The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1865, Page 4

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BARNUM’S MUSEUM, Broadway.—Two Mawworn Fat Wounn—Livine SkeLetox—Dwanr—Liranyeb Skat-—GRAND Sreoracne—Fausxs, Tim Hares, &¢.—Day and Evening. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Gtn1oriaN Sonds, Dances, BuRLesques, &¢.—AntE- MUS WARD AuonG THE MORMO! MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Hamist— & Tom—Eratorian Sons, Daxcrs, &o. woon's Harry Us SALLE DIABOLIQU HARLEQUIN SANTA Cla’ 585 Broadway.—Rosert Heuize— VAN AMBURGH & CO.'s MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, 599 and 541 Broadway.—Open from 10 A. M. to10 P.M. HIPPOTHEATRON, Gyunastic AND ACKOBATIC BLUeBEARD. TURKISH HALL, 720 Broadw: ENTERTAINMENT. AMERICAN THEATRE, Pantosames, BURLESQURS. Fourteenth street. —Fquestrum, ENTERTAINMENTS—HARLEQUIN OSCANTAN'S ORIENTAL 444 Broadway. —Batiets, Hovss Taat Jack Buu. VANNUCHD?S MUSEUM, 600 Broodway.—Movina Wax Figurss—Pranz MULLER. ‘ORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— M, till 10 P.M New York, Monday, J THE SITUATION. There are but few new military movements to notice this morning. But the present apparent ull will no doubt soon give place to stirring and important events. General Sherman's army is reported by the latest rebel despatches as marching on Grahamayille, South Carolina; but the statements are so confused that scarcely any intelligence of value can be gathered The pparently so frighteued or so far from the from them. authors of these rebel accounts are of operations that they cannot satisfactorily as he alleges, in a drinking place tn Pearl street, early yesterday morning. In Saturday’s Heratp was noticed the fact that Wil- liam’ Beebe, alias Fitzgerald, was found lying on the sidewalk in Bleecker street, mortally wounded by « pistol shot, on Thursday evening. From the effects of the injuries he died at Bellevue Hospital on Saturday, and yesterday an inquest was held on the body, when it appeared that he was shot by one of his own friends in a drinking house in Hester street. Beebe and several friends bad a difficulty with the proprietor, at whom one of them fired a pistol, which missed its aim, the shot striking Beebe. ‘The Carmen’s and Laborers’ Association are to hold a mecting at No. 76 Prince street to-day, when the subject of the back pay of the strect cleaners will be taken into consideration. There is considerable opposition manifested in some of the British North American provinces to the proposed colonial confederation, In Prince Edward Island it has caused a ministerial resignation, and it is claimed that nine-tenths of the inhabitants there are opposed to the scheme. In Nova Scotia algo some numerously attended and enthusiastic meetings of influential citizens to Protest against it have been held. ‘The republican majority of Maine, as officially declared, {8 21,112 President Lincoln's vote 1s 68,104, and General McClellan’s 46,992. The soldiers’ vote is divided as fol- lows:—Lincoln, 4,174; McClellan, 738. Thomas and Hood—The War in the Southwest. The original compact and formidable South- ern confederacy organized under Jeff. Davis is now cut up into three sections, detached from each other—the section on the west side of the Mississippi, the section between that river and the State of South Carolina and the section ex- tending thence to the Richmond peninsula. The trans-Mississippi section, with a military station here and there, and with the river ac- tively patroled by our gunboats, may be left just as it is until the completion of the work still before our armies on the eastern side. The extreme eastern section, bounded on the north by Sheridan’s army, on the west by the Alle- ghany mountains and our military posts at Knoxville and Chattanooga, and on the south by General Sherman and the Savannah river, with the army immediately under the eye of General Grant in the centre, embraces now, in point of fact, all that is left to King Jeff. of his late extensive dominions. The vast intermediate section between the Savannah riyer and the Mississippi is now vir- tually subdued; for the armies of Sherman and Thomas, or either of them, may roam over it without serious molestation in any direction. Assuming, however, that General Sherman’s next business will be a movement in sup- port of General Grant, the country to the west of the Savannah river will fall within the mine whether only Kilpatrick’s cavalry or the the whole of the two grand armies under Sherman and Foster are mancuyering at the presout time in Seces- 8 cradle State. sdditional of great interest has reached us portant theatre of war on the James river, xe armios under Generals Thomas and Sheridan, pondence furnishes additional confirmation of the fact, which has been for a Jong time apparent, that the majority of the people of Texas, like the citizens of many other of the nominally rebellions States, are anxiously awaiting the time when they shall again be restored to that protection and proud national distinction which fs only found under the folds of the Siur Spangled Banner. They are only heid in a seeming allegiance to Jef. Davis’ confederacy by the strong arm of mikiary power. That once broken, as ft soon will be, the people, after their four years of estrangement, will again joyfully reassume the noble position of citizens of the great republic. A delegation representing railroad companies along our northern border had a conference at the State De partment in Washington on Saturday with Secretary Seward, for the purpose of inducing him to relax some- what in bis rigorous regulations regarding passports, But they were entirely unsucecesful, and the eystem will etill be enforced. Each successive day's rebel newspapers give evidence of the growing disaffection to the rule of Jeff. Davis The extracts which we morning show how strong the Union feeling among his enforced subjects publish this Js in North Carolina, and what a source of annoyance it is to the adherents of the marasmatic confederacy. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. 4 to an order issue? by Provost Marshal Gene ral Fry, no onlistmente previous to the 19th of December tod on quotas on the President's last call for three hundred thousand additional troops. If this order ehall remain unmodified, thie « the draft, will have to enliet many more men than hag been supposed. Our Volunteer Chairman, Supervisor Blunt, left the city for Washington last night, to have another conference with the War Department on this matter. On the President's Inst call the quotas in the Second pnd Third Congressional districts of this State, which are mainly comprised in the city of Brooklyn, amount to in order to escape poven thousand six hundred and five men. Of thie num- ber it appears the Second district has to furnish four thousand nine hundred and ninety-five, and the Third district two thowand six hundred and ten, According to this exhibit Brookiyn has @ ehance of shortly sup- planting iis religious «ynony ty of “the City of Churches” by the patriotic dowlenations« whiting town. During yesterday the we the atmosphere, though sharp of many, » wholesome and invigo- rating. Skaters were again jn their glory, the fee on ly all the ponds in and around the city being im : te cOhdition, Thousands of people were in the Park, making it n# merry as on a June or October day, A fireman, named Patrick Coman, was taken suddenly ft} during the fire at the corner of Contre and Leonard firects yesterday morning, and died soon after. A @oroner’a inquest on the body developed the fact that hee died from disease of the lungs. Richard Geraghty was yesterday arrested and admit $04 Wo bail on the charge of shooting @ man, ac chteptally, was clear and cold, and 1 biting to the feelings a# most deliciously new department of General Thomas. Over all this vast region, including the great productive States of Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mis- sissippi, there are no rebel forces worth men- tioning but the remnants of the army of Gen. Hood. They are now supposed to constitute an army of less than twenty thousand men, with less than twenty pieces of artillery—a con- siderable reduction from the forty-five thou- sand men and their one hundred and ten can- non lately confronting General Thomas in his works at Nashville. Hood, with his:shattered, diminished and de- moralized forces, has succeeded in recrossing the Tennessee river into Alabama, and the late heavy rains in that region will, perhaps, ren- der an immediate pursuit impossible, from the miry condition of the roads. But the same diffi- culties which will arrest the pursuit will check the flight of the fugitive. His only railway line of retreat is down the Mobile and Ohio road, throngh the State of Mississippi; but, unfortu- nately for Hood, that famous Mississippi raider, Grierson, from Memphis, has been at his old tricks again, and has dismantled said road in o very shocking way from Corinth down to Oka- lona, a distance of nearly a hundred miles.. Still below Grierson, in Mississippi, other Yankee raiders, from Vicksburg, have been at work; so that Hood, cutoff from every railroad and river line, east, west and south, even if not further disturbed, will perhaps be compelled to pass the balance of the winter in Northern Alabama, depending upon the surrounding country for his supplies. Meantime, Gen. Thomas, with his new base on the Tennessee river, is admirably posted to watch the movements of his unfortunate adver- sary, and to head him off in any direction he may take. We know that Thomas will do the work assigned him, whatever it may be. If re- quired he could now afford to lend the Army of the Potomac twenty or thirty thousand men for a month or two; but it is more probable that his first business will be a decisive settle- ment with the remaining fragments of Hood’s army. This object accomplished, we shall next expect Thomas, in # triumphal march down the abounding corn and cotton valleys of Ala- bama to Mobile, to repeat, if necessary, the holiday excursion of Sherman from Atlanta to Savannab. We await, in easy confidence, the further de- velopment of Gen. Grant's magnificent plans and movements, as worked out by such skilful, energetic and efficient supporting generals as Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, Canby, Granger, Stoneman, Burbridge and others. We may consider the trans-Mississippi section of “the confederacy” as out of the fight; the eastern section as fairly within the grasp of Grant, Sheridan and Sherman, and the inter- mediate section as substantially subdued and ready to give up the ghost. It will not bea matter of surprise if with, or even before, the next overhauling of Hood, we shall hear of a general uprising of the people of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia in favor of submission, in order to save their two or three millions of bales of cotton still on hand from the dangers of a searching Yankee invasion. To this end, including the negro question, the political com- binations at work in Richmond against Davis promise to be as effective against him as the rosistless military combinations of our General-in-Chief. Never were all the various elements of the military, political and social situations of the South #0 favorably disposed as now for a sudden collapse at Richmond, and the ignominious flight of poor Jeff, and his ruling confederates for parts unknown, Toe Caxantan Passrort Gemvaxcer—Our Canadion neighbors are making « terrible out- ery about the inconvenience of the passport system. This time it is their ox that is gored. They bad but few words of sympathy for us when our border towns were invaded by the thieves and tutthroats whom they had en- couraged. Now our measures of self-defonce excite their ire, not hecanse they are unneces- sary, but because thoy are injurious to their interests. We can tell them bow to abate the nuisance, for such we admit it mustbe., Let them do the police of their own frontier, and we shall be glad to relieve them from the infliction of which they complain, The Partisan Press Since the Recent Election. During the canvass which preceded the re- cent election we frequently took occasion to direct public attention to the extravagances and the vulgarity of the partisan press, and to warn the editors of those papers against the natural consequences of their folly. Our warn- ings were unheeded, and the result is precisely as we predicted. So long as the canvass con- tinued the partisan editors could make a little money by printing campaign documents and by farming out their columns for drafis upon the secret service funds of the party; but when the election was decided these sources of. revenue ceased. During the canvass a few people sub- scribed to the partisan press because they ab- surdly imagined it to be a duty to their party; but when the election was over this patronage was also withdrawn. As for the general public, who take a newspaper for ite value as a jour- nal and not for its politics, they have long since been disgusted with the style in which the partisan press is mismanaged, and will have nothing whatever to do with it. Conse- quently the decline in the influence, circulation and profits of the party papers everywhere, and especially in this State, has been most marked since the Presidential election. Naturally enough the papers of both parties suffer alike. We learn, upon very excellent authority, that the circulation of the Albany Argus, the News and the World has been con- siderably reduced recently, and the proprietors of the Tribune themselves inform us that they have derived no profit from their journal dur- ing the past two years, thus showing that even the excitement of a most important election was not sufficient to make that paper pay. These facis conclusively demonstrate that there has been a decided intelectual revolution among the people of all parties. The demo- erats understand that such organs as the Argus, News and World defeated them at the late clec- tion, and the republicans begin to comprehend that the fanatical theories of the Tribune are utterly outrageous and impracticable. The re- action which we have so long snticipated has come, We are eniering upon the era of com- mon sense. The stale political rubbish of Bel- mont, Barlow and Company, and the flighty, fanatical isms of Greeley, Gay and Company, are equally unpopular. Ruined by its own leaders, and more particularly by its own editors, the democratic party is high and dry upon the shoals. ‘The conser- vative republicans are alaymed at the perils into which radical editors are endeavoring to guide them. Since the war began the people have become less partisan and more patriotic. Those journals which have brought about this revolution, and have shaped their policy by it, are prospering. Those which have disregarded the signs of the times are failing. They would have failed sooner had not the Presidential election temporarily sustained them; but they will fail all the more cowpletely now that the election is over and has afforded them no sub- stantial relief. Opium eaters die in torments when the drug which has stimulated them is re- moved, and partisan papers die when the drag of political prejudice disappears. The last election was decided by ideas; but the partisan papers had no ideas and could get hold of very little money. Thus the intellectual revolution which commenced before the election involved their destruction, and the withdrawal of sub- seriptions and patronage since election seals their inevitable fate. Insiead of regarding this matter philosophi- cally, as we do, the partisan press of this city and the West attributes its misfortune to the paper duty, and is beseeching Congress to re- duce this necessary tax. To die gracefully is an accomplishment which partisan editors have not learned. They ought to have sense enough to see that if the paper duty were killing them the conductors of the independent press would be dying likewise. But, on the contrary, the Heratp is more pro«perous than ever, and its circulation has recently increased remarkably. Imported paper ought to be taxed, and it ought to be taxed heavily in order to encourage domestic manufacturers. The price of paper is high; bat it has not increased any more than the prices of other articles, Indeed, as we explained the other day, the rise in paper corresponds exactly with the rise in gold. Since the partisan editors did so much to depreciate the currency they onght not to grumble at this result. When gold was at par paper was sold at ten cents a pound, and when gold was at two hundred and forty, paper was sold at twenty-four ceats a pound. Nothing could be more mathematically correct than this proportion. Should Congress reduce the duty upon paper this proportion may possibly be disturbed ; but that will not save the parti- san press, These bewildered editors cannot be induced to perceive that it is not the price of white paper which troubles them, but it is the quality of the articles which they print upon that paper. The Heratn pays the same money for its paper as they do for theirs; but we prosper and they fail. Evidently, then, the paper duty docs not account for their faflure. It is only one of a series of circumstances which they cannot now resist. Had they fol- lowed our advice, adopted our policy and imitated our example, they would have found journalism to be the noblest of professions, and would have been able to maintain themselves re- spectably, in war times or peace times,with paper at a dollor a pound or ata cent a pound, The people are willing to pay any money for a news- paper which pleases them and embodics the spirit of the age ; but they will not subscribe for dull, stupid, bigoted, partisan papers at any price. ‘There is the whole subject in a nutshell, and it the partisan editors have any brains they ought to study, comprehend and make a practical Application of it at once. Tax Prooress or MaANvractunes IN THE Unrrep Statrs.—In a table recently published in Boston, showing the condition of the (ifferent factories in New England, the average divi- dends paid by the several monafactaring com- panics for the last six months of the your 1864 were quoted at the rate of twenty per cent per annum, thus proving that the capital in- vested in manufacturing business is yery pro- fitably employed. 5 In the natural course of things the present heavy tariff on articles of foreign production, the advanced price of gold, and the consequent high rate of exchange, must greatly stimulate domestic manufactures. Before long we shall see factories for the manufacture of coiton and woollen fabrics springing up everywhere, and many years will not elapse before the United States will be the greatest manufacturing, as it is now the greatest producing nation, in the N&W YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1865. aN world. At present we produce everything that a country needs for its own wants, and help besides to feed many other countries, With our varieties of latitude, climate and soil, there is hardly anything which can be made to yleld to ekill and labor that is not produced here. Our Pacific seaboard and Western terri- tories are teeming with gold and silver; the Central States are rich in coal and iron—not to say anything of the petroleum El Dorado— the whole West is a cereal garden, out of which the hungry multitudes of a hundred nations might be fed. Cotton, sugar, tobacco and rice, equal to the consumption of half a world, pour in from the Southern States; wool is grown in abundance on the Western prairies, on the pastures of the Northwestern States, and in the New England States, while the frontier regions on the Northern lakes give their tribute of lead and copper. With such resources it is impossible long to retard the enterprise which will be devoted to manufactures. Not only will native capital be invested, but foreign speculators will find it their interest to embark their means in the manufacture of cotton and woollen goods, taking advantage of all our fucilities—of pro- ducts raised almost at the door of their facto- ries, of our cheap coal and immense water power. Thousands of the skilled artisans of England are ready and anxious to emigrate to this country as soon asa stimulus is given to manufactures. The war is furnishing that stimu- lus, and before five years of peace has refreshed the land the United States will be the largest manufacturing as well as the most fruitful producing country in the world. Rarroap Disasters AND How to PREVENT Tsarm.—The frequency and fatal character of railroad disasters of late render it imporative that some cogent measures should be taken to prevent their occurrence. It is not impossible to accomplish this, for most of the collisions on record, whereby human life has been sacrificed, are not the recult of accident, as they are alleged to be, but of gross carelessness and indifference to public safety. Within a few days we have had to announce three railroad disasters of a serious character—one in which the boiler of » locomotive exploded in the very heart of Jersey City, and smashed in the roof of a house; another a collision between two trains in the tunnel ofthe same city, in which case the coroner’s jury administered a weak reprimand to one of the railroad companies; and the latest one that we hear of occurred on the Michigan Central road on Tuesday, when two trains, rushing at full speed, came together and demolished each other. Now it is evident that the verdicts of coro- ners’ juries are worthless for the prevention of these disasters. There are three ways by which we would suggest that their recurrence may be avoided. First, the State Legislatures should enact penal statutes which would spread a wholesome terror among the managers of rail- roads; next, the national government should ap- point inspectors of railroads, who would have no State interests to subserve, and whose duty it would be to exercise arigid supervision over the management of the railroads, their employes, rolling stock, time tables and rails. In many of the late disasters several soldiers lost their lives, or were hopelessly mutilated. It is the duty, then, of the government to interfere, if for no other reason than to protect its troops while being transported from one point to another. The third method is for every one who is injured by « railroad accident to refuse all compromise with the company and bring an action for damages. It too often happens that people accept a small sum trom some agent of the company in cases where, if they laid the matter before a jury, they would get four times the amount and the railroad company would re- ceive a lesson that they would remember in future. Tue Unrrep Staves Navat, Aprrenticr Scuoot SysteM.—The success that has thus far attended the revival of the naval apprentice- ship system has been 86 flaticring that there is no doubt it will, if it has not already, become an established branch of the national naval educational service. As a nursery for practical seamen and a thorough school for officers, « more advantageous system could not well be devised. All that is now necessary to impart strength and insure perpetuity to the instiiution is for Congress and the depariment to see that the errors which were allowed to creep in and mar the usefulness of the system when it was first established, in 1837, sball not be per- petuated under the prevent regulations, and that the school shall be carried on under the direction of humane, capable and experienced officers. This is the case at present on board the: school frigate Sabine, commander R. B. Lowry, now at Norfolk. The Congressional Naval commitices should also devote a few days to on official investigation of the system a6 practically illustrated on board the Sabine, and thus be the better able to suggest to Con- gress sueh legislation as may be necessary to promote the interests of the school. In answer to numerous inquiries in re- gard to the method of getting boys into the school, we have to state that the process is very simple. All that is necessary is for the parent or guardian of the youth to take him before » competent navy enlisting officer—Coptain Oscar Bullus, at the Naval Rendezvous, Cherry street, is among the most prominent in this city—and if the lad passes the surgeon’sex- amination, make the necessary affidavit before a notary public, who is at hand, sign the papers, and the youthful aspirant for the honors of an American neval hero, the young emulator ofa Farragut, or a Winslow, or an Albemarle Cushing, at once becomes one of “Uncle Sam’s own” until he is twenty-one. We publish in another column a copy of the official regula- tions for the enlistment and government of the naval apprentice boys, and invite to it the attention of those who have boys eligible and desirous of becoming mem- bers of the institution. The recommendation of Secretary Welles, that a purtion of the mid- shipmen be selected from among the naval apprentices, is now before the Naval Committee of the House, and the reputation of the chair- man of the committee for devotion to official business ensures for the subject early and effec- tive action. Tar War Between Brazn, anp Unvovay.— There is now no doubt of the purpose of the Bra- zilian government to invade and seize upon the territory of the republic of Uruguay. Thisis one of the penalties that States pay for internal dissensions. They always invite aggression and spoliation from their more powerful neighbors. Joo Central and South Amerigag republics ne credited, of course, on her quota. But they, as a might, by cultivating union among themselvas, become the strongest and most unassailable argument, they become helpless when separated in interest, The cause of this want of union lies in the cupidity and selfishness of their pub- He men. A South American politician seeks power only that he may enrich himself. It is indifferent to him what becomes of the com- monwealth provided he can attain his object. Of course the masses follow the example thus set them, and revolution becomes the order of the day. In this way the door has been opened for the French to walk into Mexico, the Spanish into St. Domingo and the Chincha Islands and the Brazilians into Uruguay. It is time for South Amerl- can statesmen to wake up to these facts. If they do not sink their personal interests and quarrels in a common effort to defend their liberties they will soon have no liberties to defend. Brazil offers an example of a contrary policy, and the consequence is that she is be- coming stronger and more powerful every day. The governments of the South American repub- lics are only rushing upon their own destruc- tion in keeping up the unhappy jealousies which render them so easya prey to the invader. 'The Massachusetts Importation to Fill Her Quota—Govcrnment Refuses to Mus- ter Them Into the Service—Thelr Arri- val in New York, &e. It is generally known that agents of the State of Masaa- chusetts imported from Europe, as laborers, a large num- } ber of men (about eleven hundred), landed them on one of the numerons islands in the vicinity of Boston, and made active preparations to put them into the army by the most liberal promises of pay, clothing, lands, &c., to general thing, utterly refused to enter the army, though some of them assented. ‘They were finally, how- ever, all sent to Washington, when, on an investigation of | the whole subject connected with their importation, decep- tions practiced and moneys promised, of which they had rocetved little or none, the government positively refused to muster them into the gervice of the United States or credit them to the Massachusetts quota. Consequently they are lost to that State, and all the expense she has | been to concerning thein is thrown away, to say nothing of the loss of character to her citizens. Large numbers of these men were wholly unfit for military duty, and how government officers could have been iound in Bos- ton to have passed them is a mystery of which ¢ Boston alone holds the secret. Now these men are afloat upon the world, and most of then have arrived in this city pennyless and in want. The able bodied ones—and there are men among them who would do credit ag soldiers to any aviny in the world—are ready and anxious to en- list if thoy can keep clear of Massachusetts, With this object a squad of twenty or more visited Mr, Blunv’s office on Saturday, and, though foreigners, woukd answer for substitutes, were any of our citizens, wanting substitutes, present to'secure them, yet the misfortune is thoy desire as peg 2 to xo into @ New York battery regiment, The War ment having just issned an order that all futnre enlistments must be for the infantry alone, the Supervisor is deprived the privilege of re- ceiving thece men, and the consequence is we are likely to loose ,men enough out of this Massachusetts lot to al our quote. It is hoped that the difficulty in the way of their reception may be overcome. Mr. Blunt was in consultation on Saturday with General Hays tn reference to the subject, who immediately tele- graphed to the War Department for « special order to en- list-all these men who are able bodied in a New York artillery regiment. It is hoped a favorable answer will be received. In the meantime Chairman Blunt has placed them in goot! quarters, where thoy will be well fed and taken proper care of, much to their delight, it being, they say, the first good treatment they have receiv since arriving in this country, This manner of filing State quotas Massachusetts has discovered will not work. A Revision of the Quota, Geueral Hays bas received instructions from Washing- ton not to fix the quotas of sub-districts in accordance with the order issued by Provost Marshal General Fry already published, and hiss been directed to report to the department all the enlistments up tothe Slet day of December. ‘The object of this call for information is probably to arrange new quotas on the basis of enlistments up to that date, It will be seen by the order printed below that the government intends to have three hundred thousand men in the field as the proceed» of the last call, in addi- tion to all credits heretofore allowed. No credits will be allowed for officers or invalids, or men enlisted in the navy upon papers and assigned previons to the 19th of December, or for anything but able-bodied enlisted men— a very judicious determination on the part of the govern- ment, The contemplated change in the quotas, it is to be hoped, will not deprive New York of any of her credits which have been #0 justly awarded to her. Supervisor Blunt went to Washington lest night to see that the interests of the county are protected, and to make the proper representations to the department, in view of this new order from the department, and the uncertain position of districts, it will be well for every yount necessary for a subath for that purpoee at once with the Volunteering Co ‘There are now plen of substitutes offering, and no snbstitute money in the hands of the comiuittee + CIRECLAR NO 1 War Darantver, Provosy Mansi AL's) > Ovricn, W. ‘tox, D. C., Jan. 2, 1865. 4 «The attention of geting assistant provost marshals gencrat of States, and boards of enrolment, is eu hat the the call of De. i xeept by actual nents in the army, navy b corps slice the 19th ultimo. PRY, f FRY, Provost Marshal Genera! The Quota of Brooklyn. ‘The total number of men required under the recent call of the President for three hundred thousand troops | from Kings county is seven thousend six bun. dred and five, which i* only ninety-five leas than the number required under the eall for five handred thousand volunteers, when seven thou sand seven hundred were asked for and furnished—with the naval enlistments, As affaire now stand the quota of the Second district is fixed nt four thousand uine hun- dred and ninety-five, and the Third district at two thousand six hundred and ten, The quota for the Second district is deemed excessive, and éfforte will be made to induce the Provost Marsha! General to reduce it, for be Se pose a mpeting of the Board of Supervisore will be held to-day, with the view of authorizing a committee to pro- ceed to Srasttogton and lay the facts before the military authorities. Steamship St, David Outward Bound. Portrasy, Jan. 8, 1865, The steamship St. David sailed at half-past eight o'clock Inet night for Londonderry and Liverpool, Marine Disaster. Boston, Jan. 8, 1865. ‘The schooner Charleston, from Elizabethport, with coal, sunk on Rathead Bar during the storm on Saterday night, The crew were saved. The wreck has been stripped of sails, and the bull will probably be raised. The Personal Intelligence. Brigadier General Albert 1, Lee is stopping at the Me- tropolitan Hotel. The General leaves immediately for Washington, iu obedience to orders from the War De- nt Americans registered at Mesera. Vandenbroeck Brothers’ No. 60 Rue de Ia Chaussee d’Antin; Messrs. Lherbotte, Kane & Co.'s, No. 8 Place de la Bourse, and Mesara, John Monroe & Co.'s, No, 6 Rue de Ia Paix, for the week end- ing Deo, 23:—Richard M. Hoo and family, Henry W. Hubbel, Thomas Loyd, J. A. Voisin, Jr, B. J. Cutler, from New York; Wm. 'G, Moorhead and wife, Wm. K. Moorhead, Mra.'J. B, Moorhead, Miss Ada B. Moorhead, Dora B. Moorhead, Clara A. Moorhead, Carrie F. Moor: head, A. G, Heaton, from Philadelphia; James F. Curtiss, P, Bancroft and faintly, sw pen’ uchard fea BE ‘A. D, Bw rs, Boston ; . Curtis, a Farnum, of New Haven; RB. HERALD. WAR GAZETTE. OFFICIAL. Dismissal of Lieutenant Colonel W. L. Nicodemus, of the Signal Corps, for Publishing a Report Containing In- formation Useful te the Enemy. GENERAL ORDERS—NO. 804. War Dzragruxer, Apsutant Gaxxrat’'s Orrics, . Wasaivaron, Dec. 26, 1864. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. L. Nicodemus, Acting Assist- ant Chief of the Signal Corps, having, contrary to the regulations, and disregarding his duty as an officer, pub- lished, without authority and without the knowledge or sanction of the Secretary of War, a document relating to the branch of servico under his charge, purporting to be the annual report of the Signal Corps, which contains in- formation useful to the enemy and prejudicial to the service of the United States, for such irregular and im- proper conduct he is dismissed the service. By order of the Secretary of War. E. D, TOWNSEND, -Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL NEWS. ‘Wasixetox, Jan. 8, 1866. SECRETARY FESSENDEN AND THE FRENCH MISSION. ‘The unanimous nomination of Mr, Fessenden to the United States Senate by both Houses of the Maine Legis- lature is accepted here as conclusive evidence that he intends to accept the French Mission. It is stated that while the Legislature was divided—a majority of the Senate being for Mr. Fessenden and a majority of the House for Mr. Hamlin—aa agreement was entered into by their respective friends that Mr. Fessenden should be complimented by a unanimous nomination, with the un- derstanding that he would resign the Senatorship and accept the Mission to France, which had been tendored to him, and thus afford an opportunity for the election of Mr. Hamlin. The denial that Mr, Fessenden was a candidate for the French Miasion was a part of this pro- gramme. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE REBEL STATES. It is known that a dill is pending in the House of Re- presentatives for the reconstruction of the States the governments of which have been subverted or over- thrown by rebellion, thus establishing a rule applicable to them all. Representative Wilson has introduced a substitute for the bill, providing that no representative shall be received from any such State until, by act or joint resolution of Congress, approved by the President or passed notwithstanding his objections, it shall be de- clared that the State has formed a just loca! government, republican in form and entitled to representation im Congress, In other words, the substitute proposes to deal with each State separately, on its own merits, with- out establishing a system of readmission applicable to them. FINANCIAL MATTERS. The receipts from internal revenue for the last week were over ten millions of dollars. The comparison of the bank returns mode at the Trea- sury Department shows that the loans of the New York banks amount to eighty-seven and a half per cent of their capital, deposits and circulation, while the loans of the Massachusetts banks exceed their capital and de- posits by Bfteen millions. It isto this great expansion of bank credits that the inflation of currency is largely due, as well as to the overplus of circulation from go- vernment and private issues. The subscriptions to the ten-forty loan yesterday amounted to $4,169,000, and to the seven-thirty loan nearly $1,000,000. : THE PASSPORT SYSTEM. A delegation is here from the Michigan Central and connecting railroads through the provinces, for the pur- pose of urging a modification or withdrawal of the order requiring passports from persons entering the United States from Canada, They had an interview with Sécre- tary Seward on Saturday, in which they urged the mat- teron the ground that it was seriously injuring their businesa. They were refused, however, and the regula- tion will still continue to be enforced. COMMUNICATION WITH NORTH CAROLINA, ‘The Chesapeake and Albemarle canal has of late ‘been placed in good condition—the various breaks thoroughly repaired and matls and passengers sent through regularly every day. Captain A. P. Blunt, Chief Quartermaster at Norfolk, has placed several fine boats on the line, which leave Norfolk daily: at tem o'clock A. M., on the arrival of the mail boat from Baltimore. Provost marshals’ passes are required from passengers, and the fare for those not entitled to transportation must be paid to Capt. Blunt, The route is entirely free from rebel guerillas. THE APPROPRIATION FOR PAPER IN THE PUBLIC PRINTING OFFICE. There is a misunderstanding relative to the deficiency in the appropriation for paper for the public printing office, which Mr. Defrees, the superintendent, desires ta have corrected. There is no claim for additional pay for paper already purchased; but the appropriation for the purchase of paper for the present fiscal year is already exhausted, and the appropriation asked for is to cover the expense of such purchases for the balance of the year to the 30th of June. It is estimated that the extra ex- pense to the government for paper in consequence of the prohibitory duty for the year will amount to half a mil- lion of dollars. COWUMBIAN TYPOORAPHICAL SOCIETY. The Columbian Typographical Society celebrated laat night by a supper ite fiftieth anniversary. Among the invited guests were Speaker Colfax, Representatives Bald. win, of Massachnsetts; Brooks and Ambrose W, Clark, of New York; Wim. Faxon, Chief Clerk of the Navy Depart- mont;.J. G. Nicolay, the President's private secretary; | ex-Postmaster General Horatio King, Ben Perley Poore, and other gentlemen, who like themselves have a prac- | tical knowledge of printing, who, eeverally responded, to the regular toasts, much to the delight of the large assem- blage of the craft. Refugees from Arkansas. Caro, Jan. 8, 1865. Tho steamer Lockwood, from Little Rook, has arrived with five hundred refugees and fifty orpliang, in a desti- tute condition. Many of them are sick, and several died op the way up. Three other boat loads are coming. The Missouri Constitutional Convention. Sr. Loum, san. 8, 1866. ‘The Constitutional Convention effected a permanent organization yesterday, by electing Colonel Arnold Krotchell, of St. Charles county, President; Charles D. Drake, of St. Louis, Vice-President; Major A. 8. Foster, of Franklin county, Secretary. The Missouri Legislature. Sr. Lours, Jan. 8, 1866. The State Senate yesterday passed @ joint resolution for the appointment of a committee of eight to memo- Tialize the Secretary of War to establish a garrison of protection near the southwest cornor of the Sta.e. Both Houses have passed a bill authorizing the Board of Public Schools to provide for the education of colored children of this city, the present law forbidding the ame, Coroner's Inquest. SUDDEN DEATH OF A FIREMAN. ‘At an carly hour on Sunday morning, while at the fire corner of Centre and Leonard streets, Patrick Coman, a member of Engine Company No. 13, was taken suddenly ill and fomoved to the law office of Mosara. Howe & Whitmore, where ® doctor was called to attend him. Death ensued, however, shortly afterwards, and the re- mains Tae cereyed td the late residence of a eld an verdict of “4 ‘was twenty-five years of age, and a native of Ireland, Obituary. ALOBRNON P. GREVILLE, PRIVATR SECRETARY TO wi] BURN oF (og oe from the lon Tim Wo yestefday announced the death of Mr. Algernon Frederick Greville, who died on Thursday after few hours illness, He was born January 1798. deceased gentleman, who was well known from his service with the great sooretary, was formerly in the Grenadier called the First regiment of Foot Guards), sent at Quatre Brag and at Waterloo; attack and capture of afterwards i Hl sees Centre strect, you say that @ fracas occurred between engines No. 2 and No. 81. We being in command of our companies, and not knowing of any such respective bem ag you call it, do most fully ask for a con- ROBT A. 9 Foreevin Engine No. % RANGES i . Foreman Gngine No, 82.