. How soon that will be we cannot tell. Including the time required for the trans- mission avd classification of the soldiers’ votes, we may not know the precise aggregate vote om each side in Pennsylvania this eide the Presi- dential election. Meantime, as the next best thing to the genuine official returns, we will look at the official proclamation of Mr. August Belmont, Coairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the official bulletin of Hon. Henry J. Raymond, Chairman of the National Union Executive Committee, concerning these October elect Mr. Belmont’s name is good for almost any He is rich as a Jew; he is the financial agent in New York of the Roths- childs, and the confidential agent through whom Louis Napoleon supplies “der monish” to bis High Dutch Emperor of Mexico, More- over, the political power placed in the bands of Mr. Belmout by the Chicago Convention is equal to the emergency of « political revolu- tion; for he holds that Convention subject to his call at any time and place, and for any pur- pose that be may resolve upon. Mr. Belmont, therefore, may be considered « respomisible man. His proclamation touching the Pennsyl- tion in before us. It ts headed Tt is short and sweet as far af ut there if stops, He has had no news from Ohio and Mndiana. Penvsylvauin is his theme. He says thet the democracy in that State in October beve eceured a “triumphant euccess,” which, in bebalf of MoOlellan and Pandicton, “gives security to our expectations of trinmph- $ eucgows in the national, elagtion af Nigrem- ber.” A “triumphant success” is equivalent to @ successful triumph, from which Mr. Belmont doubtless means that if there has been a repub- lican triumph in Pennsylvania it is not a suc- cessful one. In the next place, to ratify his “triumphant success,” Mr. Belmont orders democratic salutes in our public squares to- morrow, and illuminations in the evening, by the var‘ous “democratic organizations at their respective headquarters.” We do not exactly like this phrase of “giving security to our ex- pectations.” It is @ little muddy; but, aa in the German it is all right, we think that every reasonable peraom ought to be satisiied with Mr. Belmont’s “triumphant success.” But what says Mr. Raymond? He is not a millionaire; he cannot roll round in his coach and four at Chicago, paying all the expeuses of @ great national party convention. His con- tingent party expenses have to be levied by raids, like those of Mosby, with this difference: that while Mosby has to fight for what he gets in the rear of Sheridan's army, Raymond walks into the Post Office and Custom House and collects his bills like one having authority. But Mr. Raymond, if not as rich as a Jew, is a responsible man, although Greeley has written him down as “the little villain.” What, then, says Mr. Raymond in his official capacity as Chairman of the National Union Committee? He says—(the game of brag)—that in Penn- sylvania the Union men have elected sixteen out of twenty-four members of Congress and carried the State by a popular majority of not less than fifteen thousand; that in Ohio they have elected sixteen out of nineteen members of Congress, with an aggregate ma- jority of “not less than eighty thousand,” and that in Indiana they have re-elected Governor Morton by fifteen thousand majority and gained three members of Congress, Mr. Raymond spreads himself like a regular “war eagle,” but, while he thinks that his partisans can carry every loyal State for Mr. Lincoln, he warns them to “take care that the very splendor of these victories does not betray you into fatal inactivity.” Mr. Raymond is jubilant; but still the “splendor of these victories” does not give absolute “security to his expectations.” We leave the intelligent reader to make up his own judgment from the official bulletins of Mr. Belmont and Mr. Raymond. How can we decide when such doctors disagree? The only State, however, in dispute between them is Pennsylvania, and for the actual result there we must await the official returns. The demo- crats in the old Keystone, under the standard of McCleilan, have made a splendid fight, and had be not been encumbered with the peace her- esies of the Chicago Convention, in spite of his patriotic repudiation of them, and saddled, to boot, with that living embodiment of peace- at- any-price, Pendleton, he would have lifted the democracy firmly on their feet, even in the West. As he stands he has a heavy load to carry and up-hill work before him; but we know not what events and what political changes may take place, even in the short interval to the 8th of November. That is the day on which the Presidential issue will be determined. Ciry Concresstonan Districts ix a MuppLe.— There is a universal dissatisfaction about the nominations for Congress in this city. The nominations are in a great degree regarded in all parts of the country as indicating the policy of the parties in the canvass. The fact, how- ever. is that the nominations in almost every Congressional district are in a decided muddie, and the reverse of what the democratic party desire to do bids fair to be accomplished at the polls, There are numerous candidates in the field inevery district, with afair prospect of their increasing to an indefinite number. Some of them are put up to be withdrawn, others to be bought off, and still others for the sole purpose of having them defeated and the conceit taken out of them. It is in fact so mixed up that it is hard to tell which is which or what is what. Ben Wood has for some time past been in a bad way about his pet district, which he desires to prevent from having any voice in Congress, like the seceded States. For this purpose he bas been furnished with Southern lottery grants and policies. with which it is boasted that he can perpetually buy up the district and its con- vention. In the present muddle of affairs there we think that this is the best thing that he can do. Iu each of the adjoining districts we have hada candidate for every day inthe week. As to Brooks’ district, it is 4s badly mixed as the trial of the Hvening Lepress case in the courts shows up that concern, in its accounts without books, its management without a head, and its dubious, inexplicable muddle in every way. The Brooks’ partnership in smal! news- papers, secesh politics and Peter Funk stock speculations have made money enough to com- pete with Ben Wood in like speculations in the Kightk district. In the upper district Herrick has received the Tammany nomination and Fernando Wood the fag end of Mozart, which amounts to nothing. The only practical way to settle the dificulty in this district is for Wood's friends to see Herrick’s friende, and harmonize by au agreement to pay “one hun- dred dollars” a vote during the two years of Congress, co that the honors and the profits may be properly divided, thie price being the rate established im similar cases by the criminal recorde in thie city. Tur Stavery Quesiion in Maryianp.-~It is now very doubtful whether the expectations 80 confidently entertained that the people of Maryland would adopt the new constitution, with the abolition of slavery, have been rea- lized. It js very probable that they do not desire this change in their local institations to be brought about in this way, but prefer that it should be done by, legislative’enactment. In fact, it might be wise to abandon the ides of emancipation by « direct appeal to the people, not only in Maryland, but’ in all the border States, and allow it to be accomplished by the several Legislatures as am industrial or an economical measure. This would have been done long ago in many of these States were it not for the interference of the abolitionists. ‘Tho sovereign right to abolish the institution of slavery belongs to the Legislatures of all the States—Georgia as well as Maryland or Ken- tucky—just as the right to re-establish it exinte in the Legislature of New York. Ae a question of economy, one affecting the industrial in- terests of the border States, there is no doubt thas {t wil be seriously entertain goon as it is manifested that the labor of (he stave com be applied as profitably tn freedom as in bond- ege, and it fs not only aseless but mischievous for the ultra abolitionists, like Phillips, Gagri- son, Beecher and Tilton, te be urging tbe gov- ernment to effoot the universal emancipation of As there is no appoiatmentin the gift of the Exeoutive demanding more earnest thought, calm judgment and unexceptionable discretion than that of the man who is to fill the seat of Chief Justice of the United States, it is sin- cerely to be hoped that Mr. Lincoln will bring all these agencies to his aid in the selection of & successor to Judge Taney. It would be a great misfortune should the bench upon which Jobn Adams placed a Marshall, and Andrew Jackson a Taney, be dishonored bys mere Politician, a man of limited intellect, restricted powers anda mind clouded by prejudice or warped by fanaticism. The wisdom of all other judicial offices must find a crowning wisdom in the Chief of the Supreme Court. The skill and policy of our foreign representatives must be aided and shaped by the judgment which inter- prets international law from that tribunal. It was a consciousness of these important func- tions which induced Adams and Jackson to add to the glory of their administrations by the selection of such men as the two deceased Chief Justices. When Marshall was appointed the republic was in an inchoate condition. The physical revolution was at an end; but the great moral revolution, the training of the masses to the thoughts and habitudes of a free people, was but beginning. The policy of the country, domestic and foreign, was but imper- fectly shaped. How sublimely John Marshall perfected the constitutional structure of which he -was the architect the litera scripta of history attests. It has been written of the period in which he lived that “the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States have raised the renown of the country not less than they have confirmed the constitution. In aH parts of the world its judgments are spoken of with respect. Its adjudications of prize law are a code for all future time. Upon commercial law it has brought us nearly to one system, befitting the probity and interests of a great commercial nation. Over its whole path learning aud in- tegrity have shed their combined lustre.” It was in days of trouble and difficulty, also, that Jackson called Roger B. Taney to the Supreme bench. The present vacancy occurs in the midst of another revolution, and the duties arising out of it will require the exer- cise of the highest faculties of the judicial mind. Clear judgment, profound learning, massive strength of reasoning, a sacred regard for the constitution and the rights which it guarantees, gll these qualifications are de- manded of the successor of Marshall and Taney. Where shail we find them? If the genius of Webster or Clay exists among us at this day it is not in the ranks of political life that it can be discovered; for the foul stream of politics has swopt all such men out of its channel. Men of the narrowest minds and the smallest mental calibre are the only ones prominent now in the political arena. In the walks of private life, the learned professions, or in the higher grades of commercial business, there may be much exalted intellectual capacity, but few of these classes have made law a deep study. Mr. Lincoln cannot be ignorant of the qualifica- tions required to meke a worthy presiding judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. If he is, the history of the former oc- cupants of that office will enlighten him suffi- ciently to guide him in the selection of some man of comprehensive mind and extensive legal knowledge for that position. The name of Mr. Chase has been mentioned as the new Ohief Justice. A worse selection could not*be made. The position requires a lawyer of profound acquirements. Chase is buta dabbler in legal lore. It requires a man of calm judgment and unbiassed opinions. Chase is a partisan. It requires a broad and comprehensive faculty of grasping great ques- tions. Chase’s miserable failure in the man- agement of the national finances proves him devoid of that quality. We feel the difficulty under which Mr. Lincoln labors in the choice of a man endowed with the necessary capacity for the important office of Chief Justice; but we trust that under no circumstances will his selection fall on a second rate lawyer of very circumscribed intellect. Tuurtow Weep Detivers ANorHer Opiion— Vorck From THE Tomps.—The columns of the Albany Evening Journal contain another long- winded letter from Thurlow Weed, giving his opinion on the Presidential canvass. He seems to think that his opinion is of as much import ance as that of Chief Justice Taney when he was alive. He takes a3 much pains in parading it as though he considered the people of the whole country as completely under his thumb as the Albany lobby was a few years since, before he encountered Vanderbilt on Harlem shorls. Just as though anybody cared a fig about Thurlow Weed’s opinion. It is of no earthly account. All that he has said in his last decree is borrowed from other people. Bis egotism has overcome him. Every opinion that he bas delivered in the last two years has been repudiated by events. He is not balfas reliable as the spirits of the two sisters. Weed, Amos Kendall, Oid Blair, General Came- ron, General John Cochrane and Chevalier Forney every now and then rise up from their tombs and give their opinion of events here. Just as though what they sald was of the least importance. Unfortunately for them, they are on the wrong side of the tomb, and teo near the infernal regions to obtain a correct idea of any- thing. The beet thing that these old fogies, Weed, Old Blair, Amos Kendall, General Cameron, General Cochrane and Forney, can now do isto get together and resolve them- selves into a spiritual circle and try to get some reliable information frem the spirit land. They are completely played out here, and for the eake of their own reputations had better keep their mouths shut until they can find favor with more reliable spirits than they have yet ‘word was given she broke up, and Lynch toom « lead of ice FROM WARERETOR ‘Wagmugrga, Opt. 16, 1864. AWARD OF THR FORTY MILLION LOAN. The Beoretary of the Treasury to-day awarded the new Joan, accepting all bids above thirty one-hundredths pre- mium, and about sixty per centum of the amount bid at that figure te make up the forty millions. MORE NATIONAL BANK CURRENCY. ‘The amount of national bank currency issued during coves ending to-day was one million eight hundred y-one thousand two bundred dollars, The total ns issued up to this date is fifty-flve millions five hundred and seventy-six thousand sevea bundred and thirty doliars, MOVEMENTS OF SECRETARY STANTON—THR WAR BSTIMATES FOR THE BNSUING YEAR. ‘The Secretary of War has gone to City Point, taking with him the Quartermaster, the Commissary General and the Surgeon General, to confer with General Graat ‘upon the war ostimates for the ensuing year. It is belioved that by the transfer of the seat of war to the cotton States a considerable reduction of expendi- tures may be made, especially in the forage and gub- sistence departments. SECRETARY FESSENDEN ON A VISIT TO FORTRESS MONBOB. Seoretary Fessenden, sccompanied by Hon. Samuel Hooper, ot Massachusetts, and Collector Draper, of New ‘York, started this evening upon an excursion to Fortress Monroe and City Point. UMION DESERTERS AND PRISONERS PLACED AT WORK BY THE REBELS. Information has been received by the military authori- ties that the robels bave placed all the deserters from our army, and such of the Union prisoners as bave been Starved into submission, at work in the various work- stops in Richmond, and their own men in the ranks A large number of our soldiers are now employed maiing Cartridges, shoesp&c., for the rebel army, this being the only alternative to death from hunger and coid daring the coming winter, ABRIVALS FROM GENERAL GRANT'S ARMY, Major Genera! Doyle, commanding the British forces in Nova Scotia; Major General Dodge, of the Sixteenth army corps; General Quimby, and Colonel Sharpe, Asristaut Provost Marshal General of General Grant's army, arrived here to-day by special steamer, and leave to-night fur Now York, Genoral Ingalls, Chie! Quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac, arrived to-day from City Point. TROPHIES PRESENTED TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Yesterday the battle flag of the Sixth Virginia rebel cavalry and the flag of the Thirty-second battalion Vir- ginia revel cavairy were presented to the War De- partment, TREASUBY AGENT AT NASHVILLE, TENN. Hon. Green Adams, of Kentucky, has resigned the po- sition of Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office De- Partment to accopt that of Agent of the Treasury Depart- mont at Nashville, Teno. Judge Adams has been ove of the most exemplary officers of the department. His duty was always well done, and invariably upto time. No better appointment hag been made during this adminis- tration. John F. Sharretts, of Baltimore,’ the efticient chief clerk of the bureau, succeeds Judge Adams’ as auditor, LIKUT. PARSONS RESTORED TO THE SERVICE. Lieut. Parsons, Fourth United States artillery, and In- structcr at West Point, recently dismissed the service, has been restored to his rank and ordered to report to General Thomas at Nashville. DIRECTORS OF THE UNION PACIFICO TELEGRAPH OOMPANY. The President has appointed Jesse J.. Williams, of Indiana; Charles T. Sherman, of Ubio; George Ashman, of Magsachosetis; Springer Harbaugh, of Pennsylvania, and Timotby J. Carter, of Illinois, to be directors on the part of the government of the Union Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company. APPOINTMENT TO THE STAF# OF GENERAL SHERIDAN. Lieutenant William Prince, of the Ordnance corps, hae been relieved from duty at the Washington Arsenal, to assume the position of Chief of Ordaance of the Middie Military Division, on the staif of General Sheridau, AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. The statistical returas now being received by the Agricultural Department froin ail sections of the country show that tho crops will turn out much botter than has yen anticipated. There will bea full average crop of al! the principal products, and of potatoes the yield ts extraordinarily large, The latter part of the season his beon most favorable, and to a great extent compeusated for the damage done by the drought. T LDIEKS AND THD HOMESTEAD LAW. Frequent inquiries are made as to the stafvs of persons in the jand or naval service of the United States who are desirous of cntering lands under the Homestead law astowhet r they are exempt during the period while in service fou woking actual settlement after the entry bas been made. The General Land Orifice has ruled that the settlement peed not be made until the party shall be discharged trom such service, when he will be required to make bona fire settlement upon the land entered, aud thereafter comply with all (be requirements of che act. FOSTER. THE YELLOW FEVER IN CHARLESTON Removal of the Union Prison- ers from That City. lars in Florida. SINKING OF A BLOCKADE RUNNER Politics im Admiral Dahlgren’s Fleet, ae. ae, as. ‘The steam transport Fulton, Captain Wotten, from Port Royal, 8, C., 13th inst,, arrived at this port last evening, Bhe brings the mails and two hundred and sixty-cighs passengers, On the 14th inst., at half-past ten P. M., fey miles north of Cape Hatteras, passed steamship Arago, bound south. Purser McManus will accept our thanks for the prompe delivery of our despatches, 1 W. Mason’s Despatches. Hoon Haan, 8. C., Oct. 18, 1866 ESCAPE OF AN OPFICRR FROM CHARLESTON. Captain Cox, of the Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteera, who bas been confined im a Charleston prison, arrived inside our lines afew days since, having been two daya anda night on the way. His plan of escape was very skilfully mani |, but it would be very improper for ma to give the details. Cuptain Cox will ge North by the sieumer Fulton to-day, YRLLOW FEVER is prevalent in Charleston. It is reported that twenty deaths per day are occurring. The fecera! prisoners have all beon sent out of the city to Savannah and in other directions. Captain Cox was in the !ast batch to be sent, and succeeded in escaping just prior to bis departure. RAUBL STRENGTH, ‘The rebels cow have about four thousand troops (a an@ about Charleston. TUR DEFECTION OF ONION PRISONERS. The reports that large numbers of Union prisoners Dave taken the ‘obel oath of allegiance are not without foundation; but Captain Cox believes tne defection to be eontined principally to men whose term of sorvice hag expired and who have beom ied to helleve they would Bot be exchanged. THE GTUAMER CORMOPOLITAN, which arrived bere last Monday, collided with o sloamey off Barnogat On the 8th, aud liad two of ber state roome carried Lia ard 6r damage occasioned to the om tent of some $3,001 x paeerte JOUR BY GBNRRAS. rOnTER. Major Gen Fomter has recently been ona tour ef iuepection to the different posts in Florida, roves the construction of s0ice impregnable works ai Jacksoa- ville, Magnolia and Ficolata, now nearly compieted, ay Brigadier General Hatch, and ee some alterations in the works at Fornandina and St. Augustice. 2 GRIDUANT ACHIRYSMRNT, An expedition under Col. Noble recently went to r] terprise by a night march, to attend an assemblage militia, Thoy succeeded iu surrounding the whole tog and capturing it. ty nine men, fe horses and other plunder. Among the prisovers was Watson, a noted cattle stealing guerilla Tae rebel fores in Florida is vow very much reduced by captures en@ reinforcements rent to Hood. RRPORTED CAPTURE OF CLINCH’S BATTALION. We have a report thats force from the Gulf Depart meat recently came up and captured Major Clineas (rebel) battalion at a poirt to the eastward of Tallabas- 800, Dickinson heard of the expedition at lake City,and by @ sudden movement attempted to cut it off, bub failed. 4 DINNER AND SOIRBE DANBANTE occurred at Saw Mill No, 1 iast Tuesday evening, under the direction of Lieutenant Robinsoa, of Genoral staf, Major Rice, One Mundred ‘and Forty-foursh New York, aud Captain Merrili, chief siguai officer, nificent dinner, prepared under the direction of Marton, superintendent of tbe mill, and Mr. Ald) assistant, came of at hal{-past four o'clock, and on abe evening dancing, participated in by several ind Isrge company was present, anda very sajayabiee evet was Spent, AeALTA, There are no signs of yeliow fever here, and a0 fears Mt, altpough it is prevalest at Charleston and Newbora. ihe health of ail the troops ig excellent, and the Car | precautions are taken for tne presor of bealte, the propdsed large exchange of prisoners takes plage, 1 will occur at Savacnab, where there ts ollow fever, and the returaed prisoners will be quarantined op somse igiand.) NAL PRR=O! Lieutenant Colonel Woodford, who has very ably com ducted the flag of truce interviews of late, bas been lieved by [Aeutenant Colonel Reunett, One Hundred Seonad United tates colored troops, and goes Worth the Fulton Port Rovat Haron, Oct. 18, 1864. BLOCKADE RONNER 8ONK On Wednesday of last week the outer blockading vessels off Oharleston suok a blockade runner, trying te tu to the oily by the inner channel. She was a side wheeler, with two si lacks and two masts. Hep masis and smokestacks are now visible, but ber bull entirely submerged. She was sunk ata point off Loag Island, out of reach of the rebel batteries, and it is pre babie she may be raised and portions of her oxrgo saved, ANOTHER SLOCRADE RUNNER DRIVEN BACK, The same night the advance picket boats drove back @ steamer which attempted to run out. Several volleys of musketry were unheeded, but afew rounds from a how itzer on a boat from the’Pawnee caused bor to put back in a burry. v Navy. ABRIVAL OF THE GUNBUAT FLORIDA. The side-wheel gunboat Florida, 9, Lieutenant Com mander Samuel Magaw, arrived yestorday morning at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, from Boston. She will be coaled at once, and will agala proceed to sea. She has lately been on special service in pursuit of privateers and blockade runners, in the Bay of St. Lawrences and off Halifax. Her pext service will probably be in the North Atlantic blockading squadron. REPAIRS TO TUR AUGUSTA. ‘The gunboat Augusta, 10, Commander Corbio, will probably be placed im the dry dook, foot of Pike street, on next Tuesday, to un jome repairs. She will not be ready for soa for several weeks to come. HE DICTATOR. Steam was raised on the Dictator yesterday, and ber engines turned over to try them, She will probably be ready for sea the latter part of next week. DETACHED. Lieutenant F. H. Oorrie has been detached from the post at Brooklyn, and ordered to the sloep-of-war Juniata, to relieve Lieutenant ©. A. Stiilman, Second Lieutenant Frank 1). Wobster, detached from post and ordered to tho steam sloop Lancaster, fagship of the Pacific squadron, to relieve Lieutenant William R. Brows. Second Lieutenant Island, California. Second Lieutenant Governisar Morrie bas joined the post at Brooklyn, Second Lieutenant Edward C. Gabandaa has been ap- pointed Provost Marsbal of a naval general court mar- tial sitting at the Boston Navy Yard. Second Lieutapant Edward P. Banning has been ordered from the Marine Barracks, Washington, to the Norfolk Navy Yard, RAE MONITOR FETOPOLO hag returned to Cuarieston harbor. HE PAWNaR bad ope of her propellers damaged a week or @ go by getting foul of a buoy off Beach Inlot. She como dows hore in tow of the Canandaigua, was repaired in one oF two days and has returned. VOTING. Paymaster Allen, by order of Admiral Datigrea, ts superintending the distribution of biunks and ballots among the eailors entitled to vote. ‘THE UN STATES COAST SURVEY STRAMPR IRR has arrived here to relieve the Vi: Tho former has @ pew set of officers, with one or two exceptions, Mr. Wm. W. Harding, Acting Executive officer of the Vixeu, retaros North in her. Captain Boutelie, of the Vixen, bas taken Command of tbe Bibb, bis Old vessel, with he following officers; Acting Master ited States Navy, Frocative Ofiicer; Assisi ‘urgeon, Bric Paymaster, no asnigoment, but ona econ expected; Chief Encinese, Mapes; Assistant Engineer, Smith; Watch Officers, As Mitobell, G. Bradford and John A. Guldin; Draught Kugene, Willenbuger.. The Vixen, will go North ‘The following are her officers at preseot:>— W. ilarding, Acting Executive Ofcer Andrew Shier bm gg id uM on, Assistant Engineer. The has been thoroughly repaired, renovated and recited, and is ndw ip One order. THE LATE JUDGE TANEY. Remeval of the Kematins to Frede a Wasniaros, Oct, 15, 1864. The remains of Chief Justice Taney loft Washingtoa or Frederick, Md., this ning, at half-past seven, by special train. ily hour the friends of the doce. sed, (ueluding President Lincoln, Secretary Seware, Attorney General Bates and Postmaster Genoral Denes. gon, assembled at the bouro, and accompanied the re- maine to the depor; Messrs. J, M. Carlisle, W. 2 Stove, D. W. Middletony Clerk of the Supreme Court W. H. Lamon, United States Marshal, and Conway Robinson, and Mr. Tyler, of Frederick, acting as pall bearers. Owing to the early hour the procession wae much emailer than the solemn occanion would aeons to require, very few boing tn attendance except the per- sonal frionds of the deceased, Arrangements wore mage for appropriate ceremonies at Frederick upon the arrival of the train, after which, in accordance with the wish of A. 8, Taylor ordered to Mare The Tart. PASHION COURSE, 1. 1.—TROTTING. Barceray, Oct. 16,—Match $500, mile heats, best three in five, to wayons, D. Pfiter named b. J. Lovett named b. Jimmy Lynch...... 2 2 1 . Lady Tompking... ly Tor patos was the hundred to thirty previous to (He start. As soon as the two lengthe around the ture and to the quarter pole, pase- ing there im forty-one seconds. He then broke up, and the mare went to the half-mile poles length anda baif shead, in 1:21. She qontinued to lead to the end, win- A tant plewe found In the tombs, where they bave | since ning by four lengths, A Lin to twenty on the the family, the itera areto be interred ab been laid by public opinion - id Lyman Pca ap botere he reached the Wrn, and the | With aslittle display ax possible : mare led six lengthe to the quarter, in forty second Taney. my four ‘engine the Raltemite Det’ ood 101 rity whe Defi iem the ®usnragion ratios) ra Wuo m tae Farstrien’—Henry J. Raymond },* trite oven - a mb “ates ‘the late Chief Justice Taney was attended daring De j ba ‘yd Misd Mnese by Dr. Gratton Tyler and also Dr. amen claims the majority on the Pennsylvania re} rire en tn wae waerioe toivine | C. Hell,” who was eummoced a few di turns for the republicans, and August Bel- yume 2a ibn ae. the same trick Ove times aftorwards, He, retained bie, con id mont claims {t for the democrats. One or the | was beaten four 42. sirmeat 10 130 leet aristd BM Tanater, Whee Be ~~ he other muat tell a falechood. Which is itt than io ge pf ER Oy aga as ct dred to twenty 87%. fined to bis bass took ap iuterest in what was Wearfal Gale at Halites. never beaded ; and in reference to the pro Hauirax, Oot, 16, 1864, Wo*had @ fearful gale bere all day yesterday, and trees were, ‘"_" tn every direction end the tole Avfapd wires Fire im Cinyvilie. * Provi paxce, R. I., Oot, 15, 1864. A cotton mfit to Olayvitio, owned by W. B. Mathewson, and run by Lindsay Jorden, wae burnt test night. It was insured in this olty tor $17,060. to pHi. by ar at he desired partio din wow read omer he Tag og) Ruyer et canect RACRE—FIFTH Nay. Of gome persone that the Loorsrnne, Oct, 16, 1868 Bereopatakes for three year olds, two mile nomte, cloned aia oon toa hee com mt |, he oon. with ix subscribers, 6200 cotrauce, #100 (orfeit, 61,000 | Sige Kien inning Dor to added, Mr. Alexey AgerOld @alkod over. ell bw th cain cheval ry Same day, & purse for mile heats, pest thres in five, tention. : ia . Gram woo the race, beating Miackiock and Zero, Blacks Sarr sat Wesnonty bs sagen Hine) 4 47, 1:00, 1:50. | hin tnently te the day ‘was fore Warn tere nenared ‘and took what's sig ag he became oer rae venta, rdine walked over _ = and di erat une ci pair sass Gay une