The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1864, Page 4

me Berton, AND PROPsixTOR, ©) UWWE Hi W, VoRKER OF FULTON AND Wansay OTs,’ pepe He THIS BVBNING, ‘ srapsxt OF MUSIC, trving » Irving place.—Paa Diavous. WINTER GARDBN, Brosdway.—Hawurt. 0 THEATRE, Brosdway.—Tas Stasers or wor Tac pee BOWERY TH Bat! Bowery.—Convior Man Boaomun—l ast son Bor. BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery—Avesurum—Bt Tr. pea—lappr Mites’ Bor, BROADWAY THEKATRE, Broadway.—Swarr amp Wives—Peorus's Lawren ul NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Fairy Cincis—Cus- ‘Tous or tax Countar. BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broa: |. PANORAMA—THRER sgmors = Fat Ginis—Tyree NT8—Two Dwanrs— ‘AUTOMATONS, yy and Kveuing a —_ BRT. MINSTRB: Mechanics’ Hall. 472 Broad- * Daten ‘Sowa, Danoun Bucuesques, &c.—Las ‘ WOODS MINSTREL HALL. 514 Broad: — B. ~ Masevs—Tae Ricus—Erarorian Soxas, Dancns, Ao. am QAMPDRLLO. MINGTRELS. and 201 Bowery.— Mutanas or rian ODDINIBS— ) Prd ad GALLE DIABOLIQUE. 585 Broat 985 Broadway.—Rostar rites, JAN AMBURGH & 0O.'8 MANMOTH MENAGERIE, G80 and 541 Broadway, from 10 A, M. to 10 P. ML Sper coma TREATRE, Broad Broadway.—How Sax Loves HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street. ~Equastaian, + @ymnastig aNd Acnosatic ENtsETAICMENTS, DODWORTH HALL, 606 Broadway.—Arrexos Wanp Among THE MoxMoNs. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Baucers, ANTOMIMKS, BURLESQUES, &C.—JEANNKTTX AND JEANNOT. VARIETIES, 387 and 39 Bowery.—Batuets, Paxtomimns Buuiesqus, ac. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movixa Wax Prounus—Keanz AtvLox New York, Fiiday, December aa 1864. ‘ THR ‘SITUATION. The rebel Gevora! Hood bas succeeded ia getting south Of Duck river, wita just about one half tho army with ‘which he sat down before Nashviile, He bad then about forty thousand men, acd it was estimated that on last Mussday, after crossing the river, he had left but twelve Shousand infantry and cight thousand cavalry, bis losacs fn killed, captured and deserters being about twenty Sbousend. The remnant of his force is terribly demo- Yalised; bat General Thomas’ soldiers are still pressing ‘on-alter it, and will probably not permit any oumber of ‘the rebels worth meatioaing to reoross the Tennessee River with arms in their hands. General Thomas’ head- uarters.on Wednesday were mear Colambis, Tonn., on ‘Eho south side of Duok river. The woods bordering on H004’s line of retreat are said to be filled with deserters Yom Disarmy. The map published in the Henan this Biorniag shows the roate of rebel flight and Union par- Bll from Naanville to Columbia. © General MoCook will peebabiy soon leave but a email [WFemnant of the rebel reiders in Keatucky under General ‘Siem, tthe does not capture the whole of them. On last “Baturday be attacked tem at Ashbyrilie, McLean county, Kkilied.s considerable number, rotited the remainder, and Sook from them one piecsof artillery, On the next day Poy word again attacked at Aopkiasville, badly defeated, ‘and lost the remainder of their cannon. ‘We give Utits morning additional interesting details of Mienoral, Sherman's grasd march across Georgia, aod Some importest particatars regarding bis prossnt posi- ‘@teu before Bavanaath and the prospect for its early sur- Tender, The olty ts poorly suppited with provisions, and ts burdened with the feediag of a considerable surplus A raya of civilians besides ite garrison of twenty or thereabouts, As all sources of supply are cht by Une Unive forces, it will therefore be ultimately proton submission, even & General Hardee does Retchoese to give it up scover. There was a roport re- pently in Shermen’s army thet Bragg was moving dowa from Augueta with ten thousand men to attack the Deslegetala the rear. Sbould be be foslbardy enough to do 20, be will be very summarily disposed of. We have advices from City Point of Wednosday; but Bboy report that notuing of public interest had trans. pired in either of the armies before Richmond siuce the Gate of previous reports From the Spenandoah valley we bave @ report that the uerile chief Mosby has been made a brigadier general, and is to have s brigade of cavalry with which to way. ay, rob and murder Union citizens and soldiers during the winter. ‘The light of a barning veseol, supposed to be fi‘teon or | tweoty miles from shore, was soen from Cape May on ‘Wednesday ovening, creating the suspicion that a pirate is agrio on Our coast. The exchanging with the robels of ten thousand prigoo- ‘ors, which was commenced in the Savanifab river, aud wubsequently transierred to Chariestoa barbvor, was com Ploted at the latier point on last Saturday, and Colonel Muiford, Union Exchaage Commissioner, has retarned to Fortress Monros, As this work is now couciuded, the firlog of our own and the rebel batteries in Charleston Rarber and vicinity, which was suspended duriog its @ratiauance, will probably soon be resumed, if it has not been already. Among our revel newspaper files we find further refer- onde to the Union raid from Tennessee into Southwest Virginie, The Richmond Rsaminer eaye ‘it turns out to (Be an extensive and damaging ove.” The raiders are re- ported within eight miles ef Saitviile; but no account is yet furnished of them having captured the important @elt works there. Peace resolutions were recently de- Seated ta the North Carolin Senate by twenty-four to téreaty votes. CONGRESS. ‘Tn the Senate yesterdsy the Military Committee re- The lawyers practising in United take the cath of aliegi- wes amended so as to make It go into effect i ‘The House of Representatives transacted no business, Chere being Bo quorum prevent Both houses @band od ourned tit tbe 6th of January, EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamabip Africa, from Queenstown on the 11th 9 December, reached Halifax Wednesday evening, on ber woyage (0 Boston, and sailed egein for her destination yerterdny morning. ‘The news of the Africa is One week later than the ed. ‘vices of the Cubs. 14 ts reported at longi by totegraph fn the Banan to-day. ‘The sieamship Iowa, from London end Havre for New ‘York, went aground aod eunk near Cherbourg. Englan: was awaiting with great anxiety news. of the result of Sherman's maroh fn Georgia. The sebel Joan ‘was deyressed In courequence of the movement, Mr. Doytou’s remains wore temporarily toterred to Parte previous to being forwarded to America, The ob? Bequies Were conducted with great pomp, aud marked Feapect was Bhown tothe momory of the deveased gen- Aleman and bia cousiry, The Rmperor was jrepresented fo the oortege and many Southern Americans were pres ‘vl fo the church. Both the French and English press york ig. very high terms of tno decossed Minister, Protessor Goldwio Emith extels, in the London News, ‘» conditlo of the Army of the Potomac, and says that manner ia which the men are irsated dissipates the ‘hat (he war ie,can ducted with mercouary views by th, ding reformors of tho Eog'ish Parliament were “working men,” pot the aristocracy, bad preserved Eng- land from the danger of a premasure recognition of a ‘ave holding oligarchy ” Rebel sympathizers in Manchester were still speaking of British mediation in America, ‘The tria! of Engineer Rumble, on a charge of entisting men for the rebel steamer Rappahannock. was adjourned in the Court of Queen’s Beach, London, ‘The Bahk Of France had reduced ite rate of discount from six to five per cect. General Tom Thumb, family and suite visited Napoleon at Compeirne. ‘The Italian Senate passed the Dill for the transfer of the eapttal to Florence, Considerable animesity to Aus- tria was displayed during the debate. Five thousand Schleswig-Holsteiners presented an ad- dress to the King of Deomark, ia which they pledged themselves stil! devoted to “Fatherland.” The Prussian army which fought in the dachtes bad a splendid recep- tion in Berlin on its reture. The King rode at the head of the troops. Tne D:no-German qeestion was not satis- factorily settled notwithstanding. Rossia has opened a large lottery loas. ‘The Albanians were in lasurrection against the Turks. ‘Tt was sald that the Affgbanistens had risen against the Faglish tn India, Lord Carlisle, ex-Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, koownsto Americans as Lord Morpeth; Judge Perrin, of the Irish Bench, and M. Mooquard, Private Secretary of the Em- peror Napoleon, are dead. Congols closed in London, on the 10th inetent, at 893, for money, The Liverpool cotton market was quiet on the 10th instant, with prices unchanged from the rates experionced after a slight decline, Breadetufs quiet and | steady. Provisions dull at unchanged rates. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Columbia, from Havana om Saturday Inst, arrived here yesterday. Sbe brought nothing later of importance from Mexico or St. Domingo, and but little Coban news of particular interest, The blockede raoning steamer Denbigh reached Havana on tho 16th inst., with eight hundred bales of cotton, The steamer Ptarmagan, which recently leit to run the blockade, was obliged to put back to Havana, having brvken down. Thenotorious Anglo-robel steamer Alexandra, now callod the Mary, had bees seized at Nassau for a violation of the neutrality Jaws; but it was, thought that she would not be lovg detained. Our Key West correspondent infirms us of the matiny of the crew of the bark ‘Auntie M. Gray, Captain Gray, which left Philadeiphia on the Ist instant On the 8th instant, when the vessel wag at sea off Charleston, 8. C., the second mate was attacked and murdered by two or three of the men. On the vext morning the captain succecded by stratagem in securing in the lower part of the vessel those suspected of complicity in the plot, where be kept them until be spoke, off the Bahamas, the United States steamer Proteus, which took them on board and carried @em to Key West. Two more cotton laden blockade runomy schooners—the Peep o’ Day and Sort—bad been captured aad taken into Key West, ‘The Postmaster Gencra’ direots that all matl matter for General Sberman’s army be sent by way of this city. Colonel Markland, special agent, will leave here to-mor- row io charge of the mails for that army. He returved {rom there a few days ago, where he distributed to the officers and troops af immense mail, whicn bad beea for some time awaiting their arrival on the coast. He brought baek with bim Over ten thousand soldiers’ letters. ‘Yoaterday was the eighth day of the Opdyke-Weed bel suit, and the public interest in it ia unabated. The principal portion of the evidence taken yesterday related to the supplying of clothing to the army, several.gentie- men loterested io contracts of this kind being examined. 1¢ was intimated by the Judge that hereafter, antil the cape shall be conciuded, be will elt til! balf-past foer o'clock instead of three. The proceedings will be resumed this morning at ten o’clook. The fittg-minth anaivorsary of the New Engtand Society ‘was celebrated last evening by ® baoquet at the Astor House. Letiers were received from President Livooin and some of the members of his Cabinct, and speeches were made by Vice Admiral Farragut, Commodore Dray- ton, Captain, Wivalow, Dr. Chapin, Home. Messra, Phelps, Bancrolt, Gantt, and other gentlemen. ‘The extremely cold weather of Wednesday pight and yesterday, though very onjectionable to many people, brought happiness to the lovers of skating. On all the Jakes and ponds In and around the city there was good, solid foe. In the Park the snow was cleared off early in the morning, leavjog a smooth and glassy surface, on which some thousands of skaters, male and femaie, inaa- gurated their favorite sporting season. A desperate attempt was made on Wednesday evening, im the Nineteenth precinct station house, ia Fifty-ointh Street, by « policeman named Teanant, to take the life of Captain Hart, of the Metropolitan force. Toonans entered the station bouse, and, after using very abusive language, drew « pistol and attempted to sboot the Captain, but was Prevented by two officers standing by,and fually dis- armed and locked up, The only cause known for this murderous attempt ie that Tengant, much against bis wisbes, was eome time ago transferred from the Nine. teonth to the Twenty-first preciuet,and be charges Captain Hart with having effected the transfer. Two youths named Richard L. Stage and Isaac Smith were yesterday committed for trial, charged with having, early yesterday morning, broken into @ liquor store in Bleecker street, and stolea therefrom property valued at five bundred dollars, The northwest wind which set in ov Weduesday night Drought with it extremely cold weather, which continued to prevail yesterday and last night, in this city and vi | cinity, # well.as througbout a great extent of country northward and soutuward, In mavy portions of the country the rafiroad trains have been much delayed owing to (he tracks being blockeded by the snow driven on to them by the high winds. A number of disasters to shipping on the coast is reported; but we have no ac count of any of them being attended wtth loss of life. In the Burrogate’s Court yesterday the Lawrence will case, which begins to give some jodications of an ap proachieg termination, was again up. Two sessions of the Cours are now heid dally. A libel was filed in tne United States District Court yesterday (Judge Betts), by the District Attorney, againet the prize schooner Mary sad cargo, captured om Decem- ber 3, 1864, off Wilmington, N. C,, by the United States steamer Mackinaw, Commander Beaumont, The Mary bas a cargo of seventy-seven bales of cotton and fifty Doxes of tobscoo, and arrived at this city yesterday jo charge of prize master John 8. Blake. George P. Lewis, alias Joba Williams, was tried and convicted yesterday, in the Court of General Gessious, before Recorder Hoffman, of em attempt at grand larceny, be baving applied to Mr. Barrets, one of the clerks of the Post Office, a jew days since, for the letters te the box Detonging to the Importers’ and Traders’ Bank. On being asked to show his card the prisoner said he had none, wBereupon the clerR pursued and caught bim. His cous. Sel raised the point that the letters were ta the p:sses. sion of the United States government; but the Recorder ruled, for the purposes of that case, that when a man Tents & box at the Post Office, and directe his letters to be Geposited In it, they are, In the eye of the law, In bis possession. The jury convicted Lewis, who was re. manded for sentence. Tne Graod Jury presented a batch of indictments, to which the prisoners pleaded not guilty. Bridget Carmody pleaded guilty to stealing one hun- Gred and fifty-five dollars from ber employer, Mrs. Enwright, of 41 Marion street, on the 4th inst, Jeremiah Totten pleaded guilty to picking the pocket of Mrs. Mo- Nickol, of 276 Went Twenty eighth street, of a portemon- nate containing sixteen dollars, while sbe was riding in a Ninth avenue stage, Josep Smith, indicted for stealing 8 plece of siik velvet, worth one hundred and fifteen dol- Jars, (rom @ store in Bighth avenue, pleaded yatity. All these prisoners wil be reatenced this morntog. ‘Nt was devifed yestordsy in tho case of Monry E. Droz 1. Joseph L. J. Seixas, that a husband was \iablo for his wife's debte, even though the parties were separated. The wife of the defendant, it appears, bonght a set of fore valde@ at three hundred abd thirty-five dollars, at ‘Landry, in Broadway, and ordered the bill to be sent to her burband. Tbe tatter declined wo pay the bill, on the ground that his wifehad separated from him and was liviog with another man. Tub plaintiff, acting as execa- tor of Lapiry, brought a sath in thé Supreme Court, Defore Jadge Leonard, to recover the indebtedness, whea te jary readered @ verdict in bis favor for the full amount claimed. The Brooklyn Common Council iast evening adopted a rosolution authorigiog tbe ratiroaa companies jo that city ‘to charge seven cents fare on and after the ist of Jana. ary proximo, with ¢he provieo that they sball sell at their offices eight tickets for fifty cents ‘The depot of the Portiand and Kennebec Raiiroed, in Augusta, Maine, sevoral cars and @ large quantity of mer- chacdise were destroyed by fire resterday moruing, in~ 2081 Joas of fty thoessed Setters, on about one bs'T there were ipsurances. » A paipenger train and a weed traiu oa the Chesticoe ‘Rallroad collided oa Wedaceday sight, near Keene, New Hampshire, owing to ove of the trains Geing impeded by the apow storm. Three persons were killed and several Otbers wounded. The stook market was depressed aad lower yesterday. Government securities were heavy. Gold was dutt, opea- ing at 223/0d closing at 221%. There was not much change tm the overal aspect of commercial affairs yesterday. The comparative stead ness in the goid market prevented any marked ohines fm the quotations of either foreign or domestic produce. But little business was done, save in a few commoditics, in which there bas lately been a speculative fooling On "Change the floar market was quiet, and prices were & trifle easier, while wheat was also dull, and mominally 20. 80 lower. Corn was dull aad heavy, while oats wore steady. Pork was lees active and lower, while bee! was in fair demand. Whiskey was firm. Freights were quict, The Finances of the Government—What is to be Dene? At the commencement of our difficulty with the Southern seotion of the Union, the adminis- tration, with its “on to Richmond” backers, conceived and practised upon the idea that the war would be of short duratien, and the people were told that ninety days would not pass be- fore the rebellion would be crushed. Unfor- tunately, Mr. Chase, who was then at the head of the Finance was sufficiently weak to permit himeclf to be lulled inte that belief, and, instead of striking boldly at the wealth and immense resources of the country to fortify its finances against whatever emer- gencies might arise, he commeneed the shin- ning process in order to supply himself with just a sufficiency of funds to meet, for the time being, the absolute requirements of the nation. From that time to the present, as Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, remarked the other day in the House of Representatives, the gov- ernment has been oontioually shinning to satis- fy the daily demands that have been brought against it. Thus has the state of our finances been changing from bad to worse during the progress of the war, and the credit of our coun- try been frittered away, through the incapacity and bad management of incompetent seore- taries, until now we find ourselves verging upon that perilous poiat at which the monetary system of the rebel confederacy collapsed. The shinning, to which the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means in the House referred, has resalted In the issuing of a dozen or more different kinds of government seouri- ties, bearing interest ranging, acoording to the premium on gold, from five to fifteen per cent. We have long bonds and short bends, five-twen- ties and ten-forties, debt certificates and various descriptions of seven-thirties, bearing gold and currency interest. And for our daily trade transactions we have the government green- backs, which are a legal tender for what they will bring; coupon and compeund interest bearing notes, postal and fractional currency, national bank bills and the issues of State insti- tations, forming together a circulating medinm, or the’counterpart of money, which it is some- what difficult to become familiar with. Mr. Chase, after three years of the kind of service we have herein depicted, suddenly awakened to the ruin that his course would be likely to bring upon the goveroment oredit, and resigned his position, Mr. Fessenden, the head of the Finance Committee of the Senate, was then selected as the proper person to un- tangle the financial snarl; but it was seon ascer- tained that in capacity for the position he was hardly the peer of his predecessor. He has ‘given us @ very readable report, in which he has portrayed the difficulties to which the na- tion has been brought by bad management in his department, and the dangers which threaten us; but that is all. He fails to point out any mode of deliverance, or to tell us how we may save ourselves from financial disaster. Of tue past he speaks dolefully, but ef the future he is dumb. All this, we might say, was needlces, as there were very few who did not clearly nn- derstand the precarious situation of the govern- ment credit. It is plain to every mind that upless some course different from that which has been pursued is adopted, that the public bonds will eventually become as worthless as the assignals and mandats of Franos, and that the legal tender notes, now worth but forty- four ceats on a dollar in gold, will, in the end, rate in value with the French assignats, the continental currency and rebel money. England worked herself out of the finanolal difficulties which the protracted war with France at the commencement of the present century brought upon her by a return to specie payments after the restoration of peace. It is true that in doing so she prostrated bor tradespeople, who had entered into contracts based upon her depreciated currency, and brought ruin upon thousands who were engaged in commercial pursuits; but she preseived her credit, and ‘ontended that the end thua obtained justified the means which were applied. The fith of the United Stetes can be saved without resorting to such harsh measures; the finances can be restored to a sound condition, and the currency re-established upon a specie basis by a simple method, without materially affecting the business community. The gov- ernment should immediately resume specie payments upon the present relative valuo of gold te currency, consdlidate all its bonds upon the same basis, issue no more notes of any description, except auch as it would be able and willing to redeem dollar for dollar in coin, and to supply its wants, beyond what may be produced by internal taxes and the tariff, put its bonds upon the market to be seld for whatever price they will bring ia gold. This course would force the national and State banks also to redeem their bills ia specie; it would cause all business to be transacted on the basis of gold and silver, as it is now done in California; it would put an effectual stop te all species of speculation and gambling in bul- lion, and {t would strengthen the government credit and bring back the confidence of the people. State stocks, corporation bonds and all descriptions of raflroad and miscellaneous shares would, if such’@ course were adopted, soon find their level on the specie standard, and in bree months from the inauguration of @system; which might be strength- ened by a judicious bankrupt law to cover |) emergencies, the finaacial chaos through which we are now groping would be dispelled, and our future course made clear and satisfactory, Sowdor, Ivsrectors—Under the new law Mayor Gunther has appointed Messrs. W. B. Eager, Jr., Jobn Hocker, James Kelly, Andrew Mills, James W. Gerard, H. B. Perkins and John H. Anthoa as Inipectors of Public Schools in this city. The Mayor certainly de- serves credit for giving us such estimable citi- zens for inspectors, and woe believe that the system {hus excellently inaugurated will prove a great improvemout over tho old regime, RNAMAOAd .YACIA es ‘Naw, "YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER ..23, | 1864.0 005 os fra AAS Latest from the Brout—Splondiad Pree ‘Peete or che” Winter Campaign. General Thomas, eontiouing bis pursuit, is still gathering up the stragglors and deserteres and abandoned guns, wagens, camp equipege’ &e., of Hood’s broken up, terribly diminished, demoralized, chop-fallen, exhausted and help- less army. A month ago, in his pursuit of Thomas, the army brought over the Tennessee tiver by Hood numbered near forty-five thou- sand men and some seventy-five or eighty pieces of artillery. Should he recross the Ten- nessee in bis retreat without further moleste- tion, it will be with a ragged, bleeding and disordered mass of twenty thousand fugitives, with, perhaps, a dozen cannon. But there are movements afoot, by land and water, which may result in the annihilation or capture of his whole remaining force at the crossings of the flooded Tennessee, Even in securing the passage of the river, and if no far- ther pursued, he will be ocoupied for at least a month to come in refitting for another move- ment; but then, in what direction can he.go to be of any further service to Jeff. Davis? It strikes ‘as that his only alternative will be to work along eastward on the south side of the Tennessee river for a junction with Breokin- ridge in the extreme corner of East Tennessee, and thence, with Breckinridge, to the support of Lee, at Richmond, But that this dificult enterprise: can be effected in seaton to be of any .use to Lee, over, the exhausted country, the miry roads, swollen streams and snow covered mountains that lie in the way between Northern Alabama and Richmond, would seem to us impossible, even were Hood not menaced by the victorious and vastly supe- rior forces of Thomas, flank and rear. As it is, hewever, we think that, in our caloulations of the game which is now to be played, Hood’s army, though a remnant may escape, may be safely counted out as an army substantially destroyed. The disastrous rebel strategy adopted by Jeff. Davis in his last September trip to Georgia, has thus resulted in changing the con- ditions ef the war from two great armies against two, to three great armies on our side against one, ours being the army of Grant, at Rich- mond; the army of Thomas; in Tennessee, and the army of Sherman, in Georgia. The force of fifteen thousand strong, under Hardee at Savannah, made up of scattered squads of veterans and of new conscripts hastily scraped together, can hardly be Classed as an army; and all the rebel reserves of North Carolina, rushing to the defence of WHmington, will be more than neutralized, we guess, by the Butler- Porter expedition. With the inevitable fall of Savannah, Wilmington and Charleston, the whole army of Sherman may be drawn to the James river; and even to-day, if deemed ne- cessary, Sherman and Thomas, each, could, with perfect safety, apare twenty thousand men to reinforce General Grant, at Richmond. i Ik is not surprising, therefore, that the rebel journals and leading members of the rebel Congress at Richmond begin to comprehend the handwriting on the wall, and that nothing “short of a miracle oan save them and thelr sink- ing cause from the tremendous combinations that are closing round. that ill-fated city. We are not surprised that General Leo himself has at last been reduced to the painful extremity of appealing to Sambo--poor, despised and unfortunate Sambo-—-for a rescue. But the appeal comes too late, the danger is too immi- nent, the necessity is too urgent for any help from that quarter. No measures that Jeff. and his beleaguered and bewildered Congress could adopt for arming the African element of the rebel States would help them now. Sherman’s march through Georgia has shown that in the innermost recesses of “the confederacy” the minds of the blacks are made up, and that they are universally ready to “bress de Lord for de coming of de Lincum people.” » The slave- holders, still under the rule of the Richmond junta, know this, and they will not be trifled with by Davis upon this corner stone of Afri- can slavery. The simple truth is that the grand combina- tious of General Grant are coming to @ focus-- that Richmond is doomed, and that with its fall the “Southern confederacy,” from its tur- rets to its foundations, will be shaken to pieces. The MeCle m= Sword—fnhe Account Closed. We have before stated that as the sum re- maining in our possession, contributed for the McClellan sword, was not sufficient to purchase a suitable weapon for the General, we desired to appropriate it either for the Admiral Farra- gut testimonial or to any charity which General MoCiellan might select. That end we have now been able to accomplish, We republish a detailed account of the receipts, and the money returned to some of the contributors, as fol- lows :— S mtom ess $3 8 ssssssss 3 5 8388S 8 BB S883 = sses oo . 100 ” i + 8300 1 i 100 i 800 7 10 +1 100 1 3 00 18 w» oe M1 0 6 oo . 8 oo . 38 23 60 ome 00 =" Total received MONBY RETURNED, of South 3333 5 A few days ago one ofthe contributors wrote to General McClellan, drawing. his attention to our artiele with reference to the disposal of the funds, aad received the phen py reply: nak, N. J., Do, 16, 1864. ly reached My Dean Smm=Yours of the Lith I have not seen the article in the 704 refer, Dub, whether the amouat, ow’ AHOY Wank z 7 2 i 4 eit zt 1 3 E you for your kindness, w Fock Fonen lg fault ayer sly re Or at” In compliance with General MoClellan’s Suggestion we have accordingly handed over fan 2 with ovasent of MoClellan, for the beeedé ct the Patriot Orphan Home WUTTING, L. Por Mrs, W. J. Happoox, Treasurer, New Yous, Dec. 31, 1864, As General MoCiellan has so cordially en- dorsed this excelient charitable institution, and desires that the money subscribed to do honor to himself shall be given to it, we have also decided to hand ovor to the lady treasurer of that establishment the ten dollar geld piese which we received the othor dey from Captain Leon Smith, of the rebel navy, to pay for the insertion of his letter relative to | the death of Captain Wainwright, which we published gratuitously. The lady acknowi- edges the receipt of the golden eagle in the following terms:— Received of Mr. James G. Bennett, Editor of the Naw York HERALD, ton dollars ta gold, the sum sent by Cap- tain Leon Sm! “a of the revel navy, for the Insertion ofa communicativ. lu the Hrmaup relative to the death of: Captain Wainwright, of the United ag eee » Por Mire. W. J. Happoox, Treasurer. Naw Yorx, Doo. 21, 1864 This finishes the matter of the MoClellan sword. Our mission is ended, and the account is closed. © The Storm in the ath—Jet, Davis in mgor. Already we have some premonitions’ of the storm that our reeent victories—the rebel dis- asters—are destined to raise about the ears of Jeff. Davis. In the speech with which Mr. Foote, of Tennessee, withdrew from the rebel Congress, and in an articles from the Richmond Heaminer and Whig, reprinted in our columns yesterday, and to-day we have the first deep murmurs of the tempest that by all appearance must end in the com- plete overthrow and destruction in the South of the Davis tyranny. In the speech and in the articles we bave the kéynote of the opposition that begins to gather courage as Davis gots weaker, and that now finds iteelf strong enough to speak out, ang will soon ad te and effect the deposition of Davis and the formation of a government that will at once lay Sone ite arma and-end the war. Mr. Foote’s-speech was first in pola of tine, and wae delivered before the news of Heod’s defeat had reached the rebel capital. Even then, unlike some sanguine rebels in this city, be saw “much ground for . despondency and apprehension in every quarter.” . He thought that the rebel States were “upon the verge of ruin.” Abroad “no re- spectful consideration had been accorded or seemed likely to be.” And at home the mea- sures ‘of the government are such as, if not modified, “must be inevitably fatal to State rights and State sovereignty”—those things dear to the Southern heart—and fatal, after that to freedom. “Congress,” be said, “is rapidly abandoning all its important powers and building up an irresponsible military despotism, the like of which has aever been seen before apon this earth. Other acts are in progress here, which, should they pass, must produce popular eonvuleions which will put our whole governmental system in the most serious jeopardy. Euormous abuses of power heretofore committed to the Executive Depart- ment bave oocurred, which have everywhere filled the minds of our countrymen with dis- trust and alarm. The policy of the present House seems to be to crush out dissatisfaction by armed violence alone.” The orazy military policy that put Hood in Johnston’s piace has opened to Sherman Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina—must insure the fall of Savan- neh and Charleston, and adds the weight of Sherman’s army to the war against the rebellion in the East. “Hood’s army has already met with a great disaster at Franklin, and in my judgment is fatally compromised.” This “great disaster” was the battle which the rebol papers in Richmond and this city argued into such & fine rebel victory. All these troubles Mr. Foote lays directly on the shoulders of Davis, and hurls at the same devoted Jeff. a heavier charge fo these words:-—“Ten days hence freedom of deliberation will have been effectually extinguished in this body, by means which I may not specify; the freedom of the press will, in all probability, come to an end about the same time.” So Mr. Foote with- draws from the rebel Senate because he “does not know bow to legislate in chains,” and will not be responsible for measures passed in seeret session, “which his soul abbors.” He with- draws from that Congress as certain Seuthern men ounce withdrew from ours. He secodes: And nothing in his public life ever became him 60 well as his leaving it. The Richmond Examiner speaks aprepos to the first news/of the late struggle near Nash- ville. ‘It thinks it dificult to doubt that Hood, “after gaining an expensive and wortbless vic- tory at Franklin, has now sustained a defeat near Nashville, where he had no business to ge.” Beauregard’s departure to step Sherman, “without any troops,” had left the Army of Ten- nessee “without a general,” and the Kraminer anticipated the result, though It had whistled a great deal to keep up the Southern heart. All the disasters of Hood’s campaiga are attri- buted to “defects at headquarters,” and the defects at headquarters are attributed to Davis, who ruined the rebel cause by the re- moval of Johnston. Johnston was driven to Atlanta by Sherman, just as Lee was driven to Richmond by Grant, and the Zeaminer argues that if he had been left alone he would have held that city as effectually as Lee has held the other, But the troable was) Davis—Davis— |Davis; and so the Araminer argues all the way through to show that Davis is the real trouble of the Southern cause, ‘This Je the beginning. When Richmond and the Sautbern people and Southern soldiers ball learn. the whole truth of tho disasters to Hood, and the destruction of that army, aad when they shall se”, the wholo effeot of Sher- ninti’s anipaign, as they now begin to see It; when aleo they’shall foci the blows that Porter ead Butler will doubtioss give, then indeed ! MAVIA JAUOWUM he ory SIL IUTMA Me ID power Davis will go'down before that "yotp. 1 is not possible that the Southern with any longer submit to be oppressed anid, torn piecemeal by the dogs of wur merely to gratify the ambition and vanity of a man whose utter want of greatuess and even waué of sympathy with their cause and thelr mideries every event 80 clearly shews, p | THE STORM AND COLO WEATHER. Saow Storm at Buffaio—The Roltréaas All Bight. 5 Bornico, Deo, 29, 1864, ‘The woather ts cold and eloudy to day, Beveral inches of snow fell yesterday and last eight. No detention on the railroads are reported, ‘The Interpational Steam Bridge (a ferryboat) of the Grand Trunk Railroad went on the rocks ih thé. Nisgere river yesterday, but was got off to-day, The thermometer is at thirtees degrees above sees, Snew Storm at Albany—Raliread ‘Tretes “Delayed. Axaany, Deo, 22, 1506. tha. maw storm which Got tu yesterday continue! the greater part of the sight, and to-day the snow & from eight to ton inches deep on w level. ~ All Gaye strong wind has prevailed from the eerth- ‘west, driving the snow badly, ‘Trains on the Central, Boston, Hadeon River, Horton, Northern end Susquchanna raiiroads are from two,e etx hours behind time. No accidents are reported, Seren St eee Possame Mownos, Dec. St; 1956, 4. sorore rin storm hia Waa peeraatog Roce, all day. * Disasters to shipping om the Conss. Paovmscwtowm, Cape Cod, Deo. 22, 1604. ‘The following vessels are ashore at Wood End:— Schooner Heloyou, from Frankfort, Me., So Nome loaded with lumber. Schooner Burdett Hart, of Now Haven, with « Gingo of bay on government account, bouna oe Fortress Monroe, Schooner Maryland, from Portland tor Baltimors)iéédee with fish. Schooner Quail, from Rookland, with « oargo of jtboe, for New York. Gone to pieces. ~ ‘The crows of all the above vessels were stved. Woon'’s Hous; Deo. 22, 1068. ‘Tné schooner Evelyn, Captain Ryder, from Baagor tor Millville, N. J., with @ cargo of lumbor, is lying at ea- chor at Robinson’s Point, dismasted, The British echoouer Onward, from Cornwallis, with a cargo of potatoes fer Now York, went ashore three miles north of Tarpaulin Cove, in the storm of the lst... Newsvarrorr, Mass., Deo, ' The schooner E. P. Horton, from Bangor with lambert for Bostoa, went ashore on the night of the Sist on jum Island, and was 6 total loss. Crew caved. a Bostor, Des. 22, 16s, During the storm of last night the sohoouer ‘Cardiac, from Rockiand (or Norwalk, Coun., with @ cargo of etene, went ashore on Race Polat, Seen Oa Renee wreck. Crew saved. ‘The sobdoner Frederick Eugene, frdm Reel fee Providence, witha cargo of lime, also wet =" ‘Race Point, and is a total wreck. Crew saved. ‘Three other vessels, sames unknows, are epndre on Wood End. F ‘The schooner Arrow, of Salem, was felien Latina the 21st instact, of Cape Aan, with bow stove, ‘of water and abaadoned, 8h6 was towed inte { ioe coster, ~ Ts thonte ten Merrion, setetokn ta Seat Safes A OEE, Boe tres tajured. A’ brig ts reported ashore 00 Pang's Tstanil, Amusements. Dovel apd interesting perfortmsnde) tg idine wn the Stadt theatre empl bie hs shothiér Syidenoe of the capacity of thin, endless variety to its sources of amusement, =o Pope, the American actor, will appear fa. the version of Othello; for the benetit of Medamig Schelier, that lady personating Desdemona and hard Boherer, a German artist of mach Dart Of Tego, It Js 9 curtows ineieent’ thay German sotor Daniel . Bandmana interprets Bhakspere tn Eagiteh on (be American stage, Mr, Pope. a creations of the great bard in a.German theatre’ the language of Senlegel. a It is the versatility of the genius of the which hag made the proverb, “Zi n'y a. gal'sm seul, au monde,’’ and we of Now York are Deoom ing'yue- cessful competitors with the hitherto ee o cities: Our people are fact acquiring a taste for Parisian Ives, with all ite fastidious allurements, reign of the muses ts established, and music, palating, soulpture aad the drama, in varied styles of Sot tion, are elevating the popular miad and cultivating mont refined tastes, In our rapid growth and wotderfat development we have almost forgotten that there existed & social system on the other side of our salen which is ooeval with the earliest oras of’ the human race, and has been maintained wall the present day with wenderful tenacity, To tilustrate this oft) ‘half of our sphere, to lot us into the fatiesale of men and things, to exbibit the soeuery of Consthntinopie, the Metropolis of the Orient, and to show as the people them. telves, both at home and abroad, fg the object of wr. Oscanyan's ‘Oriental Eutertaiuments,” of whieh @ prt- vate exhibition was given on Monday night at the Durtioh Hall, which is to be opened this evening to the publie:” Toe view of Constantinople on the drop curtaia is ad- mireb'e; the scene of the Meddabh in the coffee shop telling bis story was unique and true tolife. The of an Oriental drawing room, with # lady perfectly Fe- splendent in attire, Ber companions, her songs and, tableau of Oriental worship are all highiy ‘The coene of the Turkiah nar a Mtg with the most curious personages; and the cummer kiosk, with its inhabitants, ite reception, ‘its initétchnd dancing giris reminds one somewhat of the eughauted visions of Aladain’s Wonderful Lamp. This sovel aaa elsewhere unknown exhibition, together with the thod- and and one entertainments ia our city, will give us the python A eh. 5) Saahbaty a “Tin'y a que seul New York au monde.’ We percetye that Mr, Stephon Mamott te. “acing about’? im Connecticut. He was nearly lost ta a encw Storm receatly at Monticello, but arrived ia the town Jost ta time to deliver his lecture on the 16¢m testant, © Dow Sesssrian in Baooxrw.—The last subsoriptish Bight in the Brooklyn Academy for the introduced Don Stbastian for’ the house toa very large and quite despite tbe tateasely cold weather. io tte usual excellent manger, wore very warmly received, and we mey add that (a9 tmusio was entirely appreciated, To-night Fra will be repeated at the New York Academy, a ee sume, with the same sues which it mot Wednenday. Personal Intelligence. He entered the service ta the begina! preter his gallantry has raleed bimeelf from tbe reskes Dis preseat position. yoo the Boston papers.of Wednesday we leara thet the health of the Right Reverend Bishop Fitkpattiok, improving, aed (hat the immediate danger of «fatal ters thination to bie’ illness bas passed. This will be grees yn? many friends of thé Bishop o Liegtenant 3 gag BR. Averill, of eaneenad tbe Albemarle Ho or, United States jedstone viet rwughtia aad fe Beant ot Msauresty are at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, om Dr, R. B. Cole, of Ban Franciees, tein the St “4 Hon. 3. W. Noeititt, of Oregon, t@ he top am Hotel. - aa ary aye Pe PE 4 5 Cate oe Par Short Par ‘ wea tisi aad en ant 3-4 a eee Street, ‘Court opens at ten eC eclook A. M. _ Caso on, Ne emt art wane oat, frat, e138, Give ato atts 13, 4T15, 47) , : i ¢ de diy ioies 4100, a38, 1K nein Arrival of the Sapply Steamer Bermuda at Phitadeiphia, Pamaperrna, Doo, 22, 1864, The United Btates supply steamer Dormuda arrived (9-day (rom the Gull squadron,