The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE X. W. COBNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU Volume XXX. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus Live In- piss—Paut Pay. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—H aucwr. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Iuise Hermuas. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas Sruzers ‘or Naw Yorx. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—Don Caan DB Bazas—Hoxest Jon, 1 uf NIBLO'S GARDEN, Yaxxxe Covnrsuir, RARNUM’S MUSEUM. Broadway.—Two Mamnormn — Tae Wowux—Living Skxiotox—Dwant—Lggenxep Shal—! Harks—Tuxe Usion Pxisongn—Day and Evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechantos’ Hall, 472 Broad- Way.—Eaiorian DONGS, VANCES, BUKLESQUES, &C.—BILLY Parrexson, _ WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Srrezs or New York—Tux Puay Bit—On Husa !—kriiorian Songs, Danexs, Ao. SALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Rosunt Heuier’s ON'S IN Maio. DODWORTH HALL, 80 Broadway.—Mn. Gsonax Van- DuNnore’s ReADiNgs. VAN AMBURGH & CO.'S MAMMOTIL MENAGERIE, 689 and 5dl Broudway.—Open from 10 A. i. to 10 2, M. HIPPOTHEATRON, Gruxasnio axp AcronaTio Buvxseamp, Fonrteenth street.—Fqrrsrrran, ENTERTAINMENTS—LARLEQUIN ANERIOAN THEA’ re 444 Broadway.—Batiers, Pasion, Buriesg 2 Mauio TaUmpxr. 199 and 201 she Dappy, W YORK MIS! ATOMY, 618 Broadway.— from 10 anuary 31, 1865. w York, Taesday, J THE SITUATION. There was an interesting debate in the rebcl House of Representatives on Thursday last on the bill for placing nogroes in the armies of the confederacy. During its progress Jeff Davis was severcly denounced by members, Both open and sceret sessions were held for the con- sideration of the subject; but it was not finally disposed of. The rebel papers furnish confirmation of | the €tatement contained"in our St, Louis despatch, pub- that General Kirby rebel ‘Trans-Mississippi refused to comply ‘w.th orders from Richmond directing him to transfer his troops to the east side ef the Mississippi river. The op- ponents of Jeff. Davis among his own people grow bit- terer daily in their denunciation of him, and it is admit- ted that his humiliation was tho design of the Con- gressional action to place Lee at the head of the armies. ‘His Congress has also other rebukes in store for him. lished in. yesterday's Henazp, Smith, commanding the Department, has repeatedly jo. 30 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1865. by Bartiges to Cardinal Antonelll, the Pope's Prime | picking pockets on the Eighth Avonte Raltroad, received | forward to rapireen ly fifty thopsagd Minister. & sentenop of hyoyearary ¢ 1: is sald that the Emperor Napoleon has nominated «The Thomas wil!’ caso," tm event of his death, Lad deheb tours, ahs Prine Napoleon as regent of the French empire in the | adjourved tit Monday-next, at which time tho trial calendar will be resumed. . During the'widnth of January soldiers nndee General Gront, in assigning them to post and garrison duty, will be enabled to gather’to the front a reinforce- Austria, it is stated, is determined to withdraw from | the accounts of twenty estates have. been settled by the | ment of fifty thousand veterans. Who ean ject for annoxing the duchies, ‘The Paris Patric stutes that the French government is about to incorporate Cochin China among the nuwber of its regular colonies, on the same footing as Guadaloupe, Martinique, Senegal and la Reunion. entered. ‘A mysterious polsoning case was brought to the atten. tion of the authorition yesterday af’ No, 464 Washinton | Not another man, we dare say, street. Richt persons, members of two families residing | of this new requisition for three hundred thou- in the house, became suddenly ill, suffering from cramps | sand, The war will: be ended, and peace will ora, | Der alliance with Pruasia if the lattor peralata in tho pro- | Surrogate and final decrees of distribution made and | doubt the result, with our brave old armies of thus strengthened ? _ | the Potomac and the James ‘will be needed Of four hundred and two emigranta leaving Havre in | 1p the stomach and showing other symptoms of baving | 1, secnred without them. Let, then, the local the month of December, last, there were three hundred and sixty for New York, thirty-eight for the States of the eaten something of a deadly character, Dp tolast even- ing only one of the number had died; but the remainder Rio de ls Plata, three for Lima and one for Bio Janeiro, The steamship Coluzubia, from Liverpool for the West Indies, bad sunk off Brest, and of thirty-four persons on Doard all but three were drowned. Congols closed in London on tho 20th inst, at from cighty-nine and a half vo eighty-nine and five-eighths for money. In the Liverpool market Aunerican cotton had gBOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. Darn Teor—Msonams | dectinod from one penny to one penuy and & half, and what had caused their sickness, to be at the point of death, and probably some Of them oxpired during the night, The physicians culled | suggosted, proceed to business, and devote in, were unable to ascertain the nature of the poison, and | themse! eatly and genero to the the sufercrs themselves ‘were entirely ignorant as to Mince ual John McLaughlin wag yesterday locked up in the ‘Tombs for trial om the charge of having, ia connection with three others who have not yet been arrested, as- | stitutional amendment for the abolition of anthorities and people of the loyal States, in view of the prompt and decisive work thus support of our great pacificator, General Grant, In the meantime let the House of Repre- sentatives at Washington pass the pending con- other descriptions from a half-penny to eponny. The sagited aman named Patrick Diggins, in a house in slavery throughout the United States, so that Provisions had an upward tendency, CONGEESS. In the Senate yesterday, resolutions of the Kansas | tris} charged with having stolen two hundred and Broadway.—Laxxs or Kittanxex— | market closed dull. Breadstufls were quict and steady, | Water strost, on last Friday evening, and robbed him of watch and chain and money to the value of over five bundred dollars, Allen Huff was yesterday committed to the Tombs this proposition may at once be submitted to the several States for their ratification, and all for | diffchities on the slavery question will be avoided and settled, There will be no margin Logislature asking thet the military force detailed for the twenty dollars from Lieutenant Augustus W. Lyon, of a left for European alliances with Davis on the protection of the overland mail route be increased were | vermont regiment, while the latter was last roferrad to the Military Committee, A petition from = » sce et citizen urging the recognition of the Southern con- fdderaty was presented by Mr, Saulsbury. A remon- stranco from the Agricultural Society of Kentucky, against the, proposed, tax on leaf tobacco, was referred to the Finance Committee. A petition asking for the ¢stublfsimenit of sleam tignala along the | pho United States Hotel, at the corner of Fulton and ‘Water streets, is, it is said, shortly ‘to be converted into Atlantic coast was referred to the Committee on Com- merce) ‘The House bill reducing the duty on printing paper Was reported, with an amendment fixing thé duty at fifteen percent, instead of three per cent, and ordered to be printed. Mr, Davis’ rceolution for the appointment of a special committee on the corruptions of the govern- ment was taken up, and Mr, Hale continued his animad- versions upon the administration of the Navy Depart- ment, Bills reorganiziig the army pay departmont, and to facilftate admiralty and other judicial procecdings at the part of Now York, wero reported; also the bill in jaddition to the acts for enrolling and calling out the national forces, with amendments which provide for Grafled| ‘The clause which holds the principal, Ges¢rtion by the substitute, is stricken out, and tho sub stitute Is punished by a forfeiture of the rights of citizen- ship. The resvlution advising retaliation in the treatment of prisoners of war was then taken up and discussed Ul) the adjournment. In the House of Representatives, a resolution increas- ing the compensation of Congressmen aud employe of Congress. thirty-three ond one-third per cent was referred to the Ways and Means Committee, A resolu- tion thanking the President for relieving Gen. Butler of his command was laid of tho table. The Committeo on the War was directed to inquire into and report as erly, as practicable on the alleged ill treatment of ‘negroes. by General Jeft Ci Davis | during the march of Sherman's army through Georgia, A rasolution was adopted instructing the Com- mittee of Ways and Mcans to inquire into the expedi- ency Of |reporting a uniform mode of gauging and In- specting domestic liquors, The Committee on the Jadieiary was instructed to inquirs what legislation is necessary to prevent payment for the transportation of ,trodps and properiy of. the Uniled States to railmad companies, who have received grants of land on condition that the troops and other Sunday night, in » Greene stroct house of entertainment. About forty-five tous of mail matter daily pass through the general Post Office in this city. basis of emancipation, and none forthe em- ployment of the slayes of the South in his armies on promises of ‘freedom. ‘The action of Some thousands of dollars worth of the’ new threecent | Congress in favor of the proposed amendment ‘Treasury notes were yesterday the Sub-Treasury in Wall street, an exchange and offices for commercial purposes, Mr. Robert Lincoln, son of the President, arrived in this city from Washington yesterday, — It is said that this young gentleman will shortly join the army, as an ald on the staff of General Grant. ‘Tho steam frigate Susquehanna, Cominodore Godon, which took part in the bombardment of Fort Fisher, arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday. A man named Andrew J, Burronglis, a clerk in the Currency Comptroller's bureau at Washington. was shot dead yesterday in one of the:corridors of the Treasury 5 H 3 Department by a woman named Mary Harris, who alleges the acceptance a3 a substitute of a, person roe oe ipl waa ecicugortn ter wracsied tal aes bok cata ah keeping his promise, had formed a matrimonial alliance with another lady. The stock market was heavy yesterday morning, but improved in the afternoon. Governments were steady. Gold was irregular, and, after opening at 214 andad- vancing %, closed’at 211%. Commercial affairs were unsettled by the violent fluc- tuations in gold yesterday, and prices of most kinds of, merchandise, foreign and’ domestic, were nominal. In foreign|goods but little business was done; but in domestic produce a fait business was transacted at regular prices, Petroleum was firmer,but only @ small business was done. Cotton was dull and gc. lower, On ’Change the flour markot was dull and 10c. a 16c. lowor, whilo wheat was inactive and nominally 2c. a 3c, lower. Corn and oats ruled quict, but the market was firm. The pork market opened dull and unsettled, but closed active and firm. Beef anti lard were quiet and without change in prices, asker ‘was a shade firmer, with more doing. Freights The End of Blair's Poace Missions—Now for a Lift to General Grant. The! venerable Francis: P, Blair has closed his Jabors at Richmond as a voluntoer peace- The Union raiding foree up the Chowan river, in North | property shall be carried over the same free of | maker; and the result is nothing. . He reports Carolina, in the direction of Weldon, is said tonum- ber between six and ten thousand mon, in- toll, The Senate’s resolution for a Committee to count the votes for President and. Vice President was con- carred in, with an amendment that Virginia, North Caro- that despondency, gloom and confusion reign at the) rebel capital; that the rebel ‘chiefy cluding infantry, cavalry and artillery. The Richmond | jing gout Cafoliua, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee | Tecognize their'onuse to be in’ a/dreadful condi- Bentinel, the oficial organ, say's that the storios published shall aot be entitled to representation in the Electoral tion, that every one of them is anxious for by the other papers of that city regarding the peace | College. In Committee of the Whole the Naval Appro- peace on the best terms that can be obtained ; offers made by Mr. Blair are groundless. General Beau- regard contradicts the reports that Union meetings have been held in Georgia, During the ton days preceding the 27th inst. flour fell in Richmond three hundred dollars per barrel. From the James river wo lvarn that the rebels, 6n Fetreating up the stream after their attempt to mako a naval raid on last Thursday, left a torpedo boat aground Just above General Grant's obstructions, and the Union paval forces have got her off, and sho is now initiated {nto the national service and doing duty. Tho steamship Queen, the first American vessel bear- Ing the flag of a vice admiral in our navy, arrived at City Point, James river, on last Friday, with Vice Admiral Farragut on board. priation bill was’ taken up. Among the amendments adopted was one providing that one midshipman, in addition to those authorized by law, shall be ap- pointed for each Congressional istrict, on the nomination of the member of Congress or delegate from said district; but no midshipman shall be appointed | into negotiations ‘for Southern independence, | for any district not represented in Congrese. Mr. Davis, of Didryland, offered an amendment, providing for the appointmiont of a Board of Admiralty by the President, ‘with the Advice and consant of the Senate, tobe advisory on mattets of naval organization and law. Mr. Spauld- ing, of Obio, hoped the amendment would not be adopted, a5 the\Committee on Nayal Affairs had. the subject under consideration. ‘The Chairman (Mr, Washburne) decid-d tho amendment out of order, but was pot sustained by the copintittee. Ponding this amondment the committee rose, aud the House adjourned. ‘" ' THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Sduate yesterday the annual report of the but that, as all are suspicious of each other, not one of them has the moral courage to lead off on the road to, submission. He has dis- covered that Jeff. Davis is: willing to enter and/Davis has been informed that President Lincoln is ready to treat: upon the basis of the gubmission of the rebellious States to the Union; but all this we knew before, Some, over-enthusiastic gold gamblers in Wall street, from Mr.’ Blair's past ‘associations and po- litical identity with Jef, Davis and his fellows, were, perhaps, led to believe that the diplo- mat of Silver Spring would accomplish some wonderful results in the. way of inaugurating the ‘millennium; bat he may now be perma; A correspondent states that evidence of the ceesion of | trustees of the Astor Librury was received and ordered to | nently ‘set aside nas a peacemaker, with the the Northern, States of Mexico to Louis. Napoloon, by | be printed. Bills amending the charter of tho Kast New| Rov. J, Wesley Greene, Colorado, Jewelt, | condemn off hand a system which it has proba- Maximilian has been on file in the office of the French Jegation at Washington for some months past. It fs also announced that Mr: Drouyn de Lhuys, Napoleon’s Minis- | provide additional moans of rvlief for sick and wornded | brought back from Richmond by Mr. Bi: tor of State, Las asked Secretary Seward for an explana- tion of the recont Congressional ‘censure ‘of the policy of Mr. Lincoln's ailministration in regard to Mexico. Tho St. Lawrence river being frozon ovor, the cittzens | of Kingrtmand Brockville, Canada, have beeomo excked over apprehe:. ‘ions of raids from our Northern States, fn retaliation for those t of the rebels from their province | acro: border. No ground for these fears ts apparent, | and they aro, probably only an illustration of the wicked | ficeing when no man pursveth. It is said that Justice | Coursol, the Montreal magistrate who set the St. Albans | raiders at liberty, has received, from the Canadian Gover- nor General the order suspending him from duty as pre- Giding officer of the Court of Sessions during the progress of the official inquiry which is to be made regarding his Judicial conduct in that aduir, ‘The total casualties in General Terry's army in the | Raitroad Company, and the Stato Eclectic Medical So. fight at Fort Fisher were six hundred and ninety-one. Of those eleven officers and seventy-seven mon were | weather of Inte has boon equally and unsettled, whieh killed, thirty-nine officers and four hundred and seventy, two men wounded, and ninety-two men missing, Three national iron-clad vessels are now stationed at the mouth of Red river, to frustrate any attempt at « raid down that ostream and the Mississipp! which rebels may design making, York and Jamaica Railroad, ‘and to roguliite ‘the fees of physicians and surgeons in certain casos, wore noticed. The bill pppropriating two hundred thousand dollars to soldiers of this State wae ordered to a third reading, as wero adso| the bills authorizing the Delaware and Lacka- wana Railroad Company to acquire suficient real estata in New York for office purposes, and amending the: charter of the People’s Savings Bank of this city, In the Assembly the reports of the Quartermaster General and o. the Exce Committee of the State Nor- mal School were presented, Bills were notic incer- poratinig the New York Acci¢eutal Insurance Company, the New York Tensure Ciwb, also to amend the charter of the Agricultural Insurance Company, Bills were tn- troduced to theotporate the Hopestille and Hunt.ngton ciety, The resolution relative to the assignment of quotas | and calling for information was called up and adopted | The bill incorporating the North River Savings Bank was ordered to\a third reading. | MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘Tho Turks Island Standard of tho 7th of January has the following paragraph in reference to the salt supply :— “Several cargoes of salt have been shipped from this and tho,other ports of the colony during the past w.ek. ‘The Greeley, Kirke'and Jaquass. The only information .of any prretical value a is, that the rebel chiefs are resolved to fight it out; and this, too, we knew before. Their’ ex- pulsion from Richmond is still, as it has been from the begiuning, the first essential to peace. To expel them we must dislodge and disperse the veteran army of General Lee, That army now possesses all there is of unity and cohe- sion in, “the confederacy.” tion of that army the whole establishment of Davis, military and pdliiical, falls to pieces, With this branch of the Dbns'ness accomplished, the simple plan of pecificn- tion proposed by General Sherman will suffice, The people of the rebellious States, State by State, or all together, in laying down their arms, and in submitling to the su- preme national authority of the United States, will be res. ‘red to the Union, and there will be peaco—a eebstantial and enduring pence. No bands of peace commissioners, no negotiations, i has prevented vessels in port from getting tho usual dokpatch. The quantity on hand is ample to supply any no national conventions will be necessary to demand . we aro likely to have during the winter, Last | secure this grand result. The dislodgment and sales at this port thirteen conta. ”’ dispersion of Lee’s army will practically setéle Andraportant meeting of the Board ef Supervisors took | the question, and nothing clse will do it. tho place yesterday. Resolutions were adopted calling om the Legislature for autherity to raise money to pay boun- ties to fill the quota of the city, and appointing com- In this common sense view of tho subject, we are glad that Mr. Blair, as a peacemaker, has ‘The War Department at Washington has been notified | mittees to go to Washington and Albany, and also» oom- tarned over again the business of his mission of the arrival of the rebel Congressman Honry 8. Foote | mifttet, with power to add, jnfluential, citizens to their at mombership, to raise subscriptions to pay bounties, Sa- properly bel The inti of Fort within the lines Of General Shertian's army, st Winches- tor, Virginia Mr. Richardson, one of the newspaper correspondents ‘The Board of Aldérmon mot who recently esoaped from the rebel prison at Salisbury, North Carolina, gave his testimony yesterday before the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the Warro- | one thousand, dollats, far taking rearuite out of the @rrding the treatment by the rebel duthorition of Union | county; bet after considerable debate the subject was Prisoners. Ho fully confirraed all that has bean horeto- laid over until Thursday next. A fore stated in reference to the barbarity to which our captured soldiers and civiliang are subjected. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘We have received threo days later news from Europe by tho arrival at Portland, Me,, yesterday, of the steam- ship Peruviam, from Londonderry, Ireland, on the 2ist Anstant. Captain Corbett, late commander of the rebel pirate King, alias Shenandoah, has been committed for trial in ‘Liverpool, charged with violating the Foreign Enlistment act. ‘The Liverpool Poet states that orders for twenty thou gand artillery uniforms for the rebols have recently been executed in that city, Moers, Schoolfield and Bright, of the British Parlla- been recently addressing their constituents o Whe Uailed States governinent, though our » to place gufiborts on the lakes and to abro- sciprocity treaty with Canada wore deprecated. It ie asserted that Spain will demand of Pera indemnity to the amoutit of Sftoon million franea, gate the perviact Blunt made afull and intersting statement of into the hands of General Grant, to whom it Fisher will now come into play at Richmond. With tho demoli- | Ft at Oey era seared tod pabaredy Wel: the | The rebel leaders, no doubt, fully comprehend special Committee reported in favor of an ordinance abo- | the dangets of their situation and the difficulties Hishig all recruiting tents in the City Hall Park and other | of resisting the military combinations closing Public plages, and inflicting ® penalty of not less thes | around them; but all that can be done by despe- rate men, driven to the “last ditch,” we may petition for e ferry to | safely assume will be done in thelr final strag- Jerecy City from the foot of Fourteenth street, North | gle for their last and most important stronghold river, signed by fourteen hundred persons, wasfeceived | and their last great army. They will more and appropriately referred. ‘The Board of Councilmen did not hold a s@ssion yes terday, & quorum not being present at the call of the roll, whereupos tho clork adjourned the Board ull Thursday. rigidly than ever gather up from their towns and villages, highways and byways, their ab- eentee soldiers and deserters, and every white The Albany Investigating Committee for the examin | man capable of handling a musket, and every tion of the affair of our city government still continue | negro available for camp service. At the same Department Comptrofler Brennan was yesterdsy om thestahd, and gave some interesting evidence, as also Mesars. Badger and Willlamron, the bidders of the three hundred thousand dollar contract. Seq } thelr labor, not having yet finished the City Inspector's time, in small squads and detachments, rein- forcements will be hurried upto Lee by such | roads as may atill be open to them from the cbdtton States; and thus within « month or two ‘The Prudsian Consul General eppeared with his counsel, | Lee's present army of seventy thousand, may Mr, Lapaugh, before United States Commissioner White, yesterday, to claim the extradition of Gustave Ferdinand, alina B. Fi Hille, or Richard Hille, who i# charged with frauds on the Bertin and Hamburg Railway Company to the amount of sixteen thousand thalers and twenty-six silver frow¢hens. In consequence of the absence of the Prisonc#’s counsel the investigatiom was postponed to Saturday noxt at eleven o'clock. ‘Tho excitemont over the Popa’s encyclical is extend- ‘The Contt of Oyer and Terminer adjourned yesterday fing. It is rumored that trouble with Russia Has grown for the term, after some sentences had been paaed. ‘out of ft, andthe government of Spain tna forbidden ite | Henry Zawker, who pleated guilty to Killing John Bren- publication without matborization from the Council of | nan, a fireman on board the steamship Northern Light, Hiate. Cardinal de Andrea, who had been ordered to re- ‘whs Behteniced to two yearw’ confinement im the State rir From Maples to Rome to anewer fur having spoken Prison, Ejitaveth Savouke, a Spanish megress, who Aisrospectfully of ft, had, it was sald, refused to comply, | killed @ wbman named Mary Tean, jn the Sixth ward with the order. An account of the action of the French | stutfom house, \ government in opneritinn '~'* ‘ad been communicated § in the fate P whe bontenced to foar yoara’ confinement visor, Thomas Hayes who was cauzht § Within be swelled to Iundred thousand desperate fighting men. Agninet this body of peace eommissioners, whatever may be the strength of tho forces of General Grant, we know that if ho can be speedily reinforced, to the extent of even fifty thousand mon, we shall have immediate peace as the result of his decisive peace conferance with General Lee. Judging from the unproce- donted goverity, North and South, of this win- try nenson 60 far, it may be a month, or even two or.three months, before the roads in South- ern Virginia will admit of active campaigning. this Interval, if tha loval States pugh delivered to applicants at |' wil] be universally accepted as the end of slavery and the slavery agilation, the end of Southern fire-eaters and Northern abolition fanatics, and will thus in every way strengthen our ¢ause, weaken the enemy, advance us to the crowning victory of the war, and’ har monize the two sections in the restoration of the Union, How to Dispose of the Inevitable Negro— General Sherman’s Plan. The Tridune’s mission is to find fault. It is nothing when not objecting. To agree with nobody and to try to force everybody to agree with it aro the main points of the creed of that delightfal journal. | ‘The latest illustration of this creed we find in poor Greeley’s com- ments upon General Sherman’s recent order re- serving certain lands for negro settters exclu- sively. The order provides that “the islands from Charleston south, the abandoned, rice | fields along the rivers for thirty miles back | from the sea, and the country bordering the St, | John fiver, Florida,” be set apart for the settle- ment of freed negroes. ' More fortunate than the white men, these negroes are exempted from conscription, and they are to receive the same bounties as white men ‘if they choose to enlist. Whonever three respectable negroes select. a | location, for, settlement they are to have it | forthwith, and, negroes in the army also have the right to hold lands in these settlements. An ! officer, is specially detailed to carry gut this ordor, pnd to take care that the negroes are not improperly interfered with. This seems tous a very liberalias well as.@ vory excellent plan for ‘Wisposing of the inevitable and irrepressible African. But the Tribunedoes not like it, and distinctly refuses to endorse it, The objections of the Tribune, as we have had frequent occasion to observe, are eften the best possible proofs of the excellence of any scheme or system. The objections of the Tribune to General Sherman’s plan of coloniz- | ing thd negroes demonstrate the advantages of that plan. We have yet to be convinced, and the viet majority of mankind have yet to.bé convinced, that Greeley or any other Tribune’ writer understands the negro better, |has a greater desire for his improve- | ment} is more thoronghly informed in regard to | his necessities, and his’ capabilities, and has a ‘more practical’ aéquaintance with the best method of disposing of him, than Major |General Sherman. . Still) the | Zri- bune impertinently undertakes to lecture this general, to convict him of “the vicious principle of prejadice against color,” and to + bly costhim no little time and trouble to mature. | “General, Sherman/? says the Tribune, “as- sumes thatthe negro is a race apart and differs, | ent ftom the white.” Is this assumption so ab- | surd and 86 criminal?’ Is' there no dilierence | between white and black? These questions an- ) swor themselves. To colonize the blacks along ! the sonthern coast and mpon the sea islands is | to give them the best possible chance to become | wealthy as well as civilized. There they havea ‘elimate to which they aré adapted, and which is adapted to them, although fatal to most white | people; and cotton and rice plantations, aban- } doned, but not worthless, are bestowed upon { them gratis. Ifthe negro has any eapacity for | self-rovernment, any innate industry, any de- | sire to rise in the world, any of those ambi- ! tions which distinguish white people under similar circumstances, now is his opportunity | to display these qualities. But we decline to accept the Tribune's dictam as conclusive evi- dence of the existence of such qualities; and even wore that dictum accepted, we could im- agine no more’ favorable surroundings than those supplied by General Sherman for the development of the best traits of a race just re- leased, from bondage and oppression. ediately transformed into “American citi- with all the privileges, rights and enlight- enment that a republican government can be- stow,” that is extremely sbsurd,'because ft is entirely impossible. No large portion of our people, | or South, are in favor of bestow- ing “all and rights” of American citizens upon emancipated slaves,and certainly the majority has some opinions which the mi- nority ought to respect. The “enlightenment” of which the Tribune speaks is quite another That cannot be bestowed; the negroes must obtain it each for himself We are com- pelled to’ add that, as there are no traces of |, such enlightenment displayed in the Tribune |, office, the blacks about whom the Tribune theo- rizes will probably remain for some time to come equally in the dark. The Rebel Paper Money System—A Wara- ing to the Administration. The paper money of Jeff. Davis, which about Christmas time was worth in Richmond less than two cents on the dollar in exchange for gold, was boastfully quoted the other day by the Richmond Examiner as having advanced in value to nearly three cents on the dollar, in consequence of the fall of Fort Fisher, This may be the “blessing in disguise” which the rebels have pronounced the loss of that import- ant.stronghold. But how has it operated to increase the cazh value of one of Jeff.’s five dollar bills from ten to fifteen cents? By simply stopping those little exportations of gold which, before the fall of Fort Fisher, went out about every day from “the confederacy” for England through the Wilmington blockade. Yet, after all, fifteen cents for a five dollar bill exposes a finandial system which has gone to wreck and ruin. | Herein, hardly less than in the exhaus- tion of its fighting materials, lies the secret of the increasing disasters and demoralizations which mark the rapidly sinking Davis confede- racy. With .the meeting of the rebel Congress last winter iis attention was called and its labors ‘were mainly devoted to the curtailment of those paper money issues which, if not arrested, from their fearful dcpreciation, threatened the specdy collapse of the confederacy. Seven hundred and fifty millions of its paper currency were afloat. It-was fast becoming utterly worthless, with all the pains and penalties attached to the refusal of the people concerned to take it. The rebél government, in this dilemma, could bor- row no ‘more money; for rebel capitalists had no more to give, except upon compulsion Jeff.’s Congress, therefore, adopted the only re- maining expedients of relief at their command. They jadopted a. sweeping schedule of taxa- tion, and they invested Davis and his military subordinates with authority to collect these taxes in the form of army supplies at their own valuation. Through these measures the texes imposed, ranging from ten to twenty per cent! on incomes and property, were made equal in value to. ten, fifteen, and often: twenty times the tax in Jeff’s paper. But this relief was not sufficient to rescue the rebel treasury. Its paper money im circulation must be dimin- ished; but how was this to be done, whem the excess’ could not, even under cover of a new loan, be withdrawn? No new loan would be | taken ep. The Mississippi plan of redemption was the only resoutce, and it was adopted. A new issue of Treasury notes was ordered, and it ‘was enacted that two dollars of this now issue shouldbe equal to three dollars of the old: By this simple process the seven hundred:and fifty millions of Jeff.’s Treasury notes afloat were cut down to five hundred millions. Whether the holders of the old scrip wore or were not thus cheated out ot two hundred and fifty millions ef dollars, is a question hardly worth discussing, inasmuch as Jeff.’s creditots ‘have lost or sre certain to lose all their investments in. their Southern confederacy of every shape and form. It is this widening conviction, as much as any- thing else, among the rebel bond, certificate and Treasury note holders, that is sapping the foundations of their confederacy. They aro beginning to realize the fact that its debts will never be paid, that its paper will never be re- deemed, and that all their present contribu- tions, voluntary or compulsory, of articles of solid) value to their rebel cause, are now only adding so much more to their irreparable losses. Hence the demoralization which pre- vails in the confederacy; and hence the paper money of Davis, except under military compul- sion, has almost ceased to be used as a medium of exchange in the purchases of the Southern & half cents, and within a fortnight will prebs- bly sell atseventy-five cents’ per podnd, and ina month at fifty cents per pound, or less, Unless by temporary expedients, it cannot beralset ability of the rebels to bull gold in this great money centre. ‘There has.as yet been no isgue of paper currency in sufficient volume to ware rant and justify fifty per cent premiom on gold. Gold, whieh had been by cornering driven te two dollars and eighty cents premium; has now’ fallen to a little above two hundred by some of the leading partics quietly unload ing. Goods of all kinds were marked up on cost tickets, from day to day, as the gold bull party carried up prices; but we have never yet heard of their being marked down, as gold fell in premium, at-all in proportion. On the contrary, we are informed that many merchants continue to add fifty per cent to the rate of the day—that is, when gold was selling last week at from two hundred and four to two hundred and ton, we heard goods were marked as costing from two hundred and fifty to two hundred and sixty for exchange, to import, All merchandise has been speculated in by comb nations; also all eatables, until prices have borne with great severity on nine-tenths of the community. Now that cotton can be bought at one-half the prices currently paid about four months ago, and is likely to: go to one half of present prices soon, we hope te” see goods resume their proportionate rate, As yet, tho reduction offered is: deceptive and unreal. Such goods as are going out of season, and are likely to be at one-quarter of present prices before the next season, are the only kinds reduced. If prices-are not pre portionately reduced to cotton and’ gold rates, they will be reduced in 9 few weeks so largely by negessity that it will impair: the credit and means of our traders very largely. A New Srate ayp Narionat Carrrot.—The State Senate, it appears, have entertained a reso- lation throwing open to tho competition of the different municipalities in this State*the site for a new Capitol, and with it, of course, the claim to become the capital of the State of New York: It is contemplated to receive proposals from the Iarge cities as to what grounds they will donaté, and what kind of a building they are willing to erect for this purpose. If the.Senate are in earnest in this matter now is the time for our Common Council to put in such claim that no,’ other city in the State can possibly compete with it. New York is the proper place, not only for the State capital, but for the na tional capital. It is already the metropolis of the country, commercially and financially; im point $f population, wealth, enterprise and im télligence. It is where all these concentrate that the legislative business of the county should be conducted. Such {s the rule in every other nation. New York should have the halls ot Cor and: the. State Legislature andthe Exeoutive mansions, just as London has her | Parliament’ houses and palaces, or Paris, St. Petersburg, Berlin and Vienna, have: thebs: grand |centres of legislative. and executive. action. The | first Congress met in New York, and\e subsequent one in Philadelphia; but theidee then prevailed that the procecdings of that body should be carried oir in some out of the way p! like Washington, .in, order to avoid, crowds and mobs, and ‘such fancied obstrue- tions td legislative business, But that idea ie obsolete now, for Washington is no longer iso lated by its surrounding marshes and swamps. It is as easily accessible os any other part of the country. Neither is the antiquated Dutch. town of Albany relieved by its interior locw tion from its pestiferous lobby. Therefore the argumants of a eentury ago ate feeble to-dayy whilo the living facts of the growth of the city of New York, its vast prosperity, the concem. tration therein. ef all the enterprise, intellh people one from another. They have fallen back ence, industry and commerce of the nation, to the primitive system of so many bushels of | ate powerful argnments in favor of locating: corn for so many yards of cloth, or pounds of | the national. and State capitals here. salt, or pairs of shoes. Suroly another blow ‘We trust; therefore, that if the Senate: really: or two from Grant, Sherman and Thomas will | mean to carry eat tho proposed plan our Comy- reduce this whole rickety rebel establishment— | mon Council will take up the gage, and appro~ financial, military and political—to ite- olements, original priate such a sam for the purchase of splendid: grounds and the erection of a magnificent Onpl- But there is a warning in the workings of this | tol building as will ensure the selection of the paper money system of the Richmond finan- | metropolis as the fatuse capital. oiers thnt should no longer be disregarded at ‘Washington. Mr. Seoretary Chase, when super- seded in the Treasury, had gone to. the QUERILLAS IM KENTUCKY. Lovsviman, Jan, 90, 1808 ‘Tho fnot is, however, that theoretical aboli-.|i point of extreme danger on the same read: with Coptain Clark, of tho Fourth Missouri rabel cavalry, tloniats, like those of the Tribune, never can agree with practical abolitionists, like Sherman, The theorists put a plan upon paper and then. |! regard it asa thing accomplished. They blessed Abraham Lincoln for yielding to their clamors and signing the emancipation proclamation, and they cannot conceal their impatience at the discovery:that this was not all that was neces. sary to adnthilate the institution, and they are: constantly starting new schemes to. achieve. what they have repeatedly assured us was: already done. General Sherman: and General Lee are the two great, practical abolitionists of the day. ‘They are disposing of the negro by" admitting him into their armies and by allot- ting certain lands for the support of his family. Sherman is more liberal tan Lee, inasmuch as he gives the nogro his forty acres at ones, while Leo holds it out as the reward for bravery and good conduct during the war. This is ‘Abolition and practical philanthropy combined, and the theorists of the Tribune can- not comprehend how admirable this combin& tion is. Neither can they submit, without grumbling, to be thus superseded. Theoreti- cal reformers, like Greeley, Garrison, Wade, Wilson, Phillips, Beecher, Sumner and the rost of that clique, are swept out of sight. by such roformers o4 Sherman and Lee. The best mah produced by the cliqhe to which we réfer'ls probably General Butler; but all Butler did fat the negro was to give him the name of “conttaband.” Neither the negro nor any of ‘bis practical well-wishers can consider this nick- name as beneficial o gift asa deed for forty sores of first rate Southern soil. As for the Tribune's theory, that tha neornaa ehanta he Memminger. Mr. Fessenden, in doing nothing, | entered Denville, Ky., with forty mes, on Sunday, ebniner has been doing’ little better than Chase; bat |' o'clock, swapped horses with sovera! of the citizens, etpe@ he etill remains on the road to rufa. Wo-want, and the shaping of the. whole: system: Treasury in favor.of an early netum: to. specie Lay aggro year eg pean peyments, and afixed value to our paper CUr | visite mine miles of Evzabethtown to-night, @Qisntrell, rency., To this.end, wa are gratified. with the } of Kansas notoriety, ia paid to be, with Jones, with @ prospect of the transfer of Senator Morgan to | tand of two hundred and ten men. the Treasury Department asramong tho Cabinet | changes that may be expected on or sbout the fe | i of March,” He is a practical business |) soins und tele Toponed Deny wastlled, le a a h made another raid om His i 20%: bant am nosey tame pee oa On the samo day Bue Mandy's gorilla bard dashed the banks, capitalists and merehantsof this city | | Om Hi sas earprioed’ © YANG Of admirably qualifies him for the pesition indi- dichargen sas ee ee ee of them and em cated. Give us him, or some such reliable and experienced business man, as our Secretary of the Treasaty,' and ‘iindreds of millions of. money willbe saved to the government and the people, in restoring tho Treasury to the path of safoty, and to the fullest measure of the pub- lio,confidence. "There is no valid cxonse for the presend de- preciation of “greenbacks.” The rebel govern- ment at Richmond had, from the , beginning nolther money, orédit, comacrce nor public con- fidence to build upon.’ We have had and have fll those advantages t» an extent whieh no government in a time of war has ever com minded before. Under « skilful, common senso administration, of the business of the national Treasity, w.e have resources sufficient for the restoration sof the national currency to the gold standard , dollar,for dollar, before tha erniratian of the, nrasant wean Riavercs or MR amp Mas, Vasnieaory.—The first. reading of the course by Mr. and Vandenhowt wae, given, at Dodworth Hell last evening Aeelect audience, Vandonbo were decidedly to be. found In the Fy English and Ameripan epigrammatic illustrations whiaky {roduesd—« ciroumsianco whieh naturally su sir o4 Wawess wane for the eptertainment Alt ihe pa 4 Le is eh anocdoto 4 5 mo fandenhof, and ae Ag: he. freshest flowers were plucl 1 mv what he pe chosen he gives with some arin Ged > good deal of that cape and flip) which rendew an anecdotal recitation agreeable far the fag how, His oxamplas of Irish, wit and bumor, and the, Manner im whlob they were rendered, without porsowng the morte Of originality—for they bave been read oo told @ thou band times—were of the stage, afd wou id have bem quite in place there. Vandeahon ‘4\apiays Ler admi- Tabla powers of elocution to great fect, and her ting Perception of the pathos as well ‘ag the passion an@ er embodied in the creations of the authors she has pow selected to iIlustrate. Tho orterta! a ment upon the wh was and continys to autract te who danire 0 pass 4, de howe \u the evening