The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1864, Page 4

4 A NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DEUVEMBER 15, 564 f der, 4 robbery, om the preteroe of | Albany yesterday, the old board of directors were re Sherman Before 8 aah—A Despateh | late Hon. Wm. P. Rathbone, formerty a Judge | (EW YORK HERALD. robot invasion. The Cosesiar and Diplomasle and Pen. | elected. ‘ from His Bight Wing. in Now Jersey, deceased some two years since, T H 0 M A 8 « } 100 Appropriation bills were reported by the Committee ‘The stock market was dull yesterday. God was oleady, The despatch from General Howard, pubd-| who made the luoky ofl strike in Weet Vir- Tino = eps sad Monee, ho remands af tha senen was | with <O Sones Wekeset wi cepaee tat, Corre: | inet. Moshi ‘wenening’s Hanae, Giapele te | pints, ond left properly wosth 0 tele of millions Sorron AND devoted to gen jebate on thd war, in on quotation was 233%, end the closing ove 236%. Goveru- |», fi h “ abheiel eee the Whole, Mr, Brooks, of New York, being the prinoipal | mevt seourities wore heavy in the moruing, but higher — a which aye we par bap yes to his beirs, The family of the late Judge are IMPORTANT WAVAL SUCCESS. OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. | spcaxer, late in the afternoon, in for some time shrouded, ao among the most worthy and respectable in the Aeatanad &. . cones ; * WYSCELLANEOUS NEWS. Commercial alfuirs were very quiet yesterday, and | full blaze of sunlight upon his position. On | country. < Ne. 348 By the arrival of the steamer Eagle, from Havana, we *. bave highly interesting news (rom Mextoo, The fortunes business outside of the Produce Exchange was almost at | Friday last he was within ten miles of Savan- eainangany A aa yar |) a stand. Foreign merchandise continued aulet, 204 | nah, and General Foster states in his despatoh | “4 Puosruozes Iowrrat—The {ncendlary Operations of the Gunboats on | | sosroely snytbiag was dooe, In domeatic produce ‘2°F° | that the rebel works in front of tho city were | Press came out simultaneously yesterday morn- the Cumberland River. os 15, 1864, of ths Juarez party, according to this Intelligence, are } Bow Terk, Tharsday, I on th Goneral Arteaga having beoa com- | was no general movemert, bat to some commodities & ing in clarion notes of exultation at the dis- | ————— a | ee ted by omall nurober of Zouaves. Maximal. | fair businegs was reported. Petroleum was quiet and | Probably attacked on last Sunday. vod made by some learned professor that hh LHE SITUATION. Hian had published an important deovee regarding ims | pomival, while cotton was without noticeable change. As we conjecture, from the facts communi- i | | hosphorus will not ignite unless some sub- | On Change the flour market continued quite active, bet | cated, Sherman’s army, on the north side of Sa- hosp ‘* without change in value, Wheat peng bot Orm, while incensed holds aline oteiae from the river on | **8n¢e like sulphur be applied to it. On this THE SIEGE oF NASHVILLE. corn was lower, with, howevi fair business 4105: | 446 tert to the inlets connecting with Ossabaw hint the incendiary press hinge elaborate arti- } | Oats were lower, but very active, Pork was more | cles on the folly of supposing tbat the late nga active, and 370. por barrel higher. Beef heavy, while Sound on the right, and that he is oN yee plot to fire the hotels, because they were not HEAVY SKIBMISHING ON TUESDAY. | It lard was quite active, but without decided change in | municating with the navy, in a position, if} | ka wage rebel one. It it had been | eg Freights quict, while whiskey was firmer, but | necessary, to proceed to the work of a regular intended to potas the city an coe a8! theue leas active, + argu atege. Wo still expeot, however, to nape = incendiary sheets, those who undertook it} General Rousseau All Right af Our Relations with Canada—Important | the city bas been carried by assault, or shel would certainly have taken the precaution to Murfreesboro. } \ Order from Major General Dix. into a capitulation. That he means to take it, seo that culpbar was at bend, as on omental by we i i and will accomplish the job, cannot be doubted. : ae © | en ee a eect {Hi fro ad) moan ar’ bundut and te | OE OS SSA Gapoem tata ae | THR RAID INTO KENTOCEY: | " ' akvadiages whlohte Bad sispedy spouted Wi was created by the combustibles in more than } rj Dix, commanding the Department of the East, | enable him to cut off relofcrcements and sup- St. ; if in regard to the rebel ralds upon our Canadian | plies for the enemy on every side. The navy Pr te oper gpa sng beet rby wer The Rebel General Lyon Nea { frontier. The‘order is suggested by the unex pest ti Aap ol ine Poslaw laut of the fire department, the ~police and the Russellville, Ky. pected and unjustifiable action of Mr. Justice ment of the city, wees sing te ion | betel. assistants, the dames would, in a short . * possess } Coursol, of Montreal, who discharged all tho} 4¢ its approaches on the Carolina side. mi agate pote t parts of QUERILLA OPERATIONS IN THE STATE | St. Albans raiders from custody on Tuesday. | But what military advantages will be gained | | Bid a balwtoe ine meet fen ie General Dix commands that if any othor raids | with the possession of Savannah? A glance at | jo" 7 S008, ¢ Fapedigetes hee thy &e., &o., &e. tho map of Georgia will satisfy the reader that the phosphorus to start a blaze. Besides, it is are attempted the rebels shall be shot on the well known that the application of sulphur to ea ciaeryr aes they will be ver: at. The possession of the A rt. spot, if possible, and that, if they seck refuge lt ef will uestee bf pa PEE ak thaiven to the Phosphorus directly, is like applying fire to} yavan ormnations ON THR pc aivet in Canada, they shall be pursued, captured | head of steamboat navigation, which is some gunpowder—the explosion is instantaneous, Se ageapsaee i001 peti wherever found, and sent to New York, to be | considerable distance above Augusta. The am Se revel bade arin tare Papdhvidaprite sit ates ated aioe Fig dap ell tried by martial law. “Under no ciroum- | possession of the river, in fact, will be another | | tafaslnes estas in i ae that the pro- | mander Fitch detonated and drove the lott wing of Hood! stances,” says the General, ‘must those raid- Mississippi operation, making another aplit of P army on the river, on the 4th inst., with beavy toss * : South Carolin perty of the peaceful citizens may be destroyed. | tno rebels, including several of their prominent offi ers be surrendered to the Canadian authori- oe nag fui Now if phosphorus will not ignite, per se, what | and also recaptured two transports from the ties, if captured, nor must commissions from | the north, itis only necessary, for military pur- substance in ponent eae Pace fied bees No casualties are reported on our side. the rebel authorities be at all regarded.” To} poses, to hold Savannah and the line of the etree wikdsuccciiees gost ‘THE SIEGE OF NASHVILLE, carry out this order General Dix promises all | ‘iver to Augusta, to make the separation com- explain? ee plete, railroads, telegraphs and all. Thus, > ath IED BANS ESB Seds Mr, D. FP. Conyngham’s Despaten. | the force necessary, and he exhorts the Ameri- Hood and Governor Brewn will be left ina Fire Im the Bowery: Nasuvitus, Dec. 6, 1866, can frontiersmen not to retaliate upon the} confederacy of three States, Georgia, Alabama | Ings suratey pesvsoran’ ano sive. OPnuRs Msn ec hele Ee ata Servet " " ND FIVE OTHE tatrenct tend oear wi Canadians for these raids, but to leave the | and Mississippi, to themselves; while that of BADLY DAMAGED—LOSS ESTIMATED AT ONE HUN- ceca ca ike Onna river; then connect our oun) matter in the hands of our government. We | Jeff. Davis will be practically razeed to South- DEED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. in a semicircle by @ About a Yolook Wed: ous forts and redoubte, winding are warned, moreever, that further incursions | ©“? Virginia, North and South Carolina. our five o'clock on Wednesday morning ® OF6 | tives in front of Fort Gitlem to the Cumberland Such is the object and the purpose of Gene- — out in the middie building of fagersoli, Watson & thus forming a semicircular line of about Gve oF are now preparing in Canada, and consequently } 141 sherman in his march for Savannah. Al- shrdaen ts CAFFiNe eit The a. counted of rr apeca tc sla a es nc, can NE General Dix’s proclamation may soon bave to | ready, in the railroads breken up on his line of | “ve story building on the Bowery, a six story building | , oe caadiae Natak jis eedinaiabe ax ine be practically enforced. march, and in those which he now holds, he We believe that the people of this country } 5as effectually cut off Davis for weeks to come No, 49 Chrystic street, a two story and attic building No. $1 Chrystio street, and a two story brick engine house pea ireremcaiacti ghhiry ‘as ae nicer prs are fully prepared for such from his communications with the supplies of oft ch an order asthis, and | Georgia, A terrible blow has been dealt to and a five story brick building in the contre of tho lots Nos. 78 Bowery and 61 Chrystie street, aad alsoa two erat se pene onic prirarenris ' ight thousand cavalry. that ber ee heartily endorse it. Of} yom in the very heart of the “confederacy,” } Al! these buildings and their contents were destroyed. Sieenese a much stronger army now than Hood,| course the rebel sympathizers and phosphores- } and we dare say that not many days willelapse sides the advantage of position. In front of our Carystie stroot iderably damaged. The Gre en- |- cent editors among us will howl with rage, and | before its effects will be made manifest at Rieh- nd uoase or Petersoa Company No. Zl located at No, 41 | 188 clear, sloping country, with nothing to (nverrapt quote English precedents to prove that General | 0nd. Getcsit we suspect a o a Diz fa Yery wrong, and that the raiders and Mr. | Chan of Charleston are selling off st lene than cost, The great conflict is coming to a foous. Justice .Coursol an@ the rebels generally are _—_—_— gine house of Petersoa Company No. 31, located at No, 47 Curystie street, was demolished by a wall falling upon it, | sweeping range of our guns. 0 open is the countey v ht. This is to be anficipated, and need ‘Tus Bangrurr Bru iw Conaress.—The pas- si : sage of the Bankrupt bill through the House of Tho two story building No. 73 Bowery was also totally | no army could live and advance under a woll {fro tiled coceumedy and srear addition io'No. 1 was | 9°09 artiiorz. “GaatonSacet Teventicmn ove. 1a somsmoenrweconeen ars ‘a the eugine rooms or Its iemneatate vicinity, snd |. "iver: Perey protectiig Cur Mauks and seeariag che not proveke any Gisoussion, Ail ace Representatives, by a decisive vote, is an indi- Americans feel that we ere now # great nation, | cation of its passage through the Senate; but at and must make our own precedents; as France | the same time it is stated that anotber bill is, and England have done before us. There is a | being prepared in the latter body, and if so, fereign precedent for, and a fereign precedent | ‘2° two may come into collision and both be against, everything that oan be done in this lost. We publish the House bill in another ‘At last the curtain bas risen on the grand military | ports. Taking the 8 altogether, Maximilian seom determined to carry out bis programme, and to go aboad as fast as circumstances will permit, It 1s reported that Punication with the army of General Snerman. | cooergi Canales recently defeated @ force under Geveral We publish this morning despatch from Geueral | Cortina, captured Cortina himself, and immediately altor- Howard, commanding the right wing of the mag- | wards executed him, EES ‘The steamship Ocean Queen, from Aspinw sienna eect ee nr 6th fectant, arrived here last night. The pews by this fhe Empire State of the South, This despatch i | . +iv41 15 important, ‘ibe Peruvian Congress had adopted ated on Friday last, near Savanuab, and reads:—‘‘We | gimost unanimously ® resolution calling upoa the Presl- @q dave met with perfect success thus far, The troops are | dent to demand of the Spaniards the evacuation of the Chincha Islands in eight days. If this demand ws aot pir 0, ich was paces tics ptiaan ths SRR eae complied with he was directed to at once attack the Drought through to Hilton Head by Captain Duncao, who Spanish squadron, Another resolution, requesting the left Eberman’s army on the evening of the 91h, @0d | president to resign, was also adopted by the Congress; Aescended the Ogeeonee river. When he left the whole | but he bad not yet coniplied, and there were prospects of & revolution. The European mails of the Canada reached this tity fn a despatch dated at Hilton Head, cn Inst Monday, 8878 | 50.1 eweive o'clock last night. Hor sews has been aati. that the evemy’s works, five miles (rom the city, | cipated, Wore probably attacked on the previous day. Sher- ‘the steamship Arago, Captain Gadsden, from Port man’s troops had lived off the country during the whole | Royal, 8. C., for New York, having towed the guaboat Augusta to Hampton Roads, received ordors to tow the Grama in Georgis, and we are again in direct com- force was wiibin ten miles of Savaanah. General Foster, march, and were inthe most exceliont condition and |. o, snip Guiding Star from the latter place to this city, ppirits, The despatches from our correspoudents 10 | and will not he due here before Sunday or Monday noxt, Bouth Carolina and the rebel newspaper extracts publish. | as a hawger bas to be mado at Norfolk for that purpose, ed in this morning’s Herat constitute 4 most interesting Most of the passengers by the Arago arrived here last hed that city by a badger regarding Sherman’s approach to Savannah aud idead Mn acral cada Lig the co-operative movements of General Foster. Our Key West correspondent gives us’ an account of In view of the liberation in Montreal, by a Canadian | the chsee recently, by the steamship San Jrointo, Cep Judge, of the St. Albans raiders, General Dix yesterday } ‘aia Meade, of two supposed steam blockade runners. One of them was puraued off the Great Bahama Bank, avd (sued an order, addressed to subordinate military com: | Foiig probably bave been captured had abe not taken poanders in the Department of the East, but especially | refuge in British waters. The municipal election toox to those on the Northern frontier, directing that here- | place in Key West on the 6th instant, A large lot of After when rebels are detected in acts of incendiariam, beef cattle and sheep arrived there on the 9th instant trom the North. tobbery or murder, they are, if possible, to be shot on } rhe Hoard of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon—Prest- the spot, If they flee across the border thoy are to be | dent Henry in the chair—and transacted a large amount of pursued into Canada, captured, if possible, and not to be | ordinary routine business, chiefly relating to the paving given ap to the Canadian authorities, but sent to the grading and opening of streets. A resolution donating fioadquarters in this city fifty dollars to several bundred blind persons in needy 3 circumstances was introduced, but lost for want of ® con- Ekirmisbing between the national and rebel forces be. | stitutional vote. The resolution authorizing Edmund fore Nashville was carried on with more vigor day before | Jones & Co. to print and index the proceedings of the Yeaterday than for several provious days. The rebels on —— Council, at the old prices, was adopted over the Monday last fell back to their main line, but om Tuesday bends ore Sch siie scl eee atenreet: agnin reoccupied their advance works, The Union bat. | The Hoard of Councilmen met yesterday, and adopted beries did considerable firing on the latter day, but | ® resolution increasing the salaries of police justices’ without much apparent damage to the enemy. General | “lerks from $2,000 to $3,000 per annum, and the clerks of the pol! fro to » A Thomas‘ works forma complete semi circle around the bate praiese — a sacha to a oe pouth side of the city, of between five and six miles in $5,000 to the Children’s Aid Society, which resulted in Pxtent, bis two wings resting on theriver. With these, | the reference of the paper toa special committees. A Hood's lines, eome two miles distant, conform in general | Tee°lution was adopted, donating s thousand doilars to the Nursery and Child's Hospital. After acting upon Hhape wed direction. The army of the latter, infantry | some routine papers the Board adjourned till this after- id cavalry together, is supposed to number about fifty noon, at four o'clock. ‘The rebel force under General Lyon, which ‘The suit for Itbel brought by ex-Mayor Opdyke against Jott the front of Nashville some days ago and crossed the a — waa continued yesterday ia the Su- Preme Court. court room was crowded to its utmost Oumberiand river, is reported to be near Rassellville, | capacity by the curious public. A considerable portion Seutaony. En route General Lyon burned the depot and | of the day was occupied by the opening argument of pome other buildings at Hastonsville, Ky., on the Mem. | Judge Pierrepont in behalf of Mr. Weed, after which the Braneh Railroad, and destro: examination of witnesses was commenced and pyocecded a % ‘= met ne erable Proper | vith. he case will be continued at ten o'clock to-day, Stored there, All later accounts confirm those already | In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, William Published regarding the compicte defeat of Forrest | Wagoner was convicted for having « plate in his posses. pt Murfreesboro, by Gen-rals Rousseau and Milroy. Gen. | Sion, with which he intended to counterfeit fractional Roussean, in a n dated ‘ carrescy. An Italian named Fornez, acoused with him, —, the 18:h inst, says that | ieaded guilty. They will be sentenced on Saturday. wall right, and expresses confidence in his ‘In the case of Asa Marvin and William Rogerson, the Pdility to bold it, Admiral Lee informs the Navy De- } Port Jervis counterfeiters, the jury returned a verdict of partment that the left wing of Hood’s army was driven guilty early yesterday morning. The sentence ef the Prisoners bas been deferred. back from the bank of the Cumberiand river with severe ‘The Praseian extradition case came on yesterday in the (oes ig the attack on it, on the éth inst., bythe gunboats. | tnited states Commissioner’s Court, but was adjourned trea I22RGawE EREE Fea i ; j i H i the Saey wore enabled to [eedagemeyce Spee the Tenth Tennessee. As he was suspicious Marsnal | was questioned, and some of the men, Who formeriy the Teath | with Forrest, recognized him as a captais of werd Seveuth. | command. He was at once taken care of. A . Captaia | lieutenant in Forrest's command, who bad taken = Insurance Patrol, with his mea, were | of allegiauce, was caught yesterday evening trying eticient in mri Hist ofthe ocoupamsand the eetimated | ‘trough the lines, evidently with information as Sree cpr a iugersoll, Watson & Co. ara brisk fight ecw . There has heen a little ‘this atternece Sasa et, mn cate cot sees n tat! | cow man onan ot ortrnsbore. A pach Gity companies. Svatue bat merbeee e command attacked block bouses Nos. 6 and 7, and thence it spread rapidly to the front and rear parts | ° the river. Two of these were captured by the column. and then abandoned. We brought teem up to Nash¢ uvbloped im Games without suffering much injury. | factory burned so tlercely that the offorts of the fire- ‘A men dressed in civilian’s clothes was seen tq and eketches of Fort Gitlem, commanded by Colonel 801 New Warkd. If foreign precedents would jus-|' One of the real difficulties which as pre- tify anything they would justify this rebellion, } vented the earlier adoption of this very neces- and yet they equally jnstify us in suppressing | *8ty measure, is the great length of the bills It We Americans have always beon very care- | *hemselves, caused by their numerous details, i | i | requirements and formalities, puzzling to | which ‘owned by the firm, will be ; - | pattering them handsomely when Geseral Captain Bridgewater, with one hundred and twenty- | til! to-day, because of the absence of aa tmportant wit- | ful of the interests of our neighbors, and now rehensions, offerin, r" merab! for xf ' wee ity bere pt opie changing game so ' most com, a it le | Sured for $82,500, divided im emat! amounts among city five mea, a few days since drove the guerilla gasig under | "ees for the presecation, it is quite time that we take better care of our igh sag ss Sea) aad Sopesisaniins for owe dix S 5 An interesting case of false imprisonment was tried the lead of the notorious Jesse out of Newcastle, Ken- Detere J Monell, in the S es ay. bucky, killing and wounding a number of them. Captain | The plaintiff, Cornelius Collins, alleged that be was arrested Bridgewater was still pureu:cg them at the date of latest | in the month of April, 1862, 0n charge of stealing a dia, Bocounts, mond ring, which bad been given te his wife by the defendant, David Kilgour; that the latter refused te press No new movements in the Army of the Potomac o the | 15 complaint against him, and he was di af Army of the James are reported. Passengers by the | being Ivcked up in a station house all night. The Judge mall boat which arrived at Wasbingtom yesterday report | after hearing the evidence, dismigsed the complaint with- that heavy firing in the direction of Dutch Gap was head ee oe Ld se" a Reoal . ir. Ismnc Henderson, late Navy Agent port, on luesday morning. Ihe Richmond papers say that the appeared before United States O issioner White yes- Febel reconolrsance ou the right of the Army of the | ceraay, and gave twenty thousand dollars bail to answer James, on Inst Saturday, already spoken of in our de- | eight charges against bim for alleged fraud in the conduct spatches, was under the direction of General Longstreet. ged soreggieworn: wiv ores 3 r jary Hamm causing the deat General Lee, in bis official Cexpatch regarding Geveral | csrah peonest in Howard street, by beating her on the Warren’s recent exped tion to the Menerrin river, claime | head with aamall stick, wes concluded yesterday in the ‘tbat be did pot destroy the bridge over that stream. Court of General Seasions, and resaited in a verdict of We are informed that at the time the guoboat Otsego | Suilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree. She was re- nips ‘ 5d: Sabie a: ‘suailicn sve manded for sentence. E. R. M. Garrett, indloted for Lar- was blown up by « rebel torpedo \n Roanoke river, ®5 | Co5y in stenling a horse and wagon, pleaded guilty, and noticed in yesterduy’s Hena:y, she formed part of anex- | was sent to the State Prison for two years. Kaward peditionary force, which left Plymouth, N. C., on lest | Burns, who was jointly indicted with Wm. Honnessea for robbery in the first degree, in assaulting Joho H. Alcott on the 16th of October, while passing through Houston street, was trie@ for this offence. It will be one mile below Jamesion that she was euok, Most Of | remembered that Heoueseen fired a pistol at Mr. her crew were savei. After remaming near the place of | Alcott tree times, and that during the assault he lost a e valuable gold watch and chain and diamond ting. Hon- ag RES nessen was tried last month, when Judge Russel sen. feet proceeded om up, in pursuacce of thelr original | teoceg him to tweaty years incarceration in the State sf Ia. Serta: marge ore ggg or He captured six guos and several prisoners. ster , jaakes nections. | Part A part of General Steadman’s command made 8 r is stock was tsk 5 st was tsken out. Loss about $6,000; old nel oat y oom, ring sev en ee Pros tes Booey oy a There is some beavy artillery Gring from our bat yailding is a if 4 from estal atten Np. 14 Doueuyremmecmapied Dy ceme es Oran 00, | ere tae renee earn er tobacce manufacturers, Loss on stock and machivery | &0me bluffs on our tront. $a Naser rind =: Se ee Hood sent a fag of trace through the lines yeste 000; Firemen’s, Citizens’, $5,000; Rutgers’. | asking for an exchange of prisonors; but as Thoma 000; Hi if New Haveo, ; h~ a wan Socapied DF fe Raute e eer art of | cent the rebol prisoners North, he oould not eff photograpu ii 1d dweiling. Lose $1,' yy N 5 Poy and dwe = $1,800; tosured for $2,700 in | exchange. ing is owned by W. a Moody. It is damaged to the ex- The Press Despatches. tent of $4,000; insu No. 77 is occupied by F. Wagner asa dwelling and Nasavusa, Doo. 14, 1 Germantruit store and grocery. The rear addition to | Yesterday afternooa a reconnoissance was maf ~ Store was crushed by a falling wall. Loss about | three regiments from GenePal Steadman’s corps n@ = tasaved tor $10,000; 0” ne *° Bis furniture by | surtreesboro pike, Sharp skirmishing occurred © The buildings are owned by Ienac O. Barker. They aro | ‘ho afternoon. There were no losses on the fodede Li to the extent of $200, caused by the rear windows taking | _ Deserters who came in yesterday report that Hot — — by Charies Fisher. altered his lines somewhat, Later aud more relig@- 0. 47 Chryetic street was occupied by No. 31 Fire | formation, however, asserts that the rebel forces gilt t ine. Loss 6 i a $1,600, and owned by tho city of New | in tnoir former position. Hood has been reported at 1 aa 63, atwo meet or Progr ate alsoarear | Franklin with typboid fever, but the reports eet ' ng, were occu y William Parteabei oops Gorman boarding house. Loss on Turaiture $2,000; in bers ca red ri iad ae = sured for $1,500 ip the Germania tosurance Company. | W miles of Nashville, The ema buildings will bo about $3,690. They are | A lot of government wood was destroyed by a ¥ % { : : bels, ten miles up the river yesterdays No. 55, occu by T. Mazini as a boarding house, | “Pl Tos’ $1,000; tosured” fcr $2.100m Hot and’anoiner | A portion of the cebel General Lyou's commiere toa ; nod aay The batiding is damaged about | reported to have burned some trestie-work on (hig $500; . field and Kentucky Railroad, twelve miles above Aag* Nos. 67 er ‘i ; - “3 0 59, Bowery, owned by W. B, Miles. Bulld- | oq | insurances of logersoll, Wateon & Co, omstock and ‘The weatber is moderating. There was a heai rel a i own. Our statesmen and generals are at least | interminable subsequent lawsuits to settle the as wise, as honest endas conscientious as those | Meaning of the words of the acts. All this of foreign mations, and they must do whatever, might be very easily avoided, and by the sim- s plest kind of legislation. A proper bankrupt act in thetr judgment, the necessities of this crisis of | neeq not contain more than half's dozen sections. our country demend, looking to the future for | These should define bankruptcy, voluntary results rather than to the past for examples, | and involuntary, when the insolvent may peti- The people recognize these truths, and will tion for relief and when the creditor may bring a an insolvent debtor into court. They should support the admiafstration in the most vigor- declare what courts should have jurisdiction, ous measures. Shoot the raiders on the spot | ana fx their process, their officers and their capture them wherever found—surrender | fees. They should provide for the surrender them under no circumstances whatever. Such | #0d division of the effects of the insolvent in orders have the true ring, and will be ap- the speediest manner. All the rest would be mere technical prac- Planded and approved by alt true Ameri-| ti and could be provided for by authorizing cans. the Attorney General to prepare a code of It bas been remarked of provinces that they | procedure under the general law, subject to reflect and exaggerate the sentiments of the | the approval of the United States Supreme mother country. This bas been the case with Court, amendable from time to time as expe- rience might dictate. Otherwise it will be an Canade and England. No judge in Koglaod, jntermiasble job, as well as. most expensive however deeply he might sympathize with the | one, to obtain the benefit of the act. A single rebels, would have dispesed of the St, Albans j.mistake by an ignorant lawyer qill upseta raiders in the atyle of Mr. Justice Goursol. | Tischarge at. any future day, as is mow 80 ‘The cham ‘coutrality of Eogland, which has frequently the case under eur State insolvent i z i Hy H Friday and Saturday, for the purpose of attacking the enemy's works st Jamesion and abore, It was about ext morning, the remainder of the macblaery in the ‘various b as fol Tows:--Avlautie, #2,000, Pacibo, #20000; Fireesen'a, 61,000; | mat DUEL. dea gn. We expect soon to lear of tbe successful results | Prigon. The complainant identified Burns as one of ‘the —At 000; ; ‘posed aeal ; fleace of indeatiéca. laws. St. Nickotas i {| Tho water on the shoals te eight feot doop, ead iets OF tee expedinoon. SCE, chcuie ho Sieber pone ~ the other | mounted to a foreign protectorate over the} The forms of procedure ‘are the mere tn- $5 oe: ery Citys denne s:bovor sapidty. fim The brig BE. Muler, whieh arelved here yesterday, from | "a. sary, however, after an absence of baif an | Tebollion, has thas found ts fullestdevelop- | struments of the courts, and are of little im- | $1,900; St. Mark's, $1.000; Home,’ of iWarttord,’ $2,000: Lovisvitis, Deo, 4.1008. 9 14 Pheonix, of Hartford, $608; State of New Jersey, $1,333; | The Journal's despatch from Nashvite (igh insect) Springfield, of Maasachusetts, $666; Globe, t / "fue anurance 8 Paidiogy ia as sb dane says tho tree bas considerably moderate, All owe jo. 711 Bowery, an follows :—Western, of Massa- | forts have done more or less firing to-day, butapparestly 1008: Witianabarg ot. 83000; xcpanres | with little damage to tbe enemy. Skirmisbicg baween Ne. ernie, street. $2,0, as follows:—State of ‘New | the lines was renewed today with greater earngtaces jersey, , City $1,600: Hartford, $1,500; | than for some days past. The ofemy yesterday fol back Pee Aten ktae $600! AOI the See iteae eee ice, | ‘0 bin mata line, but to-day has reinstated a forcein bie Sioo0: Gi s * | outer tines. ‘Small building rear of No. 47 Chrystie street , $1,500 Despatches fully confirm our success at Murfrembore. in St. Mark's Insurance Company. Five story briok buiid- ing 04 eogine and voter beeerenr Of ‘No. 61 Chryatic | THe rebel General Bates’ division is within three niles of Sassou, N. P., on the Sd inst, brings the intelligence | pour, returned with @ verdict of guilty. Burns will be that the notorious steamer Alexandre had arrived at that sentenced this m rning. The trial of James Wilson, Place from England. She was appareutiy fitted for a | charged with assaulting James L. Waroor, with intent to rob him, om the night of the 12th of November, while passing through Bleecker street, was commenced late in tended for a privateer. tbe afterovon. It will be finished to-day. From rebel cewspapers we learn of the successes of a Surrogate Tuckor bas admitted to probate the con- Union cavairy torce 10 Louisiana, under General David. | tested will of Ann Cassidy, holding that the evidence shows the requirements of the statate to have been com: plied with by the lawyer in attendance at the time of ment in Canada, and-has received its most | portance in themselves. These are not the decided rebuke in this order from General Dix. en of ppd sari the apogee ‘ © bill and the courts will arrange the qui a a the action of Mr. J: ‘aap Coursel Ubels and quod libets in their own way. But IL be discountenanced by the intelligent } the House bill bad better be at once adopted portion of the bench, the press and the public | by the Senate, and let time and experience of Canada; and we are almost sure that | Correct all errors and mistakes. it will be ropudiated by the cautious home Tas Tree of trae Rervsiicam Partr blockade runner; but macy suspected that she was in- sou, They were estimated at over five thousand, baving i i ‘With them two pieces of artillery and about one hundred | Paring the will. ‘ihe Abraham R. Lawrence wil! auit is atroot, $3,600, as follows:—State of New Jersey, $1,166; | Murfreesboro, | Jonded wagons, ‘They reached Tangipaboe (rom Baton | ouill on trial mn the Serrogate’s Court, with fate prospects | EOVerament. Still we are gisd that | Irs Dzvaur_—Itts tn nocordasce with the phi- Pelayo Hartford, $588; Springte or Maneaduteate Nothing bas beon heard from the rebel Drigie that | Rouge on the morning of the 30th ult., broke up acon. | Of lasting out the month, the Americans have had the opportunity to losophy of things that when » party is elevated | #562, Gove, $1108, “4 Ot Ne yaule street | -rogsed the Cumberiand yesterday at Cumberied City. free $i |, an follows: to power for the acoomplishment of great ends nnik, of Hartford, $166 Gpriagheld, $106; Glebe, notify England of what she and her provinces and fails it will bo swept out of existence. must oxpect if they continue allies of the rebel- | ‘The republican party was successful at the last lion. The increase of our naval force upon the | two elections because the people believed that lakes is a warning. The notice given for the | #¢ “alge Peeks reg hinges ae bea peace to the country; but its vi ious trium ropes of the so-called Reolprocity tresty—e | sini assurediy prove its defeat. The frst nae treaty never to be renewed—is another wara- years of rule left the rebellion unsuppressed, ing. Both houses of Congress will now be | and the people expect that the war wil be ‘agreed upon these two measures. The speech | finished within the frst twelve months of its and tho resolutions offered by Senator Chandler | ¢¢°"d term. If it is not—but if, on the other yesterday will be found pleasant reading in mead, © week and hestiating polley should insure four years more of internecine war- this conneetion. This order from General Dix | fare—tho party will be swept off the ‘is dhe third warning, and we advise those gon} oacth with @, how! ef general .excoration. | | A despateh received to-day (rom General Rouswau says Murfreesboro is all rizbt, and be expressed confidence ‘The Op his ability to hold the place against any force tle enemy Den Schastian was presonted at the Academy iast | has at his command. night to the most densely crowded houne of tne season. It was announced as the last night of its pertormance; Gemeral Ly but, from the fact that quite « large number of people Loviaviiun, Ky , Doo. Mh, 1864, wore disappointed in obtaining room, and had couse. | The Lovisvilie Democrat saya informed thas quently to leave, even before the opera commenced, we General Lyon’s rebel forces burned the depotand seve Presume that the dictum ef the masagement will have to | fa! sheds at Hattonsville, on the Mempnis bmach rai be revoked, and that this ow very popular opera wilt | Toad, yesterday. A lot of bacon stored in the depot aed | have to be repeated, and probably more than once, in | * large lot of tobacco under the sheds, awaiting shizment ys es ve an yon ae a “ po Died ae to this city, were destroyed. The rebels are wnscripting | tha Me, Marctsek (ins nccoded to the general desire for | CVT body they can fad.” | the production of Don Sebastian at a matings on Satur. | THM REBEL GENERAL LYON'S ADVANOR NEAR BOB day next, and bas announced it for that ocowion. Don SELLVILLE, Giovanns will beriven ia Brooklyn to-night, aod¢o-mer-} Colenet Jomnson telegraphs that the rebel Geveral robably for Unmiass tene—te be eucceeiod next week by | Lon's advance is moving on Kusestivilie, Ky. Hits wate Sicbecte re Diavetn. 3 . \ fF Garce, (wo theasand Ave trundred attoug, is kt Pixie, An extensive Ore ccourred yesterday in the Bowory, sorint crmp, captared much valuable property, and thea | | oo throogh to OMiyitae clrtl, Th’euh et Gb left io the direction of Pearl river. The rebols, who fled | overed ina building in the rear of TL Bowory, and before before (he Union troopers in a state of great trepidation, | it was sabdued it entirely destroyed, with all their con- seemed to think their destination was Mobiie, The Rich. | tents, the five story butiding No, 71 Bowery, the six story building No 49 Chrystie street, two build: on the rear lot between these, Nos. 73 Bowery and and Cape from prison was mde by the Uaion officers at Naa- | 5; Chryatio street, and another building in the rear of 47 Pille, Va.,on ast Sundiy Carystie street. Considerable damage was also done to CONGRESS. Nos. 75 and 77 Bowery and 63 and 66 Chrystic street. Ip the Senste pesterday the quosticn of our ¢Meulty | ‘he entire loss oo stocks of goods and buildings is esti. With Cannda, growmy out of the discharge of the rebet | ated at over one hundred and Aity thousaed dollars, on raiders (rom custody by the courts, was brought up by a considerable portion of which there wer jurAnces. . Chandler of Michigun, who offered @ resolution for | A Mgbt occurred yestorday afternoon during the Ore ation Of an army corps for the protection of the | ip the Bowery, between a number of firemen and soveral Northera trovtier fom mar uders, and also a resolution | Of the police. It was occasioned by one of the police @irecting the Secretary of State to domacd of Great attempting to arreste Crema, who, It was alleged, had Britain fol! tedemuvity for epoliations.on our commerce | eeulted & woman. The firemaa’s friesés rented t Hattensville Ky. ‘ mond Dirpatch says that an unsuccessful attempt to es- by Anglo.redel piratical ships. Objections were made to eo tener enero: movin, yn ppeciattind cerned t hoed ft. ‘The London Times hes] Meee te it should eucesed in putting the re- Siidiees Ghawent patent ; but they auainiande. Astor considerable Oluebiag wy under withia the will Gorence’ Guerilla Operatio: 7 e tog tr aotza, cad shave t Wnne ti6he poy -corecind , in which sevetat persons were injured, the die. ] Admitted that wo can take Canada at any time, beltion hes ooming year there: e Rex Oven, sao, Wiltey yes: Deo. 14, 1004. | and that to shllitterferee and ae army of rege: a P akieae pose oe oom nga tare whol Bagtnad ona cond over witt Ge able | expiration of lis supremacy ia office. There is to resist a veteran army of Americans handlod | a settted opinion that the radical portion of the by such ageneral as Grant, This confession republican party ts one of the principal authors of the war, and when the excitement conse- of impotence ought to have rendered such quent upon its progress is over, and the account Englishmen as Mr. Justice Coursol more pru- | of public debt comes to be settled, the day of dent. His dismissal from the bencb, the rearrest | reckoning will have arrived. in any event, eld an daquest at the Now York Honpital on the | Captajm Bridgewater, with ove bundred and twenty. } Of Francis Sicachert, thirty, years of age, anf a | Ave men, went iate Newoastle, Ky., and drove out tbe { mative of this olty, who died from the effects of iojaties | guerilia Jeane, with a loss to the fateor of thirtess titled Received on the 2d witime, Pooensed wan @ roman, at- | and wounded, Bridgewater ohased the gueriiina throwgh q taghed (o Engine Company No. 11, and at the time stated | Port Royal, and was only eight minutes behind at that 70s proceeding 00 6 Bre Sewn Breed: piace. It ta thought the rebels would be captured tr eerie, “Yeas Bridgewater's forces. pe AE oy over him. Before — No, 8, immediate! Sica reat oom pn Mowepmper Accounts, Engine No. @, ima iy Loans usderiog | erm RABEL GOLDIRAS SUFFERING FROM OOLD AND tlong, aed rap over his tert leg, crust tenaner, He was conveyea ¢o the New York Hospitaly the Nastivitio Ualon, Deo. 11.) rebel soldiers came in one one part of Of the proposition (or the protectowor 1be border, Ihe | turbance was quelled; but 0 arrests were made, Aicace re-@iution to torininate the Canadian Reciprocity A youth of nivoteen, nanied Thomas Hardy, was yes Brosty was referred to the Committee om Foreign tela. terday looked up, in default of five buedred dutiegs ball, tions. Me [eolitté’s resolutions in favor 0: ivcreased | for tnocking dowe with a twolve pound cannon ‘all the faxation wore referred to the Finance Committee, Joiot | koeper of a Houstoa etréct public house, out of whic’ Tesolutions giving the thanks of Congress to Capt. Wins. | Hardy had beon ordered for alleged Improper conduct, fow and Lieut, Cushing wore reported by the Naval Com. | Daniel Kelley, Patrick Carney, Christian Jacobs and mittee and adopted. Afier the transaction of @ moun. | Williom Williams, lads about eightece yoars ot ago, wore Lmportent business and an executive session the Senate | yesterday committed for examiuation, charged with 4 curved Deing the principals of the geog who on inst Sunday | Io the House of Representatives @ bill aaturalizing all | Bight, in Monroe street, near Markel, avaauited Mr, Ed where the tim was amputated below the knee; but the uf id thei t | thon, it will be found that the triumph of the poldiers uf twenty one years of ward Wovborill, of Pike street, nod stole bis watch, of i S Ae # Pain republican party is virtually its deteah earn tolowea. Wom tne wcumeey” eatonea i en ourtioe. and gave themsoives up, They stated <a Bdiy diseharged trom the a marine corps, ‘The four story bull on the southwest corner of | delivery to this government are the only peered toae Wee comerente @tes al, aad the Jury sutartogs (rom cold and husner were (90 greet, without any previous declaration, was passed A bil | Fulten aod Pineapple sirests, Brookiyn, was destroyed Providing for the dismissal of ali usemvioyed general ich broke out about balf-past ox oMicers of the army who may be unemployed on the | o'clock, The damage is estimated at Atty thoussed del. foth of February ext was passed. ine Sevate bill | tars. pethorising the ematruction of six revenue cutters ‘The St, Albane raiders, who were set at liberty by a for corvicn on the lakes was cise passed. The Com | judge in Montreal on Tuorday,le't thet erty termedistey * Qaltvee on Foreign Aifire was directed to indiiire:| aicor their Glecherge? Iria Gatd that some! che’ se aden’ Pate the oxgedioney of providing by treaty or otherwise Quthorities @ beequently took steps to rearreet thom. hen teernagaiien of 04 GARSAINA ORS previneinlcoatier | [is the tow Kagh Cenienl Bolrend eleotisa betd te Oe or easeeedneecoa ASSRs OFFIONRS GEYT WORTH PROM WASHYMRES, ‘Tre Recernon to Anwimat Faunacur,—There was 6 ra fae Bee, 18.) mnevting of the merchante’ committee appointed to make | gauretny Lag preveratious aa to the Farragut testimonial at the Ool- | prisoners tector’ OMigs yeaterday afterncce, Mo. bpsiness of im. | Major pertaee wan (camagted, o4f ipo meeting eAjourned (0 | 4 Heturday, at one e'otook, were | Lieetoonnt Thos. 7. Foster, Fi'ty atv Alsbass e : Se Se amends which Canada can make to us in the | Tam Ratupoxns axp Tux Rarasoxs.—From busivess. If euch redress be refused we hope | & statement hb epreesgew Paper a few days since we were led to infer that the onoe famous that the orders of General Dix will be carried ain Rathbua, fo y of Buffalo, was Out to the letter; and If this shall ead to open ideation! WHO ons of tap east potteut a> hostitite.. eo much the worne for the Btilish | tensires who settied some years since in Ung 9nd pe Canading fnotal Wer Viewlolp. This go mistehe, th weg