The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1865, Page 8

8 HONOR TO xf BRAVE. OD aeeeeeeeee> t of the New York tional Club. i | ! if il i rt : £ Hi if § i i | F I f Hi il i i i | ie i HT 1 i A i = them b; seif- supporting, sad neod make no appeal for any further ‘gontribution, As to the present Soldiers’ near ‘Washivgton, it ehould be purchased by Congress asa Fesidence (or the President aud such Cabinet oilicers as migbt choose to reside there—the present miserably anveaitby aud contracted White House beoomiug m: ‘the Prenideotial suit of public offices. With the money ‘Obtuined from eee such a sale, the lacd he ied for bie new popular and Nattozal Soldiers’ ‘Home might ve readily purchased. Im ‘this connestion ‘ho desi to express his jodebtedmess'to the various ‘papers of New York, and to tbe New Youn Hznsnp more ‘particularly, _ mepport they = hy ven to thin «gelf a, disabled soldiers he thanked el! the “ef Our’ preas, in the namo of bis cripyied comrades, or. disinterested humanity in this watter. @OVERNOR ANDAEW IN GOOD HUMOR, SPEECHES AND SONGS ALL ROOND. BETTER PROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR. conductors if Introduction 6f the Choristers and : Their “ Authem of Peace end War.” One ef the Most Delightfai Public Ea- * tertainments Ever Giv: COLONEL M’MAHON’S SONG—ITS SUCMORSHIF STILL aw DOUBT. Jioutenamt Colonel Martin T, weMeken, late Agjuvant General op the mail of the ever gievious and lamented ‘Major Geveral Sedgwick, was moxt dutroduced to the eorwpacy by Recorder Molfman, who-said tha ail met to celebrate General jad for them yed irom Abel uthorshinof whieh was pretty clearly, tI nite deiinitely, traced to a cavalgy officer o! distit and boidiog a0 important command in Sberimar’ NAMES OF THE GUESTS, ae, a. ae. army, Thus introduced, voionel Motéabon, a very tine Woking young soldier, aud one ‘a record of DINNER OP im NEW YOrK NATIONAL OLUB. Libba pyeblney yi = rdgahonad proceeded to give the followivg to an origjoalgaccempant- Ad the entertainm ni given last evening at the Maison | ment which was pisyed for bim en the guitar: by General William Averell, of the cavalry, who prov Boree, by the members of the Now York Natioval Club, tp sdiaaane tne vesseuta of Sacer Shermen ant | Seta na eet ate, Oe, ae ae ae ‘Fhomas, there was quiie a select and briiiant gathering | serenade and sabre. He called it 8 military and other celebrities. Ail the arrangewents BONG OF BBRAYAN'A aparr, af tho feast were of the choicest, and tho company Stat aoa fe gp : ecemed to be in exceliens sp'rits for appreciating the Bowe bours vi mareh—theuwa bal w fgbs, entertainment, both mssiiectusl smd physical, to which huid our way ‘hey were invited, Tuc walle, pictures and chandeliers of march, ke, were deautifully decorated «iit wrea stare and * @romses of evergreens a0! flow:rs; and tere wore other fadieations on the iables that Ciristmas and the boliday @eagon bed vot been forgotien. 1 Ys With our orning beam, | We bold our featal way. Cncnve—With our arme aflash, &o. 1bere is terror whi we come, SOME OF THE DISTINGUISHRD GUEETE, ‘Thore ia terror end wild diemay, a Prominent among the military guests Roticed When they see tbe Old bing and beer the éram 2 @eneral Hobert Anderson, Major General Joho A, Wine they eee tbe Ol ag as . Caonve—When they see the Old Never uplimber » gan Above vil Dis, and two mombers of bia staff; togetber with @twerals W. 8. Hancock, W. F. ‘mitb, Harteuf, Bat. ferfield, Averell, Cullu Wovbd, Colonel James A, ‘Masdie, Inepector Genera), and several minor lights of ‘We profession militaire. Of civilisae and naval oficers seat, covers having been ordered ovly for sixty, and this Aud the old men out on their crutebes come, ‘To nee ue bold our way. Cronve—And the old men out, Mc. Arevad on, in rear and fevks, Deir fottle equadrons play Wb 4 aixty mile front of steady ra We bold our cheokless way. CRORLE—Witd a sixty mile front, ke. Hear tho epattering fire that starte Prom the woods and copses gray, ing icken our hearts, fmis beimg adhered to, despite a very strong outside Pressure te ave the margin extended. Among these io Male latter cless we noticed Messrs. Thurlow Weed, Jobu ‘Van Boren, Governor Androw, of Masachasottd; Capt Drayton, United Bates Nevy ; Wm. F. Havemoyer, Jas. T. Brady, Senator Connets, of California; Joho A. Kenvedy, Recorder Hoffman, Charles A. Duna, Assistant Secretary @f War; Royal Phelps, the Rev. Morgan Dix, Robert 8, Roosevelt, Kdwerds Pierrejont, Richard O'Gorman, ydney H. Gay, Captain Wordn, Uvited Bates Navy ; Péward Cooper, H.miiton Fist, William Stuart, Thomas ape Se Ok cane, Sie 3. Durant, Jobo EK. Deveiin, Captain Rodgers, United Wain noerin eet Ail forward renee, a r ; Nelson on uering way. mwa Btates Navy, Ni J, Waterbury, Henry Ward Beecher, eqpnre—Wb Sattoring fags, be. Fro Professor Doremus,‘Reary flilton, Samuel L. M. Barlow, hes Nordboff, Henry J. Raymond, Colonel Bandfurd, of Whe telegraph companies, Edwin Both, and Coptain Beoit, Assistant Bceretary 0! the Navy, OBIKCT OF THE DINNHN CRLEBRATION, ‘The car’s of invitation from the New York National Ab, traitors! who ee bola We dened Dia wouning predict you shoo w jou Cronre—Did nothing predict, ke. By Hoaven! tis a gala mareb, y lonia, oF & play ; ‘Clud set forth that this dinner was to celebrate the euc- Of al) et ase arch, @easful termination of the first probiem of General W. 7. co~0 ot our hong 40, Oh, M@berman’s last and greatest campaign by the eapture of Gavensab, and the overwhelming destruction of the pede! forces under General Hood by General George H. ‘The verses, sung With grext melody, fire and feeling, were warmly received; and it may gratify the friends tbe unkvown author to be here ifurmed that, im response as Thomas; ard also {> exvress the bopes of all true | 10 & gg gc Bem a Ap a ge od on rd Patriots, irrespective of party, that, “through the | «3nerman’s way” received the complim and ea- Shustaatio baptiom of sowe of the bent vintages t» be found upov Manhattan jeiead LEARNED AND BLOQUENS ADURSES OF MAJOR ORME BAL JOMN A. DIX. General Dix, being loudly called for, remarked that it ‘wee but rareiy, since re-entering the army, that he had found either time or inclination for triumphant evergy of our military aud naval heroes, this Gesolating civil war may coon be broughs into a cond) ‘Mom that wil! allow a liberal morgin to statesmanehip and diplomacy for the settlement of all differences be- Sween the North aud Sunt. on the ope essential basis of _ @ restored Vo jon, WFawixo sraxch AY ANCORDER HOPFMAN~THE BRALTH OF GRNBRAL SHERMAN. After fall justin had deen done to the yiande—Dod ‘worth’s bend aiccoursin,; «oq :00! music during the pro- grees of the feast—Recorder Jonn 1. Hovrmas, an Prest- deat of the clad, gave notice that there would bene @ecorasion of ‘‘regular toasts’’ that eveulng, thie babis Raving become a mere form, which had jost ail signi®. ance, and only tending to bore convivial axtemblages WD loo copious streams Of eloquesce elaborately re bearred. They had mot to acknowlodce their Indebtedvess 0 two D: bie generals, and te expres thelr hopes for thoir eontinged success, He would, therefore, now propore, ia due order of seniority, the health of that yaliant offoer, Severs) William FP, Bber ‘and cal) upon }is honored friend of bis leltesJonerai Robert Anderson, of Fort Samier—to respond in Behalf of the absent hero, (Loud evil. It cost much prin and was {ban compensated by ite calling forib ali our Nabares: ‘Si (ritura absit paleis aunt addita grana Nos crue mundants sepirad a pale t;-— or ‘for the benefit of country members’’—Ae the pre lows corn is ated from worthless straw only by sovere threshing, #0 by crosses aad afiictions the trae life of a nation is separated from its ebafl. (Applause) ppla It required the dark daye republic to bring out such Thomas, at youngest ind io bright crown of our avy. (Loud applause.) These ni vaptry, eraulating im lustre the stare uader which they d eapable of chal ere history traly to & oomparison those were that je beroje in Arnie nomina Nomina quar pos nt rolicitare deve Spplause, the whole eompony rising ard drinking tne Geverai Dix desired t> endorse the eloquent and ener al ony imes th: 4 Practical apyos! of nis honored friexd, General tenn of ©: ee vor Auderson, im bebail of founding & great National tiger,” Dodworte’s pani striking vp, ‘'Lo, the Couquer- tog Hero Comes” and “Foti Gurmbin. Gemeral \uderson, whore riviny was bailed with or. ‘Font demonstrations of ey piauce, «j/k» slowly, and an if Mt suffering from the eff ote of pot need illness, bet Be spoke with on unriy ‘led tonlerness of sincerity, hie plea for the found tion (Boldiers? Hows”) towards the clove of bin Fema \s,* ving in all tte words, accents | and gestures & meat cogen ms ens GENERAL ANDERAON'S sireRcH. General Axvxw @ jared it to be ihe proudest ougdt of bis Ife (bat © hed boon tho humble moaus, | ender Divive Provide oof bringing Bence before the country tie two, enerals whose names | ‘were at the presen! moment n.ost gras ally on the lips every prt old Neutenant, Wm. @. Bherman, whore health they had just honored, «nd te that noblest of all mobile Kouthrons now in the active ser: ‘vice of our country, General George Hi. Thomas, of Vir- ia. .(Applacee) Eoviy to the wi when seegnod the command of bis own mative Sta, Kentucky, Geveral Anderson fel. that bie nervous system had eon injured by the enormous weight of anxie tee and responsibilities whieh bad proserd upon Bim for the two mo tie preceding the attack apon Bis forces tn Fort Sumter. Hy was only overraied into Holdiers’ Home as the most Otting monument with which (b6 Amoricvn people ea. record thelr ap services of Generale sherman cretitude to the Heavenly Pathor bh RUCCERR bo tke oforte of © Mf there be any obects to the public sympathy tb: ne thelr enterp whiem shou! appea! frreniasible foros daily presented im all r crippled soldiern, who if CODIFY, Yet are How rede Wayeii®, Oxposing their honorable soars while asking for acd Applause.) Kvery time these him— \nd bey caine too often—he was remind! of (hore moxt touching lines of the Latin post | ordiacreisn ttyl | Per ego hus (aohrymas, dastramque twam to, | Bey mm fe merrti, fell aw! boi guidquame Tralee mewn, micerere met | The seldier Jo Bis day of sirengid i» a soble ob/eot. Hatiatiog of ihe justice of bis ovnge, and tied the Uhoughs that the peace, honor and wol).heing bis @uairy depend upon bis Pp) be © regerdicss of death and rushes apon hostile aworie— Haw timed mortem, aupit 7 We ipror ~~ Ubrkue eae! faint with lows of bi net, holding up im bis lent But when reoot}': reaned thoee at bome bim—oh, then, if there be hearts Meeepting the commen! by the r-prescotations of such | feel grateful fer self sacri\\ce, ney 4 sarrownd his 1 erytbing Unet nl poble patriots of his native Bate as the lave John J. Orit such et ie Sea fomeen, eile. wt tor eoden, Mr. Lestieo Coom:, ~ oresary Guthrie, and others | ever rom the door of tho hospital, #1 like stamp, who expremed to vim tueir belie’ that bie | wey eho there to take bim to their arme and com- fort bin with 1ho assurance that the nation, in whore enuse be bas given the glory of bie manhood, wiii pro. vide bim with am houorebie aed happy Home during the Dalance of bie I ‘Aprianse and deep enntion.) Cecu- game might be made ayers! in boightening the loyalty of ove Kontuckiine wo were already for the Us on, and @f baroing into the tree pat) many who were at)!| waver od an our ebief ‘dies are in the main business of Be ori doud:, ({ou1 applause) ih pressed, be romieg the 6 toro" of 606 rebsilion, sapied; but, for Ai bit health might again vrenk ist bo de for thelr neglect, OF inability, Lo ‘bh mo tere O° after coveideration and detail +8 tule of bicrm Home, They are troubled with many thongs; he, inc He eogitant; they very yo aibly feel Baad wate De energies are Bugs. ort Lo Kho froms, the Gown, it wee the primary condition of hie taking the POmMaNA 9 Question, turk bw tried and Honored fiend, Peeora) Wilinw 7 Sherman, shoud be amegues bo lun Th | it ® § : fF ® H Es {i ft it 4 3 Hh some hisses for the Dix bed wo doubt that cod his order might be abundan by considerations of dmmediale expediency; But, if 60, the revocation should ‘nave avowed as its motive a mere vemporary Eee rendering the present enforcement of tie right politic, while broadly'reatirming as a the right ef **hot pursuit” whivk bad forined the ‘basis of order. (Itinging applause, and cries ef ‘Gootl, good,” + We wink as you do,” «Their neutrality be dammed Geueral Dix f ul the order been revoked, it you bad its effect, and that eifect a good one. He ‘in had reared himself @ w>nament which ‘should not pass away-—Zzegi monum entum are peren- néws—and was ‘lreadty satisfied that the Aurerican peonle would do justice to Biemotives, and thet history would “date & cew era in oer relations with ogiand from the ‘prem ion of that order, in wnicd, be wes bh» ppy toadd, ‘she honorabie Secretary of War baa necst cordially sup: ‘ported him. (Intense appiause, Mr Rrady propesimg**Suc- 0058 to the Fenian Brotherhood: the day of our war with laud enrols every able bodied trae frishman, both here neral bad nd in Usnada, under the banner of tho Union!’’) Dix felt that Le had detained them longer than Intended, and yet bad done but scanty justice to bis ject. Fer his classical of his Commander in-Chiel,ehe President. avd all whe 10 should believe that it was not the wish two do full justice to his svbject which was wanting, but the Jong’ want of practice cohen volun as. sed 2Jacuiias, wiich the General resumed bis neat, being mented by Mesers, Brady, O'orman, emus, bamberiain and many ethers.) AN ANMY AND NAVY TOAST—HEAL!HS OP FARK AQUT ; AND-THOMAS, ‘The joint healthe of Admiral Farragut and General George H. Thomas were now jormaliy by Gea. Hancoes, and were drank with ali the houors, the whole company standing up, waving their papkivs apd cheering until the room rang again, while the band piayyd elo quently “Our bg ‘and our navy forever, And the ilay of the red, white And“btue |”? 2 BONG PROM GOV, ANDERY, OF MASSACHUSETTS Apropos © the toast they Gad just drank, Recorder HorvMaN would have much piessure in o.liug upon their honored guesg, Governof Andrew, of Masmachuectts, for ® hong CF fertiment, earnentiy hoping it might be the former. Jb aduition to a memory eo stored with songs and poems, that Liose who knew bim could only wonder ow he touud room 2m bis-bead for the many thousand Other interests w 80 -conatanbly press and of whiten, ta his wove! powe: ? Man Wovld still bope that the greatness of Lis Occasion, iF desire to pay all possible our to tbe names t dad been introduced, and the sem|-privale character the entertaiument, might mivee their distinguiehed guest to relax bis usual ruieof silence. (Loud applause, aod hte cog ureinge yellowed, with wRich Governor anos words with more vine he euid, sou ing werd 7 twanter; “play that one of ru what ‘addressing the “you #aggestion trom Coloue: Hardi@ thet General Dix should desue an order to yy aay eee ed pot viDg row then lenrod his tarons with a gines Of Muscatelle, und sang as follows. Xe called 1t bie y prye OURP Tass HOLWwsTe im per wigh Showing. Witbout ebrivkiag”* ee? “. ® © preter ba Weil Xi keop their promise, Bat, for a buily toast, fe drink the beaith of Thomas { Chorws—¥ il the bumper bigh, ko. Bumpers to the brink, Bearce cau we determine Waetbee we sbould di We cannot pause or wait, 'T 9 coid and wintry weather, #0, to end debate, drink ’em both together? Dumper bigh, &e. With them lot us mix - Others you are wishing, To thove naval bricks, Farragut and Cushing | May our heroes’ choice, Oar land and ocean straying, Mieod us does my voice apie plays per high, who recks Oar last eball be a thamper ; ‘Yo Blanton's beard avd spece We pledge the present bumper | Quick | the botties pass | Old Time 'n shippt from us ; Lave piedge a final # ‘Yo Farragnt and Thomas} Chorwe—Fill the bemnper bigh, Ao, A BAY STATS TRIUMPH—HOW THH SOKO Was BE CRLVED, No that we bave beard for many years could be Prowonnced, including all ite sccessories. « more decided Ariamph shan this; all the company, with the exception Of tbe two reverend gentiewen present, jolning enthusias- Woslly 40 the chorus, w high was led by Captain Baratow, A. D.C, and Mr. 1B. B. Roosevelt. On ite conclurion » number of Ms hy ‘ Bacay Sereruce, andrew with congratulations aw 4 DrOMineut a whom we noticed Dr, Durant, of the Pacific allroad, Colonel Frank K Howe, of the New Engiand Reliet Roome; Colonei Sandford, of the American Telegraph, and 8.1. M. Barlow, Keq., gold controller aad 10 politician, or Madigon equare sod Wiliam street, SLIGHT ODOR OF COPFER—MH. U'GORMAN SPRAKS, Mr. Riemann O’Gonmax, being now called for, desired Driefly to remark that, in every word thet had failen from the gallant acd learned gontieman bowing to General Dix), who had addreseed them previous to the pleasure (bowing to Goveruor Andrew) they bad just vorman) od most cordially to con. haps ry moet cordiaily in those portioas peroration which re erred to v” over Britiab soll; and to ing the “olive branch” in one R & Aword to the ovbor. (Ap- ineent.) Ibe olive was @ brigg vegetable, which, to-night, they bi found pleasant with their wine (applause and merriment); bat about the joa ‘olive branch,’ to had made ailosion, no ' trace Of bitterness, or ' the salt rheum of grie!,” could be found, {¢ was the healer of miseries, the’ ouly fan by which, eventually, tho briay tears of our civil discord ould be dried awey. There wees time forthe sword and « time for the olive branch, be rejoiced in the victories they Gad met to celebrate. Hus brilliant ae our gate suecenses, he feared they cou! be ever to Mosacm into the peace of @ restored Union, un. iy supported by liberal avd vat rule tansy, jivion and the restoration ./ vivil rights. (Applause and rome dissent.) om, (‘Ove’) ON THE TROUBLED WaTnRe. The Charman denired to state that, if be were called up 0 to exprees hie opinions, he would concur with every peu! ont uttered by the last apeaker, whom he elected Counsel to the Corporation noxt yan: wo tae (hey bad met wo pay bonor Wo two gallant aud suocessful soldiers, and saw around him men of ail political ereaie, 1b wou! jo avoid the discussion of such toptes and Be would t| fore call upon Captain Blake, of the headqui Neccker street, for one of those hamprove Iria hich bad made bim so famous 10 the social circle, All knew thet the Blakes, Porkes and Boukios 6 whe three grovt Galway families, and be would beg to intr. duce to the company bie friend Captan Hake ae 8 worthy representative of that Milesian i. Ov GALWAT—s BONG now #0 popoiar irdressers, at Wied with the reqnest, only whether he should “row! out” th Lawn? the Soll Vou Vognt,’ oF the “Sell Sait Sail Aroow’’ iv bla, oayye Inleb Whgue, oF ihe 'urores of ag notations be pleadod the example of this kind. Noa (Load applause, amid Van Bureo, ‘one of the duty of collecting sande fat * wepeky “edier'e ier Andra Frannie, ery renal WILMINGTON. Rebel Opition of the Re- eent Affair. a What the Rebels Wout Have Done if Our bine tfad Rem» ined, BRAGG THINES/HE 18 SAFE, &e., ¥e,, &o. W'.aumoron, N. ©, Dec. 28, 1964. ‘The federal has Leni isappeared. Only the usual pedetareer ate ee Had rein) srcements ‘arrived sooner'we might have cap- ‘The cy omy drow up in a sem{-circle and poured & con- eentrig fire into Fort Fisher, destroying every house und plooy bing up the ground. Cr,jone) Lamb and garrison deserve much credit, as W's) ag the junior reseryes, / The enemy threw over many horses im the gale and euffered much otherwise. There was another gnie last night. ‘The Alexandra has been seized at Nassau by order of the British government, The Flect Unable to Remain off Wii- eee: [From the Richi Sentinel, Dee, 29.) ‘The repulve of the enemy at Fort Fisher, resulting in their retreat to their shipping, is pleasing uows, and gives @ grateful turn to the tide, which has been lately setting against us. The enemy cannut lie off Wilmington except at great peril. Their ships are in ocean on & tem- pestuous and dangerous coast, A gale would compel them to seek the far out waters and take their chances in wrestling with the storm, rather than to encounter the terrors of a lee shore, Butler and Porter must strike quick orn it up. Colonel Lamb, who commands at Fort Fisher, has set an example’ which seems of Inte to have been needed. He has shown how to stand a furious bombard- ment without Sotghinety dag 4 ‘This excellent officer kas exhibited another merit. je has displayed both origi- nality.and energy in his Proparations, 83 well as gal- lantry in the use of them, ith great toll he led to- ether the sands of that flat beach, and made a Nl sixty feet high, and to the commanding posit ned he dragged some very heavy guus which. were ae: inconsequence of a plunging fire and of a rualdable range. Lamb's hill was tke subject at first of some jeering criticisins, but it will always be remembered to his praise, To Colonel Lamb and to General Whiting it has been seen that General Bragg has declared “especial commendation” to be due, Long may they wear their honors, Butler's Last Fallure. THE REBBLS THINK HE WAS THK JONAH OF PORTER'S EXPEDITION AND OUGHT TO HAVE BREN THKOWN OVERBOARD, {from the Richmond Examiner, Dec. bod | 4f Butler were anything else than the beast he is, he would have been long since rélieved of all command by Kis government for the crime of ill luck. But in the eyes of his countrymen even his bad fortune is redeemed ‘by is bad character, His method of administering a captured town, Where the or women and clergymen are loft at bis taercy; his ence a8 a bully, thicf and Jailer, not only save him from disgrace in a service where the worst disqualification is to bea man of Honor, but procure him high command over arduona enterprises, in all which he regularly fails, | His failure iu the mighty expedition against Wilmington is quite as signal us bis failure to come to Richmond by ihe Fotenmons Railroad, erwards to lay siege to Petersburg itself. ‘Ts cannot now [a that the vast Butler- mada? gent to ain,.vn did not go to take but only by way of recompuissance. That daft ig Vaunts and myste- crvahing blow to be struck parture of the expeditio ith graphie descriptions ret know uot what ayther may be; 1 don’t fee! at ai) sintimintal, Nor care | for Byron a rap— Bo give me a plump, rolly an’ giotie ‘oung widdy ia weeds an’.a cap! Every stanza ef the -called*forsh ite full of appiause apd merriment, juce Johu Van Buren re- mark that a copy should at once be sent to Geueres Joo » who, as he heard, hin Bite Byatt be] yor ‘widow hailing {rom Cincinmasi, Chicago or of ‘our Western villages. =~ GEN. HOOKEN ANOUT ASSUMING A NEW COMM~AND, Mr. Conmms begged to correct the honorable gestieman whe had spoken lust. The interaed bride of Fighting Joe” was young, ardent, beautiful and in the Brst seveot, roseate flush of her maideo purity. ‘'Bhe loved.Joe for the perils he had passed, and be loved her becanse she pitied him.” The marriage would texe place before the crocus broke <brough ¢he anows of our earliest eprieg; and Hooker, lifted into the seventh beaven of bis desires, would have another™‘pattle above the olouds,”” (Roars Of laugtter. Mr. 0’ Gonman only desired to it againat towtion Mr. Conuess had quotation from the scandalous play of Othelle, describing tho marriage of @ cored soldier to the white'daughter of a Venotian Sena. tor. He regarded that play as the earliest “miscegena- tion document”? of our last campaign for the Presidency. (Loud taoghter and applause, the . Mr. Beecher cry- faz, ‘*A bit, a moat palpable hit!’’) SKCAMTARY STANTON ON THE RAMPAGE—U18 LET- TRK TO MK. BOADY. ni In response to repeated invitations, Mr. James T. ‘Brady said that be had no speech to make, but would gladly read to them a letter from Secretary Stantos, which he pad reveived just as he was loaving home that vevening to attend this patriotic festival. It was = good fetter, and bud to it all ite writer's characteristic brevity and poivt, It ran as follows: Wan Durarmcnr, Wasnixaton, Deo. 20, 1864. My Duar Bravy—Yours of the 16th, covering an invi- ‘tation of the New York National Club, to paye! to Generals Sherman and Thvmas, has come to hand; but I capnst be with you, though the movement tas all my sympathies. We had great difficulty 1a fpding the right ‘Kind of tools at fires; but they are now Doing discovered dy d ju Sberman avd [Homas, as you say, keenest edge finest mettle. Even b ould { attend your festival’ Things vo day: and itis only when disaster bappens that the Seoretary of War te asked after or re- membered vy an indigoant public. Your sincere iriend, EDWIN M STANTON, ‘The iacovic and tart hamor of this characteristic note ted inch amusing comment, Governor Andrew re. at the sting Of the affair could not, fortunntely, im, ss he had made honorable mention of Mr. Stavton’s beard und spectacies in his “Song of the Christ mas Holidays.’ (Loud laughter.) KNVRANCH OP THB GCHORISTERS—MANAGHS STUALY FULL OF BOUSINKSS, Jowt at this moment the door on the cbairman’s right d Mr. Stuart, of tho Winter Garden, happy looking bo: the quo Yankee ch accompa All the newspapers of the vasi feet of ships of wer and transports—how th at Tronsidca ond Wabash and Colorado were there; the fleet exiled in-five divisions; and how the ocean was covered far aud wide with countless iron and wooden monsters, bearing the hopes of the nation, and destined to swoop down in a tempest of vengeance and destruc- tion upon some “doomed” eity of our coast, which, they never conccaled, was Wilmington. Jf Porter had thrown Butler overboard perhaps no storm would have blown that fleet out to paste pained snd. Jumuled together horses, stores, guns and sore sick landamen nighte’of peril s ietalee ae pice notit aching the ‘Of these little fellows ‘© bouquet in hie band, and ss they flied off aixes, balf upon each side of Keeorder Hoffman's obair, at whe bead of the table, the tablean was extremely pictu- Tesque, snd created not s little serprise, INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY MR. STUART. a0 y. and terror, as to de the i posse we bave. wor vetore us. The words of th, cuoral | The truth is that Butler's part of the forces, namely, the dust, or ani scaroely Knew what to call it—he Detieved be would commit nd indiscretion jn gtatiog, bad been furnished by one of the reverend geutiemoa at ay 100: Joous from tho land troops destined to march upon Wiiminj beli all unused to navigation, must have Become oo dlagua ing and abominable that it is a wonder Porter was not é tempted to pitch the whole of them, ag well ‘as thei present 16 Feo (Quest te as ir (Gwerde Mr. Boscher and the Rev. Morgan rie, bt ‘but | Commander, overboard into the nanzeated sea. How Roltber made any eign.) With the gvod leave of the com. | MAY of the fleet may have been actually lost, how Many of the men drowned, we are as yot uninformed; Dut probably thove losses did not antinineo eee to derauge the enterprise as that unutterable confusion and dislocation caused by several days’ rough weather in the accurate and perfect appointments of an armament on whose achievemnonts the whole Yankee nation hung with #0 jatense an jntereat, So it befell that when three or four brigades wero at Jength landed on the spit of and near Fort Fisher they were but ball alive, felt the land rocking nnder them like & toning deck, saw the fort reeling besore their eves like Monitor in a galo of wing, and after two or three feeble attempts made by the juvinetble armada they were glad to avail themselves of the first calm woather and retora from whence they came, sadder and wiser men, Yet it May well be presumed that not even this stroke of il mn@ will diminish the confdenge of the faithful Yan- Kees in their own beloved Beast, In fact, they know he ‘itory enterprise. ‘That is not, properly speaking, wot (ay Keep him for; but as they are forever on the very pvint of wearching trinmphantly into all our sities, “ospeciaily Richmond—when, of course, martial law,’ provest marchale, ostha of allect- ance and bull und chain will have to come into play—they desire to have him near at hand that he may enter upon his own duties ut once, He was probably only a8 the nominal general of the troops sent against Wilinington, for all porpores of siege and storm; dut the moment the town surrendered (of which there was no,sort of doubt on the Yankee mind), then were bis operations to begin. For altaciy 4 bali and chain to the white ankle of a delicate Southern woman tere ts node Buller; none but he can so foal. the markets, 80 judiciourly Jewels which cunning bousel and behind panels; if auy clorayman under cross exaii. Ration thinks by his artful carulsiry to baitle the acumen of Butler, und to sive for hime hole or crevice wees y—all of whom be should be delighted to see at the ‘mter Garden any evening, or at bis seaside ville pear New London, ou any Friday afternoon they could rua down Ww a couple of days with him— he would mow oall upow the Oret chorus of his young and iuterestiog cbarge 10 com ‘the bana requested ——. them slowly only on the'r ect tent instrumenis. usbed applause, the com Lay concn appiing with mucb ourlgsity avd joterest Dear come). SONG OF THR CHORTATBAS. it young yoloes joimed tn and sublimity to the two finsi verses, It w: 19 all tbat Mr. Stuart produces, ‘ an Imweose success,” ite idea baving been given to him by some ‘* games of Christenss”’ that Be bad joug ago witoossed at the house of bie bodored {riend, Mr. Giadsione, oslebrated knglish @obolar, orator and statesman. With these matt * guests, ve the Striking avthem, which was su! Eagiiab air of “Art Thou Not Yood We have ciimbed v’er the roughest mountains ‘That rose between us and Peave | yinan has the wrong ‘This maxjor geueral will lay bare the secret thoaglits of bia reverence and hold him up in all the dreadful deformity of “necesh.”” Then he only goes to work on the fortifiestions or street crossings, but his wife also forfeits her spoons and table lneu War; Those aro the qualities which have endeared Benjami ing buzzard— Butler to the iumost soul of the Yankee nation, They iors ot War! love to read the long reports furnished by #tenographers of his masterly copfutation of Confederate preachers and Diblical sermons on the crimiuality of resist against the one God and the one Abraham, They are charmed his system of setting negro guards over the houses of ir late masters, with instructions to make the mir- tress cook for them and polish their military boots. Above all, they delight in bis methods of stripping Con- the wan biight of War! Full Chorus of Twelve Votees. federate families bare and sending them forth out of bis Ob, wit hosbands In pattie, Woes mere destitute than any other military commandant ‘Think, think of the day of Peace! of a captured torvn lias ever done before, napt Ob, mot with your gous in battle, There je another reason still for which bis country- Cling close Wo the hope of Peace! men remain fond and faithful to thie {ilstarred major jt is that he is outlawed by us felon, thief ‘Oh, listie ones, weeding your fathers, Peace his fou! namo is banned and Pray, pray tor the hour of 1 Glory to God in the higheat! nanimous execration wherever the atory He giveth ue promise of Peace! i@ told among men—and this because ho He will not be wrathful forever, has gerved them az they would be served; beaause he is yet will restore to us l'eaco— eapetially aud pre-eminently a Yankee, and typo of bis We see from the Wi of His Healing race, aman whom they would all imitate if they could, Down flutter the White Dove of Peace! ‘and whom at lenst phey can admire and reward. There- fore they have resolved to uphold bim against al) man- kind; to thrust him down our throats as an agent of exchange; to place our necks (after we are con- SENT, Or BovguaT® BY rae ie catbeas (ne with the compliment of Dreathiess attention bape De Diag og and ferveat, but noley approval lines hoof of Butler, and the hoof of no other Senly wey Ir wrembling reiwctantly fete piey Because tobe subjected to the orders of ry received the thaaks, aad fis young tae | uch aroature would be the moat poignant and totvler- compiimente of tie of eh LH able of al! humiliations, therefore, he is held in hand theo Gling off and ting their bouquets to General | and vested with the special mission of giving law to city ‘Anderson—the first hero of our war; and tbe others giv. | after city, but above all to Richmond—after {t is taken, ing coe bouquet enc to the three senior military, aod | Rutler's countrymen, too, fool that be bas Ubree senior mayal officers, who were preseat. In their | treated with some Injustice lately. It is long since he Grosses of ‘‘red, white aed dive,’ and with thelr has bad « town to rob, a plate ch: pilfer, or a clergy- man to hector, The trenches [n front of Lee are no piace Prien, OP ataree eoldom realised’ tke opte W | forbimn, “It ta irus that the Neribern newspapers were orehe vroken with emote Sussiageod vs Ubonk: | tree! natior's pars of the iteet,'pesciainiog ""A Town nite * 08 as jatier's 1e ry Tha compilinent them. Soraaes *, Mwhole Population Deported,” with other auch striking captions in large letters; and thea- wands of readere themselves to gloat over the ‘uaual scones of well known administration. But the “town? was Darbytown; ite ulation of three ancient women, one wooden-legged invalid gnd an asthmatic patient, together with two cata, This no game for such # sporteman—no theatre for the exercise of 4 like his, For this reason he was sent to take charge of Wilmington, an le are eagerly opent their newspapers in the North country, ex, aod 5 reverend gevilemen aod macy an shortly after did y prepare these poten, Pacife Raiiroad, Oapiain Fox about Monitor to about tl ha joneral that he js even now inaugurating his rule in city. We Yorn mrt Dans, who General, ‘us tnd ero The fact i# that the return of that fleet “booties home Principles of atrateg Hie Xwinton was growing and weather-benten back,” ts @ grievous a nt 7: pageacious (ali By himsel!) over Hooker's Messrs. brady, Pierrepont, bucks of that tik quent and at Lookout Moantais. Boren, Barlow and other you 4 adieoriminatel: and @ most costly and ag failure. rmadas will probably now tre Gone Hatt wide berth tll after the next equino: The Murder of the Roosa Family—Ten New Hegiments. ‘Crxemmart, Deo, 31, 1864, The Garrtte han a despatch from Columbur which says that a degorter named Charles Kener has been arrested there ax the mpposed murderer of the Rosa farnily. Tho ten pew regiments authorized by the War Depart ment will be organized and ready for the feild in #ix weeke youre, Nattonal Cia wil 8008 repent ite patriotio feativi- and give v® another Banquet #b whieh steps ball be 1oko: joF (he Orgtujantion Of @ semmitees charged Wikh Fr SHERMAN. M “ whe Capture of Sovannah; THR CHE OF HO VALES 90 75D Suame—same “4 was quarrelled, the siege was and the back to the West Indies, while the back to Charleston; where some e later all wken prisoners, Savandab remained in the British tothe close of the war, At the oommence- le the war of 1812 it was again taken by the rit In a military point of view Savannah was of no value to us whatever. As a port it had been blockaded for two. years, The moral effect is ave gained, and that is pot much. Gen. Shorman About to oesig? Lee Moving on Richmond. ei {From the Richmond Whig, Dec, 27.) Sherman has consented to i Lee. He announces, in bis own inimitable manner, that ‘the sap goes North on the Zist, and by that time Y aball go North two.” This is playing Joshua, with # slight variation, The sun stood still at the Hebrew chieftain’s bidding, but the Yankee warrior, more complatsant and pephens bm and te 1 soo have him jn the position he “just where we want him.” us his programme or what cities he intends to conquer before he winds up with Leo as a don bouche. Doubtives he will not leave Charleston behind him. The giory of conquering the birthplace of seces- sion is an incentive too powerful to be withstood by this dougbty warrior, As for Wilmington, he will leave that to General Beast Butler, reserving im bis own mind the right of conq ene pa the Beast find Bragg too har 3 a nut to or . jis main column, therefore, will march along the const, clearing away impediments and keeping within co-operative distance of the fleet, Nothing more easy than this to the omnipotent Sherman, Hut he {s too polite a man to neglect the of the Spartan little State of South Carolina, He detach a column to pay bis respects to Columbia, just as he did to claimed! Hood was, Ho does not telt Milledgeville. Mules and negroes in plenty, and perhaps Yankee prisoners ho hopes to find, to em- brace of the Union. An easy job, this, toa master of war, as is Mr. Sherman. Nor will be sii his iriend Holden. In fact, it would be bim injustice to suppose that be will be wanting in to any considerable town tn the interior of North Caro- ina,” Far too polite a gentleman for that is General Sherman. While his hand is in he will capture all the towns between Savannah Richmond. Why not? Nothing is more easy to the redoubtable Sherman. He promised to devastate and desolate am he advances, and to leave behind bin a blackened waste extend! from Chattanooga te the capital of the Southern cun- foderacy. Savanuuh for afew days in order that he may the Allny Raiirodd—n plece of pure wantonness and vandalisia, All this will the remarkable General Sher. and that within a brief space of time; for what the firesistible Sherman, and what is the of prolonging the war into another campaign? Why not close it up by the dih of next March—the blessed aant- versary of the inauguration of Abraham? Such, in all probabtlity, are the echemes of this am- bitious erevture, who is perhaps even pow on bis march in this direction, Unfortunately—for we are oxeeedingl:" ivaputiont to celobyate in the good city of Richmond advent of the conquering bero—there are many mii and tnany streams of water between this in 8 bition and the point of his departure, there ie portiee of sop pam ee — Lage fomton the of Beauregard, both of whom are disposed to dispute Bherman’s triumphal Proeress. Last of all, when reaches Richmond, he will find at ite portal man has never been run over, well knowm as eral Robert F. Lee. Even if ho bring wih hia army uninjured Beaurey and and then ada’ both armies to the the combination will not be more than that which was arrayed spring. Lee was uble to resiut what reason is there to doubt that the other? We vory much feur tha Sherman at the gates of Richmond least, uncivil.. Nay, we ‘are appreh treatment of him will be so rough as to compel consu!t the solsticial movements as to the best continuing bis journey still further northward Jeaving Richmond in the lurch. Which would be appointinent (v us and a chagrin to the wonderful man. th & 3 rd Hs tH rf z é Z 5 & Fats : # alia i The Cotton Fonnd at Savannah. {Prom the Richinond Examiner, Dec, 29.) The reader will find in another column the enemy’s boastful account of the bloodless occupation of Savannah, If it be trne that he fonnd there thirty-three bales of cotton stored In warehouses, tt is a painful Savaunah ia a town ful: of Yankee merchants and Jews, the cotton prohably belonged to them, and we may suro that they left no «tone unturned, no appeal un! to prevent it from being destroyed. ‘The excuse for barning it probably was that the con! wo id bave consumed the town, But Savannah better be jn ashee than in Yankee possession. The selfish oo ankee took have 3. tors of the cotton probably gained nothing—the would not miss its confiscation, Sherman says eight hundred prisoners; ifhe did so deen skulkers, who wished to be taken, And itis very probable that his whole despatch is highly eolored, to concealthe great fact that Hardee and bis army has alipt beiween his angers. Evening Stock Exchange. Sarurpay, Dec, 81—8 :30 P. 22794 100 she Rik Isl RR... 227% 500 do. 22736 $5000 American gold 10000 100 50 do. 100 Quicksilver 100 Mich 8 & D 800 do. 200 Til Cent RR. . Died. onlay evening, December 81, B. F. Canver, Jr, only ch id of B. F.' and Sallie ©, Carver, aged 6 years and 9 nonthe, The polativer and friends are invited to attend the y Avenue Hotel, this (Bunday) af- § ovk, Chics Ts pleare copy. Van Mabon te BrooklyD, on Thureday 29, Jutta Ieamet, Van Vetsor, daughter of Jano Van Velror, aged 3 years and 9 mont be Pay gentle a iu -en| ne ©! ; Hark! how ii cal ii ono lambs: And folds them in arma, ‘The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully {Invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her nts, 62 Prospect street, thie (Sunday) afternown, o& tro desea’ For other Deatha see Sixth Page.) December” award and seamed s Drovaeagh hap GALCTTM LiGMTS, FOR, tke ea eee a Prats cure was of Rome fet the force. thle mig YORK, ———————OOES ‘TOO LATE FOR CLA c : OST—ON SATURDAY BVENINO, DRO, Bh ON J are oar, Id haunt One® 5 Leyte heat Peale ronan He pald 10 any one leaving it at 86 Rond abreek, in provi of this he delays hie departure from |: ¢ ’ “a * z > ‘