The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1864, Page 4

4 NiW YORK HERALD. @AMES GURDON BENNETR KDITOR AND PROPRISTOR . W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. New York, Tuc THE SITUATION. Communication between General Sherman and the War Department ts again restored, and in a despatch dated on Sunday evening Gouera! Sherman says that Hood, after striking the railroad in the peighborhood of Dalton and Romsacoa, Georgia, fel! back without figbting, abavdon (og bis contemplated great movement on tho Union \ines of supply. General Sherman says that the rebels dave inflicted but comparatively littic damage on ‘he railroad, and that the interruption will cause G0 inconvenience tothe Union army, as there is abun- dance of stores south as well as north of that portion of the toad destroyed. Hood retreated in baste from Dalton early on Bunday morning, closely followed by Sherman. Ge has gone south west wardly, in the direction of Lafayette, Ga., with nearly bis whole army. This movement shows that be bas every disposition to avoid a general engage- ment. The rebel Wheeler’s cavalry, numbering betweén eight and ten thousand, are reported to be in the neigh- @orbood of Chattanooga and Dalton, Considerable fears Cor the safety of Chattanooga and Knoxvilie were felt on Priday last; but no apprchensioas in respect to those places are now cptertained. General Kilpatrick has veached Dalton with bis cavalry, All the government em- ployes at Clarksville, Tenn., nave been armed, aud proper Proparations made to repel an anticipated attack on that place by the rebel General Lyon. Our correspondence from Chattanooga aliudes to a report prevalent there, to the offect that Beaurogard, with a large force of rebel in- {antry, is moving through North Alabama, and ts about (0 cross the Tennessee river at Gunter’s landing, afew miles south of Huntsville, Ala., and invade Tennessee. Jet Davis, im bis speech at Macon, assured bis bearers that Hood's army would strike at Sherman’s communications at point much further north than they suspected. In ‘bis address to Cheatham’s division of Hood’s army he Wold them “their feet would soon be pressing home- ward."’ Woare possibly about to witness a repetition of Bragg’s fall campaign of 1802; but if Beauregard escapes from Tennessee with as little loss as Bragg retreated (rom Kentucky with, be will be vory fortunate. From late rebel papers we have bighly interesting and significant details of Hood’s plans and bis movements upon Sherman's communications. The latest intelligence Places Hood near Lafayette, Ga., moving in the direction of Bridgeport, Ala, Before he can reach this point or the ‘Tennessee river he will have to cross the almost insur, ‘mountable barriers of Lookout and Raccoon mouniains. ‘Sherman is reported moving North close upon Hood's rear, and may evertake him before te «reaches the mountains, when ti valley of the Chickamauga may again be the scene of a areat conflict, Exciting events may be lovked for in a few days from that polat. A correspondent of the Mont- gomery Maiti with Hood’s army says that Rome and Marietta were occupied by the rebels without a fight, and that when Hood's movement to the north of the ‘Chattahoochee was ascertained by Sherman, the latter Orvesed the river with two corps, but on the Sth inst. withdrew again to Atlanta, when Hood commenced and comploted the destruction of all the railroad bridges trom Martetta to Dalton, and occupied and fortified Kene- ‘saw Mountain, Jackson and Ressacoa. All this story may ‘eult readers in Dixie, but will not receive any considera- bie credence among loyal people im the North. General Sheridan reports to the War Department that ‘Ghe rebels io bis front, supposed to be commanded by Longstreet, were attacked on Saturday by Geseral ‘Crook, commanding the Eighth corps, who found them Grawa up in four lines of battle, in the vicinity of Strasburg. General Crook's men charged with great impetuesity, when the enemy broke and withdrew In much disorder, without giving an opportunity for any serious conflict, The retreat and pursuit were continued far up the valley. One of our correspondents ‘with General Sherican’s army gives the details of @ re- pulss suffered by the robels on last Wocnesday, when they made an attempt (o turn the positios of our forees. Though the engagement continued from a liltle after noon until dark, aud was duriog portions of the time quite spirited, tbe loss on our side is estimated to bave been osly about two bundred io killed, wounded and miesing. The goverament bas official information that on last Friday evening the Thirteenth New York cavalry, under Colonel Gansevoort, surprised the camp of the guerilla Mosby, near Piedmont, Va., and captured all of his ar- tillery, calssons, &c,,a0d @ number of prisoners and horses. Goveral Augur yesterday commenced the enforcement of bis regulations to prevent firiog by the guerillas on trains ruooing on the Manassas Gap road, by piaci {p consplouous positions on tbe cars promineni citizens of the Northeastern Virgioia counties known to sympa- sbive witb the rebellion, This road is now in runing order throughout its emtire extent, from Alexandria to Strasburg, and the country along the line of the Orange avd Alexandria Railroad will soon be reudered uninbabit. able to guerilias, Considerable excitement was caused in Washington and Baltimore yesterday owing to tbe closing, by order Of the government, of prominent business houses in ‘bore cities, engaged in the dry goods, clothing and hard- ware trades, and the arrest of their proprietors and Clerks, It (s sald that these proceedings were takeo iv Consequence of evidence of the implication of these Douses in the blockade rupoing business being (arnished by Into Gaptures of blockade runpers, The persons @rresied in Baltimore were sent to Washington in « @pecial train From Missouri we learn that Lexington and Warrens- burg were oooupied by the rebels on Saturday, the Union Corces baving evacuated the day previous, A Jeferson City Geapatch states tbat General Pieasinton was to leave for the front yesterday, to take command of the Union cavalry, and th was expected that, by rapid movemesis, he wonld be en. abled to capture the tratce of the rebel Price, ‘The latior’s forces are divided, either portion of whick, if Overtakes, ean be easily defeated. One detachment of Our cavalry is in pursuit of the raider Jeff, Thompson, Gevoral Fisk was about startiog on an important reson. hoinmnce, The Pacific Raliroad is is running order ‘hrough from ®t, Lous to Lamine river bridge, _rbout Atty miles northwest of Jefferson City, aod Uriom troops are being somt thither rapidly. * Outlaw Anderson, with a gang of some forty cut- ¥) oats, visited Danville, Montgomery county, aed High }\ om Priday evening iast,at which places they killed Sod wounded & pumber of citizens, robbed the stores, uroed several Dulldings ua ail the county records and cominitiod varioGd OtSer outrages. ‘The militia pursued : NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1864 up their storehouses, railroad bulldings and the bridges over the Appomattox, preparatory to evacuat- ing. Quietness still prevails in the armics of the Potomac and the James. The Richmond Examiner says of Gene ral Butler’s canal at Dutch Gap that it is no doubt near completion, Jt denominates it as “a prodigious under- taking,” and says that, “if @ success, it will stend un. rivalled in,maguitude in the catalogue of military ditch: ing in modern times.” Natchez, Mississippi, advices of the 9th instant state that Lieutenant Earle, in command of a detachment of colored troops, recently effected some important captures in addition to those made by him which have been al- Teady reported. On this Iatter occasion he seized @ rebel mail and thirteen Union flags previously taken from our forces, and which were about being sent across the Mississippi river. The mail contained a full list of he rebel forces west of the Mississippi river, and a letter from the rebel Governor of Tauisiana to the Jef. Davis goverument at Richmond, urging the arming of negroes. ‘The captain of a schooner which arrived at Havana on the 11th ist. from Nassau, N. P., reports that be was spoken off Salt Key Bank by the rebel privateer Florida, which was steering towards Havana. Owing to the non-arrival at Havana; up tothe 12th inst. of the steamship Columbia, from New York, 8 romor of her capture by rebel pirates had gained curency. EUROPEAN NEWS. By the arrival of the steamer Damascus at Father Point, and City of Washington at Now York yesterday, we have nows from Europe to the 7tn of October, two days later. Our special correspondence from London and Paris is of an important character. We are assured from London that the English financial crisis was culminating.to a heavy “crash’’ rapialy and with certainty, Liverpool was likely to suffer severely, ber trade in rebel cotton bonds and speculations in the blockade running business having involved her mer- chants in a system of robel flnavolering which is said to constitute the chief element of the home derangemeut. Englisnmen direct from Wilmington, N. C., at Fal- mouth, state that there is no cotton planted in the south, as all hands, from seventeen to sixty years of age, were called into the rebel army. There was a good supply of the staple on hand for export. ‘The Niagara Falls correspondent of the London Times says that the publication of ‘McClelian’s platform,” coupled with Mr, Pondleton’s silence, have damaged the democratic cause to a groat extent. The writer thinks that the odds are in fayor of Mr. Lincoln's re-election to the Presidency. Miss Slidell was married n Paria to M. Erianger, the banker and agent of the rebel cotton loan, on the 4th of October. The objections of the Catholic church to the union having beex removed, there was a brilliant as- semblage, made up of Southern rebels and French, English and Jewish eympathisers, presout at the cere- mony. The appearance of M. Moquard, Private Secre tary to tho Emperor, was taken as a semi-imperial com- pliment to the happy pair. ‘The particulars of the Mace and Coburn negotiations on the referee question in Dublin, the arguments on each side, the journey of the men towards the location of the ring, the scepe at Joo Coburn’s appearance in the ring, and all other matters connected with the late prize fight matoh, and the off,are detailed in tho Hwaazp to-day. Joho C. Heenan was over with the “English party.” Now challenges are given, Archbishop Cullen, of Dublin, “struck out’’ in a pastoral against prize fighting, particu- larly by “foreigners,” {n Ireland, Consols closed in Lon: on the 7th inst. at 88 a 833¢ for money. The market for American stocks was irrega- lar, Breadstuffs were steady. Provisions dull. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The additional news (rom Havana in our correspondence is Interesting. The trade in rebel blockade runnig is reported brisk. There was a grand reception at the palace of the Governor General of Cuba on the 10th {ust., in honor of the birthday of tbe Queen of Spain. A strong northerly gale, which had prevailed for a week, had cleared the city of Havana of yellow fever. The oniy additional item of interest from Mexico was a decree of Maximilian repealing certaia customs regulations. There ‘was another repor$ at Havana that the Dominicans had agreed to stop hostilities and submit to the Spaniards; Dut this needs confirmation. We have received full fles of the Jornal do Com:rcie and the Correio Mercanti of Rio Janeiro to the 7th of Sep. tember, The news is hangits: S34 alocal character. The forty second anniversary of ihe indepeadence of the Bra- zilian empire was celebrated with great splendor throughout the country on the 7th ult, and arrange- ments were made to continue the celebrations for two or three days more, Peputations of citizens waited on the Emperer to congratulate him on the event, and high mags was seid in all the churches. The Correio of the Tth of September states that, in accordance with are- quest of (be great North American naturalist, Provessor Agassiz, the Emperor recently sent a distinguished scien. tific gentleman, Senor Daodato Bourget, to tho imperial estates of Santa Cruz to moke a collection of rare ob- jects, The mission was inal! r and over a thousand eamples hav. them some rare and besutiful fiebes, al! of which are to be sent to Professor Agassiz. Trade 'n Brezil was rather active. But little dovbt is now entertained that th Roanoke, which left Hayava for this city on ¢ was captured by a party of twenty-five rebel pirates on her paeage. The notorious Lieutenant Beane, alias John-on, who captured the Chesapeake, ie said to be one of the pirates engaged ia the eapture of the ‘Tne Board of Supervisors held a meeting day for the purpose of Ailing vacancies in the oflices of Inspectors of Registry. No other business of interest came up, acd they adjourned to Tuesday next. ‘The Bard of Aldermen were unable to muster a quoram Yesterday, and consequently adjourced until Thurwday, witbout transacting any busluess, Only three members were p Board of Councilmen was called yesterday, whereupon the Clerk adjourned the Board ti!! Thureday next, The Bening Express case is drawing toaclose, The summing up of the counsel on each side took place yes- terday, and it is expected that the case will be given to the jury this morning under the charge of the Court. The Grand Jury in the Court of Oyer and Terminer were discharged for the term yesterday by Judge Bar- bard in consequones of there being nothing to do. There were no jury trials yesterday in the Court of Geveral Sessions, in consequence of the failure of the wit- nesses for the prosecution to attend in the cases placed upon the calendar. On motion of the Assistant District Attorney, attwchments wore issved to compel their at tondance. The trial of Lackey Manning, charged with the marder of bis wife, ia set down for to-day. Messrs. An thon and Kintzing wore assigned by the Court to defend the prisoner, Mary Meyers plonded guilty to petty lar ceny, having obtained :1; by the presentation oft forged t‘ostrument., She was remanded for sentence, The detectives of this city yesterday made a descent upon & manufactory of counterfeit fractions currency in East New York, Long Island, where they found ail the Plates, presses, dies, &c., necersary for this nefarious business, and suMcient paper propared for the printing of ope hundred thousand dollars in twenty-five ceot notes. The manufacturers had not yet, however, succeeded ip putting any of their issues in circulation, The wholo establishment was of course seized, and an Italian and « German, named Toroez and Wagner, arrested on the obarge f belng the proprietors, and brought to thie city, They wili be taken before United States Marshal Murray this jg. This is the secoud establishment for the ire of these jotes which bas been broken up by our detectives io lees than & week, an im- portant arrest of parties engaged in the same business having been made on last Thitedey. A man's bead was found floating in the jbay yesterday bear Fort Hamilton, On examioation it was foand to belong to the other bum: which have at differ. ent times lately been picked up in the water in the Vicinity of this city and Brooklyn, This head bas a email bullet hole in the right temple, It in in a good State of preservation, perfectly recognizable, and ap- pears to bave been that of a man of about thirty, The hair is long and dark, and the beard « brown And heavy. Perrone desirous of attempting a recognition can have a opportynity by visiting the Brooklyn dead house, Only the arma APS Yot wanted to ronder the re. nt when the roll of the thom, and killed Ofveen aud wovndes sevevieen of the partys From before Riebmond and Petersburg we have notbiog mains complete. The ingroductory lecture to the winter course of the tnodical department of the New York Cotvorsity wan ger of a positive charactor, Soveral loud expioslots delivered last evening ae agg Fen teenth street, by Profersor A. Pont, ‘The leotur H Whe direction of the latter place on Iasi Friday bad | mace some good bite at the tyranny and absurdity o MTG rine oo rumor Wand Mee robele wore biewing { (enhion, WhiGh commele aman to Weer a plovetipe bak and a lady to tighten her waist till sho resembles @ spider OF a wasp, and endangers the citadel of fife; or agaia she inflates her dress till she resembles a batloon, or cou Presses her foet beyond the poibt of comfort. He ad monished the young physiciens uot to submit too much to the fashion of administering intoxicating dripk a6 & eneral remedy, nor to abandon altogether, as has too often been the cage latterly ia the profession, tho remedy Of dived jetting. He rebuked many other absurdities; and, altogether, the lecture was eloquent and instructive ‘The winter course of lectures at the College of Physi clans and Surgeons, corner of Fourth avenue and ‘Twenty. third street, was inaugurated last evening, when addresses leliveret by Dr. Delafield, the Presidect, and Professor fT. G. Thomas. The Republican Judiciary Convention (the Darlivg wing) held an adjourned meoting last evening at their rooms, corner of Twenty-third street and Broadway. They nominated Mr. W. R. Stafford for District Attorney, and gave unlimited power to the standing Committee on Con:erence to adopt the candidate of the other faction if it was deemed best to do se. One of the republican leaders, at the close of the proceedings, eaid:—It is only afarco running anybody against Oakey (meaning Mr. A. Oakey Hall, tho present District Attorney), for he has troops of friends »mong us who will vote for him.”” The Foglish blockade running steamer Bat, captured off Wilmington on the 10th inst., arrived at Boston yester- day, iucharge of a United Statos prize master, Sho isa new steel clad vessel, and has on board a very valuable cargo of machivory, Tbe steamer J.C. Irvine blew up near Eddyville, on tho Cumberiand river, on last Saturday morning, and seven of her crew were killed. In another part of this morning’s psper will be found Qo interesting account of the interview with President Lincoln of the delegation of Tennesseeans who recently Visited Washington for the purpose of presenting their Protest against the conditions prescribed by Governor Johnson in his prociamation relative to the Presidential election in Tennessee. The markets were irregular yesterday, owing to the fluctuations in gold, When gold was at 22234 there was decidedly more firmnees in commercial circles; but the subsequent decline unsettled the markets, and prices ruled lower, The business in forelgn merchandise was small, and on!y moderate sxles were reported in domestic Produce, Petroleum was higher, except for free, Groco- ries were firmer, Cotton was steady. On ’Change tho flour market opened 200. @ 5c. bigher, with @ fair ae- mand, but closed dull and hoayy, Wheat opened Sc. a 6c, higher, but closed dail and lower, Oats were fl mor, with atair demand. Corn opened le. higher, but closed dull at Saturday’s prices. Pork was less active and lower. Bocf was quict. Lard was firmer, with an improved de- mand. Whiskey was firmer, Froights were dull. The Rebel Vice President’s Letter—Gen,. McClellan tn Danger from His Own Friends, Napoleon the Great, in his pithy remark that “the Bourbons never forget anything and never learn anything,” graphically portrayed that stupid obstinacy which held them fast to their exploded heresies of tho divine rights of kings, and closed their eyes to the terrible les- sons of their own experience. The leaders of our Northern democracy of the present day belong to this old, bigoted, self-conceited and stupid Bourbon family of politicians. They cannot forget their old Southern party leaders, and they will not learn that this monstrous rebellion, like the first great continental French Revolution, bas overthrown their an- cient dynasty and brought about a new order of things. This ircurable Bourbonism crops out in a perpendicular line in the New York Daily News, and at an angle of forty-five degrees in the World, in their commentaries upon the late peace manifesto of the rebel Vice President Stephens, of Georgia. The Hon. Ben Wood consistently glorifies the whole peace pro- gramme of his rebel instructor; but Messrs. Belmont and Barlow, the master spirits of the World, in playing occond fiddle to the redel Vice President overlook their duty to General MoClellan. They think that the objection in the North te this Southern doctrine of “abso- lute State sovereignty” “goes pretty deep;” but that “it ought to be received merely as a salve demanded by the wounded pride of the South.” To be sure, it is the plaything of a lighted torch in a powder magazine; but as “this right claimed for the Southern States to choose their associations and to dissolve them at plea- sure, would operate in our favor in the present conjuncture, however dangerous it might be in its future tendencies,” why not let them have it? This is the argument of the World in favor of submission to Jeff. Davis, and as a “salve to the wounded pride of the South.” This is the Chicago peace platform, pure and simple. Im thus reproducing it for the admiration of the war democracy, does Mr. Belmont repudiate the platform of General McClellan? This thing must be stopped or it will devolve upon General MeClellan, as a matter of simple justice to himself and the war democracy, to set himself right before the country. Mr. Belmont is supposed to be bis confidential friend and adviser; Mr. Belmont’s newspaper, claiming to be also the directing democratic organ in behalf of General McClel- Jan, endorses the peace platform of tbe rebel Vice President, whieh is nothing more nor less to begin with than the dissolution of the Union into as many fragments as there are States and Territories. The question, then, recurs, is this peace policy of Mr. Belmont calculated to help the democratic candidates? We think not. We apprehend that Pendleton is as much of the Chicago platform as McClellan can possibly carry, and that be will be completely broken down if saddled with the additional dead weight of the head rebel Stephens, of Georgia. But while the World advocates the accept- ance of the Stepbens programme, on the plea of expediency, as “a salve to wounded Southern pride,’ the Hon. Ben Wood urges the recogni tion of “absolute State sovereignty” as “the only road now possible for reunion.” But this State sovereignty is a thing which never has existed, and which never can exist without an immediate dissolution of the Union. What are the attributes of “absolute State sovereign- ty?’ The sovereign powers of a nation, among which are the following, surrendered by the States to the general government of the United States:—The power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises; to pay the debts and provide for tbe common defence and gene- ral welfare of the United States; to borrow money; to regulate’commerce with foreign na- tions and among the soveral States; to estab- lish @ uniform rule of naturalization and uniform baukrupt laws; to coin money apd regulate the valae thereof and of foreign coin, and to fix the standard of woights and measures; to establish post effices and post roads; to grant patents and copyrights; te de- fine and punish piractes on the high seas and offences against the law of nations; to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; to raise and support armies; to previde and maintain a navy; to provide for calling out the militia to exeonte the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel in-' vasions, &o., &e., and to make all laws whioh eoverament of the United States. The several States are about as sovereign against these supreme elemeats of sovereignty, as are the several counties of New York against the government of the State. The first thing required in the acceptance of the rebel Vice President’s peace platform is the casting away the constitution of the United States, which involves the dissolution of the Union into about forty-five or filty “absolute sovereignties,” including all the States and Utab and all the other Territories. This done, we may have two, three, ten or twenty inde- pendent confederacies or single State ndtion- alities, as the various sovereign States and Territories may think proper. In any possible event the peace programme of Mr. Stephens means, first, submission to Jeff. Davis; and secondly, a reign of anarchy and perpetual wars among a lot of mock republics, and annual elections therein at the point of the bayonet, after the South American fashion. This is the peace which the rebel Vice Presi- dent proposes; the peace which that model Quaker, the Hon. Ben Wood heartfly en- dorses, and the peace which is advocated, through the World newspaper, by Messrs. Bel- mont and Barlow, to advance the cause of General McClellan. At this rate it cannot be long before he will discover that he has been betrayed and gold in the house of his profess- ing friends. Who Shall Bo the Next Chics Justice of tne United States? The question as to who sbail be the suc- cessor to Chief Justice Taney is now before Mr. Lincoln and the country, and upon the answer to be given to it by the President will in a great measure depend the solution of the political contest in which we are now engaged. Itis for Mr. Linceln to prove by the selection he will make that he is able to risc to the necessities of the crisis now upon us; and that, upon @ great occasion such as this, he can remember that, while be was nominated and electedias the standard bearer of a party, he was sworn into office by the late Chief Justice Taney asthe President of the United States. He must allow no considerations of mere parly expodiency to influence his choice; but must select, after mature and conscientious reflec- tion, the very ablest and fittest man in the na- tion to fill, this most important post. Both houses of Congress and the Presidency are transient in their nature, but the office of Chiet Justice is an office for life; aud from the highest seat on the bench of the highest court in the land, the action both of the legislative and ex- ecutive branches of the government may be overruled in any particular by a judicial de- cision that such action is against the letter or spirit of the constitution. It may, therefore, be asserted that no question of graver im- poriance than the appointment of a successor to Judge Taney can be brought before the na- ‘tional Chief Magistrate at the present time for his solution in the interests of the country. Of candidates for the place there are many; but four names are most prominently pressed and mentioned as likely to receive the vacant ermine. These are Salmon P. Chase, of Obio; Edwin M. Stanton, of Pennsylvania; Wm. M. Evarts, of New York, aud Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland—tho Prepident, it is said, being pretty équally balanced between the two last named gentleman. ‘As to Mr. Chase, if our information be correct, the public need feel no uneasiness, Mr. Lincoln having replied some few days ago to a delegation who were urging Mr. Chase’s appointment to the chicf justice- ship, that, “until he and Chase were created over again by the Almighty, they could never come together.” If this quotation be correct, as we have every reason to believe it to be, the Jate great failure of the Treasury Department is out of the question; and the conservative men of the country need feel no apprebension of the calamities which could not but ensue if so violent and bigoted a partisan were pitch- ferked into that seat most requiring calm and catholic judgment, vast legal attainments and experience, and the possession of those grand qualities and virtues which made the lives of Marshall and Teney so illustrious, and their de- cisions of such world-wide acceptance. Mr. Stanton, without fulfiiling all the require- ments of the office, approximates much closer to the standard of fitness than Mr.Ciase. He is a lawyer of deservedly high reputation; has great energy, honesty and industry; possesses independencs of cliaracter and an inflexible will; is‘of too stubborn material to be made the tool, and of too mueb penetration to be the dupe of any man or set of men whatever. He has large experience in the practice and decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States; and there yet lingers in him so much of the old demo- cratic leaven that, if made thoroughly independent of party ties, we might not unreasonably hope for a general fairness and impartiality in his course and decisions. Last, but by no means least of the arguments to be urged in his favor is this: That if made Chief Justice of the United States he would cease to be Secretary of War, even without that “shel- ling out” process whichehe long since declated to be the only agency that could eject him from his present place. ae. the judicial ermine and up to hi in law books, would be just as picturesque and far._more use- fal, than Stanton pouring ovor military maps with gleaming spectacles, and meddling in affairs of strategy which are béyond bis com- prehension. Wm. M. Evarts, of New York, is the porma- nent candidate of the Hon. Henry J. Raymond, of the Times, chief fugleman of the adminis- tration and “my Lord Thurlow,” of Albany. He is amiable, but weak; of great culture, bat no natural force of character. In all the social and professional aspects of h's life, we believe bim to present an unblemished record; but he ‘belongs to the past order of things, and may be ald to bave fossilized inte his present convio- tions before the great delnge of the rebellion which we are now struggling to put down. Rvidently the proper man for the place {fs Senator Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, whose appointment would be a substantial guarantee to the conservative opinion of the country that Mr. Lincoln contemplates no unoonstitn- tional acts. Thoroughly loyal as he has proved himself to be during the past three trying years; enjoying a legal reputation second to that of no man in the country; fearless in the utterance of hie convictions; catholic in his views of ont national intorests, and with a name and history thet would go fer towards could put ferth in the present feverish and re- Volutionary condition of the pubHe mind. It would act as an anodyne to the painful alarm of Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland, and asa cordial-of reviving efficacy to those moderate and constitution loving loyalists who fear that they see in the emancipation proclamation aud Confiscation bill the germs of two new revolutions yet to oome. Let Mr. Johnson be appointed by all means, and Mr. Livcoln’s Prospects of a re-election will be greatly and deservedly increased, while the success of our democratic form of government will be estab- lished on a firmer and broader basis, Prrroria—Fasmiowastz MOVEMENTS OF THE Day.—The city of New York was never in a more flourishing condition. Its growth in popula- tion, wealth, fashion and magnificence increases with almost every diurnal revolution. There is now @ population within a few hotirs’ ride of the centre of the island of two millions of souls. It is a larger city, by number of its immediate citizens and the residents in adjacent places, than the city of Paris. It is equal, on the score of population, to what the city of London was a few years ago, and is bound to rival that boasted metropolis of the civilized world within a few more years as well in population as in extent and riches. Its popu- lation increases by the large volume of foreign immigrants, by the arrival of American citizens from provincial cities who desire to make this their permanent residence, by the great influx of citizens from the Southwest and the South, who bave been disturbed by the rebollion, and by people of fashion, brains and money from everywhere. Its wealth augments with, every new discovery that produces actual wealth to mankind. At one time California poured its trea- sures into the Jap of the imperial city of the New World. The world thon became all agog upon the subject of gold discoveries. Great Lritain caught the fever, and, adepting American ingenuity and sdeas, opened the glit- tering caverns of Australia to the eyes of tts poor and for the bevefit. of the Buglish aris- tocracy. She will try to “strike ile” next. The California aristocracy had its day, its fashiona- ble period. Other aristocracies followed— codfish, blubber, anthracite and shoddy. Put among all these, with all the fashion and iuxury they could command, the city of New York never before reached its present degree of pros- perity and magnificence. A new aristocracy has arisen as witha wand oi magic. Petrolia is its name. It bas given o lively im pulse to fashionable movements. It has added a glittering spur to fashionable development. It has browght some of the sturdy old Knickerbockers from their dusty desks and from their solid old mahogany side- boards to look with favor and smiles upon it. A new joy has been discovered, and all New York rejoices. The equipages en the Park were never more dasbing or nymerous. A day or two since the Park seemed like the dazzling panorama of an Eastern pageant, with natu o aud her sublime artist, Frost, fo touch the pic- ture with their unapproachable tints. The stores were never better patronized for fine and costly goods. The Opera was never more gay and brilliant. The theatres never betier patronized, including “Solon Shingle.” The fancy stores, the superb establishments like that of Helmbold’s, just above the Metropoli- tan, never bad more lucrative custemers. The hotels were never more crowded, so that you have to order aroom @ week in advance in order to secure a comfortable one. How is all this? Where does the money come from? The fact is it cemes from the lavish expendi- tures of the Petrolia aristocracy, whose advent has just been made, who occupy the best apart- ments in our best hotels, who are just entering upon the fascinating field of fashion, who have just had a wedding at which a million was given and a million taken, and who are bestow- ing upon the people of New York the treasures which a bounteous earth, richer in liquid wealth than California or Australia, has poured into their reservoirs. Long live Petrolia! Tun Wasuineton Hxicuts Cownsss' It appears that this body, which was suspended by the last Legislature, bs thought proper to continue in office its chief engineer, whore salary is four thousand dollars per annum. Tt did the same with several of its other employes until tLeir claims amounted to a considerable sum. These the City Comptrolier very properly refused to dis charge. The retention M office of tho chief engineer in spite of this fact is evidence that the Commissioners are determined, if possible, to carry out their original plans in opposition to the wishes of the people of the upper end of the island, whose desire it is to substitute them by a boulevard, to be placed under the direc- tion of the Commissioners of the lark. This grand avenue it is proposed to commence at 106th street, thence to be carried a'ong to Macomb’s Dam, passing under the High bridge as far as old Tubby Hook church, crossing fro to the North river, and continuing h it till it reaches Manhattanville, ill debouch on the Bloomingdale road. A greater improvement to the city and its environs could not well be devised, and, as may be supposed, it commands the warm support not only of the inhabitants of the re- gion through which it is to run, but of the citi- zens generally. By the retention in office of their chief engi- neer the members of the Inte commission are evi- dently under the impression that they may yet succeed in frustrating this projept, and in dis- appointing the wishes of the residents of the upper part of the isiand. They will find them- selves mistaken. We think it can be shown that if they bave some smart men in theiz inte- rest there aro also some on the other side. This question is one that does not affect the people of Washington Heights alone. It is a matter of equal concern to every in! bitant of ow, city who. wishes to to got the next fit that they wi securing thetr <A groator floxibility of votee than he possesses, preserve end wa | polluted one of the most beautiful and healthful of {ts oatlets, Efferte.will no doubt be made Assembly to sevive the/oom- mission; but we ward all candidates fey sents im that body that the defest of the app'iication will bo made a cardinal question With them. Moasures will promptly be teken,ty ascertain thoie views 9a it, ond if vs hy as ta to the popular feeling, they may. id upon HL stand but AV.tte chance of Wons von Camvanien RAtysonn ann Sueraix~ a and that Morton’s majo.‘ity is very much cat down from the first figures. Where are Cheva- lier Raymond and Septembex Belmont. We want to hear from them at once. Naymond must give up his tax raids on the Custom House, and Belmont stop sending gold to Maxi, vilian and come out immediately with proclamay tons and let us know all about these elections acc rding to the latest advices. This is far more im\yort ant than their financial operations. The wk vle. country is on the tiptoe of excitement about t.\e October elections. No person can eatisfy them” except Chevalier Raymond and September Belmont. Give usa prociamation to-morrow morning by all'means, The people can’t wait any longer. WEWS FROM WASHINGTON. : gig ere ccae civinlivictng ‘ Wasmncroy, Oot. 17, 1864, OPERATIONS OF THK GUERIL'.(S—SECESSIONIST® AND CAPTURED GUEBRILLAS BXPOSED TO TH# FIRE OF THBIK FRIENDS ON RAILKOAD TRAINB. ‘The guerillas have resumed their depredations on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and ba\e almost entirely checked oavigation, Four boats were destroyed be- tween Kdward’s ferry and tho Monocacy last week Guertllas are reported to be boveriog in large nam- bers iu the vicinity of the southern dofences of Wash- ington. A covshierable foroo of Mosby’s men passed through Fair'ax Court House to day. To-day a number of prominent Alexandria secessionists and several of Mosby's guerillas, in our hands, were placed on the Manassas trains, and the inhabitants:living in the vicinity of the road notified that if attacked by Guerillus thelr friends and sympathizers on the care would be exposed to the risk of being killed. The autho- Titles bave determined to protect all the t1 in a siml Jar manner, and to infict immediate punishment om every persou canght interfering with tho live of com- munieailio in.avy manner. " ‘The country aloug the line of Orango and Alexandria and Manoeses Gap Ratroad is being rendered uniohabite- ble to guerit! &, The Manassas Gap Railroad is in rum bing order to its western terminus, Strasburg. ARRIVE OF MOSBY'S CArlR4D ABTIDLERY I WASHINGTON, Foor pices of artillery, with caissons, harness, &e,, captured from Mosby at Piedmont on the 14th, arrived bero to-day, THE RELOKT THAT POOLESVILLE WAS BURNED THE REBELS PRKONEOUS, Some of the vewsnapers have erroneously represented that ‘oolesvite, Md., was burned by the rebols, The Odject of the marauders was plunder, STOPPAGE OF THE ISSUR OF CBETIFICATES “OF I+ DUBTSDNE! Secretary Fessenden s me time ago stopped the lasue of legal tender notes fo all forms, sad It is now under- Stood that he has determined to stop the issue of cetif- cates of indebiednese, and tbat bo more warrants pays abie in cortuflcates will be sigued. Cioring of Basiness Houses and Arrests by the Billtary Authoritics. Barrrvone, Uct. 17, 1864, A great sonsation was crexted here this morning, caused by the simultaneous eelzure by tho military aa thorities of a number of Iarge business houses and the cof their ostablishmonts by a guard of soldiers, rea are understood to be pursuant to orders ‘em the War Department, ‘ definite is koown as to the charges which im. uced these seizures, but they are Bald to be contraband trade avd reboi mail carrying. The houses (hus tar seized are as follows:— Mes-rs. Hamilton, Easter & Co., dry goods, on Balth more street. Messrs, Charles F, Waters & Co., bardware, 15 Charles street. Messrs. Jordan & Chase, clothiers, on Hanover an@ Baltimore atrects, ° Tho two werehouses of Messrs, Weisoufeldt & Co., on Baltimore street foesrs’ Isaac Cole, Jr., & Brothers, hats and caps, o@ Baltimore street 5 Messrs, Simon Franck & Co. , clothiers. & L, Frederick, elothiers. @ and otber employes foun@ oized have been arrested und sent te pectal train, that the War Department has ordered be made. Wastinatox, Oct. 17, 1866. A numbor of dry goods, clothing and shoe stores, pore haps ten or more, were closed by military authority te ced over them, and the principals cler! ioion of being in selling ood boord of Fach vessels tly captured afford! Said, « cause for these proceedings. Faust at the Academy. RENTREE OF MISS KEI LOGS. At quite ap early hour last night the plasard, “Stand ing room vnly,” anpounced to tardy opera goers thas Faust bad, as usual, attracted a crowded audience te tho Academy of Music. It was, perhaps, the most bril- Mant house of the season, The opera bas boen given so often bere thet it cannot be called a np -yelty, and thus any alteration in the cast aturally interested the audicace, Miss Kellogg was happily the Marguerite; avd it would be vory difficult te imagine « change ich would bo ap improvement im ibe vonng and favorite singer was re listened te with the same delightful attevtion ag ler the Uilré act she wae the recipient of @ such anusual stze aud beavty that there ¢ of enriogizy to Jearn who the appre- floral trivete cietive donor Lotti was part is at tr of the evoning; and though phe ond bis ¢ paptities, be ang the romanya 10 (ho act, ani! the jure music with Mag. Koerite, very aweotly, Miss to Gebele, ag Stebel, tro@ the borrde with the ease aud grace of 2 veteran, though th cond appesrauce on the stage; bat y third rp x defuttsiy ber atalas on the tyr miormed, too’ the part of Mopt y,and had ao oxe use for h ; for the dramatic is unsorted to his phys id, wad the vocal requirements demand A s0cond performance of tho part will, however, show Improve. ment, Sollini was to every way satisfactory as Valea-@ {ho Soldier's Chorus, admirably sung, woe, us veual, enevred, and the orchestra, under Maretzek, ail that suld be desired. popular opera will be Wegnesday evening, and to-morrow the “Ballo te Mascheba” will be given. Anrewoe Warp Awoxa Tm Morwows.—We have besa aconstomed to regard the Mormons and Mormoniem as @ somewhat grave and important question, fnasmuch as secession and rebel!ion had their birth in Mormon terri tory; but to see Mormouism ina livelier aod more amass ing sbape one must bear Artemus Ward's experiences ag. delivered in Dodworth Hall, We must bear bim tell of the domestic life of the Prophet aed his subordimate- chiefs; bow Brigham and bie family fill several boxes and all the upper stalls whee they go to the theatre; bow the lecturer munificently gavea family ticket for ome. of bis lectures to Heber Kimball, and bow the house wag. consequence by said family, #0 that all those. = wg ‘A from the aera: bow ih short, 1» the outer tala ir “motber-in-taw " Io 4 on! ment of Me, rtemus Ward we bave Mormondem (n cart exture and on cauvass; bat the discourse ie not the less armen, pen Betwoxt.— The latest oVeotion returns ay dene oo and Indisty, have con changed the appea fot the resis, Penn- sylvaoln hes gone Ayimooretio om the home voto, and a despatch fram Indiannpellé, pub- lisbed ina Washington paper, shows that the allay‘ng all apprehensions on the part of the border States; Mr. Johnson is clearly the man the place calls for, and the vory maa of all pus “in eases of rebellion.” These are the at- | others tbat Mr. Lincoln sould oall to, the tributes of absolute sovereignty; and, ander | place. Such # step would be tho boat eleo- our (edorml constitution, they pil belong ta the ; tioneering decument that “Honest Abraham’ aball be mecersary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, including the power to suspend the writ of habeas cor-