The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1864, Page 4

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The steamer Victor wutch arrived at acospore, Ma, yesterday, (rom Chariesicn bay, reports that left, oo Weanesday fart, the 2b iort | Heavy firing was heard in tha direotion 0; Zarauceh we Tus moet have deen cauged either by an stack of Geaera: Sberinaa on tony city or by aa eheagement belween Generar F forces and the enomy sear the Char catou aba cavicoah Railrond, Ad icdication that it was ‘ne former v8 fare im ao extract from « Ruimocd paper peo yesterday s Hrvain, whicb stated that Sterman s wivance ster & was skirmishing with ihe ourpoet reve: piexets «round 1. tbe etn autverea! opicion of our officer and © wwe Depars ment of the South thes when Gevers Sherman's army seaulted the city of Sevannam 's wou'd '@ tiaue to-day the ropubicartcn of rebergewepaper art-cier Savannah op Tuesday N wae the We cco descriptive of the marci—sccora:ng to tue ecreicn—ot the grand raiding forse tarough Geor We bave (urther partcuiare rogard:ng the +xpea’s.on which moved southward from the army of the Potomac @t daylight on lust Wednesday moro og fhe force war ander command of Genersi Warren, aud consistet of wa “two “brigedes of Gen to Wednesday afternoon lottoway river, a the sition of comsequence war nit Grege's was eouth cavacry, of ube crossed 8m pouicone. No whieh wae Jerusaiem plank road crossing eppe to che point toe Potom ater Seoe wih of There wasarumorin the Army of ihata op othe aires rebei division hat beou sent arren ‘Thurecay afternove Leavy Or.ug was voa ton of Stony creek. sad it was Miought Bas our expeds. tionary forge was engaged with ibe enemy A reconno} tering cavalry deiachment was seat ov: on Thar ternoon {rom the ‘e*t 0: ghe Army af tbe Potomac, mot abe febel pickete on t toad ek rushed wth tbem for some timo, ere them (ws mies, to bere Tuo, whero, having strong works, they made « stant The evemy's strength and tion being thas acer tained, ihe obect o the + unos fe WAe Accom plisbed, and the Cnion cavairy returned to camp wite & loss of oniy seven wouvded men. There are an re Ports that ihe rebe's intand te evucuste shortly. The enemy's fire yo ie vicinity ste Gap canai bas ver abated tately On Thursday fast the French Conse) resdent in R:cumond cisited Gen. rai Butler, aod had & coulerence to reference te the transfer of French evojscts from the reve: capita: te witbia the Union limes Richtoced papers of Thursday last aay that the two Urcon armies in front of (bat piace aod Petersburg sve cceg reinforce: by between ix aod (eo thouvacd mex from ihe Suenaudoah eaey that “this remforcement eigmilies battle. aimoat ‘mo mediate.” Tue Dutch Cap canal, they say, i in euch © Condition that HW exp be male ready tor me » few Yours, [bey haves report teats fore © troops fossed from the ocrtn to the wocth ede of be James river on ‘eat W ay morbing nod elected sMedgment between the (wo important repe-pos Fons of ‘ort Paring and abo How'ert Hore tt oe eimimed (hat a0 irow bolt from one of ihe Howlel! House gape on Mon day inst ripped open obs of the Une: n eads 60 ex tengively (het abe soon after . There has yet beer no engy movement of Gocimive importance belcre Naehviie, (hough skirmish ‘Og tI! goes op, The tyr armier remaca confronsing each other, watching, wating aod preparing. It ie aid that ine te bere stron im'renctiments with two rows uf chiomur t¢ frue — etrongthered by the stretch.ng sronnd (hom of wires. Ar Nashville is wow iuvened by the rebel army under Genera) Hood, ana « e Thomea Lea concentr the main portion of bis forces within ‘se strong works, tbat city bas become w polat of great int Importance. We, iherefore, thie moraing, lay de Teadere sketches of the var cur national fort.feo portions to Tennessee and of the city of Narhville. ands piewry of the events w since the commencement of the rebellion, Mustrate by a map. A dotaited accourt of the b Franklin, Tennessee, op the 50th ult. by ae of 0} respondents, sccompynies these #ketcher various items of interes: commscted with the flege of Naauvitte Another expedition which went out from Vicksburg Pesontly under Major Genera! Dana was very successful The enemy was found in force; but this did not prevest Gevera! Dana's men trom accomplieb!ng the work they Marted out lo do, They thoroughly destroyed the 1 ng bridge over Black rivor, the Mississippi Contral Railroad for thirty miles above that etream, two thousand five bandred bales of rebel cotton and about three handred be wand dollars worth of other rebel government pro- b have occurred to and aroun cor and 90 =, cue | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER ll, 1864. Ge willed and forty wounded and missing. 8 exchenge of prisoners, fecently stopped in the Sa- vannab river, has been resumed in Charlestoa harbor, where the feet of Colonel Muiford, Union Exchange Com- missiover, cow lies. The steamer Victor, from of Charleston, arrived at Annapolis yesterday with a further coustzement of excbanged Union soldiers. lo late rebel papers we have the prodeedings of the North Carolina and South Carolina Legislatures relative to negotiations for peace. 10 the former body resolutions have been introduced in both boases infavor of sending comm issi@ srs to Wasbingtoa, and Jef, Davis andthe Le gisiatures of the other States are requested to co-operate, ‘Tho resolutions offered in the South Carolina Legislature coprecate any overtures for a cessation of hostilities until a dissolution of the Union is conceded by the national government, Governor Bonham, of South Carolina, ts in unison with the legislators of bis State, and is opposed to all negotiation at present except those of oold steo!, iron sod lead. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The stearesbip Golden Rule, from Greytown, Nicaragua, on the 2d inst,, arrived at this port inst evening, She brings no news of importance. It is thought that, through the exertions of the milt- tory and the poliee, ther fair prospect of the speedy capture of the principal actors in the Inte atrempt to barn down thigcity, It is said that at least seven of {bem are now in the city, and under surveiliance. Mean. time the registration of persons from the insurgent States continues at Géneral Peck’s office, in Bleecker street. About one (housaud nave beow registered up to this time. ‘The rebel General Beate haa been liberated from: Fert Warrea on parole, for the purpose of superintending, ia conjunction with the Unton General Payne, the reception of ov (housand bates of cotton from the South, and their exchange here for thirty thousand biankets to be distri. buted among the rebel soldiers confiaed in the North. Genora! Bente has arrived im this city, and yesterday morning reported to Genera! Dix. ‘We have had our first s29w storia of the season. Snow commenced falitag in Lbs city and vicinity between one acd two o'clock vesterday morping, and continued for five hours, attaining a depth of about five inches. It aflorded but litte steighing, however, for about noon rata fet in, and under the mosphere the streets were soon a mass of mud and siusb. The snow storm extended over a stretch of country from a¢ far south as Wasbongéon to as far north ag Port'and, Maine. in the Unitea Staiee Circuit Court yesterday, Judye Shipman presiding, leaae Henderson pleaded not guy te Ao Indictment charging bim with defrauding the gov- sroment while he was Navy Ageotot this port. The sums involved amount tc $125,000. Ballin the case has beeo rdered io be Increased (rom ten thousand to twenty thousane doliars. A comber of parties pleaded guilty to tudserments charging them with various offences of a light ature, and received eentence, each according to the Inw fu their individual casea, tn the Court of General Sessions yesterday a number of prisoners were arraizoed on indictments brought in by the Grand Jury Their trlais were set down for next week Delia Brown charged with stealing a golt watch Ao’ chain worth ore hundred and seventy five dollars froma Francis Lindswer, at 66 Graud street, on the 8tb instact, pleaded guilty to an attempt at graad larceny. Judge Russel sont ber to the Penitentiary for one year ‘Tnomas Bigan, Dons ie McCarty, Peter O'Gorman aad Cor. noiiig Abgsra (Boys) plewdad guilty to stealing a piece of fixonei worti one fundred dollars from the premises of Abrauan Josepos, 152 Ludiow stress, They were cent to the House of Refuge Fhere wat @ special meetiag of the Beard of Aldermen yesterday but oo business of any public interest was iransacted The Board will meet again on Monday after. Boon, at Cour o'o.0ee The avauat elec: on for Preeident, Vice President, Secte tary Treasurer and Trustees of our city Fire Oenartment will (age place at Miremen's Hall, in Mercer street, to- morrow evening, tne polling commencing at balf-past seven o'cwck, On Monday tat a fee broke out in a building belonging to the Provkiyn Gaslight Company, at the foot of Hudson avenue, in whch about twenty thousand tons of coal wore ciored, tbe flames were gubdued at the time: but it appears that fre stil! smouldered under the remai mace of fuel; lor about twolve o'clock. on Friday wignt it again broke out Tks dremen worked upom tt till ebvut three o'clock yeeterday morning, when the Gre was “ue ururcryg tt vruRe oUt, and destroyed Bearly allot the remaiader of the coal, The toes is about fifty tb bt dollart, ou balfof which amount there were in- furaveee Abcut two o'clock yesterday morning smoke waa seen ‘s8uing from the liquor store No. 440 Greenwich street On bursting open the door, the police discovered « fire, which bad spparentiy been carefully kindled, burning on top fa liquor barrel, and other evidences of # design to buro the place were found around the room: but oot och Headway had yet been made, and the fire was soon ertinguisbed James Fitypatrick, proprietor of the Store, James McDonald, uis bartender, and Hugh Riley, a ceputy aberill, wore arrested on suspicion of baving fred the place, ond, after an examination, locked ap. Ike New York Port Society, eatablished for the promo. tict of (he moral welfare of seamen, held a meeting tast eveolng ip the Academy of Music Captain Winslow ac erted the inv tation of the society to be present. He was enthusiastically received, and, after listening to an oquent address of welcome by the Rev. Or, Tuompson, tome remarks. Drs, Scudder, Adams and Joces ptain Brown, of the United States Navy, made Jef nddees The toyarLegisiatare of Virginia, #iove at Alexandria, hes electea Mr. Joseph & the vacancy crested by the death of Mr. SamuelJ. Bow ven and Judge John ©, Underwood a6 sucecasor Carle, whose term expires on the 4th of Maret The stock market was dull and heavy yesterd epened at 288, aad closed at 204%. Gevermment secn- thes were quiet in the microg, and iv the afternoon sdvanced The \ower price for gold yesterday, combined with the now storm, added to the usual duiness ineident to Satur 3 WAY was accomplished. pmmModtities, io whieb there was quite ® i duriog the preceding day or two ise war quiet, and the moderate busi- fneee was confined mostly tc dontestic produce up Change the fur market was quite ective, but witbout material change tn value Wheat was in (air request, aod lo. bigher. Cora continues dull, while oats wore firmer aad more active. Pork was less active, and the warket scarcely #0 firm, though without deelded change. Roof was dali and lower, while lard wax in mode quest and steady «Whiskey scarcely so firm, with doing. Freighte quiet Tur Eeroveay Press Upon 01 R =F ate Eire. Tion.—The papers of Exrope comment at some length upon our Presidential election, and but few of them appear surprised or disappointed at the resuli. [a France the liberal press is on our side and for Mr. Lincoln, and the old Bour bon and clerical press is on the rebel side aad against Mr. Lincoln. In England the liberal press goes with the liberal press of France, and the organs of the aristocracy go with tle organs of the French Bourbons. But in Eng- land another class of journals; led by the London Times, regard this election as an inter. raediate «tage between democracy and despot- ism, The Roman republic became a tyranvy, the French republic became an empire, and the English republic of Cromwell was super. seced by an aristocracy. In the same way, say these journals, the United States will relapse into ® movarchy. They forget, however, that universal suffrage and the diffusion of intelli- gence among the people were unknown in Rome, France and England. They forget, also, that the dignity with which our last election war conducted, In the midst of « great and exciting civil war, proves that the American people are still masters of the situation. The people who put President Lincoln in are quite strong enough to turn King Lincoln out, and this republic, which has shown iteelf more glorious than ever, is fully able to protect iteelf against imperial ambition, domestic traitere and foreiga foes. eower ae yerty, and returned to Vicksburg with the loss of culy | The Barber! of War—Pashthis War tena End, Mr. Lincols, end Give Us Penee. We give to-day from a Georgia rebel journal some accounts the alleged atrocities of Sberman’s ptteaing eh there- abouts. That these ¢ ventions or deliberat exaggérations, for Sal we purpose of inflaming + fe trons the people of Georgia on the line of march still before Sherman, we cannot doubt. That stragglers from his advancing columns have sldughtered cows and chickens; that in some instances, dis- regarding the 6 orders of their com- mander, they have entered private houses end seized upon private property, is very likely. That the rebels, of the-comparatively well behaved army of General Lee, bave done suck things in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and oc a very large scale, hundreds of quiet people re- duced to beggary can testify. We have bad abundant evidence that there bave been numerous ucts of lawless violerce and retaliation on both sides in the progress of this war. Taking, however, the worst retel accounts on record of “Yankee” brutalities anywhere perpetrated, or alleged to have been done, they sink into venial offences in contrast with the hideous catalogue of rebel bratalities on helpless men, women and children, boast: fully comm‘tted among the Uniontsts of Eust Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and Arkan- sas, Mississippi, Lou'siana and Texas. Quan- treil’s surprise of Lawrence, Kansas, and bis bloody work df butchery there; and Forrest's massacre of our black troops at Fort Pillow after they had surrendered, we cannot class among the most horrible of the crimes cow- mitted by rebel troopers, guerillas and bueh- whackers, border ruffians and highwaymen. Some of the fendish deeds of these white ber- der savages will compare in atrocity with those of ihe Sepoys of India. The intelligent reader will be shocked, but he cannot be surprised, that ench things are among the bitter fruits of this terrible wer All wars. in modera and ancient times, among civilized as well as barbarous billicerents, bave bean marked, more or leas, by barbarous atrocities, War turns loose all the worst pas- sions and instincts of men; and the baser sort invariably seize upon its advantages for the indulgence of their brutal propensities In this respect civil wars have ever been marked by the most malignant retaliations, With the return of peace in view of these things, there will be a fearful settlement exacted agaist the contrivers and originators of this dreadful civil war, on both sides. The satanical abolitionists of the North, who femenied this war, and the ferocious acd ®ioody-minded fire-eaters of the South, who commenced it, will be held to their terrible respousibility by the conservative masses of the country, North and South. The abolitien- ists, pleading the cause of humanity for the negro, have broaght upon him p state of things which threatens to-end only with the destruction of bis race. The fire-eaters, intent upon a Southern confederacy, resting on the corner stone of negro slavery, have brought upon their section the horrors of a hostile invasion by numerots armies and a state of siege, which threatea not only the overthrow of slavery and their confederacy, but the extirpation of slaves and slaveholders. Thus fools, rushing in “where angels fear to tread,” have brought all the horrors of this dreadful war upon the land. They wiil not escape their day of reckoning. Meantime, to order to pal, an end to the scenes of lawless violence and.crime afer ant monish the administration of its solemu and paramount duty of pushing on the war earnestly and vigorously tos apeedy couclusica. Put down the rebel armics, Mr. President, and give us again the blessings of peace, before we forget, North and South, what they are. The men and the means Mr. Lincoln, are at your command. Stir yoursel!. put down the rebel- lion; stop these yroans of dying men, these painful cries of woren and ehitdren which come to us on every breeze: push on aad dnish this imperative work of war, ani give ux peace. THe McCieican Sworp Fono.—It will be remembered that at the time of the Sanitary Commission Fair in this city it was proposed to present a sword to the most popular general aud the most popular naval officer in the respective services, aud votes and dollars were both taken with that intent. The affair, how- ever, was so managed by those who had it in band that at the last pinch General McClellan was choused out of thesword. Wecontributed five hundred dollars ourseives. and we were vir- tnaily choused out of that. The people, not satisfied with the hocas-pocus of the manager: of the fair. undertook to get ap « subscriptiod for a sword for MeClellgo. The consequence war thut money to the amount of seven hindred and tweive dollars and ten cents was gent to us fa various sume {rom alt quarters. The organ of Bartow, the friend of ouc favorite candi- date, General McClellan, now asks us for an ac- count of our stewardship. This is perfectly tight. The money belongs to the people; and we desire to lay the account, with ali its facts and figures, before them. Here it i CONTRIBUTIONS, eu come Elst See S April, 1964, jay, 1864, 26-—Ireasurar. Gib- w—4 Schotare raltar O10 $11 00 boot a %-6,W Word... 100 oe 26—Loion Square De- 26—Capt. 1.8. dy, parttoeot 9 08 58tb rogt. 108 08 26 —Antietam. 100 2 rt w | oe} oy { oO 100 CFP see 1 OF 260 %—Richardthe third 1 OF 100 T—Geurge Hurvess. 1 OF 15—G ¥ Carreste... 1 ob 6 00 18—U.8 ship North so Caroling 20 ; oo a rr | $08 3O—U &. ship Norti 200 Carol iva, 200 Joly. #iitue Jackets of 100 8S Bangamon 40 00 4—54 membere of 34 ont 2 ae ne N.Y. battery... 64.00 Car b—-A little Scotch aa 3. rt wri” BOY... -csereeee 100 Carotios , 07:00 6—Jehneon & Head, 200 ih regt., 200 31 Soldier,bat,B 2 00 a8 Mi Jeckson.. 1.00 Clancy, 66th Carotiue eases sé 83 00 8 00 0 00 00 8. 00 DAA) vs sees eees 60 Jobo Hart, Neshwile 18—Iwo Epglishmen 9 00 Seren: no 18—Jobn A, Swarz.. H bf givea., 22—Jobny Roach. 92—Hell Gate mio Total of Bt, Loute. 00 ane 13 Five ofteors a, rae 4 We bold ourselves aocountable “ter thq qatlon ja Parts, ang ng gach outrages could be, Seoegte amount. left in our bands, Seme tributors, after waiting some time’ expecting that a sufficient amount would ‘be raised to purchase,a sword, took their money back, as the above figures show. It will be seen that we have a balance.of four huodred and eighty-five dollars and ten cents We are free to say we are embarrassed to know what todo with this money. There is not enough to pay for @ suitable sword for the General, We are net quite as much embarrassed as Mr. Fessenden is, not having as much money to dis- pose of nor a8 y people to satisfy as he has; but still we are somewhat embarrassed as to the disposition of this money. But we always keep these accounts In such a shape that we can present Barlow or any one else with a balance sheet ata moment’s notice. We hope Mr. Fessenden does the same. We desire to return this money to the parties who subscribed it; but if after that there should remain any unclaimed balance, as there probably will, we are prepared to hand it over to any charitable institution or for any other purpose which Geuerat McClellan may designate. We wait for a reply. 1— Model Kngiish on- not We published on last week’ fall account of the execution of Franz Muller for the murder of Mr. Briggs. This case will rank among the causes celebres more from the cir- cumstances which attended Muller’e arrest, trial and imprisonment, and from the prevalent doubts of his guilt, than from anything extra- ordinary in the manner of the murder. Mr. Briggs was locked up in one of the compart- ments of an English railway earriage. and some one or more of his fellow passengers stabbed him, rohbed him of his watch and chain, and threw him out of the car.’ That is the whole commonplace story. In oo respect is it 0 interesting and exciting as the story of the butchery at the Tombs last Fri- day morning, when a madman was con fined in @ room with several other pris oners, three of whot he brained with a poker As to novelty and romance. it cannot be com- pared with the recent mysterious marder (n Brooklyn, where parts of a man’s body were discovered, at intervals of severai days, but-ao clue could be found either to the name of the victim or the perpelrators of the crime Wien Muller sailed for this country ina packet ship, and tke officers and witnesses arrivedby steamer to head him off, we began to tuke aninterest in the case; for a chage ir ‘always interesting The crime had already caused a furor in England, because it secmed likely to compel a revolution in the etupid system of English railway cars. Germany, ex- cited against England on account of the Schl@swig-Ho!stein difficulty, assumed the posi- tion of Muller’s champ‘on, and affected to believe that the English were parsecuting him because he was a German. The German sociely undertook his defence and spared no efforts to get him pardoned a(ter his conviction. The King of Pruasia, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha sent pri- vate telegrams to Queen Victoria asking big reprieve. ‘The people of Berlin were intensely excited, and when the news of his execution arrived they made a demonstration gsgainst the English embassy and abused the Eagtish resi dents in the public streets. Thus, singntarly enough, Muller’s execution was an international affair of State, and a poor German tailor, who was a most ordinary murderer, if be were a murderer at all, became an object of auxious iptnevne etnaiinow dre whole nution. ~~” But it is stitt ‘more singular that, in epite of his reported confession upon the gallows, neither the Americans, the Germans nor the English believe Muller guilty. The evidence against him is merely e:rcumstantial, and lacks some necessary links. Although persecuted retentlessly by a well-meaning clergyoiua— avxious to prove that the law had made no m’'stake and acting. donbtless, under instruc tions from the British covernment-—Muatier de- clared his innocence up the very last moment At the fast moment. bowever, when the rope was around Muller's neck aud the white cap drawn over his (ace, this clergyman heard, or thought he teard, the words: “Ich habe es gethan® 1 did it” —and before angther ayila- ble could be added, if these syliabies were spoken, the drop fell, and all was over {t may, indeed. be doubted whether such a confession $0 curtly expressed, spoken through the muf- fler of » white cap, heard by only one person— and be a person evidently desirone of hearing- just those words, and in state of intense ex citement because he could aot wring them out of the prisoner—can weigh against Muiter’s re peated statement of his innocence, uttered even while the last sacrament was being administered to him, and reiterated but # second before his 80 called acknowledgment of bis guilt. What Muller dd or did not say is of very tittle ac- count, however. It is the legal evidexee which must decide the matter The worst crimivats would be the most innocent if their own words could be Lelieved. © Muller was executed in front of Newgate jail, and the scenes around the gal!ows uccord- jog to the admissions “of the London papers, were disgraceful to civilization and a withering commentary upon the claims of the English to be considered a model people. About one hundred thousand persons were preseut. The infernal yells of this immense multitude dis- tutbed Maller’s last moments Im bis cell aud cruelly interrupted his devetions. The Lendon Times confesses that “garotting and highway robbery were carried on ina wholesale, open, broudcast manner,” in full view of the prison authorities and the police, whe allowed {t to be “virtually unchecked)” The semo paper say: “There were regular gangs who bonneted, sometimes garotted, and always plundered, any person whose dress led them to think him worth the trouble.” The police did not at- tempt to interfere, although the Times states that “such wore the open pastimes of the aw/ui mob frem daybreak to the time of execu- tion”—seme four or five hours. This descrip- tion conveys to ns 9 vivid idea of that model Britfeb civilisation of which we. hear so much, and whioh is said to be so strongly in contrast with our barbarities. In no other metropolis of @ civilized nation could such violence and ridting rage unchecked, In Paris executions are differently managed. The criminal, like his victim, knows nothing of the time at which he is to die, and all his mental torture is con- denred into the half hour whick i» occupied in preparing him for the guilletine. Ia less than three minutes after he leaves the prison be is dead. No time te permitied bim | Friscip for conversation or fer speechmaking. But 20 such viclous crowd could collect at an exe- et without the immediate interference the police and military. In this country pete sre more privately conducted, al- thongh we adopt the English plan of informing the criminal of the day of bis death and allow- ing him to say what he pleases from the soaf- fold. The expectation ef these speeches, or of Some gueb interesting incidents, always col- lects a great crowd around the Tombs when any one is to be. hung; but no outbreaks like those in London ever disgrace this city. If any should occur our police would charge the mob and our militia would be called out to quell the riot. The London Times will do well to bear these facts in mind when it again under- takes to write us a lecture upon our want of civilization. There is a larger fie!d for mis- sionary labor of that sort in the model city of London. The Condition of the National Finar- ceos—The True Solutien, Our contemporaries discuss the national fnan- ces, taking up point by’ point the various crip- pled and hobbling ideas of our pseudo national fingnciers. Mr. Fessenden is roundly rated on taxes, and graped and canistered with due quantities of Adam Smith and Jobo Stuart Mill, while Mr. Thaddeus Stevens is lectured on nonsensical laws and assorted with the s0il- lions of visionaries who have made the world. miserable by bad advice. And #0 the discus sioa is likely to continue until it has taken up by turns every single fact in finance and dine cussed taxes, penal laws, currency, bonds, loans of all sorts, andso on. This is not the most profitable way in which this subject can be kept before the people. és If we look at the world of natumg superfi- cially, and simply as we first find it. it is a wilder- ness of apparent contradictions of facts that: seem muddled with one another {n the wildest way, and alj constantly giving the lie, cireum- stantial and direct. How shall we reconcile this icy hail storm of July with the dreadful condition of the July thermometee?’ How can we look at the phosphorescent fre mounting to the sutface in the tropical seaa apd moun- tains the antagoniem of the two elements? Is Hot summer hot? Will water not extingaish fire? Or, going a little further, what shall we say to the polypus—to a fish that grows on a stem, or a plant that can digest animal matter? What shall we gay to that singular vegetable the diamond’ But when science hae grouped all the facts—arranged them in their proper places and reasoned to the simple laws of nature that account for each—they are seen to be reconcil- able and all is plain and oasy. It fs the same with the discussion of the finances. If we argue on the isolated facts, on the currency, on par- ticular taxes. on this and that kind of security, on the messages, arguments and proposala, the question of national finance becomes an endless bewilderment, and the pec:le get lost in it, But if we keep to the great facts. and from them. reason out the few and simple laws of the case, itis a plain story. ‘The great fact-of our national life just now is the war, and this is the controliing influence that mast affect and qualify every other fact We must not, in our Anenciat views. lose sight of this great fact, as bas so often been done, and attempt to apply in a staie of war reason ings adapted only to a state of peace Mis plain that we must provide money for the necessities of war, and equally plain that we must borrow a large proporticn of tt The important question here is not by what name we sball call the loan. Men ia mi ington have Speevervens and they bicker and die epute accordingly over seven-thirties, ten-forties, a throagh the category. The important fact for e bor- rower ia to be uble to show thar he can pay; and to be able to show thia (act in cur case we oust be able to show thal we ean snd ihe was It is, we suppose, safe to assume tha’ we stall end the war some time and upon when we ond it must now depend the higher or lower etate o” our credit, and whether we c; orrow plentifu,- ly with safety or not at as. Wf awar ix ended in 8 tnonth, the foun contracted to carry it on may be at pre or ata premium ait the time, ao it may if the war is ented in a year, and the lender have a. the time a reasonable confi dence .p the borrower But as that time goes on that confidence natura ty dec.iues, until tt may go so far that the borrower + promises are field to be worthiess, as (be sssignats were in France audas the rebe; currency now @ in the Southern Stetes Uncertainty whether the be ended in any given time is ibe 9 ecement The one thing that mnst now be done to give soundvess and safety to ‘the national finances is for Congress to show thet this war is not to be interminable—that it # to be ended at once and the effectiveness of tha remedy wil be im proportion fe the clearness with which thisisshowa. All the property owned 1a the United States may be regarded as (he pledge for the payment of the national debt, and eur debt is stiit infinitely ematier than the pledgg. We are radically sound, therefore, and ail that is necessary is that the end of the war shail be definitely Axed. and so fixed that the people can lave confidence in the limit. We are abundantly able to pay if the war were ended to-day’ no one can for on instant doubt this. But a fear that the war will creep on. year after year, unti; it bas eaten up the who.e pledge or anti; it bas induced a politica. soarchy tuat will render the pledge valuctess. and #0 make Payment impossible, is the weak point. Con- fidence that thie shalt not be ao is what the people w: and Congress can give it. Con- gress, the army and the navy have sow got eharge of tle mational finances, and if they carry on the war with such vigor as sha.l Promise an early end all our inaues wili be good, whatever may be their character or their names. But if the war languishes, no matier what our ies they will be The Schooner D, Prector, Samor Hoos, Dec 10. 1864 The sebooner J). B. Procter has bean got off, aud ie ncw anchored veer the wharf here. Vice President, New York Fire tekete tn in the etd, Jota R. 4 for Pre. bident, with Jone B. Giles for Treasurer, and the other by Harry Howard for Ry with James L Miller for Treasurer. there ie movement ae Pag Giles, who has eo len, fe oftciated aa ‘eaneret tion wilt coum co at, belt belf.past seven 0 ‘ook ah Fite. Hall, in Mercer street. men’s Foustwerta Wasp Fewate Evexiwo Sonocs.—This Epes Cooper Institute tast evening. the lecturer attracted a large audience, nod the snbjeot THE WEATHER AND THE SNOW, The Park and the Skating Season, 8en Ren Between one and two o'clock yesterday moroing @ heavy snow storm visited this eity, aod continued falling, for about five hours steadily, with « very (air prospect of © leaving a thick deposit on our streeis. When the people Of our metropolis awoke, they were surprised to see the snow falling in such heavy masses, and predicted that the sieighing carvival would @zve s glorious and lengta- ened inauguration. About. eleven o’clock , however, bali took the place of snow, and light drizzies of rain followed, undoing the work of five houra io lege than <ixty minutes go completely that the ground became one mass of slush and water. Before this undesirable termination of the anow storm quite a number of sleighing parties bad turned out early an@ thado the atfcets musical with the tiskling cf botis, expecting, no doubt, to have a maraif- cont all-day time of it gliding over the whitened surface of our streets and jimgling through theavenves of the upper distriote and the picturesque urives or the Park. Before one o'clock most of theso hesty individuals were gina to got home the best way (hey could ont of ous slushy streets and gratiog pavements. Thosnow prove@ deceptive and the aleighing a failure. Speaking of the Park pnts us in mind of the fact that the skating ceason is near at hand, 1¢ will be gratt- fying to those given to that pleasant exercise to learm that the Coromissioners: bave nat forgotten to make the most ample preparations, with a view to rendering tbe faciities for skating ag ample and attractive na possibie, When Mr, Joho Frost decides uvon congealing the Pood to the proper dogree of strength and consistence the Com~ missioners wit! employ ait suitable means to preserve Intact tbe slippery surface by flonding it sufficiently overy evening with fresh croton, removing al! ruta and TA ‘and having the io08e, pri!verized particles swept away oy a competent corpeof broomers An atditional house for refreshinents bas been erected on the upper pond, acd t e wil find most things inthe way of eat and ng heverages, to be-bad foods | for: the sscommae. a8 iN kewise ‘beet put op. Mr, Stet of tbe rerrenhaabat i deparisacne pace pee the ates ‘nod chaira will be wa e mane- tot the same grties who had charge of them tagé pve He i hasuot yet beeu agreed be presumed that it will be reteonabie enough to enable a man in ordinary clreumstances to pare chase ‘a cup of coffee and puff » cigar without expendiag © email fortuoe. ™ Snow Storm Elsewhere. Boro, Dec. 10, 1864. Athick easterly snow storm commenced here early this morning, Thermometer thirty. The scbooner Brinda, from Addison, went ashore o@ Napiacket beach in the storm this morning. She may get off 1{ the weather shoutd prove favorable. ‘The bark Avola, from Africa, was spoken in the vey yesterday, but is supposed to have hauled Of, owing to ahah Boatom, Dec 10—7 P.M. Four to aix inches of snow feil to-day, followed by @ Yght rain The weather ebows iad{cations of clearing, up this evening. ‘The snow storm extended (trough Matne, Vermont aad New Hampebire. Provipesce, &. 1, Dec. 10, 1864, A heavy coow storm commevced here this morntog. Ponit.ayp, Me., Dec. 10, 1864. Athick sow storm prevail tere Wind northeast acd btowing heavily. Thermoracter 17, Povcaksre:s, N. ¥., fee 10, 1864. Abeary eoow storm commenced here Inst night aad copsad about ten o’eiock this morning Six inches of i} Wint southeast ig va al Pucanevems, Dec; 101064, ‘A W86W storm commenced bers at one o'clock thie moruing, and ceased about dastights Marine Disasters. Lona Baancu, N. J., Dee 10, 1866. ‘The schooner Teegraph te ashore al Long Breach. 6be iglight Crew saved © A bark (¢ ashore st Doni. caved A schooner, Cdni¢ toknown ag ret, eunk sle~cotion (rome hia p.ace ab eleven o'ciocs this morning. Name apkoown. Crow Non-Arrival of the Canada. Hasipax, Deo. 10—8 P, + of the Canada up to (be present bour, Inteliigence. ay ON iCtON OF ARSON — ONE OF THEM 4 SPROLAI. one TY SHERIFP, Toree men, named Jamee Fitzpatrict:, James MoDooald and Hugh Riley, the fatter caid to be @ especial deputy sberuf. were brought before Justice Dowling at the Tombs, yeaterday afternoon, they maving been arrested: ey officers Lenz ant Yule, of the Pith precinct, on eus- Picton of having set fire to the itquoe store of (be prisoner r trick, on (he Gret floor of prem user 440 Greonwich It appeare that when the pince waa discovered to hal cer Fleming, of the Fi th 5 et, be rapped for holp, (ber policomen cams up avd burst in ihe door, whem they fooud two or three barreie \q frovt of (be platform seroe liquor casks atood on fire, and 1 ho's burned found two old pair ted with alcohol, and ia whicb war rome fiue kindling wood, deposed between the cakes. While the nvertigation wae in progreas 4 appeared in the piace and bis condoct war such < wepieion. In arswer (ox guestion asked he slept iv the place, and vas the Gres one discover the Bre He exbibited Marahar Raker a gpecia' deputy +t marked thot be had been watchin ngton etreet, bet \ werward Fitzpn' of drawers aud #ome sock: for the crigio of the fre im the stove, and apparently had beew con the dey previous, aod as sbere seemed uv be oo donni that the fire had beoe koged ty acgign Mareha: Poker orferad the arrest of the three men, avd they mere ‘accora.pgiy taken to tbe station bouge, Justice Dewsing neld the accused parties examine rure TOON OF PoLtguwan the Roard for she wank past have been very numerous, but quite unimportant to the publie genera.y The on!y case of specie. tmierest was (hat of Sergesns Potiy, of tbe Kigntecath precinct, woo was seed Of by Joseph EF Merriam, @ deputy sherut 4 ‘ormerly # meember of the police force, Mr. Mer- iam stated that oo the night of the 29th of October the last Of tbe gift jewelry concerta camo off at the Academy of Moai gers to pr vielentiy to the station house; house be was beaten, iy threw him down «and dragged the bair the back tuto ‘bin ataterment made the case look rather om) for Ser- geant Polly: bat that officer, who is scldom caugnt nap- Ping, gave HCA very diferent Li, Ak eo0n as De had am epportunity to epenk. owed by Bome bait dozen or more witnesses that, during the performence, on the nigut aliuded to, there was vne man \o th os whe ws intoxicated and 7% disorderly az to compe! the police to remove him, Vergy soon alier he had been ejered Mr Merr; came with bim to the door and passed bim ing \bet he wage friend of bir, and (hat be to kee auy one pat nim out or timeelt either. Sergeant Wolly came along at this juucture and asked Merriam what he meant by bie condones tion began in a iow Love, bat gra: Namen were bandied Mer ‘The conversa inet the theatre. hought be could do it alo ry Abily about tbe wuirt he took him out tem twinkling, A crowd collected on the outside and Ser ant oily ordered Merriam went to the stution boumey foty f1a1oe that the priv ner wea very disorded'y in the station Bouse, ‘aod detied the whole piatoon to take bigs. Back to ihe cel theo bung cp hiv club, aad grasp e bis hold eo suddeuly from the raviag: eit atid the privouer roiled over om the joo houre at ati, and forther that if he hed ‘Seen. eraerly and waiked i the cell be would not have Doom ragged th there This clove the cane, The complaint was dim 'seed. ‘The high reputation of was treated to the most scientific and able manoer. Numerow yo of the m construction! pote EY ae § the subject, amd/the moat wou-) ful effects were ble_proper- tes of is of aeapnared were, fully wore. tally” a aud te that con- murderous 1, . phosphorus, uolee Y ow a say ot ss Madreem fe a0 barm- we . them