The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1865, Page 4

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C., we are informed that General Sher- man's army had not yet entered on any extensive move- mont since the capture of Savannah; but detachments from it were out im different directions, scouring the eountry in scarch of armed rebels. General Kilpatrick, with bis cavalry, was watching the movements of Har- dee. The main portion of Sherman’s troops were rest- ing in tho vicinity of Savannah, re-equipping and pre- (paring for their prospective campaign. Richmond pa- \pers of the 5th inst. confirm the report that Hardeeville, & O., on the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, twenty miles from the latter city, has been captured by General, Kitpatrick. P ndaitional evidence of the satisfaction felt by a large ~portion of thé pugple of Savannah at their occape from “allegiance to Jeff. Davis And remclation to the protoction ‘Of the old flag is furnished by the fact that many of lis leading merchants have already sent to this city funds to ance! in full their indebtedness to our merchants at the ‘time of the commencement of the rebellion, and others ‘have made partial payments, with promises to clear off ‘their old obligations fully and honorably as soon as able. ‘The money for this purpose consisted of United States ‘Treasury notes, and arrived here a few days ago, in charge of an army officer. There havo been no new military operations of im- Portance on the James rivor to notice. The weather Anterfores with army movements on both sides, it being ‘very similar to that which has prevailed here for some Aime—alternate falls of snow and rain, freesing and thawing, rendoring the ground one day hard and solid, and on the next @ mass of mud and slush. The First ‘division (Genoral Miles) of the Second corps was re- ‘viewed on last Tuesday by General Humphrey, the corps ‘©Sommandor, and made a fine appearance. Cheering, Joud and long continued, by the rebels in front of the ‘Army of the Potomac, was heard on the morning of the 84 instant. K is supposed to bave been caused by the mews from Wilmington, N.C. The rebel fring on the Dutch Gap canal ts still continued. One of our Shenandoah valley correspondents says there are rumors in circulation in that region, which it is fot proper to publish, that the rebels are engaged in ome “very mysterious” military movements. ‘The robel guerillas along the Upper Potomac, between ‘the Great Falls and the mouth of the Monocacy, have ‘Deocome unusually bold and troublesome lately, frequently \firing on the Union pickets and attempting to cross the jriver. On last Monday night they fired upon the camp ‘of the First Delaware cavalry, and severely wounded a ‘mail carrier, near Poolesville. On Wednesday night ten Of ® party of fifteen of them who had crossed to the Ma- fryland side of the stream on a stealing expedition were pursued and captured. General Sheridan's cavalry are ehastng tho rebel guerillas in Loudon county, Virginia " The robel General Hood, in a despatch to the rebel ‘War Department, dated at Corinth, Mississippi, on the ‘26th of December, reports his army south of the Tennes. 00 river. ‘The requirement of passports to enable persons to leave or enter the country, which is now being strictly en- ‘forced, in accordance with the orders of the State Depart- ‘qnont at Washington, is causing considerable excitement ‘and comment oa both sides of the boundary between the QWorthorn States and Canada. It has already put a stop to alarge amount of the railroad travel on lines which Dave thoir connections on the two sides of the border. ‘Wo havo interesting rebel reports of the bombardment ‘Of Fort Fishor by Admiral Porter's fleet. A letter in the Richmond Dispatch from Wilmington says that “such a rain of shot and sholl never before fell upon any spot of ‘warth sino» gunpowder was invented.” It states that an ‘English naval officer who was with Napier in tho Baltic ‘and at Sebastopol said that the fire oxceeded anything he bad over seen. Our very interosting compilation from recent rebel Qowspapers shows that the fight of the Jeff. Davis and wntiJoff. Davis factions is constantly growing more san- @uinary. Tho lines between them are now strictly Grawn, and the tone of their respective organs towarde @ach other is deliciously bitter, from Northern point of ‘view. Tho nowspapors opposed to Jeff. acéuse him in ‘he most open and vehement manner of being the cause Of all their recent disastors, and they in turn are charged by Jeff's organs with destroying con- fidence in the ability of the confedoracy to Achieve its independence, preventing the full on- forcement of the conscription and entouraging de- Pertion. It is claimed by the Richmond editor® thal tho @altworks at Saltville con soon be repaired, and that ood has not lost near so many mon oa the Northern Journals roport. Tho Richmond Whig ts very merry over ‘what it considers the two failures of Gener! Butler— Ahe Dutch Gap canal and the attack on Fort Fisher. It as reported that the rebel General Stirling Price died re. ontly in Arkansas, of apoploxy. “ EUROPEAN NEWS Oar Ruropean files and special correspondence by the Asia, dated to the Mth of Decombor, contain interesting NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY,. JANUARY 7, 1865. EL and very valuable details of the telegraphic report from ‘Halifax, published in the Hxxayp on Thursday morniug. A British army officer reports the result of « profes. sional visit to the Army of the Potomac in terms exceed- ingly flattering to the war power of the United States, and extremely significant to the monarchies of Europe. He states thet be considers the Northera States to be ‘in- exhaustible in men and money."’ The writer furnishes a pen and ink sketch of General Grant, and describes the manner in which he discharges his arduous duties. ‘The war policy of Spain in St. Domingo and Peru has Produced very serious complications in the Cabinet of Madrid, which may involve the very existence of the monarchy before they are adjusted. The development of the news reveals the designs of the Spanish enemies of democracy in South America to a considerable extent. CONGRESS. Inthe Senate yosterday Mr. Sumner presented a pe- tition from citizens of Massachusetts for the abolition of slavery, which was appropriately referred. Mr. Sher- man reported back the petition of army officers asking for an increase of pay, and the committee having the subject under consideration were discharged. The bill relating to punishment for the crime of treason was passed. The bill to drop from the rolls of the army unem- Ployed officers was taken up, and the report of the Military Committee on the subject, recommending that it should ‘not pass, was read. A motion was then made that the Dill be indefinitely postponed, which, after a lengthy and interesting debate, was carried. Mr. Sherman introduced ® bill lovying an internal duty om tobacco. The bill pro- vides for @ tax of twenty cents per pound on leaf tobacco, tobacco stems and scraps, and thirty cents on tebacco known as strips, and requires all tobacco growers, on or before the Ist of August, to notify the assistant assessor of their respective districts of the number of acres planted tn tobacco, on the pain of forfeiture of five hundred dollars for each acre; and also before its removal, when grown, to give motice to the assistant assessor, who shall cause it to be weighed, marked and branded and numbered, the owners to pay the cost of such service. It also provides for a duty on manufac- tured tobacco of all descriptions, and for the bonding and withdrawal from@ond of unmanufastured tobacco for the purpose of exportation or manufacture without payment of duty, and prescribes a penalty for tampering with brands or marks. The House joint resolution ten- dering the thanks of Congress to General Sherman and his army wns then taken up and adopted, without a dis- senting voice, after which the Senate adjourned until Monday. In the House of Representatives Mr. Samuel MeLean, delegate from the new Territory of Montana, was qua- Mfied, and took his seat. The resolution tendering the thanks of the people and of Congress to General Sherman and his noble army for their gallantry and good conduct was unsnimously adopted. A resolution was adopted requiring the Ways and Means Committee to consider the expediency of providing for a commission of members of the Senate and House, with leave to sit during the vacation of Congress, to examine and report on a system of taxation bearing equally on the property and industry of the country, and the best means of pro- viding for maintaining the credit and meeting the neces- sitles of the government, and that said commission re- port by bill or otherwise at the commencement of the next Congress. A bill was introduced for. the promotion of knowledge by the suspension of duties on imported paper, which) was roferred to the Committee of Ways and Means. The Senate joint resolution amending the con- stitution by abolishing slavery was then taken up, and the subject was discussed in an animated and spicy man- ner, pending which the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATU2 2, In the State Senate yesterday a» regolution was jntro- @uced directing thé Committee on Canals to inquire into the yropflety of probibiting work on the canals on Sun- day, Bills were introduced to confirm an ordinance of the Supervisors of New York relative to bounties; to amend the charter of New York Guaranty and Indem- nity Oompany; oguiring mortgage liens on lands sold for taxes to be revoked In we Comptroller's office; also to provide for a review of the Sapre=¢ Court decisions. The Ninth Senatorial district contested seat care W'S thon taken up and dobated until the hour of adjourn- ment. In the Assembly yesterday among the bills noticed wore those to extend Ingraham avenue, Brooklyn; to in- corporate the Brooklyn Ellsworth Club; to divide the Eighth ward and create a new ward in Brooklyn; to amend the charter of New York. On motion the House adjourned until Monday evening, at half-past seven o'clock, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our special correspondence and newspaper reports from South America, dated at Buenos Ayres on the 12th of November, show that the Pressure of Brazil on Uruguay was likely to effect the obliteration of the re- public, unless its executive was aided by a strong foreign Power. It was thought the sympathy, even the armed support, of Paraguay would not avort such a result. Twelve Brazilian vessels were in the waters of Buenos Ayres, designed to operate against Uruguay, and several Spanish war ships were in sight. Important events were expected to occur soon in the Argentine Canfederation. Buenos Ayres was still in the path of material progress. A sweeping effort was being made to redeem the paper currency and restore specie payments in the country. A good deal of excitement continued to prevail yester- day among the strect cleaners, in conSequence of the in- Junction obtained by Mr, John Hecker, restraining the authorities from paying the money due for street clean- ing during the past nine weeks. Some four hundred ex- cited men visited Hecker's flour mills during the day, and asked for an explanation; but Mr. Heoker was not on hand, and the crowd was induced to go away in the di- rection of the City Hall, where it remained pretty much all day, im the vicinity of the Mayor's and Comptroller's offices. The laborers seem to be suffering sadly for want of their pay. Mr. Hecker has consented to a moditica- tion of the injunction #o far as to allow payment for the work that has actually been performed, and it is probable that the laborers will shortly receive thoir well earned and much needed mousey. They are to have a meeting to-day. The New York Sanitary and Chemical Compost Company have made an offer 40 Mayor Gunther to eloan the streets for the sum of three hundred thousand dol- Jars, in accordance with the law passed recently. The matter is to be brought before the Street Cleaning Com- mission without delay, and it isto be hoped that some orrangement satisfactory to all parties will be made. The streets are getting into a horrible condition for the want of removing the ashes and garbage accummulated since the commencement of the trouble with the street cleaners. The committee appointed by the Chamber of Com- merce, on Thursday, to take action in regard to furnish- ing supplies of food to the people of Savannah, held a moeting yesterday, when several addresses were made, and a subordinate committee of five was appointed to Teport at a subsequent meeting the proper steps for car- rying out in the most practical manner the philanthropic design of the Chamber. A meoting will be held in Paneuil Hall, Boston, om next Monday, to raise funds for the same object. ‘The sleighing and skating, which some hundreds of thousands of the inhabitants of this city had been enjoying so extensively for the few previous days, was brought to a sudden termination yesterday by tho thaw and the rain, and by night the streets were all once more covered with a mass of slush and mud, and the hard and slippery surface had disappeared from the skating ponds. Tho case of Charles Meigs, the superintendont of sta- tion D, Bible House, charged with abstracting a letter from the station in his charge, was up before Judge Shipman yesterday, in the United States Cirouit Court. The evidence showed that he had tho letter in his posses- sion, with the seal brokon partially, but also that he made little effort to conceal it, and that the letter was never perfectly sealed. Judge Dean, who defended the prisoner, examined a number of witnesses as to the character of the prisoner, which the District Attorney conceded to be good. The case will bo summed up to-day. ‘The minimum penalty for the offence is ten yoars’ impris- onment. ‘Yosterday was the sixteenth day of the Opdyke-Weed great libel uit, As it drags its slow length along towards the inevitable goal, the Interest in its first days is belng rovived, and the courtroom is crowded from frosty morn to frosty eve by an anxions audience, listening to the summing up of counsel, Mr. Evarts, for tho defendant, an coooded Mr, Emmott, for tho plaintiff, yosterday, but hag ot concluded when one of the Jury—a son of Iernot,_p,ctted the attention of the Conrt to the fuct that hip Sabbaty -7a# Just dawning, and that ho could not alt fonger if couneo,’ Petssted in coming to his endiees eon- clusions, without a, 717108 there at once. This ext cous n proposed to wind up on Mon- sel short, why thereup "ie, Field a fair field for the day morning early, leaving. whole day to do bis summing « nsoltdated Stage Com Tn the case of the New York Ov — wicag, whore Judge pony versus the Court of Common . by the directors | Daly decided that an assigumont made , without the assent of the majority of the stockholders was illegal, Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court, issued an order yesterday appointing John Murphy Keceiver, and vacating the order heretofore entered appointing Au- gustus Sobel! to that ofice. In the case of Van Valkenburg versus the Mayor, &c., where the defendants refused to pay for certain lands purchased by « commission from Ajuyay whereon to erect the Third district Court House, the @uperior Court, General Term, decided yesterday that th sere appoint- ment of commissioners by-the Legislature did not con- stitute them the agents of the city, unless the city con- sented thereto, and affirmed the judgment of the lower court, which dismissed the complaint, In the case of Bllon “Lahey versus the Hudson River Railroad Company, where the plaintiff sued for damages on account of the loas of her husband—who was ran over and killed in the yard of the defendants’, corner of Tenth avenue and Twelfth street—Judge Garvin, of the Superior Court, ycsterday decided that inasmuch ag deceased was @ trespasser at the time of the accident, and had no legal business in the yard, the company could not beheld liable. A dealer in second hand casks was fined ten doHars yesterday, by one of the Brooklyn justices, for selling & branded cask, in violation of the act of the Legislature, ‘This ia the first case of the kind on record. The prosecu- tion was instigated by the Brewers’ Association of this city. There were a greatenumber of cases disposed of yeater- day in the General Sessions, Lewis Michaels and John H. |, Russell, indicted for stealing seventy dollars in Treasury notes from Isabella Hotton on the 29th of November, Pleaded guilty to an attempt at larceny. As the money ‘was recovered, judgment was suspended. Mary Barn- well pleaded guilty to stealing one hundred and seventy- one dollars worth of jewelry and wearing apparel from Christopher P. Cranch, of 218 West Twenty-second street, on the 18th of December, for whom she was employed as servant. She was sent to the State Prison for two years and six months Daniel Malone and Patrick Kearney, Jointly indicted with two young men for robbery in the first degree, were convicted of grand larceny. As they were youths Mr. Hutchings asked for this verdict, Edmund Wetherell, the complainant, was passing through Monroe street on the night of the 11th of December, when he was knocked down by a party of youths and robbed of his watch. He identified Malone and Kearney; and Timothy Driscoll, who wasina “club house” in Cherry street, proved that Malone exhipited on the night of the robbery the watch which was identified by the oom- plainant. Judge Russel sent each of the prisoners to the State Prieon for four years and six months, Wilhelmina Vanderfolder was convicted of stealing fifteen dollars in money anda quantity of clothing from Louis Brouchet at a disreputable house in Laurens street on the 12th of December, and sent tothe State Prison for two years. George E. Howard was tried and convicted of picking the pocket of Major Bernard Ellis, a resident of Maseachusetis, on the night of the 20th of De- cember, just as he was leaving a car at the New Haven depot. Mr. Ellis caught him in the act, and when arrested by the officer he threw the pocketbook on the seat of the car. Howard was sent to the State Prison for four years and nine months. It may not be amiss to state that the Grand Jury found the indictment against Howard yesterday morning, and he was convicted and sentenced a few hours afterwards, The District Attorney is\determined to bring the pickpockets who are nowin-|| them., They cannot be resisted. Jeff. Davis and His Subjects—What Will ‘They Do With Him? The sorely tried, badgered and beleagured Southern despot at Richiaond trembles in his English boots. Bafiled in all his undertakings, beaten at all points, cut off from his oommuni- cations and cornered in his capital, he sees no way of cacape, except through foreign interven- tion and the sacrifice of his subjects to Eure- pean vassalage, to eave himself from the pains and penalties of treason. Through his confi- dential organ he therefore calls upon the peo- ple of the Southern States to prepare not only for the abolition of slavery, but for the alterna- tive of an offer of submission to England, France and Spain, as colonial subjects, in preference to “Yankee subjugation.” Such are the extremities to which poor Jeff. is reduced. The question then recurs, what will the people directly concerned do with him? ’ The abolition of slavery as an offering to Eng- land and France for the recognition of hts con- federacy will be properly understood in Europe. But to the slaveholders interested what is the confederacy worth without slavery? Nothing. They went into this enterprise to consolidate, perpetuate and extend their system of slavery, its profits, its political advantages to the slave- holding caste, and its'social distinctions. This ruling caste have given up all the advantages of peace and the Union, and have borne for nearly four years all the privations, extortions and horrors of wasting war, including the sa- crifice of their own children, and all tosave this institution of slavery. + course, then, are they to take if required to sacrifice even slavery in their useless ‘efforts to save Jeff. Davis? They will say that the Southern eonfederacy in which we embarked has foundered, and that, if we are to submit to the abolition of slavery, we shall do better to submit to Lincoln and end this war at once than to hazard its ravages for another year under Davis, and for the same purpose of abolition. Why should we continue to fight | and give up our negroes and our lands for abolition, under Davis, when we can have it at once, and all the advantages of peace, under Lincoln? What are Northern abolitionists to us if slavery is, or is to be, abolished? And why should we let loose our negroes to the chances of a servile insurrection for a South- ern confederacy which is already cut to pieces beyond recovery? We havealready had some such remonstrances as these from Seuthern slaveholders against the project of abolishing slavery to save “their confederacy.’ These ideas are at work among, The graceful festing the city to speedy punishment. The Grand Jury | gnbmission of ‘Savannah to General Shorman brought in alarge hatch of indictments, among which ‘was gn indictment ageinst Bernard Friery for themurder of Harry Lazarus, in’ Houston street, The trial was set down for Monday, the 16th inst. betrays a powerful reaction in the Southern mind in favor of the Union. The original ferocious war spirit, confidence and ¢onceit'of the #lave- Obr city police reports continue to show a'largedafly | holder baye been taken out of him,and.the Inte amount of violencd and crime, ‘the following constitute | abolition provisitions emanating from Rich-’ & portion of yesterduy’s records:—A man named John Gallen, alias California Jack, was arrested and locked up on the charge of being implicated in the affray in Hous- ton street, on last Tuesday morning, in which Harry mond are dooling him down. This is not the entertainment to which he was invited, and he is ready to leave it. And the poor white of the Lazarus was killed. William Boebe was discovered at | South, who early discovered that this rebellion No. 192 Bleecker street on Thursday evening, suffering | is “the rich man’s war, and the poor man’s from the effects of a pistol shot wound which it is thought will prove fatal, inflicted by some per- son yet unknown to the police. Henry Francis, Shargea ith drawing a pistol and threatening to take fight,” what of him? His position in the South- ern social scale is low; but the negro, under the institution of slavery, is still far below him. the jife ‘or Xernaxd Simon, on Thurs- | The poor white, therefore, in fighting to main- day night, was yesterday commllled w th Tombs for | tain slavery, has been fighting for his own posi- trial. A bartender named Owen Early was arrested off 7 {fon fp Southern society. Even the degraded Thursday night in fan intoxicated condition, He was charged with indecent and disorderly conduct, and with having on his person a heavily loaded pistol. Yesterday he was arraigned in the Tombs Police Court and sent to the Blackwell's Island Workhouse. An Italian named Philip Bessiercs was yesterday committed to the Tombs on the charge of having, early yesterday morning, near the corner of Pearl and Park strecta, drawn a pistol and shot, without any apparent provocation, a woman named Ellen Lynch, tnflicting a very dangerous wound. ‘William Savage was yesterday arrested charged with attempting to pass, at various places in Eigth avenue, a well executed counterfeit of the five doar Treasury notes. A coroner’s inquest was held yesterday at Hudson, New Jorsey, on the body of Peter Schenck, who was killed by the collision of two trains in the Bergen tun- nel on the preceding day. The verdict of the jury cen- sured the Morris and Essex Railroad Company, to which one of the trains belonged, for carelessness in their running arrangements. ~ About eight o'clock yesterday morning thé boiler of a steam pump at work on the hull of tho steamsbip George Washington, which was burned on last Monday night, at pier 8 North river, exploded, severely scalding Captain Isracl Merritt, general agent of the Board of Underwriters, and throwing overboard his brother, Ham- ilton Morritt. The latter was drowned, and his body was not recovered till some hours afterwards. Captain Mer- ritt, though badly scalded, will recover. Seven or eight persons were killed and several others injured yesterday, by the falling of a floor ina building undergoing repair in Holiday street, Baltimore. ‘The steamer Potomac, from New York for Portland, canght fire at sea, off Cape Elizabeth, yesterday morning, and was almost totally destroyed. Four lives of persons on board were sacrificed, The others were rescued. The hull of the Vessel was towed into Portland. Hon. Jacob M. Howard wag yesterday re-elected by the Logislature of Michigan to represent that State for six years more from the4th of next March inthe United States Senate. The Legislatures of Massachusetts and Maine will each on next. Wednesday elect a United States Senator to serve for six years from the 4th of March next. In the representation of the former State the present term of the Hon. Henry Wilson expires with that date. Secretary of the Treasury Fessenden has been unanimously nominated as the candidate of the republi- cans by the members of the two houses of the Maine Legislature. The message of Governor Andrew was delivered to the Massachusetts Legislature yesterday. It represents the finances of the State as in a sound condition, Among other propositions it recommends the abolition of the death penalty. The deposits in tho savings banks of the State amount to over sixty-two and a half millions of dollars. The Governor intimates that the present is the last term which he will consent to serve as Executive of the State. ‘The stock market was depressed yesterday, Govern- ment securities were quiet and steady. Gold was inactive and steady, and closed at 226%. The market was generally quiet yesterday, and but little business was done, save in a few exceptional cases. For foreign goods thero was almost no busines buyers and sellers being far apart in their views. Cotton ‘was quite active, but fully ono cent lower. Petroleum ‘was quiet and nominally unchanged. On ‘Change the flour market was very quiet, but prices were without do- cided change. The wheat market was a shado firmer, with an increased demand. Corn was inactive and un- changed, while oats were dull and lowor. Pork was loss active and declining, while beef was steady, with @ good demand. Lard was quiet at previous prices, Whiskey quiet but firm, while froights were dull and heavy. Tne Comma Cnance mm THe Treasury De- ParrMent.—Both houses of the Maine Legisla- turo, it appears, have nominated in caucus Mr. Fessenden for United States Senator, It may be assumed, therefore, that the matter is set- tled, such a nomination being equivalent to an election. When Vice President [amlin was in Washington, previous to the meeting of the Maine Legislature, it is known that he had an interview with Mr. Fessenden and his friends, and no doubt the subject was then finally at-] were when Nw ranged. It is evident, then, that there will be a new Secretary of the Treasury appointed on the 4th of March, and in all probability the selection will be made from Now York. South Caroline sandhiller and dirteater under- stands this. To him the abolition of slavery by “the confederacy” will be simply disgust- ing. He “will not fight for the niggers,” nor will the niggers fight for him. We may accord- ingly dismiss all these abolition vagaries of Davis as utterly impractioable—the slave- holder, the poor white, and State rights being all dead against them. The foxes at Richmond have lost their tails, but the rest of the tribe, whose tails are still intact, are not to be deceived into a voluntary adoption of the new fashion. Nor can we imagine that anything but a response of derision and contempt will come from the body of the Southern people con- cerned in reference to this last alternative from Davis of their surrender, according to the original European occupation, of this or that State or the other to the colonial vassalage of England, France or Spain. Shadowy and delusive as popular government has become under Davis, his followers, like Ben. Wood, are still great sticklers for popular institutions, constitutional principles and State rights. They will therefore be apt to construe these hints of submission to some Eu- ropean master as amounting to a confession from Davis that his cause is lost, and as a be- trayal of “his readiness tq sacrifice the Southern States, institutions and people to foreign bond- age to save himself from the halter or an igno- minious exile. What, then, will the Southern people who still’ recognizing his authority do with him? The Richmond Zeaminer demands that he be super- seded by Lee asa military dictator. Active cliques and combinations are working in this direction, whilé whole communities are waiting for the hour when they may safely turn against the remorseless despot who has for four years led them to slaughter, robbed and ruined them to no purpose. We shall not be surprised if we soon hear from Richmond that Jeff. has been practically superseded by the Congressional appointment of Lee as military dictator of the so-called “Confederate States;” and then we may next expect to hear that poor Jeff. has left for parts unknown, and that Lee has opened negotiations with General Grant for submis- sion, reunion and peace. Reiger ror THE Poor anv Surrerine oF Sa- ‘vANNAn.—At meeting of the committee of thirty appointed by the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday last, to take measures for the re- lief of the poor and suffering people of Savannah, some doubt was expressed by several persons present as to the real condition of things in that city, and of the sincerity of their quiet behavior. The following extract from a letter froma correspondent, dated Savannah, December 22, is a sufficient reply to these apprehensions:— ‘Tho residents of the tity were evidently delighted to gee our forces enter. Doubticss the fear of a bombard- ment had weighed heavily upon them. The signs of a general riot had also alarmed them, the search of the conscripting officers had greatly worried them, and in the peaceful occupation of the place by our troops they saw all these causes of iSetuadion, ee nen bey 4 were eA eneral signs of satisfaction, that proceeded from none ot firese causea, Alen and women looked on the old flag, and wept in numerous instances, and some hatled st woth Lvely demonstrations which General Sherman rode was jammed by the in- habitants as closely as over the Boulevards of Paris eon rode through them. Beyond all question, the Union army has been more cordially re- ceived ih Savannah than in any other place which has fallen into our hands. It is to be hoped that the committee will, therefore, proceed without delay to make the necessary collections for the purchase of the supplies asked for by the Mayor and citizens of Savannah, and, more than this, that auxiliary contributions will be taken up in all our churches #1 an early day. We understand that one gentlensan has already received # donation of $2,000 in ald of the measare. We notice that a meeting with the same com- mendable object has been called by the citizens of Boston. Let the contest between these two cities bean animated one. If the headquarters of abolitionism are astir, New York, conserva- tive and munificent, must not fall bebind. Exit Governor Seymeur—Enter Governor Fenton. The defeat of Horatio Seymour by Gover- nor Fenton was the natural result of the politi- cal course which the former gentleman has seen fit to pursue since the outbreak of this war. Whether he will ever rise to the surface again is, to eay the least, exceedingly doubtful, although we understand that his friends enter- tain strong hopes for him should the democracy again obtain possession of the national admin- istration. If this be true, they had better nurse these anticipations in secret, since an in- discreet public avowal of them would certainly do much to prevent the consummation neces- sary to their fulfilment. Bat Horatio Seymour’s history will often be used to point a moral or adorn a tale; and, before we allow him to sink into the retirement which awaits him, we must make him the text for » brief political sermon. So soon as this war began Mr. Seymour at- tempted to adopt a neutral position. Now, in civil wars it is impossible to be neutral. When one fs in the midst of = Tiver he must either float or sink. Before long, therefore, Mr. Sey- mour showed very clearly that his symps- thies were with the South. In spite of this he was nominated for Governor by the democrats in 1862. At first it appeared to us that his election was an impossibility, and yet we were very anxious to have him elected, if he would correct his secession tendencies, so that we might use him to rebuke the national adminis- tration, which was at that time much more par- tisan than patriotic. By the most strenuous efforts and the most unremitting labor we at length lifted Mr. Seymour upon the war plat- form, and then we knew that his election was assured. But, having once raised him to that Platform, it was with the greatest difficulty that we could keep him there. He was as slippery as an eel, and had a ‘bad habit of wriggling into the peace: mire as\soon as he left/this me- tropolis. However, we did hold him upon the war platform, and upon that platform he was elected. ‘ : , The sequel of the story our ‘readers alread, know. ‘The moment the election was over and wo released Mr. Seymour from our grasp, jhe alid from war to peace with the celerity of thought. His whole career as Governor was marked by a conspicuous absence of ability. He was continually doing those things which he ought riot to have done, and saying those things which he ought not to have said. Although he pew how important it was tohave the great State of New York—d nation of itself—in close alliance with the general government for the purposes of the war, he often seemed deter- mined to bring about a conflict between the State and national authorities, and was con- stantly suggesting little malicious impediments to embarrass those more active or more patriotic than himself, When prompt measures were required he displayed more imbccility than energy. To tarn every circumstance to his personal or political account was, appa- rently, his sole object. Perhaps he desired the Chicago nomination for President; but, if so, he never had the slightest chance for it. Say- ing foolish things, writing foolish things and doing foolish things, he wasted opportunities which might have been valuable to the country, and became one of the most unpopular persons in the State. It is currently reported that Governor Sey- mour secured his renomination in 1864 bya trick. He prevailed upon the Convention to give him a complimentary vote as a reward of his services, and then withdrew his promise not to accept. Whether this be so or not, we neither know nor care. Political nominations are generally secured by tricks of one kind or another; and, if Mr. Seymour tricked the Convention, he only outwitted those who would have been quite ready to outwit him were anything to be gained by it. Once nominated, all the machinery of the party was put in operation to elect him. The small and puny men by whom he hed surrounded him- self pulled all their little wires, Great stress ‘was placed upon the fact that the liquor deal- ers were in his favor. But against the machine and against the wirepullers was the strong, hearty Union sentiment of the people, and that defeated him. We predicted this result, and rejoiced at it. He went down with the Woods and with Vallandigham, and is buried with them. His example should serve as a warning to his successor, and to every public man. Had Seymour taken the advice of the Henatp—had he remained upon the platform where we placed him—had he been true to the Union and loyal in his support of the government—he might have continued to be Governor of New York so long ashe pleased. And we assure those leaders of the democracy who have survived the recent storm, that, if they do not observe and adopt the course of the Heratp for the next four years, they wilt be wrecked and ruined as utterly as Horatio Seymour, in spite of their fine prospects and programmes for 1868. ‘Tue Stave Question in Conorees.—It is re- markable and anomalous that Congress is oe- cupying its time with such questions concern- ing slavery as are embodied in the resolution of Senator Wilson, which was debated on Thursday. The proclamation of the President, which he designated a “bull against the e if ithas any force at all, bas mado slave in the rebellious States free. Con- gress fully endorsed that proclamation, and yet Mr. Wflson now introduces a resolution tomake free the wives and children of slaves who enlist in the Union army. The discussion of this quostion by the learned Senators who partict- pated in it is idle and out of place. These people are free already, if the President’s pro- clamation and its endorsement by Congress are good for anything. There is only one practi- cal way of settling this matter, and that is by Congress adopting the amendment to the con- stitution abolishing slavery altogether. Let them do that, and the South and the whole world will believe that they are sincere, and are not making more party capital out of the slavery issue, The Disturbed Condition of Mextee. The condition of affairs in Mexico is daily becoming worse and woree for the new régime. Scarcely warm in his imperial seat, Maximilias begins to restize the insecurity of his position. The uneasy spirit of Mexican republicaniss: rises before him with every little outbreak of trifling elvic brawl. These are magnified inte startling insurrectionary movements, and scores: are hung ovehot for muttering “treason” ix thetr coupe. Maximilian does mot understand the Mext can people, and never will. No prince of European blood oan ever rightly comprehend the principe of republicanism as received and expounded on the American continent. The Mexican Emperor is twofold blind im this respect. Ignorant of the normal sentiment of independence abiding among the people he ie supposed to rule over, he has also failed to re cognize the foundation upon which all religious and political power in Mexico rests, He failed to respond to the demands of'the Church. Two thirds of the property in Mexico- is owned. by the Church. The republic interfered with the property rights-of the Church—as in the onse of the French revolution—the Church resisted, and Church influence was exercised in faveriet Maximilian, to enable it to reeover the property it lost through the agency ef the repablia Maximilian was called to’ the Mexican thrgane to see how the restitution of Church property could be effected. The more he examined the - subject the more he became involved in alaby rinth of perplexing questions. He at length found himself bewildered as to the manner im which he was to keep his pledges to theChareh, replenish his own exchequer, and appease the rising and turbulent - passions of his subjects. He found the property which the Church woeld reclaim so situated that he dare not touch it— mortgaged, probably to European housea which he deems it imprudent for the interests of his own purse to offend. The Church, therefore, finding itself no better off under the empire than under the republic, is gradually weaning itself from ite adhesion to Maximilian, an@ throwing its tremendous power into the hande of the malcontents. Eventually the Church in Mexico will break down the empire, as it has broken down the republio; and itis the effort of the Church to re store the republic that Maximilian hes to fear, far more than, the ‘ebullitions of. patriotieus- which some enthusiastic Mexican liberils,oopa- sionally indulge in. Between the hostility of the people and the antagonism of the Church, it may be trathfully affirmed ‘that the imperial crown of Mexico sits upon an ungasy head: Si aw tt Me ira RP ‘Tas Iprivencs oF Cononzesiona, Leow Lavion at Aupany—It is expected that bills will be brought before the Legisle- ture at its present session to enable the railroads of this State {fo increase thelr rates of fare and to constitute the banks of this State substantially national banks, enabling them to circulate the government currency and to withdraw and retire all their present paper. There is no doubt that these bills will pase. Congress, by ite erroneous ideas of currency, and by its very great blan- ders in legislation on that subject, has already affected very injuriously all branches of trade. It has entirely unsettled the price of labor as well as of all commodities, and now we see that this deleterious influence is to extend sffl¥ farther—it is to release the railroad companies from the restrictions of their several charters, and to modify our whole State banking system. Doubtless, as Congress has done so muck evil through a vicious currency, the act in favor of the railroads is but just and right; but it i» to be hoped that while the Legislature bas the State railroads before it, it will also make some changes to improve their general management, which, in so many instances, is notoriously bad. Government has, in the main, adopted the same system as that of our State banks, basing its issue upon public stocks; and the enabling act of the banks may, therefore, not necessarily have any harm in it, and it will certainly have some advantages. Bat people naturally inquire what is to be the limit of all this? Where are these changes to stop? How far is the bad effect of « lad financial system to go; and to what extent is'8 to be permitted to break up the established arrangements of business? This evil of the currency has so far been principally felt. im buying and selling only. Now it comes. into our State Legislature, and demands.a change in certain laws. What will it do next? It is only when they attempt to answer this question, “What next?” that the people. see the full dam ger that the bad money system may cause, for the answer is that there is no apparent limit te this evil. It will break up everything, and the business gf the country will be involved im general ruin, if there is not a change in the national finances. And the only change that can save us is a return to specie payments. If we do not retarn to specie payments, as England did after the battle of Waterloo, our financial state will be as bad as that of France was im the Revolution, or as that of tho rebel States now is. There will be the most univer- sal smash up ever seen. Svoorstive anp Wortuy or Arretion.—The Mayor of Baltimore, im his annual message, givos a very encouraging account of the finan- cial condition of its municipal affairs. Speaking of the good management of the Commissioners of Finance, by which the credit of the city is fally maintained, and of the various gains they have made for it by their judicious dispceltion of its property, he says:—“ They have also suo ceeded in leasing @ part of the old fish:house lot for the sum of $2,025 per annum, payable quarterly. This is the same property held by J. H. Stimpson at $400 per annum, but who has not paid anything for the last ten years.” We should like to borrow this Baltimore commis- sion for a short time. No doubt thet there are numerous parties who are enjoying the use of our city property very much in the way 08 this Mr. Stimpson, Stalls, fish stands, piers, vacant lots mny doubtless be discovered which, if properly rented, would bring # large income to the city. ‘We imagine we have a good many Stimpsons in New York. , Srarnoxm Sornme of Titoporn Taomss. —To-night Mr. Thomas gives his second symphonte sotree st Irving Hall, introducing two ontiroly now compositions of Bacts ‘and Schumann. We aro glad to percetve that he has en- gaged the popular soprano, Mra. Jonnie Van Zanadt,. who will sing two plocea from J Puritans and La Gases) . Ladera, We need not say that the appearance of thie favorite and admirable artiste will bo @ most accoptabla, feature in the soiree of Mr. Thomas,