The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1865, Page 4

© 4 NEW YORK HERALD.| JAMES GORDOY GENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Lave Ix pias—Prorie’s Law rai WINTER GARDEN, Broudway.—Hamuxe, WALLACKE’STHEATRE, Broadway.—Mowey, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Stxxers or New 1 eae NBW BOWERY THEATRE, Kowery.—Mazerra—Hanp- go Jack—My OLp Wire anv Youna Umpxxi. a. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—O'Nwat Tax Gaeat— Lorreay TicketT—Pact Jonxs. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad BARNUM'S gram. Broadway.—Two Mamoru Far Womun—Liv ix ‘LkTON—Dwanr—Leaunep SkAL—GRAND Srecracux—Fatuas, Broad. ‘Tia Haras, &c.—Day and Evening. BRYANTS’ ee Ge Hall, 472 - Wal Wann Aueno wax Horeons. etiions ” woon's N' HA) ‘514 Broad —HaMuet— Warer Dncus ear Ruarosion » Dancas, ac. sy (ABO) (586 Hroadway.—Koasrt AMBURGH & COS MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, sopeneeal Broadway.—Opea from 10.4. M. to 10P. M. Tux Suamnoox. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street.—Equesraian, Grunastic axp Acuosatio Entkktaunments—Harixguin BuowemaRD. TURKISH HALL, 72) Broadway.—Oscarvan'’s Onientau ENTERTAINMENT. AMERICAN THEATRE, PaNToMies, BURLESQUKS. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movine Wax Figones—Peanz Movie. Y 0. 444 Broadway. —Batters, —Housk Tar Jack Burr. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 40 A. M. th10 F. M. , York, Sunday, January 8, 1805. THE SITUATION. General Gricrson’s raid on the Mobile and Ohio Rail road has been most successful so far as heard from, and without tho loss of asingle mun, He started out from Mompbis on the 2ist of December, and struck the road {ust below Corinth, Mississippi, and on the 27th had com- plotely destroyed it to beyond Okalona, a distance of over seventy miles, together with twenty-nine bridges, a great deal of trestle work, a number of cars, three hundred army wagons, four thousand rebel carbines and much other property. He had dispersed Forrest's dismounted camp at Everona, Miasissippi, and was pushing on with the intention of rendering the line utterly useless as far ag Meridian, one hundred miles further, and, if possible, releasing the Union prisoners at Catawba, Miss. Meridian ts at the junction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad with the Mississippi Southern, running eastward from Vicks- burg. i Genora! Sheridan has recently sent portions of his cavalry and artillery into Loudon and Fairfax counties, Virginia, who are making all that region a very uucom- fortable abiding place for rebel guerillas and their eympathizing and co-operating secession residents. A number of the latter have been arrested, aud thoir property, which was made to subserve the purposes of Mosby’s and White’s outlaws, has been oeized. General Sheridan has so disposed his troops as to render his lines secure against raids and to insuro the comfort of his men during the cold weather, Ho designs a reorganization of his army which will add even to ite past and present great efficiency. An order has beon issued prohibiting the presence of Indies within the lines, except by special headquarters permission. Major Douglas Frazar, of tho Thirteenth New York cavalry, who,was in command of the scouting detach- ment to which the soldier belonged who shot the guerilla Mosby, near Middleburg, Va, on the 21st of November, has made a report of the same. At the time Major Fra- zar did not know that the man shot was Mosby, and did not ascertain the fact till too late to secure the guerilla chief, He qupposod the wound to be mortal, and thinks that if Mosby ie still alive he is concealed somewhero in the country, not far from the scone of the occurrence. @ The quiet continues before Richmond and Petersburg. Considerable damage was done to buildings in the latter town on last Tuesday by the opening of our artillery apon it, Buta feeble reply was made by the rebel guns, Operations on the Dutch Gap canal have been suspended tor the present, and the rebels have ceased firing upon it. Charleston despatches dated on last Thursday, pub- lished in the Richmond newspapers, represent General Sherman's forces as still concentrating in South Carolina, betwoon the Savannah river Hardeevilie, twenty miles distant. General Kilpatrick was re- ported to be still South The Union troops were said to be building a new pontoon bridge across the Savannah, and steamers were removing the obstructions placed in that stroam by the rebels. General Sherman bad, it is stated, given notice to the citizens of Savannah to settle up their bank and other accounts within fifteen days. Bands of rebel guorillas are again roaming through Northwestern Kentucky. Within the past few days they have been at Davenport, Owensboro, Hawesville and Hen derson, on the Ohio river, murdering, stealing and con scripting remorsclesaly. All the male citizens who can tlude their grasp are fleoing across the river into Indians to avoid their conscription. A railroad train was cap. ured near Lebanon junction on Friday, and all the pas- sengers wero fobbed and the cars burned. General Burbridge has removed the restrictions on trade in Ken- tucky imposed by him some time ago. ‘Thoro is a prospect of some active military operations defore long in Northwestern Arkansas, the rebels being vory troublesome on the routes between Fayetteville and our outer military posta, such as Fort Smith, Fort Scott tnd Fort Gibson, cutting the telegraph wires, waylaying trains of supplies, and committing depredations of various kinds. They are increasing in that quarter, and it may become necessary to send thither a considerable national and in Carolina, force to clear them out. Our Missouri despatches represent that State as now onjoying ® season of comparative quiet, the guerillas boing too closely watchod to admit of their making any very extonsive demonstrations, though in the northern counties they still occasionally sally forth and murder Union citizens, burn their houses and barns and steal their portable property has been pont to that region, give no quarters to these scoundrels A force of Union cavalry with orders to The notorious guerilla Hunter, who was active in his works of murder, robbery and arsou in North Missouri over a year ago, and ‘who was recoutly arrested at Salt Lake City, Utah, with thirty-five thousand dotiars on his person which he stole from a bank in Bloomington, has been brought back to the State, and nothing but Executive interference, which ts not likely to occur, can save him from banging. ‘The passport wystem, now being strictly enforced, Is very sensibly felt by nearly all classes of business people aloug our northern border, both on our own and the Canadian side of the line. The railroads have drawn off considerable of their rolling stock, owing to ho diminished demands for freight and passenger accom “modatious, and (he merchants expericnce # marked fall ‘a commission of two of thelr members to Canada to con regulations, raiders, and their examinations will therefore be shortly proceeded with rebel authorities has been resumed on James river. up the river from Fortress Monroe on Thursday last with & consignment of rebel officers. We are in receipt, as usual, of a large supply of rebel newspapers. The new Governor of South Carolina, Mr. Magrath, is anticipating an early visit to hia State .from General Sherman’s army, and has issued a proclamation calling upon the people to make their preparations. He says that “in this service gpeaking ef this expected northward movement, the A : Richmond Breminer asks:—‘“Will Sherman's march be again unimpeded?” aait was in Georgia. An account {a the Raleigh Progress putea very different face on the late Union expedition’ up the Roanoke river, in «whith. demonstration was made eathe rebel Fort Branch. Recent Richmond papers stated that eight of our gun- boats were destroyed, and that on board one of them alone six hundred men were killed and wounded. Tne Progress says that the fight was a very trifling a‘fair, not a man being killed on either side, and only two gun- boats being blown up by torpedoes. The Richmond Sentinel (Jeff. Davis’ organ) of the 5th inst. has another furious article on the newspapers and leaders of the opposing rebel faction. It says they are an “<ill-affected, treacherous host of malcontents, traducers and friends of the North in disguise,’ and that their presence in the confederacy is extremely dangerous to the South. There are reports that both Generals Hood and Forrest are dead, CONGRESS. The Senate was not in session yesterday. In the House a bill was introduced t extend the boun. daries of the port of Philadelphia so as to include Rich. mond and Greenwich, which was referred to the Com- mittee on Commerce, A resolution was adopted inquir- ing of tho Secretary of War why he had not complied with a resolution adopted by the House in December last directing him to furnish copies of the order issued in December, 1863, that recruits to Oil up old organizations should be mustered out of the service with such regi- ments, and also to furnish a copy of the letter addressed to Gov. Andrew, and asking hira to say whether the prin- ciple therein contained has been applied to all soldiers mustered in to fill up old regiments, and he was dirceted to furnish the same. A bill was introduced and referred authorizing express companies to sell unclaimed freight. A Dill was also introduced providing that the mothers of illegitimate children who die in the military service or are killed in battle shall be entitled to receive arrearages of pay and bounty the same as other mothers, which was referred to the Military Committee. A resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to report at an early day on the expediency of a law to contiseate 60 much of the property of conscripts who have failed to report for duty as will secure soldiers in their place. The consideration of the Senate resolu- tion proposing to amend the constitution so as to abolish slavery was then resumed, when, after considerable debate on the subject, Mr, Ashley, of Ohio, gave notice that he would on Monday or Tuesday next call for 4 vote on the pending question, and the House adjourned, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Stato Senate yesterday bills were noticed to ap- propriate two hundred thousand dollars for the relief of the sick and wounded soldiers from this State in the ser- vice of the Union; also to appoint a commission to revise the State Tax laws and report at the next session. Mr. Bell introduced bill authorizing the manufacture of iron and articles therefrom at Clinton Prison by the State, when, for want of a quorum, the Senate adjourned until Monday morning. ‘The Assembly was not in scasion, having previously adjourned until Monday next, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A Committee of the Citizens’ Association called upon Mayor Gunther yesterday morning and requested to be given the pay rolls of the street cleaners, for the purpose of investigating the legality and justice of the claims, Mayor Gunther procured the rolls from the City Inspector and handed them over to the committe, who gave a receipt for the same, The committee intend to pay all rightful claims without delay, and Mr, Hecker declares himself ready to interpose no obstacle, ‘The case of Chas. Meigs, charged with purloining a letter containing three doliar notes from sation D Post Office, was summed up yesterday, and after Judge Ship- man had delivered his charge to the jury they retired, and after an absence of half an hour returned with a verdict of “Not Guilty.” Rain during the forenoon, a slight fall of snow in the afternoon, # strong and sharply tempered northwest wind early in the evening, closing up with a clear, cold night, constituted the prominent and varied features of yesterday's weather record. ‘A corouer’s inquest was held yesterday on the body of John Toner, late of 213 First avenne, who died, as alleged, from the effects of # blow on the head from a cart rung in the hands of Peter Thompson, during a Aight on last’ Tuesday evening between a number of young men on the corner of East Broadway and Chatham square. Thompson was committed to the Tombs. Two other men charged with being engaged io the affray, named Thornas Kerrigan apd Michael White, were dis- charged on giving bail for their appearance. William Boucher, a youth of nineteen, was yesterday committed to the Tombs, in default of one thousand dol. Iara bail, charged with drawing # pistol and threatening to shoot the keeper of a Howard street drinking house during @ barroom quarrel. Asmall boy, named Benjamin Levi, was yesterday locked up in the Tombs on the charge of attempting to steal a watch worth two hundred and seventy-five dol- lars in 4 Broadway jewelry store. Governor Bramlette, in his message to the Kentucky Legislature, recommends gradual emancipation, thanks General Sherman and Thomas for their military suc- cowes, condemna the arrest of Lieutenant Governor Jacobs and Colonel Wolford, and says that his opposition to the enlistment of slaves in the army was not made for the purpose of preserving slavery, but for the protection of the citizens of his State. Resolutions tm favor of the immediate abolition of slavery were introduced {n both houses of the Legislature on the 6th inst. Mrs Sarah Hutchings, of Baltimore, who was some time ago sent to the penitentiary at Fitchburg, Maasa- chusetts, to remain during the war, on the conviction of ® military commission, which found her guilty of having acted as an agent in Baltimore for furnishing the rebels with sup- plies, and who was subsequently pardoned by the Presi- dent, made a statement previous to her release, acknow- ledging the wrongfalness of her conduct, the Justneas of her sentence, and affirming her determination to here- after conduct herself in a loyal manner. The boiler of a locomotive on General Grant's army railroad, ranning from City Point, exploded on Thursday last, severely injuring four persons, Wut killing none. A collision ocourred on last Tuesday on the Michigan Contral Railroad, near the village of Franciscoville, be tweon a passenger train going east anda freight train going west. Both trains were running at full spoed, and dashed into each other with tremendous force; but, strange to relate, only one person was killed, Several others, however, were injured, but none of thom fatally. The two engines and one of the freight cars were in- stantly reduced to the most completo wrecks, and the mail car took fro and was entirely consumed, with its contents, The value of the fur trade of St. Paul, Minnosota, for 1964, was groator than thatof any preceding year, though in the number of skins brought In from the hunting and trapping regions there was a considerable falling off, owing, It is supposed, to the fifteen por cont duty im. posed by Congress, Tho enhanced pricos fer furs over provious seasons made the difference in tho valuo of tho | ing off in their trade. The Detroit Board of Trade, in response to a request of the Mayor of that city, have sent for with the leading business men of the provinces for some concert of action in regard to measures for prevent- | ing rebel raids a8 will induce the government at Wash- a = | ington to relax Somewhat in the present strict passport lat SIE Meses «a 100- cananndesentnedsenes No. 7 | It was yesterday decided that the Montreal court has Jurisdiction in the case of the rearrested St, Albans The exchange of prisoners between our own and the Colonel Mulford, Union Exchange Commissioner, went there are no exemptions, and «Ji must come forth.” Im.j NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1865. hundred thousand dollars. stroyod by fre on Thursday night Inst, Loss $26,000. five P. M. at 226%. tendency. out quotable change. opened heavy, but closed firm and active. while lard was a shade easier, with a limited demand. Whiskey rather firmer, Freights dull and heavy. Intervention. Once more the rebels make their pitiful ap- peals to Europe. Four years ago, at the com- mencement of the war, the rebels did hot rely their independence. Every man of any intelli- gence in the Southern States, however hemight bluster, saw at a glance that the military pewor ) of the North wawso Mer-euperior to that of the South, that if the war should continne ustil the strength of each section was fully brought ont, the South must inevitably go down. But their expectation was thet the war would be out short efore the fall development of our strength should be made, and they expected that it would be cut short by the interference of one or more of the great European Powers. Foreign interference was their grand reliance. It was the right bowor, the left bower and the ace of their little Southorn game. Southern politicians promised European interference to one another and to the people with the utmost confidence, and promised even that it should come as goon as Southern men had shown, by the organization of a new government and by one or two battles, that they were in earnest in the attempt. Southern men believed in foreign interference the more, because they believed that they were able to force it They believed in cotton, They thought that in that staple they had a lever that could move the world; they thought they could cause such a chaos in the mercantile system of the grent na- tions that any political result would be ac- corded rather than that cotton should be scarce. But whatever the power of cotton may have been, they lost it, They did not know how to use the influence that they relied upon most, and they thereby forfeited the advantages they might have derived from it, \ Cotton clearly failed, but still the Southern leaders did not give up their grand hope—they adhered tenaciously still to the thought that Europe could be brought to interfere in” their favor. If cotton would notdo it, the old na- tional hatred and commercial jealousy might, and so no pains were spared to excite Fngland against this country. Great efforts were also made to compromise England in the quarrel, by privateers, éce., for out of such a. compromise, and out of the bitterness of national oontro- versy, &@ war might arise between England and the United States, and in that war the South of course saw the very oppor- tunity it desired. Hence, also, all the at- tempts on the Canada border, arranged with this very same view. Through all the money and labor spent to bring England up to the proper point in this way the South had but one success. That success was before that part of the English people called “intelligent”—people who have no thorough knowledge on any sub- ject at all, and who are entirely swayed by the most ignorant prejudices. This class worships cant, And the sant about “chivalrous South- erners,” a “people fighting for freedom,” and #0 on, commended the South and its cause. They consequently took up that cause, and hurrahed tremendously over it, But the Eng- lish government left that cause alone, and the South was snubbed wherever it made its appeal. Even the Pope had the opportunity to give it the cold shoulder. European governments could not afford to say to their people: Here is a people that have risen aguinst their Consti- tuted authorities—they are rebels, and we will recognize them, put them on their feet, and they shall be a free nation henceforth. It would be a dangerous precedent just now. Having failed in all those attempts to bring Europe into the quarrel, the South nowanakes another. It will agree to abolish slavery and to be the colony of any Power that will pave it from the United States. In other words, the South says to Europe—You would not interfere when I was powerful, and when your interfer- ence would have given you a rich ally and a great triumph over a powerful rival; but I hope you will interfere now that I am at my last gasp, and now that your interference will give you nothing but a powerful enemy and the satisfaction of having finally ended the system of slavery. Thig is a sentimental appeal to the generosity of the European nations. That is, itis an appeal to something that does not exist. That such an appeal should be made is the best possible evi- dence of the imbecility of the Southern leaders. Will any European Power interfere in American affairs now that Spain has a ministerial crisis over that beggarly little war with the Domini- cans, and that the Emperor of France is with- drawing from Mexico, compelled to leave Maxi- milian to the tender mercies of a hostile people. Will Great Britain fight the United States for the sake of getting another American colony when she is doing all she can to get rid of Canadat But even if Europe were disposed to take up the case at this hopeless stage, there is no one #0 shallow as not to see that this fs o mere ruse—that it is simply a dodge of Jeff. Davis to shift his position and get a webker enemy than the one he has, No one ever dreams that the South would be a colony; but if through this ruse Jeff. could get rid of that strong fellow—the United States—and have for bis master the far away fellow England or France, why, by and by there would be another rebellion, another declaration of independence, another war, and the South could then win her freedom much more easily than the thirteen colonies did in the days of '76, and there would be the independent Southern confederacy right side up. But Europe will easily enough see through all that. Romons or Geyerat Lee's Destons—From one or two Northern rebel journals we are fa- vored with the news of General Lee’s designs. In order to reopen his communications with Georgia ho is going down to South Carolina to attend to Sherman, and Beauregard is to be called to take care of Richmond and Peters- burg. There may bo something in these rumors. The dangers and necessities of Lee’s army, where it is, are becoming every day trade of the past year, which amounted to about ono Tho large cooper shop attached to the Monroe County Ponitentiary, located at Brighton, N. ¥., was totally de- ‘The stock market was steady yestorday. Government securities and gold were also steady. ‘The latter closed at Saturday was a day of almost unprecedented dulneas in al’ departments of trade, There was no disposition to buy, and little pressure to sell, Nearly all kinda of mer- chandise were entirely nominal, On 'Change the flour market was dull and heavy, closing. with » downward Wheat was inactive and lower, though with- Corn was quiet and firm, while oats wero dull and 1c. @ 2c, lower, The pork market Bee? steady, The Southern Confederacy and European upon their own strength for the achievement of more and more urgent, That he meditates a stealthy evacuation of Richmond, with at least the mmuin body of his army, is very probable. Indeed it has been reported that, from certain indications at the front, it is suspected that he has already commenced the work, The Rich- mond journals appear now to be more anxious about those South Carolina and Georgia rail- roads, over which the cattle of Florida and the corn supplies of Georgia are brought to Lee, than about anything else. As short rations be- come shorter in Richmond there will be a movement of Lee in some direction, mud or no mud. There can be no settling down into winter quarters even at Richmond, where there are no supplies. The City of Savannah—A Contrast. There can scarcely be a doubt that the people of Savannah are now devoutly thanking God for their deliverance from the ruthless des- potism under which they have been suffer- ing for the last four years, Thelr conduct be- fore and since the occupation of their town by the American army. shows conclusively. their desire to make 20° farther sacrifices for a bad unscrupalous, friends, ~The first steps taken by the conquerors were to preserve order, relieve “the inhabitants from s very odious.and .oppres- give military police, to assure them of their re- | stored. diberty;.examption “from further con- scription and taxation, and a return to the comforts and enjoyments of civilized life. Ina short time we shall see Savannah again in con- nection with the city of New York, giving us cotton and rice for clothing, tea, coffee and sugar, and the thousand other necessities from which this miserable rebellion shut her off. When New Orleans was taken the rebel popu- lation scarcely submitted to the conquerors. It will be remembered that treason was long, lond and deflant; that it required some exam- ples to prevent the recurrence of daily dis- orders, and that the women so far forgot the decencies of their sex a8 to spit on American officers when passing through the streets under their windows. So badly indeed did the fair Orleanaise behave, that they compelled General Butler to issue his famous order that the ca- boose, which is the ordinary prison of a certain class of disorderly females in that city, should be the home of incorrigible offenders. This order, which was intentionally misrepresented by the rebela and their sympathizing friends abroad, had its effect. But since that time events have thickened in gloom over the rebel cause, anda “change has come o’er the spirit of their dream.” When New Orleans was taken the enemy retained numerous strong posts on the Mississippi- and its tributaries, There was still hope. Mais nous avons change tout cela. Tho ‘fall of Savannah is a blow-gearer home; the march through Georgia let ina flood of light upon the interior of the confederacy. ‘There was nothing found in it that coukd be made available by the rebels for the future. All the boasts, ‘all the clamor, all the frantic threats which were made to deter Sherman from his purpose did not keep up even ‘the courage of those who uttered them. Neither Bragg nor Hardee dared oppose his march or remain to contest its final object. Savannah had seen enough of this business of rebelling, and ,besought Hardee to make no resist ance. It was not disposed to share the fate of Atlanta, to make of itself a little Moscow, to perish in the flames, to die in any ditch—in short, to immolate itself for Jefferson Davis. It was far more sensible and well behaved. It has once more found protection and safety under the flag of the Union, from whence it was dragged against its will. We welcome it back to its former position, and we hope it will vigorously set about restoring the old order of things. This is the second time Savannah has been rescued from the hands of its enemies. Let it never again expose itself to such a mis- erable fate. In the meantime the calmness and contentment which now prevail in Savannah are evidence of another fact, which we com- mend to the rebel press in the North. They show most conolusively that they most growly lie who say the Southern people will never give up the contest, but rather prefer to make bonfires of their cities and holocausts of them- selves. No such thing. We have not yet seen the first instance of such a spirit. On the con- trary, they are in fact but too happy when they once more come under the protection of “a magnanimous foe.” Tax Very Larest InrecisgENce rrom Pannas- sus.—We are happy to present to our readers two communications just received from that classical region by our overland express, on the great problem of the authorship of Res eat sacra miter, TO THE EDITORSOY THE HERALD. Naw York, Doc. 26, 1864. Do you hold strictly to the proposition in your article, “More Nows from Parnassus," in which you offer ten dol- lars in qreanbacks for the true authority, Rea eat sacra miser. L say strictly, because, although not a professor, I am & graduate of one of our property so-called “‘one horse colleges,’ and have been very often in need of ten dollars, My present personal noed is not 80 very proasing, but I trod ee ‘a lady the ten dollars for gloves pro- vided the Henao rewards my erudition. My modesty equalling my erudition, the fear of ssoing my pame ip print Fe ae my subscribing myself more at longth than 8. E. 8., St. Denis Hotel. SENECA, FOURTH EPIGRAM, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. nov, N. ¥., 2, 1864. In a small duodecimo of Latin poetry, published in Paris, 1690, I find the following epigram witributed to L. Annwus Senvca:— ‘a Quisque es (et nomen dicam? dolor omnia cogit) ‘on nostrum cinerem nunc, inimice, premis, Et contentus non aubit runis Stringis in tela cruenta " Crede mihi vires 9 natura rie Attribuit. | Tumulos vindicat umbra suos, Ipsos crede deos hoc nunc tibi dicere, Livor. Hoc tibi nunc manes dicere crede meos: Res eat sacra miter. Noli ma tangere fata, Sacriliga bustis abstinere manus. In it you will find your quotation, for which please for- ward to me the ten dollars, unless you think me neither a rie hor & philosopher. 'n the small work mentioned by you, Morale des Poetes, the phrase {a credited to Martial.” Ya Hobn's “Dictionary of Quotations’? it is attributed to Ovid. In Lippincott's “Dictionary of Popular Classical Quotations” tho error of Bohn is copied. Toannot boast of 80 many rare editions of classical authors as seem from your article to adorn your libra- rary. Ihave to conteni myself with a plain table, pine sholves, and afew good editions. Yours, very respectfully A. G. JOHNSON, Troy, N. ¥. Both of our correspondents solve the problem rightly. The quotation is from Seneca’s fourth epigram. 8S. E. S., St. Denis Hotel, gives“ chapter and verse,” according to our terms, and would be entitled to the ten dollars in greenbacks if he were “a learned professor.” But neither he nor Mr. Johnson places himself in that category. Moreover, our offer was intended for the first discoverer. S.E.S., a3 his letter shows, was firat in date, and to let Mr. Johnson carry off the reward would be a repetition of the injus- tice of allowing Amoricus to take from Colum- bus the glory of discovering the new world by giving his name to it. However, the Henatp never stands upon technicalities, Ever ready to distinguish classical erudition, we award tho premium to both 8. ES. can have bis ten had to do was to: see whether the documents doMars by calling for it; and Mr. Johnson, being @ non-resident, by drawing on us for the same amount. The lasé named gentleman is mistaken insay- ing that the author of Za Morale des Poetes as- eribes the quotation in question to Martial. He gives it ut the end of the quotations from Martial, but says distinctly that it is from Seneca’s Hpl- grams. Mr. Johnson must look sharper into his “few good editions,” It is quite retreshing to us, in the midst of our editorial labors, and of all the bustle of politics, the rebellion, &c., to find ourselves calling out the classical erudition of the coun- try so satisfactorily. But “honor to whom honor is due.” The first impulse was given to our researches by our learned President and the attacks of ignoramuses on his colloquialisms, which instead of being slang, as represented, were only too recondite for their comprehension. Canadian Jurispradence--Reprisals when Justified by the Law of Nations. The whole difficulty with the Canadian jus- tices in the case of the St. Albans raiders has accompanying the demand for the arrest of the raiders showed the commission of a robbery, a felony and a murder. All or either of these offences were punishable by British law as welt as American, and under the Extradition treaty the Canadian authorities had nothing more to do than deliver up the criminals. Any defence they had to make was just ag available in our courts as in the Canadian. They could just as well set up in their defence here as there that they bore commissions from the confederacy, and were therefore only committing acts of justifiable war. Nor would this plea be without some force, since in the case of McLeod it saved the neck of the man who was engaged in the capture of the Caroline, and the murder of some of her crew, wholly within the territory of the United States. The recent avowal of Jefferson Davis that the St. Albans raid and other raids on our frontier were by his authority is nothing more than an imitation of the procedure of the British government when it avowed itself re- sponsible for the acts of McLeod and his asso- ciates. All these questions, however, belong to the American tribunals of justice, and not te the Canadian; and if these raiders escape by the impertinent intervention of any decision which nullifies the true intent and meaning of the Extradition treaty, then the Cunadian gov- ernment assumes the responsibility of the whole wrong committed, and may be leld accord- ingly. Nor is this difficult of accomplishment. There is a well known-xempdy—-atyled by pub- livists the aw of nected neuen terms, the “law of reprisals—which may-be'put in force without being a of war, This principle of int is as follows:—“If a country seize~ont what belongs to another, if it refuse to pay a debt or repair or give satisfaction for an injury, the injured party may seize things belonging to the wrong- doer and apply them to his own use until he is paid the amount due, with damages or interest, or he may detain them os a security unt# full satisfaction can be given.” To effect this letters of reprisal may be issued by the injured party, and the property seized held as long as there is a probability of obtain- ing justice; when hope is lost, it is confiscated, and the reprisal becomes complete. The pro- perty thus taken by way of reprisal need not be governmental in ita character; that of indi- vidual citizens is linble, since “what belongs to its members is considered as belonging to the body politic.” On these principles and in this way, aay the great authorities on this subject, “reprisals are reckoned among the means used to compel a nation to conduct itself in future with equity and moderation towards nations at peace.” Of late the practice has been for the offended government to order the seizure of the goods intended to be applied as an indemnity for the injured party, making it in its own name, in- stead of issuing, as formerly, letters of reprisal to the party aggrieved. There are many me- morable examples of this procedure in the modern history of Europe quite in point, if we require a precedent. It therefore follows that the Canadian government, in allowing its magistrates to nullify the treaty of Extra- dition, assumes the responsibility of the raid on St. Albans, and especially with regard to the three hundred thousand dollars, and upwards, stolen from the St. Albans banks. This money has been traced into the possession of Canadian magistrates and officials, and has been by them illegally returned to the thieves, notwithstanding the proof of theix crime and the demand for their extradition. The doubt of the Canadian magistrates is therefore wrong from beginning to end. The words of the treaty are explicit, and they have no right to go beyond the documents required by that treaty, nor to interpose for the guilty a defence which belongs to another foram. Our government, therefore, as soon as it is ascer- tained that the raiders will not be given up, nor the stolen money returned to its owners, may order seizures to be made of any Canadian property within the United States, to the extent of the losses sustained by the banks of St. Al- bans, with damages and interest, It will not be difficult to find indemnity in this way, with- out going out of Wall street. If, therefore, there is no other way of bringing the Canadians to their senses, we may very properly resort to the law of reprisals. Tae Deatn or THE Reset GuxrraL Prick — As we have the news from the rebels that their famous Missouri leader, General Price, famil- jarly known among them as “Daddy Price,” died of apoplexy at Dooley’s ferry, Lafayette county, Arkansas, on New Year’s Day, we pre- sume the news may be accepted as authen- tic, and that B‘ssouri is at last permanently relieved of this oft-defeated, routed and ex- pelled, but still returning and troublesome raider, He is a severe loss to the rebels of Ar- kansas and Missonri, as he was about the only man among them who could collect their seat- tered squads of bushwhackers, border ruffians and Indians together into something like the proportions and discipline of a regular army, The war has made sad havoc among the flery leaders and Bombastes Furiosos of the rebel- lion, Zollicoffer, Stonewall Jackson, A. Syd- ney Johnston, the dashing Ashby, the sivage McOnllongh, the pilfering Floyd, the rongh- rider John Morgan, the stubborn and fighting Pat Cleborne and Price, and a host of others, are among the rebel chiefs and leaders sacri- ficed in the hopeless and ru‘n ys cause of Jeff. Davis, Their surviving confederates are be- ginning to “see it,” and we dare say that be- fore many months are over they will fully re- alize the fact that they are risking their lives for nothing in fighting longer for their moon- shine Southern confederacy. In the unlucky career of General Price as the would-be rebel liberator of Missouri, and in his death as @ fugi- tive among the swamps of Arkansas, we have a striking illustration of the blessings of his promised millennium of Southern independenee. Tue Parer Dury, Questioy.—Congreas seeme determined to tinker at the paper duty ques tion, urged on by the Western republican editors, On Friday Mr. Kasson introduced @ resolution to suspend the duty on foreign paper for 4 time, we presume, until gold comes down Now, such a measure as this would be more mischievous even than a total repeal of the duty, to which we are entirely opposed. It would bo-enfair to: the -peper manuficturere and would, no doubt, chesk thelr operations . for, with euch uncertain legislation, they would. not be safe, Weeee no reason why the papes interest shonld -be~ protected more than any other, aor why. newepapors should be regarded ina different way from any other branch of business. If the import duty is to be repealed or suspended upon. one.article of. foreign manufacture there should be no exception, and ple would certainly demand that the duty should also be taken off books, and ccal, and other articles. What is required of Congress by our capitalists, and, indeed, by every inter- est in the country, is mot « jerking, unsteady system of legislation—enacting tariffs at thie session and repealing them the next; but @ stable and permanent system, under which men can see their way ahead in the employment, of their capital and labor. We trust that Congress will not yield to any outside pressure for the repeal or suspension of the duty on foreign paper. Ovr Mexican Programme—A Hint From Ricitmonp.—In discussing the Monroe doctrine the Richmond Enquirer, in a late edituriat, says:— bree might be startled with another phenome upon peace betwoen the North aud the South. It not be impossible that a portion of the troops now ea. gaged in deadly conilict might unite under the game banner and march upon the invaders of Mexico. We forbear to extend this suggestion; but it is borne out tho history of almost all nations who have fought each other, The people continue hostile; soldiers wit fraternize in common eaterprise. This is a broad hint from Richmond in favor of our proposition that Jeff. Davis, his associate ringleaders, and all who may choose to follow him, be permitted. and assisted in a general exodus for Mexico as the “promised land” of their Southern confederacy. While Greeley ie lobbying for a peace movement among the mem- © bers of Congress at Washington, we invite his attention to.this grand:-Mexican ides. He.need not be afraid that the everlasting nigger will stnnd in bis way. Jol. is getting to be as radical en Sambo as Wendell Phillips, KENTUCKY. Restriction Upon Trade Removed—Rese- lutions Introduced in the Legislature for the Immediate Abolition of Slavery— Governor Bramletto’s Message, die. Cincrswatt, Jan. 7, 1008, Gonoral Burbridge hag removed his restrictions wgem trade in Kentucky. Resolutions were introduced into both houses of the Kentucky Legislature yesterday declaring for the diate abolition of slavery. Governor Bramlette, in his message, recommends the gradual emancipation and ultimate removal of the slaves; rejoices over and thanks Generals Sherman and Themas for their victorios; denounces the unwarrantable afrest of Colone! Wolford and Lieutenant Governor Jacob; aaye that his object in attempting to regulate the enlistexen’ of slaves was not to save the institution, but the people of Kentucky from an unnecessary burden in ite aoebea- plishment; and declares that Kentucky has furatshed nearly sovonty-six thousand soldiers to the United Grates army. Occupation by Guerillas of Owensbere, Soldiers Shot, Near Leba: % Lovisvinie, Ky., dan. 7, 1868. J. Walker Taylor's rebel forces occupied Owensbore until Friday, conscripting citizens and firing upom steamers, when they left. The New Albany Ledger says that rebel guerillas have possession of Owensboro, Hawesville, Davenport and Henderson. The Lebanon train was captured by a band of Ma gruder's guerillas near Lebanon junction yesterday afternoon, The passengers were robbed and the cars burned. The rebels brutally murdered four discharged soldiers of the Fifteenth Kentucky. * Taylor has established his headquarters at Haweavilie, and the citizens are Heeing acroas the Ohio to avoid com> scription. NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS. Wreck of the Steamer R.E. Lee at the Mouth of the the Crew Lost—Six H Cotton Destroyed at Matamoros, &. Carro, IL, Jan. 7, 1865, The steamer Henry Avics, from New Orleans om the Bist of December, has arrived here with the mails for the North, and thirty-four bales of cotton for St. Loula and thirty for Cincinnati. ‘The steamship Creole, from New York, bad arrived at New Orleans; also the United States naval transport Union, with four millions of dollars for the disbursing oftioers. General Hurlbut bad issued an order prohibiting om- cors and soldiers from attending theatres, billiard rooms, drinking saloons and other places of amusement on the Sabbath day, denouncing the habit as dishonorable and contrary to the duties which soldiers owe to themselves and to the country. Colonel Davis, of the First Louisiana cavalry, has beem appointed brigadier general and ordered to report to Gonoral Canby. A Matamoros paper fgives an account of the wreck of the steamer R. E. Lee, from Matamoros, off the mouth of the Rio Grande, Twenty-two of the crew were drowned, and others were picked up on cotton bales by the Frencla bark Castellona, ‘The same paper algo notices the destruction of siz hundred bales of cotton, belonging to merchants in Mata- moros, Middling cotton was selling at Matamoros at 500. 386. 5 crushed sigur at 160. a 18¢., and brown at 90. a 100, There was little inquiry for cotton ut Now Orleans Flour was tirm at a slight advance. Police Intelligence. THEFT OF A GOLD WATCH, Benjamin Lovi, quite a small boy, wax arrested in the store of Messrs. Tifany & Co., jowellers, Broadway, charged with stealing a watch valued at $276. Adolpla Given, one of the clerks, caught the youthful offender im of stealing tho watch, and Justice Dowling, be- in Levi was arraigned, committed him to’ the ANOTHER KNIGHT OF THE PISTOL IN TROUDLR. Yostorday afternoon William Boucher, a young mam ninctoen years of ago, was in tho barroom of Henry Buschmann's public house, No. 40 Howard street, w he had a dispute with the proprictor, resulting in hy drawing a pistol and threatening (o blow his brains out, Officer Mou of the Fourteenth precinct, was called in, and a few ‘minutes subsequently Boucher found hime self before Justice Dowling, at the Tombs, In default o€ ball o the amount Of $1,000 the accused was locked uy. ‘A majority of the Police Judges held a meeting yester. day, and decided to administer summary punishment upon all persona brought beiore thom with wenpous in their possession,