The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1865, Page 4

GAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIBTOR. en AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW BVENING. AQapEey or MUSIC, Irving place—Iauuam Ovens —Buscm Brep Scsss— EEL bree ‘NEBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tap Mussatuaxce, WINTER GARDEN, Sroadway.—Hauias, mes THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas Inte Har- OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Tam Sraxets or Naw Woax. BE", BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—fem Oxoxe— ) BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadway.—Two D og ed SxxLeTon—Dwi ae ov Fate—Day and Evening. snvzt SALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Roaxar Haizn's Sitasas or Mopar Mrasouss ae TE ANRIEOE,# a Pur ‘Danczs, &0. [MOTH MENAGERIE, ‘AM. (OWE. M, 3 Syed Fourtpenth _strooh— Bararniy, ‘ AN THEATRE, No. 444 Brondway.—Bassrs, einen Boaiasquas. 40—Tux Macto TRouPat. IOOLEY & CAMPBELL’S MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Gere cborm Dances, Buaiesquas, £0.—How ana You + WEW YORK MUSEUM Broadway.— Bea Tote UOT ANA TOMT, a8 ss VANNUOHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movina Wax j= a ioe amines , Meow York, Sunday, February 5, 1865. THE SITUATION. President Lincoln and Secretary Seward returned to ‘Washington yesterday from their conference in Hampton Boads with the three rebel commissioners. The particu- lars of this important interview, which continued for ‘ebout sixteen hours, have not yet been made public. It is stated, however, that nothing definite towards a @essation of hostilities was agreed upon. The Presi- ont is reported to have proposed to Messrs. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell that if they were prepared to promise a return of thoir States to the Union he was Feady to waive all minor questions, but that, as Chiof Magistrate of the republic, sworn to maintain the Union, he could take into consideration no terms which involv- 4 its division. This grand point the rebel agents confessed thoy did not fool authorized to decide; and so the negotia-. ions ended. The conference took piace entircly on board one orthe other of the threesteamers which were anchored {m Hampton Roads, where the nogotiators could not be tntorrapted in their proceodings. It was conducted in ‘the most cordial and frank manner on both sides, but, on the part of Mr. Lincoln at least, with equal firmness, Groat anxiety is now felt to hear from Richmond. Very interesting despatches from our correspondents esoriptive of the opening of bis new campaign by Gene- fel Sherman were brought to us by the steamship Fulton, which arrived here yesterday, from Port Royal @ the 1st inst. The left wing of the army, under General Slocum, had arrived at Sister's ferry, on the Gavanosh river, fifty miles above the city of Savan- @ah, without moeting any opposition whatever from @he enemy. Two divisions of the Twontieth corps, which struck out for that point through the State of Jouth Carolina, had considerable diMoulty in getting Jhrough the swamps. The other troops, who marched [ireotly up the Georgia bank of the river, had no such Pobarrassments to contend with. On the 30th ult. all of locum's men wore at Sister's forry, and supplies were Doing rapidly received. The right wing of the army is Operating in a better country for marching than the left, ‘and at some distance from it; but communication be- twoon the two ia kept uninterrupted. One of our cor- Fespondents states that General Shorman proposes “stir- ring up South Carolina at the rate of twenty miles a day.” Rebel despatches say that the left wing is marching on Augusta, Ga., and tho right on Branchville, 8. C. They Feport some fighting on the 30th ult. near White’s Point, on tho Combahee river. They also say there is @ rumor that tho Union troops burned MePhersonville, 8. C., five tailes northwest of Pocotaligo. From the James river we have a repetition of the re- port, brought in by rebel deserters, that Petersburg is to be evacuated within afew days. The deserters also say that the troops who some time ago left Loe’s army for Worth Carolina, to moot a national force reported to be arching on Weldon, have returned. During the two @ayn preceding Thursday last the rebels before Petoz- burg, for some unexplained cause, indulged in a great Geal of cheering. The sick and wounded in the Army of the Potomac ficid hospitals have ail recently been re- moved to City Point, Genoral Woitzel has returned to the Army of the James. The ice in portions of the James river last week caused a temporary cossation of he exchange of prisoners. ‘We have full particulars of the loss of the Monitor Pa- fapeoo and gunboat Dai Ching, already recorded im our @olumns. The Patapsco was sunk in the harbor of Charleston, on the night of the 15th of last month, by one of the rebel torpedoes. She wont down in twonty qeconds after she was siruck, and sixty of the persons on board of ber were drowned, forty-three being saved. The Dal Ching got aground in the Combahee river, South Caro- oa, on the 26th ‘ult, and, after maintaining ® severe Qght with a rebel fort for some hours, and it becoming @pperent to her officers that she could not be got off, they ‘(QM fire to her, and she wus burned to the water's edge. G@Il her officers and crew, excepting four, succeeded in eecaping. A few hours previous to the catastrophe which befell hor, the Dai Ching captured the blockade rumner Coquette, from Charleston for Nassau, with a cargo of Botton. ‘We have interesting nows from late rebel journals. @eneral Lee has been confirmed by the Richmond Senate 08 Goneral-in-Chief of all the rebel armios; but it in anid fet he will ati! remain in the field with the army (ground Richmond. Hoe has published an appeal for eetas, aud calls for the delivery to the authorities of ali Un the hands of citizens Goneral Breckinridge ts ox ected to assume the position of Secrotary of War te- morrow. They have a story in Richmond that troops from Thomes’ army to reinforce Goneral Grant in What of tho rebel capital have rocomtly passed ever bee Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. A committee the Nofth Carolina Legislature recently had a con- with Jol. Davis, Itis said thoy “urged a more Prosecution of the war.” (?) An Atlanta cor- of the Richmond Dispatch says that it will several months yet to rebuild the railroads in that Sherman deatroyed. He leo says that it fe to attempt to didguise the fact that in North Caro. Georgia, and even South Carolina, there is “wide |) W. CORNER OF FULTON AMD NASSAU OTS. (STREL 514 Broadway.—Srazers oF ‘iis “Enatorus Bones, lature, to meot om Wednesday next. rebel raids across the border from Canada in future. The prize steamship Blenheim, one of the English- rebel blockade runners captured in Cape Fear river by Admiral Porter’s fleet, arrived here yosterday morning, im charge of a prize master and crew, She hasa valu- able cargo of arms, ammunition, &0, CONGRESS. am the Senate yestorday Mr. Trumbull offered @ resola- ton, declaring that the constitutional amendment abol- ishing slavery was presented to the Prosident for his ap- Proval through inadvertency, and that such approval is ‘unnecessary and inconsistent with former practice, The ‘subject was laid over till to-morrow, Mr. Sumner offered Joint resolutions declaring the rule in ascertaining the three-quarters of the several States required in the ratif- cation of a constitutional amendment. These resolutions declare “that the rule followed in ascertaining the two- thirds of both Houses in proposing the amendment to the constitution should be followed im ascertaining the three-quarters of the several States rati- fying the amendment; that, as in the first case, the two-thirds are founded on the simple fact of representation in the two Houses, so, in the second case, the three-quarters must be founded on the simple fact of representation of the government of the country and the support thereof, and that any other rule establishes one basis for the proposition for the amendment and another for its ratification, placing one on a simple fact and the other on a claim of right, while it also recognizes tho power of rebels in arms to interpose a veto upon the national government in one of its highest functions.” ‘The resolutions were ordered to be printed. A joint reso- lution was introduced to advance to Paul 8. Forbes $200,- 000 on the contract for building the steam sloop-of-war Idaho, The joint resolution excluding the rebellious States from the next Electoral College wab discussed and finally adopted by a vote of twenty-nine toten. The Senate then adjourned. In the House of Representatives the Military Com- mittee were directed to inquire into the truth of the re- Port of the ill treatment of soldiers at Fort Schuyler. The Sonate’s amendment to the joint resolution excluding rebel States from the next Electoral College, was con- curred in. In Committee of the Whole the consideration of the Naval Appropriation bill was resumed. Fernando ‘Wood opposed the pending amendment for a Board of Admiralty, In tho course of his remarks he said that if, as was reported, the peace negotiations had failed, in consequence of indisposition of the rebel authorities to return to their allegiance and duty, and because they re- fused to reunite on the basis of the constitution, so far as he represonted the peace sentiment he would not sustain them in their position. If the door was thrown open by the President, and if the answer thereto was separation and recognition, and nothing else, so far as his humble efforts were concerned he should aid the conquering araies of his country to obtain by force what they had been unable to obtain by peace. The amendmont estab- lishing | Board of Admiralty was rejected, but subse- quently renewed, and pending the question on this point the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate notice was given of bills to amend the charter of Syracuse and to ratify the constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery. The bills preventing encroashment upon the harbor of New York and to complete the Battory extension wero advanced to a third reading. Bills were reported in the Assembly to incorporate the ‘Village Water Company of Kings and Queens counties; the Buffalo Police bill, and amending the Brooklyn Mer- cantile Library Association. Bills were introduced to incorporate the Central Railroad Company ef New York; amending the charter of the Lorillard Insurance Com- pany; relative to Courts of Special Sessions of the Peace in New York; incorporating the National Union Life Insurance Company of New York; to ratify the amendment to the constitution prohibiting slavery, and to incorporate the Suffolk Steamboat Company. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. In this morning’s Hunatp we publish a most intorest- ing history of the secret campaign carried om by our detective police against the rebel incendiaries who st- tempted to burn down this city. The operations of the Getectives, which were of a most difficult character, were conducted with extraordinary skill, and were persevered in with the greatest tenacity. Their most interesting field was in Canada, where they mixed freely with the rebels in Toronto, Hamilton, St. Catharines and other places, and managed to gain the confidence of these gentry. By these and other means they succeeded in their plans, and effected the arreat of a number of those alloged to have been engaged in the plot, including Cap- tain John Yates Bell, Captain R. G. Kennedy and William L, McDonald. Kennody, it is said, has admitted being the person who fired Barnum’s Museum. All these men gre now in confinement. Our Supervisors’ Committee were endeavoring all yesterday to obtain from Provost Marshal General Fry a statement of the manner in which the quota of this city under the last call for troops was figured from about four thousand up to twenty-one thousand, They did not suc- ceod, however, but have been promised that they shall receive a satisfactory answer to-day. A salute of one hundred guns was fired tn the City Hall Park yesterday at noon in honor of the ratification by our Legislature of the constitutional amendment for the abolition and prohibition of slavery. In the United States Circuit Court yosterday, Judge Shipman presiding, the case of Edward Dugan, charged with @ breach of the Internal Revenue law, was ro- sumed. The jury found a verdict of guilty, with « strong recommendation to merey. The accused was sentenced to three days’ imprisonment, with a caution froth the Judge not to get into any more such difficulties, ag on the next occasion he'might suffer imprisonment for two years, Tho extradition case of Gustave Ferdinand Voigtman, a Prussian, charged with being @ fugitive from justice, in consequence of alleged forgeries on the Hamburg and Berlin Railway to the amount of fourteen thousand tha- lers, was resumed yestorday before United States Com- missioner White. The depositions taken in the Prursian court were read and putin evidence, together with a photograph of the recused, and the mandate of the Prosident for his arrest. Some testimony was taken as to the identification of the prisoner, and the case was then further adjourned to Tuesday at eleven o'clock. William Patrick and Owen McIntire wore yesterday committed for examination on complaint of s seaman tn the government service, named James Bruck, who charges that on Friday evening they garroted him and robbed him of one hundred and seventy dollars. Three burglars were on Friday night discovered trying to offect an entrance into the tailoring establiahment at 198 Spring strect. On the advance towards them of a policeman who had been watching their movements they ran away and cffocted their eacape. A train on the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad was thrown from the track by a broken rail on Tuesday night last, and four or five persons were injured, ‘Thero is great excitcment among the people of Con- necticut over the reported recent discovery of coal and oil im the neighborhood of Hartford. The stock market was firm yorterday, Governments wore stronger. Gold opened at 210, and, after selling up to 21434, cloned at 21136. The innwmerable pence rumors, growing out of the conference between Prosident Lincoln, Secretary Seward and the rebel commissioners, with which the air war thick on Saturday last, almost caused a total dead lock in business, a8 nobody wanted to operate until the future should bocome clearer, Scaresly anything waa done in foreign goods, and but little in domestic produce, On ‘Change the flour market was quiet, but prices were with- out quotable change. Wheat ruled quict, but firm, while corn and oats were stondy, Pork was dull and lower, while beef and lard wore quiet, but firm. Freights con. tinued quiet, but firm, Whiskey was less active and scarcely wo firm. Cuantry ror tie Tenorant.—A benevolent gentleman has sent us ten cents as a contribu tion towards a grand fund to supply Provost Marshal Fry with a copy of “Colburn’s Primary Arithmetic,” as Fry seems to be intensely ignor- fini of the art of figuring correctly. This lau. dable enterprise deserves encouragement, Tne Mopurn Damon anv Pytuiag—Bon. But- »" “whieh, if not timely checked, emg anbe tho lores disnsters.” Governor | ler and Bon, Wood. Brown has called an extre session of the Georgia Legis- ‘The Canadian Alion bill passed the upper house of the Provincial Parliament on Friday night, and received the signature of the Governor General yesterday. To-mor row it will take effect, and will probably prevent apy The Late Peace Comference and the |The Peace Comference om the James= Historical Parallels. On the 7th of Jnly, 1807, Nepoleon the First and Alexander of Russia had « significant and remarkable interview, on a reft on the river quest of peace, have returned to Washington. The result, of their conference with the three distinguished rebel peace commissioners sent out from Richmond iz simply this—that « little more fighting will be necessary to bring the rebel chiefs to a proper frame of mind for peace. Between Mr. Lincoln’s ultimatum—tho restoration of the Union—and the rebel sine qua non—s Southerp ise chasm which can be bridged over only by the peace commissioners of Grant and Sherman. With this “fixed fact” before us, the peace propositions suggested by the rebel oom- missioners, whatever they may have beon, amount to nothing; and their mission is valueless, except as 8 stepping stone to the invitable alternative of their sumission to the Union. Im this view of the subject, however, something bas been gained in behalf of peace. From all quarters of the rebellious States—from their armies in the field and their people at home—there isa universal desire and « prevailing cry for peace. Their hopes have been excited by this peace mission of their popular leaders, Messrs. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell. Nor will those hopes and desires be abated by the test which will now be presented them of fighting to “the last ditch” for Southern independence. Jeff. Davis, no doubt, entered upon this peace ex- periment for the express purpose of “ firing the Southern heart” again, and silencing the mu- tinous peace combinations around him, upon @ clearly defined issue of independence, submis- sion or subjugation, Now he has it; and tho question submitted to the Southern people still gubject to his authority is, whether they will continue to fight for him and his hopeless cause, or save themselves from wreck and ruin by abandoning him. - We think that he has been deluded by the professions of the peace advocates of his rebel Congress. They have professed to believe in the chances of a treaty of peace on the basis of Southern independence, and to be opposed to the sacrifice of their confederacy upon any terms. Now, although these peace men may not yet be prepared to take higher ground, they will work only the more indus- triously to supersede Davis by a more practical instrument of peace, They have already secured an important step in this direction in their Con- gressional resolutions appointing General Lee General-in-Chief of all the rebel armios. This proceeding was adopted as a war measure; but in reality it isa peace movement. The object was to take the control of the rebel armies out of the hands of an impracticable war fanatic, and to place them in the hands of a cool and Teflecting soldier, who would cease to fight where fighting would only be to sacrifice his soldiers to no purpose. So confident are we in this opinion'that we venture the prediction that peace will come from General Lee, while Jeff. Davis, driven out of Richmond, is flying for some other tempora- ry place of refuge. ‘This is the shortest road to peace. In obedience, we will suppose, to the Davis programme, General Lee gathers up at Richmond all his accessible reserves, deserters and tresh conscripts, and awaits the develop- ment of Grant’s combinations. They are at length developed in the complete isolation of Lee from every channel of supplies and every line of retreat. In this extremity his wisest course as a soldier will be to propose « surren- der of the city and his army with the honors of war, and this will be the end of the war and the beginning of peace. But is General Lee such a tyro in the art of war as to stand still till completely invested by an army which he dares not assail, and from which, if encircled, he cannot escape? This is @ question which could be readily answered were any other Southern city at stake than Richmond. But that city is now hardly less es- sential to the maintenance of the dilapidated Southern confederacy than Lee’s army itself. The loss of the military foundries, factories, flour, woollen and cotton mills, workshops, and siege artillery of Richmond, at this junc- tare, would be equal to the loss of a great army. These establishments and their materials are too vast and extensive to be removed or to be replaced. A partial removal of commissary, quartermaster and ordinance stores, and the light machinery of the army workshops, is the most that could be effected by months of active labor with Lee’s limited facilities for transpor- tation, Yet it is reported, from intelligent army sources, that the work of removal, preparatory to his evacuation of Rich- mond, is and has been for some time actually in progress. If these reports be true, we can only cenclude that General Lee is preparing to fall back to Danville, where, with his rebel government all adrift, he will be able, while still holding the field, to dictate to Davis, his Cabinet and Congress the necessity ot submission to the Union. In any event, from the present combinations and movements of the armies of General Grant, there can hardly be the shadow of a doubt that the alternative of an evacuation, a capitulation, or subjugation will very soon have to be choosen by the last remaining army of the re- bellion. It is equally manifest that the adop- tion of either alternative will open the door to peace, Tar Ixvesticatine Commrrrar.—The gentle- men of the Legislative Investigating Committee have returned to Albany. If they proceed thus slowly with their examinations they will not get through with all the departments before the day of judement. Hvidently the committee do not understand the ticks of our politicians. ‘The fuse raised by the so-called Citizens’ Asso- ciation about the City Inspector’s Department is merely to cover up the affairs of the Croton Board and the Street Commissioner's Depart- ment, where rich revelations are in store. They cannot connect the City Inspector with any nefarious proceedings. The cost of his depart- ment has been increased, like the cost of every- thing else, by the depreciation of the curronoy and the rise in prices and wages. Batwe have ® beautifully colored map, showing all the placers and gulches fo the Croton and the Sireet Cotamissioner’s Departments, which fs at the committce’s service when they resume their investigations. ‘Tue Constrretionar, AxmnpMent.—There are grave doubts whether the amendment to the constitution for the abolition of slavery will ob- tain the requisite number of States in its favor, The abolitionists are beginning @o see that it destroys their party, and thoy will intel gue to ela it, This the oor fy ol tant proloe a dT tury and eight years later, the President of the United States of America and the Vice President of the rebellious States met in mid- stream on the James river, exch on Board Of a steam despatch hoat, one coming trom the North, the ether from the South. Their mis- sion, like that of Napoleon and Alexander, was of peace. It was to settle, if possible, by ne- gotiation the difficulties which for four years have plunged this great nation into the agonies of internecine war. Peacefully and fraternally these little steamers lay side by side on the placid waters of the river, their living freight preg- nant, no doubt, with hope and anxiety as to the issue involved in the subject which brought them together; Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward, the chief ruler of this republic and the Premier of his Cabinet—who occupies the second place in importance to the Executive—on the one deck, and the second executive official of the rebel States, Mrr. Alexander H. Stephens, on the other. The historical parallel isso far nearly per- fect; but history will assist us in drawing it still closer. The record of all great wars shows that #% was a consciousness of power on both sides, the certain conviction that each was strong enough to defeat the other, which precipitated hostilities, In advance of every great war also the bloody issue was en- deavored to be staved off by conventions, con- ferences, the intervention of neutral powers, attempted compromises, and all the peaceful appliances which might bring them about, and in every instance these efforts ended in a great war, which lasted until it demonstrated the weakness of one or the other contestant, and peace was secured, after much bloodshed, by compromise at last—a compromise arising from the conviction on the part of the weaker power, after exhausting all its available military re- sources, that it was not competent to carry re- sistance any farther. We need not go back to distant history for evidence of these facts. Within the existence of the present generation, in fact within the past seventeen years, we have several instances which prove this allegation. Russia, the greatest and proudest nation of Eastern Europe, undertook, in 1854, to settle the affairs of the sick man of Turkey. She was confident of her power to accomplish her pur- pose, and all efforts at compromise wore re- jected upon the very consciousness of this power; but when the combined hostility of France, England and Sardinia was thrown into the scale, Russia was admonished by the fall of Sebastopol that she had miscalculated her strength, and the end was a peace involving the loss of her Danubian principalities and her military supremacy in the Crimea and on the Black Sea, submitted to at the treaty of Paris— thus sacrificing much of the accquisitions which the Emperor Nicholas and his predecessor had attained. In the Italian war of 1858 Austria, the pre- dominant state of the German Confederation, rushed into a war with Victor Emanuel, confi- dent of her capacity to conquer a weaker power and refusing a settlement of the difficul- ties by negotiation; but, finding that the alliance of France and Italy overmatched her strength, she was glad to accept the treaty of Villafranca, after the two disastrous battles of Magenta and Solferino, resigning, by the terms of that treaty, all her Italian possessions, save only Venetia. More recently we see the old Castilian pride of Spain humbied in St. Domingo. Taking advan- tage of our rebellion, she undertook to reinstate her dominion over that island. But now, find- ing that she made @ mistake in supposing that her grand historic prestige as the most anoient and once most potent nation of Western Eu- rope was lost in contest with a mere insu- lated Power in the Western Atlantic, Spain has put her hereditary pride into her pocket, aban- doned her claim and withdrawn her forces. We might cite the caso of our own war with Mexico, in 1848, as another illustration. It is true it was a strife between a strong and a weak Power, and the war was only of two years’ duration; but Mexico was con- fident of her strength to resist our demands. There is a curious fact in connection with the manner in which the treaty of peace with Mexico was brought about. A negotiator—Mr. N. P. Trist—was sent there, after we had possessed the whole valley, the city of Mexico and California—to make a treaty of peace; but his official plans were ignored. He undertook, therefore, to negotiate a treaty enthis own responsibility, and it was found so sdvan- tageous and there was such an anxiety for peace, although General Scott had then con- quered Mexico, that it was at once adopted by Mr. Polk, although previously unauthor- ized by him, and Mexico was compelled to cede to us the rich gold region of California-- her magnificent El Dorado—from which this country has since reaped so plentifal a harvest. And in the recent war betwcon Austria and Prussia on one side and Denmark on the other, conferences were held by all the European Powers previous to the outbreak of hostilities, Wat without avail, After the Prusso-Austrian forces had gained several victories, Denmark saw that her nationality was in danger and sho proposed peace. The rosult was the loss of the Schleswig-Holatein provincce to the Danish crown. Thus, from thie day back to the time of Moses—if we choose to extend the parallel tetrogressivelyit might be shown that all great ware are ended by the enforced ocon- viction of the weaker Power that they have been commenced upon an crroncons idea of its strength. Why not, therefore, this war of ours be terminated in the same way? It fe true that we are not in the habit of doing things like other nations Our prosperity has been more rapid; the development of our military ar naval power more sudden; ull our scheme of progregs and measures of policy more gigantic than those of our prodeconsors asong the aations Everything with us ts frei and A ences withers nusllel The NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1668. springing out of the troubled waters; but we have our doubts. We give to-dey part of the secret history of | the rebel attempt to burn the olty by means of |) phosphorus scattered in the various hotels. With the general fasta of that great attempt the people are familiar; but the secret operations of the wretches who it, thelr persons, their plang, their desperate character, and the exact views and wishes of thelr director in Canada, are now for the first time made public. The story is one replete with the peculiar in- terest with which we follow the recital of suo- cessful pursuit, As our report shows, certain strangers in this city, supposed to be rebels, were under surveil- lance for some days before the incendiary at- tempt was made. Their measures were taken, however, with such precaution that no fact could be fixed upon sufficient to justify their arrest. But the attempt was made, and they were gone. It would seem that no criminal can pat his foot down anywhere, whether on the softest of velvet carpets, or on the hardest and smoothest part of the Broadway pavement, without leaving a print that skilful detectives can trace and follow. So the phosphorus bearers left in the meagrely furnished leather bag clues that enabled Detective Young to pursue all their labyrinthine steps. Within « very few days after the attempt there were detectives at all the frontier outlets to Canada, having in their pos- session descriptions of the incendiaries. They had some success on our side the lines, and continued their pursuit, both of the criminals and of evidence, to St. Catharines, Hamilton and Toronto. On the cars, from St. Catharines to Hamilton, there occurred one of those dramatic incidents peculiar to detective stories. The detectives sat in the same car with, and in adjacent seats to, two of the hotel burners. They saw these men read in the New Yorx Hxraxn tho published account of their attempt, and noted their com- ments on the reward and on the pursuit which they supposed they had so completely outwit- ted and distanced. In Toronto the detectives managed to get into the confidence of MoDon- ald, formerly a merchant in this city and a sutler in our army, now the rebel agent ‘at that place, and the real prime mover and manager of the whole nefarious attempt. He is still at large. Several arrests were’ made; but the most important was that of the rebel Captain Kennedy, who made the attempt to fire Barnum’s Musoum.. He is pictured as a very desperate fellow, disposed to cut and shoot terribly at any possible risk to his own life. He has, however, managed to keep himself alive thus far, and is not known to have seriously injured any one else. He would have thrown phosphorus, while in the Museum, on the dresses of the women, but he was “afraid” that the alarm and rush would then be so great that he himself would not be able to get out. The story shows us to what an extent Canada had become a rebel plotting place against us, and how unscrupulously its asylum had been abused by the rebels in their attempts to break the peace between Great Britain and the United States. For that has in all this been one of the great objects. There is no doubt that these rebel demonstrations are inspired by the same rebel leaders who humbugged Horace Greeley into the notion that they had the wish and the power to make peace. George N. Sanders and Jake Thompson are the real authors of every movement, though they use such miserable wretches as McDonald to manage the particu- lars. Doubtless they would have gone a great way further in their plans; but fortunately the Canadian authorities have come to their senses. They see that the so called “sympathy with the South” is only another name for hostility to the United States, and that to suffer them- selves to be controlled by such an influence is to identify themselves with ruffianism, to be re- sponsible for its excesses, and to imperil some of their very material interests, They are dis- posed to do better, therefore; and now, in view of these detective exposures, they may very properly take it into consideration whether McDonald, Thompson, Sanders and all such are not proper persons to be sent out of the pro- vince under the recent Alien act. Our own government ought also to consider the pro- priety of demanding MeDonald as a party to the incendiary attempt. A Remepy vor tue lurvpEnce oF THE Mannatran Gas Comrany.—We hope that our municipal authorities will be firm in their re- sintance to the extortionate demands of the gas companies. Ifthe Manhattan Company leaves this city in darkness, from any motive what- ever, the Common Council will be fully justi- fied in appointing a vigilance committee, selz- ing the gas works and running them at the ox- pense of the city, leaving the Gas Company to gue for damages. This will remedy the com- pany’s impudence. Borizn’s Tounstows.—The hero of Big Bethel and the first attack on Fort Fisher has found a friend in need and a friend indeed in the Hon. Ben. Wood, who comes out and defends him against Grant. Let the fact of this friendship be added to the famous epitaph to be inscribed upon Butler's tombstone in the churchyard at Lowell. Tur Stare Carrrat.—If the Logislatare really desires to remove the State capital from Al- bany to New York, let it be done immediately. Delays are dangerous. Tnauus Orena—MaTines.—A popular opera has never failed, under Mr. Marotzok’s management, to draw a large audience at ® matinge; but the attendance yesterday, whon Il Polute was produced, excooded anything wo have witnessed for many seasons, The Academy was crowded to an extent that rendered the chance of obtain- img more sham standing room * delusion to all who were Rot present ab the anmumencoment of the performauce. Bn the thira circle was invarled by numbors of ladies ‘ho coul@ find no accommodation eleowhere. The opera was given admirably, Zucchi and Massimiliant being especially good as the martyrs. The programme for the coming week includes Trovafore—which will be given to-morrow night—Ftiust, Norma and Traviata. New Bowsrr.—Miss Mollie Williams and Mr. Fottx A. Vincent reappear at the New Bowery theatre to-morrow @vening, Their previous eusacomens was aguyen, it, Theodore C. WUspas 4m ow . ee wv Eee ey tas Grea ts w ermabhing of werompe it an Capuape deggie appenzanos of & ashect ¢ ‘to dotive and daily is theif drill, GastwostaDDIO, . ‘We heard artiliery fring in the carly pert of Guch sounds afe now recognised as nothing ‘The Press ae Paseo All the Rogpitgls ta the field were cleared a day or Swe pastes naterelipres eemeagebongbangsinger| Hospital, where they Tecetve more care and be mm bouer quarters, ‘This change, no doubt, gave rise to the various rumemD of an intended forward movement. Deserters who camo in to-day report the return te ca? front of the treops revently sent to North Carolina te meet @ Union force said te be marching on Weldon. The rebels in front of Petersburg have been very jubé- lant fora day or two, indulging in frequent eheertag, but on what account is not known here, Colgpel ono of the oldgat officers in the army, tee ee cast a Kealotant Adjutant General at these headquarters, and from his extensive acquaim> ance with the duties of the position, acquired unde® former commanders of this army, will no doubt die charge them satisfactorily. ed Mr. 8. T. Buikley’s Despateh. Fortnrss Monnos, Feb. 2, 1868 ‘RETURN OF GRNERAL WEITEEI, General Weitzel and staff arrived this morning from, the North, on their way to the front. They spent the day at the headquarters of Major General Ord, in the fort, and will proceed to the army by special boat this evening. fam BxonANan, ‘Twenty-nine rebel officers were sent to City Point this morning for exchange. They are released under the re- cent order of the Secretary of War, by which all offices held in close or solitary confinement are exchange, Eighteen of them came from Johnson’s Island, and the balance wore confined in the military prison at this point. Some of them have been in close confinement for sev- eral months, and all were highly delighted at the pres pect of going home, ‘THE MINNESOTA ORDERED NORTH FOR REPAIRS, The Minnesota, which took such an important and prominent part im the attack upon Fort Fisher, has beeg ordered to Portsmouth, N. H., for repairs, and will eal this evening. It is expected she will go out of commis. sion, as she needs considerable overhauling, and that her officers will be ordered to some other vessel. DNTENTION OF THE YLAG OF TRUCH STEAMER KEW YORE. ‘The flag of truce steamer New York, which left here several days since, with a number of rebel prisoners for exchange, has been dolayed in returning in consequeaee of the ice. Her arrival is looked for to-day or to-morrew. Boats have commenced running regularly again be tween here and Baltimoro. The Press Despatch. Fonramss Monnos, Feb. 8, 1868. ‘Tho steamer Governor Chase arrived here last evening from Fort Fisher, N. 0., with the mails and despatches rom our army operating against Wilmington, MW. G Nothing new bad transpired in the movements of Majer Gencral Terry's army. i ‘Tho steamer George Leary, Captain Doming, arrived ‘fhere to-day from Hilton Head, 8) C., with Major Andew fon, boarer.of important despatches from Major General Sherman. . Shermaa’s forces were still advancing victoriously tate the very heart of South Carolina, with every prospect of striking a disastrous blow on the rebel forces comcem- trated im the vicinity of Charleston. The Army. DEPARTMENTAL CHANGES, By direction of the War Department the militay ivision of West Mississippi, as originally constituted, hap been broken up, The departments of Missouri, Arkansas, together with the department of Kansas, will, in be consolidated into one grand division, “The Military Division of the Missouri,” Majer General John Pope commanding. Major General E. RB. 8. Canby will continue in cem- mand of the military division of West Mississipp!, henog forth embracing the Department of the Gulf, including the State of Texas and the Department of Mississipgl. ‘His jurisdiction will extend to all the territory bordering the Gulf of Mexico and region tributary th erote, ‘The Department of Kansas and Missouri will const]- tute a small department, Major General G, M.: Dodge commanding. r Major General S. R. Curtis will relieve Major Pope in command of the ‘Department of the Northwest. Major General J. J, Reynolds will continue in com- mand of the Depertmont of Arkansas. Major General John Pope, the commander of the new military division, left Milwaukee, the headquarters of his late command, to-day for St. Louis, where he will receive instructions in full, from Washington, relating te the extent of his enlarged duties. The requirements of his command will be mainly administrative, together with military operations against the Indians and gue rillas, ‘Tue Vaxpexnory Ravina —The last reading of My, and Mrs, Vandenhoff took place on Friday evontag, an@ ‘was @ perfect success. The programme consisted of scones from Othello, the School for Scandal and a choles selection from Macaulay and Dickens, all of which were applauded, especially the scone between Sir Peter end Lady Teazle, which was an oxquisite pice of acting, The Sailing of the Steamship Damascus, PortLanp, Me., Feb. 4, 1868, ‘The steamship Damascus will not sail until four o’clogmt to-morrow morning. The Damascus will not call & Lem donderry, but go direct to Liverpool. ment, No. 128 Spring street, by detective Roberta, of the ale a heats gp oper mee tremoy Oo fotided seapitionn he advanced “pon tte ea Tan away and made their escape. It was ‘an examination, that one of the from dose had boon picked, another ee lock remained untouched. Had they mot been the burglars would soon have gained access te the store, RC. Gridley, of et, sriecese Sees i Hd ait Es hy / s i 3 : i f i uit He si 3 : I a § ] i Police Intelligence. ALLEGED GARROTING AND ROBBERY. James Bruck, a seaman attached to one of the govern. mont vessels, on Friday ovening complained to Captata Burdick, of the Twenty-first preoinet, that he had tod and rote of, $179 by three map named m, Patrick aud Owen Melntire, and for theme Peomeer Buiiis, aad gabooquertly : ate tes omcer an juen Sustion Keily, who ‘comtnitted thom fm a The stolen money was not recover Personal Intelligence. Bt fred ,, Rochester Preiue . 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