The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GOURDUN BENNETR EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. COANER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXIX.. = = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Corsicay Broturns. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—To or to Manny—Rugar Pevics WINTER GARDEN, Broads Maser on OLYMPIC THEATRE, broadway.—Sr. G Duacoons—Muxy Wun i eatin: hoe NEW BOWERY THEATS Bowery —Wiitixc ron Tux VeRpior—J ack’s Tuk Lad—Kanra—Youss Awwiica. BOWERY. THEATRE, Bowery.—Tae Witp Bor—Paren KLi—SMANDY MAGUIRR—WiLFOL MURDER. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Poor Gente. MAN—Peorie’s LawyEn BARNON'S MUSEUM, Broadway,—Ture2 Mamwora Fat Ginis—Tukes Giavrs—Two | Dwanrs—[Npians— PRrncm AvToMarons. Deswaric PERFORMANCES=Day and Evening BRYANTS' MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. Way.—Eimiorian Songs, Dances, BUKLESQUES, &C. Light Buicave. WOND'S MINSTREL HALL. Daarens—Eturoriay Boxes, Dac CAMPBELU'S MINSTRELS. 199 and 201 Bowery — VARIED syd KxcimxG MELAXGs Or Etuiorian OppiTiEs— Goose Ax Ganpe 514 Broadway.—Ligvor ks, &e. GALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Ronerr Revise ‘HOPR CHAPEL, ‘mian ThoUrE OF Gia Br ay.—Woopnorre’s Rous. Biowrks. VAN AMBURGH & CO..S MAMMOTH MENAGE: $89 and G41 Broudway.—Open "tom SAM ee HIPPOTHEATRON, F KRY ACTOKS—KQugsTRIAN, FERTAINMENTS, eenth street —Dog axp Mon. YaNsstic awD AcROpatIC En. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Srosiway.—Anrenus Warp Axon THE MouMoVs AMERICAN THEATRE, No 444 Rroadway.—Bacrers, Paxromimes, Busiesyves, ‘Ac. —Tne Wooncorrens, IRVING BALL, Irving place.-Taxo, Tuomas’ First yMPHONIC SO KER. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 60) Broadway.—Morixa Wax Ficuins, 3, 1864. New York, Saturday, Dee THE SITUATION. The reports of the battle at Franklin, Tennesse, which we publish this moruing not only corroborate the Accounts heretofore given, but greatiy enbanco toe bril- Vancy and completeness of the victory. Tho captyre of thirty stands oi colors und a thousand prisoners by cor troops, and the loss of eix toonsand in killed and wooded | by the enemy, attest the desperate and sangiiaory Character of the combat Blain are Geoeral Wir, Adams and Geveral Patrick §. Cleburne, aod it is reported that a rebel major Seneral was borne off the field mortally wounded. Gens es Thomas’ army yesterday wag tn tine of Datile within ‘© few miles of Neabville, bis left wing resting on Mur- Amorg the rebel oMcere ireesboro. Reinforcements were rapidly arciv'ng, whi'e 4 fleet of wooden aud irop-clad gunboate lay ta tne river ready to co-operate. ‘Hood's army is io clove proximity 40 the Union lines, The ows of ao engerement may Fenech us at any womeut. With regard to General Sherman’s movements n Geor ia, we learn from Richmond papers of tue 30th uit. that Bsmoll party of cavary sect out to communicate with the Union fleet at Beaufort had been intercepted by the Febols, part of them capiyred, and tho remainder forced to fal! back aoon tha main body. Tey bed, nowever, Previously strack tho raflroad runnigg from xugusta to Savannah, captured a pas’: nger train of cars, and, doubt- Joes, damaged ibe track to some exteat, Tke Richmond Whig of the 30th furtbermore announces that “Sherman's Maia force 1s atill to the interior of Georgia, making very slow progress towards tho const," but the Bzauiner Of tho next day is forced to acmit that Sherman wiil Bucceed in reaching the sca const gery situation in Georgia at last accounts; aud it is pot prising, therefore, that the rebel press lament that Dood should have been “switched off in Tonnessce WA that they should likewise ubuso Joff. Davis as the Bthor of the existing unhappy condition of aGairs. From the Army of tho Potomac we have ao official Feport of a sueceseful expedition of General Gregs’s Such waa the mili- cavalry, sent out to ascertain if any of Lee's forces bad Deen despatched southward to intercept Geveral Sher man in bis march through Georgia; bot no informatio: ‘The expedition, bow at Stony by infantry and cavalry, witb artillery, Two guns were taken and spiked, they could be brought ‘The wepot and aii the shop and public buildings were burved, and a larye quantity of grain, bay, bucon, ould be obiained on this point. tbe rebel which were ever, defences Creek captured station, de‘eaded as not away. Clothing ammunition wud g .vervment stores destroyed At Duvali’s static stroyed. When thr cfll er lett the expedition with the decpateh varreting 1s progress the rebois bad concen. so, copsiverable property wus de trated and were General Gregg Geveral Grant and to their respective visit to Norfolk, and the work of cousoliduting the lenth and Righteenth «Slowing our trvops, but doubtless Both bave returned after brit bas commenced returned saicly to camp, General Luter head jvartere, the tater Corps and the formatiou of a separate corps of colored froops. licket firing continues to be actively kept up Glong the lines of bo b the A my of the Potomac and the Army of the Jumes. the fichmond papers state that Shree Monitors ani our land batteries engaged the ene my’s battery at LI wiett's on the 20th, without ioficting any injury. There is vo news of importsnce from the Shenandoab . Dur cavalry appear wo be active y engaged in recoa- oitring the portions of the enewy. On the 24th ult Mosby, with cne hupdved aod Hfty of bis guerilia band, Gitacked the cawp of the Second cavalry, Os this occa. sion Mosby cacgbt @ tartar, for be was speedily rquted, with a loge of fifteen kilud and twelve takeo prisoners, Dor losses in the effair bear Mount Jackson on the 226 wit., wheo the Union cavairy fought Esriy’s entire force for several bours, was seveuty-rix, iwcluding killed, Wounded and missing By the arrival of the Reenin. Ster, from New Orleans 26tb ult., we bave interesting The report of the arrival of the rebel Captain Semmes at Bagdad, Mexico, i confirmed, on the 11th vlt., aod immediatoly crorsed the Rio Grande, on bie way to Richmon4, of the 284 uit., « porYoo of ihe peowentivry building was eitroyed by fire, One bundred wod forty mutes, tory forces and seventy-five kets of harness were consumed, Ai ie reported that the rebel General Forrest bas issued fa order probibitiny bie troops fro tiring upoo voarmed ews from the Gulf He arrived at that place Al Baton Rouge, on the night transporte Governor Vaneo, in a recent message to the Legisia hore of North Carolina, contirtos the reports, heretofore Published, regarving the exitence of orgapized bands in the western portion of that State ‘D border of the State is subject \ioos from bands of Jawless men, Of rebel deserters Ho says" bo w to raids and aovre @rbo swarm to ‘he mountain frontier, and murder, buro fend destroy with ravage crurity, Some of the toterior Sountion also are infested by deserters, representing deracy, who lurk to the @early every State in the con Gwampe and mountains, ftealing, plundering, and to many instances murdering the iubavitacts, Tn some places they muster jo such force as almost to amount to & Suspension of the civil authority, aided and protected, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1864. ‘efforts to abate the nuisance by offorts of pardon baviag Proved frulticas, 1 Bee no remedy for the evi bat to Outiaw thom and drivo them Crom the State by the stroeg bond.” Tho rebel Congress are discussing in secret seesion the question of suspending t ‘tot habeas corpus in the confederacy. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Bavaria, (rom Southampton on the 161d November, passed Cape Race yesterday ou ber voyage $0 New Yor. The steamship China, from Queenstown on the 20th of November, reached tais port yesterday afterooon, aftor avery rough voyage. The news by the China Is sever ays later. ‘The London Times and London Post nowspapers publish special letters from New York, dated ts the 6th of No- vember, in which their correspondents allude very (recly to the plots and preparations of the rebels and their agents, ep.issarive and sympathizers to disturb the peace of the Northern State vy incendiarism and raids from the Canadiao border—at the moment of the Presi contiai clecti.n, These Log'ish writers allude, in evident disappointment and grief, to the timely precautions un- dertaken by Secretary Seward and carried out s0 judi- ctousiy by Generals Dix and Butler for the foiling aud sup- pression of the rebel scheraes and acts. It is made pretty evident, by the contents of these communications, that Britis agents mw New York knew a good deal of the con- Spiracy now so fortunately exploded, both in its iucep- tion and progress. Captain Morris, commander of the privateer Florida, had arrived in Paris, im company with Mr. Mason, the rebel commissioner in London, Taey were received with great respect and attention by the rebols resident in the French cupital. Despatches relative to a joint protest ia the case of the Florida bad been exchanged between the gveraments Of Englund and France; but our special correspondent in Paris thinks thit official action will be suspeaded until reports of tue affair reach the two Cabinets (rom Brazil. The question of liability of the underwriters for the value of goods seized in the British blockade raunoer Peterhoit was ergued in the Fagitsh Court of Common Pleas. The judges reserved their decision. Rebel organs don boast that the new Confederate war steamer Sheoandoab—supposed to be the sea King — nad gone out on service fully armed aod manned, and in excellent trim, to replace the Florida, ‘The New York emigrant abip Great Westera was de- taived at Liverpool by the local authorities on the charge that a large number of the passengers were recruits for the Union army, enlisted in Laacashire, England. There was some confusion about the matter, and four or five young meu had left the veseel and gone ashore, Av American citiz*0 nomed Murphy bad been arrested and committed to jail in Ireland, charged with being en- gaced in recruiting for the United States army. In the Itatian Legislature the general debate on the convention with France was brought toactese, Signor Rattazzi spoke iu favor of the measure. Tho reactionary party opposed it strongly General La Marmora adbcred to bia determination not to continue in office lovger than the time occupied in the transfer of the capital of ttaiy to Floreuce, General Della Rovere, tatoly Itallan Minister of Was, is dead. The General bold tue post of Goveraor of Sicily after the acnexation. A Parts journal uenies a report to the effect that M. Drouyo de Lhuys had addressed a despatch to Rome and A circular pete to all the Cathojic Courts ia Europe de. claring that France guarantees the temporal power of the Pope. The Paris Patric, however, declares that a des- patch of the French Foreign Minister, dated November 7, anpoun-ed that tbe rcorous application of the princt ple of now intervention canuot be insisted on in the case of Rome, which ia ths capital of Catholicism.’ The Garibaidian revoluticnists; as they are termed, had made avother vigorous demonstration, leading to a serious collision with the Austrian troops, in Venetia, and it was said that they contemplated a movement in | Gallicia, The Italian Cabinet anxiously denied any powledge or complicity with the insurgents, and avowed its intention to preserve the neutrality of the frontier Martialiaw bad been proclaimed im eighteen districts of the Austrian provinces of Friuil and Treviso Sentinels and patrols received orders to fire upon ai! assemblages which, once summoned to disperse, fail bo give an ip stant obedience. ‘The formul exchange of the ratifications ef the treaty of peace between the German Powers and Denmark took place in Vienna at noon November 16. The Dantsh gov- erome.t offcially released the people of the duchies from their allegiance, and the King, in @ prociamation, bid farewell to bis lato subjects. Consois c'osed in London Noveraber 19 at 91 @ 914 for movey. The rate of discount remained at elgbt per cont Tho returns of the Back of Eogland and Bank of Fracce were of » very favorable character. The Liverpool cotton market was buoyant, at ao ad. vance raging from one-balf to one penoy, on the 19th of November. Breadetufls were quiet and steady. Pro visions inactive. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A horrible affair occurred in tve Tombs about four o'clock yesterday morning, involving the lives of two meo and the fatal injury of another one. It appears that John Donovan, a discharged suidier, who bad been locked up ina large room with a dozen or more men—all com mitted for intoxication or insanity, resulting from that vice—seized an iron dar about three {cet in length, welgh- ing nearly teu pounds, and struck (wuile down) two of bis companions, uamed James McDonald and William Kennrody, on the vead, fracturing their skulls and causing death in afew moments, Donovan also struck another man, named Wi lun George, on the head with the iron bir, and fractured bis skull ip such @ manner thit he ts hot expected to survive his injuries. Donovan, who urdoubted y was suffering from 4 sudde attack of deli rium tremens, was Gnally disarmed and secured after severs! pistol shots bad been fired at him by, ihe Sixth precinct police, one of whieh lodged in the shoulder of George Henry Hill, inflicting @ ecrious wound, An in quoat wos held yesterday afternoon, and after hearing ai! the testimony, the jury rendered a verdict against the prisoner, who was commilied to await the action of tbe Grand Jury. The rep-rt published tn yesterday's papers of the eafety of tbe “teamshiv North star, and sent to us by our ship news collector, he regrets tomay, is eutirely with out foundation. It was commanicated to bim by a per- son on board the etevmship Empire City, from New Orieans, and it was the topic of conversstion on that steamer’s pier at thy time, aud, being entirely protinpie, he set it tous as an important fact. The North Star auled from New York November %, aud her outward bound passengers reached Sac Frauciaco 1m the steamer Sacramento on the 2340 ult Hon. James Speed, of Kentucky, was yesterday ap pointed by the President Attorney Genoral of the United States, in piace of Judge Hott, who declined the position About eight e'clock yesserday moraing a cvllision o¢- curred in the East river between a United Statos steam transport andone of the Brookiya ferryboats, The trans port struck the ferryboat amidships, but fortuaately not in sucb @ way ax to Cause serious injuries. The greatest consteroation, bowever, was eecagioved among the pas sevvers on the ferryboat, ang many of them were #0 muck alarmed that they were ready to jump into the water, thinking that tbere was no otbeg bope of escape. A tugboat fortunately came to the relief, amd conveyed the passengers to the wharf of the Empire Stores Prince Bailey, a negro wuo bad been locked up at Police Headquarters for more than @ week, at the toxtance of reveuue officer, bame unknown, was released yos terday on a writof bubeas corpusay Judge Clerko, of the Supreme Court, The+Judge cnaracterized the imprison ment of tbo negro as & gross outrage, aud said JeT Davis could not be guilty of any greater act of despotism, Jo the cane of Gusterman a. Davis, where an action brought on @ bill of exchange payable in pounds orling, Judge Daly, of the Court of Common Pleas, vsterday decided that the value of sterling could not be fixed by statute, and that as exchange was forty-five shove par at the time of the transaction, tbe plaintill would be entitled to recover $6 44 48 the value of each id in the Court of General Sessions yesterday Judge Russel sentenced Win, Hennenven, convicted of robbing Jobo A. Alewtt, to imprisonment in the State prisoa for twenty years and sit month ‘ The stock market waa alighily better yesterday mora- ing; Dut it Weakened to the afternoon, and closed dull. Gold opened st 231% wns closed at 232Y. Government kecarivion were strong. ‘The markets wore generally irrecolar yesterday, and, in view of the fluctaating tendency of gold, prices of most articles were nomiosl, Foreign merchandise was quiet. Domestic produce was dull, with a few excep- tione, Ov 'Change the four market was lens active, bc. #10. higher, Wheat advanced io, «2c., with more doing. Corn was 20, 36, higher, White oats were lower, with more doing Pork opened heavy, but closed Orm at ‘an advance of $1 per barrel. Beef Grm, while lard was without decided obange in value, Whiskey frm aad fae they are, by bnoir relatives ond friande, All of my , freighte gweh ee. com The Operations that are to Ciese the Year. The victory in Tennessee proves to have been a very severe blow to Hood’s advancing army. Thomas only held the position at Franklin fer the opportunity of delivering a hard hit, and therefore it could scarcely have been hoped that he would be able to put so wuch punishment in it as he appears to have done. Nor is it probable that he could bave punished so severely, under the circumstances, any other rebel general but the rash and pre- cipitate Hood. This battle was even worse on Hood’s part than the attempts of the same general to force Sherman’s lines in front of Atlanta. The rebel infantry was forced in masses against a position that the enemy had not examined at all, and a persistent attempt was made to carry fortifications that bad not been reconnoitred even from behind a line of skirmishers. As a consequence, this infantry was cut down by grape and canister from guns of whose pesition and existence the enemy had no knowledge till they received their fire. Hood's loss is stated, not unreason- ably, at the large figure of six thousand, and ours at seven hundred. Hood’s army thus lessens as he advances, while that under Thomas increases by the continual arrival of re- inforcements. Hood will have another oppor- tunity to repeat this battle nearer Nashville. Sherman still makes a tolerable noise in the Richmond papers despite their determination to keep silent as to his movements. The Southern people must be a sorely bewildered generation if they attempt to get any satisfac- tory view of Sherman’s progress and prospects from the Richmond papers. Such comical in- consistencies as those papers heap one on the other were never before seen in print. By universal consent they agree that Sherman’s advance is only a raid—a movement of no great importance; and yet they hardly give s thought to any other subject. They say that the movement can have no miHtary result. This idea they put forth with what Falstaff was wont’ to call “damnable iteration,” and em- bellish it with every trope described in the rhetorics. He may occupy Macon, they say; but he cannot bold it. He may march across tue country; but cannot stay in it. He may bura houses; but what of that? And so they go on through all the particulars. Well, then, if Sherman’s operation can have no military re- sult, it is only so much effort wasted; and Sherman is just where the rebels ought to de sire him to be—that is, in a place where he can do the rebel cause no harm. Yet the bolder ones of these same papers pitch into the rebel gov- eroment for having sent Hood to Tennessee. They speak of his army as one that Davis and Hood had taken off Sherman’s skoulders, “to carry it through the mountains and stick it in the mud between Tuscumbia and Florence.” They speak of it as a “switched eff’ army, «ud wonder -who it is that has “se entirely succeeded fn rendering Hood’s army absolutely useless.” Now if their own theory of Sherman’s harmlessness be true, | his is the army that has been switched off; he is the general who has been gotten out of the way, that Hood may go forward to Tennessee, and thas Sherman’s presence in Georgia is the triumph of the Riehmond strategy, as also is Hood's in Tennessee. When the Richmond papers come to their arguments, they ought to remember the coler they have given to the facts, avd if they reaily fear Sherman’s pres- evce in Georgia, they ought not to forget that they are all the time telling the people there is no danger in it. Augusta, we are told, is quite safe. Savan- nab is “girding up ber loins,’’ and there is great activity everywhere. We are told of the arri- val of veterau troops from Virginia, and we are furnished with the aames of the cities that Sher- man has not threatened, and with the games of those be cannot take. Of course the list in- cludes all the cities in the Southern States. Now suppose that Sherman dees not want all tiese places that the enemy say he cannot take and does not threaten. Suppose that he is in- different who holds Macon, Milledgeville, Au- gusta, Charlesion or Savannah, and has anotber purpose in the movement of his army besides the capture of those cities. Indeed, it would not be witbout parallel if Sherman’s operatica, so grand a one on its face, had another object be- side any that it can carry out against Georgia— if it were, in short, already a part of the ope- rations against Richmond. Let us give a sop to Southern vanity and say that it is another application, though on a far grander scale, of a movement attempted by General Lee last summer—and we can still see some good in it—while every rebel must, of course, admit that every idea is grand that comes from Lee, In the summer Lee saw that Grant had our whole Ea-tern force concentrated on the James, that Washington, Maryland, Penusyl- vania, ail were exposed, and he moved Early down the valley—while alarm spread tbrough- out every Northern city. He boped to draw part of Grant’s force away from the James, and so weaken that leader and get the advan- tage of a final victory. Now all this is the other way. Hood is out of reach, and Lee has concentrated at Richmond all available force,’ having stripped every point south of it. Sher- man, therefore, becomes a farsighted and hard- hitting Early, and marches grandly forward into the Maryiand and Peansylvania, the Washington, Baltimore, Priladeiphia and New York of the so-called Southern confederacy. Will he not weaken Lee? Will he not en- able Grant to strike? More than a month ago Lee dared not venture upon a move- meut that would risk the loss of twenty men; but Ewell’s corps bas now beeu sent to Georgia, and the Augusta papers hurrab over its arrival. Lee must and will send to Georgia still more men—and let no one feel any apprehension lest Sherman's victory should be rendered doubtful by those forces, If Lee sends to Georgia so many meo that they can have any hope to stand up against Sherman, Sherman’s victory will bave beon gained before any battie is fought, and he need not even fight at all. If Augusta or Savanuab are made safe Richmond will be the city that falls. We are therefore still on the very threshold of the grand events that fow naturally out of Shermao’s advance. Before the end of the year all of the great operations that that Is the key to will be in full progress, or they may before that bave crushed out the little life that ie still left in the rebel cause, When the ’ pressure of the Gulf State rebe| Davis and Lee compelled those men to send to Georgia the last man that the Richmond rebels will let go, then Grant,on the James, will strike with more force than ever. Butler, on ‘dhe north aide, will make another ef those ed- ne ah : ree vances that have so many times frightened Richmond from its propriety. Meade will push on the south side, the navy will thunder in Dutch Gap, and Sheridan will strike at prebably a weaker place than any. Porter, also, will be heard from, and Farragut, and Dahlgren, and Foster. Sherman will then do more than demonstrate, and Thomas, having given Hood one more such repulse as he has just given him at Franklin, will press forward to annihilate the shattered rebel Army of the Tennessee, madiary Piet and the ndiary Pi In regard to the recent attempt to burn down this city and assassinate thousands of our citizens, several facts have been estab- lished by indubitable evidence. We know that this attempt was made; that it was the result of a conspiracy; that the rebel press of Richmond predicted it; that rebel agents in Canada furnished the momey for it; that the incendiary rebel press of this city fore- shadowed it, and were not surprised at it; and that the hotel-burning journalists con- nected with our rebel press now affect to regard the whole affair as a good joke, and strive to excuse it and its flendish perpetra- tors by representing that, after all, the incen- diarism is only a political trick of the repub- licans. Take all these facts together and they clearly show that th scbel press of the North is mort intimately connected with the con- spiracy than bas yet appeared, and must be held responsible for it atthe bar of public opinion. A military commission, now in session in this city, will in due time offer the most effec- tual reply to the jests and jeers of our rebel contemporaries. The testimony before that commission will thoroughly extinguish those newspapers which smile so pleasantly at a ne- farious plot to consume thousands of men, women and children. We are of opinion that tbe ends of justice would be greatly served by examining the editors of the rebel papers of New York, and searching their offices for in- cendiary documents; but even should they escape this crucial test, another, still more bit- ter awaits them. For four years past, with the exception of a brief interval during which they were suppressed or denied the mails, these rebel journals have been slandering the North and eulogizing the South, defaming Union generals and extolling rebel generals, insult- ing Union soldiers and praising the hotel burn- ing rebel chivalry. They have opposed the war; they bave advocated Southern independ- ence; they have been guilty of constructive treason. The loyal people have endured them witb the same good nature that a giant dis- plays towards a child who is calling him hard names; but, now that the child bas taken a bottle of phosphorus and turned incendiary, it is quite time for the giant to interfere. The rebel papers at the East and at the West will feel the effects of this change of bhumtor before many weeks, This dastardly attempt to burn up innocent people, helpless women and un- offending children in one grand hellish confla- gration, has swept away all sentiment on our part towards traiters in arms and traitors upon the press, and those who have sown the fire will shortly reap the flames. There are several private and public means by which the conductors of the rebel incen. diary press of this city may be punished as tbey deserve, even if our military authorities foolishly refuse to investigate their complicity with the incendiary plot. We notice that one of the New York rebel journals has just issued | & prospectus, asking for subscribers for an- other yeur. This impudent attempt to make money out of those people who have so narrowly escaped being burned alive can be practically rebuked by refusals to sub- scribe. We also notice that all of our rebel journals are supported by the Corporation ad- vertising, which ought to be immediately wiih- drawu. Mayor Gunther unjustly suid that the city could not afford to illuminate in honor of our victories; but certainly it caanot afford to pay those who try te con- sume it. That is a pretty state of affairs when Nero has his phosphorus and his fiddle supplied to him at the public ex- pense, and cau set fire to our hotels, and laugh at us afterwards, with his pockets full of Cor- poration money. The old fable of the man who warmed and fed the viper is now realized; but the bite of the viper bas not proved fatal, and it bebooves us to withdraw his sustenance beiore he can gather new venom for another stroke. These are most effective meavs of punishment, and the others are equally simple. There is a law of Congress against those who discourage enlistments. In every issue of their papers these revel editors at the North trans- gress this law, to say nothing of their consul- tations with rebel spies and connection with secret secession societies. General Dix has ovly to enforce this law, which has too long remained c dead letter, and he will secure the whole batch of these incendiary editors. In the meantime the loyal members of the Congress which assembles on Monday next must remember that one of our rebel editors is a member of that body. Patriotism and a just regard for the dignity of the House require that a resolution for bis expulsion be offered aud a special committee of investigation be appointed. It is shameful that a member of Congress should be allowed to retain his seat and receive his pay while be is editing an in- cendiary orgau, harboring rebel refugees and serving Jeff. Davis in every possible way. We appeal to Congress to purge itself of this dis- grace. Such an aotion, followed by the en- forcement of the enlistment law, the withdrawal of the Corporation advertising and the refu: of subscriptions, will annihilate the rebel press of the North, preserve us from further trouble, and do much to assist the Union cause, Tue City Evxction.—On Tuesday next the citizens of New York will be called upon to exercise the privilege of choosing an import- ant portion of their municipal rulers. A Board of Aldermen and a Board of Council- men, as well a8 a Board of School Commission- ers, are to be elected; and it behooves every one who has the interests of the city at heart to see that proper men are selected for these reaponsible positions, Espeoially should this be the case with regard to the School Commis- sioners, who should in all cases be selected for their moral worth and intelligence. Our muni- cipal officers should, as far as possible, be selected outside of party lines. It is party that has tainted every department ef the city government—excepting possibly the Croton Board—with corruption and imparted a dis trustful feeling among property helders. Our local government requires cleansing and pari- ring. gad (he Ume hes arrived when the voters of the city can do so. Let the best men be selected for all important posts regardless of politics, and we may hope to see the metro- Polis of the nation redeemed from the thraldom of corrupt party managers, and a reign of honesty, retrenchment and » wholesome regard for the rights of taxpayers be inaugurated. Tue Mretixc or Concress.—The two houses of Congress reassemble at Washington on Mon- day next. It is the second and the short ses- sion (closing on the 4ih ef March by constitu- tional limitation) of the thirty-eighth Congress. As the two houses are already organized, we presume that on Monday the President's Mea- sage will he read to them and simultaneously furnished to the press of this and other cities for publication. We expect in the Message an interesting review of the doings of the government and the events of the war during the past year, and an encouraging exhibit of the condition and prospects of the national Treasury. We hope, too, that the President will not neglect in his recommendations the reinforcement of our armies and the advantages of the volun- teering and Bounty system, and that he will not worry himself this time with any new fangled theories of emancipation or reconstruc- tion. Tho work laid out before bim and before Congress is very simple, and needs no elabo- rate Executive explanation. It coiprises the suppression of the rebellion by force of arms, the restoration ef the rebellious States on the basis of the constitution, and the abolition of slavery through an amendment of tke constitu- tion itself. The business of the war, however, will suffice for the present session, and the con- stitutional amendment indicated, having failed in the present House, will go over to the next, where it will be sure of success. nd eyond the appropriation bills required, we cannot, from this short session, expect much in the way of legislation. We may, perhaps, obtain some modifications of our taxations laws; but whether they will increase or lighten our present burdens will depend very much upoa the drift of the war. In short, the approaching session, from the necessities of the case, will be devoted rather to routine business than te any new measures of great public importance. In this view we may now admonish to some pur- pose, perhaps, the working majority of both houses to go to their work at once upon the estimates of the several executive departments, 8o that no corrupt jobs or swindling tricks may creep into the eppropriation bitls under cover of the usual confusion and hurry scurry of the last rollicking night of the ses. ay ae A Cars. vor tar Caicaa Cosy’ YNTION—RatHER Lare iv THE Day.--We see \t stated in the newspapers that the Hon. Cyrus H. McCormick, of McCormick’s reaper, proprie‘or of the copper- bead Chicago Times, und late copperhead cen- didate for Congress.in that.dixtrict, ia out in a letter urging the reassembling of the Chicago Shent-per-Shent Convention. What an absurd idea! That convention, though declared a per- manent body, is defunct. The resolution con- tinuing it was intended by the Chicago copper- head managers to meet an anticipated rupture of the party before the late Presidential elec- tion, or some hitch in the results upon which a constitutioual quibble could be turned to mis- chief. Before the election, in order to get rid of the Chicago copperhead platform and Mr. George H. Pendleton, we repestedly urged upon Mr. Belmont the necessity of reassembling his Stent-per-Shent Convention; but he was deaf toour good advice. The election has gone by default, and there is no hitch in the results upon which the most ingenious of copperheads can raise a constitutional quibble. The voca- tion of this aforesaid convention, therefore, is ended, and the best thing that Mr. Belmont can do is to consider it dead and buried. For the sake of charity he may, if he chooses, call his national committee togetbor and hold “a wake” over the Chicago platform; but beyond some- thing of that sort it is probable that for some time.to come Mr. Belmont will have nothing in the way of Presidential politics to interfere with his financial evgagements ia bebuif of Maximilian, of Mexico. As for McCormick, let him return to his reaper. Cares Cusuixe’s Posrtion.—A_ Wasbington paper announces the discovery that for two years past the Hon. Caleb Cushing bas “heartily co-operated with the friends of the Union.” ‘This is important pews, perbaps, for Mr. Cush- ing; but where was he during the first two years of the war? Would he like tobe Attorney General of the United States? What says the Chevalier Foruey? The Capture of Roger A. Pryor, THR HON. ROGER DECLARED BY HIS FRIRNDS TO OR OF “NO CONSEQUENCE WHATEVER."’ [From the Richmond Ex«miver, Nov. 30.) Woe regret to know that the rumor of this goniteman’s capture is tr some time past @ tacit convention bet the armies has sanctioned a daily exchange of Papers on certain portions 6: the lines, between soldiers from each sive. On Mond Pryor left bis horse aud arms apd die of the space between the picket Waving, as usual, the papers to be by some Yankee officers, and they atbietic man with papers, and two or three others fol lowed ata little distance. The first geappied with Geueral Pryor and the otuers rushed on him aud dragged bim into their lines. (8 a0 illustration of what our soldiers may expect wheuever they rely upen the bonor of Yankees No doubt the captors thought they had obtained a wouder‘ul prize, and fear that General Pryor will be ill treated ; for there are few against whom the Yan'cee id malice. Wo styie 1d has for two yoars been, a private and reguiariy onlisted soldier, servi the ranks of the Confederate cavalry as such, havimg ne public importance, mo authort- ty, consequemes or privilege than any other reguiariy eu- ated Confederate soldier. In the first days of the war regiment, of which be was elected the Confederate government com- im to be @ brixadier general, and or. to duty in command of a brigade, left without a genoral, we believe, because fis comm officer was wounded. In this command General He lost the off conduct. cer whose is command by the return of occupied temporarily. On applying ‘at the War Department be got nothing but promison fila high spirit would not brook the Position oO! a brigadier general without « brigade, be soon threw up bis commission and enlisted as a common poi. dier {0 the oavalry, whpre he has aleco been serving. Having been a oifieer he made av excetiont t and by bis treacnerous capture the confederacy iw de. Butt my will pay dearly mpl yed in this affair jckets xo much that which leaves this city for Lyon bt tea minutes to o'clock was between South Maiden and Maldon & pumber of boavy timbors were fouad upon the track, they bar. ‘bec placed there with the evident d f throwing train off the track, The vigiiance of the engineer fireman of the train probably prevented & serious of the engine Ae os ry Tho train Jers. —Bosion RICHMOND. Success of General Gregg’s Expedition. CAPTURE OF STONY CREEK STATION PRG banner 8 A Train of Cars and a Garge Amount ef Government Stores Destroyed, &., &e., oon, GEN. CREGG’S EXPEDITION, Crrr Point, Va.. Deo, t, 1968 -General Grogg’s cavalry was seat south this moruing on areconnoissance, more particularly te discover vf she enemy were moving troops south, ‘The following despatch has just been rocelved in rela {lon to it:— ‘Bxanguanters, AnMy oF Tan Potomac, Dea 1—8 P.M. ‘To Lieutenant General Graxt:— Ihave just heard from General Gregg. His despatch ig dated at quarter to four P, M. He reports haviog captured Stony Creek station, which was defooded by iofentry and cavalry, in works, with artillery. He captured two pieces of artillery, but had no means of bringing thea: off, 80 be spiked them and destroyed th carriages. He ba¢ one hundred aud ninety prisoners, eight wagons and thirty mules. Ee burned the depot, with three thousand sacks of corn, five hundred baies ef hay, train of cars,a large amouut of bacon, civthing, Ammubition and other government stores, aud destroyed all the shops snd pupiic buildings, The Second brigade, Brigadier General Gregg com- manding, bad the advance, und is reported to haye mee gallausly carried tho enemy's position. Geveral Gregg ig now returning to camp. No information could be obtained of any troops pass- ing southward, either cavalry or infantry. Tae hed of the branch road from Stony creek was sven to be graded, but no rails were laid. At Duval station, eouth of Stony creek, much property was destroyed and a large amount of raijiroad iron found, Aveffors was being made to destroy it by Gre when the staff officer who brought the despatch left, Tue coemy showed signs of baying concentrated, and were followiag, but the officer thinks General Gregg wii! be in camp by amidoight, GEORGE G. MEADE, Major General. 3 CITY POINT. Mr. S. Cadwallader’s Despatch. Crt Point, Dec, 1, 1864. GnseRat rors. Genoral Grant was accomproied from Fortress Monree by Major General John Pope, former commander of the Army of the Potomac, who was summowed to Wasbiag- ton last Thursday, aud sent cbovee to Yeneral Grant fer agsignment to active service, ‘ Stoce bis retirement from command of the Army of the Potomac, General Pope bas commanded the Department of the Northwest, embracing the Indian terrivory, with headquarters at Milwankoo, and won the good opinion of ‘all with whora be came incontact. Now, that time bas softened tne asperities and animositics attending his removal, the Prosident scts wisely ia placing 1 Pope in some position where bis gallantey dierly ability muy again be ce'led it play. After conference apd vunsuitation with eral Great bo resurued to Wasbiu,ton at five o'clock last evening om the steamer Key pert, to- await the final actin of the War Department in ar: ing bis command. There are many speculations con zit; but no peobaviy knows but General Grant bimesif, VISITOR; TO GENKRAL GRANT, Quite a delegation of civilians, besded by Goverser Bradford, of Maryland, called on the Lieutenant General Inst evening for the purpose of paying their respeots is eon, POR RATIONS IN BRGARD TO THE THANKSGIVING TORKETS. As several of the ourrespondects have ded to the failure of the Mhaukegiving tarkeya to arrive in Lime for Thankegiving Day, it neems proper to currect the popular misapprebension concerning the matter. Varge majority of ihe turkeys arrived in time for icagiving Day, the Brady, however, got aground between thi and Fortross Monroe, aud her cargo was one aay behind, excepting portions that wore taken off and sent up by tuva or other vesse.s. Tho turkeys alse arrived m excellent condition, nuv the heart of many @ brave tiilow was touched by the memories of other Thaukagiving duys culled furth by the timely aed princely recollection of our army on this occasion and the generous dooors of the North aro beld im kindly re- membrance by vur beys io the eid. THR WraTHER. Woather clear and hot for two days, but a trifie colder this morning. Mercury at eighty four degrees yesterday at ten o'ciock, and at fity-two degrees at aime ibis morning Roads improving rapidly, and alroady quide passable. BUTLER’S HEADQUARTERS, Me. Wilitam A. © in ram Fimur, jam's Daspaten. Frowt ov Kicumowp, } Dec. 1, 1864. THE ORGANIZATION OF 4 NEGRO CORPS. ‘Tho Army of the James was giaddoned yesterday morn- ing by the retura of Major Gen. Butler, after escaping the perils of toe Greyhound catastrophe on the James river. General Putlor, immediately upon bis arrival, commovest the practical work of consolidating the white troops of tow Tenth and Eighteenth corps into # single organization, im view of the new Airican corps which ts to be at once formed, officered and put in service. Goueral Butler yosterday summoned ail o{ bis leading generals to a mtib tary consultation, wherest among others were preseat Mujor Geverai Ord, Major General Godfroy Weitzel and Drevet Major Genoral Alfred tlowe Terry. While it known this most important counct! bad for its object Ube facilitatiog of the vew state of things, its details have not transpired beyond what is herewith tudicated, Among military men throughout ail the armice operating against Richmond thia subject constitules the one ubsorb.ng theme of conversation, and the po of Major Genere! Butler io couneotivy t that of givin), Lhe colored svidicre of free scope to ant for the fing and their own meri both genoraliy an 7 dorsed by men Seatiments, mavy of whom bave bitherto inflextbly beld that the colored soldier could Hever rine above AN experiment in status Aud us@sulsons, but who have been oblized to yield their couvictions te the spleodid Gigbting in the field throngtout this cem- paigs of these #able heroes, ‘or which I canvot rosist publicly giviug thom thts full measure of credit, 4 ACTIVITY ON TAR PICKET LINKS Hostilities for the past twenty-four hours have beea confined to animated picket firing, and the watchfulnews exhibited for @ couple of days on the front of the Pre- visioval division to the de'ences of Bermuda Hundred. RETORY OF GRNRRAL OKD. rewith, oamel full The return of Major General k. 0. C. Ord, the hero whe was wounded while gallantly taking Fort Harrison, now Fort Rucobam, is received with great eatisfuction by the army. 7" eRe COMMANDER OF THR NEW COLORED CORPS. The reteran and tried Weitzel, having been very property made a full major general, will assume com- maud of the vew colored corps, REBEL ACCOUNTS. The folowing oficil despatch was re Wae Departmevt iaat night (rom General 1. Heamuarrans, Army Noriieny Nov, 20, 164. General Pickett roports that three Monitors und Ina Datieries of the enemy engaged tho battery at Howlete's this morning. Ooe of the Monitora was struck several times by our guns, Two have withdrawn. No casual. ties on vur aide, R. b. LEK. Movemont of (From the Richmond kxamir The travaports of the fleet lately ai Monrve sailed southwards some da) tron clada came up the James, Yhe Negro Soldte Divi nm. ‘rom the Richmoud Examiner, Nov. 30.) morning negro pickets wore placed in 1 Us division, Gur men, taking 1 Thetr places ha Yankeos, and the lines bai red by Goneral Hunter in the val eee oat, ea ieged inte tne Takeo Brmy, desertea 6 into General Pickett’s lines, and were thie city. resumed the uswal yosu Drought over to Phe Reason the Street Names are Not om a Lamps. FO THS BOITOR OF THE TRRALD. BrooKiyn, Deo, 2, 1866 In your issue of November 30 8 correspondent aske— ‘ew by don’t the city of Brooklyn have the mames of the atroote put Is (be strest lamps, the same us New York?’ ‘The only plausible reason [can give him is that the atreet iampa of Brooklyn are eo seldom lighted, the city Whorities thinking if the olty cannot afford to light (he pect tama, inet bt ‘cortaicly QOt worth while to have the names pf the streets pat in them; besides, it woud thei o ‘whigh seems (0 seat sin toate gon Sta SooRL