The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1865, Page 4

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HOOLEY & CAMPBELL’S MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery.—Sonas, Dances, Burissgvns, &0.—How axx You Gurren sacks. ‘ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P.M. ee VANNUCHI’S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movixc Wax Ficuxxs. New York, Saturday, February 11, 1865. ez : THE SITUATION. President Lincoln's account of the late poace nogotia- tions was received in Congress yesterday. It is of con- siderable length, and is very complete in its details, nar- rating the circumstances of Mr. Blair's visits to Rich- mond and supplying all the despatches preliminary to the meeting of the President with the rebel com- missioners in Hampton Roads, as well as giving o report of the proceedings of the conference itself. Though Mr. Blair went to Richmond with the consent of the government, he had no authority to speak or act for it. Jeff. Davis sent a letter by him, expressing his willingness fo send or receive commis- sionera, and Mr. Lincoln subsequently stated his willing- nese to receive gentlomen informally chosen on behalf of the rebels with the object of securing peace on the basis of an undivided country. Bofore the rebel commissioners wore mot by the President thoy wore given to under- stand that the negotiations were to be informal, and that no proposition which in the slightest degree contemplated a recognition of the so-called “Confederete Btatos’”’ could be fora moment entertained. During the conference Mesers. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell en- Geavored to effect an agresment for an armistice, but were informed by Mr. Lincoln that there could be no sagpension of hostilities till the rebels had dis- banded their armies and acknowledged their alle giance to the national government; and also that there could be no rooession on the sla very question, General Grant had been previously in- structed not to allow the presence of the rebel agents within his lines to cause any delay in his military opera- tions. The President concludes his report by saying that “tho conforence ended without resuit."’ Mr. Seward has sont a despatch to Mr. Adams, our Minister in London, siating tho facts connected with the negotiations. It was reported in Richmond on last Tuceday that Charteston had been evacuated by the rebels. The Rich- mond papers, however, say that their War Department had no confirmation ef the rumor. ‘The complete despatches which wo publish this morn- ing give additional particulars of the late important movement of the Army of the Potomas, by which much valuable ground has beon captured from the enemy and {ts lines on the left extended four or five miles. It ap- pears to be General Grant’s intention to hold this new ground permanently, and defensive works, whieh the rebels'thomselves acknowledge to be very strong, have accordingly been thrown up by the national troops ‘on both sides of Hatcher's run. The extension of Genoral Grant’s military railroad to that point, & ts anticipated, will also soon be completed, We have received no accounts of any fighting since Tuosday last. On Wednesday everything remained quiet The Union casualties on the three preceding days are estimated at Dotwoen eleven and twolve hundred. Two rebel general ofMicers—Pegram and Sorrell—werp killed. The Rich- mond Eeaminer acknowledges that Genoral Grant’s object in this movement was attained. We give to-day another map of the field of operations, Tho President has signed the joint reeolation of Congress terminating the treaty of 1817 with Great Britain, which Iimited the naval force of each nation on our northern lakes. In yesterday's Henanp was given a report of the pro- Coodings of the Richmond mass meeting gotten up for the purpore of creating an excitement over the report of the rebel pence agente, and today wo give a faller report of Jeff. Davis’ speech on ihe occasion and rebel newspaper eommenta, The Richmond Eramisr soys that this frosh “fring of the Southern heart” “will be of no use, will fend to m0 good, will gubside again into Meeper apathy end despondency,» unless “the (Confederate eathorities are also up to the toark,” thos Phowing that, notwithstanding all their boasts about a ‘mnited South once more, Jeff.’s home opponents have no idea of stopping their war oo him. The Esaminer for ven cance, retaliation and the most sovere treatment of Yankees, Tae same paper says that Mr. Stephens, rebel Vice President, haa gone to Georgia for the purpose of “canvassing that State for the most vigorous proseou- tion of the war." Ou the strength of the failure of the peace negotiations the gold operators had succeeded in pushing the price of that article still higher in Bich- mond, for which they are of course savagely denounced by the journals of that city, General Hood had arrived in Richmond. It ts stated that the rebel Senate bas, by an almost uns- nimous vote, rejected the bill for putting two hundred thousand negroes in their armies. From Southern sources we have the statement that it hhas been decided by the rebel military authorities to engirely abandon Central Mississippi, including the coun- try between the Yazoo and Big Black rivers and the Mis- sissippi Central Railroad, and fall back on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Large amounts of supplies for the Union soldiers in prison at Danville, Va, sent by our government through flag of truoe, loft Richmond on Thursday for their destina- tion. Ly CONGRESS. a In the Senate yesterday, the President's report upon ‘the recent peace negotiations was received, read, and or- dored to lay on the table and to be printed. Mr. Sauls- bury gave notice that he should move that the document be referred to # select committee of five, to report at any ‘time, A dill to faciiiigte the collection of govarn- ment claims against defaulting Post Office agents who have aided tho rebels was passed, The consideration of the bill making appropriations for the judicial, executive and logislative ex- penses of the governmont was then resumed. On motion of Mr. Sherman the Deficlency Appropriation bvill{which has failed twice because the Senate refused to agree to the.clause giving the employés of the House extra compensation—was added to the bill under dis- cussion, with the clause referred to omitted. After the adoption of some unimportant amendments, without taking final action on the bill, the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, the galleries wore crowded with spectators anxious to hear read the Presi- dont’s report on the recent peace mission. In due time tio paper was read, and an animated discussion ensued, Mr. Brooks, of New York, condemning tho course of tho President, while Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, de‘ended it Finally, a motion to print twenty thousand coples of the report was appropriately referred ; and, without trans- acting any other business of intorest to tho public, the Hoitse adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In tho State Senate yesterday bills to increase the fees of the Hell Gate pilots, and declaring Monday, whenever holidays occur on Sunday, a legal holiday, were reported favorably. The Assembly amendments to the Central Park bill, and the State Bounty bill were concuricd in. Bills were introduced concorning gas ght corporations; amending the charter of the Republic Insurance Company, and to a mmendthe charter of the Bloomingdale Savings Bank. Bills wero passed to faciliate the pur- chase of lands for tho Croton reservoir; and fixing the sal- ary of the members of the New York Common Council at two thousand dollars per annum. Mr. Laimbeor intro- duced a substitute for tho original Metropolitan Fire De- partment bill, which includes Brooklyn with the district, but exempts that city from the oporations of the law ‘except that the Fire Department report annually to tho commissioners. The present dopartmert retains exclu- sive control over the present charity fund. The Senate then adjourned until Monday evening. In the Assembly bills were introduced the German-American Association of New - Inte wharfage along the Hudson river; regu/nting the charge for ferriage between. New York and Brooklyn; relative to the Marine Court of New Yorl; to incorporate the German Savings Bank and the People's Savings Bank, New York; algo the Notional Savings Bank, Brook- lyn. Bills were noticed to authorize the Jersey Ferry and First Avenue Railroad Company; also for the more efficient cleaning of the streets in New York and Brook- q ia MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Ataspecial meeting of the Board of Aldermen, held yesterday afternoon, the ordinance previously adopted by the Board of Conucilmen, inflicting # fine of not loss than one thousand and not more than five thousand dol- lars on all persons found guilty of taking recruits out of the city to be credited to any other county or State, was unanimously concurred in. No other business was trans- acted. Tho ordinance was immediately after signed by the Mayor, and is now a haw. In the Supreme Court, chambers, before Judge Bar- mard, yesterday, n motion was made by the counsel of David L. Gardiner for the appointment of a receiver to the estate of his mother, Drs, Juliana Gardinor, of Rich- mond county, N. ¥., deceased, on tho ground of incom- petency of the executor, ox-Judge Roosevelt. Mrs. Gar- diner died on tho 4th of October last, leaving property valued at twenty-seven thousand dollars, the greater part of which was bogueathed, to her danghter, Mrs. Julia @. Tylor, widow of President Tyler, and hor graudson, Harry Beckman. The Judge took the papers and reserved bis decision on the motion, Yesterday in the Supreme Court, circuit, before Judge Johnson, William ©. Moore received a verdict against the city for seven hundred and thirteen doilars damages, for Joss incurred in the destruction of Allerton’s Hotel by the rioters in July, 1863, James Stiwoll brought an action in the Court of Com- mon Pleas yesterday to recover the face value of the coupons on fifteen first mortgage bonds of the Mariposa Mining Company, on which, he alleged, he had not re- ceived his interest. The decision of the Court was re- served. Recorder Hoffman sentenced a number of prisoners yesterday in the Court of General Sessions, Mary Aichle, who kidnapped a child in the stroet, was sent to the State Prison for two years. Patrick McCarty, a notoriqus burglar, was sentenced to four years and six months’ imprisonment, and Fliza Gilford, Ann Hughesand Mary Ormsby (old shoplifters) wore also sent to the State Prison. Adam Potts, who was indicted for the homicide of Timothy Scanlan, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fourth degree, and Judgment was susponded, in view of his good character and of the fact that the killing was accidental. Among the additional arrests by Colonel Baker and his officers, on charges of fraud in the bounty brokerage business, are James Mooney, of No. 4 Chambers street; Richard Maguire, of Nassau street, and Sergeant McCue, of Cedar strect, Colonel Baker is now engaged in an in- ‘vestigation for the purpose of ascertaining the number of forged papers that have been made out in this city and Brooklyn, and expects to have this work ‘completed by Monday next. ‘The ponds in and around the eity were again thronged yesterday, the ice being in good condition. There was a slight fall of snow about noon, but not sufficient to inter- fere with the sport, On the Fifth avonue pond there will be a grand display this afternoon and evening. Two bands will furnish music, and at night there will bea Petroleum tllumination. The Senate of the Indiana Legislature has adopted the Constitutional amendment forthe abolition of slavery, and it was expéectad that it would reccive the endorse- ment of the House last night Indiana will be the thir- teenth Btate to ratify it, John A. Middleton, of Brooktyn, was yesterday re- quired to give two thousand dollars bail, in the Tombs Police Court, to answer to the complaint of Austin B. ‘Trowbridge, of West Fifty-seventh street, who charges that Middelton borrowed of him, n Decomber last, by making false represontations, over nineteen hundred dol- lars, which he has not yot refunded. ‘The steamship Golden Rule, Captain Babcock, from Greytown, Nicaragua, 2d inst, arrived at this port last night. She encountered heavy woeterly gales to the southward of Cape Hatteras. Stocks were dull but variable yerterday. Government securities were stronger, Gold wes heavy, end, after opening at 2114, closed at 210%. ‘There was but Little business doing yesterday, except fn a fow articles, The demand for importo! merchandise ‘thas boea quite Minited, owing to the uncertainty as to the tariff changes. Nearly ali kind# are nominal. Domeetic goods wore rather firmer, and in come cases higlar prices were obtained. Cotton declined go., while petroloum was firmer, On "Chango the flour market was more active, and an advance of 100. woa ostablished. Wheat waa G0. higher, while oate and corn wore firm and more ecure, Pork ruled firmer but quict, Beef was active, whils lard was rather firmer, with more doing. Whiskey was dull and lower. Freiahts were quiet but frm. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, Preaident Lincolu's Report of the Peace Conference—The Richmond Uprows- President Lineola’s report of the late Hamp- ton Roads peace conference is before our readers, It is interesting and satisfactory. Fesentially, upon the main question, agreeing with the report of the rebel commissioners, we see that the conference ended with a clear an- derstanding on both sides; that all the delu- sions of half-way reconstructionists and patch- work peacemakers were swept away, and that the result—a great result—is e distinct and sharply defined issue on each side, which can be settled only by the diplomacy of the bayonet, N Reader, have you ever seen 8 whale with 6 harpoon in his side, floundering in the sea? He dives to the bottom, he rises to the surface in another place, and down he goes and up again, till at last he lashes the waves into foam in his impotent rage and suffering, and then he gives up tho ghost. Suth is the terrible fags and fury raised at Richmond over the “in- tolerable insult of Lincoln’s peace proposi- tions.” The rebellion, like the wounded whale, ja in {ts dying convulsions; but it will never surrender. Jeff. Davis calls his followers round him and gives them their cue. If he had a thousand lives he would die the death of a thousand whales before he would succumb, ‘fhe citizens of Richmond then resolve that they “do. spurn, with the in- dignation dup .. to 20.,gross_an ingult, the terms on which the President of the United States has proffered peace.” The Richmond journals next take up the hue and ory. The Sentinel, Jefl.’s especial organ, says:—“The reply of Lincoln was coarse, savage and taunting to our commis- sioners,” and that “a terrible reaction is in- augurated.” The Dispatch says “we ask no more for peace, nor do we expect it, nor will we have ti, while the foot of a Yankeo soldicr pollutes this soil.” The Whig says that “the man who is not satisfied with this effort at ne- gotiation is a factionis', and will be held by alias an enemy of the cause.” The Mnquirer calls upon Virginia and her people to give up “their gold and silver, jewelry and plate; fol- lowed by the pledge of the abolition of slavery and the conscripiion of the negroes into the army, to work and to fight” The Examiner ro- joices that the peace bubble has exploded, because of “its mischievous effects upon the army and upon society;” and declares, us the common sentiment, that “if any man now talks of submission he should be hung to the nearost lamp posi.” The war-whoop drowns all other voices at Richmond. Jeff. has gained his point. He has silenced the peace agitators around Lim. He has it now ali his own way. How long this will last is quite another thing. The war pro- gramme suggested is excoedingly fierce. Fac- tionists are to be hung without .ceremeny, deserters are to be shot like beasts, every able- bod‘cd white man who can be canghtis to have &@ musket put into his hands and knapsack on his back, negroes are to be put into the army at the discretion of Davis, slavery is to be abol- ished, if its abolition shall be found necessary ; all the old shot guns and horse pistols ia tho hands of citizens are to be turned over to the army, and last, though not least, a seizure of all the gold in the hands of the money brokers is recommended, as notling more than fair, considering the seizure of every thing else be- longing to every body else. Under this cruel programme, the disheartened, impoverished, despairing and demoralized people of the re- bellious States are expeciod to “conquer or die.” What will be their response? We have it foreshadowed by the Mobile Advertiser, when it says, “ We havenot a doubt that the country, including the slave proprietors, large and small, would compromise to-day for peace and independence on the basis of gradual and uni- versal emancipation of the blacks. We may go further and say that large numbers would be willing to give up all their cherished thoughts of independence and exchange the institution for naked peace upon terms of recon- struction. This is a great change,” continues the editor—“a wonderful change of popular sentiment resulting from four years of tremen- dous conflict.” Indeed it is; nor is it limited to Alabama. It is operating among the people and the rank and file of Hood’s dismantled army in Mississippi; it is at work from the centre to the confines of Georgia; it has filled the western counties of North Carolina with organized bands of fighting deserters from the rebel army—men fighting for “their rights” on their own programme. This ferocious war excitement at Richmond, this horrible flashing of swords and gnashing of teeth, this Indian yelling on the war path, all this pitiful uproar, fuss and fury will soon exhaust itself, It will hardly raise an answering echo beyond the lines of Lee’s army. It will pro- duce neither soldiers, nor arms, nor supplies in districts that have np more of these things to give. It will not up conscripts out of the ground. It will not relax the tightening and resistiess combinations of General Grant, nor remove the deep impression from the Southern public mind that Davis and his confederacy are lost beyond redemption. On the day before the report of Stephens, Hunter and Campbell was published in Richmond the price of gold there was one gold dollar for forty-five dollars in what is known as “Confoderate scrip.” On the day of the publication of that report and all the hallabaloo of the war dance, it re- quired forty-six dollars in Jeff.’s paper to buy dollar in gold. ‘This single fact explains the real value of all this war clamor in tho rebel capital. The money changers understand it,and we dare say that among them, before the end of another week, Joff.’s paper will go begging at one cent for the dollar, The bondholders of the con- federacy have been sold, its slaveholders have been cheated, its soldiers have been betrayed, ita people have been dragged to the verge of destruction; and all this, with another argu- ment or two from Grant and Sherman, will be recognized, even in Richmond, whatever may be the fate ot Jeff. Davis. Tas Dancenovs Prorenries or Prrotata— There is a fearfal warning contained in the recout awfni disaster by firo in Philadelphia which shottid not be lost. The details of that sacrifice of life in a river of fre—that remorse Jews Phiegetion which rushed through the streets of Philadelphia—are too horrible to dwell upon; but there is a lesson to be learned from them by other communities which ought not to go un- heeded. The storage of petroleum in large cities, or in fect in any place surrounded by habitations, should be strictly prohibited. It is powder or fireworks, It has been that in @ tomperata® of from seventy-five to one hundred degrees, petroleum in its crude state evolves @ gas as explosive as gunpowder, which, if brought in connection with a lighted candle or match, produces instant combustion. The storage of this article, then, in the midat of a city is more dangerous than a mine under- neath its foundations. We call upon the Common Council and the Legislature to enact laws at once excluding petroleum from: the limits of the city. Let it be stored in places far away from human habita- tions, There is at present a quantity of it stored in Maiden lane and in South street, in the very heart of this populous city. We need not point to the imminent danger to life and property in these localities arising from the presence of this treacherous agent of death and destruction in their vicinity. The Legislature and the Com- mon Council should act promptly in this matter, or we cannot calculate upon the disaster to which we are hourly exposed. Dur Success at Hateher’s Rum—Tho Ad- vantages of the Movement. There are three points of view in which the recent movement of Grant on Hatcher's ran will be found, upon examination, to be a very decided success for our arms. They are the only points also in which it can possibly-be regarded by any one not either an open enemy r a very short sighted and faint hearted friend. “Grant and Lee have stood, like ‘wrestlers, locked in an even embrace, for over six months. Each was ablo to hold his own. Neither could move the other. Lee was in fortifications that Grant could not storm. Grant was in position from which Lee could not oust him. It looked, therefore, like a military deadlock. But there was always a very posi- tive solution for it, The fortifications were an absolute necessity to Lee, To Grant they were only temporary expedients. Lee could not have kept the ficld without them, for he was inferior in point of numbers; and to venture open battle and lose man for man with his onemy was certain destruction. To force or tempt him to such battle was, therefore, Grant’s plan. From that cause resulted the memorable baitles on the Weldon Railroad. But those batiles wore so expensive in men that Lee was forced to discontinue them when no nearer his object than at the commencement; and from that time he has avoided open battles with the consistency of one compelled by the most absolute necessity. He seemed to answer every temptation wiih the thought that his army was the last hope of his cause, and with the determination to build his forts still stronger and better. Yet, despite those great forts and the necessity that he is under to fight only in those forts, Grant has once more tempted Lee to an expensive open battle on even terms outside of his defentes. Perhaps we should rather say that Grant has thus tempted Lee’s inconsiderate subordinates—Gor- don and Hill—whom Lee “damns with faint praiso,” or no praiso at all, in his account of the battle. Lee would not have been thus tempted. But the fact that a part of Lee’s army has thus once more been allured into an open fight, in which it has lost man for man, with our more numerous forces is the important one of this contest, Lee has once more beon induced to“come out and fight,” and that is always a great advantage for us. But Grant has also by this movement con- tinued one of the means by which, last year, he so seriously embarrassed Lee. He has made his line four miles longer. Moreover this ox- tension strengthens his line. Before his left was “in the air.” Now it rests ona stream that very greatly increases its defensibility. But it is very remarkable to see this acquisition spoken of as a “disaster.” Grant, on the 5th instant, Sunday last, moved two corps by dif- ferent roads from his camps to Hatcher’s run, Rowanty creck, the latter stream being the continuation of the former. His infantry crossed the stream and held the position abandoned by the enemy’s outposts, while his cavalry pressed on after the retreating enemy to Dinwiddie Court House. At that point the enemy was reinforced, and our cavelry, driven in, turn, fell back on the infantry. Such were the operations of the first day. On the next day (Monday) our forces, according to General Lee, did not take up the advanoe, but Pegram’s rebel division appearing on our front, it was attacked, and driven rapidly, General Pegram being killed. Pegram’s division was reinforced by another division, under Evans, which forced our line back, but which was again—still in the words of General Lee—* compelled to retire.” Mahone’s division then reinforced the enemy once more and drove our men to the very posi- tion where Pegram had found them early in the day. Such is General Lee’s own account of what he will learn, when he secs Friday’s Daily News, was » victory over Grant, though he does not regard it in that light at present. Grant has extended his line four miles, taken in Hatcher’s run, and holds, apparontly, all the ground that he intended to take. He has also made some very ugly gaps in threo of the enemy’s veteran divisions. He has not retired a foot since the appearance of Pegram’s division on his front, on the 6th inst., began the battle. It appears that there was a panic in the Fifth corps, and that accounts for the fact that Mahone forced our line in his last ad- vance from the position to whieh we had driven Evans; but, even with this panic, it seems that he could not force it across the stream. It is not strange to hear all this spoken of by the Dally News as o “disaster.” That is perfectly consistent. We expect nothing else from the News. It is on that side, and must keep up the rebel cause as best it may. But when the 7ribune talks in that way it is another matter. The 7ri- dune is the reputed friend of the national cause, and therefore such assertions in its columns will have another effect. Such assertions are con- sistent with the weakness of Greoley’s nature. He is « very chicken-hearted warrior—ready to run at the Joast alarm, and to assumo that we have been beaten. Bat, though we can seo that these assertions flow from tho miserable temerity that is Groeley’s greatest characteristic, they still do great harm, for they make a journal that is accepted as a Union journal admit a Union @efont when there is no occasion. That dis- courages the people, and, so fur as the influence of one sheet goes on the public mind, it is as bad a6 if there had zeally been o disaster. Dut thero is a third point of view in which the movoment was quite as important asin any other. It was a divorsion for tho benefit of Gen- eral Sherman. It was to show Lee the possible peril of sending away many mon, and to keep more dangerous in its properties than gpo- his eyes open to the fact that Grant was ready e Fepru dy 1 1865. ‘ Nee move at any instant. In this point of view “point has been gained by force of arms. It is s baille ts often ay enccess, though on the fieid on which it was fought it may secm (6 be @ disaster. The pe ache a battle must always be kept in sight, Grant's move- ment at Belmont, early in the war, is chuonicled as one of the rebel victories even by Union writers; but there is no doubt that it broke. up the combinations for an invasion that might have conquered Missouri, Sherman is now pushing on splendidly, and there is great pres- sure on Davis and Lee to send more troops from Virginia. It is even quite probable that Grant had positive information of the movement of such troops, and moved just in time to stop it Mahone’s division was in this fight, and we have been informed from a reliable source that that very division was under order to join the troops in front of Sherman, Mors Trovsty iv Jaran.—Japan is likely to be embroiled in another difficulty with England, Two British officers were recently assassinated there with greet atrocity, and the British preas demands satisfaction for the deod. This has been the common story with the oriental nations of Asia. Every attempt of foreign Powers to obtain e foothold there for commer- cial purposes has been resisted, and finally a | THE SOUTH. ~—r THE SOUTH IN A Kia,’ FEVER Fears that Its Passion Wi. Evaporate. Tho Rebel Authorities Urged to “ Striky While the Iron is Hot.” ' CHARLESTON REPORTED EVACUATED. The South Carolina Railroads Still Safe. HOW REBEL PLOTS ARE HATCHED. “TO WHAT BASE USES WE MAY COME."3 as true of China as of Japan. In 1840 England went to war with China on the opium question, and after severely punishing the Chinese, Eng- |; land obtained considerable commercial advan- tages and the entrée of several porte, More recently she chastised ihe Chinese again in re- taliation for the murder of some British sub- jects, and again secured further advantages, including certain rights of trading in Pekin. We had supposed that the Japanese were approaching something like civilization when ambassadors were sent to this country and to England a few years ago. In New York they wore received with all the distinction of the most exalted guests, They wero féled and feasted. Tho Metropolitan Hotel was converted into a temporary Orienial palace for their recep- tion, and it was confidently expected that the barriers which excluded the outside world from commercial intercourse vith the Japanese Em- pirg would be entirely removed. But the Ori- entals are a proud and stubborn people. The concessions made at that time were but small, and they were grudgingly rendered. A little more freedom of trade and the opening of the Internal Sea, it is true, have been granted within the past few months; but there is evi- dently a powerful party in Japan with whom the ancient traditionary hostility to the “out- side barbarian” still forms the most prominent idea of their ultra refined civilization. There seams to be but one way to control severely savage and severcly civilized nations, and that is by force. The Maoris of New Zealand and the punctilious inhabitants of the Celestial em- pires of Eastern Asia have to he brought under the rules which govern the outside world by The Plan to Release the Johnson's Island Prisoners and the Capture of the Chesa- “peake Said to Have Boon Organized Through the “Want Col- umn” of tho Herald. A Hint for Our Government Detectives, er, ‘Wasinnaton, Fob. 10, 1868. Tho government received the following despatch this ee rrr Poin, Va., Fob. 9, 1865. The Richmond papers of to-day contain no news. They have no intelligence from General Sherman. ! Tho Senate, by an almost unanimous vote, rejected the bill putting twe huadred thousand negroes in the army, Rr ke. The Present Prssion of the South to be Made Available Before It Evaporatets ° ‘From the Richmond Examiner, Fob. 8.] There is a profound ond powerful spring of rovivified assion, sud resolve in our Confederate people. Re aie of no use; wil ‘9 no good; si tea ain into decper apathy and despondency unless sirong od decketye measures eat once to tt avatler bi: and to convince the people that those this movement know how to give it the right impul and drive it on to ite legitimate end with a strong steady hand. Tho le of the Confederate States are this day ready for anything that leads straightforward im the right direction—that fs, to independence, and (why not say it?) to revenge. There is a keen and Cte 4 hunger to visit with stern and bloody ret dared eck ts that hateful generation which has propose that we, the Confederates, who have ‘and routed their hosts on so many bloody fel crawl to their feet now, with halters round our n¢ ashes on our hi and crave their mercy and pardom gang of thieves smoked out of their den. q Fs like a high end military spirit of the war's first year fares p again; and tbat tide is rising which, taken af the fi leads on to fortune. ‘What is needed ngw is some manifestation that the Confederate authorities are also up to the mark. i - | tof the has bee jissatisfaction—and tho same me hd. ‘They have both to be oon- | £0fore Sree Peas ievonrod in lence thaw quered into complaisance. has ever been expressed in words—at the timid sitet “‘Vennuath axp ram Eimacise_Cusen'| Goa mae iat Given to Gn Canaan a wi Q ‘Vrorosté up Rams. Qu of soosniiag the position of rebel amd Victoria has shown herself not only a sensible sovereign, but a very humane ‘and benevolent woman, by her recent letter to the English rail- way companies, urging increased precautions for tho prevention of accidents, Some of the English papers are complaining that the letter “ comes from 2 source unknown to the consti- tution,” as if seeking to ignore the Quecn; but silly sticklers 2nd quibblers about the unconstita- tionality of everything aro by no moans con- ap) criminals resisting the execution of acknowledged law; and has encow our enemies to aucune the insolent airs we now see, by permitting them so | to commit outrages on the persons and Ceca Res citizens without the fear of punishment in kind. As some exhibitions of this sort the hearts of brave andé pou men have sunk down into their boots, and they ve beon forced to ask themselves, aro we rebels criminals after all? This, for one thing, must be amended, i Dietieget i to wes tot rie sent temper 6 recisely the occasion that amendment. We bre willing wo 4 in vindication homes and damage the ‘public fined to England, and are unworthy of serious ¢ in Kent ationtion anywhere. Every porvon who rides | Zomnewee_tvo, Slates eure oat wate first and most em upon railroads, or who ever expects to ride Lossip the oe One of reformed policy upon railroads, in the Eastern or Western hem- Berto vial and that with “ageravalons, upea such ercn| u we it ir spheres, will thank Queen Vietoria for her | horentsol, ib suet a vey frie ioe ad letter, and she has thus entitled herself to the gratitude, not alone of her own subjects, but of the whole civilized world. The fact is that railway reforms to prevent accidents are now indispensable. We have at- tained as great speed as is required at present, and inventors and railroad companies should devote their attention to securing the comfort and safety of their passengers. No one should now begin a railroad journey without making his will, saying his prayers, confessing his sins, bidding his friends a last farewell and having his life insured; for if he escape being burned to death, blown up, smashed by a collision, or tumbled over a precipice, he will certainly catch a cold which will endanger his life. Re- cent developments in England have shown that the railroads there are bad enough; but those of this country are a hundred times worse. No day passes without its railroad accident, and slecping cara are regularly converted into coffins. Under these circumstances we cannot bier | Sigs nmi pert — reever pas nga at the: carofully prepared elaborated outrage put upon ee by Lincoln and Seward must not be allowed to evapsrate and away in the rheloric and cheers ef two or threa meetings. The business before us is of the most tical, earnest and vital kind. Its successful issue spends’ mainly upon restoring, che contidence of, the people, and ‘ing them feel that the government, all its branches, is fully committed along with thems that the alternative for us all is to establish our indepem> dence, or else to die. To produce this restored con® dence it is inthe first place desirable that should, with all convenient s; deal with the military Dills now before it, and deal with them in such @ manner as to convince the people and the army that our legislators and Senators mean to go “‘thorough.”’ Sevcral of these sures are Langing—for example, that for consolidation regiments and companies, and that other for the em ment of — as teamstors, cooks and laborers. AS the first there is considerable difference of opinion amongst experienced officers about the details of the measure, as it is now presented to both houses, believe that old organizations and denominations be retained as much as possible; and that where a ment numbers as many as three hundred and t men, instead of ony teem g it should be to a battalion. r, is @ matter of detail; which way soever it be settled no doubt the army acquiesce and make the best of it. Even an error ta matters of arrangement and detail is not so important this week as it was last week; the important thing now is to got through with the businces, and let the that there is in our legislative but feel obliged to Queen Victoria for per yee ee te employment af nogroes for wort timely tie, and wo Go not know tat her | kaos shoul son ta gu” sarholer so manne: dent Lincoln could do bette? fyan to follow her | tion of ¢ grudging parsimony. Nor en ro pone tha thero ‘an! feeling. now humane and sensible example. if they did not befor, wat would i tt ws to negro y in the conti poss ble or conceivable sul THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Bee anccry nd tor ae Ress Indiana. pars of the ulcidal uae of restricting within @ THE CONSEITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ADOPERD BY THB) {00 close percentage the of their rervants whom STATE SENATE. Qvoeral! Hey con nae = op c— Ixptawororss, Feb. 10, 1865. | tes apheers inom al tracinnn ‘The Joint resolution ratifyiiig the consiitutional amend- oxnet rs ae ae mee 4 ment passed the Sonate to-day,by a vote of 26t09. One | gures, ands once, We cannot trust for this altogethes democrat voted in the affirmative, The House expected oe eee of — even oe hoe a to take final action to-night. teas ataentns rill now come Sosking to Welt come New Jersey. mands when at. there THR PEOPLE IN rates od RATIPYING THE AMEND- png eg ere toe Si will mite ‘to be Tooke sd for at home and dragged from their hearthstones, or else Bonuwoton, N. J., Feb. 10, 1868. Tiere ter aoe remote a7 the ne A large meeting was held hore Inst evening to inau- | ¥ e ae 5 mene) bands Sim gurate tho movement for the circulation of petitions to epee Oe eeeeneeee bd the Legislature to ratify the amendment to the constita- But to induce the stragglers to return, as well tion abolishing slavery. an to and encou: those faithful who are always at thelr post, the subject Maine. aoe of arrears deserves same Fag ed PROOREDINGS IN THR LEGISLATURE, rye: Ae rad) ng mag We hon nay ecm NOU A vaowra, Feb. 7, 1068, | ment irre tht tae, oe reaty In passing the raiifention to the, amendmen! ee) ere anne el constiation abolishing slavery, the Srainunoald 1 to bring it nearer to # par value, wn gimp claring the vote:— " ‘By this sublime act Maine gives her ratification to the amendment of the constitation which drives forever ‘these arrears are to run, the veneer the curse of slavery. God save the State willbe reson for ok paying them,” Are the sak ue whos janet peal foe he to be paid in full—and is all the saving and rest Maghta of min.” They rere given ear sot sePUealoun, pattie, devoted ob tie our OOnrvGereee joors were givem for “Abi Lincola,” “Ideutea- | soidiers, thore is a limit to human endurance. ‘The ant General Grant,” and the “Union.” called for three cheers for the Mr. Wren, of Poriland—All up. The old Union was erie r ‘Three chters wero given for “Old Union.” Mr, Cuase called for three cheers for the “old const tution” Given with cries of ‘We can stand that too,” More choering and ‘hee fol Al Geno pelea ete Innts and inducements, the sight and the touch of of Mr. Trenholm’s money. It is almost needless to say, what has been #o often re |, that thore is not much faith or hope to be re posed even in all these practical measures, nor in the re ining Son What canbe saved: watone ner Lee ng can be fall command of al! the Com ral Peters, Mr. ie arranged tm 5 Mr. federate armiex That matter, we Mr ich agit treet Mon 1 | eas, ea Owen rh gratulatory remarks. an Po ng ee eee by. General ine on oa ‘4 a eo = Concner at Nrewo’s Batoow.—On the orening of Mon- Gay the 18th inst, Mile. Helene De Katow, a Rossian violoncellist of considerable colebrity, will make hor debut in public before ab American sadier in & concert to be ven by Mr. Max Strakosob. She will be nasisted by fr ‘Jas, M. Wehli, @ pianist and composer, who is siso favorably known in the musical world abroad, and who Iikewise make his frst appearance before a cis- Baare audience and an able company of artists. The office for the anle 9f Tasorygd seals onang to-day, y ed it? And if not, why Hoe an ihe pear: oes at this moment, vg motile aad game; they could ill brook # coid lanket. [From the Richmond Examiper, Thore was na comdrraation at the War