The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1865, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. —— WHOLE NO. 10,413. THE SOUTH. Message of Governor Brown, of Georgia, His Complaints Against the Davis Despotism. Tho South Rapidly Drifting Into Anarchy. Davis’ Policy Must Terminate in Reconstruction, The People Called On to Restrain Him in His Destructive Course. Opposition to the Arming of \ the Slaves. Richmona Excited Over the Prepara- tions for the Great Battle. Whe Virginia Senate Authorizes the Governor to Enlist Slaves to Defend Richmond, &e., &c., &e. Message of Governor Brown, of Georgia. Cuarborre, Feb, 25, 1865. The message of Governor Brown commences with a defence of the State against the attacks of the press for Permitting Sherman to march unmolested through the State. He says she was abandoned to her fate and neg- ected by the Confederate authorities, and while her army of able bodied sons were held for the defence of ether States, and were denied the privilege of striking an honest blow for the protection of their homes, Geor- gia was compolled to roly only upon a few old mon and boys. He claims that the golden Opportunity was thus lost for overthrowing Sher- man. Had ho been resisted from the start, and forced to fight and exhaust his ammunition, his surren- der would have been certain. He recommends the es- tablishment of a militia system, to be in no case turned ever to the Confederale government, but retained for home defence. He says there are only fourteen hundred exempis in the State, and most of these are over age. He Tecommends the passage of a law authorizing the im- Pressment of provisions in the hands of persons who refuse to sell their surplus to the indigent fa- milies of soldiers. He complains that Confederate ‘agents can lock up the corn cribs and smoke houses ‘against the State purchasing agents. Referring to the penitentiary, he gays that more than half the cortvic's read to fight have since deserted. He recommends ‘the passage of a law prescribing the penalty of death on conviction of robbery, horse stealing or burglary, He cppeses the arming of the slaves, believing them to be more valuable as agricultural laborers than they could be as soldiers, They do not wish to go into the army, ‘and the principal restraint now upon them is the fear that if they leave the ouemy will make them fight and ompel them to take up arms, and they will dusert by thousands, Whatever may be our opinion of their Bormal condition or interests, we cannot expect them to perform deeds of heroism when fighting to con- tinue the enslavement of their wives and chil- @ren, and it is not reasonable to demand it ef them. Whenever we establish the fact that they are a military people we destroy our theory that they are unfit to be free. When we arm the slaves we bandon slavery. He complains of the usurpations of the Confederate Congress in levying disproportionate taxation, and says much of the most objectionable legis- lation is imposed upon the country by votes of men who act without responsibility to the constitu- eney out of the army. He takes the govern- ment to task for a great variety of abuces, such as illegal impressments, arrests of cit'zens without authority by provost guards, the passport system, and ‘the partiality of the government to men of wealth who are given nominal positions which keep them out of the army, while poor men and boys are forced into the ranks. He animadverts severely on the geaeralship of the President, and traces his military career duriug the war. He says:—Our government t now a mibitery de polism drifting into anarchy, and {f the present policy is per- sisted in it must terminates im reconstruction, with or without subjugation. Governor Brown states that he ie Attorly opposed to both; but if he favored either ho would give his earnest support to the policy of the Presi- ent, as the surest modo of diminishing our armies, ex- hausting our resources, breaking the spirit of our people, and driving them im despair to seek refage from worse tyranny by placing themselves under a government they loathe and detest. For the cure of existing evils he recommends the repeal of the Conscription act, and a return to the constitutional mode of ra.sing troops by Fequisitions upon the States; the observance of good faith with the soldiers by paying them promptly; the abandonment of impréssments and secret eessions of Congress; no more representation without a con @tituency; and, finally, taking from the Presi- dent his power as commander-in-chief, He calls for a convention of the States to amend the constitution, end closed in the following language:—“My destiny is Mnked with my country. If we succeed, 1 am a free man. ff, by the obstinacy and weakness of our rulers, we fail,a common ruin awaits usail. The night is dark, the tempest howls, the ship lashed with turbulent waves, the heimsman is steering to the whirlpool, yet ur remonstrances are unheeded. We murt restrain him or tho crew must sink togethor and all be buried in irre- @overable ruin.’ The Complaints of Governor Brown. {From the Richmond Whig, Feb. 28. ‘We have not yet received a periect copy of the mes- gage of Governor Brown, of Georgia. The telegraph, however, furnishes 0s with a summary, which has, at the merit of being comprehensible. But on this summary, which does not pretend to be anything more than a réseme of the points of the document, it might be ‘unfair to base a criticism, Neither does it offer an op- tunity (or commendation. The message of a gover. of a State so important as Georgia—a State of vast extent, large population, greet resources; a State, too, which was one of the seven original seceders from the federal Union—must possess more or less of interest for all portions of the confederacy. We should, then, dike to see the full message, instead af the summary, which is all that the tl graph amm give ua, We should like t see semething of the spirit of the message as well os its polmeal points. From these we can draw no inference, except that Gov. Brown is thoroughly displeased with everythmg, and, consequoniy, in « good humor with nothing. If we had been asking for charges on which to frame an indiet- mont agaitet the Confederate authorities, Gov. Brown ‘would have admirably suited our pnrpose, If we bad demanded the best reasons for believing our straggle inst the Yankees to be vain and lean, ev. wn lacy’ on pee! pre a ia we been poking an ally for the purpose of reducing the poeple of there Slaton a absolute despair, Gov. Brown would bo Just the man to pelect. But if we look for words of fnd comfort, for solae to our misfortunes, for devices by Which our comition may be improved, aad confidence Testored to the cqiutry, we very much fear that we should have to appeal to some one else than Gev, wn, We do not wih ‘argue with Governor Brown in re. gard to any of the complaints which he makes, We do not mean to aay that any or all of those complaints may not be well founded, Hut we do say that Georgia is mot by ‘any means the only Sta¥e that has had equal causes of irritation and annoyance. If there have been illegal im Pronements in Georgin, so Yave there Leen illegal impress guns in ail he cther Stave’, If Georgians have been ar. rested without authority of law, so have Carolinians fend Alabamiane, If je between eighteen and forty. Bye have been put int army in Georgia, their fellow pronounced and recogni ‘We do not see why a different rule should be ized opinion of spp to Governor Brown. Public opinion demands negroes be emplieas in the army. He revolts against it. Public opi demanded the Conscription act. He wante no more of it. Yet to ju from the ry of his more is to be led from the which will last forever. Richmond Excited Over Preparations Making for the Great Battle—The People Urged to be Calm. {From the Richmond Enquirer, Feb. 28.) ‘The moment beiore battle, when the lines are form co! that awful pause dividing life from death,” is more trying to the nerves of soldiers than the contlict itself, As men come through this ordeal, so will they fight, The love of life, the dread of the awful future on whose very verge they stand, the instinctive shrinking from danger, the thought of home and friends, are felt at that instant with an intensity that can only be known on the perilous edge of battle. The poet has truly said that this fearful silence Sinks for an instant in the hearts of men, Thousands of whom are drawing their last breath. He does not falter then, but gathers resolution from the sense of duty and of honor, recalls the greater evils to avert which ‘this danger is incurred, and, above all who, conscious of right, commits himself to ‘the care of One without Whom not even the sparrow falleth, will not shrink when the storm of battle rages around hi But he who yields to what may be the natural impulse of the moment, and ventures to look back, is already “half beaten. His confidence is shaken, his mind is irresolute, dangers are magnified; he halts, he wavers, he flies. ‘Life may be saved, but it'ls a life of shame and dishonor. As it is with armies, so it is with nations. Whena ople resolve on war they must be prepared to meet all ts consequences, If, in the hour of peril, they pgriey with fear, they are ‘lost. Calm, self-possessed regolu- tion, arising from the conviction that the object they seek to gain is worth all they may be required to give for it, ig the only guarantee oi ‘succ ss. Disaster and defeat inspire such @ le with uew determination instead of filling them with despondency. The clearer coutem- plation of the fate they would avert only nerves them to eretter efforts. : nok seem inappropriate to suggest to our le, in the present crisis, Gore of the refisetions. wih’ wine the brave soldier encourages hims:if in quiets the suggestions of apprehension and alarm. ‘They are submitted with hope that they will serve to dispel some of the fears that timidity, tye love of ease and property, or secret hostility to our cause, so indus- triously propagate, The eve of battle, every soldier knows, is fruitful of all kinds of startling rumors and reports. The strength of the enemy is then always exaggerated, his movements and designs are misrepresented, and dangers magnified or even invented. Such seems to be the case with the people of the con- federacy at this time. The air ts filled with alarming rumors; every fear hasf ound a voice, and everything is open to the tale it tells, Mesuers of iom are coms to presage disacter. When the w and sick are ordered to the rear it is inferred that the army is about to retreat. It is time to proclaim order in the ranks and give the reassur- ing command, “Steady |" Let every man return to his post and give all his energy to the performance of his duty, while he listens to the words of encouragement from the soldiers in the front. Regard all street rumors as the soldicrs do those of the camp. They know that pone of the latter are wholly true, and most of them entirely false, ‘They only frighten those who are already scared. Try to trace one of them to its source, and you will find that, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the evi- dence in support of ft would fail to convince’ rational and cool man of the least important fact, Measures of precaution do not indicate doubt of sno- coss, ‘To take off one's clothes beiore going into the water does not prove that one expects to be drowned. Every encumbrance must be sent to the rear before the battle, however secure the victory may be. The real danger is always leas than imagination ggpresents it to be. Look steadily at a ghost and it will vanf&b, Danger afiects the enemy as much as it does us. If we feel like retreating if pressed, we may be very cer- twin that he will do the saine if we press him. We should not forget, in dwelling upon our own difficulties and em- barrassinents, that the enemy has his also. The issve of battic is not in the hands of man. An apperently trifling circumstance has often defeated the combinations of skill and the power of numbers and re- sourees. In the words of the old Seotch version :— ‘The race is not to him that's got ‘The longest lege to run, Nor the battelle to the peopelle ‘That shoots the longest gan, A critical worment is critical to both sides. General Jackson ees was once told that the enemy was on his flank. He anawered, ‘Then Lam on his flank, too.” 1 ix well known that those bold manwuvres, which are decisive if successful, always expose the party undertaking them to disaster usually great in proportion to the audacity of his own movements, We will conclude these suggestions with an application of this thouglt to our present situation. ‘To effect the concentration of his forces against Richmond, which now exe tes so much apprehension, General Grant bas drawn his troops from every other’ part of the country. To make us risk all upon asingle isgue he has been eom- pefled to do the same. Should he lose any one of the three armies now converging upon us his whole plan of campaign would be broken up. Neither of the others cold rosist the combination of our forces which his policy has reudered necessary. Our country, except the coast towns, would be relieved from the presence of an enemy. v ould repair the railroads that have been damaged. ‘The spirits of our people would revive. Absentees would return to duty, and, if Congress would provide for the employment of negro soldiers, we could raise a force to re-enter Tennessee and Kentucky far more rapidly than the enemy coukl provide one to opposs us The result would be that the Ni would ve to begin the work of subjngation again. if we can destroy the army of General Sherman, for aple, we could ‘then give fall employment. to the rest of the federal troops now operating in Virginia and North Carolina None of them could be withdrawn to defend Tennessee and Kentucky. Nor could more be taken for that purpose from beyond the Miesiseippi, without ox- posing Miseouri and ndoning Arkansas, The enemy would have to provide a new army fur the West. What that would cost him, what the effect would be upon the hope and spirits of his people can readily be determined. It is very certain that our condition would be far more favorable in every senee, should such a resvlt be at- tained, even with the logs of Kichmond, Charieston and Wilmington, than it was before General Grant's eombina- tions began. Lat us, then, look at facts as they really are, Let us not be deceived into attaching undue tin- portance to loases which are greater in name than in Feality, but learn to value results according to their real significance. Lot us be caim and resolved, knowing that if we are in danger #o ie the ore ral do our work ine and be no longer earnestly and quietly, fall into startled, but steady. Action of the V: ro Enki THE GOVBUNOR AUTHORE TO DEFEND RICHMOND. [From the Richmond Enquirer, Feb. 28.) ‘The Senate of Virgina having removed the injanction of secresy from some of thelr proceedings, we are enauled to give following report of the action taken by that ly on Saturday, February 25, on the bill to raie a vol- unteer force of glaves and frve negroes. The following is a copy of the bill as it was passed by the Senate and sont to House of Delegates: — General Assembly, That the Covernor of this Sonmmouvonith be, and he ix hereby anthorized and empowered to cali for volunteers (rom among tie Fl aod fre negroes of the State to ald in defence of the enpital and such other pointe as are or may be threatened by the public ouemy. 2. Fiat it of the Governor to cause all fla ven who ter with the consent of their mast and all free ne; I tender their servicer, to be try companies of aot lew than sixty. Frank andfile, nader white ollicers to be appointed by lalm place the mine, an fast ae to organized, aL the dl General.in-Chiet of the Confederate’ armies, or he may order all Folunteers to report immediately to the General-in-Chief, to be organized and oficered by bin, M thereby Ume can be sated the inverests of the wervicd promoted 38. Aillawsand curring of arma Borinet ays pow in force probititing the slaves free negroes, are herevy rus ‘ NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1865. nded during their terms of service tn favor of such volun- called to the fleld under this act. 4. The forces raised and organized under this act shall be entisted for one year from the date of being mustered into the service of the Confederate States. 6. This act shall be in force from its passage. The following is the vote by which the bill passed :— Cirlatlan of Augusta, % Frazier, Gar- x eS ercener jason, Queaenberfy Besvense, a ioe Mayle, Thoms hay and Wi x and Saundere—S, Insmense Meeting in Mobile. was entht and were Judge Pacer or acount Fuge Phelan, liyered by abe b scr : pp, Jones and A bse with Rebel Deserters. of the Richmond Enquirer, Feb. 28.) Luxansuna, Va, Feb. 16, 1865. the participants in the turnout. On yesterday, afteun armed debertats, from Byans? Tho programme cannot be fully given, of course, until Bouth Carolina brigade, entered this county, | peep rahe yg on their in defiance of law and Eleven men (citi- gens and furloughed soldiers): mbled at New dm, nbd Bad b myundson of cavalry or thal par erm, AN a oa for pose. Their answer to this demand was defiant, pened their determination to resist to the death. ling, under’ whose command we placed ourselves, poverpaorypeecoer not to Lian ie tenn road superior numbers very superior and determined to make a flank movement from the pabe era vy. which we might be able to reach Safford’s big A fore they came up. We succeeded in getting to the bridge by very hard riding just in time to our horses and make other necessary’ dispositior fore ante y to ‘the bridge Mitel our way to the our little party was aug- mented by seven recruits, making in all Uighteen men, which we considered amply adequate for our We concealed ourselves behind a high em! it on the Mecklenburg side of the river, and awaited their com- ing. We were, at a signal from our captafn, to rise up ina body and demand their surrender as soon as they were well on the bridge, and in case of refusal were ordered to fire on them. In response to the summons to surrender they prepared to fight, and presented their guns. The fight ‘was immediately commenced, and hotly contested for a few moments, at the expiration of which time _ (the deserters) threw down their arms and surrendered, but not until seven of their number wero disabled ‘wounds received during the progress of the fight. Only two men on our side were wounded, notwithstanding the deserters were splendidly armed with Enfleld rifles, and had a large quantity of ammunition, Mr, Joseph Jenni! a wealthy and patriotic citizen, was severely—though dangerously—shot through the thigh. Mr. Peter J. For- ®@ member of the Ninth Virginia cavalry, at home on furlough, was slightly wounded in the arm. Mr. William M. Bayley, who was pre- vented from joining us by reason of our flank movement from the public road, came up soon after the surrender, and invited the whole company to his house. The thanks of the entire party are eminently due, and are hereby tendered to Mr. Bayley for the handsome as well ag substantial hospitality extended to us on the occasion. I have been thus minute in giving the details of this little affair in order that other counties may see what Lunenburg has done, and may be stimulated to emulate her example, and that deserters may see they cannot pass through our county with perfect im- Beals: I take great pleasure in being able to inform ernor Smith that two of his State oflicers (justices of gs fh ! the ) begun this pursait, and that a third joined us on the way and assisted in nforcing the surrender, Cavalry Raids in Northern Vi: [From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 28.) ‘There was a renowal y« of the reports we had some time ago of movements of the enemy’s ca’ in the northern counties of Virginia. It is repo rs from that part of the country that the enemy ave a division and a brigade of cavalry at Lovettsville, . in Loudon county; also a cavalry force at Salem, i Fairfax, and another force in the lower valley.” Foote Kicked Out of the Rebel House. From the Richmond Sentinel, Feb. 28.) The House of Representutives on yesterday unani- mously voted to expel Mr. Foote, of Tennessee. In this Mr. Foote got the start of them, and is probably in Eu- rope by this time, ‘‘secure from tyranny and taxation,” and, perhaps, acting as voluntary peace commissioner ‘at some of the courts on that continent, Important Bills FY naa by the Rebel New York State louse. [From the Richmond Sentinel, Feb. 28.} The House of Representatives passed on yerterday, an sent to the Senate for concurrence, several bills of consi- derable interest. One of these provides the mode of | yo filling future vacancies among line and field officers. Another authorizes the appointment of officers or pri- vates to fill any Vacancy ainong the commissioned officers of a company or regiment, on account of “distinguished | p, jarnumée valor and skill, or for practical competency and general merit.’ We hope to soe a liberal use made of this power. Another Dill provides for the paying for horses lost or killed in service. The bill is an extension and simplifica- tion of the present law. THE LATEST NEWS. The Richmond Papers Ab ‘al Johnston—Probable Junction of Sher- man d Schofieid—Hood Hardee Cut off from Johnston. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wamiarox, March 2, 1865. The Richmond papers of to-day keep up the same tone of mingled deflance towards the Union forces and en- treaty to the officials not to run away from their posta. The Ezaminer very poimedly berates General Johnston, and intimates that the armies of Sherman and Schofield have made a junction at or near Goldsboro, The Richmond papers also say that the Union troops | regiment will north of the James have been moved to the left, and massed, with the rest of the army, in the vicinity of Hatcher's run. They also express fears that Hood as well as Hardee has been out off from a junction with Jobnston. NEWS FROM THE SOUTHWEST. Carmo, IlL,, March 2, 1866, Two hundreckand forty bales of cotton passed here to- | past ten o' day for St. Louis and five hundred and eighteen for Cin- cinnatt, Mernurme, Feb. 28, 1965. General Roberts, commanding this division, will soon leave for Springfield, Maas., as he is one of the board of examiners of small arma which is to meet in that city. General Grierson is to have charge of all the cavalry in the department of the West. The Bulle’in publishes a list of rebel sympathigers and deserters residing in Memphis who have taken the am- nesty oath. They number one thousand and forty-five. ‘The name of Andrew Jackson Donelsen ts among them. Deerters continue to arrive here in large nombers, and are of & botter class than heretofore. Measures are being taken for the smprovement of the condition of white refugees and freedmen in this depart ment. Confiscated lots in the outskirts of the city and on the Islands in the Mississippi are te be devoted to this purpose, News from Louteville, Lovrmviiie, March 2, 1866. ‘The midnight train from Nashville has not yet arrived. It i¢ now six hours behind time, and is said to be delayed by debris on the track from a train of freight cars which > burned by the guerilias near Franklin, Ky., yester- The Army. THE CHAROMS AGAINST LIBUTENANT COLONEL CHANDLER, ‘The poblished synopsis of Major General F. J. Her- ron’s report of military affairs in the Department of Arkausas reflects indirectly upon the official integ- rity of Colunel Chandler, then Provost Marshal General of the department, but since resigned, and a resident of Metnphis, Tenn, wul juent investigation by General J. Reynolds, General Steele's successor, completely exoneratos Colonel Chandler from all imputations, MO PASSES GIVEN FOR HART ISLAND. Heavquantens, Usiten States Troors, New Youre City ayy Hannon, New Youk, March 2, 1865. All desirous of visiting relattves or friends at Hart Teland must address the commanding oficer of that post, in writing, stating nature of buviness and name of party to be vitited, gtving address and enclosing o three cent postage stain, By order of Brigadtor General L. ©. HUNT. D. W. Hoos, Captatn aad Ard-de-Camp, Pass Officer, | ting on Broadway, at eleven M. Buruey, First Liewenant, sixth in- | Olticial: C. Santry, Aud-de Camp, fan open fight in the | yseutenant’ General THE CELEBRATION TO-MORROW. PROGRESS OF THE PREPARATIONS, Elephants, Walruses and Giraffes to Participate. ‘Morrow were continued yesterday, by the committee arrangements, at the Astor House. aalutary measure, and will add much to the comfort of # late hour to-day, but eo far as known the osder wili be 0s follows:— FIRST DIVIBION, First Division New York State National Guard, com- oe by Major General C. W. Sandford. Seoond Division gy one National Guard, Major De! uryea, Boots, General Wool, General Dix, Adini revang 3 ‘The Governor of the bai New York and the Legis- ure, Mayor of the city of New York. Corporation ity of New York, in carriages two abreast. Judges of the Sy, e, Eyer yr, Common Pleas and other Courts, Board of igors and County Officers. SROOND DIVISION. Colonel M, T. McMahon, Major General Peck and Staif. Brigadier General Hunt and Staff. Brigadier General Hinks and Staff. Brigadier General P. St. George Cooke and Staff, Brigadier General Wessells and Staff. General Officers of the Army on Duty and Leave, wth their Staffs. Officers of the Army, mounted and in uniform. Ex-oflicera of the Army who have served during the | pe war, in uniform. ‘Wounded Soldiers, in suitable conveyances, Furloughed soldiers, on foot, founted Citizens, Veterans of the War of 1812, TUIRD DIVISION, oe a a a of the Navy, on leave and on duty. Officers of the Marine Corps, on leave or on duty, Full-rigged (sesagens od by ¥ Tara, Ship, manned by Veteran Model of the Monitor. Detachment from Sailors’ Home. Beamen of the Merchant Service FOURTH DIVISION, Marshal and two Aids, New York Caledonian Club, in Highland costume, Miscellaneous Societies not yet reported. 18. ial Reformers, 1,000 strong. One hundred Singers, FIFE DIVISION. Marshal and Aida. ‘The Trades. Companies. ie ” rangers Sewing’ Machines in operation, ‘wi employes. Herring’s string team,,with safe. Jolt Stephenson's cana: ardiva bo atx boreess Two four-horse representing the Forwarding Inte» est, Dy the Newport, Boston and New York Steamboat Company. E. V. Haughwout & Uo., with teams. Wm. T. Boyd, wheelwright, one four-horse and one six- horse wagon, with men at work at forge. Howe & Bonvier, two teams, with workmen manufae- turing gold and silver fst scales, Steinway & Co., with pianos and four hundred workmen. Perkins & Stern, with Indian Hunter and Interests and Prodactions of California. G. W. Laird, representing Perfumery, o Longshoremen’s Society. Volunteer Institute Cadets, forty in num- ber, Colonel Young. New York Sharpshooters’ Independent Rifle Company. Eureka Oigar Machine, two horse trucks, manufacturing cigars and distributing them. iitan Bteam Boiler Inspectors, with large botler. jam, with two platforms, containing an ele phant, walrus, giraife and grand panorama. The Allgemeine Sangerbund, five hundred singess, Self Sewer, with machine in operation and lady reading « book. Van Amburgh’s Menagerie and Nixon’s Circus have algo been invited amd will doubtless contribute their quota to the demongtration. PHE VETERANS OF THR Wak OF 1812, Nonice.—The Veteran corps of the war of 1812 will as- semble at the Mercer Houre, er of Mercer and Broome streets, on Saturday, the Rh day of March, at ten o'clock A. M., precisely, 'in full uniform, to join in the grand procession with our fellow citizens, in honor of the glorious victories achieved by our army and navy in BRT Well as | the cause of the Union which we preserved in the war of 1812, Let every veteran from this and the adjacent counties attend, Carriages will be in waiting at the Mercer House to convey them on the route. By order, H. RAYMOND, Brigadier neral, ABRAHAM DALLY, Colonel, L M, Payre, Adjutant. THE MILITARY. THE FOURTH REGIMENT, Hew a Focus WN. pquarrees, VounTn Rearenr, 3 New Yor, March 2, 1866. In compliance with division and brigade orders this rade in full uniform (fatigue caps), dis- moonted, on Saturday, the 4th inst. Regimental line will be formed in Elm street, right on Canal street, ot ten o'clock A. M., precisely. By order of Colonel DANIEL W. TELLER. E. M. L& Moyne, Acting Adfutant. ‘THE SEVANTH RRGIMENT. General Urdr—No. & Haapqoartens, Sevantn Reciuent, N.G. 8. N. ¥, New Yorn, Mareh 1, 1865. Pursuant to division and Brigade orders of this date, this regiment will parade in full uni‘orm and overcoats, on Longer March 4. Roll call of companies mt bali: loc! A. M By order of Ovlonel EMMONS CLARK. J. H. Licexwac, Adjutant. New Youn, Maren 1, 1668.7} Tn compliance with division and brigade orders, this regiment will parade on Saturday, the 4th justant, in full fatigue, with overcoats, in honor of the recent achieve. ments of our army and navy. The line will be formed on Grand street, right on Broadway, at eleven o'clock A. M. precisely. @ field, staff and troop will parade mounted. Company rolls will be called at the armory at haif-past ten precisely The non-commissioned staff, band and dram corps will” report to the Adjutant twenty minutes previous w the time of formation. By order. J. M. VARIAN, Colonel. HL R. Gaatam, Adjutant. THR TWELFTH ReGIMEYT. General Orders—No. 8. Heapquarrens, Dweirrn Rectwert, N. G8. N. ¥., New York, Murch 1, 1865 1, Pursuant to division orders ‘this regiment,wil! pa- rade, fully uniformed, armed and equipped (avercoawe and white gloves), on Saturday, the 4th inst., to unite with our feilow citizens in celebrating the glorious victo: ries of our army and navy in the capture of Fort McAllia. ter, Savannah, Fort Sumter, Charleston, Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and of Columbia, the Capital ‘of South Caro na. 2 Regimental line will be formed on south side of Washington Parade Ground, at eleven o'clock A. M., pre- cinely. 3. Fret and staff, mounted, will report to the Colonel, 3 the ground, fifteen minutes bofore the bour of forma- tion. 4. Non-commmissioned staf, band and drum corps will report to the Adjutant, ten minutes before time of forma tion. By order of Oolonel WM. G. WARD. N. A. Hayns, Adjutant. THE SRVENTY.FreeT REUENRWT, General Or dlers—No. 4 Haavqouarrens, Sevesty-winst Reciment, N. G8. N.Y. New York, March 1, 1805. In compliance with Mvision and bricade orders, this Teginrent will parade, in full uniform, with ove and white gloves, on Saturday next, the 4th instant, lo unite with our fellow citizens in the & us achi-vements of our army and navy in the caplure of Charleston, Fort MeAllister, Savannah, Fort =umter, Fort Fisher, Witmington, and of Columbia, the capital | of South Carolina, The line will be Sormed upon Bond strort, right rest lock teely. Tho Held and eta’ will report to th , mounted, and the wou-cominiesioned siaf, bend aud druin cuspe WO | PRICE FOUR CENTS. the Adjutant, on the parade ground, at a quarter before tak igs BENJAMIN L. TRAFFORD, Colonel Com’g Seventy first Reg’t, N. G.8.N. ¥. Joun R. Liveamows, Adjufant. Epwaxp Kixx.anp, Sergeant Major. THS KIGHTY-FOURTH REGIMENT, General Orders—No. 3. Heapquanrrens, Exoury-vovnti Rucnent, N. G. 8. N.Y., Broapwar awp Fourta sreget, March 1, 1865. Pursuant to division and brigade orders, this regiment ie parade in fatigue uniform (without overcoats), on , Mareh 4. The Tegimental line will be formed on Fourth street, peret resting on Broadway, at half-past eleven o'clock The field and staff will report, ronnie’, te the Colonel, at these headquarters, at a quarter ven o'clock. The non-commissioned staff, and drum corps will 6 to the Adjutant, an the pers at the same hour. order of Col. F. A. CONKLING, C. B. Mrrommiz, Adjutant, Commanding regiment, Proceedings in the Board of Aldermen. A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held yesterday afternoon, President Morgan L. Jones in the chair, to make arrangements for celebrating the late Union victories on Saturday next. The following com- munication was received on the subject :— New Yc To the Honorable the Presipert of the of Alder- men: the 25d of February instant to invite ie co-operation of te of rus nv! of municipal authorities of ‘New ‘York ina national ‘celebration ‘of the successes of the Union urms, at Union square, on the 4th of March ensuing, at three o'clock P. M. Feb, 37, 1865. ‘We trust it may be compatible with a sense of duty on the part of ernment to adopt measures in coucurrence with this movement. Res} rant ‘MOSES TAYLON Chairman.” BB. Curtrinpen, } Secretaries, Whereupon Alderman Faster presented the following resolutions: — Resolved, That the communication from the committee citizens inviting the Common Councll of the city to particft pate in the celebration of our recent victories be accepted, ‘and that the heads of departments of the city government be and they are hereb; ve Offices at twelve 0 cele- bration requested to close thelr res M. on the day set apart for a Resolved, That the thanks of the Common Council be and they are hereby tendered to Generals Grant and Sherman, of the army, and Admirals Porter and Dabigren, of the navy, and the gallant officers and men under their command, for their energy, devotion and patriotic efforts, which havg been luctive of such glorious resulta. Resolved, That the citizens generally be and they are here. By, gequeated to observe the day set apart for the cele- n, Which were unanimously adopted. ‘The Board then adjourned until Monday Hext, at two o'clock. Letter from President Lincoln. DEPARTMENT OF STarE, Wasurnatox, Feb, 25, 1805. To Moses Tartor, Esq., Chairman, and 8. B. Currrenpen s., Secretaries of a meeting of citizens of New York, engaged in pursuits of com- merce :-— Gexrixmen—I am directed by the President of the United States to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d inst., and of resolutions concerning the condition of national affairs by which that letter was accompanied. The President and his associates in the Executive Department highly appreciate these expressions of ap- proval and support. Coming fas they do at the close of @constitutional term of public service, which has been filled with trials unknown to any previous administra- tion, these expressions are received as evincing a firm and resolute popular purpose to preserve the Union un- broken, and to bring back every erring member thereof to the resumption of its lawful obligations and the per- formance of its proper duties, with the consequent en- Joyment of the inestimable blessings of liverty and peace. Fully believing that the loyal citizens of the whole country are in entire harmony with the citizens of New York, who are represented on the present occasion, the President cordially sympathiaes with your committee in the proceedings they have initiated. Thave the honor to be, gentlemen, your obedient ser- vant, WILLIAM H. SEWARD. The Celebration in Brooklyn. No arrangements whatever have been made by the authorities of Brooklyn to celebrate the Union victories on Saturday, the 4th of March, with the exception of the Mayor, who recommends a suspension of business, ring- ing of bills, display of flags and illumination on that day and evening, and which will doubtless be generally re- Honor in reference thereto:— Mayor's Orricn, Crry H. BROOKLYN, March 2, 1808. In pursuance of a resolution adopted by the B Aldermen, I hereby invite the patriotic citizens of Brook- lym to unite with those of New York iu, the “‘Nuwonal lebration of Union Victories,” to take place on Satur- any the 4th of March. ‘he Board of Aldermen hating declined to participate in the celebration, or to make provision for any public demonstration in this city, I respectfully r nd to the patriotic citizens of Brooklyn (in which category I hope is included our entire popsiation), a gencral suspen- sion of business, the display of flags, of iluminattns, &c., on that day and evening, so as to make the occasion, so far ag it is in their power, # national holiday. A. M. WOOD, Mayor. The Mayor also requests that the bells of the various churches in the city be rung for half an hour at noon, on Saturday, the 4th inst., in honor of the recent Union vie tories, andus part of the national celebration to be held on that day. The New Steamship City of Boston. The new steamship City of Boston, the latest addition to the ovean steam fleet of the Inman lime, will sail for Queenstown and Liverpool at noon to-morrow, 4th inet., from pier 44 North river, under the guidance of ber expertqpecd and popular commander, Captain James Kennedy, The City of Boston makes the thirteenth vessel in the service of the company, with two more splendid steamers—the City of Paris and City of Durlain—build ing, and nearly completed. This magnificent vessel has been Inspected by our marine reporter, who states that she was launched on the 16th of November, 1864, from the yard of Messrs, Tod & MeGrogor, near Glasgow, and is as perfect a specimen of iron shipbuilding amd naval architecture as ever visited the port of New York for commercial purposes or the transit of passengers. Like all the othor vessels of the Ininan line, the City of Boston was built under epectal survey, and she immediately received the highast class floation at Lioyd’s, and also from the Liverpool Associa. tion of Underwriters. Immense strength, great speed, with @ beautiful shape and outline have been combinea in the build of this steamship, while nothing which can ever be required for oomfort, Lealth or enjoyment, on a voyage by either young or old or persons of either sox has been overlooked or forgotten. ‘The City of Boston is 405 feet in length, 99 feet in breadth, 27 feet 6 inches in depth, and 2,278 tons, old measurement. The hull is m six water tight compart: ments, each bulkhead running clear up to the spar deck from the keel, each bulkhead being of the same thick hess and strength a8 the outside of the ship. For ad- nal strencth the deck is made of iron plates, manu. red by the Merwey Steei and Iron ‘ompany. The engines are of 350 horse power, nor I, the cylinders being 36 inches in diameter with three fect stroke. Her screw has a pit f twentydour feet. Hi speed, the owners and pity ntly paid great atten tion to all the requirements eonducing to the bealth and comfort of her pasengers. Running the entire length of the spar deck # a ajymcious house, the afver part of which is occupied asa saloon, which isa very neat and elegantly fitted oat apartment, Neae to this the captain haw at bis call as complete aud rich @ service of plate ax was ever manufactured in Liverpool and Birmingham for any veesel. Next in order we find pantrica fed with cut glass, crockery ware and cutlery sufticient for the um of about seven hundred passeng: The remainder of the deck Louse is taken up with the officers’ and en gineers meas rooms, the cabin and shipa’ galleys, a bukehouse, @ butcher's shop, a hospital for the stek, the Officers’ rooms, surgery, Icehouse, the purser's office, &e. Storage passongers are accommodated ou the main dock, im an Apartment, the great height of which between decks secures ample Ventilation, the berths being arranged for comfort and convenience, Here three hundred and wixty persons may find a comfortable home during a ovage over the Atlantic, Onc hundred fet claws pasemgers can be dated, their matervoms being below the ealoon. arrangement of the cabins great attention has been paid | ~ the comfort of the lady passengers of the City of Boston. The cuttnary department of this fine steamship is built £0 that seven hamdred persons may be fed daily without ‘any inconvenience, the gioon passengers having a bill of fare which cannot fail to please the taste af aD who are not troubled with sea #ick The general agent of the Inman line in the United States is Mr. Jolin G. Dale, wlio ts ably aadisted by Mr. 8 in @ Nicholson, in the passenger departinent, The office Dew York is at No, 16 Broadway. natn - n the Sales of Seven.Thirtics, Paiapenrua, March 2. 1865. Jay Cooke reports the sales of seven-thirtics today at $3,076,150. The largest Eastern eniscription was $300,000, from New York, and the largest Western evb scription $26,000, from Dayton, Obie. Thite were 2,126 individual subscriptions of $50 and $100 cach. Court CalendareThis Day. Furneme Coree—Cincurt,Part 1.—Cour! opens at | Nos. 1610, 1607, 1040, i604, 1083, | Duane utreet. Court opens at ten om, 892, O46, B66, 10482, 106d, £26, 101 1416, 1218, L290, 1264, 126, 1200, 1262 rr sponded to, Tom following is the proclamation of bis | of SHERMAN. Joe Johnston Relieves Beauregard. Beauregard Superseded at His Own Request. THE BURNING OF COLUMBIA. Wade Hampton Fires His Own Dwelling, ke. kes, ke. General Joe Johnston in Command of the Army of Tennessee. Caantorre, Feb. 26, 1865. The following order is published here this morni: : GENERA! ORDER—NO 1. on N. C., Feb, 25, 1868. In obedience to the orders of the General-in-Chief the undersigned has assumed the command of the Army of Tennessee and all the troops in the departments of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, He takes this ion with strong hope, because he will have in council and on the field the aid of the high talents and skill of the general whom he succeeds. He exhorts all absent soldiers of the Army of Tennessee to rejoia their regiments and again confront the enemy they have so often encount in Northern Georgia, and always with honor, He his comrades of that army, who are still with | that the confidence in their discipline and valor, which has publicly expressed, is undiminished. J. E. JQHNSTON, Johnston Restored at Beaurcgard’s quest. [From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 23.} We learn that it was at the express and earncat ee | tation of General Beauregard that General Johnston hi recently been placed in command of the forces opere ating in the Carolinas. It is understood that Ge y Beauregard wrote to tye President saying that thd eral sentiment of the public, and particularly that oat Army of Tenuessee, were so urgent for General John! Ston’s restoration to command that he was induced to join his own dgsire with theirs; that he did not wish to be removed from his present field of operations, but pre- ferred to serve there under General Johnston, having had with him former occasions of service and confidence. We are pleased to be thus assured of those circumstances of patriotic frendship and genercws zeal on the part of General Beauregard which made the occasion of General Jobuston’s restoration to command, The Origin of the Fire in Columbia. [From the Richmond Examiner, Feb, 28.) While making no alluston to any military movements now in progress in the Carolinas, it is not improper to say that Columbia is now free of the enemy, after @ large portion of the city has been destroyed by fire. A ramor (which is no doubt oxaygerated) has it that three- fourths of the city was destroyed by fire, the origin of which is variously stated. General Hampton is said to have fired his house there himself, and to have seen it burned to the ground before he left the place. The Pirate Shenandoah at Corunna, Spain. Boston, March 2, 1865. Private letters received here, dated Gibraltar, February 7, state that the rebel pirate Shenandoah had put into Corunna, Spain, disabled, and that the United States steamer Sacramento left Cadiz, February 3, to leok after her. Interesting Religious Service. CELEBRATION OF THE DIVINE LITURGY OF TB ORTHODOX ORIENTAL CHUKCH AT TRINITY CHA- PEL—A BOND OF UNION BETWEEN KUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES, ETC. A very interesting and unique religious services was celebrated in Trinity chapel yesterday morning, in the presence of a large and highly respectable , com posed mostly of ladies, whieh, in some res political significance, in that it brings two great n: the United States and Russia—into even closer nion than the sympathetic political ties which have here tofore bound them, The service consisted of the per formance of the divine Iurgy according to the cetab lished Eastern Orthodox Church of Russia and Gre ce, by the Agapius Honcharenko, who has recent!y ar rived in this country as a inissionary to the Greeks and Sclavonians in this city came to New York in has a i January, bearing with im credentials to the Pro. teste Church of America. He belong: to the Monastic Order of the Orthodox Chureh, of the rank of , And brings with him the offic al letter dixmis- nd Commendatory (rom the Prior and Council of the Mount Pentelicus, near Athens. tis tr Agapius ix Of 80 ¢ ing # dispoeition that he ite who we ‘soattored ab rl vout, humbi deeply for bis co. A as shoe} ts » ‘literally followed the script,” trusting in the for support. Ho is a fine Greek ligent and atiable 6 was cordially scholar, and ia, appare genlemun tant clerry. We learn that there who have been in this country A quarter of a century, and till now bave not had an opportunity Wo enjoy their peculiar chureh privileges. It # said that when Father Agapius arrived in New York, one of these persons (a cashier of a bank in Wall street) received the holy father with tours of gratitude, ageuring him that he had long been contemplating a voyage to Liverpoot for the express pur- pose of reveiving the holy communion, which he had not enjoyed for twenty years. We woubl fully suggest that tt would be exceedingly Rian for Father Agapius to make frequent visi® to this - joner, for in doing 80 a field already white to the haPvost would present itwelf in that locality for his benevolent endeavor. If Father Agapius should become instru. mental in converting the rapacious balls and bears of Wail street into honest men, by overtat the tables af those money changers, the country hail bim ag & true aposile. But to return to the ceremony. The following inter. esting letter was written by Bishop Potter, cordially en- dorsing it and proffering the use of Trinity chapel for the performance of the service. It was w to the olficuating clergyman of Trinity ehapel: LETTER FROM BISLOP POTTER, Rev. J. Feeemay Youns :— . Revenexn axp Dean Brormm—In reply to your in. uiry pecting the propose! public celebration of the vine Murgy of the Holy Qrthodox Oriental Church the 2d of March, tm one of tH churches of my bog to say that F ha consent and approbat in so doing it may satisfaction that the proposed service is intended to do honor to the anniversary of the acceasion of his im- ora! Majosty Alexander IL, the present Emperor of \wavia, who has done so much to promote the trae and welfare of his own people, and has #0 rously encouraged the Triendly feeling Russia our country. Such courtesies as the one mow proferred between churéhes which have so much in common, it has seemed to mo, might very well be extended without Prejadicing olther aide in matters *hat may affect their relations with Fg 0a pe gs yy visit of the Muasian o the port of New York year I took pleasure, as know, in giving permission through you to the ‘Kore Chaplains to hol any service which they might find de- sirable anywhere within the Mumits of my diocese. Rev. Chaplains of the Russian fleet did not find it wary to avail themselves of the permission granted but it was very grateful to me to hear thet the of Christian which that trifligg act Wer da git moet venerated prelates Chteh would have been’ ory well pleaged aa the ote made by me been arcepte On the present cooaaton I ahall be bappy ff thie proffer of one of the churches of my diocese, the public service, ahall be accepted here and in Russia as slight token of my fraterual for the church and Hin i the nation whieh our beloved brother, the ropresents Lam, my dear brother, thoet Greby oad tae Honsiely YOUTGRATIO POTTER, Biabop of New York New Your, Feb, 25, 1865, This service, although novel, t interesting when fi ie rememty red that it is the result of the &iendly relation which cxists between Ruwia and this country. Some time ago the General Assembly of the Epi oboreh was urged by many of its prominent members to take rome stops oop b communication with the eoclesiaath cal author ves of the Russo-Greek chureh, A committee pinted to carry out thie Purpose, and one of ite a prominent etttzen of New York) visited the of the church at Mos “burg and While these ived by th tiation wer jan feet ap w York, whieh ten: Vhen retard the reait