The New York Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1865, Page 4

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YAN AMBURGH & CO.'S MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, 0) and 6a Broadway Open from 0 Aa wed Ee HIPPOTHEATRON, teenth street, —! Fou URSTRIAN, 10 AND ACROMATIO EnTERTAINUENTS—! ARLEQUIN RICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Bauvers, vinous, Bunuxsques. 40.—Tux Magic ‘Thoma. Y & CAMPBELL’S MINSTRELS. 199 and 2} eonen, Dances, Buriesquas, &0.—How are YOu YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— open from OAM IOS ML fed pane MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movine Wax Mew York, Monday, February 6, 1865. THE SITUATION. But little additional regarding the conference of the President and Secretary Seward with the three rebel peace commissioners has been disclosed. It is sald hes the only terms which Me. Lincoln hold forth to Messrs, Stephens, Hunter and Campbell (were @ return to the Union and obedience to the and that he did not make any promise concession to them which involved a yielding in slightest degree of his well known policy and ob- foots tm the conduet of the war. It is surmised that Little concerning the lato important negotiations will be made public until something further Is heard from Rich- mond. Most of the members of the Cabinet were in @ongultation with the President last evening, and there fre rumors that a new amnesty proclamation will shortly De iesued. | There was heavy firing in the vicinity of Petersburg during all last Friday afternoon; but of its case Or requits we have not been informed. There ‘was ® report in the Army of the James on Fri- Gay that the rebel gunboats had that morning again ptarted down the river, for the purpose of making o Recond attempt at a raid on General Grant’s transport Mest, depots of supplies, &c. However, if they did start, they turned back again; for they did not make @hoir appearance as low down as the Union batteries, Our despatches from General Thomas’ army represent everything there as still remaining quiet. A doserter Feporta that the remnant of the rebel army lately under Hood is st Tuscumbia, Alabama, being reorganized. By the explosion of the boiler pot the steamer Eclipse, on the Tennessee river, opposite Johnsonville, on the 27th ult., ton mon were known to be killed, twonty-aix wore reported as missing and sixty- mine were injured. The Kichmond Enquirer claims that many of the men who straggled from Hood's army on its Misastrous retreat from Tennessee are returning to it. Major General Pope arrived in St. Louis on last Satur- day night, to assume command of his new department, which is styled the Military Division of the Missouri, and oonsists of the late military departments of Missouri, (Arkansas and Kansas. The Ranger, a small, light draught and exceedingly pwift English steamer, which there was every reason to Dolieve was intended for @ rebel privateer, was in the harbor of Montevideo, South America, in the middle of December last, as we are informed by our Buenos Ayres @orrespondent. The United States steamer Iroquois was falso in port, and was keeping a close watch over the sup- poved Anglo-rebel eorsair. Richmond nowspapers of Friday last have reports that jm Union army ef fifteen thousand is now fitting out in Wew Orleans for the capture of Mobile. There was an excited debate in the rebol Senate on Thursday on tho Dill for placing negroes in the army, during ‘whloh Mr, Wigfall, in response to some members «he stated that they wero not fighting for wlavery, declared that he was “fighting for wiavery, and for nothing else.’ The House adjourned * \thout voting en the bill. pan has gono to Sonora to join his fortunes with Louls p-apoleon's new Duke Gwin, and that the erratic rebel pox Congrersman Houry 8, Foote will follow him. MISCELLANIOUS NEWS. ‘The steamship Cora Rica, from Aspinwall on the 25th | ait,, atvived here yosterday, amdig hor passengers to his port was General Mouquora, of-Preaident of Coloma Pia, who has been appointed Ministor of that republic to (Hagland, and is enroute ti General Bickles had Prrived jn Panama, It was » believed that war be- Ywoen Spain and Peru would be averted, though the Platter continued her warlike preparations Tt wae re ported that when the Perwsian ditieuity was gottled the HF punish Adiniral woo! proceed with & portion of yp # vadron to Exile, be an explanation of ber an. 1 -odly conduct in pou and provisions to bis ols, The Chiiean ( purmed on the 27\y of | Davis to siler It is said that Geueral Hind. | December. Among its appropriations was one of onehus- | peacd mission from Richmond ay nothing more dred thousand dollars per annum for ten years toa line of steamers torun between Europe and Chile through the Straits of Magellan. A grand scheme for settling the territory of the republic by European immigration was Aquicksilver mine has been discovered in the streets of Valparaiso. The authorities of Panama nad commonced seizing the goods of foreign merchants who refused to pay the commercial tax. From the other South and Central American coun'ries there is litile of importance, <The Congress of Republics was still in ses- s‘on at Lima, but appeared to be doing scarcely anything. The Costa Rica brought to this port nearly ono million dollarein gold. Our Buenos Ayres correspondent furnishes us with a very interesting account of the progress of the war be- tween the empire of Brazil and the republic of Uruguay. Paraguay, asan ally of Uruguay, has also declared war ‘Against the Brazilians, who have as their allies the Uru- guayan rebel forces under the rovolutionist Flores, It was estimated that up to the middie of December last eight thousand Brazilian and an equal nvmber of Para- guayan troops had marched into the territoy of Uruguay, and fighting between them was imminent. The country was desolated in the tracks of the different armies, all alike driving off immense herds of cattle and sheep at their will and plundering the inhabitants. At Montevideo, the capital, trade was completely paralyzed. A Brazilian naval force and a body of rebel troops under Flores had attacked the town of Paysandu, Uruguay, and reduced it to a heap of ruins; but at the date of latest accounts its brave garrison still held out, and reinforce- ments were hurrying to their rolief. Rat Island, at the mouth of La Plata river, which commands the town of Montevideo, had been seized by the forces of the King of Italy, under claim.of the lease of it for ten years. Thus Uruguay is both internally and externally beset with despoilers, A fearful explosion occurred in one of the magazines of the garrison of Buenos Ayres on tho 8th of December, by which about one hundred and thirty of the troops were killed and wounded, Our Washington despatches state that the Supervisors’ committe from this city have not yet been able to ob- tain from Provost Marshal General Fry a satisfactory answer.as to the manner in which our quota under tho last call for troops was raised from about four thousand to twenty-one thousand. Five of the fleet of vessels on which Collector Draper is loading the cotton captured at Savannah by General Sherman arrived at Port Royal, 8. C., on the 28th ult, ‘There are twelve more vessels of the fleet, and when al had arrived at Port Royal they would sail for this city, unde reonvoy of several revenue cutters. ‘The people of Florence, Italy, have lately been some- what excited over the theory of the eye of adead p:rsgn- retaining the image of the last object presented to it in life. Tho Florentines bocamo interested in this idea, which is not @ new ono, from examining en- larged photographs taken of the eyo of a murdered woman, in which was discerned an impression resembl'ng the dim outlines of a human face, and many fancied they could readily rocognize in it the featuros of a man who has been arrosted charged | with tho murder, But many scientific and artistic genUemon who have carefully examined the pictures announoe their inability to arrive at such a conclusion. dt will be re- membered that in the case of the Burdel! murder in this city the idea of applying the same tost was agitated; but nothing satisfactory resulted from it, The skaters were compelied to take a rest yesterday, at least so far as the Park ponds were concerned. Though the ico was apparently firm enough, it was rough, having become very much cut up by continuous use for so many days, and therefore skating was prohibited. No doubt, after the cold weather of last night, it will be in fine condition to-day. The February terms of the various Jaw courts in this city commence to-day. In tho Supreme Court, circuit, before Judge Leonard, the caso of Luther C. Tibbots versus W. H. Fogg and fifty-eight others, in which the plaintiff lays his damages at fifty-nino million dollars, is ‘on to-day’s calendar; also that of Brignoli versus Grau. A colored man named Abraham Ricks was yesterday locked up to await the result of serious wound alleged to have been inflicted by him with a carving knife ona colored woman named Catharine Allmann, during aquar- Tel between ‘the two on Saturday night in basemont, 10 Neilson place, George Vidto was yesterday committod to answer the charges of violating the Enlistment law, by taking « young man named Benjamin F. Oakley out of this city and enlisting him in New Jerscy, and appropriating to his own use money entrusted to him by the recruit for delivery to his father. Counterfeit ton dollar bilis on tho Pittsfield Bank, of Massachusetts, are in circulation. At the fire at North Adams, Mass., on the-morning of the 3d inst, four persons were seriously injured and property valued at $32,000 dostroyed. Johan C. Oliver, whe on the night of the 25th ult. was picked up in an insensible condition in one of the streets of Greenpoint, on last Saturday caused the arrest of Wal- ter H. Holmes, living in that place, whom he charges with being the person who committed the assault on him. He says that Holmes beat him very severely and robbed him ofseven hundred dollars in money and a gold watch and chain worth three hundred dollars. The steamship Port au Prince, which left hero for Port ‘au Prince, Hayti, on Saturday last, returned to port last evening, having on board the crew of the pilottoat Favorlta, which the steamer ran into and sunk yester- day morning, off Barnegat, All thoge on the pilotboat saved their lives, but lost evorything elee which they had on board. We have recsived the particulars, by the arrival here yesterday from Bermuda of Captain Johnson and four of his crew, of the less of the brig Ganges, from Cadiz for Boston, which was abandoned at sea, in a sinking con- dition, on the 7th of January. All on board of her wero taken off by the bark Sacramento, and landed at Bormuda. The ice gorge in the Mississippt river at Brook's Point gave way on Saturday, sinking two steamers and leaving several aground, Of the two sunk—the Southwestern and David White—tho former is expected to be a total lose. A passenger train ou the Marietta and Cincinnati Rall- road was on last Saturday morning precipitated a distance of fifty feet into Leor creel, aixty miles east of Cinoin- nati, by the middle pier of the bridge being carried away during the preceding night by the ico and high wator, Ten or twelve persons were killed, and a number seriously Injured. A train on the Central Oh'o Railroad was on Saturday thrown down an embankment near Newark, Ohio. No person was killed, ‘The stoam transport Ellen 3. Terry, Captain Chapin, from Newbern, N. C., via Fortross Monroe, arrived here Inet night. The Late Peace Conterence—A Diplomatic Reconnoissance—What Next} The late peace conference, according to the special correspondence which we published yesterday on the subject, from Fortress Monroe, from the steamer Thomas Colyer (President Lincoln’s conveyance), and from Washington, assumes a larger degree of importance than has generally been given ft The President and Secretary of State have returned without a protocol for peace or an armistice, and appa- rently with no nearer approach to a basis of re- conciliation with our “erring brethren” than they were before; but still it is believed that much has been done In removing obstructions and in smoothing the way to peace. If we are to consider ‘his late pence embassy from Richmond as bold experiment of Jeff. the peece factions around him affecting to believe that Southern independence may be sevured now hy negotiations, then we can expect nothing better from the return of Messrs, ‘Stephens, Hunter and Campbell to Richmond than another effyrt to “fire the Sonth- ern heart” for the perilous work of another des te struggle in the fleld. It must not be t nope of the rebel p ence ag italors, r bitterly opposed to Davis, have com- taitied themselyos to the possibility of becom. } ing partis to & peace programme upon the busis of submission, They will, therefore, elther be silenced by the results of this peace confer. ence or be compelled to take bolder ground. Ta this dilewma they will probably find it ex- pedient, at least for the present, to surren’'or to Davis and the party of independene» «tr extor- mination, But if weare to accep’ (his late than a dipicmatio reconnoissance, designed to prepare the way for the inevitable alternative of submission, then iy 18 probable that anothor conference soon may follow, and perbaps an- other, natil, step by step, the negotiating rebel chiefs shall have prepared their firo-oating con- foderates and followers for the final step of ro- pentance, absolution and peace. This explanation of the matter seems to be generally accepted as the true ono in the politi- cal circles of Washington. Our correspondent, on the steanier with President Lincoln to For- tress Monroe and back, says:—“While Hunter, Stephons and Campbell did not feel that they had the power to lay down the arms of the insurgents, they were made fully aware of the position of President Lincoln, He would not and did not budge an inch from his point of submission 03 the initial proposition of peace.” The rebel agents, we are thus further informed, have re- turned to Richmond to report progress, “and will soon be heard from again;” that “the inter- view was of the most cordial and hopeful nature;” that “the country has reason to be proud of it,;’ that “good will result from it;” and that “a few days will tell if it be peace or ® continuance of the war.” This encouraging view of the subject is supported by another correspondent in a different sphere, who urges that this peace conference is a stepping atone to submission on the part of Jeff. Davis himself, from the fact that before he appointed these late com- missioners he had been notified from President Lincoln, through Mr. Blair, that he would not receive or meet any peace ambassadors from the insurgent government “except upon the basis of reunion and the abolition of slavery.” This is a strong point in support of the theory that Davis, in this peace movement, has deliberately broken ground in favor of a timely submission to the imperative necessities of his situation. Unquestionably he may now open what Old Abe descrilies as “collateral issues,” command many advantages, and save vast amounts of Southern life and property, in- cluding soldiers, negroes and cotton, which will surely be lost from a continuance of the suicidal game of Southern independence or sub- jugation. - We expect soon to hear from Messrs. Ste- phens, Hunter and Campbell, and of the effect of their report at Richmond. The “die in tho last ditch” party of that city, including some of the leading Congressional defenders of Davis, hada boisterous war meeting only the other day, as if thoy suspected some double dealing in this peace movement. We have thus far had very goon reasons to consider Davis a self-conceited, self-willed, imperious despot—foolish in his favoritisms, implacable in his personal re- venges, a raging fanatic in his hatred of “the Yankees,” and blindly bent upon “fighting to the last man and the last dollar,” reckless of tho consequences to himself or his followers. But if his late disasters and his present oritical situa- tion have brought to him cool reflection and common sense, and to an honest determination to give up his confederacy for the sake of peace, we have under estimated his redeeming virtues, It is possible that he may have turned a short corner against the Richmond peace fac- tions combining for his overthrow. [t is pos- sible that he may thus have formed an alliance with General Lee, Stephens, Hunter, Campbell and others in behalf of a Union movement to head off or conciliate his peace adversaries ; but the fact has yet to appear that he has given up his purpose of fighting to the Inst ex- tremity and “dying in the last ditch.” We, therefore, await from Richmond the solution of this late peace conference. The Sanitary Interests of the Oity—The Bill Before the Legislature. There is a bill before the Legislature of the State which takes a good square hold of the sanitary question in relation to this city. It constitutes a “Metropolitan Sani- tary District,” which has the same limits as the present Metropolitan Police dis trict, and it establishes a sanitary commis- sion to see to the welfare of the people of the district in all points pertaining to # mainte- nance of the publio health. This commission is called the ‘Afetropotitan Board of Health;” but, despite the name, “Board of Health,” is in- tended to be a real, living and effective body. It is to be composed of four commissioners, a sanitary superintendent and the Police Com- missioners. The commissioners are appointed by the State authorities, and serve without sala- ry. We have here the same guarantee of per- sonal character that has served go well in the caso of the Police Board. But, in addition, the Sanitary Commissioners must be physicians, and must have practised in the district five years, They themselves ap- point the sanitary superintendent and a num- ber of sanitary inspectors, all of whom must be physicians. We are told that this: bill will suffer some considerable changes, and will then become a law. However much the wise men at Albany may manipulate the details of this matter, it is to be hoped that they will not change it in the important points of the estab- lishment of @ sanitary district, with the limits given in the bill, and in putting the whole mat- ter in the hands of physicians who, from their studies and from their daily habits, gain a fWmill- arity with sanitary questions that, of course, no other class in the community does. These are the points in tho measure that will give It its real effoctiveness. New York and Brooklyn especially are one city, so far as we consider the epidemic or contagious character of disease, and must be under one control, or otherwise any measures taken in our city, however eff- cient, would be utterly defeated by want of harmony in the other. At present, the sanitary measures taken in the two cities, through the City Inspectors’ Department of each, have a wide and remarkable difference, as we may see in the respective sums they cost. Brooklyn is charged with the sam of two thousand dollars, New York city with the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars. With a sanitary bureau, under the direction and government of physicians, we would | for the first time have our sanilary interests intelligently seen to. What, for insiance, ean be more criminally absurd than for the health of the people of this city to be de entin a great measure, ag it now is, upon iseretion and judgment of the officials of the City Ins yec- tor’s Department, appointed to office for their galuo and influence in polities? Is it not abso- lutely certain that no great sanitary reform can be properly carried out ina communilly ike ours without the eficient action of men of science? lt would be weroly nonsensical to go into argu- ment on the question whether or no sanitary Inspectors ought to be physicians Giving the whole sanitary interests of the city into the hands of men of special education is ono of the vital points of the measure, and one that its friends ought te adhere to very tena- ciously. The Two Great Rebellions—The Cavalters and Puritans of England and the United States. In the whole range of historical parallels there is no resemblance more striking than that between the present war in this country and the civil war called in English history “The Great Rebellion.” Between these two stru ggles the especial points of resemblance are that they were wars of almost inevitable occurrence, due to necessary contests between principles— between opposed and antagonistic forces in the lives of the respective nations; that the parties to each struggle came into collision under sub- stantially the same ciroumstances, that the struggle was carried onin the same way, and that the same party, after suffering the same vicissitudes, was successful in either war. There was in the English war an ultimate result, for which the period has not yet arrived in our struggle, but which there is some indication will be finally brought about. England was not divided by any line drawn between sections of the country, but it was divided quite as effectually by an imaginary Iine drawn between classes of the people. On the one side of that line there was, as in our own case, an arrogant assumption of privileges in- consistent with the rights of those on the other side the line, and an imperious determination to go to extremes inthe support of institutions that it was the tendenoy of the times to unset- tlo, and even throw down. Years of dispute, tho growth of intelligence, the spread of natural and right ideas, had all done their share to sap the foundation of those insti- tutions, and to call in continual question the propriety of those privileges; but the men who were interested in the continuance of both wore a proud, brave and reckless race, igno- rant and meddlesome, not believing in progress, snapping their fingers at all question of rights exoopt the rights they themselves held by an- cient tradition, and believing also that at the last the sword could give a happy solution of all troubles, that it could outshine all elo- quence and answer all argument, and that no one could wield it but he who had been born in the ideas they held—who was a gontleman’s son, or who believed that a gentleman’s son ought naturally to crush under his heel all other men with whom he came in contact. On the other side the line were a people, growing every day more impatient of this inso- lent arrogance of a class; slowly coming into a conviction, by and by to have the weight and force of law, that these privileges, institutions, immunities, were real wrongs, were enjoyed unjustly at the expense of others, belonged to the past, and should be buried with it, and have no existence in the present. This people was made up of the active and earnest mon of a nation, its farmers, artizans and shopkeepers; its soldiers, sailors, students and preachers. Not less brave than the others, they were in many respects more intelligent; and though they~ were inferior in certain of the graces of life—awkward, clumsy and impractical—they more than balanced those defects by a great- ness of spirit that the others never knew; by a tenacity and earnestness of purpose that tri- umphed over all difficulties; by an intellectual and moral power that bore down the trivial and frippery exeellences, the dash, spirit and hurrah of the others, as @ massive iron cannon shot would bear down an equal volume of Japanese jewelry. Here were the two sides, on one or the other of which the events of English history and the power of opinion had forced every real man in England to take his place—which were mar- shalled opposite to one another on all points of any consequence, and between which the clash must inevitably come. Our positions in this country, North and South, were the same, the reasons of the positions were the same, as also were the purposes in view. Though the names are different, the ideas are identical through- out. In 1640 an English Parliament sat that was evidently the ultimatum of the English people. It was the first administration that would not compromise and give up the inte- rests and honor of the people to the weak, mean and miserable party. Honce that party saw that the time for browbeating parlianients was pagsed, and that there was no longer anything for it but to fight. Swords had been crossed even earlier than this; but now the combat began really to rage. Analogous to that administration was the election of Mr. Lincoln in our own case. And the result was the same. It is needless to follow the parallel in particulars. The real point is that the peo- ple, fighting for the present against the past, for progress and enlarged liberty is victorious in both wars. Despite the blunders that seemed to well nigh ruin their cause in the commence- ment of either struggle—cespite the fitness of the other side for war by all the qualities of its nature, the perseverance, the sublime patience and persistency of the people oarry them through to a triumphant issue. But the rest is not so pleasant to contem- plate. It is, however, the part that should serve as a grand lesson for us to avold that which bronght it about. The people of England—the real men of the nation, under the guidance of their Puritan leaders—had thrown down the ‘ancient tyranny, and driven out the Stuarts, who were the types of that tyranny. They had gained all for which they fought. Never were & people—never was a cause more completely triumphaat. Yet in twenty years after the convocation of the Long Parliament, the Stuarts were once more on the English throne. How was this brought about? Simply by the ex. cesses of the successful party. They started with the ideas of the people; but they went to the wildest extremes with their private quar- rels and fanatical notions, until the nation felt for them and for the now order of affairs only disgust. They caused the country to lose the greater part of the benefit of its struggles, and set it back, not nominally, it is true, so far as it was, but practically even farther; for they had dissipate and broken down the great spirit of resislance, This is our danger. We are | triamphant, nobly end distinctly; but if the people do not watch well the excesses of ex- tremisis, of fanatical party leaders, they will swamp us yet. If there is not a check put npon these extremes the cases will be paralle? all through; and men now alive will yet see the Southern oligarcha once more in power, under new naines, no doubt, and pretending to o out now i t animated all the fim’ by the onmme old’ eohrit ; day, in reference to fhe quotas under the late call for three hundred thousand men, he very clearly shows by whow all the trouble has been created, and how all matters in refer- ence to the quotas of this State aud city have been thrown into so great a state of confusion. On a call for s certain number of men (three hundred thousand) from the various States, a boy who has reached the rule of three in arith- metic could calculate the number for each Con- gressional district having a certain population, until ignored by General Fry—to oredit or de- and if any district could show that it had fur- nished surplus on «previous quota, it is clear; and it was the rule of the War Department— duet the said surplus from the present demand orquota. This is so clearly just that it is unne- cessary to make further reference to it. But General Fry seems to have been in s quagmire for the last three months, and the more he flounders about the deeper he sinks in the mud. The people are loyal and patriotic, and are not only willing, but anxious, to furnish all the men demanded, when a fair, just and equitable call is made and every right conceded. But no one likes to be imposed upon. On the late call for three hundred thousand, Provost Marshal Gen- eral Fry, according to his letter to General Hinks, first fixed the quota of this State at forty- six thousand eight hundred and twenty-one men. In less than one month he has changed this to sixty-one thousand and seventy-six! It can be readily seen what state of irritation and confusion such a blunder as this would throw every town and° school district into, some of which had spent their last dollar to fill their re- spective quotas according to the first demand made, But, leaving State matters and coming back to the city, we find that this letter to General Hinks shows plainly enough how the difficulty and confusion in this city in reference to our quota was created, and by whom. The Gene- ral makes an attempt to throw the blame from his own shoulders and cast it upon Supervisor Blunt; but let us see how this will stand exami- nation? First, in reference to a revision of the enrol- ment, without waiting for its completion by the Supervisors’ committee, he assumes that there will be no material reduction of the enrolment made by the assistant provost marshals, end adopts theirs as the proper one to govern his action, when it is asserted by the committee that their revision will reduce the old enrol- mont at least thirty-three and one-third per cent. Why not have waited a few days and received the benefit of the acts of the commit- tee? Why presume to “guess” there would be no reduction, and thus ignore altogether the action of the committee, which has been at a very heavy expense to the county to effect this re- vision, authorized so to do by the Provost Mar- shal himself? He says the committee should have commenced its labors earlier, that it was fully authorized to do this work at a much earlier day, and that reductions had been made in other districts, &0., &c. The committee knew well that through individual efforts this revision and reduction might long since have been perfected, but individuals of themselves did nothing, though constantly urged by the committee and the press of the city. In interior districts every man knows his neighbor, and when a wrong entry of a name is made it is easy to have it stricken off and the enrolment thus corrected. But this city of a million of in- habitants is an entirely different affair. No one knows who his neighbor is, or what he is about. What is everybody's business is nobody's ; #0, notwithstanding the appeals constantly made to our citizens to correct for themselves the en- rolment and thus reduce our quota, next to nothing was done, and then it was that the Su- pervisors’ committee felt forced to take up the matter and carry it on to completion. This is one of the reasons why the committee did not move earlier in revising the enrolment; but why General Fry should have been in such haste to overlook or ignore its action, and con- sequently swell our quota to an undue propor tion, we will not attempt to explain. But the principle cause for running up our quota from four thousand four hundred to twenty-one thoysand and nineteen men is the arbitrary redistribution of the naval enlist- ments made since 1861, and to whom no bounty had been paid. These naval enlistments, and also for the marine corps made in this city, either belonged to us, and were liable to be attached to our quota, or they did not. If they did so belong to us, General Fry had no right or pow- er, except an arbitrary one, to take them away; if they did not, then our Supervisors’ com- mittee were deceived by his department in allowing credit for them. But it will be seen that they did belong here, just where they were credited and allowed by General Fry; and Mr. Blunt, in his action in ferreting them out, was governed solely and entirely by the law of Congress authorizing the crediting of them to our quota. If Mr. Fry is superior to the laws of Congress then he can be justified in taking these credits from us; if not, not. The law is as follows, passed at the late session of Congress, and will be found on page 352 of the Session Laws, and number 173:— AN ACT-T0 PROVIDE FOR THR RFPICIENCY OF THE NAVY. Ssorton. 3. And be it further enacted, That all enlist- ments into the naval service or marine corps during the present war shall be credited to the jate town- ship, precinct or district, in the same manner as enlist- ments for the army. Section 4 declares that after the passage of this law bounties shall be paid to enlisted sailors the same as to soldiers. This bill was approved July 1, 1864. Surely nothing can be clearer than this. Persons enlisting in the army are credited to those townships, precincts or districts whore they enlist, and all enlist- ments into the naval service sball be credited “in the same manner.” Such is the law. Mr. Blunt found a certain number of naval enlist- ments made at the various rendezvous in this city since 1861, not before credited to any quota, and very properly appropriated them according to law. They were allowed on our quots by the Provost Marshal General, accord- ing to law. But now he takes them from us. Who is right? General Fry attempts to cast reflections upon the Supervisor for awarding the one.year men to Brooklyn and Tarrytown, and reserving the two and three years men to the credit of New York. Mr. Bloat or the committee have no powor to award or disiribute any mon Quote of the State and City. Pp to any place out of Mew York. This committes’ was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to Mil our quotas and pay bounties, It claimed ‘all these naval enlistments made in this clty hy “Uld be credited here, and if any portion of these we." given to Brooklyn, wn OF Commun*vaw, if was in spite of remonstrances from the co. wmiltee, and direct'y by order of the military au. torlties, and against the letter and spirit of the 1..¥ referred to, Now if General Fi,¥ Will revise his revision, and set us back where .¥e were after filling the last quota, he will do us 2° Sot of justice, and place this city in a position 1.* fair quota would be filled ina he do itt re her just and fortnigikt. Will > What Will Become of Our :Voldiers? President Lincoln once sagely oba\rved that every war must end at some time or other. The end of the present war s2ems very ‘ose at hand. The rebels are thorogghly exha.vsted, while we are becoming stronger evory Way: The contest is now simply @ matter of so maty days or weeks. General Grant may choose te* crush the rebellion without further delay. by sacrificing the lives of his soldiers in an assanlt, or he may wait quietly for the rebels to evacu- | ate Richmond and then press them downward to the Savannah. What the Lieutenant General’s plan will be nobody knows; but we are assured that it will be successful, and that the Union will be restored within 9 few months, Whea the Union is restored and the war over, what is to become of our soldiers? Many of them will be needed, of course, to temporarily garrison certain forts in the South, and many more will be used in the regular army which this government will maintain for some years to come, until the seeds of rebellion are totally destroyed. Should we have a war with either England or France to enforce the Monroe dootrine and clear the continent of monarchies, the question: what will become of our soldiers? can be very easily answered. Thoy will enlist for the foreign war, and will carry it into Canada and Mexico, if not inte England and France. But, although we insist upon the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine, and although we should be prepared to fight to maintain it, still there is no very great probability of a foreign war. England has already shown every disposition to relin- quish Canada, and Napoleon is shrewd enough to see that he has no chance im Mexico except our sufferance. The mere dis- play of our military and naval strength, the simple fact that weare again a united people, will suffice for Napoleon, who will leave Maxi- milian to his fate; and Maximilian without Na- poleon is like a body without a head, without arms, without life. The Mexican enterprise was conceived and attempted because Europe thought that disunion was a thing accomplished. Réunion will be followed by the immediate abandonment of a soheme .thus based upon a mistake, Allowing, then, forthe troops necessary te garrison forte and for the regular army which is. to be maintained, thousands of soldiers, North and South, will still be deprived of work and wages at the end of the wag; and the question recurs, what will become of them? Accustomed to s nomadic, adventurous life for four years, they cannot settle down contentedly to the dull routine of regular employments, and of course they are too independent te expect to be supported by the State. The trades and occupations which they have le® will be glad to receive some of them; but there are plenty of fine, strapping fellows who would laugh at the idea of being bound down toe bench or a spade after having enjoyed the lib- erty of war. Under ordinary circumstances ft would be an act of wise statesmanship to get up a war for these heroes. Veterans do not grow on every bush, and it is wrong for a na tion to neglect to use them against foreign foes when they are provided for her by a long civil war. Fortunately, however, this nation oan use these veterans without a war. The splendid parks of gold and silver and precious stones, of which we gave a map and a detailed descrip» tion afew days ago, invite our soldiers to come in and take possession. Colorado, Idaho, Ne- vada, Montana and Utah, to say nothing of Mexico, Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua, Lower California and the rest of the dukedom of Gwin, are yearning for such settlers as those in the armies of the North and South. Out of these vast, glitteting empires new States are to be constructed, and our soldiers are pre- destined for the work. The very habits which unfit them for trades and regular business ad- mirably adapt them for developing the region of. ggld, where they will have to fight nature, wild beasts anid Indians. They will go there, settle down, populate the country, get rich and double the size of the Union within twenty years. After the Mexican wat our soldiers ro- deemed California from the wilderness, and after this war our soldiers will transform the extreme West into a tier of States, founded om gold and silver and sheltered by the glorious Stars and Stripes. PuoroonaPay as a Derzcrive—Irs JupiowL Arpuication o Iraty—We publish to-day ® curious and interesting statement relative toe new and important use for photography, and one which may eventually form an important part in criminal investigations. It seems that the eye of a murdered woman has been magnk fied and photographed in Florence, Italy, and found to reprosent what is regarded as the prow file of a human face resembling that of her sup- posed murderer. It is true the testimony in favor of the alleged resemblance is not suff- olently positive to hang a man, but the opinions of such distinguished men of art as the great American sculptor, Hiram Powers, and others, upon the subject, are such as to add weight to the supposition that tho likeness is actually that of a human being, and, perhaps, that of her assassin. Further investigation, it is expected, will confirm this theory. This idea of photo- graphing the human eye for the purpose of ascertaining whether it retained @ certain ob- ject is not entirely new. During the investiga tion of the mysterious Burdell murder in thie olty the theory was broached, and some steps taken to ascertain its correctness; but we be- lieve nothing came of it, It now assumes shape and consistency from this Itutian murder, and ov" scientific men are, therfore, justified im pursuing thelr examinations until the soundness or falsity of the theory be established. In this age of wonders*we should not be at all sum prised at any discoveries In the world of science. Photographs and daguerreotypes have already been important auxiliaries in the detection of criminals, and when tho “tell-tale eye” shalt be submitted to the same process and found to mirror the foatures of ap, object like that of th