The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1864, Page 4

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THE SITUATION. , Wo learn from a private telegram that the rebel privateer Florida, lately captured by the gunboat Wa chusett, bas arrived at Fortress Monros ag tho presence of all The efficiency of the army requir regimental officers and soll pounced tbat all furloughs will expire (o morrow, The romored evacuation of At eu, Sherman and destruction of the Atlante and Chattanooga Railroad The rebels attacked our pickets south ‘are contradicted, Woop— | city to mee | | { ng place,—ITALtAN Orzma— | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1864, Motler’s appearance on entering the court and during and at the Conovusion of the trfal ts noted, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The eteamsbip Golden Rule arrived trom Greytown yes- terday, with mails, paaseagers and $52,768 in specio to the Cevtrat American Trapsit Company, She left Grey town on the Sth instant, and made tho passage in six days nod nmeteen hours, We have dates from Bermuda to the 2d instant; but they do wot contain any news, Spexking of the weather the Bermuaiin ot the 24 says that beavy gales, accom: panied-with rain, had prevailed along the coast, aud ox pr enrs that digabled vessels would soon be coming to, Ww tover bad alcost altogether disappeared the Ab important decision In reverence to legal tender notes has been rendered by Judge Grier in the United States Cireu\t Court for the district of Philadelphia, The qaes- tion came before the court in the shape of a vit! in equity to compel certain parties to accept, in extinguishment of the inal of certain ground rents, to the amount of $00,000, the legal tender notes of the Untied States In the jon the Judge remarked that Treasury notes were a lege! tender for debts between individuals, but notes of the National -banks were not, Tho decision yn the case was, that a rent service is not adebt, aud that a covenant to pay it is not a covenant to pay a debt; the annual payments spring into existence, and (or the first time become debts when they are demandable, The aefendants therefore could not be compelled to re- Hinguish their estate by a tender of legal tender notes, In tbe United States District Court yesterday, a libel was filed against the prize steamer Lady Stirling and cargo. Ine capture of this vessel has been reported io thé Henaun, The process is msde returnable on tho 22d instant, aod the Diatrict Attorney interds to proceed with the adjudication with ail possib'e despateh, Io the suit of Hemilton E Towle against the Groat Eastern Steamsnip Company, in the United States District Court in this city,a decision was rendered yesterday, Awardlog Mr, Towle salvage to the amount of $15,000, A German pamed Gcorge Nickels was shot through the head carly on Ssturday morving by C. P. Engstrom, fa lagor beer satoon at 65 Rose street, and instantly kill A dispute originated between the parties about payment for liquor, with the above result. The murderer, who isa Swede, was committed by tho Coroner, James Wileon and Charles Parker wero arrested on Friday night for tne alleged hishway robbery of James L. Werner, whom they savagely assaulted whilst passing Ubrongh Bleecker street, and endeavored to rob of a gold watch and chain, the latter of which they succeeded in obtaining. Ata meeting of bakers last evening, resolution was adopted requesting the hotel keepers and bakers of this tthe Astor House on Monday evening, for the purpo 0-operating in baking ai! the poultry that may bo wanted for a Thanksgiving dinner to our brave soldiers to the Held, The boiler of ‘omotive on the Cleveland, Columbus and Ciwcinnati Ruilroad ex loded at Shelby Junction, Obio, on the night of the Th inst., killing the engineer And seriously scalding two-other persons, It 1s stated that before starting from Cleveland the engineer protest- ed against usivg,tbe locomotive, on the ground of its being old and unsafe, and that it was forced upon him, in oppo sitfon to bis judgment, by the master of the engine house, or whatever ¢fficer had charge of that department. market was dull yesterday and prices were . Gold was unsettled, and after opening at 244 closed at 2421, Government securities were firm. Commercial matters were quie'—as usual on Satur. day—and in the absence of marked fluctuations in gold, prices underwent but little change, In imported mer- chandise scercvly auytbing was done, Cotton, groceries, petroleum, &c , were about the same, On ’Change tho flour market was quiet, closing dull and lower Wheat was dail, and ipferior grades were a ebade easier, while prime parcels were held for higher prices. Corn was proprietor scarce and 8c, higher. Oate firmer. Pork opened firm, bet cl dulland heavy. Bee! tn good demaod and firm. Lard less active snd lower, Freights firm fet. w York=The Defeat of Governor Seymour. The late elections in this Commonwealth, including the State ticket, Congressional and county nominations, have laid out among the killed and wounded quite a batch of the big fish and small fry of the democratic leaders, managers and hucksters. At the head of the heap lies Goveruor Seymour, “as dead as a herring.” His rise, decline and fall, though not so vast, magnificent and comprehensive a theme for the historian as the case of the Roman empire, will yet serve, in a small way, as a wholesome warning to over ambitious and unscrupulous politicians, The success of Horatio Seymour in our State election of 1862 as the democratic candidate for Governor ruined him. All things considered, that election was a great success. The Rev. but quiet. * f1 for duty, ts am | Thurlow Weed, who had something to do with it, in opposition to Greeley, recognized the lucky Governor as a trump card for the Presi- dential succession. To be elected by ten thousand majority in a State which but two of Atlanta on Mondiy morning, and on Weduesday | years before had given fifty thousand majority made three desperate and unsuccessful assaults on At lunta, shells being thrown as far as R ling Milis. Generel Sberidn is reported to baye fallen back to Newtown, about pine miles from Winchester, with the object of being nearer bis supplies, which bare now to be iransported a distance of thirty-six miles in wagons, through a country swarming with guerillas, This disad. for Abrabam Lincoln was, indeed, something to be prond of. But it was too much for Sey- mour. It brought upon him the White House fever—n malignant disorder to a weak system, which can only be reached by taking the life of the patient. To a sagacious, able and courageous man the vantage will be ob¢iated in a few days by a raitroaa | Position secured by Governor Seymour in 1862 from Harper's Ferry. Numerous recent cavalry recon- nolesances have (ailed to discover the main body of the enemy, There is novbing of special impertance from the army On Wednesday a force of the enemy, mousing bear Fort Steadmin, was Gred upon and driven to their works for shelter, The rebel batteries’ replied in turn, but were seou silenced, A small body of rebels shortly afterwards made an unsuccessful attempt vo ‘of the Potomac. would bave been asure stepping stone to the Presidency. To make it so all that the Gov- ernor bad to do was toadhere tothe demo- cratic war platform upon which he had been elected. But, unfortunately, instead of making himself the master, he became the easy victim of the copperhead peace leaders. He was an apt scholar, too, in their hands. In two or three short lessons bo learned the copperhoad catechism of peace-at-any-price. Next, he pro- Pensirate our lines. During the night there was conside | ceeded to carry bis new faith into practice by rabie picket firing in front of the Second corps, but the next morning all was quiet? casting State rights, State jurisdiction, the ha- beas corpus, the draft and all sorts of South. General Thayer moved a force up the north side of the | ern democratic principles as obstructions to river from Fort Smith, Arkansas, onthe 6th instant, with a view of attacking Price, who bad turned west- ward from Kane Hill on the 4th, Apprebending an attack, however, by a strong force of rebels on Fort | dozen Smith, be subsequently returved with bis command the war policy of the national administration. In this obnoxious attitude before the coun- try, however, he did not stand alone. A half bold, reckless and domineering copperheads, seizing upon the democratic General Thayer is represented to be well supplied with | victories of 1862, as their peculiar thunder, every necessary, and able to hold Fort Smith against both Price and Cooper. EUROPEAN NEWS. The wteamsbip Nova Scotian passed Father Point yes terdny, en rowte to Quebec. She left Liverpool on the 3d loud nderry on the 4th inst, The advices are five # later than thone previously received. lt woe Finied that the elesmer Laurel, from Liverpool, bad transferred @ crew, arms and ammunitien to the steamer Now Alsbatoa, off Madeira, The Index, the rebel organ in London, had given the particulars of the capture of the Florida in the barbor of Babin by the sarge and Wachusett. The London Herald editoria\ly devounces the capture of tne Florida In indignant terms, The London Times says that the capture of the Florida ty the birbor of @ friendly State, war anenct of simple piracy, Wher within » neutral port she should have Leon periectly safe from molestation The London Herald says Unat It the Wasbington govery ment does pot release the Fiorid® ali the maritime Pow. ers have the right to interfere ju the matier, . ‘The ste msbip Jura, from Quebec, arrived of the Movtb of ibe YVersey on the let instant, where she rav asto { parted amidabips. Tho matis, paasengers Gnd orew wore eufely landed. The Liverpool cotton mar- Kot, which had opened wJtb an upward tendency, declined fowards the close, Hreadsiuils aud provisions were Steady The eteamsbip Bor fe New York, had put back (6 Southampton with ber propeller broken. She will proe ceed on ber voyage afior a new coe tas been Htted. Oar European fies and rpecial correspondence from Loudon, Paris and Berlin, daicd to tho 29th of October, Contam vory Interesting ad soinewhat Important do'aile Of our LelograpLic Hews despaicher brought by the Africn to Halifax, This matior ts pubiiehed io the Henarn this Morning, wiih a yorbatim report of the Lemimony taken had by the autumn of 1863 leavened the whole democratic party from Maine to Minnesota with their demoralizing peace heresies. But the fall elections of 1863, especially that of New York, would have been a sufficient warning to a poli- tician of any perception or decision of charac- ter in the place of Governor Seymour to tack ship and avoid the breakers. Not so with the Governor. Flattering himself still with the delusion that the peace-at-any-price apostles of the party—Vallandigham, Voorhees, Pendleton and Company—were on the shortest road to Washington he still blindly followed them. Thus be loomed up at the Shent-per-shent Chi- cago Convention as the reserved candidate for the nomination If the copperheads could first engineer General McClellan off the track. But here the Governor, as a Presidential available, received his first stanoing blow. The popalar outefde pressure in favor of McClellan enforced his nomination. What next? The Governor then, shrewdly calculating that Me- Clelian and Pendleton, yoked together, would never get over the bill, resolved to stick to his position as master of the situation in New York, The result of his experiment is before him. Tiitehed on with the team of the Chicago Con- vention, and the same rickety platform, he has gone the same road to ruin. Ife is @ small, weak, slippery tan, who has made a miterable b> oh of a great opportunity. is enemies are re oicing over bis defeat, and his friends bave notuing in the way of comiort to offer bim. Let da Vee trial of Frans Muilor for tha murder of Mr, Briggs. | him retire. The Rebel Military Situation. In his message to the rebel Congress Jeff. Davis touches the military situation in a very gingerly way. He argues around it and al- ways at a respectable distance. He obeys !it- erally the injunction of the most eloquent of the Romans, and keeps as much out of view as possible the weak point of bis case, He has o grest deal to say about those immense tracts of territory in Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and other States that the government no longer oc- cupies, and endeavors to #windle upon the Southern people the impression that because our troops have withdrawn from those States they have been driven out. He bas considera- ble argument also on the probable effect that the capture of certain places would have, and so he goes on to fill up a certain amount of message; but to the great military facts of the past year he makes a bare allusion. He had to mention the great rebel armies, and what be gays of them is that they have met with | “some reverses.” The s'mplest glance at the whole situation shows that all the operations of the rebel armies in this year may be correctly described as “some reverses.” All the rebel armies have in this year stood substantially on the de- tensive; they have assumed the offensive only in minor operations. In May their main armies faced us defiantly on the Rapidan and in North- ern Georgia at Ringgold. Lee held the line of the Rapidano, and was expected to keep north of that river all the force that the government could send against Richmond. Grant crossed the Rapidan, and Lee, in accordance with the understood requirements of his position, ad- vanced to drive him into or over that river. All the South was confident that he would do it; but his attempt was a great failure. He wos compelled even to make a raee for Spottayl- yania, Since that great battle in the Wilder- ness, Lee has fought some twenty battles, nearly every one of them. being fought specifi- cally to compel Grant to relinquish his attempt against the rebel capital. But Grant is still persistent, still grandly patient, eager, ac- tive and wary; and thus, therefore, Lee’s ope- rations have all failed, and, without having ac- complished his object, he has lost fifty thou- sand men—a force that in the hands of a great general might have saved the rebel cause. ¢ Jobnsten held Georgia, and the Southern writers sneered at it as the most ridiculous folly to suppose that any Northern geueral or Northern army could compel him to give way. But step by step Sherman forced him across all the territory that intervened between that general and his objective point. Johnston met with “some reverses” at Ressacca, Allatoona, Kenesaw Mountain and new Hope church; and Hood, bis successor, met with “some reverses” on Peach Tree creek, all around Atlanta, and finally south of Atlan- ta, with a reverse that cost him the possession of that place. A rebel army, sixty thousand strong, under an accomplished and skilful soldier, could not prevent the advance of Sner- man through two hundred miles of the State of Georgia; and so a rebel army, thirly-five thousand strong, under a leader with no skill at all, started to drive Sherman out again over the same two hundred miles. We have seen his success. The redoubtable Hood, most disgrace- fully hoodwinked, is marching to threaten Ten- nessee, in the confident expectation that Sher- man will fly after him to rescue tbat State, and the Union general is marching through the very heart of the confederacy. Inasmuch as Davis declared that Sherman must be driven out at all hazards and at every cos!, we suppose the failure to drive bim out and his continued ad- vance may be classed as a very large one among the “same reverses.” Early made an offensive advance down the Shenandoah to compel Grant to lighten the pressure against Richmond, and even in the vain hope that he might be drawn away. But Gravt stayed there, and Early, decisively beaten in three general actions, lost all his artillery, and was driven in complete rout from the last field he ventured upon. Price went to “rescue” Missouri with twenty thou- sand men, and with Early and the Caffada raiders he was expected to help the peace party at the polls. But he went out of Missouri in a dreadful hurry some days be- fore the election, and that State is not “res- cued” yet. Such, then, is the position of the rebellion in every State where there has recently been any active operation. It is beaten everywhere—in Virginia, in Missouri and in Georgia. Its three armies are confronted by equal armies, by which each is balanced and nullified. Lee, Hood and Early are held still by Grant, Thomas and Sheridan, and mean- while a fourth army goes to strike an unopposed blow, the effects of which the rebellion can- not survive. It bas had no success worthy of mention within a year, and it will never have another. If Sherman, Grant and Banks are failures, which one of the rebel generals is the grand success? Is it Lee, thrown back in the exhausting wrestle with Grant, and able only to stand still? Is it Price, fying from Mis- souri? Is it Hood, getting over into Alabama to let Sherman go to Charleston, or is it that wonderful, redoubtable and very drunken leader, General Early? Apmmat Porter at Witmwoton.—Ever since Admiral Perter assumed command of the North Atlantic aquadron affairs bave taken a vigorous course in the vicintty of Wilmington. He has been but a brief time in command, and yet several audacious blockade runners have beon captured within a few weeks. These daring craft had everything their own way be- fore; but now itis not #0 easy nor so safe a game to attempt blockade running at Wilming- ton, Admiral Porter understands the philoso- phy of the thing. He insists upon having the right men in the right places. If an officer is found incompetent to command his sbip, or fails to render good service in preserving the blockade, the Admiral replaces him by a better man. One of the best vessels of the squadron has been two years or more in service, and al- though she has run around to varieus points on several missions, yet sho has really accom- plished nothing. Almost the first official act of Admiral Porter was to replace her old com- mander by a new one. Now we may look for some good record from her. An inactive squadron off a blockaded port is werse than useless, for the moral effect of its inactivity upon the rebels is mischievous, It creates boldness ont of the apparent weakness of their enemies. Under the command of Admiral Porter vigilance and activity are the prevail- ing elements in the management of the North Atlantic squadron, as the recent captures prove. This shows how much our navy can accomplish upder men like Porter and Far- ragnt, rion.—In the early part of the last session of Congrees we threw out the idea that the way to settle the abolition question was not by the emancipation ‘proclamation, which the Presi- dent himself declared was of no more effect than “the Pope’s bull against the comet,” por by anything of that kind, but by an amendmont to the constitution by a two-thirds vote of Con- gress, and then a reference of the maiter, as the constitution directs, to the Legislatures, where, by a three-fourths vote it would be substan- tially endorsed. In this way slavery would be abolished in a constitutioual manner by the special edict of the people. Urging this view of the question upon Con- gress, we were glad to see that the Senate ac- cepted the proposition and acted favorably uponit; but, owing to the folly of the demo- crats of the House of Representatives the ‘measure was lost. The matter then passed into the hands of the people themselves, and in the last election they have chosen members of Congress enough to insure the success of the plan proposed, thus practically die- posing of the difficulty. Now it ceases to be a party question, and has become a great national issue. If the democratic members of Congress are wise they will go with the others in accomplishing this purpose. The Congress to. which the moasure must be submitted will not meet uatil_the first Mon- day of December, 1865, unless there be an ex- tra session. Thus it will be fully a year be- fore Congress can act in the premises. Then a year or two may elapse before the decision of the State Legislatures can be obtained. On the whole, it may be two or three years before any settled action can be taken, Nevertheless, this is the only way in which the idea will be carried out, unless Jefferson Davis, as is most likely, supersedes us in the work. His propo- sition to conscript forty thousand negroes into the rebel service, to drill and use them as laborers, asa nucleus of an army of blacks, with the solid provision that all slaves actually employed as soldiers shall be set at liberty, shows him to be the true practical abolitionist of the day. He is far shead of Wendell Phil- lips, Garrison, Beecher and Cheever. They only talk twaddle to amuse old women; but Jefferson Davis comes up to his work likea practical man, and proclaims direct emancipa- tion. The South now occupies the same position as Virgisia did some thirty years ago when northern abolition first showed itshead. Then the Virginia Legis!ature had the question be- fore them. There is this difference, however, that there does not exist the same means of getting out of the difficulty as in the case of the Legislature of Virginia. We, however, have few doubts that Jeff. Davis will lead the North in the work of emancipation, and thus leave to our Congress and Legislature the mere form of constitutional amendment. Tut Orgra.—The winter season of Opera will be inaugurated to-morrow evening witlr [i Po- liuto, which bad a splendid success Saat month, There ought to be a brilliant house and the singers should be independently criticised. Tne Rumorep Drart.—Rumors have been circulated that a new draft is about to be made. This is not at all likely. It is possible that the government may find it necessary, in order to a more speedy suppression of the re- beilion, to fill up the unsupplied quota of the last draft, made in September last, in the call for five hundred thousand men: That draft, it will be remembered, was not completed throughout all the States, although New York city gave her Tull quota, and is therefore exempt from any farther demand under that call. Mr. Whiting, the solicitor of the War Department, stated in a speech at Boston that one hundred and twenty-five thousand men had been ob- tained upon this draft; there are, there- fore, three hundred and seventy-five thou- sand still due; and it is not unfair that the States which have not contributed fully, as some have done, should be called upon to do likewise if more men are needed. But it is highly improbable that, after the old draft is completed, another one will be made. Indeed it will not be necessary if the government only adopt the same system of recruiting throughout the country which is established in this city. Here our Supervi- sors, by continuing to pay liberal bounties — although we are not Hable to draft just now— secure from fifty to sixty recruits aday. If the government were to establish recruiting offices on this principle all ‘over the States the army in the field could be kept amply supplied with fresb men, and all fature drafts could be avoided. The system of recruiting has been proved a better and more economical method of keeping up the strength of the army than conscription. We think; therefore, that the government will afford every encouragement to the former plan. Usitep We Sranp, Divipep Tey Fatt.—The North is united in support of Mr. Lincoln’s administration. The rebels are divided upon the question of arming and freeing slaves. Tar Inevirantx Nearo.—The negro divided the country and broke up the Union. Now he is going to divide the South and restore the Union. A Five Caayom ror rae Cuevarier Wess.— The capture and cutting out of the rebel pirati- cal cruiser Florida inside the waters of ‘a Bra- wilian seaport will doubtless lead to some diplomatic correspondence between Brazil and the United States on the subject. The case for the United States will most probably fall into the hands of the Chevalier Webb, our patriotic and vigilant representative near the Court of his Brazilian Imperial Majesty. In this view we have only to warn our punctilious ambas- sador to try for once to avoid running this international business into an affair of personal honor and “mahogany stocked pistols,” and we doubt not he will return home, at the end of his labors in the public service, in a perfect blaze of glory. Our Ex-Presipents—A Curtovs Fact.—It is aremarkable fact that all our surviving ex- Presidents—fiddling Fillmore, poor Pierce and poor old Buchanan--have all gone down to Jericho with the copperbead and Know Nothing remnants of the used up shent-per-shent democracy. How Mcon *—Some inquisitive people are a little curious to know how much Mr. Belmont is out of pocket as the keeper of that costly hant, the Chicago democratic party, and how much he expects to realize. Is it shent- per-shent, or how much? Everybody would like to know, Our Sonprers Oncs More ar Home.—There are some persons whe have many fears for the country when, our armies being disbanded, our soldiers shall retura to civil life. They are appschonsive that they will bring back with them habiis and opinions adverse to the well being of society. Nothing can be more ground- less than these apprehensions. The discipline of the camp Is in fact a salutary one for those who have been under its influence. The mao who becomes obedient to his superiors, whe has often exposed bis life in battle, who fs, by the very nature of things, obliged to be regular in his conduct, and is continually called upon to exercise self-denial and devotion to the Ia- terests of his country, has been in a school of & most unselfish character. All petiy and trifling interests are laid aside under the pressure of large considerations. The emo- tions of the mind tend to exaltation and honor- able objects, and the character, while It is sorely tried by restraint, nevertheless improves. While some men, with vicious habits, soon sink into disgrace, and early lose haalth, reputation and life, the largest portion who return to their homes bring back with them the very best kind of feelings, and gain a corresponding esteem pf their fellow citizens, They see and feel the importance of many duties they may have before neglected, and the lessons they teach their children are of the mast honorable kind. How many families tre pride in the fact that they are the descend- ants of the veterans of the Revolution, and how many strive to preserve the good name which has thus come down to them. The very best citizens, the most conservative, the most respectable, and the most esteomed, havo this sort of feeling; it is natural, and it ennobles them. So the soldiers who have fought against this rebellion will bring back to the communi- ties where they’ belong experience and an example fruitful of good. Their children will learn to emulate their loveof country and their devotion to its institutions, and preserve the good name which they inherit. During the recent exciting election in this city, there were thousands of soldiers scattered about among our people, and to the honor of these brave men, be it said, there is not a single cause of complaint against them. Full of the spirit of fun and frolic engendered by the varying scenes of camp life, they employed the brief respite allowed them in amusiog them- selves and in making all their friends happy. Bnt for the uniform they wear, it would have been hard to tell the soldier from the civilian during the election. As intelligent and well behaved as other people, they freely mingled with the citizens and were everywhere well received. In fact, 80 far as the deportment of the soldier is concerned when away from the discipline and restraint of the army, it is emi- nently satisfactory. He is neither vicious, rude, violent nor unmanageable, and can at any moment divest himself of his uniform and return to the peaceful duties of a simple citi- zou, We think that this should be noted as one among the other triumphs of the American army. It has been remarked that the soldiers who have served their time in the field, and pass threugh our great cities, are well behaved, modest and manly. In the excesses committed by the disorderly in the streets we rarely see our soldiers compromised. In the cars, in all public places, they are quiet, respectful and orderly. In the country homes to which they have returned they become instructors and philosopbers, with attentive audiences. In fact, they are producing the most interesting changes in the popular miud, and are a guarantee against the decadence of love of country. These hundreds of thousands of re- turned soldiers will be a new element in the moral foree of public opinion, and a safeguard for our future liberties. Rartroap Trovsies.—We advise somebody to start lines of stages to supersede the rail- roads now in use. It is as much as one’s life is worth to travel by rail now-a-days. No Harp Names.—The partisan papers are now taking back all the hard names they used towards each other before election. But if they tell the truth now what did they tell then? World and Tribune please answer. Tae Minitary Srrvatioy.—-Everybody wants to hear news from Sherman. He has cut loose from Atlanta. Where will he turn up? Inrormation Wantep.—What is Lincoln going to do next? Will he be wise and recon- struct his Cabinet every six weeks, till he gets one to suit? Let bim show his hand. Tar Errecr or Taxation.—A few years ago people used to desire to be thought richer than they were. Now it is just the other way. The moment a man speaks of his riches a taxgath- erer taps him on the shoulder and asks for his per cent. Tus Patosoray or Tux Exxctton.—The democracy were beaten because they lacked ideas. Had they nominated Grant upon his own platform, as the Hxratp recommended, they would have succeeded. But everything is for the beat. Nimio’s Ganvax.—Miss Maggie Mitchell will close her Present engagement at Nibio’s next week. Fanchon, the Cricket, will be given every evening, the popularity of the piay permitting no change of programme. A new romantic drama is in preparation at this establishment. The Park, The Park was quite extensively patronized yesterday by our citizens, male and female, in spite of the biue look of the weather, Pedestrians, equestrians vehi- cleans took their daily or weekly airing, ae the case might be, and seemed to enjoy themacives tolorably woll, though the skies were not the brightest nor the apectacies se diverse and attractive as asual. The past ‘weok has been one of bad weather, Every other day was wet, or gloomy, or unpleasant im some other respect. Notwithstanding this, however, the number of distin. guished visitors has beon quite large. The now military commander of our city, Major General B. F. Butler, may be mentioned among the number. The Major General bas evidently a taste for the beautiful in nature and the in art, as well as for the terrible and grand of arim god of war.” Bosides Genoral Butler, our Park has been visited during the week by several distin. guished foreignors, including three or four foreign minia- ters, a dozen or more foreign consuls, attaches of lega- tions, &. One sees as many of the nobility American, European and South Ameri. cun—in the Park every day in the week now al. ‘most, as in any of the celebrated parks of the Old World What is better, too, one oan enjoy a view of all these personnes distingues without the degrading ceremony of recognition exacted by people of rank in Europe from the inferior classes. Ip a fow years it is not too much to Predict our beautiful Park will not only be the pride of New York and the Union, but the envy of the world, Korth BranchMiils and Woollen Face tery Burned. Lownon, C. W., Nov. 12, 1864 ‘The North Branch Mills and Woollen Factory were burned last night, Lona, twelve thousand dollars. mostiy sopared, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. ‘Wasainarom, D. C., Nov. 12, 1864, RETARY STANTON—GENBRAL BANKS ED FOR SECKETARY OF WAR. General Banks arrived here yesterday, and has to day been in consultation with the President at the War De Partment (or several hours, It is reported in adminia- tration circles that thero ts a strong probability of bis Doing assigned the portfolio of Secretary of War, a3 & change fo that departmont is urgently demanded by the Frosident’s best friends. Secretary Staaton is under- stood to be very ii! with inflammation of the bowels, Ho has not beem able to be at the War Department for the past woe, GENERAL HANCOCK TO BE RELIEVED OF THE COM: MAND OF THE SECOND COnPs. It is reported that General Hancock, in consequenee of the condition of bis wounds, is to be relieved of the command of the Second corps, and arsigned to the com- mand of the Department of Washington, General Augur succeeding him in the Army of the Potomac, THE AKMY. It is officially announced that the officieacy of the army in the fleld requires that the furloughs of all regimental officers and enlisted men Mt for dety shall terminate ea the Lith instant. Provost marshals are required to take measures to have such officers and soldiers returned to their proper commands. Captain Tbomas Whytel, Acting Quartermaster, i charge of the forage dopot at Alexandria, bas been ap signed to the command of the depot at Augusta, Me During the campaign tn tbe upper portion of the Shenae: doah he commanded s brigade of five regimente, pro- tecting the Manassas Railroad, Captain J. G. Lee sucoceds him in the Forage Department at Alexandria. The Second Comptrotier has decided that officers at posts, whoo abseot%a joave for a period uot exceeding thirty days in each year, shall receive full allowances of commutation, Hitherto this has been withheld, the officer only recelving bis pay. GENERAL M'CLELLAN, Nothing has yet bven obteined from aa official sonree to justify the assertion that General MoCiellaa’s resigns: tion bas been received, although suoh i believed to be the fact. It is a subject about which many inquiries have been made by correspondonte of the pross and others, ILLNESS OF ee C THE INJURY TO MR. SEWARD. The injurics received by Assistant Secretary of State Seward, ina fall while on bis way to Wesbington from Albany, on Thursday, are more serious than at firat sup. posed, his right arm boing paivfully fractured just below the elbow, VISIT OF ENGLISH QUAKGRS—THEIR ADMISSION WITHIN THB REBEL LINES DENIED. A deputation from the Quakers of England, who came to this country to attend the yearly ineetings of Friends at Baltimore and North Carolins, were, upoo application to the President, furnished wito passes through our lives for that purpose, but were refused admittance within the rebel lines, and bave consequently returved to Baltimore INCREASED DEMAND FOR PUBLIC LAFDS, The returns of sales of public lands for the month of October, received at tho Land Office, show a large and focreasing demand for public Janda. Iu addition to the Great extent of locaitons under bounty warrante and the homestead law, the cut large. The cash sates at the Land Office at Marquette, Michigan, for October, amounted to thirty-six bundred dollars, ARRIVAL OF CONGRESSMEN. Senators Sherman and Wailey, aud Representatives Kollogg, of Michigan; Clark of, New York, and O'Neill, of Pennsylvania, are in town. OAPTURY OF SMUGGLERS. Rear Admiral Porter, writing to the Navy Department from on board his Jagship Malvern, in Hampton Koads, under date of November 10, saye:—Some days since | gent the United States steamer Stepping Stones up to Mobjack Bay to put @ stop to the smuggling going on there, The Stepping Stonos returned on the morning of the 10th, baving in tow two vessels, tne Reliance and Little Elmer, captured for attempting to run the block: ade, These vessels bad no contraband goods on board at the time of their captore, but (hey were evidently ea- aged in the contraband trade, as their captains could Give no satisfactory account of themsrlves QUAKILLA OPERATIONS. Loudon county. Virginia, is overran with guerilise who commit many deyredations upon peaceable citizens Not long ego ope bunired and filly of them dasned across the Potomac river, at Nolan’s ferry, four miles east of Point of Rocks, reached the Baltimore and Obio Railroad, robbed ome stores, houses, &s, and wore in the act of tearing up the rail road and destroying the telegraph wires, when the Loudon Rangers sprang upon them and @ warm eu gagement ensued. The Rangers iost one killed, iwe wounded and six prisoners inthe ruoning fight, The rebels buried four men in Leesburg and carried nine wounded with them through the town. IMPOR! ANT LEGAL DECISION. The District Court today decided a case of consider able intorest. uit was Drought to recover the amount of three prom y moles of o0@ thonsand dob Jars each, mais by ox Congressman Thomas F. Bowie, of Maryland, in 1457, peyable to the order of one Frank. lin Steers, from tue plaintiff purchased the notes, ‘The defence was thal these notes were given for a saving consideration, sud therefore void in the bande of e a boua fide holder for ie, Chief Justice Carter de. livered the opinion of the court, in, which he said the proofs were that Howie, being intoxicated, was irrational In the case of insanity it would be perfectly competent to prove the idlosyncracies of the insane person whea io that condition. Why not, thon, whea reduced to 1be condition of temporary inebrivty? The notes were oon demned by the law and bad no virtue in the bands @ the gamblers, Therefore the Court decided in favor of the defendant, The Literary. McCiosky’s “Manual of the Common Council of the ony Of Brooklyn” for the presest year amply fulfia tbe Promise of ite first issue, In the fullness and exactness of its oformation regarding matters connected with civic business, in historical and topographical details, and im the number and beauty of its embellishments, it almost rivals its prototype, “Valentine's Manual? The mapa, too, are of great vale, and moro particularly that of the consolidated city of Brookiyo, which has been specially propared for the work. A good map of Long Isinnd would be a vory acceptable addition to tho volume, there being none that we know of to be found im this accessible shape, "One of the most interesting features of the ‘votume fs the history of the Sanitary Fair. The chromo lithographic plates given of the scene are of an exceed ingly bold and effective character, and present the inte rior of the Acadomy in the full blaze of light and coter which it offered to the view on that interesting sccasion Wo congratulate Mr. McCiosky on the pictorial as@rell as textual success of his work. A curious discovery is announced—the “Earlier Re mains of Archbishop Whately,” which wore onty lightod upon after tho printing of the formér volume of the pre. late’s minor writings. It is said that the Mossrs, Long mad will tesue these at once, The London Heview contradicts the rumor that Mr. ‘Tennyson has pocketed not less than ten thousand pounce Dy the sale of his iast volume, “Eooen Ardea.” Upto the present time only about thirty-two thousand copies of the work in question bave been sold, Assuming that two sbillings per copy, or even three shillings, may be the author's royalty, it is tolerably clear that tho ten thousand pounds said to be Mr. Teonyson’s recent gain te simply one of those pleasant fictions started and circu. lated for pepular amusement. Mr. Joho Mey wood, the well kaown English publisher of Manchester, is dead, This gentleman was the brother of Mr. Abel Hey wood, formerly mayor of Manchester, and himself an enterprising bookseller, Tho care of the bual- ness dovolves upon the » Who bas bad @ prominent share in the management for some years, Prince Napoleon is said to be actively employed super Intending the labors of a staT of eaitors engaxed upon » complete colleetion of the lotters and despatches of the firat Emperor, Agents are said to have boon rent to England, Italy, Germany, Apain, Ruse oven to America, for tho purpose of gollecting those writings which have passed ato the cabinets of autograph ool loctors, ———— Th DISTRIBUTION OF THE PROCKRDS OF THR PRIZR A. PD. VANCE. ‘Anal decree of distribution of the proceeas of ¢ prize steamer A. D. Vanoo and cargo, captured on t 10th of September last by the United States stenmer San tiago de Cubs, was yoaterday entered in the United States District Court by the United States Distridt Attorney, ‘The net amount for distribution 1s $283,238 18, which te to be distributed equally between the United Btatos and the capturiny o 1D TO A COMMAND. Acting Volunteer Lieutenants, B. Washbarne has beoe orderad to the command of the supply steamer Newvern of the North Atlantic blockading squadron, ?