The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1864, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETB ELTIOR AND PROPRIETOR OFTIOR X. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND N48840 STS — — ——— rk, Mouday, Dec. 5, 1864. THE SITUATION. ‘The rand and important movement of General Sher man across the State of Georgia still absorb the atten tion of che country, South as well as North, By the frrival at Avvapolis, Md., yesterday of the eteamsnip Baitic WLat papers of that city published om Wednesday last Binted (oat Geueral Sherman was then not far Gistant from there, While admitting this, though, whey tbat bis progress bas been stop Ped. this moroing additional extracts from rebel papers regarding bis progress, A Sight On the Savanneh river, on the 29th ult,, between the Cavalry under Kilpatrick and Wheeler, is reported, and, Ubough they endeavor to conceal it, the rebel editors Capnot help admitting the near approach to Millen of the Union ivfavtry, They bave Gnally concluded that Sher fan will roach the coast without serious logs, ag ul! the Opposition with which be has met bas been very ivetfec- Live and feeble, He ts reported to be living entirely of Of the country through which be is marcbing, sad leay- ing that portion of it in bis rear a devastated and deso- Taic waste, So fearful is the paoio in Georgia, and 80 Boroly ure the rebels prested for men to make a show Against (he advancing national columns, that the Gover. or hes pardoned the convicts in the State Pen teutiary, Pt vom Savanoab, we again have the announcement claimed We give 4 them and put (hem i the military service. ‘be armies of Generals Thomas and Hood still confront aca other before Nashville; but no geaeral engagement hos yot taken piace between them since the battle aod Bplendid Union victory at Franklin on Wedaesday tast There was skirmisaing ali slong tho lines on Saturday, Das cothing of importance occurred yesterday up to the our when our latest despatones were dated. Tbe Union army oucircles the city of Nashville on the south being Ip strong defensive works, wish each of its wings resting on the Cumberlond river. “Tho redets are avout two miles distant, and bave thrown up intrencuments Ai is thought that Hood will certa:nly maze an attack ov the forees of Thomas iu their preseat position, but the ‘utmost confidence Is felt on the part of the Union officers tbat such ap event can only result in a glorious national fmuccesa, Union cavalry patrol the north baok of the Fiver to prevent the rebel cavairy from crossing, and it 4s believed that none bave yet succeeded in doing so, though there wore groundless §=rumors = iu Nashville yesterday that Forrest bad thrown B pontoon briage across tbe Cumberland, for tbe purpose of moving over bis command, John Ponville, on the Tennessee river, bas been evacuated by ‘our troops, in conformity with the plan of General Thomas Tor contracting his lines ana concentrating bis forces, Our despatches, which will be found exceedingly icte- foaliog, give, io addition tom record of current eveots, Bu accoust of the movements which preceded the present Operations in front of the Tennessee capital, from the Zime when Hood moved northward from Florence, Als- ama, down to the present, and also a detailed des. ©ription of the battle of Franklin. We accompany these ‘with a map showing the location of the baitle field. General Beauregard bas sent a despatch to the rebel ‘War Department in refersoce to the evacuation of De- ©atur, Alabama, by the Union forces, in which be says Ubey burned the Jarge storehouse filled with provisions, @mmunition, barsess and pack saddles. He says that a Webel officer rescued from the burning building fiteen Pontoon boats, and afterwards “closely pursued the enemy.” Our despatches which we publish this morning give @dditional and fuller details of General Gregg’s cavalry aid on the rebel roilroad communications southwest of Potersburg on last Thursday. This affair is regarded in the army as ranking, in the importance of the operations leffected, the ceierity of its movements and the complete ‘Hess of its success, on a par with any similar expedition of the war, The distance marched in golug and returo- fing was about forty miles. The force sturled fBbout daybreak, and returned to camp about @ieven o'clock at night, baving in the meantime hhad several skirmishes with tbe enemy, pevetrated to Duvail’s, Rowanty and Stony Creek stations, on the Wel Gon Railroad; destroyed rebel steam, saw and grist mills Beveral large machine shops, immense amounts of stores, ‘ammunition, arms, forage, provisions, and a loug train Of loaded railway cars; captured two pieces of artiliery (und over two bundred prisoners; tora apa branch rai!- Foad which theenemy was constructing to connect the Petersburg and Weldon with the Southside Railroad, and Bost only some twenty-five or thirty men. Confirmation ‘was received of the report that Wade Hamp fon’s cavalry has been sent off from Lee's ‘army to Georgia, There were again heavy ar Aillery ducis petween the opposing batteries in the ‘vicinity of Bermuda Hundred and io the neighborhood o the Dutch Gap canal on Friday last; but no damage of @onsequence resulted from them on tbe Union side Dur- Sng the Gring the rebei battery at the Howiett House ‘was again, for the fourth time, silenced by Butlers guns. The bodies of some fifteen or twenty of the woomy’s men who bad been killed in the engagement of ‘tbe previous day were discovered on Friday morving ying between the opposing picket lives. The Rich- fond papers, in alluding to rum_rs that Grant was crossing mem from the south to the north side of James river on Thuraday Inst, discredit them, and say that it Bs dot in that direc ion, but ov his left, that he meditates Jeo carly nnd heavy attack. As @ preliminary to this, Abey say bo bas issued an order directing all the inbabi- ‘Tents of tho country residing within five miles of bis Wroar to leave. Some important movement fn the vicinity jot the Dutch Gap canal, by the Monitors, is also appre- Bhonded by the fichmond editors, ‘There is nothing later to report from the field of mili- ary operations in the Sbenandoad valley. Additional confrmation of the reported movements of Abe rebel privateer Captain Semmos, heretofore alluded leo in tho Arman, is furnished by Captain Mount, of the Drig Emma Dean, which errived be: yesterday from Matamoros Semmes arrived at that place from Havana © the 1¢th wit, tu bbe British scbooner Adder, and im- Yoediately passed over to Brownsville, Texas, on bis way Bo Ricbmoad. Avother official order bas been issued frem the War Department in reference to tue organization of the ver bran Foret army corps, to be commanded by Major Gen Ore! Hancock. Meo wishtog to enlist inthe corps can do Bo by making application to the provost marsbal of the @ strict tn whicb they reside, when, if thoy successfully Pass exam notion, they wiil be fareished with free trans. Dortasion to Washington. Recruits will be credited on the thilitary Guowgggt the districts to which they bave their Domes. From Memphis we learo that the Usion Colonel Yorke Dad returned to that place (rom bie expedition Into Mis Piesippt, baving captured at Osceola njne hundred stand Dr erms, which were on the way from Selma, Alabama, Bo the rebel General Price, in Arkansas Wiuin $0 three @ays ending on Saturday last ten NEW. YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER » 5, 1864, commirsiqped and three non-commissioued Caion officers who bad escaped irom different rebel prisons arrived at Knoxviite, lencesace, after stealthy marches of from one to two moots through (he swamps, thickelg,and moun- tatns of the Carolinas and Georgia. The steamship Baltic arrived at Annapolis yesterday from Savanuab, with Give hundred and twenty more exenanged Union soldiers, Fiity-seven died on the pas. saje, aod it fs thought that more than two-thirds of those still living om reaching Annapolis will never recover. Our files 0 late rebel papers contain reports of inter esting proceedings In the Richmond Congross, In tho Senate, on last Wednesday, resniutions reiative to the Seizure of the privateer Florida by the Wacbuseit, in Bahia bay, were introduced and ordered to be printed Tbey say that the act was “a flagrant outrage om the sovereignty of Brazil” and “a wrong to every civilized maritime Power,” tbat it is the duty of tho Brazilian government to protect property of®the ‘Confederate States’? within its territory, and that it is bound to ev- force the restoration of the Florida to (he rebei autborijies, woich latter will probably be a little heavier job thaa the Emperor of Bra zil, even were be go disposed, could easily accomplish, since that vessel is now quietly and securely resting on the solid groundwork of Jumes river, with some seventy or eighty feet depth of water above her. These resolutions also provide for jaying statement of the case before all the European governmen' the appoiotment of @ commissioner to confer with the Brazilian government in reference to it. In the rebel Howse of Representatives on the same day Mr. Foote's Monroe doctrine utions again camo up, and, after some ta:k, were referred to tho Foroiga Relations Com mitteo. Mr Foote a:so introduced resolutions declaring that the Cengress cannot interfero in reference to the and for emane,pation of giaves, as euggested in Jeff. Davis’ mes- eage, that, though it 1 impoiitic at present for States to act separately in regacd to negotrations for poace, tho right to do so, if circumatances shouid justify tt, paturally inheres in each one, acd providing for the appointment of & committee of one from each state to consider the sud,ect of caing & convention of delegates from all the States lo dev:se measures for “the vigorous prosecution of t@e war," ‘‘in order to secure an cariy cessation of ee ee eg ase bostiintres ** Mr Ouid, revel Exchaoge Commiss.cner, bas issued an order deciaring exchanged all rebel soldiers delivered by the Union authorities at any place within tbe rebel lines prior to the 25th alt, Ail tbo men captured at Vicksburg who reported at aay parole camp prior to the lst ult. are also deciared to ba duly exchanged It seems that the rebel officers in’ Georgia bave been in the babit Bf appearing cn parade decked with rosettes, fancy tobacco poucbes’’ and other favors of friends; whereupon ao order bas been issued to give notice that such “ vanity ill becomes a naficn bowed to the earth by debt apd poverty,’ aud will not hereafter be tolerated A rebel private writes to the Richmond Dispatch from im front of Geueral Butler's jines, complaining that he has received oo pay (or nine months, is sadly in ceed of clothes, and bas to sicep on the cold ground at night without any blacket, ami that bis com- rades are in the game condition. An association tn Rich. mond has commenced supplying the poor of that city with eoup, at twenty Ove cents per quart. The Richmoud Whig of the 2d ine! ys that the rebel General Price is now, with a large army, within striking distance of Little Rock, Arkansas, which piace be is ‘toreatening. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Considerable ecosteraation and excitement wore caused fn the city yesterday among natives of the Southern States now resident bere, and others supposed to have some know'edge of the receat extensive incendiary plot, by the arrest at the principal hotels, uader orders from General Dix, of somo sixty of their number. They wore all marched to headquarters and required to give an account of themselves, Some, after an examination, were released; but the majority were deiained, and it is expected that they will be sent to Fort Lafayetse to-day. All B8outhervers now in this city aud Brooklyn are to be put under military surveillance, and those who do not report themselves at ral Peck's headquarters, in Bleecker street, will be liable to arrest, ‘The secoud seasion of the Thirty eighth Cong-ess will commence in Washington to-day, Though @ quorum o: both houses was present in the city yesterday, it is not expected that any business will be trausected before to- morrow. The President's message will uot be sent in ull then, and it is supposed that the members will merely meet to day and adjourn over, Tbe only depart mental reports ready for pretectotion are those of the Secretary of the Navy and the Pof{master General. The steamsbip North Star, from Aspinwall for this port, concerning whose safety eo many fears were ex pressed, arrived aa‘ely at her moorings yerterday moro- ing. The cause of her detootion was yesterday explained io tho Heratp, She brings as very interesting news from the Central and South american republics. The lite revolution in Ecuador has beea completely ox- tinguished. Several of tue Jeading conspiratora were arrested snd summarily put to death, A corre spondence of eome importance bas taken place between Commander G. F. Pearsun, of the United States Navy, and the Governor of Panama, re lative to the arrest of several persons implicated to an atiempt to seize the steamer Salvador and io convert her into a rebel pirate, Commander Pearson ceized some of tbem outside of Columbian waters, and appiied to the Goversor for permission to bring them seross the Isth mus, which the latter politely deciined to give. The coffee, cotton and indigo crops of the Central Americac ‘States promise to be very large this year. There js n0- thing additional of importance by this arrival relative to tbe Spatish-Peruvian difficulty, The steamsbip Merrimac, which arrived bere early on Sunday morning, from New Orieans on November 27, re ports the arrival there of the steamers Ariel, {rom New York, and Orieotal,from Boston, on tbe 26th. The Orleans cotton market wes unsettied, and $1 25 was fused for middling. Thirteen thousand Ove bund barreis of flour, for tramsbipment to the Nortb, ar. Orleans from the West on the 26th ult, hip Edinburg, from Liverpool on the 16 th 8 on the 17th uit., arrived at this port last evening. Later European advices than those brought by the Edinburg, bave been received by previous ar rivals, Another police stativn house murder occurred early yoetercay morning. Three colored women and an Irish woman, all of whom bad beeo arrested oo Saturday night for drunkenness and disorderly conduct on the street, were loeked up togeth&r in a cell of the Sixth pre- cinct station bouse. About three o'clock yesterday morning one of the negro women, named Elizabeth Sava- koe, commenced au arenult on the Irish woman, whose name was Mary Bean, whom ebe beat, kicked aod mutt. lated in a most shocking manner, not relinquishing ber violence till life was extinct. A coroner's inquest was held over the body of deceased, who was sixty two years of ogo, and on {te conclusion the woman Savahoe was committed to the Tombs to await her trial. The police on Saturday night arrested Eilen Jamee, tho proprietress of the alleged dieroputable house No 803% Mercer atroet, and all ber female boarders, on the com- plaint of Jesse Chattorson, of Roslyn, Long teleod, who charges that while in the premises he was robbed of turee bundred dollars, Tbe house was closed ap, the Woman James detained for trial, aod the other women end Chattergon sent to the House of Detention, to be kept for witnesses The money was not recovered. Patrick Keating, the youug man who was shot in the abdomen by bis brother Dennis, jn a juok shop in South street, oo Thursday last, died yesterday in the New York Hospital, Yesterday afternoon, about fonr o'clock, a fire wae discovered 10 the dry guods warehouse of Halstend, Hajoes & Co,, 376 and 378 In The Ore originated tm an office under the sidewalk weed by the entry clerks. ‘The loss by fire and e ie about Keventy-five thousand doll all of which was fully tosvured. The bulidiog was damaged to the amount of ten thousand dollars, At eight o'clock last evening the towboat Goorge For rel, lying at the foot of Partition street, Bouth Brooklyn, was discovered to be op fire, aod was Whallr destroved, She was valued at twenty-five ¢Roussad dollars, and was fully insured. The jourveymen segar makers of this and the sur- Founding cities beld a moeting yesterday, in the Bowery, sd resolved to co-operato with the convention of tbe Various (bacco manufacturers which is to be heid in this city in a few days, for the purpose of petitioning Congrese to trans er the iutereal taxes on tobacco (rom the m-rufactured to the raw material exclusively, ‘A case involving a double charge of larceny is now be- fore the Jeilerson Market Police Court. On last Wednes- day evening, @ Miss BiakeSlee was arrested at the justi gation of a man named kdward Bosset, who chargea ner with baying robbed him of Gfty doliars while they weie together in ber room, Mss Biskeslee was locked up during the pight, bus as Boeset did aot appear against her sho was discbarged, On returoing to ber room, shoalieges, she discovered that her diamond breastpin, worth two hundred doliars, and fifty doliars in money were missing, whereupon she bad Bosset ar resied. The case 1s still undecided, Mr, Dayid Me as of West Thirty-second street, had bis poc! ver three bundred dollars on Saturday evening at the Cooper Institute, by two con federates, who are known as Jobo Jones acd Joto Brown, Mr, McMastere caught the mea in the act of robbing bim, aod succeeded in recovering bis money, and, with the aid of the police, in effecting the arrest 0 Brown, who was locked up for trial, Jiues escaped. During @ quarrei on Saturday night, at 204 West Thirty: second street, between two intoxicated men named Chas Doyle and Eaward McGrath, she latter, as alle; dangerously injured by blows om the bead witb a slung ehot inline bands of the former. Boyle was arrested and committed for trial A yout Prussian pamed Louis Goldenfauss, alias Geraud, was arrested by a United States deputy marshal, on Friday iast, at Pittstown, Ronsselaer county, in this State, on the charge of having committed forgeries on firms in Germany to the amount of over eighty thousand dollars. Some time ago. ho came to this couotry and figured somenhat extensively in Wall strest. He bought a fine estate at Pitta. town, which be adorned withgghandsome buildings and otber improvements, and where he was living io magnificent style, much respected by all the people of (bat region, whea the officer appeared and took bim into custody, under the provisions of the Extradition treaty between our government and that of Prussia, It ia alieged that ail Goldenfauss’ wealth is the result of bis frauds, that be was originally aciork in a banking bouse 1a Cologne, aod that when he left there he deserted a wife and child, aod brought with him to this country as bis wife a beautiful young Jady. He was brought to (nis city from Pitssiown by the marshall, and will bo sent to Europe by the next steamer, for trial on the charges. {6 friends are said to be drm in the belief o: bis topacense. The peop.e of Kansas had a clyic jubilee on last Mon day, on the occasion of the opening of @ portion of the Union Pacific Rai!road rumning through that Staie. A tram was run from Wyandotte to L:wrence over the road, and much interest waa manifegted by the citizens. s & © 8 g = = The Reassembling of Congress—The Business of the Session. The two houses of Congress reasseinble to- day. Itis the frst day of the closing session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, and the 4th of March, till noon, will be the last, when this Congress expires. It is @ session limited to three short months for business, and, accord- ingly, beyond the heavy schedule of the ap- propriation bills, we cannot expect that much will be done. Including some measures of general importance, and a lengthy catalogue of local and private bills, a considerable bud- get of unfinished business lies over from the last session. This budget will probably be at- tended to while the standing committees are preparing their reports and bille of appropria- tions for the ensuing fiscal year. The most conspicuous and important of these unfinished measures is the joint resolution, which has passed the Senate by the required two-thirds vote, submitting to the Legislatures of the several States a proposition so to amend the constitution of the United States as to de- clare within the limits and jurisdiction thereof the iostitution of slavery abolished and forever interdicted. This resolution was put to the test lust June in the House of Representatives; but, though it received a large majority, it failed to secure the constitutional two-thirds vote. There are intelligent men, however, who believe that as thia issue was involved in the Balcimore platform upon which Mr. Lincola has been so triumphantly re-elected, it may now probably be passed. It is assumed that at least a portion of the democratic minority, taking the results of the late election as em- bracing an approval by the people of the pro- posed amendment, will vote for it as under instructions from their constituents. We en- tertain a different opinion; but should the experiment still fail before the present Con gress it will unquestionably be passed at the first session of the next, whether a regular or exira session. Not much time, therefore, need be wasted upon the subject this winter. Another unfinished bill is that which contem- plates the shipment of Europeans to this coun try in national vessels, their transportation to the public domain in the great West, and aid to them otherwise, the government meantime to have a lien on their property. Some such mea- sure as this, to enable us to fill up the waste places of the war, would be a good thing, notwithstanding that facetious German bora philosopher, C. Godfrey Gunther, opposes it tooth and nail. Another Senate bill pend- ing before the House is a bill to collect direct taxes in the insarrectionary districts of the United States. This bill, we think, should be modified, so as to apply to the States reclaimed from the rebellion; for the collection of taxes in insurrectionary districts will at beat operate unjustly, oppressively and unprofitably, Among the House bills unacted upon in the Senate is a bill to secure the speedy transpor- tation of the mails. Good. A bill to aid in the protection of emigrants to the territories: Good. A bill to facilitate the payment ef boun- ties and the arrears of pay due our wounded and deceased soldiers. Very good. We hope all these bills will be passed. The bill to secure to persons in the naval and military service homesteads on confiscated or forfeited estates in ineurrectionary districts is a more delicate measure, and involves a question not only of expediency, but of constitutionality, which should aot be hastily considered. As for the bill to ascertain and adjust claims against the government for injuries or destruction of property by the military or aval authorities, it ought to be passed over to the next Congress, inasmuch as it may be eo framed as to add from a bundred to a thousand millions to the national debt. The severest checks will be peeded against an inexhaustible placer of cor- ruptions in this business of indemuities for losses sustained by the war. The joint resolution relating to the Maxi- milian monarchy in Mexico should be passed without hesitation. Maximilian has been io Mexico long enough, and ought to bave a for- mal notice from Congress to pack up and leave. This idea is in the Baltimore platform, and was endorsed by the people in the late Presidential election. Let Congress respect and obey the popular will. Louis Napoleon will understand what it means, and will be glad enough to back out. He has too many irona in the fire, anyhow. The rectifestion of our budget of taxes, Guties oa imporis, &c., and some little patoh- | ing up of the financial system of the Treasury Department, should not, and, we presume, will not, be neglected. We anticipate more taxes, of course; but so fat as experience may have taught them, the two Houses should endeavor to equalize the burdens of the people. But neither the Treasury nor the people can hope for any decided relief uatil the armies of the rebellion are demolished, dispersed and dis- banded. Tben we sball haye peace. Thon we shall know where we stand and what to do. The reinforcement of @bo armies of the Union, therefore, becomes the imme- diate and most important duty of Congress, and whatever may be the recommendations of the Presideut’s message, it is to be hoped that this primary and paramount duty will be promptly aad fully discharged. Tue suppres- sion of the rebellion is the first and the main thing to be dune. Upon that everything else depends. Sherman March ing Savannah— What the Rebel Government Expects of Hood, Our news of General Sherman is to-day even better than usual, though still from rebel sources, The efforts that the Richmond Whig informed us were being made to “head Sher- mun off” have probably had but little success, as we now learn that his infantry was all over the Oconee river and well advanced towards Savannab, and on the 29th ult, (Tuesday last) a portion of bis cavalry passed the Savannah north of Millen. This was doubtld$s the body that the rebel papers bave hitherto informed us was intercepted and cut up, and we may per- baps assume, therefore, that it did not estab- lish Sherman’s communication with the sea coast on ils first attempt. But with Sberman near enough to the sea to make <uch an at- tempt at all, he cannot long be kept from making it successfully, and we shall therefore in all likelihood soon have news direct from his army. By the steamer direct from Savan- nab we learn that Shermar ‘was within forty miles of that city on the. 30 > ult., though the Savannah rebels declared that bo bad been stopped at that distance, In @ prociamation urging the people of Augusta to fight—they need a great deal of urging—the Mayor of that city announces that Geveral Bragg ison the march tiither with “reinforcements.” His troops are probably those that were destined for the defence of Wilmington, and they likely reinforce: | we V's corps, already at Augusta. We tbus see what a cause of powerful trouble Shermau’s move- | ment is, since it can weaken the defence of Richmond and leave Wilmington nearly belp- less. Sherman is used up in the ordinary way by the arguments of the Richmond papers, which see in this movement a general retreat,” forced upon the Union general by the desperate nature of his situation at Allanta, wiih bis com- munications cut and Hood on hisrear. This was the view taken some time since by the World and the News of this city. But one of the Richmond papers naively hopes that the rebels may not have cause to regret baving made Sherman so very ‘“desperate;” and it laments also that in making this retreat be is permitted to get away so easily. In one of the Southern papera # member of the Georgia Legislature recounts his dodges te get away from Sberman’s forces, and bow he sought refuge in the woods and pigpens of his gative State. He gives a glimpse of the devastation left in the line of our armies’ march, and a pse also at those faithful Georgia niggers that are to fight so stoutly for their masters. “Those that were most trusted were the first to leave.” In view of such glimpses the whole South may well exclaim, with the North Caro- lina editor, “Unless the wisdom of Congress and of the State Legislatures shall devise some plan by which the war may be stog ped and peace restored, it does not require the spirit of prophecy to see that we are a ruined people.” From Tennessee there is no news of any im- portance, which just now is good news, since it shows that the lesson given to Hood at Frank- lin bas made him cautious, and compelled him to come on more slowly. From a paragraph in the Richmond Sentinel of the lst we learn that it was hoped in Richmond that, “im conjunction with Breckinridge’s eperations in East Tennes- see, Hood would soon be able to expel the Union forces from tbe State.” That, then, Is what is expected of Hood, and any success short of that will be considered a defeat in the rebel capital. What, then, will Rebeldom say to the battle at Franklin? A Mopet Scrsa Corresronpent.—Tte Balti- more correspondent of the World bas found it necessary to come out with a card in vindication of his patriotism. This card, for the purpose of a word or two concerning the writer, we have transferred to these columns. He would have us believe that he is a badly injured innocent, a model of loyalty, ® perfect pink of Unionism of the copperhead stripe, and all that. He “loves the Union,” be does not consort with Baltimore traitors or rebel sympathizers—never did. He probably gets all his rebel information direct from Rich- mond. He says be does “not believe in the wisdom of the ‘acts of the present administra- tion;” but be forgets to say that all his labors as a copperheai war correspondent of the Bohe- mian tribe have been devoted to prove the wis- dom of the acts of Jeff. Davis and his confede- rates. If he fs « traitor, he says he is “in com- pany with Hon. W. B. Reed, of Philadelphia; Gov. Seymour and Hon. James Brooks, of New York,” and other prominent democrats; but in thus referring to his “friends” he is too modest by half. He does injustice to the Hon. Mr. Vallandigbam, the fugitive Dodd, of Indiana, and all the “Knights of the Golden Circle” and “Sons of Liberty” in leaving them out. He says be is for “the old Union atid the old con- stitution.” We guess from bis published war letters that be means by this the old Union 9 it was under Buchanan, and the constitution as expounded by Jake Thompson and Floyd He says he has “never written a word in favor of any of the acts, or measures, or policy of the republican party;” and be might have added that everything be bas written tas beea in support of the rebellion. He bas had Wash. ington captured, Baltimore occupied, Philadel- phia sacked, Grant's army destroyed, Cincin- nati plundred, New Orleaus retaken, Sherman cut to pieces, and Kentucky in full possession of the rebels over and over again. We expect next to hear from this chap that Lee’s army, by a sweeping conscription of the old men of “the confederacy” over seventy-five, has been reinforced to the extentof two bundred tiou- sand veterans; that a volunteer army of colored rebels, three hundred thousand strong, is moving along on the top of the Biue Ridge to Aank Washington; that all the Jate corn crop of Georgia has been removed {som Sherman's path ond shivved to Nassau; that a fleet of blockade runners are investing Fortress Monroe, and that rebel ebinplasters at Richmond are ata premium. Io such wonder- ful Union war intelligence as this the Baiti- wore correspondent of the World {es the prin- cipal dealer. An announcement of bis retire- ment from the business would lead te @ pro- test from George N. Sanders, Attempted Piracy in the Pacific—N. aity for am Lucrease of Our Squadron There. The news from the Pacific, received by the steamer North Star, is of the utmost importance, and demands the immediate attention of our government. Our Panama correspondent furnishes us with the interesting details of a well organized plot on the part of agents of the so-called Con/ederate government to seize the Panama Railroad Company's steamer Salvador, on her passage from Panama to ports in Central America, and, once having possession of ber, to seizo the Guatemala, the other and best ship of the same line, and witt the latter endeavor to capture one of the Cali: fornia ships with treasure. Happily the whole plan was frustrated, and the conspirators cap- tured, by timely information and by those having a knowledge of the plans keeping it a profound secret from every one except the persons necessary to carry out the programme arranged to secure the rascals. Had the con- spiracy not been nipped in the bud we should have bad to chronicle another Chesapeake and Roanoke affair, but attended with more serious consequences; for the rebels would have secured a fast and economical ship, and oue that in a fair race could distance any of our Pacific squadrou, With such @ vessel untold injury would have been inflicted upoo our commerce there, where it is almost wholly unprotected by reason of the imbecility of ihe Navy Department, who cannot or will uot ses the necessity for fast steamers in the Pactic Ocean a3 well as in other parts of the world. When it was expected that the Alabama, after her cruise im the East Indios, might possibly visit the Pacific, the Navy Depart- ment was importuno! to increase the squadron in those waters. It, did so by despatching the iron—not iron-clad— “double-ender” Wateree—a steamer that re- quired six months to reach Panama; and oo her arrival there wa+ found so foul as to render her going on the dock a matter of immediate necessity to fit ber for any service whatever wherein motion was requisite. This is the only reinforcement supplied on the very pres- sing requisition, and, if the truth were told, sho is rather an eucumbrance to the Admiral! than. an assistance, should the necessity arise for a fast and powerful vessel. Again: the Navy Department finds it all sufficient to keep in the harbor of Panama an old, worn out sailing sloop, instead of having there a steamer of the proper kind to act instantly, and one capable of any required speed. The English govern- ment, without @ tithe of the necessity, always maintains at that point’a fast screw corvette or frigate, while we appear to be content witha hulk, whose proper position is with those of her class long laid up in “rotten row.” More by good luck than good management the Lancas- ter happened to be in Panama when ber ser- vices were required. Otherwise the crushing of this piratical scheme might bave been at- tended with more difficulty and less favorable results. With the knowledge of this attempt before Mr. Welles and Mr. Fox, will they turn their eyes and direct their attention for a little time towards our commercial interests in the Pacific Ocean, and try to discover bow necessary it is that our squadron there should be placed in- stantly on a proper footing? Let them at once send to tbe Mare Island Navy Yard the two vessels that remain in commission, and there let them remain, replacing them with two or more fast steamers. Let them order at least two veasels of the squadron to be at all times in the South Pacific; but, above all, let the ship stationed in the harbor of Panama be a vessel that can be used at a mement’s warning to guard our interests both ashore and afloat. These small matters once attende d to, and our merchants and mariners will feel a degree of security to which they have long been strangers, Oxxy a Sueit.—General Grant bas not only fought some of our most splendid battles, but he has said some most brilliant as well as sen- sible things. He adopted tho phrase of “un- conditional surrender,” and haa kept it on his victorious banners. He discovered at a glance the desperate efforta of the rebels to keep up their armies, when he declared that to do so they had “robbed the cradle and the grave.” And recently, on bis visit to the North, he expressed the opinion {hat “‘the confederacy was but a shell.” Of the truth of this last remark we have further evidence from the recent opera- tions of General Sherman. All the interior of Rebeléom appears to be empty. All the men. who could bear arms have been dragged off. The militia, composed of invalids and decrepit old men, can make no resistance. All the strength of the confederacy fs in the shell, the yelk has perished. At a far point on the ex- terior some troops are kept together and make @ otand; but there is but little left of the original egg out of which treason batched this bloody war. It is cracked everywhere, and will seon crumble in our bands. ‘Tae Next Drart.—We yesterday published an official notice of the greatest importance to all persons who are enrolled in this city and liable to draft. The same notice appears to- day in our advertising colamns. It is the duty of all our citizens whe are in any way inte- rested in the expected draft to give their atten- tion to the facts that are so fully and clearly set forth in this document. There is reason to believe that the government will shortly onll for fartber reinforcements for our armies in the field, and a draft may be ordered at any day. The first thing necessary is to see that the en- rolment be proporly corrected and reduced. Although the public has been frequently called upon to look to this matter, our citizens have shown but very little disposition to dose. It with be their own fault if they do not respond to the call now made by the authorities of the city” If they do not the enrolment will be much greater than it should be, the quotas will be necessarily largor, aud the general effect of the draft will fall heavier upon all classes. We therefore call particular attention to the notice to which we have referred. Movements ov Gorrscnate.—Gottschalk, the famous pianist, in about to give bis farewell concerts bere before leaving for Havat Mexico, Ho played inet week ia Boston with great succes, He hes etarted for the West. oro cities, and will play at the Opewing of the new concert hall in Chicago Miss Simons, @ young vocalist who was Wa Moret 4 Herr YIOUy Hah fui Siquor Bi usai@ Whe musical direoto, On Saturday evening three colored women, Bamed Mar- waret Peters, Sarah K Willioms aad Elizaboth Savokoe, were arrested by (he Sixth precinct police, charged with being drunk and dis rderiy, aod locked up io a atthe Statin Bouse with Mary Bean, an Irish woman, who bad been found lying druvk oo tae gratiog of premises No. 13 Mulberry street by officer Cromu. ‘Ibe prisouers ro- mained apparently quiet till about three o'clock yesterday morning, when the colored woman, Savokoe, evinced » disposition to quarrel with her white companion, Alter using abusive aod insulting language towards the woman Dean, who was very quiet, Savokoe seized her violeatly by the neck and threw her with great force against the side of the ceil. The heipiess woman pleaded for mercy and asked to be let alone, wen sho was again caught by ber assailans and buried to floor, While prostrate and unable to defend herself, Savokoe brutauy jumped upon ber face with both feet, acd sooa afterwards re peated the same violence, iallictiug iajuries wach caused death soon after wai At the ime of the taiiction of the fatal violence the Other cvlored women were threateued if they tuteriered OF gave an alarm, avd the noise made bP the drunken prisouers in otber cells was so great tbat nothing distinct could be heard at the capiaio’s desk. On tioned by Captain Jourdan a(ter (he murder ered, Savokoe expressed sorrow at what she sod Said the otber colored women wore as guilty 48 her- self. Coroner Naumann yesterday held an inquest on the body at the station house, and below will be 1ound the ‘most importaat portious of the testimony elicited: — Margaret Vetus, being sworn, says:—I reside ut No. 19 Baxter street; 1 was arrested and brougbt nere last even- Ing, with Sarah Williams and tho prisoner; we were aif Pluced in one cell; about an hour afterwards de- ‘Coased was put iu the decessed said something to ter took hoid of ber bsud, pulled io r and stamped on ber breast with her feet; she continued to gismp oa her for sme five oF ten minutes and went away, thea commenced at her agaiu; | attempted to call the doorman, when she struck tee avd Kuocked mo uguinsi the door: she said if 1 didu’s ebut up she would serve me (be same way, tue doormam came along soon witerwards; icailed out to bim that [ believed the deceasod was dead, he opened the door and came io and examined ber, before ho came | ‘elt of dee ceased and found that eve ‘waa coid; I ssid to prisoner, * Lizzie, 1 beiteve sho 18 dead,” eho replied, ** Dama it, let her die, tbe biten * Sarah t’ Wiliams, residing at No, 19 Mulberry street, being eworr, says —1 Was arrested iast wight betwee eight aud oie o'ciock, tho prevediug witness and the prigover-were all locket 10 R ceil together; | was lying down on the benca when deceased was put in the coll; fhe sa: dawn by ma snd commenced ialking to moa, tue prisouer said to ber, “What the hell arg you talking to culored peopie for, you old white rip,’*@ud took her by the back parcoi the neck aud threw ber against the wall: deceased then down by tbe door; *spoat ku me—! am @ poor un ortumate woman,” pI oner replied, 1 dou't care adama what you are,” and OD that’ she’ took wold of deceased, threw bor down and jumped on ber face with bon her feet, sbe then left ber ‘a litte while, returned aud jumped on ber face a second time il ber feet were covered with blood; abe thea took bor cloibes vif, uud satd sbe would look tor ber money, sbe afierwa:ds took ber shawl aod wound it tt around her, but when eho discovered that the woman wo bad all been drinking the most intoxicated. wag dend ehe pot it bac wome, but the priaoner Ordered policemen women present; ‘k street, vear Mission prisover was 1g in Baxter atrect, oear ing to a white afterwards camo to where | was, and I told ber bout her business, when the ofticers took away two women the prisover followed them; I afterwards faw tho prisoner in the cell with the women; she called me and said she bad dove nothing, and asked why she was locked up; at that time there was such @ noise in the prison that one could hardly bear one’s own voice; I toid the doorman to put the quiet prisoners together as far as he could, and pus the disorderly ones in cells by them. seives; this morning, ix o'clock, 1 beard that deceased was dead; I asked (be prisoner how sbe took her life; she told me that a poticemac bad bit b th b; I asked another wo be took place; gaid the prisover bad koocked down jeceased with her fist avd kicked ir io ead five or ten minutes, and had struck ber; the other woman corroborated her statement; it ts the duty 0: the doorman to take the prisoners from the frat office and jock them up; a policeman can only enter the prison to assist the doorman; between twelve and twe o'clock he took back eleven pris ners. Wooster Beach, Jr., ad. D., testifed that ho bad nade ‘® post-mortem examination of the body of deceased and found marks of severe injury to the bead; there were several deep cuts on the face and scaip, the injurits pre- sented indicatious of baving beea caused by blows with ‘&® Bhoo; oD opening into the cranial cavity a rupture of & Diood vessel was found to have tukeo place; the homorr- bage from it and consequent compression of tke brain yras tbe immeaiate cause of death. ‘The case was then submitted to the jury, wiv rendered: the jollowing verdict:—* That Mary Bean, th deceased, came to ber death by injuries to the bead‘by Hieks at the bands of Elizabeth Savokoe, at the Sixth preqnet station bouse, oo the 4th day of December, 1464." ‘The deceased. was sixty two years of age, but ber resi- dence, if she bad ope, did not appear. Coroner Naumann committed the prisoner to the Tombs to await her trial. She ts twenty-two years of age, was born in Gavana, and lived coruer of Leonard and baxter atreets. In relation to the charge preferred against her she bad botbing to say. ‘The principal witnesses were Bent to the Hvase of De- tention. COMPLICATED CASE OF ALLEGED LARCENT—A MER- CHANT ONE OF THK PARTING IMPLIOATED, lar case, involving the theft of @ diamond pin worth §200 aud $45 in money, is now ander Investigation before Justice Dodge, at the Jefferson Mar. ket Police Court, From the affidavits cn file before the Magistrate it appears that on inst Wednesday evening Mr. Edward Besset, aires Basset, said to be a merchant doing busivesa io Broadway,and a man named Moore, called upon ise Aco E. Blakeslee, living at No. 30 East Thirteenth street, and after a protracted interview one Of the gentiemen tovited , Miss Blakesiee toa ag ogee | restaurant to,take re/restments. As they left the house Mr, Besset locked the door of his fair companion’s ruom and put tue key into bis pocket, and started for their des- toation. After supper, and while yes fo the restaurant, it suddeoly traospired tbat neither o: the gentiemen i any money with = to py, the bill, and og lady was io an equally embarra:ciog predicament, Besse, insisted that be bad tbe house in Thirteenth Becset ieft and remained awa: bis return be charged Miss Biakesiee with steal money (Ofty dollars), and, calling an officer, arrested and sent to the Fifteenth precinct station house for the night. Ip consequeoce of the non-appearance of pper room. made against Bessct by Miss y 1d yUusLIC® Dodge committed bim to prison to awalt ap examina- tion, The accused stoutly denies bis gutit, and claims to bea bighiy respectable geu PICKPOCKETS AP THE COOPRR INSTITUTE. On Saturday cvening Mr. David McMaster, residing at 218 West Thirty-second street, while endeavoriug to reach the bex Office at the Cooper Institute, bad bis pocket picked of a wallet containing money avd checks to the amount of $314 Mr. McMaster was rudely jortiea and iostantiy missing bis wallet, he seized a map giving bis uame as Joba Jones, who paseed the missing treasure 1 an accomplice knows as Joho Brown. Mr. McMaster tnstantly caught Brown, who thereupon toseed tbe wallet outside the door, where jt was picked up and but Browa was hold Precinct came up and arrested bim. quently takes before Justice Dodge, at the Jefferson ket Police Court, and committed to prison for ng retused. DRADLY ASSAULT WITH 4 SLUNG BrOT. Charies Boyle, a laborer, thirty-two years of age, wae arrested on Saturday, by officer Howe, of the Twentieth Precinct, charged with committing a deadly assault ow residing at 294 West Thirty second at came icto his latter swears apartments and struck two violeot Diows on the head with a beavy slung sbot, knocking bim down and afterwards kicking him times us he lay on the Both parties were under the influence of liquor at MO, ‘ileus ‘bode committed Boyle for with. ROBBED IN A DIGREPUSABLE HOUSE—THE PLACE BROKER UP. On Saturday evening Jerse Chatierson, residing at entered the disreputable house, NO 3036 pt by Ellen Jamos, and while there was robbed of $200 by one of inmates, fe com- 4 of Dis joss to Captal is, of the Pigbth pre- odiately despatched officers Honderaon, his foree to makon dercent on vile Od Arrest all persons found therein. proprietress was taken toto custody a8 also were all the female boarders, and taken before Justicn Dodge, who beld the woman James for trial, Chatter fou wa detained op a witnens, and, wilh the lomates of tbe place, wae sent to tho House of Detestion, The police did not succeed ju recovering the ia money. Tt i Raid that the piace where this robbery occurred i@ One Of ibe vilest resorts in the Eighth precinct, DISOR vase of the election in following Tosult:—Home voto for Lins ; for MoCetlan, 62,404; Union majority, 6,412. ers? vote ts not all in yet, A Brig on Fire. Woon's Horm, Maas,, Dec. 4, 1864, A bermaphrodite brig in Wood's Hole took fire «t four o'clock this afternoon, At nix o'clock FP. M, ele tO, mained burgiog and ber masts had [ailog.