The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1864, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, Y5o4. took plac, Tator In (be day the improvement was par. | ber and to win for themselves a splendid {m-| The Mebel me | bis own battle fa his own way against beth , iment of all reales tn the Department NEW YORK HERALD. — eightecn = sit ae ™he hast a tially tost, aod the market closed heavy. <cid 0/2004 | mortality. Let them elect Grant President and Wealth of the United Staces. Lincoln and MoClelian in the cause of Sambe, : Bie sme: “ y-five. city at 2185;, rose to 217%, them receded vo 916% and sloved | some other such man Vice President, and no | _ Mt. Benjamin, the rebel Seorotary of State, | tn5 best of these orators of the stump are gamms GORDON lew Orleans have been authorized to give notice that | ai 216X. Goveroment securities were steady. 6 has issued a financial bulletin for Euro; Pp wprToR ‘RISTUR twenty-three per cont interest will be remitted on taxes | Bucluose was very modersio yesterday in al! kinds of | O80 Will be dissat‘sfled, save those contemptible pean | dealers in newspaper electioneering articles, mae Se Of 1861, thirteen per cout on taxes of 1802, and three per | PfOduce, Dut especially in imported goods, The rumor | Pelitioal cliques whose pockets, rather than Purposes, which we published in owy columns stale jokes and twaddle. Edward Everett, for os. . . was ourrent that acombined movement against Rich- | their hearts, are interested in the election of yesterday. The intention isto show the capi. instance, known as “the great laudator ef QPFIOR ¥. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. | cont on taxes of 1883, If paid before the 10ib of Novem: | Xoog yy Grant and Butler was ta progress, and but litle | Lincola or of McClellan, We urge the eleo- | ‘lists on the ather side of the Aflantic the des. olse was thousbt of. The auctuat business traveaction® | tory to reflect upon this matter, both for their | Porte condition of the finances and the im- were tberefore light. Groceries, cotton, &e., wore cakes nd | mense burden of the debt of the United States Quiet. Petroleum was mixed, orude bolug heavy and re- | OW and for the sake of the nation, a ronment, and thue dai our credit and fined buoyant, On ‘Change the four market advanced | We sincerely hope that they may have sufficient ae Pe en, said ‘ie eibetit 100. a 800., with «fair deniand, Wheat was 80. higher | intelligonoe, integrity and independence to ap- | BP along the falling fortunes of the rebellion And soarce. Corn was 230. higher, with an improved | proclate ‘and adopt our well considered eug- | ®°"S its now few and rather weak-kneed demand. Oats dull. Pork firmer, but less active. Beef gestions. sympathizers in Kurope. It is endeavored to was notive and firmer, Lard firm, with « fair demand. —__--—— be shown that our national debt is greater now Whiskey and freights continue dull, Exzction Fravps—Tae Usvat Daeavrut | than that of England, which is fallacious; but pds se ae si, 2 A Washington,” in stumping it for Old Abe becomes heavy, “stale, flat and unprofitable.” So, too, Reverdy Johnson, in undertaking, o the atump, to expound the constitution in faver ef the Chicago platform, gives us an endless mass of verbiage, almost as dismal to read as one of the intcrminable rigmaroles of Governer Seymour. We congratulate the suffering masses PERS cash in advance. Money sent by dail will be wt the risk of the sender, Noue but bank bills current tu York taken. DAILY HERALD, Forr eents pereopy. Annual ber, The steamer Iko Davis, which was seized by ton of ber passengers, Chesapeake and Roaneko fashion, after abe had sailed from Bagdad, Texas, ostensibly for New Orleans, was ran into Brownsville, and is said to be Bow fitting out for a rebel privateer, A large number of ee: price $14. ’ WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents rebel prisoners le’t New Orleans for the mouth of Ked river on the @ist inst, to be exchanged per copy. Anaual subscription price:— 63 for Union goldiers held by the enomy. The of the people that their tortures from th® guerillas are very troublesome on the Youtsiana | The Vote of the Eiectoral Colieges—How | D8cLosunes ox Born begga ning doys’ | even if it was, there is more wealth in the Presidential opiderle of stump orators are cuasadiioes. G5 es signs at TRG Does: pacaed to Redeem the Country. wonder, # genuine mare’s neat, has just beet | square acres of Pennsylvania alone than all nearly over. Yot fow days longer, and thee Our perfectly practical plan of settling all | brought to light {n Baltimore, It isthe dis- | Fneiand possessed when her debt was con-* our political difficulties by oasting the vote of | covery of an alleged stupendous system of elec- | tracted. The oil, coal, iron and wheat alone, the elcoteral oolleges, not for Lincoln and | tion frauds, under the manipulation of certain | in that one State, would almost pay the interest Johnson or for McClellan and Pendiaton, but | New York State agents, whereby the Empire | oy our public debt; while there is ati!l Cali- for the two best men in the country, has at- | Slate was to be carried against the administra | fornia, which has already produced six hundred tracted very general attention. If the electors | tion, by dry goods boxes filled with the certi- | nitiions in gold, and the boundless acres of have the good sonse to carry it out they will | fied votes of dead soldiers and soldiers who | the West, teeming with grain, the nocessity of completely revolutionize the politics of this | never did exist, to be brought into active ser- | Jif al) tie world over. Even as far as the country, annihilate all of the present miser- vice on election % One of these unfortunate growth of cotton and tobacco is concerned, we ably corrupt parties, and bring us back to the | New York State agents, a certain M. J. Ferry, } hold now one-third of the cotton States and golden days of the fathers of the republic. | has made # confession of a box or two of frauds | poth the principal tobacco States—Kentucky ‘The design of the constitution was thatthe | of the kind indicated, committed by | and Tennessee. Presidential electors should be chosen from | himself and some of his confederate The national wealth of the United States is among our wisest and ablest men, and that | State agents under arrest; and still more | absolutely incalculable. Gigantic as it alroady they should select the two best men in the | wonderful revelations are expected from the fs, that which remains as it were hidden in country for Prosident and Vice President. | military court of inquiry to which this busi- | tio howels of the earth, it is fair to estimate, There 1s nothing te prevent our recurring to | ness has been turned over at Baltimore. On | seven still more vast. Hvery day we hear of this original intention of the founders of the | the other side, however, Ferry is denounced by | some new source of national wealth. Lot us constitution. On the contrary, it is the easiost | the World as “a stool pigeon of the adminis- | glance at it in detail. At one time Califoraia thing in the world to show that, as both the | tration,” though appointed by Governor Sey-} opens her gold mountains and placers convontion candidates are failures, this is the | mour, which makes a very curious muddle of | and produces enough of the precious very time, above all others, when the nation | the plot. From the evidence and rumors at} motal to afford a basis-for the circulating will be most benefited by such a change from | present before us, it would appear that It {3 / medium of the civilized world. At another, the bad routine of our political system. diamond cut diamond, fn which delightful | the gates of the gold and silver mountains of When this war began with the attack upon | game the administration has been a little Nevada, Idaho and Montana—a éew years ago Fort Sumter we wore the first to tender our | ahead of the opposition in getting the first cut. | unknown to the adventurer or geologist--are support to President Lincoln, and to urge | At alt events, these awful discoveries have | onened, and fresh sources of mineral wealth him, as we had previously urged Buchanan, to | made quite a sensation, although we guess it is] are discovered. We publish letters to-day call for volunteers to save the capital and |-nothing more than the old affair of the moun- | from these territories showing their wealth in preserve the Union. From that tlme to | tain in labor, destined to end in the delivery of precious metals. Then we have the discovery this we have always sustained those in | 4 little ridiculous mouse. of immense beds of coal all over the country, authority, while they labored for the Unioa,}| So, we doubt not, will turn out the tremen- | with great deposits of iron, copper, lead, and and have only rebuked and opposed them when | dous frauds whereby it is alleged Governor last, but not least, the newest, aud destined, they appeared to us to be injuring the Union | Morton carried so handsomely the State of Ia- | probably, to be the groatest source of wealth cause, either from want of capacity or want of diana ia the late election. The single fact that | for 9 single article the country has yet patriotism. We stood by General Scott unti] | the peace-at-any-price copperheads are more | produced from mineral lands—petroleum. he failed as 4 military leader. We hailed the | numerous, violent and obnoxious in their con- | fp gddition to all these fountalos of rising star of General McClellan, which broke | duct in Indiaoa than any othor Stale lets us| national wealth we have the wealth of gloriously through the clouds of war during his | into the secret of the late heavy defeat of the | jmmigration, by which the old coun- Western Virginie campaign. We cordially | demoorats in that quarter. Frauds are com- | tries Joso not only money but muscle and assisted and endorsed him while he was organ- | mitted on all sides in all our important politl- | praing, and we gain these important elements izing his army, planning his campaign and de- | os! elections; ut, after all, they are but a8 4 | of national greatness. veloping bis attack upon Richmond. All this | drop in the bucket, and practically amount to We sball have this year a hundred mil- while, too, we worked hand and hand with | Notbing in a Presidential contest; for, at the | tions in gold and ailver from tho President Lincola, and only differed with him | worst, the frauds on one side are nentralized | rocks and placers and gulches of the Pacific when we thought that he ylelded too much to | by the frauds on the other. Besides, our elec- | goust, We shall have from ooal and iron the radicals, and cared too much for his party | tion arrangements are too rigid, and the two | ang other metals one hundred and forty mil- and his own chances for re-election. Our course | partics engaged in this contest are too well | jions, We shall have from petroleum, fresh from first to last has thus been purely patriotic | organized and too vigilant in watching each | from the virgin earth, seventy-five millions. and consistent, and it has commanded the ap- | other to leave any considerable margin on | We shall have from the Old World—for the probation of all Intelligent men of both parties. | either side for fraudulent voting. The manag-| volume increases monthly--perbaps nearly a Both Lincoln and McClelian recognized and ac- {ug democratic politicians, we know, are well million souls, and more than thrice that amount knowledged the services we rendered to the | Versed in all the tricks of their trade; but the | in sinew. All these we shall have this year, be- Tnion cause, and even those who had heen most | Tepublicans, very extensively educated in tke | sides corn enough to spare to feed the starving bitter against the Henato in times past did not | same schoel, are quite as sharp in their sharp | people in Karope. We believe that no debt hesitate to express their appreciation of the | practices. But the overwhelming tide of the | can be incurrod by the war, giving it reasona- work which we were doing for the country, in | genuine votes of the people in a Presidential | p19 duration, that canuot be redeemed by the filing up the army and navy, strengthening the | election comes as the rolling of the surf against | [hited States within twenty years. The war, hearts of all loyal people, and inculcating | the rubbish along the shore, casting it bighand | instead of retarding our national growth, has those principles of nationality and fidelity to | dry. So ft will be on the Sth of November. | only given it an unusual impetus. The foreign the Union and the constitution which had made Poll oot newspapers have accelerated the movement of this country the rival of the-old European Di iiah i shear aca epee on immigration by disctosing the unparalleled Powers and the champion of Ilberty through- dition as at the present time. The democracy | Tesources of the natioa; and the liberal bounty ‘out the world. are divided into half a dozen factions, engaged | fered to each emigrant who enlists will spur Neither Lincoln nor McClellan, therefore, in cheating, trading, and buying and selling |.°° the movement uatil some parts of Europe has any right to reproach us for not advocating | osoh other. Thore are two er three republi- | Will be Mteratly depopulated. People in his claime during this political canvase. In can factions which are quarrolling over the Europe have begun to discover that they can 1863 we nominated both of them, and put them spoils, like oats aud dogs, each trying to prove | come to America, and, by the generous bounty on trig} before the country. When they failed that the other is the embodiment of all that is | ef the government, can settle down on snus we could support them no longer. Just as we evil. In this eondition they are quarreling farms and become as independent as any who bad transferred our support from Scott to and wrangling .over tho Congressional nomi- tread the sol!. If the increase of immigration McClellan, when Soott failed, so we transferred | iattonsto such an extent that in almost evory | Coatinues in the ratio it has for a few months our support from McClellan to Grant, when | district It has resolved itself into a scrub race, | tere need be no four of a draft. McCleltan failed as a general and failed still rendering the probable result anything but And now look at the recuperative energies more remarkably in hie dealings with the such as It should be. Tammany Hall, in its of this mighty natlon:—By the war we lose our Cabinet. General Grant has succeeded almoet | eport to reorganjze and purify itself, has made cotton, ana men and womea wear wore wool- miraculously, and we regard him as the ablest tho issue plain on the county ticket, which will lev. Tnere is more flax plaoted and more man yet brought forward by this war. As ¥e | sweep everything hefore it, and has relieved sheep sheared. We loses our oaval stores by had supported Lincoln end MoCleHan while | that portion of the canvass of the muddle the buraing of thousands upon ‘thousands of they truly represented the nation, so we €tp-| which exists in the Congressional districts. the rich pine trees of North Carolina, and ported Lincoln and Grant when MoCloltan was | tye two parties aro, however, united on the petroleum gushos forth from the earth to sap- superseded. But Lincoln turned out to be as Presidential and State tickets. There are no | Ply the places of tar, pitch and turpectine, great a failure as McClellan. His only SUCCES | factions to be found here. Both eldes are Our commerce is somewhat crippled, but our was in securing the nomination of the Balti- doing all that they can to secure as many votes tremendous national m rine supplies a place more Couvention. As may be seen in his own | ,. possible. The prospects are that the vete for our sailors, and give’ them a handsome letters, published some time ago, he confessed his | _- 4 iy til ig | bounty besides. We lose, wo are sad to sa; a will far exceed any heretofore polled in this y y incapacity by handing over tite entire conduct motropolls, and will undoubtedly be over one | “ay good and brave men by the war, and of the war to General Grant and disclaiming all hundred thousand. There are several important immigration helps to supply their loss. And knowledge of Grant’s plans, and, consequently, | p01, whioh point to this result, In the first while all this is being done in the North what all share in the credit of Grant’s victories. place, there will be by the day of election from | #9 be sald of the South? The war has caused Has anything happened since that time to! firteen to twenty thousand foreigders_natural- the people there to spring at once, as it were, change our estimate of the abilitics of } i.4, 1¢ is also well known that we Lave always feom the orad'e to maahood--from a state of in- McClellan aod Lincoln? Nothiag gee) had a large floating populatlon’bere from the dolence to a state of nerve and activity scarce- Mast we relinquish our carefully matured border and slave States, who have neveg yet ly paralle! ‘d in the history of nations of any opinions of these mea because the shent-per-} voted tn New York. This class being Union time. Again united as a nation, the United shent, shoddy, grogshop politicians of the Bal- men, lef tho South to get rid bf the tyranny States will present a power that will startle timore and Chicago conventions have seen, and despotism there; but at the eame time do- | the world. <The resources of the land will to nominate them for the highest office in spise the fanaticism of the abolitionists. They enable it to do this; for they are, Indeed, incal- land? Does the Balt{more notaiaation make | have become permanent residonts in this city, eulable. Lincoln a statesman, or the Chicago nominn-, as is proven by the unprecedented demand for But what is the financial position of the tion make McOlellan a successful goneral?| pouces and rooms in all parts of the city, and | rebel States? Their Secretary of the Treasury, There are many modern miracles, but these } wit) ail vote at the coming Presidential cleo- | Mr. Trenholm, admitted the other day that transformations are not among them. Lincola | tion, Atl these facts combined go te show that | their debt was two thousand millions, and to and McClellan are failures, and Grant is our | the vote will be unparalleled In the history of | Meet this there are only the resources of six Presidential candidate. New York. There is not the least shadow of | States, and even portions of thom are held by Now, if the usual custom of electoral col- | gount that McCiellan’s majority in this city, the Union army. Thoir bonds are so worthless leges is followed out one or the other of the | unger these circumstances, will exceed forty | that, according to the samo evidence, $300,000 two failures we have mentioned must inevita- | yogsend, in them are only worth $15,000 in gold; and as bly be the next President of the United Stator. for the currency genorally, it is regarded as Why should it be eo? The custom is only a} Greeixy ov THe Sromp.—Greeley ie making | worthlcas even by their own people. Deserters custom, not @ law, and it will be vastly more | stump speectes in New England, and, we per- | and prisoners aro too glad to sell it for five cents honored in the breach than in the observance. | ceive, from some of his remarke, that he is re- | on the dollar, while at the same time Union Leaving the gain-sccking politictans out of the | turning to his old principles on the~ Union prisoners are robbed of greenbacke, which are question, the people do not care anything for | question. He is in fevor now, just as he was | carefully hoarded up. the two Presidential candidates now before | at the beginning of the secession movement, of } ‘This document of Mr. Benjamin does not hold them, They would greatly have preferred | letting the South go out and tho Union go to | water, It caunot damage the credit of the Grant, and in recommending Grant for the | pieces. In bis Hartford epocch the other day | United States in Furope; for we prosume no Presidency we but exproas the wishes of the | ho declared that if the Southern people decided | one there holds our bonds, unless those who people. There is no good renson why the | by @ fair voto to go out of the Union ho was | took themas n perfectly safo investment. It wishes of the people should not be regarded by | in favor of letting thom do so, That is precisely | fs the laet desperate effort to avert @ financtal the electors. Those gentlemen go into the col- | what he eaid in 1861. ‘The truth is that collapse, just as the employment of the leges aliogethor uncommitted, so far as the | Greeley is a‘raid toace the Union restored; for negroes a8 soldiers and the surrender of the constitution is concerned. The conetitution | he knows that neithor himself, nor Phillips, nor | question of Stato rights—the pwrpose of the leaves thom frea to vote for whooeyer they } Garrison, nor any of tho other rabid abolition | war—by the six Goveraors the other day, wero | think proper. The people vote for eleotora, | agitators who have been exasperating the peo- | the last struggles to maintain the military and Penge 1 100 not for Presidential candidates. There is no- | ple for the inst thirty years on the anti-slavery political status of the falling confederacy. Company. ' Mr. / ’ thing to prevent the electors from disregarding | question, could live In tho North, any more Site iar a whe dtmise Ba gg Rat to) the worn-out humbug of the political conven- | than Jeff. Davis could live in the South, alter the Srome Sreagers anp ratin Crarrnar,—The About et fail to be tonto Tie cause of | the ‘ tion system and the detestable thimblo-rigging | Union was re-established. Greeley desires tho | country is alive with Atummp sponkers. All tho | 1. Wore, rac ehert Lime oriat to toe covery of of pot-house politicians. Let them do thi, and | destruction of the Union for the same reason | great guns aud an guns on both sides, in Yel Fite" e ee ine act independently, according to the dictates of | that Davis insists upon the independence of the | cities, villages, rAd at crossroad groceries, aF6 | poll 4, i pers ff ding forth ‘@ t! le 8 noisy chaps, A Borne Fi Dnowsen.—-Coroner Ranney ye: their own judaments, in the chotoe of President | South—personal fear. They know that’ when | holding @ ths people, Soma noisy chap ae eee wear all the electioneering claptrap and stuf aad rubbish of these patriotic stumpers will be ef an end. Bearly five hundred balog of cotton In the viciuity of pine: cents per copy for three months. Baton Rouge, They sot only destroy tho cotton, bat Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers, Doat and carry off all the negroes they find, Squads of G2 GOench. An extra copy will be seut toevery club | 44 cavairy are scouring Iberville parish and con o ten. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $35, scripting negroes for the purpose of putting thom Qed any larger number at same prica AD extra copy fm the rebel army, it ts sald, under orders : , 1» Will be seni to clubs of twenty. Zheag rates make the fh Mr. Alea, who 6 h ‘qveaceartt.at ‘Wanxry Hanaxn the cheapest publication in the country, Louisiana, Tho report that the rebel Walker haa ‘The Pirnorgay Forrton, every Wednesday, at Fivs cents crossed the Miesissippi with his division of the Trans- [ore SS Dee semems Ww eny perl At AENe REMAN, OF Fania: Denaytsaks hat heteeed; ae ba cane 6G to acy part of the Continent, both to include postage. } | Th Catsronsta Eps10x, on the 8d, 13th and 284 of Monroe, La., at tho close of September. Five million re 7 oilars to pay tho soldiers were dally expocted in New mouth, «t Six cents per copy, or $3 per annum. ko Nore Chalet dekevraes Genlabetaaen. “We Orleans. All fears of the yellow fever becoming epitemio havo been dispelled, as there have boen frosts. Late rebol papers give asa synopsis of the procecd- ings of alate extra ecssion of the Alabams Lagislature, SSS | Ccomvened by Goverfior Watt for the purpose of giving QNUSBMENTS THIS EVENING, greater efficiency to the Btate militia and doing various ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Itattax Orsza— | Other things to assist the Jef. Davis confederacy. But Matinee ut Oue o'Clock—Pavst. pirat none of these things, as the rebel Journalists most indig- NIBLO'S GARDEN, EBroadway.—Toe Cricxer. nantly inform us, were doze by this august body, and just WALLACK’S TEEATRE, Broadway .—Tx: before their adjournment they received (rom the Coyernor WINTER GARDBN, “Broadway —Pavt Par-Love tw i aienjp atin igi apctlinarseg aplomb Gavrar—Soxvesovy's C marked feature in their proceedings appeare to have been = THEATRE, Broadway.—Masrin Caverim- | the introduction and consideration of a preamble and cae tain aaa Boworr.—Comricr Man. | Pesolution in favor of negotiations for peaoeon the basis euvis—Buccancen's Fiac—= Tuovcurs—Harrr Max | Of the Chicago platform, if the democratio party should BOWERY THEATRE, bowery. —Fanncn Srr=Soroian | >? SUCcessful In the approaching Prealdential election. rox Lova—Jaxey Linp—Miciinens’ HouiaY. The Mobile Register discusses the proposition to place BROADWAY THEATRE, 435 Broadway.—Vicria— | Degrocs in the rebel army, snd avows itself heartily in PRorur's Lawren ao le MIPPOTHEATRON. Fourteouth street Eqvesmuax, | ov % tM a bart aati aga a rae ss Gruxasitc AND ACROBATIC ENTHETAINMENTS, We have Richmond nowspapers as lato as Wodnesday BABKUN'S BIUSEUM. Broadway.—Twe Grawvs, Two | last, acd the extracts from them which we anra, &¢.. at ab houra }’RIsONER OF BrE.LECRG— wLtE OF mk BaseMent—Pavi's Reruns. Day and | to-day give will be found very fteresting to veulng, cee Northern readera, BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, é2 Broad. "3 kcperde Met aap Ree oe 7 ra tmiorian Gonos. Dancus, Buxaxsques ke. | Sddress to hia soldiers on their late defeat Waut~ oN pe Kaneer. 5 ————. by Sheridan, in which he tells them that it was onused WOOD'S MINSTREL BALL, 51i Breadway.—Evmortas by their “disgraceful propeneity for plunder.” The Bors, Daxces, &0,—Pauroxmixe Doss, DAMPBRLL MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery.<Vaniey | Picbmond Seniinel says (bat ac arrangement bas been a3p Excinixg MéLancey or Eraioriax Oppiryms. completed by which the national government will be al- GALLE DIABOLIQUE, 685 Broadway.—Rosnet Hattxe | lowed to {ced its soldiers in rebel prisons, aud the rebe! DOPWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Azraxvs Wanp | £0Verument their men in our hands. rg ache capers MISCELLANECUS NEWS. AMERICAN THEATRE. No. 44 Z . ¥ phtteuisia” peneconeas, bo-lit, Rem Beers | our Braz Santiago (Texas) correspondent, under dae See of the 11th inst,, fully covfirms ‘our previous reports that i ret Sa CHAPEL. a Rroaaway.—Woonorra's Boum | Cortioa, of Mexican border fame, has gone over to the dicamairig Emperor Maximiliae. But, aa there are two Cortues, aa Leas tran STOMT, 618 Broedway.— | brothers, it is a little uncertain which one it ts that hes at a forsaken tbe repubiican cause. Probably both have. A BOOLET'S OFERA HOUSK Breeklya.—-Remesas | number of Mexican officers, who refused to acknowledge - Boxce. ‘ eee eee Pee ee . Maxieilian’s government, have left (belr eountry with bet ata) the dosign of temporarii; ing their residence in the Yow Werk, Saturday, October 29, 1864. | [aited states. ene ‘i ; === _— FT ‘The steamship North Btar arrived bere yesterday (rom THE SITUATION. Aspinwall, which place she laft on the 17th instant. She We have important despatches from General Grant, | brought mearly balf a million dollars in speole, There ia stonnce fa fe for the some prospect of difficulty between our Consul at Pana- espe “ a Purpose of ascertaining | 2. snd the government of Colombia, owing to bis having tbe evemy’s position and strength, and inviting an at- fesucd papers to two American merchant steamers per- teok, wore made on Thureduy, on the two extremes of | mitting them to sal! without paying the tonnage dues his extended lines around Richmoud and Petersburg. On wlins a ar) ararptase Congress last spring. The Con- eft, in the Ai f th, . | sal ald, a aocording to instructions from Wash. the pi he Arey. CSRS Potownae, the Tae ant Boe: ington. Though the steamors in question sailed some bud corps were pushed out to the Boydton road, used | gays before the North Star left, nothing further in refer: by the rebels to wagon their supplies around | ence to the matter had been done by the Colombian aa- Maat portion of the Woldon Railroad held by Grant, and | tborities. There is mo news by this arrfVal either from F every poivt well manned {jutrenchments were found pacers aa Fora or any other of the South JP attack was mate by our forces except to drive inthe |” From the republic of Hayti, by the steamship Port an omy’s pickets and oavairy; but after the Second corps, | Prince, which arrived bere yesterday from Port au r General Hancock, had held ite advanced position ictal sat Jager three eee a which Bad " roken out wit past six months been com some time the rebels, attacked ft, 0nd were Baad | |. 1 quelled, and thet the country wan enjoying quiet Smely repulsed, with the loss of nine hundred men | og; and order. President Geffrard has commuted the gaptured, aod General Haccock malotained bis posi- | sentence of death passed on several persons convicted of ion until near midnight, when, the object bare rangle in tho apy eiy! last July. ss ‘ther proceedings cases of the St. Albane pf the advauce having eon attained, — Be | sore will be eonducted at Montres!, to which place the withdrew without interference from tho enemy. | prisoners, to avold excitement, were secretly removed Boms beef cattio and wagons loaded with stoyes were also | from St. Jobne on Tiuraday night. Tbe triais wil! com feptured from the rebols, Our casualties are reported eu — baie een : io 1» accompant & very high southeast Pr Generel Grant st les than twobundggd. The rebel | 10) ieevaiied tn this city and vicinity pesterday after- General Dearing 12 said to bave been kilied, On the | noon and last night, doing much damace to the slipping, hor h side of tue river General Butior extended the right | blowing down sigaboards and chimnics, and materially 01 the Army of the Jamee well cut towards the York. | Interforing with euvioer Guster. 1s Gfemred. thes tte town road, but found no point unguarded by the enemy, rr soba venteteig. gor pepe Pass piper Both reconnoisennces were decidedly successful. range of couutry, north, east and south, Oficial despatches confirmatory of the good news from Something in the guerilla style doing business was Biwsscuri bave been received from Gencral Pleasanton, Prizs Figurine ano Hicuway Rosary. On several occasions within a few yoars prise fights have been made the pretext for robberies and violence by gangs of ruffians who are always ready to take advantage of any confe sion or excitement to ply their rascally trade In the crowds which these puglilistic exbibitions usually yather about railroad stations, on care and boats, bold and daring robberies of money and valuables have been committed. But the boldest attempt yet was that made on the Brie Railroad on Thursday, when sparty of these guorillas, on their route to witness a fight Is the western part of the State, robbed every passenger in the train, and, more than this, am tually stopped another train on the road, and robbed the passengers of that also. Tho face is, wo incline to think that many of these prigs fights are got up for purposes of bighway rob- bery, and for nothing else, by these cowardly bravos. If the system is not puta stop to by some vigorous measures om the part of the police-—such as shooting a few of those scoam drels—our railroads will become infested with banditti, and travel will be as dangerous as & the country of the rebel guerillas. Peliuto at the Academy of Maste. The unpleasant weather of last evening reachod i culmination just at the momont when music lovers were about to start to the opera, and thu enough wore @e terred from braving the wind and rain to leave an ume sua! number of vacant seats in the house, This, however, did not interfere with the brillianoy ef the audience. The class of opera goers who dresa whe the most care are seldom prevented from attending By inclemency of the woather, and the Academy tast atgh( presented as handsome a display of toilets as on ang previous occasion this season, Several isdics, indulging fn the new style of powdered hair, attracted much a tention, ‘The opera was Polluto, given for the fourth time Bg the cast which has suddenly brought tnis hitherto ame appreciated work of Dontzetti’s into euch promineat* favor, Fine as were the previous representations, thas of last night surpassed them all, ‘The.finale to the second act again exhibited to @ remarkul powcr and nistriovic intensity of the who were all called before the curtain; while, in the test ect, Zucchi apd Massimiliant eclipecd all their previegs eTorts. The tenor, in the magnificent conversion seems, introduced one prolonged high note which calleé fort most spontaneous and hearty applause; while the prima doona, always good, mentfested a fervor and brililaay which even she has rarely, if ever, eqaalied, Apart (rom | her noble singing and acting in this opora, there = ae character ta which, personally, the lady has appeared 0¢ such advantage. Her costume, singulariy becoming, Permits tho fnll aad unencambered use of a pair of arma and bands which might serve as models for a seulpter, and which, tu the exquisite gestioulation of Zucedi, ae uged with & grace and effect that excites constant ade ration and dolight. The costumes of Leonora and Lacre la, in which Zucch! has bitherto appeared, have @> prtved our public of muoh of that personal grace whie® only tho more flowing eostumo of classic times enables: the beholder to appreciate, The-management shoaid Mm troduce the sow prima conna in lone and Nofma, (er the same rensous that, aud to reader Paolina so triumphant a success, apply to those characters. This afternoon Faust will bo given @t the matinen Next Monday Trovatere will be repeated, and on Web nesday there will be a revival of Den Giovanni. The Theatrical Season. The tendency of the prezeat time ta our city theatres is to sectire for (he plays bow produced a continuance @ the boards which will relieve the managemeat from all wonecessary expense and trouble ia the production ef re peated novelties, In London—notably of late io the case of Miss Batoman—plays enjoy « run of one hundred, twe hundred aud even three hundred nights. As Now Yor Increasge in eize and population this system will become the rate instead of the exception, and a successful play will be produced oizht after night, yet each time to a#- ferent aurientes. This tendency hes been especially noticed here tuis seacon, At the Wiater Garden, Every- body's Fricnd; at the Broadway, The People's Lawyer, and at the Olympic, Martin Chuszlowlt—all are proofs this fact, To insure, however, such a result good aoting fe necessary; and where the theatre does uss possess a shining star like Ciarke or .Owoas Shere must be decided merit ia the play o epecial exceliecce in the iock company, AG Nidlo's Mies Mitcholl, ia The Cricket, aud at Wallack’s the coming revival of Rosodsie, will uudoubtedly be farther arguments in favor of our assertions. At presout the thoatres are fairly attended, To Wab lack’s a certatu clase of our more fashionable soctoty wil f0, Without lockivg beforeband at the programme, er caring whether, the main attraction is an clabe-| rate ‘foli’? comedy like The School for Scandal or a trifling farce like My Wife's Maid. attendance, therofere, during the week has as good as usual at thls establishment, Wioter den has not done 60 well. There have been sovoral houses, notwithstanding the excellence of Mr. Clarke's) character acting. A fuller house greets Mr. Owens his olon *hingle, thoogh, in view of the smallor size the Broadway theatre, tue absolute number of visttors i probably mo greater: but it fs, any way, quile asl great as the house will hold, been doing very well with rams; and nt Niblo’e Forrest, It Mitohall, this week, attractierowided audionces every fog. Jadging, thon, from these indications, the York theatres may be said to be doing a good pag! Dusiness, although the unusual activity of the earlier of the scagom has in sone mexsure subsided. A pleasant featuro of the present theatrical cam; Will be the bonoft this event ib the- Olympic, of author of Martin Uhuzzlowit—not Dickens, bat the tloman of this city who provided Mra. Wood with ‘woll constructed dramatic version, which has eorved show off to such advantage tho members of ber vw theatrical company, The theatre going public ove drarantist a handsome recognition this eveving, experienced by the pessengere on the Thursday evening Ph 3 vp aud down trains on the Erie Railroad. About two After the battle of Banday inst, when Price's army WAS | 1 sesa tnievee and biecklegs from this city and Phils over whe! ely defeated, Pleasontoo, with ooly aix delphia took passage on the quarter past four train from » pursued the routed and dieorgenized | Jorsey City, to attend the prize fight mear Port Jervis, about twenty-five thousand. | between Doovey Harrie and Peter Martin, Soon after ae of rebels, vumber! a cas ea red as ta | the train starts ere Seoundrel2 commen Fie marched over pir miler fa two days, fighting suthig (ha ‘tiapeceabae’” paiiagede, sale’ dad uring the last thirty-two miles, The rebels are scat- | fomato, end by the time Middietown, sixty-six fered in every dirsction, and Price bes but one canuon | miles up the road, was reached, there was - nd poammunition, he beviog blown up bie tratn | little left to steal on this trate. Here the down train 4 burned four liundred wagons to prevent them falling bstog Leenhpembosed souk it souls asides tay Joto the hands of our men, Pievanton tock from bim | yatnables. Citizens of Middletown were also eelzed avd $wo thournnd prisoncre and several thousand stand of | robbed, and numorons other outrages were committed. rms. The desperadocs Sy g! aa a nea on pea evening’s trains, and the Jersey City police were at , Gooretary Stanton bes recvived despatches from Gene- aa cs aia Vodns tar baly samaet 9a dosatheg: Fal Sherman's department dated up to six o'clock last | gwenty-two of tho gang, the otnore jumping from the ing, which say that the enemy's movements sgain | train before it was stopped. Indloate designe on Tennessee; but there is the utmest | Mr. E. 0. Rollins, Deputy Commissioner ef Interns! Revenn is Written to Mr, E, W. Taylor, clerk of the Hdenco in the ability of Sherma and Thomas to effec. Common Council Committee on Railroads, stating that his wally deal with any attempts the rebels may make tn | gepartment doclines to decide as to the conditions under bat direction, Golonel Jobnson, the Iste commander of | which the railroad tax of two and one-half per cent is to bo tmposod. Such questions, he thinks, have thelr proper remedy in the courte, tured and paroled, saw the whole of Hood's army | 1.5 very Rev. D. W. Cahill, D. D., the celebrated Iriah © that place, amd shey estimate the number Of bis | priest, actronomer, pulpit oretor and chemist, died in Ley force at about thir! five thousand, Boston, Diese., Inst Thuredey, after 2 ebort {lines He y a waa sbout sixty-five youre of age, Dr, Cabill possessed Our deepatedes from the Shenandoah valley Fepreseat | V1) 0 1 sine order and enjored a world wide Ni quiet tu that region. ‘The guerillas between Martine | oo oigtion for his piety, learning, great charity and ac nator very bold, and strong guarcs | compliebments as a geutiowan. re necessar protect traing and persons passing Se eebnd uie Yateear bp tel beng bar bed fal before Judge Barbour, of the Suprome Court, for paroegh, There ste reperts heh See Ee: bi lost moult the jury brougts fn civerdint yoster- pe au extensive raid towards Woet Virginia. Geversl | 4.9 sintoting the defendant in the sum of ten thousand he Union garrigou at Dalton, and his oMoecre, who were and W City Inteltigemse. ’ Frees m Franti Avewvr.—Botwera (evetwo and O'clock on Friday morning a Ore broka, qoode store owned Dr Pac! Schutz, No, 623%, © nue, The flames spread with ratysishing rey extoritied to the two adjoining over, Nos, 695 and 63% the former store belog secup! at by Joho Moald, deater Stoves and tinwaro, ond for,’ dwelling over tho att No, 581 is ocoupiedt bY 1! gman Rapbaol, dealer im cl oridan bas written a letter Cotaliing the clroumstances | gotiens damage. The plaintiff claimed twenty thousand dollars, bot will probably rest satisfied with the hand. t the receat murder of Lieutenant Meige by gucrilias. { Major Genora! Dix hoe ierned, from bis headquarters of ardod hor by the jury 1 Fifteen w ‘6 odmiited to probate the post week fhe Department of the Kast, en important order, te which | 1 iH enurrog office. Among there is the will of fe siaice that ioformation has been received by kim of 8 | earan L Anthongfhy which ope thousand dollars are dis- Bestgn on tributed among five benevolent and religiour institutions > , Perters, refagees and enemies of the government across ee ily para eee geecvai, bet foe porter to voto at our Presidodtiat (elec | .. 4b; piohih avenue destroyed goods and damigod Mon, and porinye to plunder asd burn our towns. | buildings 10 the amount of about $9,000, which was tuerefore calls for tereased vigilance on the | prinoipully insared, ms . Pi ‘The extensive car factory of Mr. Wiliam imminge, rate tte provort marshals end citteeas, and says _ and the Holler shore apd stable edjoining, belodging to Geltable guards cor the frontior will bo provided before | 4. yone Seoor, in Morgan atrect, Jersey City, wore de ton Gay, As & further precaution, all pertovs from | gtroyod by fre lastnight. The logs is estimated at about Ede insurgent States now in bis department, or who may | ove bundred (houseod dollars me Into It wp bo the 2 aro required to register At the clection tn West Virginia on Thursday the entire Dulon ticket wi oaefal, Governor Boreman was re- some amouw part of robe! agente in Canada to wend de- jo Firemon’s Tours ie estimated at abd homesives, if in thir city, 0: Geveral Peck's head jnarters, 1 ra f t Jt Broecker street; tout of whe ety, ob the. gpareet no and Ue Lagistatare and focal oliver ard legety and Vice President, and they will cover them- | the Union eeutiment is renewed in both seo- | from State founty and town committecs, are SSessep catmees; ponte siesa;teuis intern found 1b i bend conan Tie Guened Eivsniion of provinetal delegates, having | gelves with glory and render their names illus- | tions thero will be such @ regi ry fe bret Gs a — of ; wink youl a ron, eepeeea enter ene oki “'} Three etoamors from New Orie ir . | completed ite pian for the proposed con‘ederation rt i succeeding generations, | bring upon them the vengeance of the people. wit m or larger pretens! A Fenian, were discovered 10 ae cves oe a ow enipabaaee Seaesaiee ae sta ae ve 60 ah But what » double-faced fypoorite is Grooley, | rerxize hereftor, But what doos a! this | Ath vrost sed spray was about forky yours of to prate about the Or/6n in his newapaper add } ¢inount to? Wind, gas and moonshfie, Al | jivoso Riven Rar.noan-Important changes will pte tH despetcbee from ovr correspondents to | BFiHAh North American colonie, and Qaisod te labors, | Never before did a body of men ha consent to alen ayrfy ita life on the etumot —-f ways excepting Wendell Phillips, @ho Gghte | piace in Wve time jabiect this readgn Mandar, Ook Oty as late ae the 234 inet. Coneral uribut, com- Sy aan den eel uae improvement yes. | mirable an opportunity to redeem their coun- Pranding at New Orioans, Las issued an order tor tbe en- | terday morning, and « general advange ia exotations | try from the evils which have ao lene cursed