The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. OPFIOE M. W. CORNRB OF FULTON AND NASSAU OTS. New York, Wednesday, February 22, 1865. os — = THE SITUATION. Details of the occupation of the city of Charleston by the national forces are furnished in the Hsrarp des- patohes by the steamship Fulton, which arrived here yestorday, and in those of Secretary Stanton and General Gilmore. Tk was evacuated by the onomy on the night of Friday last, and on the following morning occupied by the Union troops, into whose hands fell, among other property, ono hundred pieces of good artillery and a largo supply of ammunition. The fortifications wore found uninjured; but ‘before leaving thie rebels fired the ‘upper part of the city, and it is thought that two-thirds Of it, together with ex thousand bales of cotton, would ‘be consumed before the flames could be subdued. An ‘explosion took piace in the Wilmington Railroad depot, the harbor were also blown up by tho onemy, and some other vessels were burned by them. The Dulldiiigs in the lower part of thetown are found to be eomplotely riddled by Union shot and shell, The im- Portant ovent of the restoration to national authority of ‘this rebellious city has been received with manifestations Of enthusiastic delight in all the loyal States, and has occurred most opportunely for its appro- priate recognition in company with the cele- Dration of the birthday of the Father of His Country, and Secretary Stanton has accordingly directed that salutes be fred at noon to-day at every military post and headquarters throughout the country. A meeting of our prominent citizens will be held to-day arrange for a grand celebration. The public buildings in Washington will bo illuminated to-night in honor of this and other recent great national successes, The despatches which we publish this morning are illustrated by & map of Charleston, showing the portions of it ‘burned by the last and the previous fires, and that part rendered temporarily uninhabitable by the Union guns. Southwestern advices confirm previous reports that the greator portion of the rebel Army of the Tennes- gee has been sent to South Carolina to oppose Sher- man, though considerable forces still remain at Selma, Alabama, and Meridian, Mississippi. Both the troops who wore sent eastward and those who remained be- hind Were dispirited and almost naked. Fortifications, whieh, howevor, are not formidable, extend around the town of Selma, where large quantities of war munitions are boing manufactured. The conscription of slaves and free negroes for the rebel. army is going on in the gur- rounding country, much to the dissatisfaction of the planters. Forrest is. said to be meditating an attack on Vicksburg. Tho rebels continue to fire into steamers on * the Mississippi river near Helena, Arkansas. The brave and able national officers, Major General Georgo Crook and Brevet Major General Benjamin F. Kelley, attached to Sheridan’s army, in which, as well a8 in other portions of the country, they have rendered signal service in support of the government, were cap- tured at Cumberland, Md., yesterday morning, by a party of rebel cavalry, who made a sudden and spirited dash into the place. The Union pickets were also made Prisoners. Some of General Sheridan’s cavalry were sont in purguit of the raiders, with what success we have not learned. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship China, from Queenstown on the 12th inst., with four days later European advices, arrived here last night. The steamship Nova Scotian, from Queenstown on the 10th inst., arrived at Portland yesterday, and ber mails will reach this city this morning. In the House of Commons, on the 10th inst., in reply ® question regarding the notice given by the United States government of its intention to in- crease ite naval armament on the lakes and relative to he proposed termination of the Canadian Reciprocity treaty, Lord Palmerston used language similar in tone to that of Earl Russel on a previous occasion. He said no one could deny that the United States had cause of complaint against England and Canada, that the measures to which they had recourse for the protection of their citizens and commerce were fully justifiable, and that they had a perfect right to increase their lake naval force. He entreated the House to ab- stain for the present from a discussion of these matters, and asked them “not to assume gratuitously that the American people were animated by feelings of hostility”” towards England, It is said that the French press had received orders to state that public opinion could not fafl to see in the reports that Northern Mexico had been ceded to France an English Mmaneuvro to create prejudice in the United States against the French government and the empire of Maximilien. M. Drouyn de Lhuys, Napoleon's Minister of State, had explained to all the foreign ministers how the story originated, and assured them that France had no designs of juest in Mexico. The of the London Globe says the post of French Minister in Washington will remain vacant ‘until satisfactory explanations are made by our govern- ‘mont regarding the recent Congressional threats in refer- ence to Mexico. ‘It was reported that Napoleon had sent several steam- ers in pursuit of the rebel ram Olinde, and that the Uni- ted States steamer Niagara had also gone to look after hor. This is all the additional intelligence regarding her furnished. It is stated that the Spanish government has resolved to prohibit the publication of the Pope's Encyclical let- tor. The Emporor of the French had complained to the Pope that the proceedings of his Nuncio in France in ref- erence to this document constituted infractions of both Froneh and international law. Console closed in London on the 11th inst, at eighty- mine and one-cighth to cighty-nine and one-fourth for- money. The Liverpool cotton and breadstufs markets ‘wore without change and dull. Provisions were quiet and stoaay CONGRESS. ‘The Sonate transacted but little business of importance, the seasion being mainly occupied in the consideration of @orising these bonds to be exchanged for others any time withia two years, sad to be exempt from tax ation by State or municipal. sutherty. The Dill will be comsidered to-morrow. The ill pro viding goveramenta for rebellious States waa djp- @umed, and finally laid om the table by © vote of ‘The anniversary of Washington's birthday, coming Closely upon the reception of the news of the recent glorious nations! si cremses, will be celebrated to-day with more than the usual spirit In this city salutes will be 6th ult. represent the people there as still frm in their adhesion to the constitutional government, and deter- mined to resist the imperial invaders. The States of Chihuahua, Sonora and Sinaloa wore entirely clear of any of Maximilian’s troops, with the excoption of a small force in the town of Mazatlan, in the latter State. ‘The city of Chihuahua is the present capital of the repub-| No, and Juares and all his Cabinet officers are located there, exercising their functions in security. There are’ about sixteen thousand republican troops in the States of Sinaloa, Duranga and Chihuahua, and others in Sonora. On the Ist of January President Juaresz issued a spirited proclamation, declaring a determination to maintain thé republic, and urging the people to -stand firm in ite sup- port, The Senate Committee held another maqting yester. |: day, at which the affairs of the City Inspector's Depart- ment were pretty thoroughly ventilated. The committee meet again to-day. Drafting commenced yesterday as contemplated, in the ‘Second and Third Congressional districts of this State, which imclude the city of Brooklyn. In the Second district the drawing was completed for the town of New Lotts and the Sixth and Eighth wards of the city, and in the Tifird district for the Fifth and Fifteenth wards, The wheel will again be sect in motion im both districts to-day. ‘The Kings county Supervisors have resolved to give each drafted man who needs it two hundred and fifty dollars, ‘to assist him in purchasing a substitute, or for bis family in case he goes into service. A masse mocting, called under the auspices of the Working Men’s Union—an association composed of de- legates from all the different trade organizations in the city—was held last evening at Cooper Institute. A largo audience was present, and the subjects discussed were— ‘the question of wages, of the apprenticeship system and of the abridgement of the hours of labor. Various speakers from the difforont trade associations onter- tained the audience with their views, and the exercises were prolonged until quite a late hour. The order settling the judgment in the case of S. T. Clark versus James and Erastus Brooks, of the Bapress, was decided upon yesterday by Judge Daly. The matter has been referred to ex-Judge Bosworth, with full power to sell out the Expres, so that the plaintiff will now be able to secure his interest in the concern, together with his share of the profits, which the jury, it will be remem- bered, decided were one-sixth of the whole. In the case of William White versus Wm. W. Parks, in the Supreme Court, circuit, yesterday, where the Plaintiff sued to recover seven thousand dollars, the value of certain bonds which had been stolen from him, and were subsequently found in the possession of the de- fendant, Judge Johnson decided that the bonds were ne- gotiable, and, there being no evidence to show that they were not received in the usual course of trade, the Court instructed the jury to bring in a verdict for the de- fendant. Reeorder Hoffman yesterday, in the Court of General Sessions, passed sentence of death upon Bernard Friery, who was convicted on Friday last of the murder of Harry Lazarus. He is to be executed on the 31st of March. The prisoner, previous to the judgment of the Court being passed upon him, said that he was a friend of Lazarus’, was drunk at the time the deed was committed and did not know what he was doing. A youth by the name of English, who attempted to kill officer Connolly, when he arrested him on acharge of perpetrating a burglary in Broadway, was sentenced to the State Prison for ten years. Frank Ferris was placed on trial, charged with murdering his wife by striking heron the head with an axe; but, owing to the absence of # material witness for the people, the case was postponed till Monday. There were a‘number of thieves who pleaded guilty to highway robbery and shoplifting. Judge Daly yesterday granted the application of Count Joannes for twenty days’ time in which to make out a case showing why the verdict in his recent suit against Mr. Horace Greeley for alleged libel should be set aside and a new trial granted, and notice of these proceedings was served on My. Greoley’s counsel by the Count in person. Miss Dickinson last evening delivered a lecture in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, before a large audience, her subject being ‘‘Plea for Labor.’” She made a strong appeal to her audience in favor of @ recognition of the Jabor of women. ‘The coroner’s investigation of the rather singular case of Rene Gautier, the Frenchman who committed suicide on last Wednesday, at 219 West Forty-eighth street, took place yesterday. The testimony brought forth some curious disclosures regarding the religious and metaphy- sical theories of the deceased, but failed to elicit the mo- tive which prompted his rash act. 4 man, named Charles Cherry, who was followed from this city by detectives, was arrested in Corning, N. Y., on last Saturday, and found to have in his possession over one hundred and forty counterfeits of the five dollar ‘Treasury notes and several counterfeits of the fifty cent notes. A party of burglars were surprised on Monday night while attempting to penetrate a safe in,a broker's ofice at No. 185 Greenwich street. They had succeeded in Dlowing off the outer door of the safe by drilling hole im 1 and imperting powder, which they ignited; but ite two inner doors remained firm, and they were prevented reaching the treasure within. The explosion caused con- siderable damage to the room, forcing off the plastering, &c. The burglars, om discovering they were being watched, fled, leaving bebind them 2 lot of the tools of their trade, One of them, named George Key, alias Dick Greenwood, was pursued and arrested after a strug- gle with the officer. He was yesterday committed to the Tombe for trial. It is now almost positively ascertained that the pilot. boat George Steers, belonging to this harbor, of which nothing has been heard since the 12th inst, went ashore in the gale of that night, and was wrecked and broken to pieces on Barnegat beach. Portions of a vessel have since been washed ashore in that vicinity, and also part of a burgee, with'‘—eorge’’ upon it, All on board of her are supposed to have perished. The case of the St. Albans raiders still occupies the at- tention of the Montreal court. On Monday one of the counsel for the prisoners made a long speech in opposi- tion to the demand for extradition, and violently assailed the government for giving up Burley, the alleged Lake Erie pirate. A mass convention of loyal Virginians is to meet at Alexandria, Va., to-day. The object of the convention is to consider the condition of the State, and adopt mea- sures for ite relief from rebel tyranny; also io discuss the future course and policy of its restored government, ‘The constitutional amendment abolishing and forever Prohibiting slavery throughout the country was yester- day adopted by the Legislature of Wisconsin. Seventeen States have now ratified it. The people of Tennessee vote to-day upon the pro- posed amendments to the constitution, recently adopted by the State Convention, of which the most important is the following :— ARTICLE 2 Section 1. saat aveey eae tary servitude, ex- nee oe can where ‘the party tial and probi i tne Baste, Section 2 The shall make no lew recognis- ing the right of property in man ‘The Western Sorghum Convention is to be held at Jeckson, Mich, to-day and to-morrow. Great interest been manifested on the subject, and it is expected ‘vention hold their eanual meeting nt Symetsb to-day. A locomotive on the'New York and Brie Railroad ez- ploded af Binghinton, while standing stil! taking wood and water, on Friday night last, killing e man said to be fireman employed on the Canandaigua Railroad, and seriously injuring the engineer and fireman attached to the train. The force of the explosion was terrific, Diowing down the woodhouse, injuring the water tank, depot building, telegraph office, &c., and breaking many panes of glass in the adjacent houses. ‘The stock market was highor yoaterday. Governments wore steady. Gold was woak in the morning, but firm in the afternoon, and closed at 19954. At the evening board it rose to 20244, at which quotation « closed. ‘Tho markots were unsettled by the fall aud fu:tuationa Priges varied from 180. to 220., with cocasional sales at 230. Miloh cows wer> nominally uncnanged. Veale were easier. Sheop and lambs were scarce and Arm; Prices varied from $6 60 te $12 a $16, according © The fall of Charleston, in a military and ia & smeeek vies, ail: ho heilad in ho Netihew l/h we have an imposing schedule of the materials of war and other property sacrificed by the rebels in their evacuation, and some idea of the importance of the military position abandoned and the desperate extremities of the rebellion. But its losses, in a single night, of the years of labor and the millions of money expended upon the defences of Charleston, are but as a feather in the balance against the moral effeots of the loss to Davis of that unfortunate city. ACharleston, the hotbed in which this utopian scheme of a Southern confederacy was engen- dered; the nest in which the adder’s eggs of this giant treason wore laid and hatched; where the bloody gauntlet of remorseless war was first cast down in defiance of the laws and sovereign authority of the Union; where, through four long years of this stupendous struggle, all our efforts to punish her audacity have been baffled and laughed to scorn—Charles- ton, the head and front and moving spirit of this rebellion, carries with her fall the knell of her monstrous offspring, from Richmond to the Mexican border. The followers of Jeff. Davis, from Virginia to Texas, hitherto among his most confident supporters, unshaken in their devotion by all his previous disasters, will now begin to realize his true position. The disaffec- tions in his political camp will rapidly widen, the absentees from and the demoralizations in his armies will increase, the utter worthless- ness of his paper money will be felt and will precipitate the fimal collapse of his rotten financial system, and in every form and on every side the elements of his confederacy will fall to pieces, and its powers of resistance, like those of Charleston, will be exhausted, and its armed battalions will melt away and disappear from the face of the land, Such will be the moral effect of the fall of Charleston throughout the broken and dis- jointed rebellious States. Throughout the loyal sections, including the States and districts wrested from Davis, the effect will be a new and powerful impulse to the Union cause, and to the good work of filling up the gaps in our armies by. volunteers for a short campaign, and a glorious peace, with liberal bounties, and honorable distinction, and all, perhaps, without incurring the danger of s single battle hence- forward to the end of the war. The moral of- fect in Europe of our recovery of Charleston will be disastrous to the holders of the rebel cot- ton loan, and to speculators in and builders of cotton blockade runners, and will very much enlarge the pacific inclinations towards this country of Lord Palmerston and Louis Napo- leon. But will this war be ended without another great battle? It may not, but we incline to the opinion that it may be. The demoralized trag- ments of armies under Beauregard, Hardee and Bragg, we will suppose, are aiming for a junc- tion with Lee at or near Richmond. Assuming that they will effect this junction, we cannot doubt that simultaneously Sherman will strike hands with Grant. What then? Richmond goes the way of Charleston ; Jeff. Davis and his Cabinet and Congress pack up and pack off by the safest route for Mexico. The so-called Con- federate government, at any rate, will be adrift. General Lee, then falling back to Lynchburg, will be left absolute master of the fortunes of the confederacy, and, like a sensible soldier, rather than “die in the last ditch,” he will sur- render with the honors of war, and the so-called Confederate States will be dissolved, and “our erring brethren” restored to their true allegiance. Let our gallant young men, in- clined to join our victorious legions in the field, come forward, or they may lose this last opportunity for a share in the bounties and the honors of the glorious work now surely ap- proaching the attainment of a glorious peace. Wasnrvoton’s Brrtupay.—This is the anni- versary of one of the most auspicious events in the history of our nation—the birthday of George Washington, the founder of the republic and the father of his country. The 2nd day of February, 1732, is one that must always be remembered with gratitude by the people of America. It was then that that unsullied pat- riot, soldier and Christian first saw the light. From his youth to bis death he was ever faithful to the grand principles of republican freedom that have placed the nation, which he brought into existence, among the foremost of the world. He of all his contemporaries was the man most fitted, by his honesty, patriotism, courage and resolu- tion, to develop democratic ideas and. crush despotism beneath his heels, After the lapee of one hundred and thirty-three years the péo- ple of America will unite to-day in celebrating the anniversary of his birth. They will at the same time commemorate events of the highest importance now transpiring—euch as the con- ventions which are being held for the total abolition of slavery, and the rejoicings which are everywhere taking place on the vindication of the national honor and tend- ing to strengthen and establish the work of “Washington. even more than “is the ‘past, the 22d of February will be the dies Seustus of our republican calendar. Up with the flag to-day, and long may it wave! Axormmn Net yor tae Brocxaps Rowwans.— When Wilmington fell into our hands the har- bor instantly became s net into which the blockade runners began to fall every day. Supposing that they were making » safe port, in their ignorance of the fact that it had changed masters, they tumbled, liko flies into » spider's web, right into tho meshes of Porter's fleet. we atiall no doubt see these rebel argosios, rich aden as they are, steering for home, as they which are reperted to be on their voyage to this country, if they were to make for the “friendly” port of Charleston to take in coal or do some repairs, We would then have to thank France for a valuable addition to our navy. Tas Dearr—Fua Ur ras Rancs—On ro Ricamonp.—The draft commenced on Long Island, but was confined to the four lower districta, There was very little excite- mont.about it, The wheel turned round as if it had been well oiled for the occasion, and the namos of honored patriots fell out with marked great city, among many others, raising moro money, more fighting men and more fisgs than any other section of the Union; besides being adorned by more civic virtue and more patriot- ism than all the rest of them put together. Hurry up the recruits, then, and on to -Rich- mond! Tae Fatt or Onantzston—Irs Errecr on THE Rese. Armies.—The fact that ninety deserters from Lee’s army came into Grant’s lines before noon on Monday last is a very significant one. . It indicates the effect that the capture of Charleston is having on the rebel soldiery. Every victory gained by us for many months past has had some effect in this same way; but now we are likely to have a stampede. More deserted to the rear, in the attempt to get to their homes, than came into our lines, it is said. Thus Lee loses, from this cause alone, neatly a regimenta day. How long can he stand such a drain? But the drain will be still greater every day as the news spreads, Only the other day a Mississippi paper showed that two Mississippi regiments that numbered together thirteen hundred men when they started for Tennessee with Hood, numbered but seventy on their return. Beau- regard’s regiments, Hardee’s regiments and even Lee’s regiments will be reduced in the same proportion within a month by desertion. The complete demoralization of the rebel armies is begun, and the fall of Charleston will, by means of the demoralization it causes, prove to be one of our most important successes, Tas Gory Manxer.—General Gillmore’s de- cisive blow at Charleston has told with some effect upon the Wall street gamblers. Imme- diately after the receipt of the news gold went down to 195. Further favorable news will bring the shining metal to a still lower figure; and with every new announcement of the suc- cess of our arms it will fall still more. Truly, as the poet says, “in the lowest depth there is 8 lower still.” This is good news for the peo- ple, but not for the speculators. The fall of Charleston is synonymous with the fall of gold, of provisions, of clothing, of rents, and of everything in which the workingman is inter- ested. Let us, then, push on our columns, and soon the fall of Richmond will follow that of Charleston, the rebellion will come down with 8 orash, and the prices of all the necessaries of life will come down with it. Error or THE Fatt or CHARLESTON ON THE Prortz.—It is no wonder that: the good news from General Sherman’s army produced such an excellent effect upon our people yosterday. We have not seen so much real excitement in our streets since the first firing on Fort Sumter. Broadway and all the principal streets were decked with flags. Everybody having a fiag- staff, and anything like an American fiag, thought it their duty to “fillng their banners to the breeze.” The day itself was’ radiant in its beauty. In the estimation of most people who looked out on the joyous scene from the build- ings in the city and the shipping in the harbor, no more glorious sight was ever seen than the victorious Star Spangled Banner gleaming in the sunlight from turret, mast and spire. Flags went up to the mastheads, and gold down to 195—a foreboding for the future. To-day being Washington’s birthday, the display will, doubt- less, be twice as inspiriting if not more general than it was yesterday. Travian Orsas.—Martha was given last night to a fashionable house, with the usual cast. There will be no opera this evening. Mr. Maretsek, finding it indispensa- the stage, is compelled to devote the Academy and the services of his artists to that purpose this evening. highly creditable to Mr. Maretsek that he ie willing to ‘Make 80 great a pecuniary sacrifice as the abandonment of the performance to-night necessarily involves rather The ory is interpreted By tho. gramtoct aM, Vere Music. The dramatic pcs and it ie ih tonataly nocenmry 1 mtldy ih sonteisaious aamioy of ‘M. Maretzek to put it on the sage je. 0 perfect form. eee Uckets Lap con them nop roared orcan have i Ma. J..N. Parrson's Soman Momoate.—Mr, Pattioon, the distinguished pianist, announces the third of his de- Nghtful soirdes fot to-morrow evening, the 28d inst., at Steinway's rooms, Fourteenth atreet. ‘The Express Newspaper to be Sold. COURT OF COMMON FLEAS. WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY. ‘The Oclobration im the City—Grand Pyre- techate se. The one hundred aad thirty-third anniversary of @e birthday of the Father of His Oountey, wilt be obsorved to-day with @ proper degree of spirit. The timely nows Of the capture of the cradie of the rebellion, ‘the proud and boastful city of Chasteston, ought to bee good in- Maxcn’a Coron, Nau Sonu, Fae. 3. 1008, ‘commemorated Cor alltime ia the spirit of ual. which charaoterized the patriot through Fourteenth street, up Fifth avenue to Thirty- fourth street, &c. The regiment will ly bo re- viewed by Governor Fenton at the Tink aecaze hotel, ‘at about four o'clock P. M. -ninth regiment also the event volunteering thetr vices to gaitioen ‘Fort asian, aa offer which in all probability will be accepted for the celebration to-day comprises ging is on the Cold Ground. Me, from the opera “‘Bohemian riland. Grand National Fantasie (written for Trinity church chimes by George F. yw, in honor of the recent victories). 4. Lovely Lily of the Vale. 2 ieee 9 lumbia, the Gem of the Ocean. 10. Airs from “‘Child of the Regiment. ll. What -like Music. 12. Am I Not Fondly Thine Own? 18. The Soldier’s Return. 14. Red, Whito and Blue. 16. Yankee Doodle. THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME. ae ecial Committee of the Common Council of the ry 0 inue custom of dining with officers of the general and State govern- ments prominent and influential citizens, and in- stead have arranged fora celebration of the day ina manner that ig deomed by them more in consonance with public or ong more in Letips rot the geniusof our institutions, by a grand display fireworks on the evening of the ever memorable day which gave tous @ ‘Washington and a country. i: A salute of one hundred guns will be fired at the Bat- ven at the City ba and Union square at sunrise. grand display of fireworks will be Hall, Union square, Madison square, Jackson square, Mount Morris square, Tompkins square, East Broadway and Grand street and Liberty Park, under the direction of J. W. Hadfield, Esq., the di inguished pyrotechnist, to the princi Commence at seven o'clock P. M. The eae. at the City Hall Park will consist of the in for : fe ope nal wh yur mutations; a eel, in green and . ‘second, s tree Saxon flyers; tint yramid of colored wheels; concludes with a Sascade thinty feet high, in golden shower fire, reported. Widinecat CROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOR. With tional decorations, enriched with colored ‘fre, centered with petlt stars, and’ supported. by cent wi and su| a concluding with a speaail agave figure in THE GRAND VOLUTE pemiteencss yeyy veel weet in blue, ayes changes grand volut composed of (on Siyére of every variety of color, concluding with a radius golden shower fire, . or star com Of eight large double diamonds, com mencing with a circumfused wheel, in purple and yellow; changes to the diamond star, in green crimson, blue and white lances, concluding with a fixed figure in brilliant fire, reported. FLOWERING ALOR commences with a vertical wheel, on a new construction, which changes to the hehe aloe, which again changes to a fiery tree, cast stars of blue, green, purple, white, yellow, orange and blonde tires in ‘every ‘Hoastbie direc: tion, filling the air with a brilliant and pleasing sight. a AND Ae in three mutations. First, a vertical wheel, in green and in blue, purple, crimson snd yellow free, concluding in_ blue, le, crimson 0 with « Brilliant ded figure, repaid Ey TEALIAN ROSETTE, of pee lace work, rie soe of blue, ager crim- son and purple—opens ‘® soxagonal wi con- eludes with double star of brilliant fire. ‘TUR REVOLVING SUN josed into suns, inates with an immense revolving sun, upwards of sixty fect in circumference. YANKES MILL. umber of pleasing changes jegant < clading ‘wiih gillochus or ks. ook tag oT "a WREA’ TH. An elegant design of lance work, in blonde fire, inter. spersed with roses of crimson ae, pote witha Lt ing with a sun insilver 4 BAXON CROSS. with a vertical wheel in crimson and silver, and Opens changes to four Chinese fi; in and purple, con- cluding with a figure of grometsion design. — A BRAUTIFUL MOSAIC FILAGRER Composed of colored wheels and cross cut fires, Los ong with ae wheel, concludes with golden gerbs of fire, marooned. Opens with ‘ertiond heel, in rimson and av wi C fires, changes to @ splendid sunflower; finale, a shower of brilliant fire, EMBLRM OF PRERDOM. ‘This startling triumph of American art opens with a re- volving sun of Chinese with ruby and emerald to the Lmerfonn cons o arms. In the with outstretched wings, in diamond lance work, the whole terminating with id flights of colored fre, filling the air with yellow, blue, red and green stars. rainbow shell, which changes to io wi an device, in which the name of the immortal Washington, the Father of his Country, patriot, soldier will appear conspicuous, surrounded with insignia and crowned with the Genius of Fountains of fire will be on each side throwing out streams of liquid fire, and fire of the stare of crimson, orange, Rise and bronse free; ‘conelades wih «'f be ot rockets, Se ae ‘with stars, serpents, golden rain, floral im; — shells, batteries, volcanoes, fhe canibition wil bo the same at Union and Madison Places will be on s smaller ES a eee neato yp on ET re The committee recommend thas all the public of So caacepihee waned and that the citizens ‘il bills for ore to ve-eont to the opens FARLEY, | KOSTER, * &. W. Tarion, Clerk. Board ot Counctimen, {an INSTITUTR OF REWARD FOR ORrHANS OF PATRIOTS. ‘The Sunday school ohildren will celebrate the anni- threo concerts at Cooper Institute, t Set on ‘one ah half-past seven o'clock tm the after. noon and evening, and to-morrow night at half-past seven o'clock. THE TWRNTY-BROOND REGIMENT. ‘Tho Twonty- second rociment, N, 0. 8. N. ¥., give @ grand concert at armory ° sented to the corps, HOWARD MISSION, ST powssr. Fivo i aw ‘The day will be celebrated in this institution by it with the Stars and Stripes. hundred ‘Chnidven will anthems in chorus, from tea te o'clock. Other exer ‘will follow. MASQUERADE OF THE SPITZKUGELN OLUB. ‘The Spitskueln Club are to give « grand fancy @seas at Irving Hall to-night, im honor ef birthday of Washington. It will, doubtless, prove Perec as Gawd oats - WEST VIRGINIA. Capture of Major General George Oroeh and Brevet Major Gencral B. F. Kelley. ; ‘Warsuinc, West Va, Feb. 21, 1866, A party of rebel cavalry dashed into Cumberland be- fore deylight this surprised and osptured the Pickets, and carnled of Generals Crook and Kelley. ante 0 Bane SOP Savy, daring and woll planned Cavalry have been sent in pursuit. ; _ FROM NEW ORLEANS. Re ¥ New Onusans, Feb. 13, 186%. ‘The rebel Colonel GriMth, commanding at Woodville, La, has placed an embarge on tho passage of cotton ame oitizons into the Union lines. ~ ‘The annual copoptof Thomas W. Conway, Supertm it "| tendent of the Bureau of Free Labor, shows the following result:—The number of freedmen now under Mr. Cea- way’s charge, supported by the government, is one thou. sand four hundred; expense to the government for the year $113,500; number of freedmen on plantationsim the department, managed by the bureau, Ofty thousand; om plantations under culture by military order, fifteen thousand; amount of property transferred to Treasury $1,000,240. ‘The cotton market is poorly supplied. Prices are bet- ter; low middling, 720. = 780; middling 750, Sugar, 31X{c. a 250, Camo, Feb. 21, 1868. A correspondent of the New Orleans Times, writing om board the steamer Bienville, off Galveston, the 6th inst., says there was s large number of vossols them outside loading with cotton; but the weather was so bad the® fow were able to secure cargoes. ‘The Bionville arrived at Now Orleans on the 13th, = severe storm on the coast forcing her to leave Galveston. ‘The blockade ranner Wier had escaped from our fleet under the flag of truce ruse. ‘The Brooklyn Draft. THE WHEEL REVOLVES IN THE SECOND AND THIRD DISTRIOTS—NAMBS OF THE LUCKY CONSORIPTB— ONZ OF OUR WAR CORRESPONDENTS DRAWS & PRIZE—GOOD ORDER AND GOOD HUMOR PRAVAIL, ETc. The much dreaded and long pending draft fairly com- menced yesterday morning in Brooklyn, Williamsburg and theirsurroundings. Again has the ‘wheel of fortune” been resorted to in order to complete the necessary quotas. ‘The office of the draft for the Second Congressional district was situated at No. 26 Grand street, Williamsburg. Here the all-absorbing wheel was placed in an elevated posi- tion, and as early as half-past ten A. M. the basiness of tho day commenced. A crowd of persons was collected in and about the Provost Marshal’s office, whose faces afforded ample study for a disciple of Lavater. There was the anxious look of the man who listened for the words which would deprive his fond wife and infant ohit- dren oftheir protector; the careless air of him who was exempt, and the cunning, self-satisfled expression of him who having eluded-the enrolment attended to enjoy discomfiture of his less fortunate neigh- bors. The names of the enrolled were on small cards, and, having been previously counted, were placed in the wheel according to wi the town of New Lotts being the first. A blind man, Mr. Francis Doyle, who, we understand, has officiated’ similarly be- fore, was seated before the wheel, which was rapidly re- volved for the purpose of mixing’the names, and amidst perfect stillness drew from it the names of tho fated individuals, which wore pronounced clearly and dis- tinetly by ‘Commissioner Cheshire, For the Third Congressional district the draft was con- ducted at the Provost Marshal’s office, in Washington street, in a similar manner, with the exception that the names were drawn by a little girl—Miss Phobe Welr— and announced from the window to the crowd, which was prinetpally below, by Commissioner Beebe in w voice sufficiently audible to the most distant person im it. ‘We may state that order was admirably preserved im the Second district by Captain Woglam, of the Forty-fiftm inct, ands platoon of hits men, and in the Third by mith, of the Forty-first precinct. ‘he number enrolled in the fecond district, as nearly as can be known, is twenty-three thousand; in the Third, nineteen thousand. Among tho names drafted in the Sixth ward is that of Mr. George Clark, one of our reporters, Mr. Clark will make a good soldier as he has considerable experience as one of our war correspondents, and was captured in the battle of Front Royal, by Stonewall Jackson. The Pro- ‘vost Marshal should hold him by ail means. He is al- ways in luck. james R. Delvecchio, of the Standard, and now in the service, was alo drafted. ‘Mr. Douglass Levien, of the Associated Press, was like- wise drawn. Two brothers, Thomas and James Forge, from the same house, No. 130 Clinton are drawn. Isaac W. Rushmore, of Congress street, the Long Island Milk King, comes in for a benefit. Winchester , Eeq., @ legal gentleman of thin city, has taken one chance.’ He is very healthy and will @ musket in fine style. carry Goo, P. Willey, of No. 48 Tompkins place, who ras for Alderman at the last election, and was defeated by O’Brien, has likewise drawn a prize. ‘Wreck of the Pilot Boat George Steers— Probable Loss of All on Board. Several days since we announced that the pilot beat George Steers had been missing since the gale of the 12th inst., and fears were entertained that she had been lost in the terrible storm of that day. We have now informa- tion that leaves scarcely a doubt that those fears have been realized to their fullest extent. ‘The last pilot was put out from the George Steers on Saturday, the 11th inst,, on board the gunboat Flag, whem off Cape May. When last seen on that day her sails were much frozen, and asa hoavy gale set in that night it ie probable she became unmanageable through being ood ‘up, and was at the mercy of the wind and waves, During the gale of Sunday, the 12th inst, a pilose boat came on the South Shoals, about half way from the bar buoy to the south point of Barnegat beach. She was first seen about eight o'clock on Sunday evening, from om board of the schooner C. L. Scull. She had sails set om both masts. At daylight next morning she was rolling both mastheads in the water; about nine o'clock the mainmast fell, and a short time after the foremast fell, after which nothing was to be seen to mark where she lay. On Tuesday, the 14th inst., the sea fell back, so that a surf boat was able to getto her. There was no- thing left of the hull; a piece of hor deck, her spars, some rigging and pieces of torn sails were all that was left. A piece of her burgee was found in the rigging, with part of her name, which was “eorgo.”’ All hands om board must have perished. Some dead bodies were found about twelve or fourteen miles south of where the pilot boat lay, and as there was a heavy current setting in that direction at the time it is supposed they were the bodies of some of her crew. A worthy young man named Oscar Beobe took charge of her when the last pilot left. He was assisted by the cook and three or four apprentices, all of whom, without doubt, mot a watery grave. The George Steers was built by the late eminent ship- builder of that name in 1851, and she was reported to be the fastest veasel of the fleet of pilot boats belonging to this port. She belonged to the New Jersey Association, ‘and was valued at about $15,000. On Sunday, the 12th, during the late heavy gale, the revenue steamer Kewanee, Captain Pease, was close in to the Barnegat Shoals at eleven A.M. At the samo time the pilot boat No. 6 (George Steers) was near by to the southward, under a heavy press of sail, ‘clawing off” shore. A signal was made from the Kewanee for a pilot, Dut no notice was taken of it, Atthis time it was blow- ing violently and » heavy sea running. The officers of the Kewanee think she either went on to the shoals or fen under by the heavy prese of rail she was carrying. A : Trial Trip of the Yacht Alarm. ‘The elegant yacht Alarm, constructed by. Mosars. 3. B..& J.-D. Van Duson, shipbuilders, wont on '] hor trial trip down tho bay yesterday, She is owned by Mr. Frank Baker, a membér of thé New York: Yucht Club. Quite a number of guests were on board, among whom was Captain Smith, formerly of the Julia, Tho now vessel left the foot of Eighteenth street, Bust river, at oleven o'clock. She was towed to the Battery, ant there left to pursue her own cours>, when the sa‘ls caught up a lively breose and she travelled gracefully through the water. ‘Tho Alarm is built of oak, schooner rigged, and 250 tons burthen. She is 100 feet long, 23 feet boam and 9% feot depth of hotd, She was launched in November last, Hor accommodations and fitting up are excellent. There ars ve state rooms on board and a bath room, elaborately aud tastefully furnished.