The New York Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. OPTION WN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NAGBAU STS. Volume XXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS EVE! pfoaDeme oF MUSIC, Irving place.—Itautan Orena— ‘Aue NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Guapisror. WALLaCK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas Conract. WINTER GARDEN, Brosaway—Couxpy or Exnons— Love aw Liven. oLrmrc wie NEW BOWERE THEATRE, Bowery.—1 an Mauer Wivys of Naw lons—Papey Care ee BOWER? THEATRE, bowery.—Lystau—Decaacv- MEAU—EO0:8 aT TH SWAN BROADWAY THEATRE, Lawres ATRON, Fourteenth street. —Equustatan, SD ACROBATIC ENTERTAINMENTS, 45 Broadway. —Victin— BARNUM'S MUSKUM. Broadway.<Tox Tavus—T Games, Two Dwinrs, &c, at all hours Faues Be TURNSJONG> GauveeLyiRi—Day and Kvening, BRYANTS MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, ‘bonus, =F Dances, BUXesauns, £0.— WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway, — Bones, Dances, &C.—NikGRIT and Hie Pruronmine Dace MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery. Vv aniep vo MuLancm oy Lruorian Oppitias, SALLE OIABOLIQUE. 685 Broadway.—Roverr Herre DODW ORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Arrexvs Warp Awone THe Monmovs AMERICAN THRATRE. No. 444 Broadway.—Bavcars, ANTOMINMS, BURLESQUES, &C—SCENES ON Tux MISSIS- LOPS CHAPEL 720 Bronaway.— . ; mia Teoves OF Glass BLOWERS Y OODROTT#'S Bone SEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad Conoemes AnD kmctuRES. Irom 9AM. UllUP MS ROOLET’S OPERA House, Brooklyn. —Eeatortat Sones. Danows, Burumsquxs, New York, Monday, October 17, 1862. THE SITUATION. Our army correspondence which we publish this morbieg comtains the particulars of the important and Successful reconnoissance made by a portion of the Tenth army corps on last Thursday, alluded to in this column yesterday, when the position and strength of the enemy's ven works in-frout of General Butler’s right wing were ascertained, Our casualties on the occasion, kitiea, in wounded aud missing, were a little over four hundred, of whom only thirty-eight were «illed. The enemy’s firing on the butch Gap Canal ‘ tas ceased since General Butler placed a number of rebel Prisopers in it, The trees on the river bank in front of tue Fighteeath corps are being cut down by the rebels, io order to give thema better view of operations on our Bide. eit holding Tburaday's the advanced position gained - in Teconuoissance, and it not do- figned to abandon it. We have received General Lee’s offeial report of this affair, and the Richmond Enquirer's Sccount of 1t, both of which, of course, claim a rebel victory. No new movements in either the Army of the Potomac or the Army of the James are reported. At the dato of latest accounts the rebols were observed to be massing their cavalry on our left, with the supposed in- teation of making a dash ou our forces on the Weldon Railroad. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1864. Durming to death @ number of men. Webave a rebel. | The Rebel Vice Preside description of General Asboth’s expedition to Marianna and other places in Florida; but it does not differ mate- rially from our om accounts, The rebel Vice President Alexander H. Stephens bas written a letter giving his views on the Chicago plat- form. He says he is in favor of a convention of States for the settlement of the diffieulties between the North and South, but will not pledge- himself to abide'by ite decision. It ig stated thas Admiral Lee has departed for the West, to take command of the Mississippi fleet, Admiral David D. Porter having superseded him at the head of the North Atlantic squadron. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The telegraphic details of the Europeon news brought by the Hecla to Halifax, dated to the 5th of Octover, are Published in the Heratp this morning. The floancial and commercial reports of the Hetia bave been anticipated to a great extent by our despatches from the Caledonia off Cape Race. The Hecla reports, however, a few pew heavy failures in England, It appears that the Mace and Cobura fignt is “ off’? at lesst for the present. A very interesting compilation of news relative to the progress of the match to the 4th of October (the day fixed for the battle) was given in the Heeatp yesterday, and the latest despatches from Ire land and England relative to she ‘‘break off” of Mace appear in our columns to-day. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The stesmebip Ucean Queen, which arrived here yes terday, from Aspinwall on the 6th inst., brought us inter. esting despaiches from our correspondents in Panamaand Callao, The Spanish-Peruvian difficulty still remained unadjusted; but Peru has appointed a special commis. sioner to Madrid, which shows a more canciliatory spirit on the part of that government than it has hitherto mani- fested, and it is thought that the troubles will be settled before long. A serious revolutionary plot has been discovered in Chile, in which Spain is supposed to be implicated. The revolution in Ecuador was thought to be effectually crushed. President Murillo bas issued a decree declaring that the iaw imposing a tonnage tax on al! vessels enter- ing and discharging in the ports of Colombia does not | apply to the free ports of Aspinwall and Panama The Ocean Queen brought to this port over one hundred and ninety thousand in specie. Our correspondent in Matamoros, Mexico, writing on the 23d ult,, states that Cortina still beld that place, and would make a stubborn fight if the imperial army of Maximilian attempted to dislodge him. We have newspaper files from the West Indies, dated at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 6th of October. Kingston and its evvirous were visited by a heavy shower of rain, the precursor of the October season after a drought. The steamship Santa Martha, formerly the Tubal Cain, the pioneer of a new American line about to establish a sta: on in Jamaica, had arrived at the island. The In- Spector of Police of Kingston talks of the visits of these Passenger boats creating immorality in the city of Kingston, yet we find in the very paper which publishes his remarks that the crime of robbery had already become so rife as to call for the active inter- ference of the authorities. Some seamen lately died on board the British ship Ouse, at Kingston, from the effects of poison. It appears now that the captain kept an open chest of arsenic in the storeroom, and the cook, sup- posing it to be flour, took out a couple of handfuls and Kautz’s cavalry, on the extreme right, are | mixed it with the pastry’ Hence the deaths, The steamship Liberty, frorfHavana on the 12th inst. arrived at this port last night. There is no news of much importance by this arrival. The blockade running steamer Susanna arrived at Havana from Galveston, Texas, on the day the Liberty sailed, with three hun} dred and twenty bales of cotton. The blockade rapner Josie sailed for Galveston the day previous. There is nothing of consequence from St. Domingo, The Havana markets were extremely dull. The steamship Melville reached here yesterday, from Key Wost, Fla., on the 8th inst. She brought no news, The case of C. P. Schermerhorn against Mr. Fernando Wood, ex-Mayor, referred from the courts for investiga- tion beforea referee, is being tried at the office of Mr. H. Tue steamships Yazoo and Creole yesterday furnished | W. Robmson. The plaintiff, who is brother-in-law to de- us with despatches of much interest from our cor- respondents in New Orleans, Pensacola, Mobile Bay,# Brasbear City and Morganzia, La., dated in the first famed piace as late as the 9th inst. In these we have the details of Geueral Asboth’s successful expedition feom Pensacola into the interior of Florida} and of the fendant by the first marriage of the latter, sues for re- muneration for professional services rendered in the pro- secution of severa] law suits instituted by Mr, Wood a few years ago, the principal action having been originally brought against the Tammany Hal! General Committee for election outlays incurred by e defendant, who was bimeeli at the time a memU@Pof the Tammany Com- mittee, The political world revolving round the Tammany capture by the Union troops of Clinton, La., and Wood- | ang Mozart institutions are looking with much interest ville, Miss., already announced in the Henao. We have also some additional particulars of the latter affair from Cairo. Our men, under Colonel Osband, sur- to the anticipated developments as the case progresses. The hearing in tbe case commenced on Saturday, and ‘will be resumed to-morrow. The lovg pending case of Charles P, Devlin against the rounded aod captured the rebel force at that place on the | Corporation of this city is being investigated at the office morping of the 6th inst., and took three guns, several bundred head of horses, mules and cattle, large amounts of stores and various other things of value. Dava, Commanding at Vicksburg, ls keeping up @ con- of scouting into the interior, which ts productive of much bepefit to the national General tinual series for ¢ause. General Hurlbut, commanding the Gulf Depart- moat, bas wesessed an additional twenty-five per cent, @ggregating over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 02 the sums subscribed in aid of the rebel government ‘by corporations in New Orleans, previons to its emp- ture The proceeds of this assessment are to be applied, as @ former similar one ‘was by Goneral Butler, to the relief of the poor of the city. A detachment of Union troops, who recently made a reconpoissance to Pigeon bayou, in the Teche istrict of Louisiana, captured a barge laden with three Quvdred bales of cotton, but saw nothing of the enemy. Affairs at Mobile remained quiet. It is said that a force Of ten to twelve thousand rebels is stationed somewhere Detween beusacola and Mobile, to check any Union by the Union forces. Movement which might be made from the former place ‘upon the tater, It was reported in Washington yesterday, but not generally believed, that General Longstreet bad again in the Sheoandoab valley a considerable army. Our cor- respondents at Martinsburg and with Sheridan’s cavairy Give additional particulars of tha magnificent affair on Sunday, the Oth instant, when Cueter’s and Merritt's troopers eo completely routed the’cayalry under com- mand of the rebel Rosser. Though we haveimo later direct intelligence from Gene al Sherman, be is known to be onergetically at work, aad no fears in reference to his position need be enter- tained. He bas six months supplies in Atlanta, Dalton, Ga, is reported to have surrendered to thgrebels on Friday last. Ite garrison consisted of one regiment of colored troops. No considerabie force of the enemy is Shougbt to be north of Tunnel Mill, Georgia. But little damago to the railroad is believed to have been done by tho rebels recently. There was groat excitement in Cairo, Iilinois, yester’ day, in consequence of rumors that a reboi attack on Co- Jambus, Kentucky, |s aboutto be made. A large rebel force is at Mayfield, throatening Paducah. ‘The rebel Jef. Thompson, with about two thousand mon, captured Sedalia, Missourt,on last Saturday mora tng. The militia whom he captured in the town he either paroled or shot. After robbing the stores, burning the railroad water station and committing other depredations, Thompson's cang left, and the place was re. occupied yesterday morning by Union troops. Price is GUil reported to be moving on Lexington, A band onder & man vamed Anderson, are roaming through Northern Missouri, committing various kinds of outrages. In a robel newspaper despatch, dated at Mobile on the 12th inst, « report by the raider Forrest of a Union expe- Gition ap the Tennessee river to Eastport, Alabama, ts Gren, He says it consisted of three gunboats and four (eansporis, carrying two thousand troops, who, Doing landed, the rebels, were surprised by of Mr. Jotun 8. Haskin. The plaintiff sues for nearly one hundred thousand dollars, claimed to be due on severai covtracts executed by bim, the principal contract being for work done on the New Lowery extension. The legali- ty of the contracts ig disputed, and upon this the whole case hangs, The case for the city is ably con- ducted by Mr. J. K, Hackett, Assistant Corporation Coun- tel, assisted by Mr. W. C. Trall, ‘The interesting ceremony of ‘taking the black veil,” and renouncing association with the outer world, by two } young ladies, was witnessed by a select assemblage yes- terday moruing in the chapel of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, in West Seventeenth street, Archbishop McClosky don the occasion, and among the dis- tinguiehed persons present were Generals Banks and Doubleda; The ladies who took the vow of celibacy and seclusion trom the world were two sisters, the Misses White, of this city. It is thought that the remains of aman picked up by fragments, in the East river and Now York Bay, at dif- ferent times lately, are those of @ man named Augustus Meecbum, who bas not been heard of by bis friends since the might of the 29th wlt., when be left Lovejoy’s Hotel. 2k watectien and police of this city and Brooklyn are still busily engaged in investigating the case. The Mayor of Brooklyn has offered $1,000 for the apprehension of the murderer or murderers, Those desirous of entering the army or navy should remember that Mr, Blunt, chairman of our Supervisors’ Volunteer Committee, continues to pay the bounties to recruits at bis office, corner of Broadway and Chambers street. The Rey. Hesry W. Eellows, President of the United States Sanitary Commission, returned to this city yester- day, after an absence of six months in California, He officiated in bis old church last night, preaching an ejo- quent sermon before a crowded, tathionable and de- lighted congregation. : ‘There was not much excitement on our city railroads yesterday, The arrangements made by the companies for the sale of tickets on and after Thursday next appear to have had @ conciliatory influence on the minds of pas. sengers. Mr. Manning, the Wall etreet broker arrested Inet week on the cbarge of pasting Treasury notes stolen from a Boston firm, will have an examination ic a few days, when be says he will be able to show entire absence of criminality on bis part. Mr. Manning bas been admitted to bail of $75,000 by Justice Dowling. The corner stone of & new temperance ball was laid yesterday, at the corner of Hamilton avenue and Hicks street, by the South Brooklyn Father Mathew Temperance Association, in the presence of an assembiage of ten thousand persons. A cage is now pending in the Supreme Court in Brook- lym in which United States Marshal Murray, of (4is city, is the defendant, and Mr. Lebbeus H. Borry, of ‘utchoss county, is the plaintiff, The complaint is brought of illegal arrest by the Marsha), on charge of duloyaity, in August last. A train of cars on the Little Miami Railroad, containing members of the One Hundred and Sixth and Ove Hun- dred and Seventy fifth Ohio regiments, was thrown from the track, three miles from Cincinnati, on last Thursday afternoon, and about fifteen of the soldiers were injured, two of them very serio Men were at work yesterday in Beekman street and Park row laying the connections for this branch of tho Fourteenth Street Railroad, Sunday seems to be a fa- vorite day for mying tracks with these railroad compas nies, a8 nearly every second Sunday for the last four or five months bas been taken advantage of, A meeting of the United States Christian Commission was held last evening in the Broadway Tabernacle, to advocate the matter of rendering immediate aid to South. ern refagees. Addresses were delivered by Rey. Dr, Qed that three guns, twenty-five prisoners and | fhompeon and others. @eirty horses were captured. Two hundred Yan- kee, BO ways, Wore drowned in eitempting to re.om ‘Dark. He also slates that & ehot from a rebel g Judge Holt, Voited States Judge Advocate General, bas submitted to Secretary of War Stanton a voluminous re- port relative to the alleged conspiracy against the govern. mont in the West, from which we give some interesting Rates phe Dotter of one ot tho (eceports, scalding and f extracts on the second page of snis morning's Hexaun, Peace—His Instructions te his Com federates. We submit to the spegiaf atteation of our readers this morning the letter, in full, of the rebel Vicé President, Alexander H, Stephens, o” September 22, te certain ileus ig Georgia, ou the peace question. It will not need a second perusal, we think, to satisfy any politician of ordinary intelligence that this silly pronuncia- miento of Southern secession abstractions is in- tended for the encouragement and guidance of the Northern copperhead peace faction in this Presidential canvass. That it will be accepted by this revolutionary faction as a model of conciliation and wisdom we cannot doubt, for ithas the true ring of the peace speeches of Mr. George H. Pendleton, and of the moral philosophy, as a peace maker, of the Hon. Ben. Wood. What says Mr. Stephens? After referring to this peace-at-any-price faction of the North as an organization resulting from certain peace ideas promulgated by the Georgia Legislature, Mr. Stephens says that for the perfect solution of all our existing troubles, North and South, nothing more is required “than the simple re- cognition of the fandamental principle of truth upon which all American constitutional liberty is founded; that is, the sovereignty—the ultimate, absolute sovereignty—-of the States, This doc- trine our Legislature (Georgia) announced to the people of the North and the world. It is the only keynote to peace—permanent, lasting peace,” &c. This is nothing more, however, than the hideous monster which gave birth to this rebellion. It was kicked out of the coun- try with the writing of the first sentence of our federal constitution, which reads:—“We, the people of the United States”—not we, the sev- eral States, each acting as a sovereignty—but “we, the people of the United States”—that is, of all the States, acting in one body, as the representatives of a great nation, and not of a miserable league of States, held together by a rope of sand, “in order to form a more per- fect Union,” &c.. that is, a more perfect Union than the old confederation, which was in the nature of a league, “do ordain and establish this constilution.” Our general government was thus reorganized as that of a nation, and to its national unity, powers and authority, every State concerned was made subordinate, under “the supreme law of the land.” So much for this atrocious Southern heresy of “absolute State sovereignty.” Now let us see what the rebel Vice President proposes to do with it as the initial starting point for peace. He says “the action of the Chicago Conven- tion, so far as its platform ef principles goes, presents, as I have said on another occasion, a ray of light which, under Providence, may prove the dawn of the day to this long and cheerless night.” How? “Through the medium of a convention of all the States?” Mr. Stephens favors this proposition; but upon what basis? The basis which only an idiot or a Jacobin would offer to his confederates. He suggests a convention of all.the States to con- sult together, and that if they come to any agreement it shall be binding only upon those States that may choose, each in its sovereign capacity, to ratify it. What would be the working of this machine? Let us see. The war is stopped. All the States are turned loose. This convention of all the States turned loose assembles. It adopts a treaty of peace and reunion by a unanimous vote. The treaty ie then submitted to the ratification of the several States, each recognized as a sovereign nation; but the States concerned in this rebel- lion have been taught what to do. They respectively reject the treaty, and fall back upon their Montgomery Southern confederacy and the Union is gone to pieces. This is the entertainment to which Mr. Stephens tells us “g ray of light” has been thrown from the Chicago Convention. Such are the juggling tricks which the rebel Vice President proposes on behalf of peace. He says “that the chief aid and the encouragement we can give the peace party at the North is to keep before them these great fundamental principles and truths which alone will lead them and us to permanent and lasting peace, and (tell it not in Gath) with possession and enjoyment of constitutional liberty.” Can it be possible thit Stephens and his Southern rebel confederate rulers are still the oracles of a party in the North on constitutional princi- ples? Have they still in this section a party of serviles? If so, was there ever such brazen- faced insolence on the one side, or such scan- dalous degradation on the other? At all events, we guess that the Northern peace party will derive very little aid and comfort from this peace platform of their Southern State righis leader, Mr. Stephens. His war notions, too, are as preposterous as his peace theories. He compares this war of the rebellious States with that of our great Revolutionary struggle of “76, when they are as wide apart as tLe poles, aad no more re- semble each other than light resembles dark- ness. Nor will they compare with each other in regard to the opposing forces, until Jeff. Davis shall be assisted by the fleets and armies of France. We have reason to believe, how- ever, that this peace manifesto from Mr. Stephens, like the late letter of Governor Brown, of Georgia, to General Sherman, was written more in fear of Jeff. Davis and the overshadowing presence of his army, umder Hood, than under any other inspiration. We believe, too, that Sherman, with the final dis- persion of Hood’s army, will soon hear a different story from both Stephens and Brown. The end cannot be far off when they hail in the miserable peace fallacies of the Chicago Convention a “ray of light.” More Ramnoap Stangnten.—Destructive railroad disasters appear (o multiply with foar- ful rapidity. Since the commencement of the present month there have been four er five, all resulting more or lvss fatally, Yeaterday we had to record another, by which twelve per- sons were killed and over thirty mutilated. These calamities, we fear, are more the result of negligence than of accident, an@some measures should be adopted to compel railroad compa- nies to put astop to this wholesale slaughter. When a road runs through two or more different States the several Legislntures should enact uniform, stringent l:.ws, the penalty of viola- tion to be such as to bring the railroad man- agers and their employes to their senses. In the disaster which occurred on the Shore Line road on Saturday, and the previous one on the New Haven Railroad, near Seventy-sixth street, the cause was alleged to bea broken rail; and im each case we are told that no human foresight could have prevented the ac- cident. This is all nonsense. There is no foason why a defective rail should he allowed to remain on the line if it was properly exam- ined. There are no severe frosts now to affect the iron. In the Seventy-sixth street case we have been aasured by a passenger that upoa examining the road where the cara weat off the | track be Found ong of the gleepére quite solten at the fracture of the rail. If proper means were taken to inapect the road this rotten sleeper would not have been there. The fact is that railroad companies must be made to re- gard buman life and limb. The DiMiculties With the Omatbas and Otty Matlroad Compa One of the first duties which should occupy the attention of the Legislature when it meets is the endeavor to effect a fair adjustment of the matters in dispute between the public and the proprietors of our city conveyances. There is no point of greater interest to the population of @ great city than the multiplication and cheapening of the facilities of travel. When they find them curtailed by the greediness or mismanagement of the companies enjoying privileges by their favor, it is natural that they should become restive. At the same time they are not unreasonable. Convince them that there is a real necessity for the demands made upon them, and they will cheerfully assent to them. They can be convinced but not bullied into compliance with a tax thus levied. The city railroad companies unfortunately forgot this fact when they undertook to force us to pay the additional cent which has given rise to so much trouble. Had they started by doing what we originally recommended, and to which they have been at last driven, there would not have been a murmur raised against it. The public would have paid cheerfully the eighth of a cent imposed by the Internal Reve- nue law from the general disposition that prevails to shoulder manfully the national bur- dens. The attempt under this pretence to levy ‘additional profits on the public, or to make them pay for the results of mismanagement, could not have ended otherwise than in failure. The community are determined to firmly resist any increase in the fares of the city railroads which is not proved to be necessary. The statement published by the president of one of the lines yesterday makes out no case to justily the action of the companies. Its arguments are met by the fact that the stock of one of them is at something like two hundred and forty, and is not to be met with in the market. It is said that this is owing to good management. If it be so, so much the more reason for not taxing the public for the bad management on other lines. But there is this to be urged in addition: that the question of large profits is one of certainty, sooner or later, with all these lines. Let them be ever so ill managed, the increase of popula- tion is sure to bring with it increase of patron- age. Besides, it must be taken into account that the companies have paid the city nothing for their charters, and that they can well afford to wait the period of probation which most en- terprises of the kind have to pass throwgh. We think it all the more necessary to lay stress upon these points from the fact that we understand it is the intention of the city com- panies to go before the next Legislature for authority to make a general increase in their fares. Of course a strong lobby interest will be enlisted to support the application. Let us impress upon our city representatives the fact that nothing will be more calculated to damage their popularity with their constitu- ents than a disposition to favor any augmenta- tion of the already extravagant profits earned by some of the lines. At the same time we believe that it will do good to ventilate the subject by a committee of inquiry. If it has no other result it will open the eyes of people to the injustice of making grants of such valuable privileges without securing the city some direct benefit from them. If acommittee of this kind be appointed we trust that the profits and conduct of the stage and ferry companies will also be made a sub- ject of investigation. More arbitrary and ille- gal acts are being daily perpetrated by the employes of both these interests than would be tolerated by any other community. Open swindling, abuse of passengers and ruffianly assaults, by drivers and ferry hands, are among the facts that we have daily to chronicle. This state of things must be put an end to, if we do not wish to earn for New Yerk the title of being the worst regulated city in the world. Will the Legislature do its duty in providing the proper remedies? The opening up of competition to all classes of public con- veyances, the passage of stringent acts entail- ing for mismanagement the forfeiture of privi- leges, when privileges are necessary, and a more thorough subordination of railway con- ductors, hack drivers and ferry hands to the jurisdiction of the city authorities, are among those that may be indicated as indispensable. Vionation or THE Post Orrick Laws.—We see that the list of letters is published in an obscure city journal by direction of the new Postmaster. We should like to know if the Postmaster General has lent his sanction to this proceeding? It is a gross infraction of the Post Office law, which directs that the list shall be published in the journal of the largest cir- culation. There are two other city journals, besides the Henan, which have a larger circu- lation than the paper in question. We discon- tinued the publication of the list because the government refused to follow the example of our other advertisers, and pay a fair price for it. The sum allowed never at any time paid for the space sacrificed, and we only published it because it was a convenience to our readers. As soon as the prices of paper and composition reached their present high point we were com- pelled to decline it altogether. We refused it not merely because it did not pay, but because it excluded other matter that did. Nothing can be smaller, meaner or more contemptible than the condact of the government in regard to this Post Office arrangement. It can squander millions on shoddy contracts, worthless war steamers, electioneering jobs and corrupt schemes of every kind, but it cannot afford to follow the example of business men, and give the newspapers a fair remuneration for the work performed for it. What even the poor chambermaid finds. it worth her while to pay the government of this great country grumbles at giving, We should not have thought it necessary to bestow even a passing remark upon the fact if the list had been awarded to a journal second in ciroulation to that of the Henatp. But, when wo see It given to a paper whose circula- tion is inferior to that of three other city jour- nals, we feel called upon to protest against so flagrant ® violation of the law. The motive of the selection is palpable; for if economy merely were fhe object it would be as well consulted by giving the list to cither of the two jouroals that rank after us. The conduct of the Post Office in this matter is of @ pieoe with the corrupt, shabby and siegai voutse Whi ‘hes marked thé whole policy of the prosent administration. When the law bears harshly against its oppo- nenta it has no scraple in enforcing it; when itis adverse to its owk objects it is equally unscrupulous in violating it. In this instance it bad a s'nking campaign organ to bolater up, and ft has been utterly regardless not only of the law, but of public opinion and convenience, in the effort to sustain it. It may be that the Proceeding had its origin solely in the over warm gratitude of the new city Postmaster. If it be 80 the Department would do weil to ‘at once disavow his action Tux Srouxp Prue Fiant.—Great is the dis- appointment at the unsatisfactory news from Europe by the steamer Hecla. People were on the tiptoe of expectation to hear either that Coburn had smashed Mace, or that Mace bad put Coburn hors du combat, and thus put money in several enterprising speculators’ pockets. There are grave questions pending in Europe just now; but they have all succunrbed to the interest involved in the M:fte and Coburn “mill.” Who of the thousand anxious expect- ants of news per the Hecla cares a button for the Italian question, the future site of the capital of Italy. the contending Interests of Florence or Milan? Who cares about the Danish and the Swedish difficulties, or the issues of the financial crisis in England’ The steamer brought intelligence upon all these points; but, then, her news about the prize fight is as doubt- ful as the returns from the Pennsylvania elec- tion, and so it amounts to nothing. Victor Emanuel has transferred bis regal personality to beauteous Florence, and the blood of the Milanese waxes hot in consequence. Denmark has been “gobbled” by the “higher Powers;” England is shaken by repeated bankrupte.es; but what of that? The fight did not come of” on the 4th of October, as anticipated. The satisfactory why and the wherefore of the failure are not brought by the stupid steamer, and hence the disappointment of the boys. Even the anxieties ot the Presidential contest are forgotten in this erheryency. Tbe politi- cians are as much absorbed with the fate of the contest at Dundrum. They are pretty much mixed up between McClelian and Joe Coburn, Lincoln and Jem Mace, for there are heavy stakes up upon all. THE MISSOUR! INVASION. Sedalia Captured by the Rebels— Price Reported Moving on Li se. Sr Lovis, Oct. 16, 1864. About two thousand rebels, with two pieces of artlery, under Jef. Thompson, attacked Sedalin at two o'clock yesterday and drove the militia ont of the place. A few of the militia in the fort resisted tho attack, but finally surrendered, and were paroled or shot. ‘The citizens were released without parole, Tho 1ebeis left during the night,and a Union infantry force arrived there this morning. Tho rebels robbed stores of several thousaud dollars worth of clothing, buvts, shoes, &c., burned the water station, but did no other injury to the raitroad. Tho rolling stock was all sent to Tipton. Price ts reported to be moving on Lexington. Bill Anderson has cut the North Missour! Railroad at High Bill, He is also reported’to have visited Florance. Anderson says his only ordors are ‘‘to raise hell in North Missouri. THE ACCIDENT ON THE SHORE LINE RAILROAD. Names of the Killed and Wounded. New Haven, Oct. 16, 1864, Tho following are the names of the killed by the acci- dent on the Shore Line Railroad at Rocky Neck, four miles east of the Connecticut river, Saturday forenoou:— L. V. Phillips, 22d Massachusetts regiment. Edward W. Dalton, 10th New Hampshire regiment. N. W. Doyle, recently irom the Chestnut street hospi tal, Philadeipbia, William Matht, Co. £, 6th Connecticut regiment. Horace Beebe, brake:nan, of New London, Conn. Kdgar M, Parsons, brakeman, of Berlin, Conn. Thomas Johnson, Fifty ninth Massachusetts regiment. Richard 4, Young, Veteran reserve corps. Montgomery Groen, Second Connecticut artillery. Richard Baxter, of a Massachusetts regiment, died oa the train conveying the wounded to this city op Satur- day event x. Alexander B. McGregor, Co. L, First Massachusetss ar- tilery, vied at the Knight Hospital, in this city, this morb ing. . 4 The following persons were badly wounded, and were Drought to the Knight Hospital in this city on Saturday evening:— Jonn A. French, 36th Massachusetts regiment, of Brooklyn, N. H., leit thigh badiy braieed. Sergeant B H, Matthews, 40th Massachusetts, of Yar- mouth, Mogs., leg broken. Charles W. Boyer, Co. F, 56th Massachusetts, of Bridge- port, Conn., left thixh badly torn. Martin &. Finkle, Co, D, 57th Massachusetts, of Shef- field, Mass., left leg broken and arm mashed. A. J. Bickoell, ©. C, 16th Massachusetts, of Westfield, ised and internally injure 1, Co A, 40th Massachusetts, of Exeter, N. fractured and eft leg badiv bruised, ‘Jonn Jackson, Co. K, 9th Massachusetts, of Roston, leg amputated this mornin; V" Sawyer, Ist Massachusetts cavalry, skull frac- tured; recayery doubtful. E hittenden, brakeman, of New London, Conn., nd log broken and received ioternal injuries. He cannot recover, and was taken to New London. Twenty-five others, slightly injured, were taken to Readville. The ruins of the train were burned to-day. Three cars Of the six were saved, two of them considerably dam- aged. The trains will commence running regularly again this evening. . Threatened Rebel Attack on Columbus and Paducah, Kentucky. Caro, Oct. 15, 1864. Cairo is full of rumors of a threatened attack on Colum+ bus, Ky., and reinforcements are being sent there, A rebel force is at Mayfield, threatening Paducah. Amusements, Maretzek apnounces Faust at the Academy this even- ing for the first time with bis new company. Faust was ‘a success during the last season, when Mazzoleni won a golden feputation in his rendering of the principal rele, Massimiliant must do well if he hopes to replace his pre- decessor in public favor. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has almost mage the part of Margherita her own. Her re- appearance to-night will therefore be very pleasantly welcomed, Madame Mothua Scheller,a young German actress of much promise, who has hitherto made a very favorable impression at Nibdlo’s Garden as Cordelia and Ophelia, will appear as Pauline, in the Lady of Lyons, on Wednesday evening. Although quite adetutante in Fnglien drama, Madame Scheller bids fair to establish herself artiste of excellent capacity in a line which has mafy difficulties to be overcome before even ordinary merit can be obtained. After an absence from this vicinity of more than s year, which she has spent on the provincial boards in the West aud North, Laura Keene once more seeks tho good willand patronage of the public at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to-night, in the Love Chase. We aro sure she will pot find that long abrenco has begat forget- fulness of her merits as an actress or a manager. ‘That branch of dramatic entertainmest absorbed by negro trelsy is about to undergo an innovation, Mons. Sogrist, the famous acrobat and dog trainer, is going to make his most polite “ bow-wow"? with his dogs at Wood's Minetrole, Whether these interesting ‘animals shall appear io burned cork or in puris naturali bus is not stated on the Bill, In cither case their appear: ance will bo a novelty, An entertainment which can hardly fail to be interest. ing is announced for to-night at Dodworth’s Hall, Broad- way, by Artemus Ward. It embraces a sketch of his ro- cent experiences in the land of the Mormons, iIlustrated by panordmic viows of the great Salt Lake region, painted from photographs made by the photographers in ordinary of Brigham Young. The lecturer is amusing upon almost any subject. Upon this one, with the acessories of econic Art, be Will Bo dowdt be more than yaualiy aperqoiable, OF THE DAY IN wasuinaror. ‘Thore is mo news and very few rumors aldat here to- day. The politicians are still discussing the probabili- ties of the Penusyivania election and the adoption or re | Jection of the new Maryland constitution. The ovty VOL OpoR 16 at All, fumor in regard to military matters is that Longstreet ts ‘again in the valley witb a considerable force; but this w disoredived. THE NBW NATIONAL LOAN. It ls & noticeable feature that among the bids for the forty million ox just opened was an increased umber from tbe national banks in various parts of the country. About on¢ hundred of them forwarded proposals It has already been stated that the Secretary of the ireasury bas accepted alt offers at and over 31.100, and eo much of those at 30100 premium as will make the sum of $40,000,000, the proportion of tho iatter being about 60 per centum of tho entire sum bid. for at this figure. The ‘Secretary took some hours for eovsideration before com. irg to a conc’usion, be having reserved the right to de- clive all bids oot, in bis Opimios, advantageous to the goveroment. PROTEST AGAINST GOVERNOR JOHNSON'S TH3T OATH IN TENNESSEB. A delegation claiming to represent the loyal democrats of Tennessee are here for the purpose of presenting to the Prasident a protest against the oath required by Gover- Qor Johusoa to be taken before voting at the Presidential election, They bad an interview with the President om Saturday and presented their protest, but complain of having been cavalierly treated by him, he intimating that in bis opinion the document was prepared in concert with the New York politiciane, This the committee de- nied, aud retired, after @ briof interview, without baving accomplished their object or receiving any encourage- ment that the President would inter‘ere in the matter. KeBat. KEFUGBES IN CANADA DKSPONBsNe. A gentleman who has just returned from Canada reports Jake Thompson nd otber leading rebel refugees there in a very despouding frame of mind, and gatisiied that the rebellion is nearly used up, The recevt popular demon. stration agaiast the peace party North and the daily weakening of Lve rebel forces, while the Union armies are constantly re‘aforced and augmenting, have satisfied them that Che doa collapse is at hand from which sotn- ing can save them. a CLOSING OF BARROOMS AND PLAOE3 OF BUSINESS ON SUNDAY. All the barroome, segar stands, and even the barber anops bere were notified this morning that Wey must close up to day and bercatter up» the Sabbath, or be fined accordeng to tow, Most of the plices were accord. ingly closed, and some were obliged to go witoout their Sunday eh voovsequeaee, It ts determined to make Wasbiavtoa a aeral city oo one day in the week at least 2 of Copgress, when it 1s suggested all be ubaudoued as useless 0 ON BAT until the meet such elurts « COUNTER! MITERS DISC Tb te stated that the counterfeiters, Robert R Mis \ yg ler and James Norris, arrested at Port Jorvis, New Yori, have bee parged on giving bait w tue sum of (oar thougaad dailars DISTALSULHION OF FIVE HUNDRED AND ONS TOOU- SAND DULLA® NOTES, Notes of tha denomination of tive huodred and one thousind doliars nave been propared and will soon be distributed to the national banks, SHERMAN. No Constderable Force of the Enemy North of ‘Tunnel Hill, Georgta—Sar rendee of Daiton ‘o the Rebels—No Fears Eatertained Relative to thi State of Affairs in the Deparcme: Quarraxor as, Oct.16, 1864. ‘The reports of our scouts fail to show the presence of way considerable body of the euemy north of Tuanet Hill, Walter snd Whitfield counties have undoubtedly been scoured by asmall body cf rebel cavairy, which has not been very effective in destroying the railroads, though ia possession of Alton, and but little damage le believed to have been dove. Otficers blockaced here on their way to the front have been ordered to prepare to join their commands at once. General Schofield sent out a atrong reconnoitering party today to discover she whereabouts of the rebel cotums, said to be moving towurds the west. Scouts of the Forty-fourth colored regiment, in the gar- rison at Daltov, who escaped after Colonel Joynson's gur* render, arrived here today. They give numerous ac counts of the wfair, They state that they wore on picket, wanted to fight, knocked over the flag bearer, and after thB'surronder roused to dtay caught, Ringgold and the intermediate points ba strongthened by Gencral Schofield. We have nothing definite as to Sherman's whereaboute, He ie known to be energetically at work to openand keep open the route to Atlanta, no matter what rebet column intervenes. Cuaranooca, Oct. 15:15—9 P. Ml. Our forces to-day reoccupied Ringgold and the blook house, three miles in advance, and found the rafl. road and bridges safe. It is generally believed that Dalton, with the Forty-sixth colored, surrendered to Hood's army yesterday, but nothing official is received. There no communication yet with General Sherman, There an abundance of supplies at At- Janta, in anticipation of such a movement by the rebels. Major General Stedman had arrived and resumed com- mand of the district. There are six months’ supplies ow hand, and the officers of the armg feel that Hood is makidg a movement that will certainly prove disastrous, NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. General Asboth’s Expedition Into Flori- da—Forrest’s Fight with the Gunboats on the Tenne: River. Wasmincton, Oct. 16, 1864. GENERAL A®BOTH'S FLORIDA EXPRDITION, A special despatch to the Columbus Sun states thas the enomy’s raiders, said to bo commanded by General Ashley (Asboth), have burut the Episcopal church, the hospitals, commissary department butldings, drug store and some other buildings at Marianna, Fla, Over fifty of the militia and citizens were captured and taken off. Three hundred to five hundred negroes, many carriages, horses and other movable property were carried off by the enemy, who retired westward on Wednesday, We lost at Marianna six killed and sevem ‘wounded, as far as heard from, The enemy's loss was larger. General Ashley ts said to be wounded, The enemy wore reported near Campbellton, Fia., yesterday. FORREST’S FIGHT ON THE TRNNESSER RIVER. Monix, Oct. 12, 1866. The following despatch has been received by Lioutenans General Taylor, who sent it to the Zridune for publica tion: — Three Yankee gunboats and four transports were the Tennessee river yesterday as far as East} landed two thousand men and three pieces of artillery. Lieutenant Colonel Kelly, with Forrest’s old command, the Twelfth Tennessee, surprised the enemy, capturing three guns, twenty-five ee. and thirty horses. Two hundred of the Yankees were ie drowned attempting to embark on their boats, The first shot from our batteries penetrated the boiler of one of the trana- Bitacelser ones aera oct Maney gas 1 e wo a vi complete. ors N.B. ', Major General. The New Free State Constitution of Maryland. Barrrwone, Oct, 16, 1966, ‘The free State constitution is undoubtedly carried ia thig. Btate. The soldiers’ yote in the field will overcome the ‘home majority against it; but if that ie not sufficient the votes in part of Somerset and Montgomery counties, which give good majorities against the constitution, cam bo thrown out by reason of the military having beem plackd within the prohibited distance of the polls in those counties. The cunning machinery devised for carrying the instrument, excluding over-nice consetentious voters and so forth, has proved equal to our @mergoncy. As far As the imperfect returns go, including ® portion of the soldiers’ voto, the majority against the constitution ft between eight and nine hundred, That Te aueae’ snuffed out though, the managers say, with the sbidtera’ ) vote yet to come in. ——- Wasminarom, Oct. 16, 1868, It appears now that the Maryland constitution is to @ minority of about one thousand on the home vote; but ite friends say that a sufficient soldiers’ vote bas beem, polled to prevent its rajection. The opinion given by Reverdy Johnson that the test oath required to be takem: | before voting on it was not binding, Is sald by the friendm | of tho instrument to have resulted in an increase of from, four tive thousand im the vote against it, while ite frlends considered it #0 wequre (hat many aegiocled t@