The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1865, Page 4

-4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE MW. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Mvcu Apo Amour Nonmna. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Fortr Wuras— Toopuxs. WINTER GARDEN, Broudway.—Matinee at 13f 0'Clock— Hamu. NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Rowery.—Lost Herm—Rovau Pysxone—Taes Love Never Runs Suootu—Foou or ta rAMILY. WALLACK'S THEATRE, ‘Hecu Live Bxrow Sra wiway.—Stitt Watans Run youruric THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Streets oy New ‘one. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dawx Tror—Minixn’s Maww—Inisu Tutox. Matinee at 244 o' Clock, MUSEUM, roadway: Gg SkxLYTON—Dwanr— Naw Yorx—Day and Even ‘Two Mamworn Fat wt Bor—Tux Work- BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ ILall, 472 Broad. Te eenene Songs, Dancxs, buaixsquus, £¢.—Live Naum, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 516 Broadway.—Stueers or New Yous—Tax Pray Brit.—trmortay Soxas, Daycns, 4c. SALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Beoadway.—Rossrr Hutiun’s IRACLES—GraRs. Matinee at 2 0'Clock. VAN AMBURGH & CO.’S MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, Se and way.—Open from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. HIPPOTHEATRON, — Fourteenth _ street. —Bauernian, Gymnastic anv Acw matic ExTuntainaxnts—Moturn Goose, Detnew at v Clock. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Hroadway.—Batiem, Pantosimes, Burtxsquas, tc.—Tux Younc Recwuir. Matl- nee at 2 o'Clock. HOOLEY & CAMPBELL’S MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery.—sonos, Dances, Bunixsques, &c.—Live LNGiN. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10-4. M. till 10 P.M. VANNUCHDS MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Morina Wax aunxs. Open Day and Evening. New York, Saturday, Febr THE SITUATION. ry 25,1965. The nations’ arms have achieved another im- portant, though not unexpected, triumph. Schoflold’s soldiers and Porter's sailors cel-brated Washing- ton’s birthday on Wednesday last by taking possssion of Wilmington, North Carolina, The rebels on General Terry's front, after the loss of Fort Anderson, made a stand about four miles below the city; but hore they were attacked in the rear and routed by the troops undsr General Cox, on last Monday. They then fled to Wilmington, burning the bridg: s over Brunswick river behind them, and also immense quantit es of cotton and rosin, They hastily evacuated the city on the night of Tuesday, and carly on Wednes- day 1 0 nrg, the 24, General Terry’s command marched in and occupied it, capturing large quantities of supplies of all kin evn hundred prisoners and thirty guns were captured in Fort Anderson and Wilmington to- gether. It is sad the rebols burned @ thousand bales of cotton and fifteen thousand barrels of rosin before leaving the city. Unusual inovemeuts and activity have been observed in the rebel lines around Richmond during the past few days, indicating designs of some new enterprise on the part of GonerglLae-27d7i ix surmised that, alarmed by the Progress of =herman’sand the other national forces, he has concluded that the time for giving up both Richmond and Peterburg, and falling back to Lynchburg or some other defensible position, has at last arrived. General A. P. Hill's corps of his army is said to have been under orders on Thursday of this week to be prepared at as moment's notice; and cousiderable commotion within the rebel lines was dispiay:d yesterday. There are also rumors that Lee med'tates an attack on Grant, All these matters, taken in connection with the fact that the rebel journals have received orders from the authorities to be particularly reticont regarding military affairs, give the belief that something more than ordinary is in process of execution within their lines, The influx of rebel deserters, however, remains uninter- mitted. Washington's birthday was celebrated with great spirit throughout the Potomac and James armies. As Part of the festivities, the rebels im front of Petersburg were treated to a vigorous shelling carly in the morning. ‘Tho exchange of prisoners is still being pushed forward f idly and without interruption on James river, The Richmond papers say there was a furious cannonading by the Union guns in front of Petersburg on last Monday, many of their shells exploding in the town, and that there was a’so heavy arullery firing in the vicinity of Dutch Gap on Tuesaday. They have learned that General Grant is extending his military railroad to his new position on Hatcher's run. The Petersburg Brpreas says the Union forces are throwing up heavy works two miles below Monck’s Neck bridge, between that place and Reain’s station, on the Brunswick stage road. Creat excitement is said to prevail in Knoxville, Ten- neseee, owing to a report that the rebel General Long- streot is moving on that place. It is said that the intent ‘of the late movement of national troops from Knoxville is to defeat his plans. Other important dispositions of Tuion forces, looking to the circumvention of designs on East Tennessee which General Lee is supposed to enter- tain, are reported to be in process of execution. As the rebel newspapers have received an official noti- fication to suppress military newer, we are without any later intelligence regarding General Sherman's progress in South Carolina. The Richmond papers can- pot conceal their mortification over the capture of Charleston and Columbia, The occupation of the latter by General Sherman they acknowledge to have been very unexpected at Richmond, and serious apprehensions are expressed in reference to the ability of Beauregard to make any effective opposition to the northward advance of the national forces. Somo agreeable intelligence regarding blockade runners js furnished by one of our New Orleans correspondenta, On the night of the 6th ims, two boasts’ crews from the United States steamers Princess Royal and Bienville, under Acting Rasign George H. French, boarded, captured and gan out to the bicckading ficet, from under the guns of the rebel. forts in Galveston harbor, the blockade run- ning scheoners Pet and Annie Sophia, laden with about two handed ‘and fifty bales of cotton each, On the night of the 8d inst, the somewhat noted Diockade running steamship Wil-o’-the-Wisp, while at- tompling to get into Galvestom, went sshore, and was Fendered useless by the gene of the blockaders. The fteamehip Wren attempted to rum the blockade outward on the night of the 6th, but was driven back by the Union guns. ‘The bill to arm the negroca which the rebel House of Poprosentatives passed on the 20th inst. wae indefinitely postponed by the fenate on the following day. The rebel journals give some Texas items of interest, inelud- ing accounts of the defeat of a rebel foros on the South Coucha river, in that State, on the 16th of January, by the Lndians. The fight is said to have been a most dosporate to march color to NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRITARY 25, 1865. their operations are the forerunners of a grand advance of the Union troops om Northern Texas, in the spring, by way of Red river. The works around Galveston are being improved and cn- larged. It is said that the Mexican toyn of Matamoros has cased to be a free port. The Union force reported by the reb:l papers as having recently moved from Knoxville, Tennessee, towards North Carolina, is now stated by them to consist of botween four and five thou- sand men, undor General Gillen The force from General Sheridan's army sent in pur- suit of the rebel cavalry who, on last Tuesday, dashod into Cumberland, Md., and captured the Uuion Generals Crook and Kelly, returned to Winchester on Thursday, having been unsuccessful in rescuing those officers, CONGRESS. In.the Senate yesterday, after disposing o° a number of misecllancous resolutions, petitions, &¢., tne Dill granting three hundred dollars to the surviv- ing hero*s of the Rovolit'on was passed. A bill providing for the appointment of a commission to adj-st and pay claims of loyal citizens of Temncesee was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The Fortitication bill was taken up, the appropnations cut down one-half, and the bill passed. At the evening session the Internal Revenuo Dill was reported by the Finance Committee with a num- ber of amendments, and made the special order for Monday. The remainder of the session was devoted to debate on the Louisiana question and the bill provid- ing for the better organization of the army paymaster's department. It is belioved the bidl recognizing Louisiana a3 @ State will pasa, ji : In the House of Representatives the Senate. joint Tosolution directing . inquiry as, to the condition o; the Indian tribes, and especially their treat- ment by the civil and military authorities was amended by substituting a commission of three per- sons, to be appointed by the President, to make the investigat‘on, instead of a sclect committee of mem- bers of Congress, and then adopted. The House refused to concur iu the Senate’s amendment to the Naval Ap- propriation bill, striking out tho provision for extra midshipmen, and a committeo of conference on the subject was ordered, A number of private bills were disposed of, and then the bill amendatory of the Enrolment was taken up, the question being ona motion to strike out the provision that all persons mus- tered into the service shall be credited to the State, and to the ward, township, precinct or other sub-district where they belong by actual residence, which was re- jected. Th» section making a principal liable for his sub- stitute in case of desertion was stricken out, and s new one, exempting principals for the full term for which » substitute is enlisted, was adopted, The House then ad- journed. THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday bills were noticed to in- corporate the company of the garden of fountains of New York; authorizing the Ninth Avenue Railroad to extend its track ; to incorporate the New York Butchers’ Hide and Melting Association; incorporating the Knick- erbocker Gas Company; and relative to the foreclosure of mortgages by advertisement. Bills to incorporate the Merchants’ Exchange and News Room; increasing the Tates of pilotage of Hell Gate pilots; amending the law designating legal holidays; and for the relief of the holders of unsecured bonds of the New York and Erie Railroad Company, were advanced to a third reading. robbery, pleaded guilty to larceny from the person, hav- tng stolen thirteen dollars and fifty cong (rom William Flagherty, om the Tth instant, while passing through State street. He was remanded for semtence. John Williams waa indicted, with two other mon, charged with robbing Michael Moriarty of two hundged dollars at house in Oliver street; but the statement of complainant was considered #0 unreliable and the character of the ace ised was 90 good, that Che case was abandoned by the prosecuting officer, and the jury rendered @ verdict of not guilty. Captain James Yates Beall, tho robol spy, was hanged Yesterday afternoon on Governor's Island, im ecoordance with the scntonoe of a court martial. He mot bis death with Arnos, manifesting nd regret for his éareer, or dread «tc soloma termination of his mortal exiatonce. The 4 ion was witnessed by several hundred persons. The Tviwin line steamship Kina, Captain McGuigan, will sa,1 4. noon to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, from picr 4+ North river. This steamer will take tho miails for the United Kingdom and the Continent, which will cloge at the Post office et half-pagt ten A. M. p The now and magnificent steamship Montana, of about four thousand tons register, bdujlt forthe Pacific Mail Steamship Company, will be laxnched this moruin; at half-past eight o'clock, from Messra. Webb & Bell's ship- A sorious accident, though, so far as we have learned, not fatal im any instance, occurred yesterday on the Long Island’ Ra'lroad, between Lakeland and North Islip, at a cr-ek crossing where there Is ahigh embankment. Threo passenger cars of a train coming towards this city became deta~hod from the engine and baggage car, and the for- ward one of the three plunged down the embaiikment, rolling over two or throe times, It waa fijled with pas- ‘sengers, nearly all of whom were cousiderably injured, many of them haying limbs broken, Though many of the passengers of the other two cars received injurics, they did not fare so badly as those of the Grit ome. The attaches of the road attribute the affair to the breaking of ananle; but other people on the train think it was, at least tosome extent, caused by the bad condition of the road. A coroner's inquest was held yesterday over the body of alad named William McLaughlin, thirteen years of age, who was almost instantly ‘killed, at the corner of Forty-fourth streot and Eleventh avenue, by being ron over by @ car of the Hudson River Rallrond, he attempt- ing to get on it while it was in motion. Eleven persons were killed and several injured on the St, Louis and Chicago Railroad, on the 16th inst., by the breaking of a rail. Two freight trains om the Chicago and New Albany Railroad collided with a thundering crash on the 16th inat., instantly killing one man, and pretty effectually using up both locomotives, One of the engincers,had gone to sleep with a bottle beside him, leaving the valves of his engine open. The stock market was higher yesterday. Government securities were steady. Gold was heavy, and closed in the afternoon at 198%. At the evening board i closed at 19934. There was not much change in mercantile matters yes- terday. The steadiness of gold prevented violent changes in prices, while the rapid progress of military events in the Carolinas hindered transactions. Foreign goods were quiet. Domestic produce was dull, with moderate transactions, Cotton was steady. Petroleum was dull, but firm. On 'Change the flour market was quiet and 5c, lower. Wheat was steady, while corn was dull and lower. Oats were firmer and more active, The pork market was active, but prices were a shade off, Beef was in moderate demand, while lard was firmer, The bill authorizing tho raising of money to pay the in- terest on the New York bounty bonds was takem up and passed. In the Assembly the Direct Tax Bounty bill, auxiliary to the Bounty act, was taken up and adopted. Bille were noticed for a public market in Brooklyn; for s Broadway and Harlem railroad; and for a railroad in Cross Town railroad, and for the botter regulation of the sale of beer and malt liquors, The Speaker then pre- sented a despatch from Secretary Stanton annou| the fall of Wilmington; which” was received with ap- Dill for a railroad in Grand street was introduced. A re- solution directing the Committee on Railroads to inves- tigate the complaints against the Central Railroad was endurance and heroism, displayed in their efforta to down the rebellion, were preseated. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The government transport steamsfip Monterey, from Hilton Head, 8. C., on the 20th inst., arrived here yea terday. She brought no news of importance. rooms are daily crowded by those desifous of entering the army and their friends. About one hundred and fifty men are now being enlisted each day, and these are which all candidates for military service are now sub- Jected. General Hinks, the Assistant Provost Marshal General in this city, has issned an order forbidding per- mission to all recruits to leave the place of their enlist- hibiting intercourse with them by outsiders, county Congressional districte—the Third—by the draw- ing of the quotas of the First, Eleventh, Nineteenth and Twentieth wards of the city of Brooklyn. In the Second tinue to turn to-day, the drawings having yet to take place for the Seventeenth and Righteenth wards of Brooklyn, and the towns of Flatlands, Flatbush, Graves- end and New Utrecht. The Brooklyn Common Council vote resolved to give to the family of each drafted man lars. - This is to take effect immediately. Drafting was in progress yesterday in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. introduced and adopted. Resolutions thanking @enoral | time age Sherman and his army for the cepture of Charleston and | all supplies of matériel, and in s great degree | fold more respectably conducted than the Con- Savannah; also our brave soldiets in the Seid for thelr | gop subsistence. This road traverses in a direct |, gress to which Mr. Stevens has the honor to 9" | tine the State of North Carolina and all of Vir- | belong, and that, in any fir comparison, the The draft was concluded yesterday in one of the Kings | draw in indigent circumstances the sum of three hundred dol- until some one invents a way to make militie The New York Press and the Washing- ton Congress> Thad Stevens has very singular ideas in regard to Congressional oratory. \The nesrer he can imitate the words and manne’s of the famous fishwomen of Billingsgate, the nearer be approaches his own gtandard of eloquex'ce. There is no other member ef either House whe can assume to rival Mr. Stevens in the high and manly art of vituperation. Compared with him, Ben Wade is elegantaad Jim Lane refined. His political opponents bre belabored with his verbal eudgels whenever they presume to speak, and often, by way of keeping himself in prac- tice, bo galtantly vituperates his political friends, especially those of thom who are gen- tlemen and will not. condescend to reply. These peculiarities of Mr. Stevens have fre- quently been commented upon by the press, and Mr. Stevens has, not unnaturally, burned for revenge. His opportunity arrived s few ross to a question of privilege and cor reoted the misstatemenis of an article in the Evening Post of Stevens indigtantly to differ from their-dogmas, that scarcely a.dey passes in which we are not attacked in's foul manner by these acribblers.” After this bril- liant outburst Mr. Rice compelled Mr, Stevens to withdraw his motion, We'recall this affair as a matter of history. —- Tt was not a little amusing to see the muddy philosophers of the Post assall Mr. Rice be- cause he dared to vote upon the ‘paper duty, Mr. Rice is's papér-seller, and the’ Post could not underatand how he could have an interest in the subject and yet vote honestly. We ad- mit that such ignorance is natural in the Post. One of the publishers of that delectable jour- nal is now under indictment for defrauding the government, and it is not strange that the Post should think everybody ‘else as corrapt as itself Thus an inebriate often accuses othera of intoxication, and a rogue cries “stop thief.” According to the theory which the Post has developed in regard to this matter, no Con- gressman, who has a special interest in, ac- quaintance with or knowledge of a subject, ought to vote upon it, and if he does he is open to suspicions of corruption. Farmers in Con- gress must never vote upon agricultural ques- tions, nor merchants upon commercial ques- tions, nor lawyers upon legal questions. That is the dictum of the Post, and we can imagine with more doing. Froights were dull. Whiskey was decidedly lower, with less doing. The Capture of Wilmington—Our Pro- gress Everywhere. Wilmington is ours, as both Admiral Porter Secretary Stanton simultaneously sn- nounce. Our gunboats are at the wharves; have discharged the cargoes of British arms and ammunition that have heen-wsed in the at- both ends of that line of railroad that, under the name of the Weldon road, was bat s short main reliance of Lee’s army for ginia south of Grant’s camp. Previous to the passage of the James by Grant it was far the most important of Lee’s lines, as it brought all the foreign supplies from Wilmington, and The activity in reoruiting at the headquarters of our | drained algo a very rich country. Lee fought | of Mr. Stevens, compared with whem the worst Supervisors’ Volunteering Committee increases. The | three terribly expensive battles to recover the | of journslists—the old Bourbonists of the West Petersburg end of it from Grant; and, failing in that, built line of fortifications to enable only half of those who apply, the other half being unable | Bim still to draw supplies from the same road, The relations ot journalists to such men as to pasa the ordeal of the rigid medical examination to | It is now absolutely ours, It is a mistake to suppose that the holding of Wilmington was no longer of any advantage to Lee after the loss of Fort Fisher. By holding road, and, as he has shown, could at times supplies from it around Grant’s left. That is done with now, and he must be more than ever straitened. Moreover, by holding Wilmington, Union force. He takes Hoke from Wilmington to concentrate; but Schofield can, at the same time, join either Grant or Sherman with his held a special mecting last night, and by a unanimous | whole command. Nota man need be left at Wilmington, since the gunboats can hold it effective against iron-clads. But in the present plan of concentration and the smallness of his Colonel Baker disposed yesterday of over a dozen cases | force, every man is so important to Lee that of bounty freuds by brokers, He had money refunded | he cannot afford to leave a division at Wilming- by the sharks in several instances, and some of them ton, though there is in one way an obvious ad- were sent to Washington in irons, vantage in it. The Senatorial Committee held their usual meeting auch poissetgyankenamtsel & boul meny witnesses in rela. | ‘Thus, day after day, and“ with capture after tion to the system of appointing strect inspectors and | capture, the great game goes on to its culmi- assistants in the various wards, The only incident | nation. Grant watching and waiting at Peters- which occurred to break the monotony of the investige- | burg, Sherman driving on through South and tion was the refusal of a witness to answer a question. Ho was promptly placed under arrest by the Sergeant-at- Arms. The committee will meet again to-day, when the City Inspector's Department will be concluded. was again up yesterday in the Supreme Court, before Judge Johnston. Two wills, both purporting to have been executed by deceased, have been produced—one of his acquaintance, and the kin. The argument the case as for a default, Decision was reserved. ‘The will of the late James W. Wallack, proprie- tor of Wallack’s theatre, Brosdway, bab been admitted to probate in the Surrogate’s Court, It divides hie ostate Detween hie two sons, John Lester Wallack, the actor, and Captain Henry Wallack, of the British army, the theatre being included in the portion of the former. The hearing on the application of the Prussian Vico tion were heard, and at the close the Comusissioner Ge- cided tm favor of the application. A warrant for theen- tradition of the accused will be lneued without delay, Goldenfusd, who was Inely, on the application of the Gharges of defrauding ® German house, in which be Bed been employed, out of © large amount sf money, hes. Arrived at Hamburg, and bas there made s comfession of him on the affidavite takea in the courts of Prussia Recorder Hoffman sentenced a number of prisoners yesterday in the Court of General Sessions, Samuel Rivers, Joseph T. Keepers and Catharine Martin, who pleaded guilty to grand larceny ® fow days since, were each sont to the State Priggg fortwo years. Peter Devlin, months, John Anderson and Thomes Harris, guilly of a similar office, wore sent to Biackwoll's Island for one year. A number of persons indictod by the Grand Jury One. The Indians are giving the rebels there much ysl hm Me Austin Gade iy quouuyye Wank, Ole (a ausiaue te chalga Jol Murvhy, \ndicled Cag 5 whaling, of $5 for larceny were discharged, the prosecution being wn -_—~ ad The case of the estate of Willlam Merchant, who died | picture on one side; and on the other we in 1861, and which has been for some time in litigation, have only Lee trembling in his trenches, and Consul for the extradition of Ferdinand Voightmas, alias | Kuropean Hille, was resumed yesterday before United States Com- | Tower California, Chihuahua, &0., have bie guilt, in connegton with the charge proterred against | business of working sald mincs—eu North Carolina with irresistible force, Bchofeld advancing from Wilmington, and Sheridan ready to swoop up the valley. This is the great Beauregard and Hardee straggling forward to add their weakness to his. On the one side a them dividing his property between two young ladies of | miserable, beaten, demoralized mass of men, leaving it to his next of | perhaps sixty thousand in number, and every | any of our honorable members. The more cca aan: || Seem cage So Cocers; smd cn tie. cSies SES Casement of hom aty ler eney wont ip Senet nothing more silly. If farmers, merchants or lawyers in Congreas disobey this order, then they are to be set down as corrupt; and if they grow indignant at this charge, then their anger is to be taken ae proof of their dishonesty. This is the decision of the Post, and we can Tuirtieth atrovt, New York. Bills were intreduced for a | where so many scores of blockade runners | conceive of nothing more malicious. It is through sach-papers as the Post that gentlemen like Mr. Thad Stevens abuse the whole press. tempt to break down our government, and our | But Mr. Stevens ought to understand, as Mr. plause. A bill was reported to provide forthe payment | soldiers are in the filthy streets that lately | Rice clearly does, that the Post is an excep- of interest on the bonds authorized by the Supervisors of | echoed with the defiant rebel slang of cotton | tional paper, not to Be taken as the, represent- New York, which was read a third time and pawed. 4 | dealers and drunken sailors. We thus hold | ative of American journalism. We lay down the general rule—and such exceptions as the Post onl¥ prove it—that “the newspapers, and especially those of New York,” are s thousand prees has the decided advantage of Congress ‘both in talent and refinement. While we pro- test against the malicious insinuations of the Post, we also protest against the vituperation or the Bohemians of this clty—ehine like angels of light. . Mr. Stevens are amusingly peculiar. The editors take hold of these small politicians and elect them to Congress. Being in Congress, and without brains, they turn to the papers for ideas. ment until sent to the government rendezvous, and pro- | that place he held to some extent this Weldon | Read the leading articles in a leading journal and you see the foundation for all the-speeches delivered by the politicians who agree with that journal. A member of Congress turns to his newspaper for his arguments, as regularly district the quotes of the Fourteenth and Sixteenth wards | a8 he did, with a small force, he kept employed | as a equalling brat turms to its mother’s wero drawn. In this latter district the wheel willcon- | and away from Grant a very considerable | breast for the sustenance which enables it to squall again. Suppress the papers and there would not be more than a speech year in Congress. The pinchbeck orators of the House and the Senate simply rehash and warm over the editorials written by men wiser than they. As we have seen, even Mr. Stevens’ abuse is partly plagiarized, although we admit that the ability to use bad language was born in Mr. Stevens, like original sin. But, after having elected them and supplied them with ideas, the editors keep these Congressmen before the world and make them famous. Mr. Stevens talks very glibly about excluding a reporter from Congress; but what would Mr. Stevens be were it not for the reporters? If those gentlemen were to publish what is actually said in Congress, during a single seasion, our national Legislature would be a universal laughing-stock. Besides writing over two-thirds of the set speeches delivered in Congress, the reporters kindly correct the bad grammar, worse rhetoric or senseless twad- dle of extemporaneous speakers, and put it before the public in presentable shape. A really verbatim report would ruin almost ® confident, effective and enthusiastic force of | ters courteously; but such gentlemen as Mr. ‘at least two hundred thousand men, every one | Stevens are ignorant of their own deficiencies in eager to strike the last blow. No ome oan | ideas and education. Yet this very Mr. Stevens question the result. would be the first to whine should the reporters Tas Reat. Posrrion or Dn. Gwi as a | leave him alone severely and decline to pub- Fasnon-Muxtcan.—It appears advices on the subject, that Sonora, colony by Maximilian, Pipa, ste view of Deve. Metin | Btates, It tb Admitted, , however, that the Proseian govermment, extraditeqy fram this city, 8 | of said States have beea turned over for # to Louis Napoleon, and that Dr. Gwin has been appointed es a sort of general director im. ttes | Sach is the oiae. who come to lead from our latest | lish his silly remarks. Still, as a reward for having elected these Congressmen; for having not | Crammed them for their speeches; for having given them the publicity they crave, and for hav- sorving. . has | Stevens curses the reporters who have made Be eee et tdase mnchnar, | Hn © promiontpoldean miners, &o., with which to commence opéra- tions. If so, he will be very apt to find on his guilty of am alipinpt at grand larceny, was sentenced to | return the elements of a new order of things in imprisonment in the State Prison for two years and six | gull blast, from the Rio Gtande to Sonore, and that neither Maximilian nor Napoleon can con- trol them. In this event, however, the Doctor, an usual, will look out for arumbor one, without Tax Usrorromate Braco—The Richmond journals vyere.right In regarding the appoint- ment by Jeff. Davis of Gen. Bregg to the com- mand of the Department of Wilmington as ominous of the loss of that city. Wilmington has gone the way of Pensacola and Cbatte- enom, ond Hirsi ia agit wally | and destroy wherever an unguarded vessel or days ago, when Mr. Rice, of Massachusetts, | | his master, the former accepts the de facto con- were caleniated to encourage a body of out- laws whose only object was to plunder, murder a defenceless village fell into their hands. Seeking the covert afforded by adjacent neutral territory, Captain Beall and his misguided men sallied upon: the soil of the United States, and, by their disgnises and treasonable works, ob- tained information of Joyal movemen’s, and plundered priva'e property qlmost at will. For | these acts young Beall bas suffered the final pens'ty in this world, and has thus. been: made to expiate bis crime upon the gallows—the dreaded altar of a nation's outraged authority. Bronperma m Covonsss.—Every day or two we have somo new evidence of bluniler- ing in Congress. It has just committed’s stupid act which throws some of its previous doings in the shade. It has by one vote—72 to 71— decided-to repeal that portion of the Confis- cation act which declares that the confiseation of real estate shall not continue beyond the lives of rebel owners. The constitution of the United States’ (article 3, section 3,) declares that “no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except. during the life of the person attainted,” It, appears incredible that legislators can be found ignorant enough to pass a law in violation ot so clear a provi- sion of the constitution. But it may be that the object is to repeal the Confiscation act altogether. In that view such oddities of legislation may be explainable. Fraternizino.—Between the officials of Maxi- milian on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, and the rebel officials who still occupy our side of that river, the “most distinguished conside- rations” of mutual recognition appear to exist. There is nothing very surprising in all this; for, apart from the sympathies of Maximilian and dition of things on his northern boundary ag he finds them. Let the rebels be driven off, and let a column of Union troops occupy the line ofthe Rio Grande on the north side, and the French on the south side will soon change their serenading music from Dixie to Yankee Deodle. Nor Bap ror Bow, Run Russet.—It, is the opinion of Bull Run Russell that with the fede- ral occupation of Charleston and Wilmington the rebellion will be shut up in a receiver. Just 80; and then the receiver will be exhausted, and then the victims enclosed will die for want of air or corn bread, which is all the same. VERY IXPORTANT NEWS IF TRUE. Pustapeepara, Feb. 24, 1865. The Bufleinte special Cincinnati despatch says:—Ad- vices from below indicate grand proparations for a.three- fold movement to occupy Alabama and Mississippi— Thomas from the North, with a strong mounted force of infantry from Vicksburg, via Jackson, and Canby from Pensacola, It is apprehended that if Lee is compelled to relinquish Richmond he will fall back on Lynchburg, and thence make his way through the mountains to East Tennessee or Kentucky. Efforts are making to repair the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad to Bristol. I was rumored in Knoxville last week that a division of his (Lee's), army had already appeared in East Tennessee. The expedition now moving from Knoxville is to defvat thia movement, and, by again destroying the railroad, render the transfer of Lee's army west of the mountains impossfble. Longstreet Said to be Advancing on Knoxville. Lovisvinix, Feb. 24, 1865. ‘A despatch to the Democrat, dated Nashville, says intense excitement exists at Knoxville, from a report that Longstreet's command was moving on that place, THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST. Cato, Feb. 24, 1865. , ‘The steamer Rovert Burns, from Memphis, had three hundred and forty-six bales of cotton for Cincinnati and thirty-nine for Evansville. ‘A scouting party under Captain Nowell, of the Eighth New Hampshire, lett Vidalia early in the month to patrol along the Black river. They have returned in a terrible- state of dilapidation, having subsisted four days on horse and mule meat alone, in a swamp surrounded by rebels.. Brig. Gen. Meredith has been relieved from the com- mand ef Western Kentucky. His successor is unan- nounced. Col. McArthur, late commander of the post of Colum- bus, Ky., and: Capt. Goss, a provost marshal, arrested by Gen. Meredith, recently, have been fully exonerated and have returned to Columbus. ‘The trial of General Paino is progressing. Thus far nov & singlo charge against him has been sustained. Personal Intelligence. Brigadier General James H. Ledlie, tate commander of the First division, Ninth army corps, bas resigned his commission on account of continued {ll health. General Ledlie entered the gervice at the beginning of the war as majer in the Nineteenth New York Volunteers, and commanded that regiment during most of the-eam- paigns under General Patterson and General Banks, on the Upper Potonmo, in 1861 and 1862. His services were particularly efficient in organizing a regiment of antillery, called the Third New York artillery, of which the Nine- teenth Volunteer infantry were the nucleus. General Ledlie has done good work since the outbreak of the rebellion, and retires from the sorvice with the earnest wishes of many warm friends for his speedy restoration to health and to some new sphere of public usefulness, Colonel G. Von Schaack, the distinguished eommander of the Seventh regiment New York Veteran Volunteers, ‘Third brigade, First division, Second army eorps, is at Present stopping at the Breevort House, having obtained fifteen days’ leave of absence. Colonel Yon Schaack has Been identified with the Army of the Potomac since the first Peaingular Campaign, and has been highly compli. mented for his offictency by such herees as Hancock, Humphreys, Caldwell and others. Captain Wm. Rel, Anstutant Inspector Genoral of the above brigade, ts 8120 im this city on a like furlough. — Panne Max Srnaxceom's Concente.—Ulle, Helene de Ketow night s . suas ashen Gaanp Onatomto. at St. Paran's Cavnon.—A grand oratorio will take place tomorrow (Sunday) ovoning, at @t. Poter's ohuroh, Barolay stroct (Rov. Mr. Quinn's), under the direction of Mr, Porcher, organist of the church. Mercadamte’s great work, ‘The Seven Words of Our Baviour oa the Oroas,"’ will comprise the first part, and the Infammatus, from Rossini's Siabat Mater, the aecond. The artists compriae Signori Lotti and Con- tqinoti, Madame Chorné, and Milos. Gomien, Houng and Camila Vie, aguiahod viola Ca 4 eer ee oor 7 THE GULF.. Davoc Among the Galveston Blockade Runners, ho, ae, bo. Our New Oricans Correspondence. Naw Oniaane, La., Feb. 18, 1666. On the night gf the Otn inst. two blockade running echoomeps wars output of Galveston harbor by two boate’ orews—one from the #rincess Royal and the other froas the Bienville, Both beats were under the command of Acting Ensign Geo. H. French. The schooners Pet and ‘Annie Sophia were boarded, and their crews captured, without causing any alarm. They were thea run out te the flect in charge of a prize crew, The Pet was ladew With two bandred and ficty balesef catton, and the Anate Sophia with two hundred and thirty. The schooners Jers Hin. oe aleness, Deedee Lip maesmbonet the gana 0 Oe Throe nights before the schooners were cat out the celebrated bleckade running steamer Will-o’-the. Wisp was run ashore while attempting to pass our floct off Galveston. The rebels Will 0’ the was.a large two-piped steamer, J to] cies ania ‘and staunch es T™: ZI H Qn the night of the 6th the running Wi hile attempting to pass oat of the her- bor of reates as ite tho: United Stal Penguit and} her in this position, d Before the Wren could be crew to get hes afloat, whoa she sloamed toward the city, under the gum the forts, ITALIAN. OPERA. Success of Verdi’s New Work. + The Academy was crowded last night by the most brilliant audience of the season. In beauty and elegance of toilet we have rarely seen anything suporior to the appoarance of the ‘house on this occasion—the production forthe first time!.of Verdi's grand opera, Ze Forza da Destino, the latest of all hia works—and we think publie Judgment will pronounce it here, as im 8. Petersburg ‘and Madrid, upon its presentation in those cities; the’ best. The plot is. “highly,” tragic, but the music is brilliant, the instrumentation especially 90. The first performance of a new opera, which requires so much from the artists as does Za Fores, ig, not expected to be free from faulta. Yet we must con- fess that it went off with remarkable smoothness, allow: ing for the dificultics which necessarily appertain to » first production of a work #0 elnborate in its scenic'ag ‘well as its mus‘oal effects. The artists were ‘all fully up to the occasion, and the. audience were, most cordial in their appreciation of their efforts. We do not say too much, we think, when we pronounce the new operaa complete success. We have already told the story in brief. The'plot is taken from the Spanish drama, by the Duke of Rivas, Don Alviro o la Fuerze del Sin. The opera is written in four acta, In the first the scene ix laid in Seville, in the palace of the Marquis’ of Calatrava, Don Alvaro (Massimiliani), a youth of Indian birth and noble ancestry, loving and beloved by Leonora (Carozai-Zucchi), daughter of the Marquis, persuades her to clope with him, and at the critical moment, of the'r departure the father, who is hostile to the alliance, enters ujon the scene and “for: bids the banns”? very emphati ally, Alvaro submits to the authority of the father, and in surrendering himeelf throws away his pistol, which acc‘dentally -gocs off am@ kills the. Marquis, -who, when expiring, curses bis danghter. , The second act opens with an inn in tho village of Horacuelos, Don Carlo (Bellini), brother of Loonora, ig there in the dress of « Salamanca student, bearing the assumed name of Pereda. He relates to the muleteers and Mas in wa hgneal Gray Dn Pereda-son rie @’ono:e, the death of his father, and his resolve to avenge it. Leonora, in male attire, appears at the door, 4 recognizing ‘ber. brother, is alarmed and flies. Ehets accompanied by: Trabucco, a muleteer, who refuses to tell anything of his mysterious companion: s resi tad tnall? taducen the p-asanta to enlat for tho war for tho “freedom of Italy.” In this scene we have an in- tore balict, village dances, and two or three very Following the fortunes of Leonora, we find her im the next scene asking shelter aad permission to do penance for hor sins from the Abbot (Susini) and the friar Militone (Lorini) at the door of the convent of Madonna ‘Angeli, which she reecives; the Abbot alloting her, ap adjoi cave penitential abode, af the samc time Fiat ‘the monks that whoever enters, or sceks to cover tho of the penitent, shall be accursed. scenery here is exoelient, and ¢! etwiking. Zucchi’s acting, when she embraces the croas and devotes herself to ts splendid. monks as Leonora enters the church and kneels before the upon ger ar great impressi ‘very marked a] Inthe rir ack 180. ‘we meet Alvaro and under s& sumed names, _ unknown to each other, bani, laa Spanish army in known and Carlos as . Alvaro is now as batt mortally, rele hie fects tohie battle, it is supposed 2 ves his ef friend with i to burn his lotters after js death, But tithe valise Bornos finds a picture of hip sister Leonora, and thus discovers the identity of Alvaro, ‘The latter, however, recovers from his wound, and 4 fight a duel, in which Alvaro fancies that he has kill Carlos, and he vows that he willenter a monastery. The ly and mystery of this act are relieved by a scene in whieh we have a very lively chorus of vivandiéres, cons ripts and gypsies—a funny, carnival-like. ee the Friar Militone, now an Ese chaplain, td a Fatal Presiosiila, ‘chorus, wi Thustast lly encvred. The duo of Alvaro and this act is delicious, and was very well sung. The fourth act opens with a very humorous scene—the distribution of soup to the poor in the convent yard by Friar Militono, which was received with much onjoy- ment. After this pleasant interlude the tragic of ears to take vengeanee for his chal- lenges him to mortal combat, which Alvaro declines, until, and throws off his Leonora enter recognizes him. In dying hestabe her, and she ‘ies’ The abbot and monks onter on the acene at this juncture, and eee a precipice, declares that he ie been oy eal, Set aimeinie than it was last night. . Zuecki compliment our neighbors in Brooklyn by taking her first benefit in this country atthe Academy there on Monday evening, the opera being Ernani. Tur Hirroragzatnon.—The successful comic burlesqee and pantomime of Mother Goose, which continues to.at- tract crowded audiences, will be given at the matinée to-day, im conjonetion with the equestrian and gymnastic performances. Those who failed in obtaining admission last Saturday, and again on Wednesday's matinée, will do well to put in an early appearance. Celebration by the Beard of Trade of De- treit. Dereon, Feb, 24, 18680 The eclobration by the Board of Trade of this city last evening was a great success, Nearly all the: princi cities of the Northern States and of Canada wane. sented. 4 Addresses wore made by Bishop. MoCloskey and the representatives of thé delegations present, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Buffalo, Albany, Tosonte mn fer tho Now Tork change, aaid he the time hest come Thon ihe Britis ‘should revoke the re tion of the rebels as belligpaonts in the ox for the t government of the United States had never: or indirectly commtenanced any of the pte have beon madeon the part of the ish colonies to realist the parent autharity, altho gh the stort of ion at various times from ‘Tho seutirnente of the General ‘vooiferous!; wore ly ap plauded, Bailes of Seoven-Thirties. ‘ Punapmrma, Fob, 24, 1869. * fhe sales of voven-thirties to-day” by Jay Cooke were $3,108;450. “The largost single sutserptions were $925,000 (fom Philadelphia and $50,000 from Col inti. Individual subscribers 2,245, in sums of $50 and $iue ench. Nowe from California Islands. San Fravctso, Feb, 21, 1866. ‘Thore te nothing eventful stirring in California. Business continues to improve as the season advances and agricultural and mining intoreats look up. The bullion receipts here for the inst ten days wore about a million and a half of dotlara, Honolula advices represent that extensive prepare tions are making for cotton culture, The colony of Moe mons is preparing to plan! a large quantity, im the cout Gout exprctation Of ryplining gruilh andl whet LATE nee heami s oongaee