The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1865, Page 4

JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. Volume XXX WALLACE'S TUBATRE, Brosdway.—Tux Tarn Harenss. OLtErr9 THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Stasers or New en NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Jack amp His Napmamatran—Harry MAN. BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wacovsts—Bortin Laur. SNIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tum Smaxnocs. BRQADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway.—Tos Live In- 's Lawrse. BARNUM'’S MUSEUM, Bro: .—Two Mauuora Fat fowns—LIving ¥—Dw sar! BARD AIRS, Harns, 40.~Day and Evening. BRY, MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ 472 Broad- WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, Broadway. SALLB U) . (QUE, 585 Broadway.—Bossar Hutiun’s van CO.'3 MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, sab and ott Broalwey.-Open from AM te Me HIPPOTHBATRON, Fourteenth street.—E, GQrunasrio amp Acnosarico EwraataurMents— es AMERIOAN A No. jrosdway.—BaLLans, ‘Parromurs, buneneavan. pats sencocmaatan: pert NEW YORK MUSEUM 01 = Oe ee TOE a NATOMY, G18 Browdway. nein eles amen ===ns pene Ss Now York, Tuesday, January 17, 1865. eee THE SITUATION. ‘We have the important report that the attack on Fort ‘Fisher and its subsidiary defences to the mouth of Cape ‘Fear river, North Carolia, has been resumed by the na- ‘tional naval and army forces, Admiral Porter's feet withdrew to Beaufort, North Carolina, after the former @ttaok, where it remainod till Tuesday, the 10th (mst. «On Sunday, the Sth inst, transports, with @ large number of troops, arrived at that point, and om the 0th the army and navy fleets were congre- gated together off Beaufort harbor, and were expected to wall for the entrance to Cape Fear river the next day. Richmond papers say that on Friday last upwards of fifty gunboats appeared off Fort Fisher and shelled the woods, and they haveareport that an attack was also made on the fort itacif on the same day. A Wilmington Gespatch of last Saturday morning says that fifty Tajon vessels were still in sight, and that they ware fa- ‘fore with fair wesdther and a smooth sea Six de- Sorters from the rebels who have reached Admiral Par- ter's fleot, and who were in Fort Fisher during the shell- ing Of the 24th and 25th, say that the effect of the naval Gre wos terriflo; that it dismounted eight of their guns, killed and wounded a number of men, and did muoh other damage, and that the commander of tho fort only awaited a summons to surrendey, when the work would have beon given up. On the afternoon of the 26th a reinforcement of six thousand men arrived at, ‘Wilmington to reinforce the troops in the forts, but were sent on to Hardee, in South Carolina, when it was learned that the national troops had reombarked, thus leaving caly the original garrisons there. It is said that the rebels havea new and very for- q™idable ram nearly completed up the Roanoke river, in North Carolina, which thoy design to shortly move down hat stream simultaneously with {he descent of the Neuse river by the one which they have at Kinston, and {8 is probably intended that while the latter makes an attack on the Union forces at Newbern the former shall attempt to rogain possession of Plymouth. Efforts are being made by our forces at the latter place to raise the sunken Albemarie, and if this endeavor should suc- oped it is thought that with her and a light draught Mon!- tor which is expected to arrive tho rebel attack can be easily repulsed. General Thomas was at Clifton, Wayne county, Tennes- gee, on fast Saturday. This plage is in the extrome gouthern part of the State, on the Tennossce river. General Thomas’ army {s well furnished with supplies, to which accessions are constantly being made by trans- ports moving up the river; but ft i# sald that we need look for no active operations by it for sone days, the roads being in vory bad condition. It is believed that ‘Hood's disorganized forces are still flying southward be- yond Corinth, Missiasippi. ‘Thore is still no disturbance of the quiet in front of Richmond. Goneral Ord having beon placed at the head of the Army of the James, he has been succeeded in the command of the Twenty-fourth corps by Major General John Gibbon, lately commanding the Second division of the Second corps. The rebola in front of the Twenty-Oth corps bmave been for some time busily engaged in the erection of some new works, which are begining to assume a formidable appearance. It ts said that @ division of Virginia troops, when recently ordered South from Lee’s army, mutinied and positively refused to leave their own State, and that they carfled their point. Mr. Francis P. Biair, Sr, retarned to Washington yes- terday from his journey to Richmond, whither he went not as @ peace commissioner, but for the purpose of endeavoring to regain possession of title deeds and other Important papers stolen from hie residence when it was tacked last spring by the rebels during the raid of Breck- tnridgo and Early tn Virginia and Maryland. In this he was partially successful. He had interviews with Joff. Davis, hig Secretary of War and other principal men of the rebel government, and, though he bad no authority to make any peace propositions, ho laid before them his views? ‘and bad free and candid conversations with them. The compilation of extracts from the Richmond papers fegarding Mr. Blair's movements and suppased objects, published in this morning’s Heat, form a very amusing collection. ‘The Toronto Glebe, the editor of which is a member of the Canadian Cabinet and has Jost returned from Eng- tana, makes the following statement in ite issue of yee torday :—“‘We are crodibly informed that the best logal opinion in England favors the extradition of the raiders now bofore the Canadian courts.” New Orleans advices to the 8th inst. state that General Canby has ordered @ draft of one in seven in the De- partments of the Gulf, Arkansas and Mississippi on the 16th of February anless the quotes shall be previously filled. The steamer Venango was captured and burned by guorilias on the Sth inst, near Skipwith Landing, On the Misissippl Her passongers and crew wore made prisoners, ‘Tho vigilance and industry of the officers under Major G@onoral Dix and Police Superintendent Kennedy have re- @ulted in the arrest of four alleged notorious and im- portant rebel pirates and incendiaries, who are shortly to be tried by ® military commission which is to assemble at Fort Lafayette, One of these men is said to be the Lake Eric pirate Bell, another a confederate of his, and the two others are charged with boing leaders in the plot to burn down this city. All these men wero arrested on our Northern border, and three of them, it is stated, hold oommiasions In tho rebel army. ‘The exchange of prisoners betwoon our own and the NEW YORK HERALD. RNER OF ¥YULTON AND NASSAU STS. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1865. Theso lettor gentlemen may be moved with very benevolent emotions and stimulated by very high oonocits, They no doubt desire peace as much as woall do, and may fanoy that it is their special mission to bring it about; but if we are not mistaken they are violating a epe- cis! law of Congress passed in the troublesome times of the-elder Adams—in 1799, we think— and still unrepealed, prohibiting private citi- sens from interfering with any nogotiations concerning peace and war—a privilege which belongs alone to the Exeoutive and tho Senate. However, while it is not likely that their good natured efforts will make them amenable to the law, it is pretty Certain that they will end in amoke, ‘The Southern States commenced the rebellion avowodly to maintain the institution of elavery. They bave now. abandoned that idea, and are willing to emancipate the alaves and employ them in the army, justas we do. The declared object of the to-day is to seoute for the South what they onl nations! independenos, rebel authoritics is again proceeding un the James river. ‘A boatload of paroled Union soldiers and citizens from Richmond arrived at Fortress Monroe yeaterday. Wo give this morning an interesting selection trom robol papers as Into as Saturday last, ‘Tho rebel Con. gressman Foote still remained at Fredericksburg, await- ing ordors from Richmond regarding the disposal te be made of him. The Danville Railroad, forming « portion of the chain connecting Richmond and Petersburg, through Virginia, North and South Carolina, with Georgia, was seriously damaged by the late freshet, and the Danville Register saya several days will be required to repair it, The brg Mountain Eagle and schooner Francis Hatoh have beon seized by the Provost Marshal of Baltimore, on the charge of being ongaged in running goods from New York through the blockade to Virgiala. They have been condemned and will be sold. General Butler arrived in Washington yesterday, in obedience to the summons of the Committee on the Con- duct of the War, before which he will appear to-day, to give his testimony in regard to the failure of the attack Prove that the bills were im the came conditiones whoa he purchased them, he was non-suited. ‘The case of Bernard Friory, charged with the murder of Harry Lazarus, was called on in the Court of General Scextons yestorday, by District Alorney Hall, Tho coun- Gel for the dofendamt urged « postponement of the trial, which was denied by Judge Russel Mears Sodgwick and Stuart thon declined to act in the case, wheroupon tho Court assigned exJudge Whiting and ox-Recorder Sinith to defend Friery. Furtheraction im the case was postponed tH this morning. Surrogate Tuoker yesterday resumed the seastons of his court, which had been susponded by bis recent indis- position. The trial of Edwin P. Christy's will was further Postponed till February, on account of engagements of Counsel. The trial of the long contested will of James ‘Thomas was then proceeded with, and tho case is likely to consume the wholo of the January trial term. The Surrogate has not yet announced his decisions im the will cases of Sophia Dayton, Thomas Holmes, Charles Brou- sing and A. R. Lawrence. A Prussian named Gustav Adolph Vorgtman was yes- terday brought to this city from Chicago, charged with forging a Prussian government receipt for sixteen thou- sand dollars, on which he obtained the money from the Bremen and Hamburg Railroad Company, He was taken before United States Commissioner White and held for an examination. on the Wilmington defences, The cartmen and eshmen, having been paid their ar- | but what we call’ disorganization; for it is en CONGRESS. Tears of wages, are 0000 more ab work removing the |' attempt to break, up's legitimate government In tho Senate yesterday the question of the treatment | ashes and garbage from the streets, and in « few and form s spurl 48. The Southern States of prisoners of war was brought up by Mr. Lane, of In- diana, who urgod that rebel prisoners should be guarded by released Union prisoners, and receive the same treat- ment as our soldiers receive at the South. Mr. Wade, of Ohio, offered a joint resolution, in favor of exact retalia- tion ag regards prisoners, and was vehement in denuncia- tion of the barvarities of the South. The subject was finally referred to the Military Committee. A resolution calling for information as to the expediency of termi- nating the tenth article of the Treaty of Washington was Sdopted. The House bill authorizing all railroads to carry government freight—a bill designed to break down the Camden and Amboy monopoly—was discussed, and laid aaide till to-morrow, A bill to repeal the section of the act regulating o.mmerce with the rebel States, which authorizes the appointment of agente to pur- Chase the productions of said States, was referred to the Committee on Commerce, A bill direct- ing an inspection of the Quartermaster’s Department, ‘and a comparison to be made between the reports of the officers in charge of the Quartermaster’s depots at New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, 8t. Louis and Louisville, ‘and an account to be rendered of the articles actually on hand, was reported by the Military Committee, and ordered to be printed. A resolution directing the Meore- tary of War to report separately the number of soldiers and sailors furnished by each State, &c., under each call for tropps, was ordered to be printed. In executive ses- sion a number of appointments were confirmed, and the Senate adjoarned. . In the House of Representatives the Senate's amend- ments to the resolution requiring the President to give Great Britain notice for the termingtion of the Reci- procity treaty, were agreed to, A bill increasing the tax in spirita to three dollars per gallon after the 1st of July was referred to the Ways and Means Committee, as was also an amendment to the Internal Revenue law, being an additional tax of one cent per mile on all travellers by railroad, steamboat or other public con- voyance. The Ways and Moans Committee reported a Dill in offect authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the seven-thirty loan for the balance of tho fonr hundred millions provided by the act, amounting to aboyt two hundred millions.| The Naval Appropriation bill was reported and referred to tho Committees of the Whoje. Tho Deficiency Appropriation bill was takon up, and the clause providing three thousand dollars for a medal to Commédore Vanderbilt, of New York, brought out the California membors, who denounced the Commodore for enfploying worthless vessels in the California Steamship line. The appropriation was agreed to, however, and the bill referred to a conference committee A Dill amending the judicial system in very important particu- lars was introduced and referred to the Judiciary Commit- tee. Mr. Cox, of Ohio, offered resolutions in favor of the appointment of peace commissioners, which were laid on the table by a vote of eighty-four to fifty-one, A bill for the appointment of two assistant steamboat inspectors at New York was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and after a speech from Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, on the war, the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. Ta the Stdte Senate yosterday the Bounty bill wag in- troduced and made the special qrder for to-day. Bills ‘were introduged to amend the charter of the Germania Savings Bank; to amend the act relative to holidays; to create the Metropolitan Fire District, and establish a de- partment therein. The bill to incorporate the Home for. Disabled Soldiers was orderéf to a third reading. The Senate then adjourned. In the Amembly the Speaker called the members to order at seven o'clock. There being no quorum present the Houpe adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The steamship Hansa, from Southampton January 6, ia due at this port to-day. Her news is three days later. Our newspaper files from the West Indies are dated at Kingston, Jamaica, to January 6. The accounts of the crops are not encouraging. Some of the Jamaice jour nals draw a very gloomy picture of the condition of the agricultural interests of the island, alleging also that the home trade and foreign are being gradually ob- literated, while the taxes are heavily increasod. Right Rev. Mr. Dupeyren had been appoluted by the Pope | aye the unsightly heaps which have so disgraced the city to City Inspector Boole's report, which appears in another column of to-day’s Humatp, as a document of much interest, throwing light upon the subject of the past difficulties in the Street Cleaning Department. Over taventy-seven millions of dollars have been collect- ed in this city as national internal revenue since the pas- sage of the Internal Revenue act by Congress, in 1862. ‘There is considerable oppesition manifested by some tothe Publication in the newspapers of the liste of taxpayers ‘under the act, and until instructions are received from Washington the assessors have refused to allow further facilities for this purpose to the press. Hiland A. Main was yesterday committed to the Tombs for trial on the rendition of a verdict of a coroner's jury, finding him guilty of causing the death of Edward Bren- Ban, a barkeeper, by blows on the head with a liquor bottle, daring a fight in a Morcer street drinking house on last Friday night. + The following were among the cases of yesterday's po- Hoe business:—During a fight about three o'clock in the morning ina iager beer saloon on the corner of New Chambers and Batavia streets John Hanneberry and Patrick Herman were severely stabbed. An Italian named Antonio Moskin was committed on the charge of being one of the assailants, John T. Bunn, a porter in the Lafarge House, was committed for trial, in default of one thousand dollars bail, on complaint of one of the guests of the hotel, who charges Buna with purioining from his room s diamond breastpin worth twe hundred dollars. James Lee, keeper of a sailors’ boarding heuse im Hamilton street, was put in the Tombs eharged with restraining of his liberty and attempting to force into the Davy a sailor named Smith, and also with drawing a pis- tol and attempting to shoot the officer who arrested him. An attempt was made to pass, at adrug store in Sixth avenue, « ten dollar counterfeit bill on O. W. Wellington & Co.'s Bank, of Corning, N. ¥. Two young men wore arrested and held for examination on the charge. No other spurious money was found on them. Fifty dollar counterfeit notes of the City Bank of Pro- vidence, Rhode Island, and twenties of the Farmers’ and Me Bank of Maryland, were put in circulation in this ity last evening. The twonties are altered from toro. - General Grant, ina communication directing that his name be put down for five hundred dollars towards the Proposed Sherman testimonial, says of General Sher- man:—‘The world’s history gives no record of his superiors, and of but few equals,’’ Major General Godfrey Weitzel, commander of the ‘Twonty-ffth Army corps, was married on Friday last to Miss Louiso Bogen, of Cincinnati. ‘The City Inspector reports 610 deaths in the city uring the week ending on the 16th of January—an in- crease of 70 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 67 less than ocourred during the oorres- ponding weok last year. An order was issued at the Brookiyn Navy Yard last week directing that on and after yesterday the dafly ‘working time should be lengthened forty minutes; but, at the unanimous solicitation of the workmen, the com- mandant has suspended the enforcement of the order for the present. At a meeting of the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen, held last ovoning, the standing committees for the year 1805 ‘were announced. A largo stone building, eased for the manufacturing of ‘axe helves, doors and blinds, planes, &o., was burned at Rochester, in this State, on Friday night. Some one hundred workmen were thrown out of employment, The oes was about thirty thousand dollars, ‘The stock market opened with animation, but closed heavy yesterday. Government securities wore quict, Gold was somewhat excited, with a downward tendency, and closed at 21736. Commercial affairs remained about the same yesterday ae on Seturday, and there were no important changes in any commodities, Asa general thing there was loas de- pression, and some articles of merchandise were firmer. Petroleum was dall, but unchanged. On ‘Change the flour mafket was rather firmer, with more doing. Wheat was inactive and prices nominal. Corn was quiet, but firm, owing to the small supply. Osts continue dull, with a downward tendency. Pork was more active, but eomowhat unsottled, while beef was in good demand and enjoyed s national existence and national inde- under the:common fiag and general government of all the States and Torriterics—a flag and a government under whose protection the most unexampled prosperity was shared equally with them as with the other States. But if they are resolved to indulge their mad ambi- tion and follow up this chimera of a separate nationality to the bitter end, as they deolare they will do, we must follow them up with our armies and navies until they submit to the an- thority of the federal government. In thisway we shall obtain peace before very many months. As for the peace missions of benevolent gen- tlemen to Richmond, they are only a shadow. Our soldiers and sailors, generals and admirals are the substance. Maximilian and the United States. It may be assumed that in the decision of the | ;, question of its recognition or ition by the United States is involved the fate of the imperial government sttempted to be set up by Maximilian in Mexioo. The inexorable logic of existing faets, no leas than the rapid march of events, renders this conclusion irresistible. Its truth no dispassionate and well informed states- man in Europe can deny. No specious reason- ing, no argument based upon so-called interest, can conceal the naked fact that the people of the republic of the United States of North Ame- rica are, and of necessity must be, that power which shall shape the destinies and mould tho institutions of at least tho northern half of this continent. It is therefore impossible to deny the im- portance of each successive declaration by the Congress of the United States—the representa- tive of the people—of their determination never to sanotion the orime which has been perpe- trated in Mexico in the attempt to destroy the republic and supplant it by an empire by force of European arms. The resolutions unanimously adopted by the House of Representatives at the last session clearly announced this dotermination. The plank inserted in the Baltimore platform by the eonvention which nominated Mr. Lincoln reaffirmed this decision, and made it binding and obligatory upon the nommee. The resolutions again passed by the House at the present session upon the same subject re- peated this declaration, and the united voice of the entire press of the whole country has uni- formly and constantly called for the main- tenance of the Monroe doctrine. Up to Friday of last week, however, the Senate of the United States had taken no sction upon this important subject; but on that day 9 yote was taken by whioh that body has placed its seal of appro- bation upon what is now admitted to be the universal popular voloe of the whole country. The subjeot before tho Senate was the pass- age of the Diplomatio and Consular Appropri- ation bill, Among tho items specified in the bill—as for the legation in England, the legation | .¢ in Franee, in Spain, &o.—was that of “the lega- tion in Mexico,” * Mr, Wade, of Obie, moved te amend the bill by inserting before the word “Mexico” the words “the republic ef Mr, Wade supported this amendment by the remark that there were two governments in Mexioo, and we could Committee will bea benefit to asall. Genstor Humphreys is partioularly familiar with all the railroad interests of the State, and bis province will doubtless be to consider the interests of the olty in view of its State connections, Sena- tor Humphreys isa democrat, and the other gentlemen are republicans. already, in his place in the Senate, disclaimed for it any disposition to view the questions that aay ome before it from a party point of view; ead this disclaimer comes with the more grace as it comes from the stronger side. Such a committee cannot, of course, go into all the little Aificulties of our political condition, but, from the very immensity of the subject, must take only @ large and general view. Departmental and other corruptions they must in the genoral sense handle vigorously; the many patent and gtoss errors of our municipal eystem they must also expose; and if thoy oan suggest a remedy fn any change of that eystem that will put better men in offiog, they will be public bene- factors of the iret olass. It is, above ail, to be hoped that they will not overlook @ subject of gach paramount interest to all as the health of the olty. Our city might be the healthiest in the world. The fact is, it is the most uithealthy of all known eitios, This is for the want of a proper sanitary system, and that want the com- mittee should take some steps to supply. The coramittes only hopes to “contribute towards a better understanding of the immediate wants of the city in regard to looel government and every good Mororr or Hios Piaces—A Dorr Mz. Livoouw Owns ras Anuy.—Having shown utter unfitness for military command in his recent operations against Wilmington, General Butler has been very properly relieved and ordered to his homo through the Adjutant General of the army. This is the polite way, we are aware, of inform- ing incompetent generais that their services wil never again, in all likelihood, be put into requisition; and perhaps this punishment for Butler’s flaseo at Fort Fisher might have becn sufficient had not the irrepressible lawyer-sol- dier of the Bay State seen fit to make his “faro- well order to his troops” the vehicle for a direct and most damaging attack upon the sdminia- tration, and a bitter sneer against the General- in-Chief of our armies, well calculated to en- courage mutiny, discontent and positive revolt among the troops now engaged in the attack upon Richmond. Butlor, towards the conclusion of his bom- bastio order, “to order useless sacrifices of the lives of such soldiers, and I am relieved from your command”—the inference here being obvious that @ bloodthirsty administration, panting for the useless slaughter of its own men, has removed this compassionate officer solely and wholly because he would not be a party to these sanguinary and unproductive sacrifices. In the nex‘ sentence the insinuation against General Grant is yet more broad, pal- peble and insubordinate, where Butler says:— “The wasted blood of my men does not stain my garments”—the very charge with which the rebel journals and orators, both of Rich- mond and New York, have been endeavoring to poison the loyalty of our troops in the field during the past twelve months. some punishment more severe than retirement to his home in Lowell and the society of tho sturdy bricklayer of that place should be man at Cape Fear Island any commander in the such an order as we have quoted, the more rigorous systems of all old military nations have prescribed an inexorable penalty, to which we do not care at present more pointedly THOMAS. ‘The Union Army Plentifully Suppiteé— Hood Still Retreating Southward, &e. Br Locrs, Jan. 16, 608. An officer from Clifton, Wayne county, Tean., where he loft General Thomas on Saturday, says RO active epe- rations may be expected for several days. ‘The truthfulness of the report that Hood is prepasing to make a stand at Corinth has not yet boon ascertained Dut it is believed that his disorganized forces are ati fleecing southward, leaving detachments of thetr best cavalry in tho rear to cover their retreat. ‘Thomas’ army has plenty of supplies, and more are constantly passing up the Tennessee river; but heavy rains in Tonnossec render the roads impassable for anil: tary movemonts Ald for Savannah. SAILING OF THE REBBOOA OLYDE AMD DANEEL WEBSTER. ‘The Rebecca Ciyde passed from her pier on Saturéag ovoning, bearing at hor masthead a large white fiag, with at vi. biprinprinpentet a inti y= “Rolief for the citizons of Savannah.” @he waa cheered from pier to pier, manifesting the sympathy of our poople with humanity end onoouraging the charitable in their good work. ‘The committee having obarge of the supplies have, wo learn, commissioned special agonis, accrodited by the Chamber of Commerce and the Produce Exchange, te superiatend the distribution, under the direotion of the civil and military authorities of Savannah. The owners of the Rebecca Clyde have not only gives the free use of the steamer to carry the provisions, but have, without charge, placed it on board, and given free passage to the agents. ‘Wo also learn that this movement has the hearty ag proyal of the Prosident of the United States and the fem. Besretaries of the Treasury and War. The shipment consists, in part, of :— One of the members of this committes has the furtherance of the great interests which the 1,000 barrels of flour. State has in the metropolitan district.” And in pci nemparaanrere nga carrying out these excellent purposes we bo- | 2,000 pounds salted and smoked meats and Gah, speek for it. the sympathy and assistance of | *t00 hacky aa nt NO molasses. Also, donations from grocers of sosp, pickles, vinegar, Be ‘The steamship Daniel Webster sailed yesterday fer Savannah, carrying a large amount of provisions ams other necessaries for the relief of the citizens of the place, her cargo being the voluntary and liberal contribu fons of our citizens, BOSTON SUPPLIES FOR SAVANNAH. ‘The steamer Groyhound, Captain Child, sailed from Boston on Saturday afternoon for Port Royal, 8. 0., with @ cargo of provisions and other necessaries for the needy pope ct area Messrs, Harrison 0. Briggs, Waa Baldwin, of the firm of Baldwin & Curry, and D. Hyde aro in charge of these supplies, With » pros. perous voyage the supplies will have reached Sai ‘aud be distributed among the citizens befdre next day night at the farthest. The Death of Mr. Everett—Further Pas tieulars. Our oitizens wore painfull; by the news of the sudden death of lately that he had been soen on our strects, his face an@ step giving no sign of the change so soon to come, his last apeech in Faneuil Hall was still 60 fresh in the mind of every one, that the unwelcome story could hardly be wed. The shook fell on all classox. His loas, fol private grief, as his lifo and his virtnes were disoussed im the family circle. His death was announced in masy pulpits during the morning. sorvice, und was made the subject of prayor and appropriate notice in the various churches. By noon it had become generally kaown. = Op to last week, Mr. Everett has recently boon in re ‘geod hoalth, It will be romemberod: by that he attended the inaugural ceromonies of tha year at the State House on the 4th instant, with attontion to Governor Andrew's address, day, the Tth, ho. was in tho Superior Court, conduct his own case againat the City of jestown. Hoe det the forenoon of Monday last to the samo business, went directly from the court room to the platform: Fauueil Hall, feesp ager a in aid of the project of sem ing assistance to the suffering citizens of Savannah, \ ir. Bvorett's speoch was delivered with even moms than his usual auimation and graco of oratory. Hie manner was especially fervid, his arguments for cause in the interest of which he spoke were | Baty evident warmth of fool His unusually flushed, but bore no trace of expression latent suffering which has of late years been too often visible on his features, rel wae very genscad among those who listened to this, the last pubilc effort Of his life, that the eloquence of the appeal would are favorably with anything which Lowell, there to await orders in due course “TI bave refused,” says til We respectfully submit to the President that awarded to General Butler for the unsoldier- bole, bat wn peri nee to fala his s"inoation af Uke and mutinous sneers contained in the last | £°ins “sein to ihe Cones Toon cppeared to by a severe paragraph of this precious order. For such a cold on the Fangs, thasateeing paramonis sumo CI failuro as that made by the Massachusotte militia- we. Wayward during the Week, coutinuing Eres French or British service would most certainly | watcher to remain in his room. isodatt aboagd be court martialed, and would be lucky to | iu? Prnibiied from romaine vy acing the escape with simple cashierment on the finding night, and Rt. naa care oro hn ri his peers; but for an original — of so minutes of four, when he wee seeping very sulsiy 508 grave s character, when aggravat by the iy: precisely four 0’ as ime tarbulent and undisciplined spirit evinced in | thersom directiy over Mr Everett’ heard ¢ heavy fail Bishop of Jamaica and the “churches in ,the several to refer. This, however, we are assured of: | such sui he ‘Rot informed of the nature of thid Sides i Geel dome firm. Lard was scarcely eo firm, while whiske was | rooognize none but the “republic.” We could m attack, Precise character knows By way of the West Indies we have news from the | more active end advancing. Froights were dull have nothing aye vu tho *: The | ‘Mat Me. Lincoln owes it to himself and tho Sa mn acl setsselirgumn tke. aretncae States of Coral America. Roports state that the harbor country to resent the imputation sought to be | sant amendment was adopted and the bill passed. This vote, so quietly taken, determines the fate of the so-called “empire” attempted to be set up by Maximilian; for by it is decided the question of its recognition or nonrecogni- tion by the United Stetes. Onr traditional policy is, therefore, not to be abandoned. Our power and influence, and in- terests, as the |: nation of this continent, are not to be abdicated; sad, with our Union, soon to be restored, grander, greater and more powerful than ever, it behooves the statesmen of Europe to consider well whether it is wise to continue an attempt which is opposed to interests which the United States must maintain. Tum Stats Investigation mvro oun Crry Ar varrs.—The Legislature of this State has ap- pointed a committee on the city and county of New York, whose duty it will be to examine freely and fully into a number of very important subjects connected with the parity of our city government, and with the wants, wishes and welfare of the people, both in local matters and in the relations of the olty with the State. This committee is com- posed of Judge Munger, of Rochester; Senator White, of Onondaga, and Senator Humphreys, of Buffalo. The people naturally desire to know more than this of the gentlemen thus sent to us by the State government, clothed with such im- portant powers. All of these gentlemen are men of high social position. They are also all mon of independent wealth—a fact that may doubtless be relied upon as a guarantee—if one be nocossary—that they will be above the influ- once of jobbery. Judge Mungor’s experience and attainments as a lawyer, which have given him his eminent position at the bar, will fit him also, we may hope, to unravel the knotty and complicated skein of our city troubles, while his recognized special ability in drawing briefs will certainly make the report of the committee an able and trenchant one. Senator of Greytown je almost entirely closed by the bar, and that it ia with the greatest difficulty the passenger boats of the Transit Company cross tho obstruction. The Presi- dent of Guatemala delivered a lengthy message to the Legislature. He expresses symipathy for Peru in hor difficulty with Spain, but at the same time alludes poin’- edly to the friendship existing between Guatemala and Spain. He rejoices that an ‘able and firm’’ government i established in Mexico, and says that Gentral America should draw ‘‘close’’ to it, but not surrender the repub- lican form of rule. The coming cotton crop of San Sal- vador is valued at one million of dollars, and the com- mercial and monetary state of the country was satisfac- tory. Presidont Jeffrard, of Hayti, proclaims that order is restored in the republic and the revolution vanquished. Tho death sentence passed on the traitors of the Cape Haytien rebellion of July last has been commuted. The republic is progressing satisfactorily. ‘The United States steam sloop-of-war San Jacinto, Cap- tain Meade, was wrecked on the 1st inst., on a reef among the Bahama Keys. None of her officers or crew were lost, and efforts were being made, with good hopes of suecess, to save her guns; but the gallant vessel her- self is m total loss, Just before the unfortunate occur- Tenoo sho had been chasing a blockade runner, and lost her reckoning. The San Jacinto, it will be remembered, was in command of Commodore Wilkes at the time the rebel commissioners Mason and Slidell were ondeavoring to mako their oscape to Europe, and with her guns he Drought to the English steamer Trent, on which they ‘were passengers, and on board of her he brought them back to this country as prisoners. The Board of Aldermon mot yesterday afternoon. Mr. John Hecker appearod again to claim his seat, but was snubbed in a most unceromonious manner by the Chair. man and ordered outside tho railing. A longthy com- munication was received from the City Inspector in rela- tion to the street sweeping tmbroglio, which was ordered to be printed in all the newspapers, ‘The Board of Councilmen held a short session yester- day afternoon. A resolution was prosented in favor of directing tho publication of three thousand eopies of the Corporation Manual, which was laid over. The City In- epoctor sont in a communication rolative to the recent trouble about the payment of the street sweepers Mr. Boole criticizes the action which the Citizens’ Associa- tion took in the matter, and, while admitting that there ‘were some well meaning gentlemen connected with it, allogos that the association was engineered for the pur. powe of placing in power a few disappointed politicians ‘and aspirants for office. The City Inspector stated that bo would prosont his annual report to the Common Coun- cil ina fow days, which would give a dotailed account of The Peace Negotiation Shadow. The peace missions to Richmond which are making so much excitement just now we are pretty well sssured have nothing in them. There is « certain class of people who must be always fussing or meddling in whatever is going on, and of this clags are tho Blairs, the Colorado Jewotts, the George Sanders and the Greeleys. They have all had a hand in peace negotiations. Colorado Jewett and Greeley, the head pacificator and the intermediate pacif- cator, on the one side, and George Sanders and Jake Thompson, the cunning schemors and plotters of Canadian raids, on the other. We know how sublime a fizzle these Niagara nego- tiations were. was almost as mach noise and as much about them as the great falls themselves, but none of their substance or grandeur. Now we have the senior Blair visiting Jeff. Davis at Richmond, holding counsel with him and his Cabinet in secret, hiding himself away somewhere, either in the top story of the Spotte- wood House or in some obscure boarding house, For what purpose? To negotiate o peace? It is not pretended that ho is an ao credited agent of the government, or is en- trusted with any proposals from Mr. Lincoln, any more than Colorado Jewott or Horace Greeley was. Mr. Singleton, of Illinois, is in Richmond, too, an ingrain peace man of the uncompromising — or rather compromising— pattern; for the faction he represents are willing to compromise the honor of tho nation for any terms of pence. Does any one suppose that cither Bisir or Singleton can chango tho ex- pressed determination of Joff. Davis and the other leaders of the rebellion that there shall be no peace until the “confederacy” is an established Power, or until the last man and the last shinplaster are gonet If there bo any who think so they are deceived. Both parties are going to fight this matter out. The sup- pression of the rebellion, the submission of its cast upon General Grant by the flying arrow of this Parthean warrior, and that General Butler, having received only the mild punishment of being relieved and sent home for his recent ridiculous failure, should now be summarily dismissed the service for having, in so high s place, set an example of mutiny and insolence, not only “prejudicial to,” but wholly subver- sive of, “good order and military discipline,” if suffered to pass without some such scathing re- buke. Tos man of General Butler’s cast of mind remaining at home and safe out of harm’s way is not likely to proves very insupportable infliction. He should be mustered out in an order reciting the language we have quoted as the cause of his dismissal. MARRIAGE OF MAJOR GENERAL GODFREY WHITZEL. ‘This gallant officer, commander of the Twenty-fifth corps, Army of the James, was united in marriage on the evening of the 13th inst, to Miss Louise Bogen, of Cin- einnati, Ohio, Goneral Weitzel is a graduate of West Point, is young, and promises great attainments in the ranks of his military professton. May he be equally as devoted and successful in the new cause he has sworn to wapport. A gontloman, scanning, from « poetical point of view, the now fleld of operations into which the General has @ntored, vontilates his enthusiasm in the following K. Moorhead, Pa; Lieut. Col Newbury, Twenty-fourth ‘The two branobes of the Legislature to-day appointed, a jotnt committee to consider and report upon a suitable (testimonial of gratitude and respect to the memory of the late Hom. Edward Everett. ‘The city government of Boston, at a special meetingte Buvasr, we ‘The flags in this city are at half-mast in honor of the memory of Hon. Edward Everett. Wasuworon, Jan. 16, 1668. An order from the War Department requires military forts and arsonals display their following the Personal Intelligence. RAGE ‘Thore’s a glorious in Parian stone Fema iretes on eee rown Round ity, that lives At an brave, aa tall, Guards with hte and over all m Hayti. Love hovers and whispers his eweet commands, (From embins Seer Jen 8) oy Tea setine: wih ip bi dear endeavor, Ne, i which he te, that. im LJ {let co lees the union forever aud ever!” Feotlons hed broken out within the past elx mou are now all jor ie com) The President bas ‘tune polictation of don. Pail consented to Tanvany 11, 1865. Mra, Gon. J, L, Donaldson, Nashville, Tenn.; Hon. J. those convicted of treason in the Cape all tho transactions of his Department and show how | insurgent leaders and followers to the govern- | White is a gentleman of culture and travel, of | New York cavalry; Col. Chas. C. Smith, land, Ohio, | OP Tae last General, Phill ‘was one overy dollar was spent, The Board adjourned ull | mont and laws they have endeavored to over- | elegant and scholarly tastes, who may say, with ah A neon, Cleveland, Ohio, are atthe St marked victima, and hig maghantty therefare is Thursday. throw, are the only torms upon which pence | Ithacus the Wise, “much have I seen of cities | Hon, Jamos Hughes, Yreshiegen) Hon. D. B. Voor- wal wonton, Gigpitet Geoqmnens and concludes with and of men.” aa nm; Hon. W. | expression of hia faith in the mney of the In tho Supreme Court, Cirowit, yesterday, Georgo B. Arthur brought a suit to recover tho value of five one hundred dollar cancelled, and consequently worthloss, bills on the Bank of New Orleans, which ho allogee wore wold to him by Josoph A. Levy, As tho plaintif failed to His observation of foreign cities will enable him to show most happily, by com- oan be restored. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Farragut and Porter are to be the pacificators; notColorado Jowett, Horace Gree- ley, Franois P. Blair or General Sinzloton, ' might bo; and in that view hia service on the hi Indiana; Hon. J. 0. Alle: W, Coffee, Californi, are at the Metropoli parison, what our olty, under proper auspices, atiiet Sevens: Goltes Baten Yioe Cont Fg a ry Californ! : ¥ cere ey of Port-au-Prince intends building « hoaptta for the poor. Tho condition of the republic, both politically and ma terially. is favorable. , and Dr. W. tan Hotel. the Astor Hours, roa