The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICH N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash in advance, Money sent by mail will be at the risk of the sender. (Now York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Four cents percopy. Annual None but bank bills current in AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Staxets or New Youx. Es BOWERY THEATRE. r.—ROOKWOOD—SuD- Taovguts—Frevcu Sry—S) 8. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tawng a Tantan—Jack Suxrraup—Sxow Biap—Inetand As lr Is. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tax Suamnoc«. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Live In- ‘Dian—Peorie’s Lawren. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Hamuer. ‘WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Wire's Sxcret. BARNUM’S MUSEUM. Broxdway.—Two Mamuori Fat ‘Wouxn—Living Sxeixtox—Dwakr—Luearnno SkAL—GRAND raote—Fanrns, Tim Haves, &¢c.—Day and Evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- sway.—EmmioriaN Soncs, Daxces, Burursquin, &o.—TH Brack Cuxmst. ‘WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—lam.er— ‘On To Ricumonp—Ertmtorian Soncs, Dancxs, ke. SALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Ronenr Heren— ARLEQUEN SANTA CLAUS. VAN AMBURGH & CO.'S MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, 689 and S41 Broadway.—Open from 10 A. M. to 10 P.M HIPPOTHEATRON, — Fourtee Gyanastic AND Acuonatio Buvenwano. TURKISH FALL, 720 Br hh stroet.—Ka TERTAINMENTS —E way.—OSCANYAN'S OninrAL Eyrertaiswent. No. 444 Broadway.—Baturrs, ec. DENSKY. VANNUCHI'S M Figuaxs—Fuanz M NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, G18 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. wll lv P.M wdway.—Moving Wax New York, Friday, January 13, 1565. THE SITUATION. Admiral Leo, commanding tho Mississippi details to the Navy Department, in an official despz the facts rogarding the escape across the Tennossee river, at Bainbridge, six mi! of the remnants of Hood’s defeated and demoralized army. The Admiral says that only the sudden falling of the water on the shoals and the prevalence of a fog enabled the robels to elude the gunboats. other moans of crossing below Bainbridge were destroyed, and thousands of Hood’s men wero conse- quently scattered through tho woods on the north side of the river. Admiral Lee encloses a despatch which he had received from General Thomas, dated at Pulaski, ps above Florence, Alabama, All the pontoons and have belonged to the gunboats Mary Sandford and Pon- tiac. Delegates from the Indian tribes in alliance with the rebels visited Shreveport, Louisiana, on the 13th of Last month, to request the shipment of a sufficient quantity of cotton to provide for the preasing necessities of their people and to arm the Lidian soldiers in the rebol service. CONGRESS. Tn the Senate yesterday tho debate on the resolution to terminate the so-called Canadian Rociprocity treaty was continued; and the proposition was finally adopted by a vote of thirty-one against eight. The subject now goes back to the House, where it origi- natod, and where it was carried, on the 13th of Decem- bor, by a vote of cighty-five against fifty-one, There is, therefore, no further doubt on the question of the termi- nation of the treaty. A resolution directing the Com- mittoe on she Conduct of the War to inquire into the causes of the failure of the late expedition to Wilming- ton, N. ©., and to report back to the Senate, was proposed by Mr. Wilson, and adopted. Vice Admiral Farragut appeared on the floor of the Senate, and arecess of ton minutes was taken to allow members to pay their re- spects to him. A message from the President, regarding the agreement between the United States and Great Britain corcerning the naval force to be maintained on the lakes, was received and ordered to be printed. The Judiciary Committee reported that they could find ne law requiring the President to give sixty days’ notice of the assembling of an oxtra session of Congress, and no legis- lation on the subject was necessary. A resolution rela- tive to the sale of Indian lands, and limiting the price of the same, was adopted. A brief executive session was held, and the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives Mr. Eliot, of -Massa- chueetts, introduced a substitute for the bill to organize the rebel States, providing that some of them shall be al- lowed to resume their political relations until the loyal a government republican in form and forever prohibiting invol: nary slavery, and further pro- viding that Louisiana shall resume her political relations under her constitution adopted in April, 1864. The sub- stitute was ordered to be printed. The remainder of the session was occupied in debating the constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery, Messrs, Sinith, of Ken. ; Woodbridge, of Vermont, and Thayer, of Pennsylvania, puriicipeted in the dis usion. THE LEGISLATURE. r reported back the Bou committee. Among the bills noticed were one for the payment of certain moneys collected by the E h Departmey aleo to amend the charter of the House for the Refo n of Juvenile Do- Lnquents. The bills introduced were those concerning certain public records in New York; to repeal the fare cons in tho Central Railroad Convolidation act; and to facilitate the acquisition of lands by the Croton Aqueduct Board. A _ resolution was adopted asking the opinion of the Attorney General in relation to the constitutionality of an act creating Stato indebtedness for the purpose of encouraging enlistments, A telogram from the Governor of Missouri to Governor Fenton, annonucing thet free Missouri greets: New York, was read and received with applause. The Senate held a special evening session to consider the State Bounty bill. After considerable debate an amond- ment was moved, ponding tho consideration of which motion progress was reported, and the bill was made tho special order for this evening. In tho Assembly bills were notived to incorporate the rest place in the afternoon and evening. There were present ladies and gentlemen of all ages, im ali kinds of fancy costumes, fying around in quadrilles, waltzes, polkas and Jigs, presenting & scene of the most eulivening character. ‘Tho sport was continuod till nearly midnight. In the Court of Oyer an Terminor yesterday Eliza Savoka, a Spanish negreas, indicted for the murder of Mary Bean at the Sixth ward station house, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in tho third degree, and was re- manded for sentence, ‘The breach of promise suit of Sophia Kittle versus William Walsh resulted yesterday, in the Supertor Court, trial term, in a verdict for the plaintiff, The jury as- sessed the damages at $3,000. ‘Lho only case tried in the Court of Genoral Seasions yea terday was a somewhat novel charge of assault and bat- tery preferred by Charlotte Fisher against Chas. Killings, & journeyman tailor. She complained that, as she was loaving a tailoring establishmont in Broadway, on the 20th of November, defendant threw some vitriol upon her dress, which burned it. The affair grew out of the tailors’ strike. Tho defendant's comrades at the time of the alleged assault ewore that he did not go near hor or throw any substance upon her. The jury acquitted the accused. Hugh Carpenter pleaded guilty to assaulting officer Car- penter, of the Eighth precinct, on the 23d of December. Patrick Clark, charged with stealing eighty-six dollars in money from James Ryan, of 651 Wooster street, on the 6th of December, pleaded guilty to an altempt at larceny. These prisoners were remanded. was suB- pended in the case of Daniel Duff, whe ploaded guilty to forgory én the fourth degree. ‘Two enterprising thieves, having with them a horse and wagon, oh Wednesday evening followed one of our hotel coaches which was.on its way to a railroad atation, and, when they thought an opportane moment had ar- rived, snatched from the rear of it a trunk, which they deposited in their wagon, and started to drive rapidly off; but, being observed and pursued, in order to make thoir own escape they were obliged to abandon trunk, horse and wagon. Edward Chester was yosterday committed for trial charged with stealing articles of woaring apparel from two women, to one of whom, it is alleged, ho adminis- tered chloroform in order to thake his oporations suc- cessful, An unsuccessful attempt was made by burglars about three o'clock yesterday morning to blow open asafo in a coal office on the corner of Fourth avenie and Thirteenth atreot A woman, named Margaret Casey, was yosterday com- mitted for oxam‘nation on the charge of stealing wearing appare! valved at over a bundred dollars, from No. 46 East Broadway, where she was employed as a servant. The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Commis. sionors of Charities and Correction was held yesterday. Nothing but the regular bueiness came before them. The number remaining in tho ¢iflerent institutions under the charge of the Commissioners on December 31, 1864, was 6,967, The number admitted since has been 1,062. Since December 31, 39 have died, 869 been discharged, 113 been sent to Blackwell's Island and two sent to State Prison, making a total of removals of 1,023, leaving in all 7,006 remaining January 7, 1865. A mecting of prominent citizens of Ohio was held at Columbus on the 11th inst., to take measures for making General Sherman a present of one hundred thousand dol- lars in government bonds. Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, immediately on tho adoption of the emancipat’on ordnance by tho Constitu- tonal Convention of that State, transmitted to the Gov- ernors of the different loyal States telographic messages of greeting and rejo‘c ng over the event. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1865. off Fort Sumter, is reported. ‘The Yankeos aro said to | dress'ball of the season on the Fifth avenue pond took aside as a failure, The Richmond Examiner speaks at last as boldly to this point as did the antiJacobin French republicans against Robes- pierre when they felt sure that his power was broken and his fate was in their hands. The Richmond Sentinel, Jeff.’s faithful and confiden- tial organ, stands at last almost solitary and alone in his defence. Since the disastrous consequences to “the confederacy” of the military visit of Davis to Georgia, last September, a movement has been on foot in Richmond to depose him and to set up General Lee as military dictator in his place, with absolute powers for war or peace. It is now reported that to this ond the Rich- mond Enquiyer of Tuesday last says that “A call is out for a convention of the Confederate States;” that “the intention of the authors of the call is to revolutionize the revolution, to depose Mr. Davis, wipe out the Confederate Congress, appoint a dictator in his stead, and perhaps surrender to the enemy.” This lookslike prac- tical and effective work in behalf of peace, and it is possible, from the powerful rebel opposi- tion element organizing against Davis, that, to save himself, he may, after all, become the leader of a Southern peace movement on the basis of submission. What else canhe do? He is utterly power- less to resist the military combinations that are closing around him. His abolition and forcign intervention proposals can excite only the in- dignation .of Southern slaveholders and the contempt of European potentates. Hence, por- haps, the ready admission of Old Mr. Blair as a poacemaker into Richmond, and henco that peace committee of fifteen from the rebel Con- gress. Such, however, is the obstinate charac- ter of Davis that we rather incline to the opinion that he will fight for his position as Southern dictator till put down by force of numbers. We dare say, too, that, unless Geno- ral Grant is quick in executing his military de- signs, the rebels themselves will take the job off bis hands of the dethronement and expul- sion of Davis from Richmond, and then, with General Lee as dictator we may expect a troaty of submission, amnesty, reunion and peace. The late operations and the present threaten- ing movements of Sherman and Thomas have warned the Southern planters not yet touched by the war of the dangers before them from a continuance of the war—the dangers from Davis as well as the dangers from our armies— dangers which, taken all together, mean noth- ing less than universal devastation and ruin. To save their slaves and system of slavery from a violent overthrow by Davis, or by the intru- sion of invading armies, and their stores of corn and cotton from seizure or from fire, those ree 2 Complications in Mexico—Maximiiian’: Posision on the Church Question. telegraph. If the ‘Tribune corre vondents had been enterprising enough to get ¢,\e news they ‘The nows from Mexico contained in the letter | could have se_t it as our correspon, dents did. of our Havana correspondent, published yes- terday, is of the most important character. It shows that the Emperor Maximilian has at last found out, and is resolved to grapple with, the fundamental! evil that threatens the internal peace of his empire. Among all the State pa- pers that he has issued since his accession to power there is none of them that equals in im- portatice the recent imperial manifesto on the vexed question of church property. This mat- ter of ecclesiastical wealth and influence has been the bane of Mexico ever since the early days of the conquest, when the viceroys of Spain took it upon themselves to bestow the lands and treasures of the people on the church as a certain and perpetual inheritance. Every successive government since the birth of tho independent Mexican republic has had to contend with the serious difficulties which surrounded a reform of this ancient abuse. The church party, however, through the force of their inexhaustible wealth and secret influence, have always managed to retain their power, and in many casvs to extend their privileges. It was not until the enlightened and lamented Comonfort became President of the republic that a blow—though a faint one—was struck at these illegal church combinations. But Comon- fort did not succeed, because his remedies were lukewarm and incomplete; and, like all half- way moasures directed against great evils, they fell to the ground. The proceedings of President Juarez were altogethor different. He no sooner came into power than he saw that the church party had to be taken in hand. His long experience as @ judge of the Supreme Court of Mexico had doubtless opened his eyes to many abuses not so well known to the rest of his countrymen. The characteristic vigor and determination of the man were at once imparted to his action against the ecclesiastical oligarchy; and had he been supported in his work of reform by @ united people the question of church aggran- dizement would have been long since finally decided. The energy and resolution of Juarez, however, alarmed the churchmen; and, finding that there was no compact or reliable clement athome successfully to oppose him, they, taking advantage of our rebellion, called in the aid of the European Powers, and thus changed the whole aspect of affairs. Ever since Maximilian came into the country the liberal and the church parties have been watching him closely, each party hoping for advantage from the course he should pursue. The oracle has spoken at last, and the decizion is against the churoh. The Emperor says that the matter “demands immediate solution;” and, RISING OF AN Buf, as the Tribune editor wrote, some time ago, “the Henatp is constantly abead. We (of the Tribune) are obliged to copy from it,” Tax Heratp axp Tae Parer Durr.—O, vo the twaddling Western papers accuses \ the Heratp of inoonsisteney in first favoring ¢he repeal of the paper duty, and then opposi Ys it, We have already fully explained our pos tion in regard to this subject At the fira\ blush, and out of sympathy with the groans and complaints of the Western editors, we did favor the repeal; but upon reflection we could see ne good reason why the newspaper interest should be relieved from the burdens of the war, while other interests continued to suffer. Several of our leading contemporaries share our opinions and join with us in asking Congress not te repeal the duty. MEXICO. Defeat of Gen. Courtois d’Horbal by Porfirio Diaz, THE BATTLES OF BILA. GEN. BAZAINE TAKES THE FIELD, Movements of Riva Palacios and Romero. f Mutiny of an Imperial Garrison and Slaughter of the Prefect, INDIAN TOWN. THE IMPERIAL TROOPS KEPT BUSY, key Key Bee Wo are in receipt of very late and interesting advices from Mexico, through reliable sources, Our dates oxtend to the 28th of December from the city of Moxicn We subjoin a summary of the chiof items of news:— A French force, numboring, four thousand five hum dred, with twenty-four pieces of artillery, under the com- mand of General Courtois d'Horbal, had marched upen the city of Oajaca, in the State of that name. Our for- mer accounts gave us due netics that this expedition was in preparation to scourgo that portion of the republicam stronghold. Porfirio Diag, the gallant governor of Oajaca, had been fully informed of the intentions of the French, Southern planters are now turning to the in- New York and Brooklyn Ferry Company, for a railrosd in Broadway, to incorporate the Cosmopolitan Railroad Company, to regulate the pr'ce of gas in Brooklyn; aleo to incorporate the Soldiers’ Home for Southern New York. Bill wero introduced for the crection of a new Capitol, to amend the Brooklyn Water act, to authorize the Se- { cond Avenue Railroad Company to lay a new track, rolative to taxes and assessments in this city, for a rat road in Thirty-fourth etreet. and Sixth avenue; also to incorporate the New York Conservatary of Music, Tho Spenker then presented the annual reports of the Com- missary General of Ordnance and of the Adjutant General. The bill to amend the constitution relative to the appoint ment of Commissioners of Appeals was then taken up and L mae MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our European files by tho Moravian, dated to the 29th of December, contain very interesting and important de- Tenn., on the 29th of December, in which the latter sums up, 80 far as then known to him, Hood’s losses in men and artillery from the time he crossed tho Tennessee morthward. It puts them down at goneral officers and about fourteen men in killed, wounded and captured, and seventy Pieoes of artillery Rather singularly, though, he does Bot include in this account Hood's killed and wounded fm the two days battle before Nashville, on the 16th and 16th ult. Confirmation of the rebel despatch, published in yes- eorday's Hensxn, stating that a portion of General Sher- man’s army had been sent from Savannah to Beaufort, 8. C., is furnished us by the steamship George C. Collins, nineteen thousand which arrived here yesterday, from Port Royal on the 7th inst. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says that since Gen. Bhorman has had possession of Savannah the most perfect order has been maintained, and that the slightest disorders or interference with the rights of the citizens on the part of soldiers are severely punished. It also states that a majority of the malo population remained in the city; that on Sundays the churches are well filled with ladies; that greenbacks are now exclusively the currency, and that one or two of the insurance compa- nies are preparing to open a national bank. James river despatches report that owing to the lack of transportation and forage caused by General Warren's destruction of the Weldon Railroad to Hicksford, on the Meherrin river, about forty miles south of Petersburg, General Lee's rebel cavalry lave been compelled to withdraw to that point to make their winter quarters, though they picket as far north as Ream’s station and Hatcher's run. gress in relaying the track torn up by Warren's men in their raid. It is said that the removal of General Butlor from the head of the Army of the James caused great surprise to nearly his entire command, both officers and ‘The rebels have made scarcely any pro- men. One of our correspondents in the Shenandoah valley gays a rumor prevails there that General Sheridan is to have a new and very important command. General Powell has resigned the command of the Second cavalry diviaion of the Shenandoah arty, and is to be succeeded by General Chapman. Our Now Orleans despatches give us some very inter esting particulars of a late Union raid under Colonol Robinson, which left Fort Barrancas, Florida, on the 13th ‘of last month, and reached its destination, Pollard, Ala Dama, without the slightest opposition on the part of the enemy. Here the railroad and telograph, two bridges, immense quantities of commissary ‘nd quartermaster stores, the buildings contain- ing them, & train of cars and much other rebel government property were destroyed. The Union force then started to return. In the meantime the onmy had collected scattered detach ments, and made considerable opposition, but waa badly do. feated and driven back cach time he made a stand. ‘The rebel loss in killed and wounded was heavy. Colonel Robinson's loss in killed, wounded and missing was ouly about seventy. Some farther particulars of General Granger's expedition from Fort Gaines, Mobile bay, to Franklin creck, Jackson county, Miseissippi, are furnished ‘us. On the 22d of December General Granger had se- cured much valuable property, and his pickets were within twenty-eight miles of Mobile. The rebel General Buckner is said to have a large force at Alexandria, Louisiana, General Hurlbut has directed the closing of the theatres and all other places of amusement in New Orleans on Sunday, by order of Prosident 1. The Richmond papers are daily growing more bold and bitter in their denunciations of Jeff. Davis and his ad ministration of military affairs, and in their demands for the appointment of General Lee to supreme and un- foatricted direction of all the rebel armies, The Richmond Beaminer, of tho oth inet., says that Jeff's course of conduct is whirling the confederacy to the Devil, and the Enquirer of tho 11th inst, states that acall is out for a convention of the ‘Confederate States,” the objects of coln. the authors of which are to revolutionize the rebel revo- lation, depore Jeff. Davis and his Congresa, appoint a di¢- tator, and perhaps surrender to the Yankees. It is paid that the guerilia Mosby has arrived safely pt the residence of his father, in Amberst, Va, and ox- pects to be able to be again in the saddle in a short time. ‘Tho capture of two Yankeo barges, containing twenty. @ayon mon, by & rebel picket boat in Charleston harbor. tails of our telegraphic repert from Portland, published in the Heratp yesterday morning. The encyelical letter addressed by Pope Pius the Ninth to the episcopacy of the Catholic Church all over the world, coming at the presont moment, may be regarded as one of the most im- portant ecclesiastical documents ever issned from Rome. Our advieos from Maximilian’s empire, dated in tho city of Moxico to the 28th of December, indirate that the republican troops are still giving the im perialists plenty to do, We have am aecount of the defeat of about four thousand five Imndred ef the Emperor's soldiers, under General a’Herbal, by a force of republicans under Porfirio Diaz, at a plaee called Etla, a short distance from the city of Oajaca. As soon as this become known in the capital large reinforee- ments for the imperialists were sent forward, with what result had not been learned, ‘The report of ts defeat of the republican general Arteaga is said to be without foundation, and throughout all Southern Mexico the sup- porters of Juare arc represented ax very active and sue- cessful. In one town the imperial garrison had revolted, pot the prefect to death, and joined the liberal ranks. The steamer Melville, which left this port for Hilton Head on the 5th inst., after encountering heavy south- west winds and a heavy sea, had her bows stove In on the night of the 7th inst., and sank on the following day (Sonday last). Of about eighty persons who were on board of her only four are known to be saved. One of them, named Albert L. Baydon, was picked up on a floating fragment of the wreck on Inst Sunday afternoon, by the bark Rechabite, which arrived here yester. day, and three others—A. B. Peacock, passenger, of Philadelphia; Joseph M. Kerney, mate, and William Kennedy, third engineer—were rescued and brought to this port by the brig Harriet. The Melville had sixty-flve passengers, four of whom were ladies, and about sixteen officers and crew. The weather bas been very stormy across the whole extent of the North Atlantic daring-the past month, and the shipwrecks and logs of life already reported as resulting from it are quite considerable, Among the vessels totally lost, besides the Melville, were the steamship North America, with which one hundred and ninety-aix Hves were lost; the ship AL batross, the bark Mallio Metcalf, and doubtless many others, some of which may never be heard from. The mail steamer Georgiana, running between Balti- more, Fortress Monroe and Norfolk, collided with a schooner in Cheeapeake bay on last Tuesday morning, during a dense fog, and four of those on board were drowned and several others received serious injuries. ‘The bowsprit of the schooner struck the Georgiana, tear. ing open the whole of one of her sides in front of the wheelhouse; but by the uso of her pumps she was enabled to reach Fortress Monroe, with her surviving in- ured and uninjured passengers and crow. The number of men aaily enlisted at the Supervisors’ Committee rooms, in the City Hall, has very much in- creased lately. It ia believed that the War Department will give credits on our quota under the President's last call for all the naval enlistmenta. Chairman Blunt is now receiving recruits for the voteran First army corps, to be commanded by Major General Hancock, and to con- sist only of mon who have already served at least two years in the army. General Hancock yesterday visited the volunteering and enrolling rooms. In the latter there are about one thousand clerks employed, who, on the veteran General's presence being announced, rose and gave him nine hearty cheers. It is expected that the steamship Rebecea Clyde, laden with contributions of provisions for the poor of Savan- nah obtained by the Chamber of Commerce and Produce Exchange committoes, will be ready to sail to-morrow or the next day, and that an additional steamer will be despatched from this port some time next week. ‘The Hecker injunction case was argued yesterday be- fore Judge Ingraham, by John E, Develin and ex-Judgo Allen on the part of the city, and James R. Whiting on the part of the Citizens’ Association. While passing across the City Hall Park, on his way tocourt, Mr. Hecker was assaulted by some of tho street sweepers and roughly handled, He succooded in making his escape, however, with a fow bruises, and sought refuge in the Supreme Court Chambers, where he was protected from the vio- lence of the mob by the promptness and courage of the court officers and some citizens, Judge Ingraham will make known his decision this morning at ten o'clock. ‘Tho weather yoaterday was again clear, cool and de- lictously invigorating, and the ioe on the various skating ponds in and around the city was in excellent condition, ‘and was thronged by thousands of skaters, In the Park the attendance was very large. Tho rst grand fancy Green, who was convicted of the murder of young Converse, in the bank at Malden, Mass, somo time ago, will not be exceuted to-day, as was oxpected, ow ng to Governor Andrew hav.ng w tuheld hs & gnature from tho warrant, The New Mumpshire Domoorat ¢ Convention yesterday Rom/nated for Governor EK. W. Harrington, of Nan chester. A range of wooden bnildings on the wert ade of Sussex street, in Ottawa, Canada, werw barned-eb Monday morn- ing last, involving a tons of $20,000. The Norwieh and Worooster steamboat freight tra n ray off the track ou Wednesday, at Montville, Conn., and the engineer, named Jorry Champion, was killed. ‘The stock market was lower yesterday. Governmont acourities were strong. Gold was heavy in the morning, but reacted late iz tha afternoon, etosing at 2:20%. ‘The fall of gold rather unsetited the markets for most goods, yesterday, and but liltle was done in any depart- ment. {imported merchandise was quict and nominal. Do- mestic goods wore dulf and lowor ie sympathy with gold. Petroleum was quict and nominal. Cotton was full 3c. por Ib, lower. On Change the flour market was depressed and fully 10c. lower. Wheat was inaetive and a decline of 2c. a 3c, in prices would have Been necessary in order to effect gales, Corn and oats were firmer, but inactive. Tho pork market was inactive but lower, Beef was eteady in price, with a moderate demand. Lard was scarocly #o firm, and less doing. Freighta were dull and rates nominal. Whiskey was scarcely so firm. Peace Movements and Peace Ramors— Threatened Depos! of Jeff. Davis by @ Convention of the Robelli: On every wind from the South come reports of peace movements, peace combinations and propositions for peace. All sorts of doves, bear- ing olive branches, are passing from Wash- ington to Richmond and from Richmond to Washington. It is believed that Jeff. Davis, surrounded by our armies and by hostile fac- tions, is getting very weak in the back, and is prepared to give up his confederacy for the privileges of an amnesty, and that Old Abe is disposed to be exceedingly generous. F. P. Blair, the father of the family, as a vol- unteer peace ambassador, has been admitted into Richmond. He is reported as having safely arrived at the Spottswood House, where the bill of fare is corn bread and bacon, at the rate ef one hundred dollars a day in rebel scrip, ten dollars in “greenbacks,” or two dol- lars in Union gold. Old Mr. Blair, we pre- sume, may be considered the representative of the conservative republicans, though it is possible he may be also strength- ened with the blessing of Greeley. The copperhead peace men have likewise detailed their peace messenger to the enemy in the person of Gen. Singleton, of Illinois, whose spe- cial mission is perhaps to look after the sup- posed interests of his party in the preservation of slavery. These two pence messengers—and how many more we cannot teM—have gone out over the troubled waters from Washington. On the other hand, as it appears, the rebel House of Representatives has appointed a peace com- mittee of fifteen—including such Southern rebel conservatives as Boyce and Orr, of South Caro- lina; Wm. C. Rives, of Virginia, and John A. Gilmer, of North Carolina—on a peace mission to Washington. Next, it is reported that the rebel Vice President Stephens, who, in the very act of joining the rebellion in 1861, made the best and most powerful and prophetic Union speech, South or North, of that day, has applied, on his own account, for permission to come within our lines to see what can be done in behalf of peace. These are mere straws, but they truly indi- cate the drift of the wind. We have, however, something more to the purpose in the bold and powerful peace factions rising up in Richmond and throughout the so-called “confederacy” against Davis, and looking to his speedy do thronement. Those hostile combinations are the ripening fruits of his military blunders and disasters; his remorseless exercise of despotic powers; his personal enmities, jealousies and favoritisms; his sucidal abolition propositions and his degrading suggestion, as a last resort, of a surrendor 0% the rebellious States as colo- nies to a Euyopean Holy Alliance. He bas been laboring; through the rebel Congress, to establish hiraself as an absolute dictator. He has failed, and his enemies now defiantly de- clare the’; be must be pulled down and cast evitable alternative of submission. They may thus save in the aggregate some three millions of bales of cotton stored away, and keep their negrocs around them through a quiet transition from slavery to emancipation. A thousand millions of Southern property are thus thrown into the scales in favor of submission. The owners of this property are opening their eyes, and they are beginning to comprehend their true situation. Hence the increasing boldness of the anti-Davis party ai; Richmond, and hence we are sure tho day of Southorn submission and peace is fast approaching. Emancipation in THe Borver Srares.—It is a curious circumstance that while Missouri and the other border slave States—the bulk of whose wealth and the guerdon of whose prosperity have been the property held in negrocs—are voluntarily abolishing the institution of slavery by State conventions called by the people, and by amendmonts to State constitutions, 3 few gentlemen from the North, who never owned a slave, and have no interest except of a political character in the maintenance of slavery, should be opposing ils abolition by a constitutional amendment on the floor of the Lower House of Congress. In Missouri the Constitutional Convention have just decided upon the absolute abolition of slavery by the very positive vote of sixty to ‘four. Maryland has already abolished it. In West Virginia the question is settled by its con- stitution. Delaware has only one thousand five hundred slaves left to be disposed of, and will speodily follow the other States. The institution is, to all intents and purposes, dead in Tennos- sec, Louisiana and Arkansas, while it is eo demoralized in Old Virginia by the war and the presence of our armics for the past four years that it may be considered as cleared out altogether. The Governor of Kentuetty, in his last message, admits that slavery is virtually dead there. He says that the rebellion has destroyed property in alaves; that it exists in name, but not in inierest, and that what remains of it is not only effete but burdensome. Thus we see that there are already three Southern States come over to the North by the free will of the slaveownors themsclves, and six other States agitating the question in a direction which must end as it has in Maryland, West Virginia and Missouri. As for those States still in rebellion, the slavery question will be settled there by military power and the exigencies of the time. As soon as the plan urged by Jeff. Davis, General Loe and the Richmond press, of arming and freeing the slaves, is adopted—whieh it prohably will be, as a dernier ressort—the institution is dead and buried forever. How ridiculous it is, then, in the face of facts like these, to sce a few Con- gressmen from the Northern States resisting the adoption of the Senate’s resolution to abolish stavery by an amcudment to the con- stitution. Desgerions rrow THE Exruy.—The frequent desertions from the rebe. ranks into our lines prove that the demoralisation in Lee’s army is considerable, and is, no doubt, but an illustra- tion ot the wavering and despondency in the military as weil as the political elements of the rebellious States. Every boat that reaches Washington from City Point brings numbers of deserters, some of them belonging to the cavalry arm of the service, who bring their equip- ments and horses into our lines. It is true that the rebel journals claim a number of deserters from the Union ranks also; but we think these will be found to come from among those foreigners who have been kidnapped, as it were, in Europe, and thrust into the ranks of many of the New England regiments immedi- ately on their landing. These men, of course, find their position in the front very unpleasant, and they are glad to make any change. But when they find that they have jumped from the frying pan into the fire they will be deserting beck again, if the war lasts long enough to give them a hance, and, with the means at his disposal, made every prepara- tion for a vigorous defence: The date of the attack is not given; but wo learm that tho Fronch forces had arrived at a town named Etla, three leagues from Oajaca, where asanguinary fight took place, resulting in the complete rout of the French by a part of the army of General Porfirio Diaz. In consequence of this, as ‘soon as the news was received in Mexico, three thousand more troops, with a heavy force of artillery, were de- spatched to reinforce d’Herbal, and in afew days after General Bazaine himself left the capital porconally to conduct the cainpaign. ‘The city of Toluca was attacked by the forces of Riva Palacios and Romero on the 26th of Decombor, the at- tacking force succeeding in capturing a part of the city, as far as San Juan de Dios. Rolnforcements were, bow- over, rapidly hurried from Mexico to the assistance of the garrison, when tho liberal forces retired, without any pursuit on the part of the imporialiste. after giving a heavy blow to the army of priests who are to be found in all parts of the country, by declaring that “the sacraments shall be administered, and the other functions of the sacred ministry exercised thoughout the empire without cost or charge to the people,” ke proceeds to direct his Minister of State that he shall, “before anything else,” look to the “revision of the operations of mortmain and nationalization of ecclesiastival property, shaping it on the basis that legitimate trans- actions executed without fraud, and according to the laws which decreed such amortization, | shall be ratified.” This decree at once dis- poses of the question, and takes up the matter just where Juarez was forced to leave it off. Upon this action the Emperor must stand or fall among his people; but we are of opinion that be will be warmly supported, and become more popular than ever among the masses of the people. From the church party and their friends he must, of course, look for the bitterest kind of hostility; but as he has had the nerve and the resolution to take this stand, it is to be hoped that he will be firm to the end, and thus prepare Mexico for a republican form of gov- ernment as soon as our rebellion is over and we can take that nation im hand. Tur Case or THe Srremr CLeANERS—ALMOST a Rior.—Two incidents occurred in the city yesterday, arising out of what we regard as an unwarrantable assumption of authority and re- sponsibility where neither existed. The case of the injunction served upon the Mayor by Mr. John Hecker to restrain him from signing the pay rolls of the laborers at work in cleaning the strects was argued in the Supreme Court, and Judge Ingraham reserved his decision until to-morrow. Mr. Hecker, while proceeding through the Park to the court, was violently set upon by two or three hundred of the indignant laborers, and had to take refuge in the Judge’s room. Now, there was no necessity for any such demonstration as this. The matter is a very simple one, as the facts will show, and could have been easily settled by regular pro- cess of law. These workmen undoubtedly earned their wages.and ought to have received them, and if Mr. Boole committed any depreda- tion upon the public purse by overcharging for cleaning the streets he could be made amenable in the courts or removed by Governor Fenton if such a charge were established. Butit appears thet the “ Citizens’ Associa- tion,” a self-constituted and unauthorized body, undertook to seitle the question in another way, and to strike at Mr. Boole through the working- mon. They got one of their number, Mr. Hecker, to get out an injunction against the action of the Mayor, and then issued a card in the papers calling on the laborers to send. their bills to them, and they would examine them and have the injunction removed, as far as regarded the bills which they considered fair and honest. The laborers, not recognizing the right of any irresponsible body of men to com trol them, refused to accede, and, through the Corporation Counsel, sued for a removal of the injunction in tolo, Hence the riotous proceed- ings of yesterday. It is evident that no municipal government can be properly administered as long a8 an as sociation of men, wholly without authority and acting in their own names only, attempt to regu- late the affairs of the city in this way, without regard to the jurisdiction of courts, the sanction of the authorities, or the existence of a State Governor and Legislature. enna ‘Tar Tanpy Tresonn ann Burier’s Removat.— ‘As usual, the Huraty was a day or two abead of all the other papers in publishing the news about Butler’s removal. The Times copied our report the next day, and several other journals did the sate thing; but the Tribune feels very badly, and in a long article acknowledges itself terribly beaten, and blames Secretary Stanton, the government censor and the telegraph ope- ratora for it. These gentlemen had nothing to dq erith the affair. Our ngwe did not come br. bonsideratl lerable pul ; and, ag it seems, the im cannot send any forces to dislodge thom fate hag befallon the port of Manzanillo, on the Pacific, which was only occup'ed by the imperiali Marguen' the ally of the reach; has beon ‘deprived et the ally of 8 fseomband, ‘and that he will be’ sent to Paris. death. The soldiers then joined (2¢ ranks of the ‘The announcement of the final defeat of Arteaga turne out to be bascless, according to our present reporta, im asmuch as we now learn that both Arteaga and Gonerad peared in Michoacan, with forces so & eagaray have that Genors! Donai has found it necessary ception of the capital, in hands of the republicans, The capital we by the latest advices was alse threatened lists for a brief period. deprived of In Tialpam, a town some four leagues, or twelve miles, from the capital, the garrison revolted against the Impe- rial Prefect, Don Ygnacio Falcon, whom they put to eral guerilla chicf Martinez. The Indians in Tenauzo have also broken out into opem revolution. ‘The first result of their fury was the stoning to death of the Imperial Prefect, Carriedo. San Juan del Rio, a town on the road from the capital to Queretaro, was threatened by the republican and its danger was considered so imminent that a force had to be hastily sent away from the capital to ite relief, It is stated that on the 27th ult. a decree was signed the Emperor reducing the whole force of armed jexicans to four regiments, to be by Gene. rals Tabera and Mejia. ‘On the 26th ult. the laws termed ‘Reform’ were ratl- fled. The Pope's Nuncio stated that he had brought-ne instructions with him from Rome. Maximilian gave him two days to consider whethcr he would sign the com- cordat on tho basis of religious tolerance, the nationaliza- tion of the property of tho: clergy, its transfer to the i Bate and the establishment of the civil Uist. The Nunolo did not sign, and Maximilian, without further delay, ed the deeree—which appeared in our paper yester- The bishops and cl have become se di with is §=course action that it ia said that Arch’ Labashida and Mangina bave resolved to leave country. The first named had a Frenchman for his private secretary namod Pas- mire, who has been arrested by the imperial police, and direeted to quit the empire immediately. thousand conjectures as to the There are & 80 prompt and energetic a measure. ‘ ‘There is no money in the country, nor do the of the Em; know where to get any. The only eee ne piel, ta expen : Rustaguio a wi cay ox lege en tis mai ina rhort tin, ind will proceed to Kurope character Commissioner. It ta'anid that Morelis has boon ocoupied by the Mus Sepcwrcn’s Reaprvos.—The dramatic readings of Migs Margaret Sedgwiok at the Historical Society's rooma, tat evening, gave great satisfaction to a select and attem- tive audience. This lady is gifted with excellent drama- ho capacity. Her voice is finely modulated, her intona- tion clear and distinct, and her action graceful and ua- fonstrained. She appears to conceive fully the spirit of the authors from whom she selects her subjects, and thas interprets them with a truthfulness to nature which im- parts to her reading a charm not always to be found im more ambitious aspirants for fame in this branch of dre matic art. Tur Broapway Atimxaom.—As we intimated rome weeks since it. would be, the auditorium of the building on Broadway, known as the Charch of the Messiah, has been adapted to use far lectures, concerts, &o., and with be inaugurated on Monday, the 23d instent, by Mr. Hack- ett in reading and recitations from Shakepere in aid of the fund for construeting a monument to the Lard in the Park. Tho odifice is hereafter to be called the Broadway Athenmain. > Obituary. MRS. MARY EDDY. Tho theatrical profession wilt be grieved to learn thas Mr. K Eddy, the well known and popular American actor, has sustained a severe domestic aflictian in the lows of his estimable wife, She expired on the 27th ult, im the city of New Orleans, after & i and painfod® iitnesa, contracted during her residence iv this city. She was aitended in ber lass moment® by her husband and eldest son. Mr. Rddy had but recently wo the Crescent City for the purpose of assuming the Mmanage~ mont of the St. Charles theatre. Affairs Boston. THE RERCUTION OF GREEN DRFERRED—AID rom BAVANNAR. Bostow, Jan. 12, 1865, ‘To-morrow was the day assigned for the execution of Greon, the Malden murdorer; but it is understood that the Governor haa withheld his signature from the war. t ition of the sentence is doforred ForrSctron by the née excentive counel. telief of Savannah already amennte Bs oot oer om J provisions,