The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1865, Page 4

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NEW YORK MUSBUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P. M. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 “Brondway.—Movina Wax Pigunes. Open Day and Evening. a New York, Wednesday, March 1, 1865. Se ——— THE SITUATION. The probable junction of General Sherman’s and Genes fal Schofleld’s armios, on Monday last, at some point not stated, has, we understand, been announced in private letters received in this city. We may look for early mili- tary news of importance from North Carolina, Thore is yet no renewal of hostilities on James river, but active operations before long are looked for, and the ‘atmost vigilance is observed in General Grant’s lines. His military railroad has been completed to the new pos!- tion of the left of the army of the Potomac, on Hatcher's run, and trains will commence running regularly upon it to-day. The stream of deserters from Lee’s lines continues unabated, and our despatchos give evidence of the utmost demoralization in his army. On last Friday one hundred and ninety of his men came into the two armies of the Potomac and the James. They report that the 199 and 201 Bowery.—Sonas, Inoux. Petersburg theatre, filled with rebel government stores, thas been burned, and this is instanced as additional proof of an intention to evacuate that town. General Bingleton, of Mlinois, supposed to be on an independent Peace mission, was to leave Goneral Grant's lines for the rebel capital on Monday last. Our St, Louis despatches represent the demoralization fo General Kirby Smith's Trans-Missiseipp! army to be @qual to that of the other rebel armies tn various por- tions of the country. it are constantly coming into the Union lines at Little * Rock, Arkansas. Two-thirds of his men are sald to be conscript, who are satisfied that the “confederacy” is a failure, diggusted with the service, and only desirous of Large numbers of deserters from making their escape and getting back to their homes. Guoritiag again throng on the Arkansas river. The main rebel forces of the Trans-Missiasipp! Department are how in the vicinity of Shreveport, La, and Tyler, Texas. It is reported that about six thousand rebel cavalry are in the vicinity of Jgpunt Sterling, in Wostera Kentucky. The captain of the British schooner Dearborn, which arrived here yesterday, reports that his vessel - was boarded from boats of @ rebel privateer on the 8th of February, off the west ergot the island of Cuba He could not learn the privateor’s name or that of her oom mander; but she tsa propeller of about three hundred tons burthen, carrying six guns. Hor smokestack was Painted lead color and her bull black, and her rendezvous 1s oaid to be the island of Grand Cayman EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship New York, from Southampton Febru- ary 15, reached this port last evening. Her news is three days later. A Paris journal professes to report the Blair-Lincoln peace programme to the rebels in six clauses, including an amoorty, the gradual abolition of slavery and the re- Cognition of Btate rights. ‘ Tho roport of a cession of Mexican torritory to France excited very considerable attention and much comment The privatoor Shenandoah had burned two American ‘Tonsels near the equator, The privateer Olinde was in the port of Ferrol on the 10th of February Tt {# said that the rebels in Paris wore very hopeful, Wo find, however, that they were rigidly excluded by Prince Napoleon from the late bed) at the Palais Royal, Letters from Rome ray that the Papal Court, however {irritated by the recent letter of the Emperor of Mexico, will not withdraw the Nuncio from that country, but ‘will decline to conclude a concordat with Maximilian. The Italian government tesued a decree authorizing che circulation of the Pope's Encyclical The Emperor of France was to open the legislative erosion on the 16th of February. ‘The peace rumors from America brovglit by the Canada 0 Liverpool depressed trate very much ov the Lith of clined Kd. & Kd. Provisions were dull. In London on February 14 consols, for mpney, closed at 893; 08934. linols Contral shares wore at Gli @ 61%; Erie, 8234 a 833, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the House resolution to con- tract with W. H. Powell for @ painting for the Capitol, at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollar, was adopted. A bill to incorporate a national asylum for disabled officers and men of the volunteer forces was roported by the Committee on National Affairs; also a bill authorizing the payment of colored troops enlisted in South Carolina in pursuance of orders from the Secretary of War. At the evening session the conference committee on the Freedmen’s Bureau bill made a report, which was or- dered to be printed. The consideration of the Internal Revenue bill was resumed, and an amendment taxing savings banks adopted by the casting vote of the Chair, In the House of Representatives tho bill authorizing a joan of six hundred millions of dollars was passed, with amendments, but not changing its main features as to amount and interest. ipod. panes ‘Tariff bill was taken up, and a motion to si out the additional duty on railroad iron discussed, but, without taking the ques- tion, the subject was laid aside until to-day. At the evening session a number of now bills wore passed, A Dill was reported authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to pay the officers and crew of the United States steamer Kearsarge $100,000, tho estimated value of the rebel pirate Alabama, which was referred to the Oommitteo of the Whole, with an amendment to pay Lieutenant Cushing and those under him for the destraction of the rebel ram Albemarle, THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate -yeaterday a bill was reported favor- ably to remove the fare restriction on the Central Rail- road, Bills were noticed authorizing the consolidation of certain railroad companies in Brooklyn; for a railroad in Eighty-sixth street and other strocts, New York; and to incorporate the University Club, Bills were passed rela- tive to the common schools in New York; incorporating the New York Infant Asylum; and amendatory of the Assessment law. The Metropolitan Hoalth bill was made tho special order for this morning. Tho bill authorizing the Dry Dock and Battery Railroad to extend ite tracks, and granting the use of said extension to the Ninth Ave- nue Railroad Company, was ordered toa third reading. In ovening session the bill authorizing plank roads and turnpike road companies throughout the State to add thirty-three and one-third per cont te their tolls was ordered to a third reuding. In the Assembly the bill enabling husband and wife, or either of them, to become witnesses against each other, was ordered to a third reading. During the evening sea- sion bills in aid of the Children’s Aid Society of New York, and amending the charter of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn, were ordered to a third reading. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. An additional statement regarding the difficulty be- tween our Gonsul at Matamoros, Moxico, aud Maxi- milian’s officers there, fully described in our Havana letter published in last Monday’s Heraup, comes to us by way of the Mississippi river. Tho Emperor's officials re- fuse to recognize the Consul because he 18 accredited to the republican, and not the imperial, govornment, and consequently no American vessels are able to obtain clearances at the port. It is said that the Consul has been sent out of the town. The schooner Jano Dolan, from New Orleans on the 18th of January, with a num- ber of passengers and a cargo of merchandise, was wrecked off the bar of Matamoros, and every person on board perished. The steamship North Star, which sailed hence on the 8d of February for Aspinwall, broke her shaft when about twenty miles from that place, and the passengers and treasure intended to be brought hither by her on her roturn trip would be detained at Aspinwall to be brought on by the steamship which left this port on the 18th of February. Another meeting of our principal citizens was held yesterday at the Custom House in reference to the grand celebration of our national victories to take place on Saturday next. Some,gentlemen were in favor of post- poning the demonstration till the 14th inst.; but it was decided by a large majority to proceed with it on the first named day. The Executive Committee wore again in seasion yesterday at the Astor House, and had conferences with the representatives of many organizations which in- tend to join in the procession. General Sandford has issued an order for the parade of the First division of the Stato National Guard on the occasion. The city gov- ernment of Boston have ordered the day to be observed by national salutes, ringing of bells, displays of flags, &c. Bids for additional subscriptions to the two million dollars county loan for bounties to volunteers were opened yesterday at the office of Comptroller Brennan. Various bids, amounting in the aggregate to three hundred and thirty thousand four hundred dollars, were accepted, though of the entire sum on only forty-cight thousand dollars was any premium offered. All the rest was taken at par. The great need, however, of the Volunteer Com- mittee for funds immediately induced the Comptroller to accept the money on these terms, In the cago of the estate of Joseph Fowler, deceased, Surrogate Tucker has decided that the executor of the lage General Bolton, of the British army, has not lost the vn toclaim a shate of the assets, as a oreditor, by reason of laches, but was still entitled to prove his claim on the second accounting. The long pending controversy between the Madison avenue and Oliver street Baptist churches, relative tothe possession of some two hundred thousand dollars worth of real estate situated in Madison avenue, was decided yesterday by Judge McCunn, of the Supottor Court, ‘against the Oliver street folks. The court granted the Madison avenue church twenty-five hundred dollars allowance for counsel fee. In the special term of the Superior Court, before Judge McCunn, yesterday, the case of Peter R. Strong versus Mary E. Strong, husband and wife, for some time past living apart, was brought up. Tho plaintiff charges the defendant with adultery. To this a goneral denial was made, and the plaintiff's counsel asked leave to file a supplementary answer charging the plaintiff! with adul- tery. This was granted, ’ ‘The case of Benjamin F, Hatch versus William McKin- ley, where the plaintiff sued to recover damages for the seduction of his wife by the defendant, was called yester- day in the Supreme Court, circuit; but, the plaintiff not appearing, Judge Leonard dismissed the complaint. ‘The trial of Frank Ferris for killing his wife with an axe, on the 9th of September Inst, at 32 James street, was commenced yesterday in the Court of General Sessions. A number of witnesses were examined for the prosecu- tion to show the previous threats made by the accused. The case will be opened for the defence this morning. Yosterday afternoon, while four bags of gold, contain. ing five thousand dollars each, and belonging to the banking iouse of J. B. Alexander & Co., of William street, were lying on one of the counters of the Bank of Commerce, awaiting an opportunity for deposit, one of them was picked up by a man named Levi Smith, alias Dutch Hendrick, who hurried off with it; but ho was soon overtaken, and the gold was recovered. Smith was locked up in the Tombs for trial, It is sald that one of his confederates succeeded in getting off with another of the five thousand dollar bags during the excitement attending the pursuit of Smith. Aseaman gamed Daniel Lawrence, aged twenty-eight years, died yesterday at the New York Hospital from the effects of a number of stabs in various portions of his person, which, according to his statement, were inflicted in a Hester strect drinking house, on last Saturday night, by a number of men who endeavored to force him to enlist. None of hie assailants have yet been arrested. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of a man named Isaac Cunningham, who rosided at 345 East Tenth street, whose death, it te alleged, waa caused by & blow on tho bead inflicted with @ smoothing iron by Mrs. Bridget Donohoe, of 121 First avenue, whom, it is said, Cunningham had exasperated by addressing her in in- sulting and obsoone language. The new Kings county Court House, situated at the Junction of Joralemon street aad Fulton avenue, Brook- lyn, wis brilliantly illuminated and thrown open to the inspection of the public last evening. Immense crowds filled it various halla, ladies forming a large proportion, fod about eight o'clock the jam became so great that locomotion was rendered exceedingly dificult. The | building is very handsome one, both exteriorly and in- ‘twiorly, and @ ite last night's inspectors expressed ap- proval of its fine appearance Yeaterday was Shrove Tuesday, and to-day is Ash Wod- nesday, the commencement of Lent. The French maa steamer Lafayette will sai! for Havre as ton o'vlock this forenoon, leaving from pier 60 North river. Another acotdent occurred ob the Grand Trank Railroad NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAROH 1, 1865. a cee Celebration Next Saturdsy—>h* Je mate gro ihe compan, hwere, | needs, ‘by whieh one passonger was fatally, and povera) these | ‘The On Saturday next there is to be s second | behalf of Joff. Davis, the A nh supplies, seriously injured. Two passenger cars were throws dowa an embankment fifty feet high, ono of them making three revolutions before reaching the bottom. In addition some of the wounded passengers were robbed by 8 6805 of thioves on the train, who bad, unfortunately, cecaped i ape apne Fort Wayne and Chi- cago Railroad, which occurred forty miles west of Crest- line, on the 22d inst, one passenger was killed and several others slightly injured. Tho stock market was higher yesterday, but not buoy- ant, Government securitios wore firm. Gold opened at 202%, and closed down town at 202 At the evening board It closed at 20134. The rise in gold exerted but little influence in the mar- kots yesterday, and the commercial transactions be- tokened « want of faith in the permanency of the pre- vailing rates, Foreign goods were quiet; but prices were the same, Domestic produce was dull; but in prices there was no decided change. Petroleum was dull and nomi- nal. Cotton was firm and active. On 'Change the flour market was more active, while whoat was dull; but prices were about the same. Oats were firmer, while corn was steady. Pork was rather firmer, and more active. Beof ruled steady. Lard was firm, with an in- creased demand. Whiskey was decidedly more active, and 2c, higher, Freights were heavy. ‘The market for beef cattle was again depressed this week by heavy receipts, and prices were again brought down Ic. a 20, on all but strictly prime, of which the pumber on sale was very small. Prices varied from 10c. to 20. a 2lc. for poor to good, and 220. a 24c. for prime to choice, Milch cows were quiet, but firm, Choice milkors were held at from $100 to $120 each, Veals were steady at 100.2 140. Shoep and lambs wore rather lower. Prices varied from §6 50 to $12 a $15; choico, $20. ‘Hogs were firm at 133g0. a 14}g0. The total receipts wore 6,398 beeves, 162 cows, 708 veals, 14,458 aheep and lambs, and 4,239 hogs. Ae The Almighty Nigger Gone at Last, North and South. In the South the almighty nigger question is in its last throe. It is coming to a terrible close. Ithas finally found there a solution be- yond which there is nothing. It has destroyed the powers that made it a cause of strife, and it will be settled soon, because there will soon be no ono left to quarrel over it. The South made @ great rebellion for the perpetuation of negro slavery. It made a grand attempt to over- throw a perfect goverrment, simply that it might make another government under which @ decaying institution would be safer. For the sake of the nigger, mothers sent their sons to the battle field, wives sent their husbands and young girls their lovers, It was made a crime to stay home. It was also a crime to count the cost, and the country would accept nothing but t8@ blindest devotion to the nigger ques- tion from every man in it. Now, the South has been fighting four years over the nigger question. It is a universal desert. Its farm houses are burned, its fields abandoned, the flower of its youth is slain. From one end of the land to the other the women are desolate as mothers and widows. And now, having borne all this for the perpetuation of negro slavery, the South comes to the admission that it must lay down its arms and acknowledge defeat unless it gives these very negroes their freedom. That is the most that the enemies of the South ever hoped to gain. The South now proposes to stand by the freedom of the negro, that in the commencement it declared nothing but its subjugation should ever bring about. It is now as determined that the nigger shall be free as it was before that he should not The rebel Generalissimo says that the negroes are the only fighting material left; and though the rebel Senate says that they shall not be put in the army they will be. This great set- tlement of the negro question will be carried out by thg rebel Executive over the head of the rebel Senate. The rebel Senate is now all that is left of the rebellion. The rebel Presi- dent and generals, army and press, are all on our side, and are fighting our battle against their own Senate. Thus the nigger question ' brings about a counter revolution, and the nigger question and the rebellion will be set- tled by the self-same blow. At the North the nigger is done with also. The constitutional amendment has gone to the States, and whether the States adopt it or not there will never be any more slavery. Even the South has helped the North to make that certain. But now the Northern agitators, in fheir fears lest this nigger question should be set at rest, are urging that the negro should vote. Let them give him a vote also if they will, or any- thing else, and if any white woman wants to marry 8 nigger, or any white man a wench, let them have their way. Social laws will settle all that; and as for the negro’s vote, it will do no harm. If all the negroes on earth should vote they could not give us worse governments than we have had for twenty years, whether na- tional, State, or municipal. Universal suffrage is a delusion that cannot be made into a bug- bear any longer. In France there is universal suffrage and a despotism. Give the agitators, therefore, this one more bone if they bark for it. Social laws will settle in their own way— whether we legislate or not—all these ques- tions of race. It is the intellect of a nation that governs it, and not its voters. The nigger question is settled, and now we may put it aside. We may safely rob the politi- cal Othello of his occupation by giving him all he wants before he has the chance to clamor for it. Give the nigger political equality and a vote, or whatever else his pretended friends may require. If the negro is not fit, the gifts will be useless, and if he is, he will soon have, whether or not, all that we are asked to give. And now, that the great question is thus really done with, all the men who lived upon it North and South—the Toombses, Wigfalls, Wises, Beechers, Greeleys and Garrisons—may take their tickets and sail up Salt river. Tux Ciry Government.—What is the use of trying to reform our city government by com- missions, investigating committees and other such humbugs? Beecher’s plan of reform is to let all the negroes vote, and that is just as,sen- sible as the idea of letting all the women and children vote. The fact is that we are a cor- rupt people, and no politician can get elected to office without at once commencing to rob and swiadle his fellow citizens. Taxorant Doctors Disacneniva—The Times and Tribune are holding a discussion about our finances; but neither of them knows anything about the subject. Let Mr. McOullooh, the coming Secretary of the Treasury, keep our currency at {ts present volume, and in ten years it will appreciate to par without any violent measures. Busstex Porrrcians.—What has become of the shent-pershent democracy? The leading politicians of that party have gone into bubble niming companies and bubble oil companies. Woll, they are better employed in blowing and bursting these bubbles (han in exploding Ouray, Gi Whe Md wlio cuties Way dull, aud de, of Vauada, uvur Voierayrt, om Thurelay evening lad, lt MUlelap’s yhauges tor he Presidency. bilee of Victory. grand unheaving of the population of the me- tropolis; another grand response of the heart of the people to the voice of the nation’s call in honor of the flag which in 1861 was insulted at Fort Sumter, and in 1865 has been‘restored to its battlements. In April, four years ago, the grandest demonstration ever witnessed took place in Union equare. The occasion, as we allremember, was the outbreak of the robel- lion and the indignant protest of hundreds of thousands against the outrage done to the na- tional flag in Charleston harbor. Union square can contain within its area nearly a quarter of @ million of people, and those who saw the scene there on that day, and the living stream of patriotic men and women who poured into it by the thousand avenues that lead thereto, will never forget it, History hardly presents a parallel for the loyal emotion, the devotion to country, the detestation of treason, exhibited on that occasion in the metropolis of the Union. At that time the rebellion counted thirteen States, and its boundaries ran from the mouth of the James river to the northern frontier of Missouri, and from the Potomac to the Guif. For thirty years the South was pre- paring for this struggle, while the North was unprepared, and almost indiffer- ent, To-day it is confined within the, miscra- ble triangle lying between the Congaree and the James, so hedged in that its armies cannot advance or retreat. Thoy are, in fact, come to @ deadlock, and are melting away by deser- tion. There is no longer any Charleston or Savannah, New Orleans, Atlanta or Wilmington left. Neither on the coast nor in the interior has Rebeldom a stronghold, save only Rich- mond, and that is approaching a state of col- lapse. It is well, then, that the military and naval victories of the national arms should be wel- comed by the rejoicings and thanksgivings of the people. The time, too, is well selected for the proposed demonstration. The first inauguration of the present administration was the immediate cause, or more properly the immediate pretext, for beginning the war, and it is fitting that the day of its reinauguration, on the coming 4th of March, should witness a display of patriotic exultation at those successes which insure its glorious termination. We have received the following communica- tion with reference to the celebration of Satur- day, which we present to our readers with a full endorsement of the sentiments therein ex- pressed:— m NATIONAL CRLEBRATION OF UNION VICTORIES. Naw York, Feb. 27, 1865. To James Gonpom Brewxerr, Esq., Editor of New Yore Heraip:— Sm—It is pi by citizons of New York to cele- brate the recent successes of the national arme on land and sea by public ceremonies, at Union square, on Satur- any, March 4, at three o'clock P. BM. affords us pleasure to perform the duty confided to us by the Committee of Arrangements, of inviting your co-operation in rendering deserved honor to the govern- mipiin Mah reapocs, your sbodiont sorrant "NOSES TAYLOR, 85 Gurion, } Seoretaron Our response to this invitation to co-operate with the committee is an earnest appeal to all classes of our citizens to make this celebration worthy of the purpose for which it is organized. Let us make Saturday a national holiday. Let every man, woman and child in the city con- tribute to render the event the most soul-stir- ring and enthusiastic the metropolis has ever created. Let the national flag, now redeemed from dishoner at Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Columbia, Atlanta, and along the line of the lordly Mississippi, be seen on every pub- lic building and from the windows of every private dwelling where possible. At the great uprising of 1861 the stores were closed and the people poured out in swarms to testify their devotion to the gcvernment and the laws in the dawning hour of the nation’s disaster. How much more enthusiastic may we be now that the sunrise of success is breaking through the mista and shadows which for four long years have obscured the life of the republic—when treason is sinking into the lowest depths, and the blessed harbinger of peace is about to an- nounce that the clouds are broken and the tempest is stilled. hairman. Axorner Peace NecoriaTion or Honorasie Massa Greeey Svocessrui.—If the Honor- able Massa Greeley was unsuccessful in his peace negotiations at Niagara with George N. Sanders and Jake Thompson, he has now been quite successful in another peace negotiation with the Count Joannes. We have received a letter, which we publish to-day, by which it appears that Greeley and the Count met accidentally over a cup of coffee in a restaurant somewhere up town, in the sacred silence of the Sabbath day, and then and there buried the hatchet. Greeley proffered his hand, and the graceful Count gracefully accepted it. Thus, if the Honorable Massa Greeley failed in his negotiations with Sanders at Niagara, and the Chevalier Blair— the vert antique of Washington--failed to make peace with Jeff. Davis in Richmond, it is at least consoling to know that in this age of “war's alarms” one peace negotiation has suc- ceeded. The Count Joannes and Massa Greeley are henceforth sworn friends. The Count registers a vow, which he ought to have made and kept long ago, to avold libel suits for the rest of his natural life, either against Greeley or any one else, and to sexpend his energy and his talents on the stage or in the lecture room. We would suggest the pulpit as an excellent field for the Count’s genius. If he were to open a meeting house he might leave Beecher with empty benches. He has all the brass and a fair share of the plety of Beecher; and as for the Scriptures, he beats him all hollow; for, as will be seen, he completely bothered poor, worldly-minded Greeley with St. Paul, Philemon and Onesi- mus. In short, he has the Old Testament at his fingers’ ends and the New on the tip of his tongue. We recommend him, then, to try the pulpit; but, above all things, to eschew libel suits henceforth and forever. A Norrnenn Reset on tas “Onn Renet- tion.”—We have in this city a rebel journal which, in its affected confidence in the final success of the rebellion, eclipses even the Rich- mond Sentinel, the special organ of Jeff. Davis. This Northern admirer of Southern rights, as illustrated under Jeff.’s ferocious despotism, seems to draw some consolation from the fact that Sherman’s march northward from the Caro- linas towards Virginia thus far has not been more successful than was that of Lord Corn- wallis over the same route in the “old rebel- lion” —~a triumphal journey which ended in the fugronder of bia whole army ot Yorklown, To 7 ee. military view, our rebel i and the fleets and armies of France. Lord Cornwallis, in 1781, through the Caro- Linas, moved his army up to Yorktown, Vir ginia, for the purpose of effecting there » juno- tion with an exp cted British fleet, But instead of that, a gallant squadron of twenty- four ships of the evading the British, and sending them off on # false pursuit, aipped into Chesapeake bay, amd then, blockading the York river, cut off his reisforcements and the retreat of Cornwallis by water. At the same time, in addition to our Union army on that oo- casion of some four thousand regulars and four or five thousand militia, Washington was supported by a French army, under Count Rochambean, of seven thousand men. Against this French fleet and this allied army of sixteen thousand men, Cornwallis had an army of seven thousand men. There was no escape for him. He was neatly cornered and captured. It was. 80 ordained in behalf. of the Union. General Lee, therefore, instead of being at Richmond in the position of Washington at Yorktown, is really in the position of my Lord Cornwallis, We may thus compare the army immediately under the eye of General Grant to the army of Washington, and the army of Sherman tp that of Count Rochambeau, while the fleet of Admiral Porter completely fills the place and'something over, of'the squad- ron of Count de Grasse, Until our rebel co- temporary can reverse this arrangement, or bring over a French fleet of fifty iron-clads and a French army of a hundred thousand men to the support of Lee, his fate, from all appear- ances, will be no better than that of Lord Corn- wallis. Tum Union Feeuine at THE Soora.—The ao- counts of our correspondents, which we pub- lished yesterday, of the manner in which our forces were received by the citizens of Charles- ton and Wilmington are but an indication of the general sentiment of the Southern people in favor of Union, and a return to their old allegiance. Nor are these two cities solitary examples; for wherever our armies have ad- vanced and obtained a foothold, from the Mis- sissippi to the Atlantic, they have found the same feeling prevailing. With the exception of a few malcontents here and there of both sexes, the appearance of the Union army has always been regarded in the light of a deliverance from the hideous incubus of oppression under which the people of the South have been suffering. The natural inference to be drawn from this fact is that the people have been forced into rebellion by the leaders. It is manifestly not a revolt of the Southern masses, 80 much as of the Southern politicians. It is true that the masses are to be found in the ranks; but it is not what the political chiefs and the newspa- pers call patriotism that enrolls them there, but an inexorable coercion, from which there is no escaping. When Charleston, the hotbed of secession for thirty years—thejcradle and the nursery of the present rebellion—receives our conquering troops with open arms, and hails the old flag upen its forts and ramparts with unconcealed exultation, what may we not ex- pect from the ground down, heavily taxed, half starved people of Richmond, when Grant or Sherman plants the banner of the Union upon its walls? We opine that it will be hailed there with a wild shout of welcome; for this rebellion is not of or from the people, and when the des- potism of the leaders is removed by the advent of the Union armies the people will rejoice there as they have done elsewhere; their long stifled loyalty will display itself, and. we shall bea more united, a greater and a stronger nation than before. Italian Opera. SECOND NIGHT OF LA FORZA DEL DESTINO. Verdi's grand opera La Forza del Destino was given for the second time last night. The house was quite as large as on its first presontetion, and looked as bright and beautifal as evor. The opera improves as we hear it more often: go do the artists, who al sang remarkably well last night, and were received with a just measure of applause. The audience, ag in the case of Faust and Don Sebastian, appreciate more the merite of the splendid music as they grow familiar with it. Now York can claim the right of having established the success of Verdi's latest work, before London or Paris had an opportunity te | pronounce upon it—for in neither of those capitals has {t yet been prosented. In Madrid and St, Petersburg it met with a very emphatic approval; and the poniie verdict here would seem to accord with that of the capitals of Northern and Southern Europe. From what we have already said it will be un- derstood that the opera owes a great deal of its attrac- tion—apart from its really fine music—to the dramatic situations, which afford an opportunity for good acting, ‘and the scenic effects, which Mr. Calyo has ko admirably introduced, Zucchi and Massimiliaui were very fine last night, and we observed that the choi ba] thé secois mest’ earefully | sung, expecially in aid third acts. This ovening La Scnnambula will be given, for the first time in a long interval, with Miss Kellogg, Lott| and Bellini in the cast, Ia Fira gel Destino is annoutided to be repeated on Fri- day, contrary to expectation; but the demand for it has been 0 pressing upon Mr. Maretzek as to render ite con- tinued presentation a necessity. Max Srrakoacn’s Coxcunt.—Tho fifth concert of Mr. Strakosch’s artists, Milo. Helene de Katow and Mr. J. M. Wehli, will take place at Niblo's Saloon this evening. Mr. Wobli will introduce upon thie occasion his fantastia upon airs from Les Huguenots, for the first time, which is Pronounced to be something very grand in pianoforte compoaition. Our experience, so far, of this gentleman's performance has led toa very _ appreciation of his talents as an artist. As there will be but one more con- cert wo presume that the house this evening will be unusually large. The Turf. The entries for the sixteen purses offered by the pro- Prietors of the Union Course will close to-morrow even- ing. Gentlemen owning fast horses and wishing engage- ments for them will be pleased to see the number of chances offered them to exhibit their speed. The New Jersey Legisiature and the Constitutional A: dment. ‘Truxton, N. J., Fob. 28, 1965. ‘The constitutional amendment has been discussed all day in the House, Messrs, Brinck, of Camden; Lathorp, of Burlington; Abbott, of Gloucester, and Gieaver, of Easox, spoke in favor of it. Mr. Abbott, of Hudson, moved to submit the question to a vote of the people, which was lost by a vote of 19 to 36. Discussion continued during the afternoon, and the House adjourned to eight o'clock this ovening, when the subject will be resumed. | The Steamer Provinenca, R. L., Feb. 28, 1865. The steamer Oceanus, ashore on Narragansett beach, was got off this morning and towed to thincity. The vessel is believed to be little Injured. Her fright is all safe, The United States cutter Miami assisted in getting her off. Boston Wool Sales, Bostox, Feb. 28, 1865, Osgood & Som sold at auotion to-day aéven hundred nnd thirty-three bales of the boat quality of Cape wool. Terms cash in fifteen days, or acceptable interest bearing notes at sixty days. The attendance of buyers was quite large; but the prices realized are considered low, One lot of eighteen bales brought fifty-seven cents; but the average price was from forty-seven to fifty-four cemts per pound. A. M. | Nos. 1106, 1108, 1112, 1118, 1124, 112 , 1198, 1140, 1142 1144) 1148, 1162, 115 street, ' Court opens at vn oo . Now. 872, 248, 914, 161, 1080, 648, 864, 1042, 1084, 1045, 1094, 1411,’ 940, 620, 1016, 1034. 1058 Love “LYRICAL RBOBMATIONS, BY EANUBE Wand. ‘There aro 00 many postastors and v0 few posts claim eEr attention in the present day that it te refreshing | ag to take uf & Yolume which has pretensions to something more than s nist; of rhymes. In his pleasant ‘and well written pis Mr. Ward tells us that he was that marks it, if it affords any indication of the character met with will encourage its author to venture upou'seme poem which will afford him a wider and nobler field for his aspirations, Heller and Gyges. x There are a great many astonishing things at Heller's Salle Diabolique, but perhaps the most astonishing Heller himself. The-versatility of this gentleman is marvellous, He seenis able to doa great deal of every- thing, ang do it well. How so capital a magician can be 80 admirable a pianist; how such a pianist can be se ex cellent an actor; how so good a comedian and pantomim- ist can lecture like Artemus Ward, pull puppots ke an itinerant showman, make puns like Hood, and com- music like a master, are to us insoluble problema eller is the modern Admirable Crichton, Not to have seen him is to have missed one of the wonders of the world. Last evening, after five fine feats of legedermain, Holler gave his large audience a solo upon the piano of the Operatic school; then a comic solo, descriptive of an ine- briated friond’s recollections of Faust, and then an im- mense imitation of a boarding schoo! mjas at her muste leseon. All these were inimitably done, and we do not know which the most toadmire—the music or the mimie- ry. After this the wooden minstrels indulged In @ twee performance, and these minstrels, which were fail- ures when first produced, have now become ior accustomed to the footlights, and beat Punch and Judy away out of sight. Then there was a buzz of expecta tion, a little concertina, some impatience, @& little more concertina, and finally there was Gy; We don’t profess to be able to describe Sygen dramatic scene in which it is introduced might be better and might be worse; but certainly it could not have beea, ‘ere artistically acted than by the perennial Heller, whe played the of an old Frenchman better than nine tenths of the actors who devote themselves to such réles, ‘The Gyges itself is an optical illusion, by which man is made to disappear instantaneously, and by which—es was shown last evening—one man may be seen through the figure of another. This art of becomit invisible a& will, and of seeing through other people at thesamo popular, The most of our readers remomber the ghost effect brought out by Messrs. ‘and Moss at Wallack’s last summer. The Gygos is } the revorse of that. Tho Ghost effect made & figure , and the Gyges makes a figure 7 ‘combined the two in his entertainnent. To be sum pa, ‘amused and delighted you have pniy togoand see lier and the Gyges. i Personal Intelligence. MARRIAGE OF COLONEL J. A. POSTER. Yesterday afternoon a fashionable and brilliaatly dressed congregation assembled in Calvary Episcopal church, Fourth avenue, to witness the nuptials of Col. John Armstrong Foster, Judge Advocate of the Military He became major of the One Hundred and Seventy-fifth, Colonel Foster has officiated as Judge shou of the Military Commission in Washington, an will be re membered that it was before him that 1 North. ra tried. Tho bridal procession started from the house. the bride’s father and entered the church strains of “Hail Columbia” died away on The bride wore a dress of rich white silk, yoil and flowers; the bridesmaids, three handsome dresses of white Lee gg Ms flowers. The bridegroom apj his Colonel of the One Hun and Seventy-fifth. Elliott himself gave away the bride. The service conducted by the Rev. Dr. with becoming pressiveness, and at its close the carriages, which 80 numerous as almost to block up tho-avenue, back to Twenty-third street, the residence of the bride’s Last serie the happy couple left for Phile- delphia en reude for Washington. New York Homeopathic Medical College. The fifth annual commencement of the above college, situated in Third avenue, corner of Twentieth street, place yesterday evening, at the Broadway Athenmum, There was an extremely large and highly fashionable audience present. At eight o'clock a procession of the students passed op the central aisle and filed off to their respective seats, the professors at the same time making their appearance om the platform. ‘The proceedings were commenced by a quartet from Flotow’s celebrated opera of Martha, the vocalists being Miss Mina Geary, Mrs, ‘Thomas, with Mossrs, Gustaven Geary and J, R, Thomas, Prayer having been offered by the President of the Council, Rey, J. M. Mathews, D. D., LL. D., the mony of conferring degrees was proceeded with. wman, L. W. Browne, dr, D. A. Cheever, W. B. Cowan, J. H. Demarest, W. Dick: inson, J. Emmett, J. M. Fairbank, T. 8. Goodwin, C, Hamilton, J. 8. Hand, J. Hasbrouck, Hatt, 3. Hottby, H. B. Hand, H.’ 6. Ketcham, ©. L. Mahon, G, Palmer, J. L, Peck,’ D. Pitts, Ira’Remson, B. M. Richardson, J, 5. Togart, AN. Tisdilo, M. E. Tripp, J. T. Wallace, @, P, Westland, F. Le H. Willis, MH. Wators, L. Whiting, W. York. In cot 6 degrees the President addressed the students briefly, showing them what was bofore t referring to nifierous ilustrious men who had the medical professign, and exhorting them to emulate their virtues and «kill. ‘An able and amusing valedictory address was given te the class by Professor D. D. Smith, MD. In the course of his remarks he spoke of the important vocation of the physician, and drow a vivid picture of the trials and troubles which beset the career which waaopening before them. Among those he enumerated the consure of igno- rance and the opposition of quackery. He strongly ad- vised them to eschew all patent nostrums, which he as serted wore ruinous to healtb, and evidently the physte which the poet directed to be “thrown to the dogs.” Hie was of some length, was frequently im, laure. Mr. F. L. Wrusa, a member of the class, next ad- dressed '‘« fellow students ina moat eloquent manner, tovelngly reforring to the approaching-separation of thé stadents froea those under whose care they had been 4 so longa From the superior powers this gentleman we fancy he must have mistaken bis pre feasion, as he eas | yng tn formed a vast acqub- sition to either the pul or the bar. The enn ag baving been pronounced, the procesé- ings terminated. ‘Fhe ‘before-mentioned vocalists, with Professor J. J. Marie oe Cent oe recnad Wen” treo the evening, in the dus é. re an Messrs. Geary and Thomas were deservedly encored, ‘Willia: rg City News. Mrerenrovs DeaTs—Prosasiz Monven or 4 Wouar.— ‘Ms, Margaret Connors, a woman about thirty-nino years of age, for many years & resident of the Seventeenth ward, Brooklyn, but latterly residing in the family of Mr. Joba Bragan, Dutchkiins, Queens county, on Sunday afternoon last visited some of her friends in Huron street, Groenpotnt, and left about eix P. M. for her home, by way, it is believed, of Hunter's Point. Early on Monday morning her dead body was found by a marketman om the roadside, near where she resided. Coroner Lewie took the matter in hand, and by his direction a post mortem was beld by Dr. Bradford Baylis, who found ah the of the woman in a perfectly healthy state. At the ingest sufficient evidengs wes elicited to lead to the suspicion that she was murdered somewhere in the vi sintty of Hunter's Point, and her body conveyed in a cart to the place where itavas found. Ws marks were made near the spot, as though the vehicle was back to the roadside and ‘the body of the unfortunate wornan unceremoniously dumped ont, A farmer, living in the noighborhood, testified that he saw a horse and cart drivele rapidly away early in the morning from the place where the body was found. A description of the horse and ve. hicle is in the hands of the authorities, and this will robably enable them to clear up this mystery. Sergeant Boch, of the Forty-sevonth precinct is aidi » Coroner of Queens county in the matter, be baving known deceased "A married woman, about a year as nenelenly rmviahed by four or five raffians in Deighborhood where this murder is supposed to have boon commited Accident at the fralo Theatre. Burrato, Fob. 28, 1866. Mra. J.D, Wood and hor daughter were severely burne® ast night at the theatre, while on the stage, In the play of (indorolia, It caused considerable oxvivement far @ while. until long after he |