The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1865, Page 4

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It is said that the government is now hourly in expec- tation of intelligence of the success of movements by General Sherman which will prove even more damaging to the rebels than his late triumphant march through Georgia and capture of Savannah, We give this morn- ing, in fall, General Sherman's letter in relation to the present position of the State of Georgia, an extract from which we published a few days ago. Mr. Francis P. Blair, Sr., will start on a second visit to the rebel capital to-day. What the nature or object of his mission is has not been made public; but since his return from there, a few days ago, it is aid that he has had frequent conferences with the President and the members of his Cabinct, Last Monday's Richmond Whig stated that Mr. Blair carried to Washingtoa an autograph letter from Jeff, Davis, “expressing his willingness to send or receive commissioners authorized to negotiate a peace."” There have been no new military movements in the armics before the rebel capital to notice. The news of the capture of Fort Fisher and the other rebel works on Cape Fear river caused the greatest excitement and re- joicing. A.salute of one hundred guns iv honor of the achievement was fired in the Army of the Potomac on Tuesday: afternoon, On Tueeday of this week a party of guerillas made a dash into Bardstown, Kentucky, and set fire to the rail- road station, which was consumed. A Mr, Sunberry was burned to death in the building, The national troops of the garrigon soon rallied, and a severe fight took place, in which several were killed and wounded, the guerillas being nally driven from the (own and pureued for seve- ral miles, It is thought that the leaders of the rebel army in Arkansas design to abandon thut State entirely. They are said to be concentrating their troop? at Camden for the purpose of moving southward into Louisianna or Texas. Even the rebel citizens of Arkansss not in the army, have been ordered by Magruder to remove to the south side of the Red river. Guerilla gangs, however, still infest the northern section of the State, Two de- tachments of national troops recentiy went from Rolla and Pilot Knob, Missouri, into the northern and north- eastern parts of Arkansas, for the purpose of hunting up these marauders, They came upoa and broke up several of the gangs, and killed and captured a numberof the members of them. The stuterment is reiterated that | President Lincoln will revoke the orders of Generals Canby and Reynolds for the evacuation of Fort Smith | Our Consul in Havana has communicated the intelll- | by the national garrison gence that the rebels are engaged in improving the barbor of St. Marks, situated on St. Mark on the west | coast of Florida, for the purpose of open tensive blockade ru ig there an ex ning trade, St. Marks is connected, by a railroad twenty-six miles in leugth, with the capital of the State of Florida, Tallahaseee, of which it is the port, The harbor can be entered by vessels drawing wight feet of water, The Treasury Department is constantly receiving ap- plications for permission to open trade with Savannah. The reply to these is that until the President declares | that port open clearances for it can only be made for military purposes, and on the request of the Secretary of War or the Navy. The Canadian Parliament convened at Quebec yester- day. The Governor General, in his address, alludes to his desire to preserve friendly relations with this coun- try, and the efforts he has made to prevent further raids by rebels from the province into the Northern States, In addition to the volunteer militia now in service for this purpose, he hae distributed a force of detectives along the border. He asks for such legislation as wilt enable him more effectually to accomplish his objects in this respect. tion, He favors the proposed colonial confedera The exchange of national and rebel prisoners of war is gain being proceeded with on James river, under the Supervision of Commissioners Mulford and Ould. Six hundred rebel officers and privates from Point Lookout were taken to Aiken's Landing yesterday to be ex- changed for a like number of our own men. The extracts from Richinond newspapers regarding the capture of Fort Fisher which we publieh this morning show (hat it was @ great surprise 10 the revels, and is felt by them es on almost crushing disaster, notwith ®anding all the menial contortions indulged in to conceal the facts. The Dispatch pretonds to consider it “a blees. fog in disguise,” The EBzaminer, recognizing that the fall of Fisher closes Wilmington and puts an end to the blockade running businees, commences arguing that the lose of that port “will be no evil in the end,” but immediately after shows that it thinks very differently, by the strongest abuso of Jef Davis, bis Cabinet and General Bragg for permitting it to occur, and crying out that nothing but the choosing of General Lee supreme and unrestricted dictator can eave the confederacy. Tt aleo again calls fora convention of all the rebel States immediately, and insists on the borning of all the cotton fo Wilmington. And then, again, it is announced that the closing of the port of Wilmington rende prospects brighter than ever ‘The rebel Congress hae had under diecussion in secret seaston for come time rome peace reerlutions An art appeased io the organ of Joi, Day is, the Richmond ek, On the 14s inst, denouucing them as treasonabie the rebel enti This highly oxasperated some of the rebel Congressmen, and led to a very exciting debate in their session of the 16th inst, a report of which we publish this morning. Oue of the members, in denouncing the Sentinel article and defending the resolutions, said:—‘We certainty could make ft to their (the Northern people's) interest to recognize us as an independent people without involv- ing either slavery or reconstruction,” Henry 3. Foote has been set at liberty, CONGRESS. nity Tu the Senate yesterday the resolution of thanks to General Terry and bis army for their heroic conduct at Fort Fisher was adopted unanimously. General Terry was yosterday confirmed by the Senate as Brigadier General of the regular army. The bill to break down the Camden and Amboy Railroad monopoly was dis- cussed and laid aside till Tuesday next, The bill declar- ing that brevet rank shall not entitle the holder to any in- crease of pay was passed. A joint resolution for a special committee to investigate as to the treatment of the Indians by the civil and miljtary authorities, was agreed to. Avresolution that the special income tax due from office holders be collected by monthly instalments, was referred to the Finance Committee, A bill amendatory of the act to encourage emigration was introduced and referred to the Finance Committe». Among other provi- sions it punishes any attempt, by improper means, to induce emigrants to enlist inthe army. Some private bills were considered, and, after an executive session, the Senate adjourned till Monday. In the House of Representatives the select committee to investigate the charges of corruption, bribery and malfeasance against Congreasman Anderson, of Ken- tucky, was announced. The Ways and Means Commit- tee were instructed to inquire into the expediency of levying a tax of one per cent on the six hundred dollars of income now exempt, The Secretary of War was directed to communicate the record of the court martial in the case of Major Hastings, who was sentenced to be cashiered, to restore $21,675, to pay a fine of $5,000, and to be imprisoned till the amount was paid, which penalties were subsequently commuted to suspension of rank and pay for six months, A conversation with reference to the draft elicited the in- formation that full credit will be given for all men en- listed before the 19th of December. Resolutions of thanksto General Terry and Admiral Porter and their officers and men, for gallant conduct at the capture of Fort Fisher, were appropriately referred. The bill mak- ing appropriations for the legislative, judicial and execu- tive expenses of the government was passed, and the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday, after consideration, the State Bounty bill was advanced toa third reading, the ouly material amendments made to {t being that drafted men actually mustered in shall receive a bounty of two hun- dred and fifty dollars, and that the Governor, Comp- troller and Attorney General constitute a commission to decide all questions arisiug under the law. The bill for the more speedy payment of the salaries of the clerks and employés in the several departments in the city gov- ernment was reported from the Assembly. Bills were noticed to extend relief to the families of drafted men; also to amend the charter of the People’s Savings Bunk of this city. A bill was introduced to amend the Quarantine act The bill confirming the Bounty Ordinance of the New York Board of Supervisors was then read a third time and adopted. The bills ordered to a third reading were those for the improvement of Cen- tral Park; providing a parade ground for the military of this city; also to amend the charter of the New York Guaranty and Indemnity Company. In the Assembly the bills reported favorably were those to incorporate a home for disabled soldiers ; incorporating the North River Savings Bank, New York; also incor- porating the Twenty-third Armory Association of Brooklyn. The bill« noticed were for a railroad in Fulton street; to incorporate the East River Railroad, New York; to amend the charter of the Bloomingdale Savings Bank; also for the construction of a svspension bridge across the Kast river. Bills were introduced to incor- porate the National Glee Club; enabling. the banks of this State to become associations under the National Banking laws. ‘The bill incorporating the Home for Dis- abled Soldiers was then ordered to a third reading. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday. The chairman of the committee ap- pointed to prepare a paper on the subject of the Reci- procity treaty, stated that their report was still in the hands of the printer, and the matter was postponed until the next meeting. A memorial to the United States Senate from the Boston Board of Trade, requesting post- ponement of farther action on the Bankrupt bill, was presented, read, and referred to the Committee on Arbi- tration. No other business of importancé was transacted, A train of cars on the Hudson River Railroad, bound from Albany for New York, was thrown off the track near Yonkers, early yesterday morning, by the sudden breaking of some rotten wooden ties and a worn out roil. Two cars, with the locomotive, ran down an embankment to the frozen water of the Hudson river. The doors of the cars were locked, and great difficulty was experienced in reseuing the passengers, wounded and partially frozen as they were, through the windows. No lives were lost. There was no meeting of the Board of Councilmen yesterday, a quorum not being present. The Clerk ad. Journed the Board till Monday. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, Judge Shipman presiding, Charles White was found guilty of being engaged in a mutiny on board the ship Mercury, in the lower harbor. The other parties who pleaded guilty to the same indictment were then brought up to receive ce. Three of these—Doyle, Kelly and Anderson— were sentenced to imprisonment for one year; the other prisoners, four in number, each thirty days, Sentence ‘on White was postponed till Saturday The crim. con. cause of Andrew J. Millypaugh versus Seth Adams was continned yesterday before Jodge Leonard, in the Sapreme Court, circuit. The testimony presented some curious and racy developments. The case will be resumed thie morning at ten o'clock. In the trial term of the Supreme Court yesterday, be- fore Judge Barnard, John Q. Jones brought an action to recover the value of # promissory note given by Mrs. Grevella, a married woman, who defended the suit on the ground that the note was given for the benefit of her husband. A verdict was rendered for the plaintiff. The business set down for yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, before Judge Barnard, was post- poned, in consequence of the illness of District Attorney Hall. In the General Sessions yesterday a motion was made to send Jolin Donovan, indicted for the murder of Wm. Kennedy and Wm. George, to the State Lunatic Asylum. Mr. Townsend presented @ written certificate of Doctors Simmons and Hodgman, who were appointed by the Court to exainine into the alleged insanity of the de- fendant, testifying that he was unfit to be placed on trial. Elizabeth Dusenbury, who, it will be remembered, at- tempted to poison her children, two of whom died, was indicted for murder, A similar motion was made in her case, and, the physician's certificate having been read, Judge Russel ordered that the defendants be sent to the State Lunatic Asylum. Margaret Smith was tried, charged with stealing a gold watch from Mra. Eliza Prince, 97 East Twentieth stroet, in December. The testimony was not conclusive as to her guiit, and the jary acquitted ber. A number of prisoners, indicted for grand larceny, pleaded guilty to a minor grade of that offence, and were remended for sentence. ‘The skating on the ice of the Fifth avenue pond yes- terday was good. The pond was crowded. Among the visitors were Generals Dix and Duryea and their families. The Park ponds were also crowded. To morrow will be a galn day on the Fifth avenue pond. A fall band of music and calcium lights at night will add to the beauty and liveliness of the scene. Commissioner Lewis having decided that the internal revenue officers have oo right to prevent lista of the names of taxpayers being copied from their books, news. Paper proprietors wre at liberty to publish such portions of them a they may choose, We give this morning « list of the names of persons in the Sixth Congressioual district, in this city, who pay taxes on incomes of twenty thoneand dollars and upwards, The funeral of Edward Everett took ploce veeterday, ‘The religions services were conducted In the Fire chorch, Boston. A large concourse, including many distinguished gentiomen, followed the remains of the distinguished deceased to their resting place in Mount Auburn Cema tery. The preliminary movement for the erection of a statue of Mr. Ev-rett has already been made by some of tho Tending citizens of Boston The following t the «abatance of & portion of yester. days pollee fecorda:—On Wedensday evening, during » NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1965. man vamed William H. Johnson received blows on tho head which produced a fracture of the skull, and from which it is doubtful if he will recover, Patrick Hays, an ex-policemen; Robert Jackson, James Loahey and Thomas Cohen were arrested and committed to the ‘Tombs to await the result of the injurias, on charge of being the assailants. James Johnson, a colored waiter in the saloon No, 726 Broadway, was committed for examination on the charge of abstracting five hun- dred dollars from the overcoat pocket of one of the cus- tomers, A man named Carl Lewenburg was arrested and sent to Sidersville, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, on suspicion of being the person who, some weeks ago, forced open a dry goods store in that place and stole therefrom about one thousand dollars worth of property. Mary Monahan was committed for trial on charge of stealing two hundred and ten dollars in gold from» newly arrived immigrant, named John Beaman. Eliza Twomey was locked up in the Tombs, charged with stealing, in co-operation with two men who could not be found, three hundred dollars from a soldier named Patrick Falvey, in a house of questionable repute in Baxter street, The United States hospital transport Western Metropo- lis, from Hilton Head January 16, arrived at this port yesterday morning. We are indebted to W. H. Docl, U. 8. A, for files of Savannah and Port Royal papers. The double-ender screw gunboat Lenapee, carrying ten guns, and commanded by Lieutenant Commander 8. Ma- graw, sailed from Sandy Hook at eight o'clock yesterday morning. Among the passengers who leave to-day in the Transit Company’s steamship Golden Rule for Greytown, Nica- ragua, is Preston C. F, West, Esq., a distinguished officer of the United States Coast Survey, who has been ap- pointed engineer-in-chief by Nicaragua for the survey of the harbor and river San Juan. This appointment is the result of the application made jointly by the governments of the republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica to the Presi- dent of the United States, “Mr. Harradan, our Secretary of Legation to Nicaragua, leaves for his post by the steamer Golden Rule to-day. Several gentleman also visit Nicaragua by this ship on subjects of scientific research, for which the fleld is re- ported to be very interesting. ‘The stock market was in a state of semi-panic yester- day, and suffered a heavy decline. Government securi ties were heavy and lower, Gold was weak, and closed drooping at 209%, after recovering from 208, ‘The fall in gold unsettled the merchandise markets yes- torday, and caused quite general decline in prices. Foreign goods were very quiet, and scarcely anything was done. Domestic produce was lower, Petroleum was in better demand at 2c. a 3c. decline. On ’Change the flour market was quiet, and 5c. a 10c. lower, Wheat was inactive, and prices were wholly nominal, this being the case with oats and corn. Pork was decidedly lower, and less active, while beef was steady at previous prices, Lard was lower, and in limited demand. Freights were quict. Whiskey was decidedly firmer and more active, Our Future and the Policy it Indicates. The great problem of the war is now so near its solution that no human agency can long protract the issue. The question whether a legitimate government, of ninety years’ duration, established by the wisest intellects that were ever devoted to the formation of a governmental system, shall be maintained against a sectional revolution, the offspring of restless ambition in a few men, who, like the first arch rebel, believe that it is “better to reign in hell than serve in heaven,” must be decided within a very brief period. Geographically the rebellion is reduced within a merespan: A portion of Old Virginia and a few cities on the Atlantic coast gre all the battle fields that are now left, and the cap- ture of Fort Fisher virtually confines the rebel -coast line to the cities of Charleston, Mobile and Wilmington, and the city and port of Gal- veston. We hold the ports of the throe tormer places, and have #0 blockaded Galveston as to effectually render it worthless to the enemy. Its wilitary strength is scattered between the army of General Lee, near Richmond, and the army of General Hood, on the south bank of the Tennessee—the one held in check by Grant, the other rendered worthless by Thomas. Should the latter desire to join his forces with those of Sherman by a march through Tennessee there is nothing to prevent him; and should Sherman advance upon Rich- mond by way of the Carolinas, the rebel capital could be crushed like an eggshell in the hands of a giant. The trans-Mississippi operations, upon which the rebel journals lay so much stress, are mere fugitive pieces in the great volume of the war. They are not worth basing any calculations upon, because they are but waifs and strays upon the current, and can no longer affect the general result. In a political sense the rebellion is eating out its own vitals by internal dissensions between leaders and people, and by the voluntary abolition of slavery in the border States, and its forced abolition by Jeff. Davis in the States within the “Confederacy” in which canse the rebellion was inaugurated. Thus, looking at the present appearance ot things within and without the rebel lines, we may safely assume that within six months from this time the Union will be restored. We shall be all together as one nation again. We shall be more assured of our strength, military and moral. Of our military strength, because we have proved by the bloody ordeal through which we have passed that there is no limit to our resources in men, in valor, in self-sacrifice. Of our moral strength, because we bave fur- nished evidence to the world that » nation not a century old, illustrating the principles of self- government, can maintain itself against the severest of all assaults upon its permanency—a desperate internecine war—and yet outlive it The States having all come together in har- mony, internal difficulties being settled, the bitterness of factionism and sectionaliem having Deen fused and combined—as metals are by the alchemist—in a crucible of common suffering into a more substantial material, we will be in a position not only to repay with interest the slights and insults of foreign Powers in our day of trouble, but to state emphatically our policy upon this continent, and insist that this policy, once declared, mast be acknowledged. The time will then have come when our gov- ernment must issue a manifesto to the foreign Powers, stating how this war arose, and show- ing that it was originated and fostered by Eng- land, which treacherously took advantage of the domestic institution of slavery to create dissensions between different sections of the country, with the hope of destroying this gor- ernment. Slavery has been heretofore the great danger to the stability of the republic, and it was ne cessary for our safety that it should be obliter- ated. It is virtually driven out of existence by the war. But there is another danger remainiag. It is the attempted supremacy of European Powers on the continent of America. This must be settled by very emphatic action as goon as we are again a united nation, The presumptuons claims of France ia Mexico, as serted through her Austrian catspaw, Maximil- fan, must be met with an unanswerable protest, backed by an army of veterans, whose past doeds attest their power to enforce whatever doctrine they may carry on the points ot their bayonets. In like manner the pretensions of Spain in St. Domingo musi be overhauled, and ism ins republic, established under the inspi- ration of our own successful system, must be vigorously disputed, Both France and Spain must be served with a twelvemonth’s “notice to quit” Mexico and St. Domingo. All the na- tions of Europe must be taught that the United States are in a position to exercise a protecto- rate over nations enjoying self-government on the whole of this continent and the adjacent islands, from Labrador to the Horn. As for England, opportunity will not be wanting to inflict condign punishment upon that treach- erous Power, and it will fall hot and heavy when the time comes, Such is the future which this war has marked out for us. The experiment to divide the coun- try into sections, and yet maintain its prosperity and greatness, has failed, as it has ever failed in past history. The right of secession once admitted, and there would be no limit to it. It is nct one, but a dozen seceded sections we would have before many years, each one weak and contemptible in itself. Such was the result when the great Roman empire was broken up. Its vast dominions in Southern Europe were split into separate sections, not one of which, after many centuries, haa attained the grandeur of the old empire. The resuit was we same when, at a later period, the immense consoli- dated power of Charlemagne was frittered away and his empire divided into innumerable petty States, Thus, then, this sanguinary war, which the enemies of republicanism so fondly hoped would prove the grave of republican institutions, will leave the United States stronger than ever to assume the championship and assert the supremacy of democratic government. The City Sewers—The Necessity That Something Should be Done. In another column we give an extract from the annual report of the Croton Aqueduct De- partment, calling attention, with very com- mendable sharpness and force, to the disgrace- ful condition of this city in respect to sewers. No city in the world, as the report justly says, possesses greater natural advantages for the es- tablishment of a perfect system of sewerage than ours—built as it is, practically, on a strip of land washed by tidewater on both sides— yet the fuct is that but few cities are worse off than ours in this respect. Our sewers, up to the present time, have been constructed with- out any regard to scientific principles or to system, and also without any regard to eco- nomy. The result is that, though they have cost the city an outrageously great price, they are utterly ineffective, and do not accomplish their purpose. They do not carry away the city filth. So far are they from doing this that in many instances they merely act as great wells for the accumulation of this filth in im- mense masses, and these reeking masses fill the cellars of many houses in the city with a “pes- tilent congregation of vapors” that is certain death. Physicians can trace some of our city sewers by the fevers they breed; and there are certain houses in the city that, from this cause, are almost as fatal as the npas tree was thought to be. In this way the city is worse in some districts than it would be without any sewers at all. For the construction of sewers in a district of four hundred aores in extent it costs, under the plan upon which our sewers have been hitherto uselessly built, the sum of $1,793,074 80. The Croton Aqueduct Departanent estimates that the same district could be well and effectively sewered for $679,946 99. By this the city would save $1,113,127 81. Now, here is the whole trouble. Here is a million dollars to be distributed by the Common Council, and that is the reason why we have no sewers that will drain the city. The matter must be taken out of the hands of the Common Council. At pre- sent the city sewerage belongs to the Croton Department, “subject to the orders and direc- tions of the Common Council.” Before we can have decent sewerage it must be given to the Aqueduct Department entirely. This is a mat- ter that the Legislature should take up at once. It is one that is of the most vital importance in any view of the sanitary interests of this city. Our sanitary arrangements are all atrocious, and need to be stirred up from the bottom ; but there fs no fact in our city life that is worse in a sanitary point of view than this one of the sewers. Pestilence is bred under every street, that money may be corruptly dispensed to contractors, and there must be a change. Ansrreary Arrests—A Prorsr Investica- tion.—The Military Commiitee of the House of Representatives are now acting under a resolu- tion of that body directing said committee to ascertain “the number of persons confined in the Old Capitol and Carroll prisons, the dates of their arrests and confinement, the charges against them; whether any army officers are among them, and, if so, whether the laws for such cases made and provided have been re- spected; whether any persons are confined in said prisons without written charges, and whether any of those prisoners have had a trial,” &c., &c. For the purpose of ferreting out the truth in these inquiries the committee is farther authorized to send for persons and papers. After the adoption of this proposition Mr. Thaddeus Stevens moved a reconsideration, in order to amend the resolution so as to limit the committee to the “expediency” of the proposed investigation; but the House, by an almost unanimous vote, decided that there was no question of the “expediency” of this thing; and #0 the investigation is under way. It is a good move, and we have every reason to expect that it will bring about some astonishing revela- tions, and some wholesome checks and bal- ances in regard to this much abused power of arbitrary arrests and imprisonments, Let the committee fearlessly prosecute their inquiries and do their duty. Srecotators tv Goopa Nor Waxtep Yer tw Savannan.—The Secretary of War, who has just returned from Savannah, says “a mistake pre- vails at the North as to the present inducements for commerce” there; that the city has “not yet any large population to be supplied, no credit or money, no commodities of exchange, and that there can be no great amount for a con- siderable period.” Shippers of dry goods, gro- cories, liquors, &c., will please take notice, and remember that “stringent precautions against supplies that might go to the enemy have been made and wil be enforced by General Sher- man.” Tor Ossnct any Reaver or Bramn’s Peace Misston—The recovery of some of the title deeds stolen by the rebels from his house at Silver Spring last summer, “Only this and dioturtauoe iu wdrinking house so Vhatiam, square, a4 ber righs y revousiugl w mvuarvuioal despor , nothing more.” i SS, ‘The Navai Heroes of this War. England, Holland and the United States aro the only nations in modern history which have produced great naval heroes. But although this nation is not yet ninety years old, while England and Holland count their ages by cen- turies, we have already far surpassed them both in naval warfare. The trident which Hol- land took from Neptune, and Britannia snatched from Holland, is now wielded by the Genius of America. We rule the seas as we have always ruled the shore. Von Tromp, whose fame answered to his name, and who carried a broom at his masthead to sweep the ocean; Drake, who destroyed the Spanish armada; Cochran, who ranks among. England’s celebrities, and Nelson, the hero of Trafalgar and Copenhagen, have been superseded by our Farragut, Porter, Dupont and other gallant sailors. The historic roll of the world’s great men will have to be rewritten; for Americans now claim the highest places for their generals and their admirals. Before our nation was fully organized it had produced a naval hero who carried terror to the English coast and broke the pride of Eng- lish sailors. More scientific fighters have since crowned our arms with victory; but the daring, skill and pluck of John Paul Jones, the first of American commodores, will always remain immortal. The war with Tripoli and the war of 1812 brought out a host of such heroes as Hull, Bainbridge, Decatur, Preble, McDonough, Somers, Truxton, Lawrence, Perry and David Porter, and England could find no rivals to such sailors. The war of 1812, con- ducted while this country was yet in its infancy, settled the question of relative superiority in naval affairs between the Old World and the New. During our present war, having no other nation to surpass, we have surpassed ourselves. The students and the sons of the heroes of 1812 have eclipsed their masters and their fathers, Vice Admiral Farragut, who fought on the Essex under old Commodore Porter, now stands at the head of the United States Navy. Ad- miral David D. Porter, the son of that same commodore, now ranks next to Farragut, and is the hero of our latest victory. Dupont, Dray- ton, Winslow, Blake, Radford, Rowan, Macomb, Rhind, Cushing, Thornton, Preston, young Lieutenant Porter and a number of other offi- cers have also distinguished themselves and their country; while on every ship in our ser- vice are unknown heroes, patiently waiting for their opportunities to make themselves equally famons. Should the war last long enough our muster roll of glory will have to be largely increased. Our army,and navy are vieing with each other in giving us great men, Already we can challenge the world to compare heroes with us, name for name, and at the end of another war there will be no niche in the temple of fame not occupied by a great American. Farragut won his present position by the battles of New Orleans and Mobile Bay. At the former he sailed through a sea of fire, de- molished forts and iron-clad rams, destroyed fire ships, fire rafts and timber traps, overcame every legitimate and infernal obstacle, and finally sank the rebel fleet and captured the city. At the latter he laughed at submarine torpedoes, silenced heavy batteries, fought his way into the bay, captured an iron monster ex- pressly devised for his destruction, and dis- persed or took possession of the rest of the rebel navy. These exploits, which are perfectly unparalleled, and beside which the victories of Von Tromp, Drake, Nelson and Cochran seem quite insignificant, have rendered the Vive Admiral illustrious for all time. Heroes may appear who shall be able to rival him, but no mortal can ever excel him. Dupont having been retired after his magnificent victory at Hilton Head, and Dahlgren having failed to take Charleston, it was fast becoming the settled conviction of the public that Farragut was to be alone in his glory. But now Admiral Porter has dispelled that conviction. His attack upon Fort Fisher was grandly planned and splendidly executed. He handled his im- mense fleet as neatly and effectively as his father handled the Essex. Althongh the first attempt failed through the incompetency of Butler, Admiral Porter did not relin- quish the task before him. Had not Grant sent General Terry to assist him, he would have attacked Fort Fisher with his sailors and marines, Instead of wasting any time, he drilled his men for the assault by reconnois- sances at Fort Macon, on the Carolina coast. When General Terry arrived Porter at once heartily co-operated with him. In all his orders the Admiral showed his determination to suc- ceed. When he called for a storming party from the fleet, his only anxiety was that they should “board the fort on the river in a sea- manlike way.” During the fight he would not “take any unfair advantage of the enemy by using the iron vessels alone.” The only mis- take made in the attack was the excellent one of “firing too rapidly.” Well may the country be proud of such a hero, who is as chivalric as he is brave. Never before did any nation de- velop at once such soldiers and ench sailors, Defended by them, the Stars and Stripes shall float over every sea and be feared and re- spected in every land. Let the ancient poets sing of the heroes of Greece and Rome; the Troubadors sound the praises of the knights of the middle ages, and France and England vaunt their more modern but almost forgotten glories. When America produces a poet as sublime as the themes with which he has to deal we shall hear no more of the heroes of Homer and of Vir- gil, of ancient or of modern Europe; for Grant and Farragut, Sherman and Porter, Thomas and Dupont, Sheridan and Winslow, Terry and Cushing will take their places in undying verse. Until that poet comes, history and the Heratp will be his substitutes. Tre Trioxe on tan News.—The ‘Tribune astonished its readers yesterday by claiming to be a newspaper, and by asserting that it had beaten the Herat twice in the last twenty years. When we remember the confession of the Trilune editor that “the Herat is con- stantly ahead,” and when we recollect that, only last week, Sam Wilkeson, the Tribune’s chiet correspondent, petitioned Congress to aid him to keep up with the Hrraty reporters, we may well laugh at the Tribune's nonsense. We do foel very badly, however, at the Tribune's saying that our splendid diagram of Fort Fisher, Cape Clear and the entrance to Wilmington was “an old and huge map of a locality familiar to every- body.” We are rather proud of our maps; we get them up more quickly, clearly and correctly than anybody else; we are gratified to see them 40 often copied into other papers, on both sides of the Atlantic; and therefore it hurts us when the Trilnne caila them “old, * and 4 “lamniliar wo everybody’ —altuosg they aust , ” huge” ‘paying the bounty to a dozen per day. be familiar to everybody, since the Henarp goes everywhere. Nevertheless, we aro com- forted by the reflection that the Tribune people could never have seen our map of Wilmington harbor before, or else they would not have blundered into the statement that the capture of Fort Fisher will have no effect upon blockade running. The rebels say that it will, and they ought to know. Our map shows that it will, and our surveyors ought toknow. Per- haps if the Tribune people did not worship Ben Butler so fanatically they would study our maps and know something, too. We move that Sam Wilkeson’s petition be granted. There is no excitement in being “constantly ahead.” Recruiting im the City Nearly Suspend- ed—Strange Action ofthe Common Coun- eil-What Can Be Done? On inquiry we learn with regret that recruit- ing at the headquarters of the Supervisors’ Committee, and also the payment of bounties, has dwindled down to an infinitisimal quantity. Just at the moment when we want men most; when almost the certainty of a draft is sus- pended over us; when, unless our quota is filled by the 15th of February, the roll call of the provost marshals of every district in the city will be heard, and the wheel of the lottery will be turned, drawing an army prize for many a gallant youth—just at this mo ment, when we required {two hundred men per day to fill our quota, the committee are not This, too, includes all credits for this city, whether brought in as substitutes, from the offices of the provost marshals or enlisted by the com- mittee itself. The business of volunteering ap- pears to be blocked, while the day for the conscription is rapidly approaching. We learn, on investigation, that there are good reasons for this state ofaffairs—obstacles to our success which can only be removed through the action of the people themselves and our city authori- ties. In the first place, the loan lately author- ized by the Supervisors for the payment of increased bounties, if the committee so elect, is not yet sanctioned by the Legislature, and our citizens do not appear sufficiently patriotic to step forward and advance the money to the Comptroller in anticipation. The committec, therefore, decline to advance the rate of bounties, apprehensive that the present fund will be exhausted before a new supply is furnished—the consequence of which would be to cause the suspension of business altogether. Where, we would ask, are our patriotic capitalists, with their incomes of twenty, fifty, one hundred, half million and two millions per annum? Another obstacle standing in the way of the committee is that recruiting is going on here for the regular army, for which greater induce- ment to the broker or agent is offered for men than by the committee, though the recruit him- self gets less. The numbers thus obtained is large, scarcely one of whom is credited to our quota, It is useless to remonstrate with the recruiting officer, for bis acts are doubtlear sanctioned by the government; but it is wholly ‘unjust on the part of the government to allow such action. It ought to be stopped, or allow the men onlisting here to be credited to our quota. i But the greatest obstacle to the success of the committee and the most reprehensible is, we learn, the action of the Common Council in allow- ing to almost any one asking for it a recruldng hooth or tent, stuck up aiywhere about onr streets, The City Hall Park is disfigured with these nuisances, in which a stupendous system of robbery of the city of its best mon to enlist in other places is carried on. Our Aldermanic boards are, in fact, encouraging enlistments of our own men in other places or States. They have, by authorizing the booths—thus granting great facilities—offered premiums for men to fill the quotas of districts outside of the city of New York thus, in reality--but unwittingly, we believe—doing more towards enforcing a draft upon us than all other causes combined. The “runners” or “brokers,” occupying these booths secure from one hundred and fifty to two hundred men per day, not one of which do our committee pay the bounty to, or are credited to our quota. They are all run off where the broker can obtain « few dollars more than by handing them over to our own authorities, and his acts are sanctioned by our Common Council. This is the greatest outrage on the citizens of New York, and should be stopped at once; and if our city legislature allow this thing to go on after having learned the facts of the case, the mem- bers of the two boards should be held responsi- ble if an unrelenting draft is brought upon us. They should pass an ordinance putting a stop to this thing immediately, and cause the arrest and punishment of every man engaged im enveigling a person out ot the city to volun- teer. We surely require every able bodied man who rightfully belongs to us, and we want the assistance of every man, whether he be priest or alderman, banker or merchant, im filling our own quota, not robbing their own households for the purpose of benefiting other States or districts, We cannot afford this kind of liberality. Remove the difficulties we have referred to, set aside the obstacles which now so hamper the action of the Supervisors’ Com- mittee, and it would have our quota filled before the middle of February. But if all these detri- ments are to continue a draft is as certain a8 that the sun rises. Let all take heed and ect accordingly. Tre Loss or Fort Frame—“A BiEssino In Disautse.”—The Richmond Dispatch says that while some melancholy persons in the rebel capital regard the loss of Fort Fisher as “a dis- aster,” there is avery large party of very sensible fellows who consider it as “a blessing in disguise,” and so they are disposed to he jolly. Those Richmond rebels are genuine laughing philosophers. They spend millions of money, they devote years of labor, they sacri- fice thousands of their negroes and tens of thousands of their soldiers (over fifty thousand for Vicksburg) in their efforts to hold aa im- portant city or military position, and when it ia loat those Richmond philosophers, like little Toots, pronounce it a matter of “no conse- quence;” or, like the pious abolitionists before the war, who broke forth into a psalm when tarred and feathered and carried on a Southern rail, they sing @ song of joy, for their punish- ment is but “a blessing in disguise.” At this rate the downfall of Richmond wilt be the signal for a glorious universal Souther jubilee, from the James river to the Ria Grande. And why not? Are not all these military disasters to Jeff. Davis “blessings im disguise” to the people groaning and bleeding under his ferocious desyotisua? Does not every