The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. SAMES GURDUN BENNETS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N, W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NaSSAU S7d. vor 0 XXIX.... seaahisw No, 326 AMUSEMENTS THIS BYBNING, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Iving placeeitacrat Orzna— Maren. NISLO'S GARDEN, Broadway —Coxsioa® Brominns WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway —Sxx Sroore 10 onuuer WINTER GARDBN, Broadway. —Bvenrsonr's fxcayo— DOD. KS OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broa Fate Haaay Naver Wor Farw Lapy—Ninky Ware NEW BOWERY THE Sxur—Voxroxnts Froic TRE, 7 Bowery. =F anray Dare ue BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Masavig co—Qetce @anps or Lire. BROADWAY THFATRE, MAN—PROPLE'S Lawyers Broadway.—Poon Grete NEW YORK HERALD,’ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 1864. of mankind, (he federation of the world,end oot ove sooner EUROPEAN NEWS. The stoamship Moravian, from Londonderry on the 11th of November, arrived at Portiaud, Me , posterday our morning. The steamebip Borussia, Crom Southampton on the 8th of November, reachad Now York yosterday evening. Our telegraphic report from the Moravian, published im tho Heearn, to-day, contains Kuropean nows Ave days tater, The stoamehip Saxonia, from New York, reached South ampton on the LOtD ingt , under canvass, ber machinery having heen disabled her voyage was greatly prolonged ‘Vhe forepart of tho steamship Jura bad besled over, but thé afterpart remaiped firm oa tho a1 fora Paimerston atiended the given by the Lord Mayor of Loodon tn Guildball inauguration banquet Tro premier took a hopeful of Kuropeas politica im bis after dinner speech He deplored the covtinuance of tne war in America and expressed a hope tbat the con- tending parties would, at oo distant date, settie the quarrel themselves, Ho asserted, in conclusion, that BARNUM'S MUSBUM, Broaiway, Tuga Par Grecs—Tunws | Giant vo | Dwaxrs FRANC AUrONATONS—DRawaric P. Evening BRYANTS' MINSTREL S. ay —-ETUlOPiAN Soxas, Dance Re YOO CRYEN BACKS. mics’ Hall, 472 Broad Borancares, d0—How WOODS MINSTREL WALL. 614 Proaiwas.— Dour Taareme aw Homigonts:, Bun—breoray ANCES, AU " Sona, CAMPRELL'R MINS 19 and 201 Bowery = Vaxixp AnD Exciting MBLANGE of Enorian Ovpitias— Goost anv Garver. SALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Roxrnt Axiiaw HOPS CHAPRL Roun. wax Teourr oF i VAN AMBURGH & COS MAMMOTH M 630 abd 541 Brondway.—Open from 10 A, in MM. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourtors'h siree.—Dov wep Mow MEY ACTORS@EQuestniay, Gyuxasite any AcKOBATIC EW QRRTAIN MENTS. DODWORTH HALL, 50 Awona THE MORMON. Broadway —Axreaus Wann AMERICAN THEATRE Parrowimes, BURLESQUE No. 444 Broadway. —Bai ters, AGeStMON's Mismar NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 518 Brouiwey.— Coriosittes axp Lecronrs from 4 4. M."tll 1PM New York, Wednesday, Nov, 33, 1864, THE SITUATION. Advices were received in Washington yeeterday trom. Genera! Suerman’s army woich show that ne was on Baturday iess witbio thirty miles #t Macon, Georgia, which piace is supposed io be now in Din poasession. He bad met witb but and hiv cam. paign was progressing in tbe more aueceeatut ner, Intelligence from rebel bave eiready operations Niele opposition wa Richmond snows mat the 4 sufficient of Sherman’s to produce grea: $100 their Vheg wi probably soon be informed of much more, &F hore iw Dut Little force so oppose Lis advance bosides the DARCIly raised Georgia militia, under Howell Cobh, aad these will be bul a slight @indrance ic the lear: eons! ty mings, pach of the Uniou veteran The letasy misiiigouce veprestute Gemera Hovd, with swo corps, aumber.ng Cogother about shiriy-tve suoeand mea. fe pe stilt @ (he vicibity of Florence, A'abena, on the Teczseeee river. There are reports thar Dick Taylos bas joined Lim with an additions; force of ten chowsand 4) Mmovewents do uot Indicate an wiention of early offensive ‘aieet operations, _ Beauregerd, with the rebel Genera! Stewart's corps, wae e Corinth, Missigepp!, when fast besed of. Genres Thomas, oom ng the Union army designed ww check Good's aavance, ‘6 entrating his forces, «8 though seposed te An we the rebel reporte of the qeatraction Make Os attack On tie rebels ju sume dtrectiog ave aieady stated Of gove: iment property ®t Johnsonvilie, oo the Teanes. We y one billding m the piace im troops a eo Boe river. by verre ere Inumensciy exagmerated now leara lbal lbere wae « Betroyod Ther {1 is still beld by a division of Ce: ra! Ereckicridve is suspected Yeu wo merch trom Rust lewneseee on av tprarionary Bevedit-on teptvekp, and Several Hurbeidge ir Making raps dispositions of hie forces te prevent sne } Bovem Persons who arrived 1 Washington yestoraay from { Tonew the report of (he evacuation of Tevers Durg vy the rebéls The government. tuough, ous re cetwed do Confirmation of tins story, and it is net credited in oificias circles, It is Eupnesed to have originated in the { tramsier of troops by the enemy from Setersbarg to tbe + of James river, to meet an apprebended atari: eneral Grant, Alithe Vaton iron-clads yre at Fortress Monrow were, oo inst Friday seut up the James river to Dutel Gap, and this | significant movements to expectations of eot® in that vicinity ebortiy the (4 telegram stating that General Canor died iv New vricané on the 12tb inst, was nptrue. Papers of | Abat cuiy published ou the Lith lust. aay that be was then } ¢ Curtin, t ab oelsl deepatet dared at Comp { Aikansas, op the @ib inst, announces the conclusion of | the ult by the force bis command ot the | rebel Govern! Price’© army. Price was driven inte the | Rta Ackanens, and over the Ar Ranger river, which | becrcs-cd under tbe Gre of the Cnion gups. At that | point.te was compelled tojeave behind bim another of nls woo aod bis own carriage. Fayettevule, Fort } Smith « bson, Artanens, ure now also rendered | sale! ack by Price place to which be wos pursugd t devon , { There is wotbteg Incr (be Shenandoah valley to pote 1 heis have apparently abantoned the wea, | atleast for (ce present ther copier: with Sheridan ra wad eurence ab Po + the bead ‘ e ren t On beng ehalieng y pick whe vet the tr ede 4. He was quickly ink by bh comrades bey ail sues of the paris of re * me te e , | steamers Per sie n Laket was be fore ove 0 arts auada, yeaterdsy. ft will be proveaded with ag The @ . awn arrived at thie port yesterday fram the Va b & suatron, | Little news by chi ai, 7 f a «| reported ae ex ‘the steam toy whee wae 8000 ¢ ive nt Pensaccia, will bring the rebel Adimiral Frankl a turer tke engagement of ral Farrag Movie ba AGAitional \oteresting extenets (rom fate rebel papers « devano, Governor Wa h the rebel con Soripting oMcers. The p men of Selma being taken for +6 the army, they applied for redress to the Governor, whe they wore exempted from the drat fore reieased. The Mickmon / on Mt atylos the dete ot Governor Brown, of | Georgia, and the Legi#iatres of that Mtate and Alabama i Seeaye thatthe convention of aii the states,” North | and south, for the purpowe of agreeing upon terms of | der ae State overs ' miner Se very sorere | a0 they were there | efects of the late financial pagic. | te morrow | erroneous enrolment wv thie city of persons | euitasion with the © | packing house of Smith & Pogland would not in future be dependant om any one country for o supply of cotton Advices relative to the course which the United States: goverament would pursue relative to Ube question of the seizure of the Florida were looked for with great anxiety in Englanc. The London Times says that the important point of the case ja that (f Mr. Linoo'n does mot ‘<palliate or condope’’ for the affair he will extinguish avy pow im the United States to assail by privateers the com- merce of aoy bation with which we may be at war, as the precedent will be established that these privateers may be pursued and destroyed in whatever port thoy may seck shelter or supplies: ‘The London journals generally coodema the saizire of the Florida; but some of the writers express a doubt of aatis{action betug had from Washington. Captain Morris, commander of tna privateer Florida, with Mr. Taylor, paymaster of the vessel, arrived th England op the Sth of November from Bahia, Rrazil Paymaster Taylor (urnikies an intoresting account of (he circumstances under which, a8 be allegos, the Florida was captured by the Wasbusett, and the manner in which the act was carried oat The report is conflicting as to the number of rebel seamen and officers who were killed, wounded or captured during the affair. Semmes’ new vossol ix the Sea King, which recently cleared from london for Bombay. The captain, it tesaid, joined her with @ orew off Madeira, Tue Danish Parliament approved the treaty of peace with Germany by seventy-five to twenty-one votes. All the deputies present from Schleswig voted against the treaty The France-ltelian treaty and removal of the capital question were still debated with muck antmation tn the Italian Parliament. tuscany and the city of Forence suffered very much from heavy floods and inundations. ‘The war operations of the Kuropeao and American al- Hea in dapau were highly successful, and produced very satist ictory results. There ia to be a free passage to the Inland Sea tn future, tae Japanese forts now destroyed or damaged of pot to be repaired, oe guos are to be mounted on thems, aod no new forte are to be duilt. The Prince of Nagata is to defray the oxpenses of the oxpedt- ‘fon and to pay a ransom for the town of Simouosaki, which was spared. The allies had vinety men killed and woonded, sixty-five of whom were in the Eoglish service ‘Ths Austrian government had announced a new loas, @rans Mulier appeared réstgued under bis death sen- teuce. He made eo explanation as to how he bad become poasessed of Mr Briggs’ property. His friends were still active ip hte behatt with the Crown officers. the banking honse of Rougemont, Lowenberg & Co. Ded seepended payment, with liabilities amounting to about #ix Dundred thousand pounds sterling. The Moravinn’s mat! bags reached Boatoa at half. past seven P. M., gesterday, and went for New York by the aight train the Bank of Magiaod reduced the rate of discount from nine toeight per cent op the 10th instant, American etocks deotined in London under tbe influence of advices from New York, dated on the Sth of November, announc- ing wn advance in the price of gold. The rebel cotton loan raitled two per cent the same day. Consols closed in Lon- don, ov the 11th tnstact, at 907, a 904, tor money. The Liverpoo! cotton market was ant during the week, and American advanced one penny, On the 11th of November the market closed with an advancing teo- de Breadstnits were steady, with a firmer market: Provisioos were quiet and ateady ou the 11th instant. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (@ and important advices from South . ‘Tve native rebels in Uruguay were operating with great activity against the government troops, and | their action was attording very great aid to the war en- croachments of Brazil sgainst the republic. Paraguay | bad furnished axharp pote of protest to the envoy of Brasil agelust the policy of the Emperor, in which the President declared tis intention of takiag up arma if necesrary in support of the cause of the sister repablic of Uragnay. Io this paper the resident of Paraguay condemned tue ‘non-intervention’’ course of the govern ment of Buenos Ayres, Jt was thought that Paraguay would bring forward a power which would prove very formidable to Brazil. The Uraguayan troops were in hagiy march for Paysandn, the occupation of which place it was (bought would decide the war against the rebels, Some British, Brazilian and Freach war vessels lay off Paysandy. By adecree of the Brazilian govern ment, dated September 14, all the “free Africans sisting in the empire,’ whether ia the service of the State or of private individuals, are emancipated. Rio Janeiro was recovering. in a slight degree, from the: All the commercial interests of (be country were greatly affected by the shock, and tne late market reports given in our columne are consequently ‘portant The Hoard of Supervisors met vesterday afternoon, and padged « resolution requiring inspectors of registry to be residents of the election districts in which they preside A digpute arose in the Board of County Canvassers esterday, concerning the legality of the votezof the Sec ond ape Third districts of the Twenty-first ward. Kighth Congressional district, and the canvass of these districts was laid over tit! to-day, when the jospectors and cao | yagsers will be present to give evidence on the sub ect of alleged frauds and abu James Brooke claim: otiom. ibe New England people have seat on contributions aeGicieat to supply all the soldiers from the Vastern States io this city with a bounteous Thanksgiving dioner The large dining hailof the New Fogland Soldiers’ Rooms, in Broadway, is being tastefully deco rated (or the vecasion, The men will be waited on by a number of patriotic and benevolent ladies Over thirteen hundred packages of all descriptions of vegutabies and dolicacies were received in this city from Maine yesterduy, to De sent to soldiers in the tleld be longing to that State, General Van Vilet chartered a This is the district in which special steamer, which will eail with them this morning. nt (rovost Marshal General Hays ba ed making he arrangements fora correction of the iable to military duty, in aecordence with directions (rom the was yesterday io con pervisors? Volunteering Committee b velerence to thie matter, and’it will be proceeded with scticable, f Common P Abs oom men ra! Hays War lepartment. ¢ as rapidly ae; art yesterday, before Juice ip the Daly, Thomas McMahon recovered @ judgment ogaiuet the 4, (9 consequence Of the lose of bis aon, old, who was killed by falling ‘on the 6th of city for $2,2 & lad about Iwelve years into ap wocovered weil io Henry atr March jast explosion oecarred @ between vitae Rand's powder mill ewburg, 10 Ubi bree and four milee weet of bore were about three tons of powder ia (he buildin: which wor surko, destroyed. Ope man was killed The * folt a tong distance off. Nearly all the voit ! epee were shaken by The testimony in the [reusing will euit was concinded herore the Surrogate yes and the case will be fummned up on Friday, The Surrogate also tried the wortion of martiaye arising in the administration of Walleckamw's etate, Tue alleged widow, whose Marriage with the deceased is wn lived with him for eleven yeura, nod bore him two children The evi dence related to declarations of deceased, it not being aimed (hat aoy marriage ceremony had ever been per formed, Ihe testimony being ching, the Surrogate Teverved his decision Yeaterdey the jury is the (ried fo the Court Of Goners! sesaiour for the Lomicde of bis wife, rondered A verdict of not guilty The testimony for the defence Matly contradicted the atacomont of the main witmors (or the prosecution The sixtieth anniversary of the Historical Soo\ety wax Bee, “will meet on the same dey with the pariiament | celebrated inet eveuiue at Uaoir rooms oa Gqvnd avenue arly yesterday morning in the | use of Lackey Manning, | An oration on the colonial history of New York was Golivered by the President of the society, Mr. Frederic Depey ater. ‘The Tammany demooracy and the Darling wing of (DO republicans held their primary elections last vight, aod chyse delegates to the Aldermanic, Councilmevic and School conventions ‘The new portion of the Drive tw the Park, extending northward from the Great Hill to the gace at Sixth avenue and 110th street, was opened to the public yea terday The Protective War Ciaim Association intend to aatab- fish an office in this city for the purpose of Curnisbing employment to all disabled and discharged aoldiers who dosirg it A desperate Might took place about two o'clock asters day morving i a porter house im Mott sprect, duriok which the proprietor, John Cody, and bis brother Thomas: ware severely stabbed by a backman vamed William Cartor. ft is thought that John Cody's wounds will prove mortal. Garter and a man oamed Hennessey, WO atorfered with the policeman arresting the former, were both commited to the Tombs Some burglars who bad forced aa entrance into a gold pen smanufactory in Greene street on Monday nigh!, being surprised by the police, decampad after seour wg only about fift’ dollars worth of property A man named Thomas O'Neil, who is auflering from (be eilects of a dangerous shot in the right side, was arrested by the police yesterday at No. 10 Roosavelt treet, on Buspicton of haying beew engaged receutly in a highway robbery. A man from Oneida county, in this Stato, named Matthew Clark, made @ oompiatut yesterday ia the Jeller- Son Market Police Court of baying been swindled out of over eight hupdred dollars on Mouday evening in & Broadway faro bank. Warranta were issued by tho ma- gistrate for the arreas of all the gamblers ongaced ia the aflair, bat the officers only succeeded ta gecuriug 002 of them, vamed Richard Hf. Harris < Four thousand (wo hundred and fifty-two recruits have been received on board the receiving ship Vermont, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, since the 16tb of August ‘ast. ‘These mea have received, in government bounty and ad- vance pay, ovor one hundred and seventy thousand dol- lara. ‘The daily average aumber of mon aow being Fa: ceived on board the Vermont is thirty. : The Brooklyn Conteal Railroad Compang wil! to mor. row raise the fare om their cars to seven cents, when Paid in the government fractional currenoy. If paid ia specie only five cents will be charged Tho people of Brooklyn wore somewhat startied yester- @ay by the presence of a man who passed through some of tho principal streets, shouting passages of Scripture The man’s vame is Ashcroft. He is ao Angiishmaa by birth, and invagines that he bas a special mission to per form in warning bis fellow men to repeat of (heir sins and endeavor to avert the wrath of the Aimignty. The Brookiya ferry boat l’acifie, runping on the Atlantic street (erry, was considerably damagod vosterday mora- ing by coming to collision with a coal taden schooner ‘The steamer Commonwealth, of the Stonington line, waa algo somewhat damaged ia the Hast river by colltding with one of the Williamsburg ferry boats. A collision took place on the Camden and Amboy Branch Railroad, near Milbam, on Monday moraing last, between @ gravel train and a wood train, by which two porsons were seriously injured. both engines were smasned, and considerable other damage was dons. The sovén o’sinck ‘mail train from New York was delayed for some time by the road beceming blocked up. Wo nave already annenoced that Norfolk, Virginia, is to be opened to domestic and foreigo commerce on the Jat proximo. As bearing-reiation to this important pros. Pective event in the biatory of shat piace, one of our cor respondents gives a very dattering account of the prosant flourishing condition of the town. It has vastly improved in a business point of view since its occupation by ti Yankees, all ile stores are cow stocked with ‘ supplies of goods. The iessing of South Carotina cotton plantations within the lines of the national armies (or the ensuing year will be commenced by the Tax Commissiowars at Hilton Head on the 4th proximo The first visit of oyster vessels to the Rappahanoock tiver beds since the commencement of the war was made Inst week. Asoo rebels were discovered along the stream, the oystermen are indulging in anticipations of @ very successful business season in that region. A citcular bas been sent to atl the chiets of bureaaa in the Treasury Department by Secretary Fessenden, re quiring the regular offies hours, from uine in the morning till four in the afternoon, to be Sstriotiy devoted to bual- Bees by all the employes. The gold market opened with an upward tendency yesterday, bat fell off ia the afterngon, the closing quota. tion being 222%. The stock market sympathized with the rise and fall, aad closed heavy. Goverameats were firm. The advance in gold created more firmness in commer- cial circles yesterday, but very little waa done, especial. ly io foreign merchandise. Domestic produce very gen- erally went up in proportion to gold, but some kinds wore stili dull and nominal The current prices are duly chronicled in our commercial columns. On ‘Change the flour market was more active, and about lic. bigher. Wheat was active, at an advance of 3c. per bushel. Cora was Grmer and more active. Oats 1c. a 2c. highor, with an increased demand. The pork market opeued heavy, Dut closed decidedly firmer, with an active demand. Beef steady and firm. Lard rather firmer, with rather more doing. Whiskey was a shade irmer, while freights were quiet ‘The market for beef cattle this week was without de cided change ‘The receipts were enormous—nearly even thousand five hundred head; but prices were very well sustained, aod choice beeves broughteven more than last week. Prices varied from 8c. to 18¢. a 19c, Milch cows soid at $35 9 $76. Vealn sold at from 9. to 14c, Sheep ang lambs were in large supply, but without decided change in prices. Hogs were higher; sales were made at 11 a lic. The receipts were —T 413 beeves, 102 cows. 1,961 veuls, 26,512 xbeep and lambs, and 24,978 hogs. General Sherman's Grand Movement— The Difference Betwee Fighting . Round and Cutting Throagh the Rebeliion It is no longer doubted that General Sher- man, cutting loose from his base of supplies, is moving with a powerful and well appointed army from the beart of Georgia eastward for the Atlantic seacoast. Nor is any elaborate military explanation required of what is con- templated, and what we are confident, will be accomplished by this grand movement. The design is evidently to cut the so-called con- tederacy in twain across the State of Georgia-— to destroy the two remaining railway lines which connect Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, with South and North Carolina and Virginia, and to amoke General Lee out of his hole at bmond, so that Grant can get at him. All these objcets. we believe, will be gained; and we believe, too, that inall probability, “the last ditch” of Jef. Davis will be found some- where in North or South Carolina before Sher- into winter qu , inthis bold and daring enterprise, avotber striking example of General Grant's system of fighting the rebellion, the'sys- pyular Napoleonic improvement upon the old exploded anaconda plan of fighting round the Dur- ing the first two years of the war, excepting the operati Thomas in Ken tucky and Tennessee, this old anaconda system was persevered in. We fought round a great circle, while the rebels, being inside, with all railway communications enabled on their interior lines, to strike right or tere Man goes Web only tem of cutting through it, a circle. ns of Grant and their intact, were | left with superior numbers, as the opportunity invited. Thus while General Halleck, with an immense army, in the summer of 1862 was watching the mere skeleton of Beauregord’s army al Corinth, in the West, the rebels (rem | all quarters concentrated their strength against General McClellan in front of Richmond, and brought upon him the disastrous consequences | of those seven days’ bloody battles. The moat remarkable aud egregious blun- ders, however, of this old anaconda system wore committed in the fall of 1861 and in the spring of 1862. In the first case, the great Du pont naval expedition, with an accompanying jaad force of twenty thousaad men, after a rendezvous of many days in front of Norfolk, set sail for South Carolina and expended its strength im the capture of Port Royal. But why was it that Norfolk and Richmond were not made the work of that expedition? The rebel army of Virginia was then a buudred miles off at Manassas, with General McClellan and hie grand army watching it. Richmond then bad neither a garrison oor a de- fensive earthwork, the river was open, and Norfoli could have been as easily taken as Port Royal. At that time, too, the capture of Norfolk would bave given us two thousand pieces of heavy artillery, subsequently shipped off by the rebels to fortify the Miasissippi river, while the seizure of Richmond would in reality have broken “the backbone of the rebellion.” Why this inviting departure, for the stupid anaconda system was not adopted, we have never been able to comprehend But again, we bave never been able to un- derstand why the Port Royal expedition was not employed in force to cut and destroy the railways between Savaunah and Charleston; nor why the Buraside North Carolina expedi- tion, after the capture of Newbern, was not pusbed forward to destroy that main Southern railway artery, the Weldon and Wilmington road. Why was it sot pusbed forward to Wil- mington itself? Tire only reason we can give is that these movements were not in accordance with the anaconda ayatem, which was governed by tie idea that it was necessary to begin at the outside and clean up the rebel country and occupy it all round, aa we gradually contracted the circle. At this rate the rebels could have fought us for a buodred years. And yet the anaconda flourished, and was only knocked In the Lead with the call of General Graot to Washington as the director of all the armies of the Union. So tar as Generai Grant's previous operations were con- cerned tbe circular system had been disre- gurded, by the system of cutting in and cutting through the vitals of the enemy’s country. Thus, in cutting bis way through down the Mississippi, be had practically cut off the States op the western side, with their forces and resources, from Jeff. Davis—-a terrible blow to the “confederacy.” Then, again, in routing Bragg from Chattanooga, he had cut off Rich- mond from its great railroad line through Tea- nessee to all the cotton States, This plan of operations was brought to Washington by General Grant. Sherman, in pursuing it, bas since destroyed that important system of rebel railroads which centred at Atlanta; and, hav- ing made a clean job of this branch of his duties, he ia now moving forward to the sea- coast, in order to cut off ‘from Richmond the States below South Carolina as completely, for military purposes, as if separated by the Mississippi river. With the arrival of General Sherman on the seaboard the power and resources of Jeff. Davis, in a military view, will be contracted into the corner embracing those iniand por- tions ef South and North Carolina and Virginia still held by bia armies. Ln this extremity, the result will be the same to-General Lee, whether he shall determine to fight it out at Rich- mond, or to evacuate that place to reopen his. communications with the corn cribs of Georgia. In the one case be will be enveloped and starved out, and in the other he will be pur- sued and destroyed. Thia grand result, which now vay be considered inevitable, will be the crowning illustration of the difference between the abandoned anaconda system of the old Washington Directory and the cutting in, cut- ting through and cutting out system of Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, Farragut. Porter aud their heroic associates and followers of the army and navy. Let the country rejoice that under General Grant the old circular system of warfare bas beem superseded by the common sense pol icy of striking for the vitals of the rebellion. Granp Crry Improvements.—The Park, grand as it is already, is destined to become not only a model of landscape beauty in ftaelf, but to be the centre of a circle of drives without a parallel for excellence and extent in any part of the world. We have before referred to the extension of the Seventh avenue from the nerth end of the Park to Harlem river. The work is now being prosecuted according to act of Legislature. It will be an avenue one hun- dred and fifty feet wide, and the begianing of that grand Boulevard which will course along the margin of Harlem river, round by Tubby Hook and Spuyten Duyvil creek, down the left bank of the majestic Hudson, through the classic region of Washington Heights, and re- enter the Park by the Kieventh avenue. The effect of this proposed splendid improvement has already been to increase the value of real estate in the vicinity from thirty to one hundred per cent. But this not all. The owners of real estate on the Bloomingdale road are urging the extension and widening of the road so that it will become another grand avenue of entrance to the Park on the southerly side. And, furthermore, the landed proprietors on Sixth avenue bave prepared a project for the widening of that avenue to one hundred and fifty feet and its extension to Harlem river. Thus will the Park be environed with drives that will add a refreshing charm té its already many beauties, and prove still mere alluring attractions to the citizen and stranger. [n ad- dition ¢o all this, the Croton Aqueduct Board have taken in hand the work of supplying Washington Heights andiall the picturesque bigh- lands in that lovely region with Croton water. This is to be done by means of a tower erected on Madame Jumel’s property, at High Bridge, | the water being forced up by steam power. All these improvements are calculated to enbance the value of property in the southern part of the island, aud at the same time to affix an‘en- during stamp of usefulness upon all that is These improvements will be executed under the direction of the Park Commissioners, in whose integrity and fidelity our citizens have full faith, and thus entirely supersede the operations of the Washington Heights Commis- sion of seven, under the management of Mr. Martina commission that was in effect annulled at the lust session of the Legislature. Under done. the supervision of the Park Commissioners these proposed drives, with the grand Boule. vard, ten miles in exteut, with its beautiful river views, and mountain and valley seengry, will ake a new Park in themselves, furnishing many cdmirabl deoces, with all the addenda of rustic loveliness ites for villus and country reai- and with the conveniences of easy and frequent transit to the city proper. The next Legista- ture will undoubtedly enable the respectable and influential parties having these important improvements in hand to carry out their projects in the liberal and magnificent manner they propose. Lieutenant General Grant tm few York. The recent visit of Lieutenant General Grant to this metropolis was very characteristic of the man. He arrived on Saturday and left ou Monday. He came unattended, and went away without any fuss or parade. While be was here be transacted his business or his pleasure, whichever {t may bave been, and when he was through with it be rejoined his army. Few people knew of his arrival, and tewer still of his departure. He issued no general orders and revicwed no troops. He did not assume command of the department nor was he feasted at club houses and exbibited at receptions. He mude no speeches, and when it was neces- sary for bim to say something at Governor Fenton's serenade he requested Sickles to do the oratory. Massa Greeley bad no chance to display his aow dress suit tor the second time in his Wife. Parson Keecher bad no opportu- nity to get off a political sermon and nominate Grunt for the next Presideacy. Always quiet, unostentatious and unassumiug, the Lieutenant General did not change these peculiarities during his visit here. Like all great generals--like Cwsar, Alox- ander, Cromwell, Napoleon, Washington— Grant is personally a modest man. Kis ebiet characteristic, however, is common sense. He makes war upon common seuse principles. He says that be does not understand strategy, but be takes common sense views of the situation and acts accordingly. This characteristic was evi- dent, as we have said, in the lack of fues and furor which attended his visit, and it was quite as evident in all the details of his sojourn among us. He showed himself at Fenton's serenade because the veterans clamored for him and refused to go away without seeing him. He requested the reporters aot to men: tion bis arrival in the newspapers, and the editors acquiesced. On Sunday be called to see a personal friend, just as any other gentle- inan would do. When he started to make this call he neither ordered a carriage nor an es- cort of cavairy. On the contrary, he took his seat in a Fourth avenue car and paid his six cents fare, with a mental protest against the additional nickel. He called upon General Scott. which was a graceful thing to do, and when the old General presented him with a copy of Seott’s autobiography, with “From the oldest to the ablest general in the world” on the fly leaf, he pocketed the boek aud the com- pliment without any nonsense. The next moruing he insisted upon walking down Broad: way, instead of riding, and was vot recognized by any of the passers by. On Monday evening he was en route for the front. We take the pains to go over this record. aot because it is strange that General Grant sbould act like other mortals, but because other mortals ia Grant's unifurm do not actin this way. A second Meutenant of @ regiment not yet ordered to the field makes more sensation in the city with his new uni- ferm, gilt buttons and loud swagger than did this greatest general in the world, with b's sim- ple dress and unpretentious manners. Ag Aris- topbanes remarked in his classic Greek, whea speaking of the soldiers of hiaday, ‘We have plenty of blatherskite generals and skedaddliug heroes, but very few of the right sort.” Let a third rate military officer come to New York on business, and he must have a special train or a special car, while Grant is content with asin- gle seat, which is as many as he can use ata time. When this third rate personage arrives be holds a levee, while Grant shrinks from observation. Then some loyal shoddy cinb gives our third rate officer a public dinner. while Grant takes his meals at his hotel. Then ow third rate officer makes speeches, while Grant says nothing. Then the Chamber of Confmerce, and the Board of Brokers and Lord kaows what other body of men hare to be visited by our third rate officer, while Grant visits his personal friends. Then our third rate officer must be serenaded, while (irant prefers to sleep. We are lucky if we get off without some sort of a parade in honor of our third rate officer, while Grant is satiefied with seeing soldiers at tbe front. Reporters accompany our third rate officer everywhere, by bis per- mission and request, and everything be says or does is soon in the papers; while Grant avoids publicity and desires the gentlemen of the press to let him alone severely. Now, which is the better way? Which is the more sensi ble * Which is characteristic of the greater mind ? Which is the more indicative of the true soldier and the great general ’ Nobody will disagree with us in our preference for Grant's way. In the classically elegant language ot Terence, the great Roman poet, and Abe Lin- coln, the great American President, General Grant's visit was ‘a big thing,’ and we advise all officers to imitate his example. in the city and in the fie ld. Tue Fiona Cask ix ExGuanp.— It is evident from the speech made by Lord Palmerston at the Lord Mayor’s dinner in London that the affair of the Florida is not going to alter in any way our present amiable relations with the British gov- ernment. The correspondence relative to the seizure of that vessel had been received, and his lordship did not see fit even to make @ pass- ing allusion to it. There is no doubt that had it excited any very strong feeling either ia the Cabinet or among the English public gen- erally we should bave bad some evidences of it at this dinner. His lordship is too much a master of the arts of popularity not to have seized upon the occasion if he bad deemed it advisable, Let the copperhead journals, therefore, say what they please, there is no reasonable ground for apprehending that auy difficulty with the European governments will grow out of this affair. Neither England nor France has the slightest desire to interfere with us; for they feel that the time for doing so with safety has passed by. After losing the opportunities that presented themselves whea we were weak and divided at the North, they will not attempt ‘it now that we are united as one man port of the government, and have the rebellion nearly at our mercy. Why should they risk » war | with us for a constructive injury done to Brazil? We have seen how, in the case of Denmark, | England allowed Austria and Prussia to violate | a treaty and to strip a reigning family, closely allicd with its Queen by marriage, of a large portion of its territory without scarcely evena remonstrance. Itis not likely, then, that for an alleged violation of a point of maritime law in in the sup: } and jud | or abate which she herself has frequently set us the example she will care to take up the cause of Brazil against us. The truth is that the European Powers are too well convinced of the probabilities of « general war on their own coatiaeet to think of cagaging in @ conflict om sbis side eae eee tm ae would exhaust their resources and leave them unprepared for such en event. The declara- tions of the Queen of Spain, in ber remarkable message on the education of the Prince of Asturias, betrays the apprehensions with which the future is viewed by the crowned heads of Europe. They will take care there- fore how they involve themselves in difficulties with us, now that our othér troubles are ap- proaching an end. The immense development of our military and naval resources which baw taken place during the last four years naturally fills them with apprebension—a feeling aot diminished by the consciousness of the fact that the close of the rebellion will give « freak impulse to the emigration which has reached such an extraordinary figure during the past twelve months. Having failed to break our strength by the aid which they bave given the rebellion, they will now, for their own safety, adopt the policy of conciliation towards us. Brazil will, therefore, have to fight her owa battle, unsesisted, if she be disposed to fight at all. We are of opinion, however, that alittle diplomatic cross flring will be ali that we shalt hear ef the matter. Whe Ohter Ju hip—Ms. Chase as Shylock—Secrotary Stanton wee Ahead, Our Presidential contest happily over end out of the way, the question of aext importance before the coungry is: To whom will Mr. Lia- coln assign the ermine of the Supreme Coart of the United States, wade vacant by Crriof Justice Taney’s death? The position is one of the highest authority, and its eecupant, unless impeached and removed, holds the fee of the office for life. It is, truly considered, of more importance than the Presidepey itself; for, while we can get rid of aa obnoxious or in- competent chief magistrate once in every tout years by the regular action of popular suf- trage, the office of Chief Justice of our highest national court is @ permanent one, and bas been wisely surrounded by so many and such powerful safeguards that nothing but the very grossest misconduct or incompetency could avail to ouss avy incumbent once appointed and sworn in. The office, moreover, in proper hands, is of the bighest influence and digaity, and it therefore becomes the duty of the Pre- sident to use his utmost wisdom and liberality in the selection of the gentleman who is to fill it The choice Mr. Lincoin is aatd to be inclined to make, in the person of Edwin M. Stanton, ia not a bad one—though there are many whe would have preferred to see Senator Reverdy 4Jobnson in the position. Mr. Stanton, bhow- ever, is an excellent lawyer; a man of sterling integrity and immense industry; « practitioner of eularged experience in the courtsof the United States; while--as his two last, but aes least, recommendations; we may add—that & appointed Chief Justice he would, ipso facto, cease to be Secretary of War, and that there are tew wen on the continent who would pre- sent a more picturesque appearance than Me. Stanton op the chief seat of the Supreme Rench—his lionine beard flowing wildly over the desk before him, and his spectacles gleam- ing like two carriage lamps on each side of btw capacious forehead. But to Mr. Stanton’s appointment there are two serious obstacles— first, in the shape of an old. actual. or implied promise made by Mr. Lincola to Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio; and secondly, to the bitter opposition of Messrs. Seward, Weed and the “conservative” republicans, who are up in arms for Wm. M. Evarts, of thia city. It would seem that oue of the conditions upon which Mr. Clase. after resigning his port- folio as Secretary of the Treasury, is said te have agreed to support Mr Lincoln and te abaudou General Fremont, the “radical” re- publican nominee for the Presidency, was the offer made by Mr. Lincgtn of te Chief Justice- ship—an office upon whioh Mr. Chase had long cast hungry eyes. ‘The election over, this bar gain, like many others of the same class, haw been repented of; and efforts of every kind are being made by the Weed-Seward conservative coterie to induce Mr. Chase to relinquish his claims. He has been offered the mission to England, France. or any European Power be would consent to accept. either for himself or his son-in-law, Governor Spragne. of Rhode Island; but the inventor of “greenbacks” re- res, in all companies and on all occasions, that be “can’t eee it in that particular light He is, in fact, playing the role of « political Shylock, and stands upon “the letter of bis bond His pound of flesh is the Chief Justiceship of the United States; and have it he must, or “fie upoo your promises.” In this emergency the astute and industrious Weed-Seward men have bunted up an old speech made by Mr. Salmon P. Chase in refer- ence to the Dred Scott deeision, in which our Obio statesman boldiy aud emphatically took the ground that, while the Supreme Court of the Union had upon its bench a very respect- able body of old fossils, and while its decisiona, in any given case, were of great importance to the parties directly involved in the li such decisions were of no public or national importance whatever; had no bindiog force over the general politics of the country, but were to be utterly disregarded and set at nonght, save ouly by the direct parties to the suit in regard to which the opinion of the Court was delivered. To place such aman, with this record, in the place once occupied by 4 Marshall and a Taney, would be only—contend the Weed-Seward =men— fo challenge public contempt ‘for the de- cisions of our highest tribunal; and in this view of the case Mr. Lincoln is understood to very cordially agree. The further pro- gramme of the Weed-Sowardites, is to fight Chase against Stanton until both, like the Kit- kenny cats, are thoroughly used up—in the hope that Mr. Win. M, ivarta, of this city, may finally be picked up by Mr, Lincola as the com- ise nominee. As to Mr. Lincola himself, his predilections ent are said td be strongly in Secre~ tary Stanton’s favor: first, on the ground of superior fitness; and secondly, tor the reason thot Mr, Stanton bas been seriously broken down in health by his unremitting devotion to the labors and anxieties of his present place. ‘That the President will (ud means to shake off the claims of Mr, Chase we have cvery confidence, taking as our reason for this faith that is in us bis masterly explanation of the «Yo whom it may concern’ manifesto. Some days after that startling document had been published, and while excitement about it was at the highest, Mr. Lincoln was waited upon by some “conservative” friends. who declared that “the manifesto ia question, uniew Dad mgs mete tis TUE OF TEBE mains in an obstinate humor, and dec’ 1 f [