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

4 NEW YORK HE HERALD. gamms GORDON BMNNETR EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Volume XXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, . Broadway.—How Suz Loves WALLACK'S TREA’ Bia 24 WINTER GARDEN, Brosdway.—Hawuxr, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tug Streets oF New You. NEW BOWERY TARATRE, Bowery.—Cuarcoat Max— Buvanrs’ AINSTRELS—PO-CA HOS TAS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Srven Escares—Six Droaees or Crime. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Harrmsr Dar or My Lirk—Pzorix’s Lawren NIELO'S GARDEN, Bi BARNUM'S MUSRUM, Broadway.—Panonama—TURkE Mamoru Far Gircs—Turex Grants—Two Dwanrs— INDIANS FRENCH AUTOMATONS, Di aMaTic PERFORMANCKS= Day and Kvening. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS. way.—Eraiorian Sonas, D. Davpy. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, tux Buockapr—U. 8. G.—Eriio CAMPBE: MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery — ‘Vann axp Exotmino MELANGE or Etuioriax OppiTIES— Tux Buack Bricape. BALLE DIABOLIQUB. 589 Broadway, —Rosunr rues, way.—Coonre Soogan. anics’ Hall, 472 Broad- BURLESQUES, &¢.—Hige Broadway.—Runwixg s Sonas, Dances, &0. HOPE CHAPEL, 72) Broadway,—Wooprorre’s Bous- MIAN TROUPE OF GLass BLoweKs VAN AMBURGH & CO.'S MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, 89 and G4l Broadway.—Oven from 10 A, M. to 10 2, HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street.~Bqugstrian, GYMNASTIO AND ACKOBATIC EN TRRTAINMENTS. DODWORTH HALL, 605 Broadway.—Arreavs Wanp AMONG TUE MOKMOXS AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Bacers, Panrosiaes, BUULESQUES. AC.—NicovEmus. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movina Wax Ficunss, VARIBTIES, Sonos, Bu nd » Bowery.—Batcrrs, Pantowiurs QUES, THE SITUATION. ‘The advance of General Sherman's army was, on Tuos- day last, the 6th inst., witbin twenty-five miles of Sa ‘vannab, according to the admissions of the rebel news- papers, aod vigorously pressing forward. On that day it marched eighteen miles, and the different columns were said to be concentrated. Tuo rebels estimated Sher man’s infantry force at twenty thousand muskets, and say that a most enormous wagon train accompanied the army. Little resistance bas been met with, and all the terrific Aizhting which is chronicled in the Southern prints was Botbivg more, evidentiy, than mere skirmishing. but the rebels anticipated a heavy battle berre ont teached, Fights betweon Kilpatrick and Wheeler on the 3d, 4th and sth inst are reported, inthe former two of which tho enemy acknowlédgo they were compelled i Yetire. In one of them they ciaim that Kilpatrick was wounded, The steamer Donegal, from Port Royal, S.C.,on the 7h fost., which arrived at Philadelphia yesterday afterucoa, brought important intelligence «f the movements of Geooral Foster and Admiral Dabigren ia. South Carvlina for co-operation with General sberman. heir joint naval and land expedition moved up Broad river from Beaufort on last Tuesday, the cb, the pur Pose of destroying Pocotaligo bridge, on which the rail Toad from Charleston to Savaunsb crosses the Coosi« whatohie river, The cunboais opened fire on the enemy after @ proper position had been reached, thus covering the landing of ths Union troops, who pushed forward, driving the rebels before them, and, before uight, reach ing and burming the bridge, thus cutting off all cbance of reinforcements from Charleston reacting Savannah Our men then securely intrenched themselves in the vicivity. Genoral Foster bai communicated with General Sher man. As General Sherman nis cut all the other railroads Tunnivg north from Savaunah, there was little chance left for relief to the revels at that pluce. The belie! in General Foster's army was tbat Gesoral Sherman would be in Savannah on the 14th fust. for (to-morrow.) We give this morving @ map showing General Sherman's route from Millen and Gene:al Foster's position at Pocotaligo. No engagement bas yet tuken place at Nashville be tween the forces of Generals Thomas and Hood A Cairo despatch states that a detachment from the rebel army of Hood, estimated at four thousand, uoder Genera! Lyon, are now on their way towards Keu- tucky, if they have not already arrived there, having on Friday lust crossed the Cumberland river, some twenty miles above Fort Donelson, on board the government transport Thomas F. Tutt, which they seized for the occasion, After the rebels had all got across they burned the steamer, which was loaded with government forage, Wo give despatches detailing the loteresting events of the Ogbting and skirmishing for several days in the vicinity of Murfreesboro, where Rousseau is in command of the Union troops, The fighting commenced om the $4 inst, and ‘was continued on each successive day up to the 7th, wheo finally the rebels, ander commaed of Forrest im person, were #0 vigorously charged that they fled in com- plete rout, and have not since made their appearance. On this occasion Rousseau’s men captured two hundred and seven rebei prisoners, including eighteen officers, and fourteen canvon, ‘There wae much excitement in Memphis on last Friday, caused by & report that Beauregard, with a strong force, was marching on Fort Pillow. About one bundred aod Qfty negro eoldiors were recentiy drawn into ambush, on thé Arkunwas side of the Mississippi, opposite Memphis, and nearly ali of them, it is said, were either killed by the rebels or drowned io the river. A despatch states that Osceola bas been occupied by a small force of the onemy. There are several towns of the name of Usceola; but probably the one alluded to is Osceola, in Mississippt county, Arkansas, on the Mississippi river, eighty-seven miles above Memphis. Our despatebes from the James river armies pub ished this morning give additional particalars of the reconnois- sance of General Miles’ command on Friday last to fiatcher’s run, on the right of the rebel forces defending Potersburg. After capturing the enemy's works Genorat Miles’ mon be!d them throughout the night. Their object boing accomplished ing to when & by the pulsed, General they were prepsring next morn- roturn to the of the farious charge was upon rebels, who and in turn charged Aftor this the Union troops returned to Army Potomac, them ma were s00n, however, re vpop and driven for tome their old camp, which they reached om Saturday event ¢, distance. Pbelr casuaitice wero slight, A number of rebele were captured. The reba! division under command of General Field made @ recounoissonce on Saturday down the Dur. beytown rosd, on the right of General Batler's tines, They termed to be saviefet with « ery hasty observa , &e they goon retraced their About midnight y both on Duteb eps. 60 Friday the rebel artillery opened heavil he Jamos, noir the Gap and on the right of the Army of New Market road, but with tittie effect, Their ire was, however, responded to, There is no later ows of & positive char from the column under General Warren, which went southward on Wednesday last @long the Weldon Railroad. ‘There wore uncontirmod Fumors that be had had a ght and guned a victory # station, thirty two miles from letersburg. The Richmond newspaper men think (hat Warren's Aviation 1s corvainly Weidoo, North Uarolina. which ta NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1864. only about sixty miles from Petersburg. The lodgment of a small force of Univn troops on the south side of James river, between Drury’s Bluff and the Howlett House, is now wdmitted by the rebel papers; but they say that the number of men is too few to be of any ac- count. One of our St. Louis correspondents gives us a very interesting history of the late invasionary expedition of the rebel General Price into Missouri, and of bis subse- quent basty retreat back into Arkansas, One division of bis army, it appears, mutinied after their return tq the latter State, because, they said, they had been deceived, and bad not received the plunder promised them, His force, instead of boing increased by the Invasion, as he anticipated, was dwindled down from twenty thousand to twelve thousand armed men. He Jost e'oven cannons, and his cavalry, animals and trains were nearly used up when be again reached Arkansas, In every respect his expedition was one of the complotest failures of the war. New Orloans advices of the 5th inst. have reached us, It is said that Captain Semmes, who arrived at Mata moros some time ago, and proceeded thence to Rish- mond, bad been ordered to the latter place to bo tried for the loss of the Alabama, The steamer Ike Davis, which was seized over a month since, on hor voyage from @ Texan port, bound for New Orleans, by rebel pirate passengers, after the manner of the Chesapeake and Roanoke, and taken to Matamoros, had been sold for over thirty-five thousand dollars in gold, The steamor Orizaba, from New Orleans for Matamoros, had also been seized by the rebels and sold, Considerable euergy has recently been infused into operations at the various military posts along the Mississippi river above New Or- leans, and affairs are said to be assuming a new and The Mississippi and Red rivers are now vigorous aspect. both very high, We give this morning, as interesting extracts from rédel newepapers. In the rebel Sonate, on the 8th inst., the resolutions in reference to the seizure of the pirate Florida by tho Wachusett were adopted. The rebel papers comment on the recent Mes- sage of Prosident Lincoln, and think it is commonplace aud fooble, usual, a compilation of very CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a petition was presented from the Western Associited Press, asking for a reduction of the duty on imported paper. 1t was referred to the Finance Committee. A petition from Major General God. frey Woltzol aud four hundred and seventy other officers of the army was presented, asking an incrense of pay to the amount of tweuty dollars per month, and an increase of the commutation price of rations from thirty to fifty cents and silowins sixteen doilars per month, The sub- ject was referred to the Military Committee, The House jo at resolution authorizing the enlargement of the Nivy Department buidiog was reported. A resolution divec™S iry fato the propriety of levyiog aa additional tax of one per cent on all sales of real and per onal property, merobandise, produce, oid and silver coin and stocks; also an additional tax of twenty-five per cont on the gross receipts of railroads, steauboats and ferries; also to probibit the orgasization of auy now banks, excep: in place of State banks; als> the redemption of outstanding interest bearing legal tender notes, and issuing ta their atsad notes of uot tess than fifty dollars, bearing 3.65 per cont interest, to be made legal tenders for their face, with foterest aided, was referred to the Finasce Committee, Mr. Davis, of | Kentucky, presented a sariea of resolutions proposing various amendments to the coa-titution with a view to peace and the reconstruction of tho Uoion, Reso lutions providing for tue employment of appren- tices on board merchant sbips, and for licensing Vessels trading on the Atlantic and Guif coasts, were referrel to the Committee on Commerce, as was also a Dill regulating the measuroment of the tonnage of ships aud prescribing the rits of charges for the sims, A bill to extend the time for oompleting certain land grants to Tailroads in Minnesota, was referred 10 the Committee on Public Lands, The resolution calling for the report of the court martial on the conduct of General Paino, at Paducah, Reatncky, was referred to the Siilitary Com mittee, In executive session the nomination of Mr. Speed as Attorney Goneral was contirmed, Ip the House of Represoptatives the Dill establishing @ uniform bankrupt Iaw was taken up and passed, without debate, by twenty majority, It is believed that the Senate will aiso pass this bill during the prosent session, The covsideration of the question of the duty on cigars ‘was postponed tit! Thursday next, A long debate eusued ‘on the report of the committes appointed fo select a site for a navy yard and depot for iron-ciad sbips of war The minority ar: in favor of League Isiand, at Poiladeiphia, while tho majority recommend New London, No decision was arrived at, A resolution in favor of bridging the Hadson river at Albany, and making said bridge a military and post route, was referred to the Post Office Committee ee Sey MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We have files of the Hoyal Stindard, of Turk's Isiand, to the 25.10 November, The papers contain no news, if we exc»pt the movements in the salt market, a matter of primary impertance througbout the world. Subjoined is @ parsgrap from the Standard of the latest date — “Some of our proprietors being over anxious to dispose of & portion of their crop, and fearing a further decline of price io the American market, have sold one or two car- g0e8 ata price below our Inst quotations—fifteen cents; but the quantity sold is, we understand, emal!, and no doubt the improvement im price in New York will tend to make tbe price Lere firm at former quotations, Much of the salt on bund is exposed to the weather, and what with the lows by rain and the three or four cargoes shipped each week, the quantity on hand at the end of next March will be vory small, Fluctuation in price, without @ reasopable cause, a apt to injure our trade, and proprietors should endeavor to avoid as much as pos sible au undue variation io price or any unstesdiness which is likely to deceive our foreign customer The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon, Pre eident Henry in the chair, and disposed of a large batch of papers trom the Board of Councilmen. A message received from Mayor Gunther vetoing a grant for the erection of wstand in Peck slip. Tne Mayor says that in his judgment the erection of such stands is the slips in the lower part of the city creates great inconvenience to the public, and should be discontinued. A resolution in- creasing the salaries of all the employes of the city gov- ernment twenty-five per cent, said increase to continue In force until the resumption of specie payment, was of. fered by Alderman Ryers and adopted. The usual charitable donations were passed, and a large amount of ordinary routine business disposed of, after which the Board adjourned until four o'clock this afternoon, The Bourd of Counciimen met yesterday, and adopted a resolution presented by Mr, Jaques, calling upon the Committee on Law to inquire who are the proprietors of the line of stazes heretofore running through Ninth mye. nue and Fourteenth street, and r t the cause of their discontinuance, which bas been the source of great incon- venience to a number of citizens, The Comptrolier sent fo @rnthly report of the condition of the Treasury, from which it appeared that on the 30th of November thare was in bank tho sum of $6,930,663. The payments since that were $5,727,479, leaving @ balance on the 10th iostant of $3,212,184, The ors ¢ for the bettor regu. lation of the Fire Department was called up and read, and, after some discussion, the paper was laid ovor till this (Tuesday) afternoon, when the Board will , meet at four o’cock and take action upon it. ‘The work of revising the lists of persons enrolled as liable to military duty in this city is now being pro- coeded with #8 rapidly as possible, under the superin tondence of Assistant Provost Marshal General Fry and the Supervisors’ Volunteering Committee. One hundred and thirty-three thousand namos were placed on the lists in the lost enrolment by the provost marsbals; but by the revision now going on it is expected that the number will be vastly reduced. Over three hundred clerks are engaged in recopying the names and attending to other necessary duties connected with the work. Meantime volunteering for the service is very brisk. Supervisor Blunt ts etill paying, at the rooms of the Supervisors’ Volunteering Commities, corner of Que bers gtrevt and Broadway, jo the City Liat! Fark, the following bounties fo méf agjisting fo either the army or the navy :—To re- crulte for three years, $500, to recruits for two years, £200; to eubstitutes for three yours, $600; to substitutes for two years, $400, Twenty dollars band money is paid to avy pereon bringing a rocruit, aud firty dollars to any Porson bringiog a substitute, Another meeting of eur leading merchants and cit! zens waa hold yeeterday al (he office of the Collector of the vort for We purpose of making proparations to give i teetfnsnonslpenrses sessions oss stasis sles nsession essences tat laces Admiral Farragut a fitting reception on his anticipated | Sherman's early arrival in the city. It was upasimously resolved that » commiites of twenty be appointed to raise # sufll- cient sum to present the Admiral with a handsome testi- monial, and that another committee be appointed to re- ceive him on behalf of the merchants of Ney York and inform bim of their action. It was agreed that if the Hartford, Admiral Farrag flagship, did not arrive bere during last vight, this latter committes would pro- coed down the bay this morning to meet her, on board the revenue cutter Bronx. A number of the merchants and prominent men of this city, desirous of manifesting their respect for the Hon. Rouben E, Fenton, Governor elect of this State, addressed him a note a few weeks since, requesting his attendance ‘at a dinner to be given in his honor, To this Mr. Fenton bas replied, thanking them for this manifestation of their regard, but stating that the urgency of his public duties will not permit him to meet them at progent in the man- ner contemplated. The annual election of officers of the Now York Fire Department was held last night, and reguited as follows:— President, Jobn R, Platt; Vice President, Syivanus J. Macy; Secretary, Samuel Gonover; Treasurer, Jobo 8. Giles; Trustees, James Y. Watkins, Wilson Small and Ka, Hincbman. A mass meeting of invalid soldiers was held at No. 118 Bowery on Sunday for the purpose of taking such ‘action as might be necessary for a speedy sottloment of their claims to the bounty awarded them by Congress April 25, 1864. A committee, consisting of A. Liberty, M. T. Sailer and G, J. Rokus, was appointed to draw up a petition and bring the matter to the notice of the proper authorities at Washington, The petition will remain at the committee room for a week, 90 that those wishing to attaoh their signatures cau do 90 free of expense. The Monitor Dictator proceeded down tho bay yester- day on atrial trip. She returned to ber anchorage off Bod|oe’s Is'and in the evening. In the case of Baldwin & Jaycox vs. the Mayor, where the plaintiffs claimed to be the lowest bidders on the new reservoir contract, and were awarded $79,000 damages by aroferee, under the act of 1860, Judge Cierke yoster- diy rendered an opinion vacating tho entire proceedings, on the ground tbat the act was unconstitutional. The Judgment which the plaintiffs cbtained against the city iz therofore null and vold,and all proceedings under it, togother with the order of reference, aro set asido. It was decided yesterday by Judge Cardozo, in the cise of Jobn Kerr and others vs. the New York Consititated Stage Company, that the directors had no ricut to | make the assigament to Augustus Schell without baying first obtained the consent of a majority of (he stoc\ holders to the transaction, An order of arrest was issued against James M. Var- rington, of the Buhama Islands, yesterday, by Judge Barnard, requiring him to give security in the sum of $14,000 to await the result of two suits commenced aguiost bim by the Union and Sun Mutual Iosurance com- panies, of this city, for the alleged wrongful conveyance of the cargo of the brig Chartes, on the occasion of the wreck of that vessel off Long Cay, in the month of Octo ber last. The counsel for the defendant moved to have tbe order vacated, when an argument ensued, which occupied the attention of the court during the entire afternoon, The Judge took the papers and roserved bis decision. The trial of the great Lawrence will cage atill ‘drags its slow length along”’ in the Surrogato's Court. Yester- day was (ha twomy-cigath day of ita being befere the Surrogate, and the seventh day of the examination of the witneas, Mrs, Sickles, sister of the lady who ts claimed to have been Mr. A, R. Lawrence's wife, The probable time of the ending of the trial is beyond the power of morta! foresight to determine, oe there are eight or ton lawyers employed in the ot In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, before Re- corder Hoffman, Lavinia Murray, indicted for stealing Gilty dollars from James Henry, a resident of the Siate of Pennsylvania, on the 26th of November, pleaded guilty to ap attempt at grand larceny, and was sent to the Peni- tentiary for one year, Lawrence Cahill was convicted of stealing fi‘ty five dollars from Patrick Tornay, at No. 326 Tearl street, om the 29th of August, It was shown that the prisoner's previous character was excellent, and that at thotime the money was taken be was (ntoxi- cated The Recorder imposed tho luwoest sentence that could be passed, which was two voars in the State Prison, remarkiog (bat be would communicate with the Gover- Ror to have the sentence commuted, John Brady and Joba Doyle were convicted of potty larceny, ia stealing some money from the drawer of trick Kearnan’s liquor store, corner of Howard and Crosby strevis, on the 20th o' Uctober. They were sent tothe Penitentiary ior six months and each fined $100 Jobo Tomson, alias Ferdinand RK li, indicted for the homicide of Joho Ahero, plead guilty to waanslaughter in the third degree, Tho prisoner, who wus @ Sweedish sailor, became very much intoxicated on the 24 of November, and while at the corner of Cuambers and Cherry streets got into a quarrel with some mon, and in the affray ‘stabbed Ahern, inflicting wounds which shortly proved fatal He was sent to the State Prison for three years. That light scptence was imjosed in consequence of evi- deuce of his previous good ebaracter haviag been fur- nished by the Swedish Consul, Augustus Bowman, in- dicted ior a felcnious assault upon Thos. Derancy, by stabbing bim in the neck with a knife on tho 17th of September, at 22 Catharine slip, was convicted of an assaux with intent to do bodily harm He was re manded for sentence, Sidney Boykin, a resectable looking youth of nineteen, eaid to Lave come trom Alabama three months ago, was tried and convicted of an assault with intent to kill Charles Muller, in a drinking saloon at the corner of Laurens and Broome streets, on the 3d of October, It appears that they were drinking, and Miller hit Boykin in the face, whereupon be wevt out into the yard, returned in five minutes and deliberately fired a pistol at Miller, putting Out bis eye, Tho Recorder Sentenced nim to the State Prison for three years and six months, observing that if be ba in bis power be Would seud ali ibe young mem in the city who frequent hovses of prostitution and drinking saloons with re- volvers in their pockets to prison also, Maria Ryau aod Ann Kel'y were charged with causing the death of Catha- rine Collins, who received @ fatal injury by ‘ailing down the stairs o( 257 West Seventeenth street. There was no reliable evidence implicating tbe accused, and they were discharged, Alter the conclusion of this case the Court adjourned, baving sat till @ late hour in order to fivish the calendar, An inquest was heid yesterday at the Blackwell's Island Hospital on the body of a boy seventeen ye of age, name Lave, who had been serving out @ scntence for burglary in the Penitentiary, but who one day last week escaped from the island by swimming, ana, after reach- ing Ravenswood, on the oppostie side of the Kast r: died from exhaustion and exposure. ‘A young man twenty-five years of age, giving bis name ‘as Thomas Roberts, was yesterday arrested, after being chased several blocks, on the charge of assaulting an aged man in Frankfort street, about one o'clock in the alternoon, an@ “garotting” and robbing bim, Roberts was locked up to answer the complaint Patrick Malone was yesterday committed for exami tion, charged with being one of @ gang of seven or + men who on Sunday night assaulted Mr. Fdward Wethe- rill, O€ 44 Pike street, in Monroe, near Market street, and robbed bim of bis watch. At® meeting of the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen, held ast night, the Railroad Committee, to whom the matter ‘was referred, reported unanimously against an increase Of fare on the different city roads, as petitioned for by tho companies The Battenkill knitting fectory, at (Union village, Washington county, N.¥., was destroyed by firo on Thursday afternoon last. Loss $30,000; insured for $25,000 Fariy on leet Sunday morning an explosion oecnrred on board the now steamer Maria, at Carondelet, on the Mississippi river, #ix miles botow St, Louis, There were on board at the time, besides the freight, a number of eoldiers, one hundred and eighty horses and many mules. It is roported that twenty-five mon were killed and thirty wounded, All the horees and mules were either killed by the explosion or drowned, The steamer was cut loose and grounded on the bar, where whe was entirely consumed by fire, She was valued at forty thousand dollars, Whether it was tbe boiler of the boat that exploded or some ammunition on board i@ an unde. cided question, The stock market waa dull yesterday, the whole heavy, and closed at 235% were strong at ou advance. ‘The general aspect of commercial affairs waa about the same yesterday as on Saturday, but in some articles there was more doing, and there wara considerable speculative feeling, This war particnlariy the case with petroleum, which advanced lo, @ 2c., with w iarge specu. lative trade at the advance, Foreign merchandise was generally quiet, but frm, Oo * 'Change”’ the flour mar kot was dull and 60, @ 100, lower in 6 Geacriptions. Wheat was also 1c, a 2), lower, with @ limited demand, Carn dull, while oate were firmer and quite active. Vork Gold was on Governments was firmer, but pot very active. Boof heavy, while lard was lower, witb @ moderate demand. Whiskey quiet, but without decided change. while freighta were dul, Showa by the Rebel Papers. General Sherman is beyond doubt well established on the seacoast at the present time, in communication with the ships of the United States Navy, and in all probability in posses- sion of the city of Savannah. Ten days ago be was within eighty miles of that city and march - ing towards it, and the shrie ks of the Richmond papers that Savannah was perfectly safo, and that Sherman would be in a most critical posi- tion if he attempted to take it, furnish the best possible assurance that no adequate provision had been made for its defence, and that it was completely athis mercy, Sherman’s movement has been .one continual success. He bas marched an army straight across the whole territory of a people arrayed in arms against the government, and has met with no resist- ance. He has taken cities and towas at pleas. ure, and burned them where it was deemed expedient. He has lived on the country and devastated it where the conduct of the people compelled him to. He has so decidedly divided one extremity of the confederacy from the other, in respect to railroad connections, that the least. the Southern papers claim is that they can restore the cqnnections in forty days, If the life of an army or the success of its ope- rations depends on such # conaection, forty days is as good as eternity, And now at the last Sherman has at an important point on the Southern seacoast, a veteran army of fifty thousand men, completely equipped, fresh, and flushed with the pleasant excitement of an excursion through a fortile country. He has lost men only to the extent of a few hundred, and thus holds his original nunber. His army is fresh, for it has only rohed eight miles per day; and itis well iicd, for the rations if started with are not usted by twenty days. nis mss satistactory knowledge of Sher success has come to us entirely through the rebel papers, although those papers have constantly endeavored to represent the move- ment as agrand failure. As thoy have, however, from day to day, made their heavy literary on- slaughts against “Mr. Sherman,” and have told us how great his failure was, the casual ad- missions that they have unintentionally and most inconsistently made have told us all that we could desire of General Sherman’s success. Sherman’s movement, says one Richmond paper, is a failure, and he bas not cut the con- federacy in two, but has merely marched across it. In another paragraph the same Beper. tela we that it_will take till February i Featore Ohty one of the relrdndé that Sher- man has cut. In one of these paragraphs it uttéts Southera bombast for North- ern ears; in the other it gives vent to a groan of misery,at the thought of what Sherman has done. The Richmond Dis- patch of the 6th inst. tells us that Sherman is moving “very slowly,” and is “ becoming timid in his movement or exhausted in his power to advance.” In the same issue it declares that he is “ at last moving towards the Atlantic coast in earnest.” All the Southern citizens turn out patriotically to overwhelm the Yankees; but guards are sent to hunt these patriots at their homes. All officials alike do their utmost in the public service; but Governor Brown, when transportation is scarce, uses a train of cars for his personal accommodation, and even to carry away his private cabbages. No public property bas fallen into Shorman’s hands; but at Milledze- ville he destroyed three thousand stand of arms, and all the powder owned by the State of Georgia. Sherman’s movement is of no con- sequence, and is merely worthy of laughter, and in the next breath it becomes “ vitally interesting” and “a great humiliation to the confederacy.” So the Southern papers have made themselves ridiculous for twenty days. We have been very much amused at the manner in which General Wheeler has, with the assistance of the rebel papers, used up General Kilpatrick. Wheeler bas thrashed Kilpatrick three times every day, and then has “fallen back” every night. He bas wounded Kilpatrick, killed Kilpatrick, destroyed all of Kilpatrick’s cavalry; and all be has to show for itis Kilpatrick’s hat, or a hat that he says was Kilpatrick’s. It is not less funny to note how Sherman has been used up. Dreadfal hints of “a lion in the path” have been given every day, cnd we might expect that the lion lad claws; yet, despite the lion and his claws, the Southern papers do not even claim that there has been a battle. Sherman, however, has had great losses, has been in great distress, did not know where to go to, and finally is “drifting” towards Savannah with tue “dis- pirited remnant” of bis army. Savannab will fiad it a heavy drift. All these dreadful inflic- tions on Sherman and Wheeler's victories are the collisions of that Geueral and the other Southern forces with Sherman’s foragers. Neither Wheeler nor any other Southern sol- dier has been within twenty miles of Sherman’s main force since he loft Atlanta, But Wheeler hovers around to catch two or three foragers; they run, and he announces a victory over Kilpatrick. If any one kills one infantry-nan and captures another, word is sent to Rich- mond that Sherman cannot possibly reach the seacoast. And that is the sum of all the dis- asters to Sherman. DisarrorntMent or Time Foreian Corresroxp- Ents.—It is very interesting to note the manner in which the correspondents for foreign jour- nals speak of our late election. They confi- dently expected a scene of riot, bloodshed, arson and military interposition, and they were wofully disappointed at finding everythivg go off so quietly. The correspondent of the Lon- don Times dates his letter from this city just after sundown on election day. Ie evidently watched all day for the tocsin of war; but when the sun went down upon a peaceful city he set about announcing the fact that the great national contest was finished in the midst of a country torn with civil war, and yot not a blow was struck nor an angry word spoken. We can fancy the chagrin with which he wrote the sentences. Mr. Goldwin Smith, too, who writes for the London News, and who remained all day in the vicinity of the Hoffman House— the military headquarters at that timo--expect- ing every moment to see ordorlies aud couriers riding about, conveying orders from this and that point of the battle ground, was amazed to find no soldiers in the streets, no turbulent civilians, no indications of anything particular going on. Broadway was as gay and festive as ever. No deploying of infantry columns, no charging of cavalry disturbed the even tenor of the promenader’s way; and so Professor Goldwin Smith pronounces it ‘a sublime spec- tacle.” Ho “looked in vain for evidence of the tyranny of the majority. He could scarcely conceive @ nation in the midst of a great politi- cal struggle more tomporate, orderly or respectful of each other’s rights.” Just so: it was indeed a sublime scene, such as no country in Burope could present under like circum- stances, notwithstanding their repeated sneers at American civilization, ‘Ww Opera House—Its Prospects aad agemen New York, the metropolis of America, now has as many regular, legitimate places of amusement as Paris, the metropolis of France. Like Paris, it bas its first class and second class theatres and its variety of minor enter- tainments. But Paris is far abead of New York in regard to Opera. In Paris there are three opera houses—the Academy of Music, the Italian Opera, and the Opera Comique. The Academy is devoted to the production of grand operas in magnificent style. The Ltalian Opera is not of so very much account. Toe Opera Comique, where only the lightest, most grace- ful and most pleasing works are « + pertormed, is by far the most popular of all, ‘In this city we have only the Acad y ‘of Musio where Italian operas are s fore, as in Paris, people go to the Academy rather to exhibit themselves and (e%r dresses than to hear the music. - It fo4pwe that there is a splendid op- paveanity ow open to establish in this city an Opera Gomique, where the music shall be as agreeable to the ear as the foilettes are to the eye; and a company of gentlemen has been organized to inaugurate such an entertain- ment, to be managed ty impressario Grau. We have been fully informed of the plans of the gentlemen interested in this enterprise, and are now at liberty to place them before the public. The new opera house will be much smaller than the Academy of Music, and will be more conveniently arranged. The vastness of the Academy is an objection fre- quently urged against it both by the singers and the public. It may not be too large for the lengthy, spectacular operas; but it cer. tainly is @ great deal too extensive for tho short, crisp, sparkling and melodious works which properly belong to the Opera Comique. The new opera house will be erected further up town than the Academy, and will thus be more easily accessible to our fasbionables, fow of whom reside so far down as Fourteenth street, This will be no slight advantage. The new opera house will not be afflicted with a set of numerous stockholders, who reserve tho best seats and deprive tho manager of the entrance fee, which they are well able to pay, and the public of the most preferable chairs and boxes, which are seldom occupied. The how opéfh house will have a parquet for gen- tlemen, and the rest of the auditorium will be divided into small boxes for parties. All the Convenionées of the rarisian theatres will be introduced. It is expected that the manager of the French theatre will take the house for the off-nights of the opera; and, as Niblo’s saloon really affurds no sort of accommo- dations for Manager Juignet’s exceltent com- pany, he will doubtless be delighted to find himself thus comfortably and fashionably lo- eated. If these arrangements can be effected we shall be provided with a constant series of the most pleasing amusoments. Light operas, in French and Italian, on three nights of the week, and delicious comedies and vaudevilles, in French, on the remaining three nights, will give us a succession of attractions. The ques- tion will then be, not when to go to the opera house, but when to stay at home. That such an enterprise will be exceedingly popular and excessively profitable it is impos- sible to dony. The class of entertainments promised is much more in accordance with the tastes of the American people than the long and scientific performances at the Academy. We presume that the Fourteenth street edifice will be retained for Italian Opera, and we should not be surprised if New York, which now supports as many places of amusement as Paris, should prove capable of sustaining two kinds of opera. That is a matter to be decided by the future, however, and we shall be glad to see it put to the test. At present we have only Hobson’s choice. We must go to hear the Academy opera, or none at all. That the public will go to the Opera in vast numbers the remunerative experience of the past three or four seasons amply demonstrates; and it is @ reasonable inference that they would attend in still larger numbers if they were invited by 8 continuous supply of popular novelties, Those who rush to La Viglia del Reggimento would be much more likely to rush to La Dame Blanche, or Le Domino Noir, or Lara, or Fra Diavolo. Even the Bohemiaus of Belmont and Barlow’s organ—who baye become more critical since our exposure of their crusade against Mrs. Van Zandt—condemn La Figlia del Reggimento as “not by any means @ popular opera.” “ Besides which,” add the Bohemians—who cannot have received their fees last week, they are 30 honest—‘“be- sides which, it has been done to death in years past, as any tolerably efficient pair of ears can testify.” The Bohemians have tolerably long and efficient ears, and we accept their testi- mony, inasmuch as it agrees precisely with the opinion expreased by us last Tuesday. Now, if the public will attend the performance of an opera ‘“‘not popular” and “done to death,” it is quite certain that they will still more liberally patronize works which are very popular and not done to death, especially if these works be of the gayest, brightest and most taking style, like those at the Paris Opera Comique, from whence come almost all the operatic airs which catch the cars and the whistles of young New York. The success of the new opera house may consequently be guaranteed in advance. Tf, as we understand, the management is to be entrusted to impressario Grau, its success will be all the more sure; for Grau knows precisely what our people want, and the public have not yet forgotten that he gave us opera at a time when no other manager dared venture upon the undertaking. We hope to see the new opera house soon built and dedicated to the muses. Forsey vor tat Casiner.—Some humbugging friends of the Chevalier Forney have been try- ing the blarney of naming him as a proper man for the Cabinet, and they seem to think that he is just the stick of timber wanted in the place of Old Mr. Wellos. We think this means that Welles is to walk the plank before long, and such perhaps is the meaning of Old Abe's compliments in his annual Message, of which Welles, for bis masterly report, was the recipi- ent, The noatest thing ever said by Old Abe of the late Postmaster General Blair was said in that letter which announced to bim that bis “time had come.” We guess that Old Abe bas had enough of the Blairs, and as Welles has been thoir good man Friday in dis- pensing the spoils, he may bave to go in order to get rid of the family, But Forney is not the man to take his place, We want a gun of % ™~ heavier calibre and longer range for the Navy Department, and Admiral Farragut is the mane Forney’s vocation lies in the party newspaper business or in managing a secret service party electioneering fund, as ex-President Buchanan can testify; or in gathering up the odds and ends and marrow bones of the lobby and kitchen, so that nothing may be lost. Let the shoemaker stick to his last, and let Forney stick to his vocation. Old Abe, we guess, will not catch the joke of the qualifications of Forney for aplace in the Cabinet. We guess that be knows the length and breadth of Forney. Toa Taree PRerences ov tus Repris.— When the rebellion broke out the Southera leaders proclaimed they were fighting for the institution of slavery. This was their chief corner stone, and on this was their national edifice to be erected. This avowal did them no good abroad and another policy was pro- claimed. It was then independence for which they were contending. This they averred they had a natural right to prefer and maintain at all hazards, This pretence—for it was nothing more—gave their foreign friends the opportu- nity of fresh exertions in their behalf, although it was a notorious fact that the Southern States always were as independent as the North; and achange of their relations with it did not and could not make them freer than they were already under institutions of their own forma tion, their own choice, and for a great part of the time under their own direction. Now, aa the horizon grows darker, as their prospects grow dimmer, as the storm begins to howl around them, as their mischievous league aw dissolving and their rope of saud begins to fall in pieoes, they are playing the last card: the recognition of the absolute sovereignty of the States. It they can gain this point from the united loyal States their pride will be soothed and they may listen to terms. But will the Western and Northwestern States agree to this? Will Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Llinois, Minnesota, Michigan—States erected out of Territories, many of them from Indian landg: purchased from the savages, that were never colonies, never pretended to have inherent rights of sovereignty, od ievér exercised any— will these permit any Southern State to baye, powerg beyond their own? Soall th they retain: the right of opposing, vetoing, or Bullifying the’ acts of the general government whenever they please, to the injury of those other States which tave never olaimed such prerogatives? Th idea is absurd and inadmissible. All these three claims are without any foun- dation, nothing but es dug from time to present some appearance of baving a principle at stake, when they have none, But the men who were loudest in defence of them are rapidly disappearing from the field of action. The losses of the rebels have been as remarkable as their audacity. Few of the men prominent in bringing on this war are left alive. Smailer lights now dimly illuminate the scene. The larger are extinguished, snuffed ot and for gotten. But two men of any real power re- main to protract the rebellion—Davis and Lee—and it is easy to see that they are flicker- ing in its socket. This demand for a reoog- nition of the sovereignty of the States is the last card in the soiled pack. Otp Apr’s Re-eLeoTion--ENGuaxD ANE France Satisriep.—Toe apparent satistaction with which the news of President Liocoln’s re- election has been received among all parties in England and France is somewhat remarkable, The London Times and other English rebel- sympatbizing journals think it will be a good thing for the “Southern confederacy,’ and surely is 9 good thing so far as the interests of England are concerned. The libera! English journals, on the other hand, exultingly bail the success of Mr. Lincoln as equivalent to the downfall of Davis and his confederacy, and the removal of its corner stone of Airican slavery. The imperial organs of Frauce are disposed te be exceedingly amiable over the result, Ac cordingly, ia a broad Awerican view of this subject, if the friends of the Union and the adherents of the rebellion in England, and Lord Palmerston and Louis Napoleon, are all disposed to congratulations over Mr. Lincoln's ‘reappointment for another term,” we think that, without distinction of party, the citizens of the loyal States may resign themselves to cheerful acquiescence in the will of the people. It is not often that we have a Presidentia! elec- tion which satisfies our friends and euemies abroad. Oid Abe is a wonderful man. Starvation in Ler’s Anmy.— Attempts have been frequently made to deny the miserable condition to which the rebel army is reduced; but we think the evidence of the deserters, both officers and privates, who arrived at Washing- ton from Lee’s army the other day, settles that matter. They give adeplorable account of their privations. Indeed, their appearance fur- nished proof enough of the truth of their lan- guage. They say that for six months past they had nothing to eat but aone meal ration ef corn cake and bacon a day; tbat our soldiers waste as much provisions in a day as the rebel soldiers receive ina week, The poor fellows shouted with delight when they saw the Capitol and anticipated the good things that lie in its shadow—we do not mean the Congressmen, but the contents of the commissary stores ia the neighborbood. - Hancocx’s Corrs.—A regiment or more coul@ be easily furnished in this city if the men of wealth would but imitate the example already set them by # number of patriotic citizens, viz:—each to furnish one man. There are more than ten thousand persons in this city; not in- cluding those who have grown rich by the war, who could well afford to send one represeuta- tive to the front. Will they do it? Wuo Ark Tay ?—It appears that some very important papers were found on board the Florida when she was captured in Bahia bay, likely to implicate foreign officials of bigh rank in affording active nid to the rebels. The fact was known in England and created some stir there. The documents, we believe, are now in the hands of our government, and perhaps these delinquent officials who had a finger in this pie may have their evil deeds exposed be- fore long. Tur McCLeLian, Sworp Funn.—-The World is still harping in regard to the contributions remaining in our hands belonging to the McClellan sword fund, It bas now figured up the balance on hand to seven hundred and twelve dollars and ten cents. Well, wo will obeerfully dispense the sum named for any charitable purpose selected by General Mo- Clellan, even to helping the famishing Bobe- mians of the World to @ decent meal and comfortable winter clothing,