The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1865, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, * EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFION N. W. CORNER OF PULTOM AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. AQADEMY OF MUSIO, Irving place.—Txauaw Orana~ oa ‘Sona. pat Dastino. WINTER GARDBN, Droadway.—Hamuat. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bo .—Rouso AnD Juime—Povasrr ax Waaitu—Honxst Joz. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broudway.—Tioxst or Leave Lam. war’ THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus Sraxevs or New Ohm. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Daus Trot—-Oup Ruai- whole duiues ‘3 Houpay. by NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Nigut amp Moarwung. BROADWAY THEATEB, Broadway.—Toosias—Fosset Wures. itd igre BARNUM'’S MUSEUM, —Two Mamworn Far Wowun—Lir Sautetos—D1 art Bor—Tus Woas- tas or Naw YouaDey and Bvening. 7, BRY, y MI Seer ee Bese WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Erurorian Bonas, Dances, ton Fersoasonages, On Ol Om was Busi, SALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Rosasr Hacian’s MipacLes—G rugs. VAN AMBURGH & CO.'S MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, and 541 Broadway.—Open from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. HIPPOTHRATRON, Fourtecnth _streot—Eauzara Grunasric anv AGaonitio Exraxrainasurs—-MoTusn Goose! | AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Pasromanes, Bu Brondway.—Datusrs, aunsguxs, oan Lino HOOLEY'S MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery.—Son Danas Bemaaaean bo tave inal, rt Pps Sot HALL, 806 Broadway.—Bunwert'’s Even- ov Mizta anp Patuos. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘Open from 10. A. M. tll 10 P.M. VANNUCHI’S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movina Wax Figures. Open Day and Evening, New York, Monday, March 6, 1865. THE NEW INTERNAL REVENUE LAW. On the second and third pages of this morning’s Henraup we publish complete, arranged in alpha- betical order, the new Internal Revenue bill, as it Passed both houses of Congress on Saturday morn- ing last, and which has, doubtless, already re- ceived the signature of the President, It is a docu- ment of prime importance to everybody, rich and poor, as by this law the government expects to realize an annual revenue of four hundred mil- lions of dollars, with which to maintain the finan- ial oredit and honor of the republic. THE SITUATION. General Sheridan’s new movement up the Shonan- doah valley, alluded to in Saturday morning's Henatp, has, a6 appears from the despatches of General Grant, met with brilliant success, Desertera and refugees from Lée’s lines in fropt of Richmond state that on fast Thursday General Sheridan captured the rebel General. Early and nearly his whole force, consisting of eighteen hundred men, between Char- dottesville and Staunton. General Sheridan has taken possession of both Charlottesville and Staunton. Whon last heard from he was at the latier place, en rowle, as @upposed, for the important rebel town of Lynch- ‘burg, to which additional forces had been sent from Richmond to opposd him. General Sheri. ‘damn commenced his movement on last Monday, and ‘during bis @etive operations in tho field General Hancock ‘will be ia command of tho Middle Military Department, ‘with headquarters at Wii iter, Va. A map of the feld of Goneral Sheridan's movoments is given in this morning's Huraip. ‘The capture in North Carolina of the entire brigade of the rebel Genoral Haygood, with the exception of one battalion, is announced by the Raleigh (N. C.) Journal. Haygood's brigade belonged to Hoke's division, and con- Gtituted s portion of the rebel force defending Wiiming- ton till the enemy was forced to abandon that place. ‘Neither the time nor the precise locality of the capture ts given; but it is said to have occurred on the weet side of Cape Fear river. No additional positive intelligence han. been received togarding General Sherman’s progrees. The rebel news- papers are rejoicing over the assumption that he is stuck im the tarry mud of the old Tar State, and that their pros- pects are just now very finc for the annihilation or cap- tare of his éntire force of veterans, after which the same fate is to be meted out to tho two na tional armies before Richmond. To tho list of doughty rebel chiefs marshalling their legions for the accom- plishment of these sanguinary but extremely difficult tasks, we have now to add a no less formidable military ‘antagonist than Governor Vance, of North Carolina, who fa anid to be “actively at work rallying the people and organizing resistance.” ‘Mud appears to remain to a considerable extent master @f the situation before Richmond, The rain, up to Saturday last, had been #0 heavy and continuous for some days as to turn all the roads into sloughs, and put @ stop to any very important movements on @ither side. The rebel papers think there is no doubt that General Grant will commence heavy operations on his ‘oft so soon as the condition of the roads will permit, and they conecquently are still anticipating @ great battle in that vicinity. The Union forces along James river are nightly watching for Semmes and his febel fleet to attempt another raid. The rebels each night keep up ® heavy fire on tho right of the Army of the James, with the object of preventing their men from deserting ; but it does not accomplish its design, as they continue to arrive withis the Union lines in large num- bers. A vory gallant little feat was performed in North arolina lately bys portion of the Twelfth New York cavalry and one company of the First North Carolina mounted infantry, They surprised and captured one entire company of rebel soldicrs near Greenville, and then dashed into the town, where they destroyed a large quantity of commissary stores and captured other prisoners. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. q The grand celebration of our national successes will take place in this city to-day, unless the weather, as on Saturday, should be again so stormy as to necessitates further postponement. In caso of favorable weather, the day will no doubt be observed as an almost universal holiday, and the demonstration will probably excoed anything of the kind which has ever yet been witnessed in this city, The general foaturos of the jubilee will con- ist of unlimited displays of bunting, bell ringing, # mon- ster procession, an immense mass meeting in Union @quare in the afternoon, and flluminations and pyro- teohnio exhibitions at night; but all the particulars of each of these divisions of the proceedings are innume- wable, The procession will commence moving from the corner of Fourteonth street and Broadway about one o’clook in the afternoon. This 19 the day forthe commencement of the Maroh (orm of the law courts; but it is not likely that ‘much of the demonstration and ceremonies attending she second inauguration of Mr. Lincoln as Chiof Magistrate of the republic, on Saturday last, the éth inst A continuation of the list of bills passed and joint resolutions adopted by the sossion of Congress just closed, which we commenced in yesterday's Hunts, is given in this morning’s issue, We also publish im full tho amended Internal Revenue law. Max 8. Hirsehback, s pedier, residing at No. 35 Hester NEW. -YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAROB 6, 1964, - ‘The Work ef Congress—Taxes ond Tariff—The Ways and Means. The acts of the late session of Congress, the list of which we partially published yesterday, we finish to-day. The schedule embraces vari- ous important public measures, the most prom!- nent among them peing the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, the Internal Tax and Tariff bills, and the Annual tion strect, has been arrested on suspicion of being the perso0 | billg—excopting the omnibus bill of odds and who, om the night of the 25th ultimo, entered the store Of lt Nathaniel B. Falecner ond eiele therefrom a large | 020% Which could not be brought up to time. quantity of valuable goods; and Joseph Cohen, of Chrystie Among the other measures which have failed street, and a man named Harris, living at No. 3 Bayard is the General Bankrupt bill, and the Washing- street, have also been arrested, suspected of being the | ton and New York Air Line Railroad bill. We Tecelvers of the stolon articles. On Hirschback’s person | presume, however, that there is nothing in any was found a large quantity of valuable jewelry, and in his house Were discovered stocks of other property of much value, supposed to have been stolen, Hirschback, Harris and Cohon have all three been committed for further examination. By tho bark Idaho, which arrived here yesterday, we learn that the passengers from San Francisco intending to take the North Star, for New York, had not arrived at Aspinwall on the 14th of February. The Panama Mer cantile Telegraph has a story to the effect that the object of Major General Sickles’ visit to that country is to pro- cure from the Colombian government, on behalf of the United States, a conceasion of territory on which to oolo- nize some thirty thousand emancipated negroes. Saturday was generally observed as a holiday, in honor of the contemplated celebration of the national victories, ‘Change was closed, and very little business was tran- sacted eff ‘Change. Cotton was steady. Groceries ruled vory quiet at previous rates, Important War News—Capture ef the Rebel Generals Early and Haygood. Our latest despatches received last night and published this morning give us intelligence of the highest importance from the seat of war. We learn from North Carolina that Sherman, by an unexpected movement, had succeeded in capturing, with the exception of a single bat- talion, Haygood’s entire brigade, which at the time occupied the west bank of Cape Fear riyer. From the Shenandoah our news is Qnally gratifying. On February 27 Major ‘Uheral Sheridan, with a large foreo of cavalry, out on an expedition up the valley. His column moved with groat rapidity, insomuch that spies and sympathizers along the route had no time é raise the alarm gnd caution the enemy ® be on his guard. Through several deserters, arriving at differ- ent times and at different points, we learn that General Sheridan fell upon Early on the 24 inst, between Staunton and Charlottesville, capturing Early himself and his whole com- mand. The enemy, alarmed at this sudden appearance of our forces in so close proximity to his most important line of communications, immediately detached four brigades from the garrigon at Richmond and despatched them in all speed to reach Lynchburg before Sheridan. The entrepéts of Lynehburg and Danville are now the principal soufces of supply to Rich- mond, and the value which is placed upon them is plainly to be secn in the large rein- or all the bills “stuck in the mud” that will require the reassembling of Congress before December next. But it is not improbable that an extra session may be demanded from the new condition of things which will follow the suppression of the rebellion and the restora- tion of peace, Meantime the ways and means provided for the stupendous costs of the war ought to be amply sufficient. It is estimated that the Inter- nal Tax bill will yield a revenue of four hun- dred millions of dollars, and that from the new tariff and miscellaneous resources another hundred‘ millions will be derived, making @ total cash account of five hundred millions of dollars. Surely with these actual cash re- ceipts, and the authority for a new loan of four hundred millions, or 60 much thereof as may be deemed necessary, the new Secretary of the Treasury ought to be able, during the current year, to bring down the gold premium over greenbacks to a very low figure. In the inter val to December next we look not only for an immense reduction of the government expenses in consequence of the final defeat and dissolu- tion of the rebel armies, but for some very important acquisitions of strength to the Trea- sury with the recovery of the rebellious States, their great commercial staples and the masses of their people. This last Congress and its doings will occupy @ conspicuous place in the history of this terri- ble war. It will be condemned, we doubt not, by the calm judgment of posterity for its many experiments of fanatical legislation on the negro question, and for its vindictive confisca- tion and reconstruction projects; but in put- ting the right man in the right place, in calling General Grant to the command of our armies, and in providing at last a substantial founda- tion for the national Treasury to rest upon, and for the quiet removal of slavery in a constitu- tional way, this otherwise refractory, fanatical and factious topes iM bih Congress has done much to build upé creditable record. With- out farther remark we submit our synopsis of the new Internal Revenue law to the special attention of our readers. They will find it exceedingly interesting. We have had a costly dance, but the piper must be paid. The Mexican Muddle—Napoleom Backing Out of It. t In our Washington despatches will be found some allusion to a curious declaration said to have been recently made by the Emperor Napoleon at a grand ball at the, palace of the forcements sent te protect them. It is said when Generals Crook and Kelley were brought before Early he requested them to be seated, remarking, “My turn may come next. Some enterprising Yankee will come along and cap- ture me.” He little dreamed that his words, uttered in jest, would be so speedily verified. Thus, as indicated in the news now published, every day brings us nearer to the final fssue of our recent and rapid suceession of victories, Gradually the armies of the tation are envel- oping the centre and Iast stronghold of the re- bellion. GrapWhelds Lee at Richmond; Sher- man, with/the veterans of the West, is sweeping up from the South, driving the enemy irresisti- bly before him; Sheridan now pours down from the North, directly menacing the last resource of the enemy by the Lynchburg Railroad; and Canby, ere this, is brushing away what remains of the rebellion-in Alabama. ‘he days of Rich- mond and the rebel confederacy are verily numbered. Tue Ceresration To-Day.—There isno doubt that if the weather is pleasant to-day the na- tional celebration for our recent victories will be far more sn than it could have been had it come off, tended, on Saturday. The democracy, who form the great’mass of the population, and who always swell tho ranks in grand public processions, got it into their heads that the celebration, being fixed for the 4th of March, was intended to be as much in honor of the reinauguration as of the national suc- ceases, and would probably have been mero lookers-on if the affair had taken place on the original day. Now, however, as it comes off on the 6th, there can be no political significance attached to it,and we may expect thd largest and most extraordinary exhibition ever wit- nessed in the city for we shall not only have vast masses of human beings participating, but elephants, camels, giraffes, walruses and va- rious other representatives of strange animal creation. If the day is fine there will be one of the grandest as well as most curious spec- tacles in Broadway, the Bowery and Union square that was ever witnessed. Naronzon mms Parvenu AND JOHNSON THE Prxnetax.—When Napoleon IIL published his official announcement of his intended nuptials with the fair Engenie, he declared himself a parvenu. When Andy Johnson assumed the position of Vice President of the United States he pronounced himself a plebeian. But the latter took a step further, as he did one below, the social status of the French Emperor. The new Vice President intimated that not only himself but Chief Justice Chase, Secretary Sew- ard, Secretary Stanton and Secretary What’s- his-name? of the Navy, were also plebeians. Tuileries, to an American gentleman of bigh political standing. Such a remar} coming from Louis Napoleon at sucha time possesses more than ordinary significance:—“I om sorry to see the report in the papers about Sonora, as there is not a word of truth in it, For my part, I am only desirous of getting out of the whole matter.” There ean scarcely be any doubt that Napoleon is getting heartily tired of his experiment to overthrow the republic and set up an empire in Mexico, and we are therefore inclined to give some insportance to the words which he. is said to have used. But it mnst also be borne in mind that he does not always say what he means, though he has on several occasions proved that he meant what he said. Like the Delphio ora- cle, his words sometimes have two distinct meanings, and in this peculiarity consist their chief force. Just betore the Italian war he suddenly startled all Europe by de- claring to the Austrian ambassador that he was sorry that his relations with his imperial brother were not as good as they should be, And in a few months more the valleys of fair Italy were inundated with the mingled blood of Frenchmen, Germans and Italians. In his late speech to the French Chambers he says he is sorry that a Congress did not take place to settle the repose of Europe, giving as a reason that “the sword often cuts questions without settling them.” Yet we do not think that there is any immediate danger of a war in Europe. Thus, like the oracle, he is hard to understand. Without multiplying instances, we now have him declaring that he regrets the American reports about Sonora because they are not true. Whether these be the real sentiments of the Emperor or not we, of course, can- not pretend to decide, though the diffpulties of his position in reference to Mexico and the United States would give some color to the as- sumption of their correctness. If, by any de- cent pretext, he can escape from the dangers of his position, he will be wise to do so while there is time; for, with the close of the rebellion the people of the United States will be apt to look for a solution of the Mexican pro- blem—and what he has boasted was the greatest act of his reign would finally be found the most fatal step that he could have undertaken. With the internal embarrassments of his own empire, its narrowed finances, and a formidable opposition of enlightened states- men at home, he would find it no easy matter to protect the new trans-Atlantic empire and carry on a destructive war with such a Poyer as the United States, with his base of operations more than three thousand miles away. So, however correct or incorrect may be the report of his declaration at the Tuileries, we are convinced that the true desire of the Emperor is to get out of the Mexican difficulty with the best possible grace and without any delay, These ought to make a company sufficiently respectable for the most fastidious tastes. These gentlemen certainly minglo in highly influen- tial, ifnot aristocratict circles. Seward would be an earl, Stanton a duke, and What’s-bis-name? a lord high-cock-a-lorum in any country but this. Twenty-five or thirty years ago we had a co- terio of plebeians in this city who used the term as a political dodge to entrap tho “in- domitables” and “subterraneans.” They were managed under o firm called Slam, Bang & Company, long since gone out of existence; Avow mm Dnart.—In ten days from this time we shall have a draftin the city if the people do not bostir themselves to fill up the quota. The Supervisors’ Committee are doing their duty conscientiously; it remains for the rest of the citizens to do theirs in order to avoid adraftin the metropolis. Let the capitalists hurry with their loans. Let every man who is Hable to be drafted hurry up with a substitute. It will cost nothing, for the committee will give six hundred dollars bounty. Let every patriot not lable to be drafted, who desires dusiness will be done in any of thom, on account of the | tnt some of their descendants, so far from con- | penoo and Union, burry up with a recruit, and ational celebration in the city. Probably the calendars will Ha: ow will be adjourned till lo morrow. sidering thomselves a lower order of society, are now the most influential out-croppings of Qur Woshinajon despatches which we publish this metropolitan aristocracr. within the allotted ten days our quota will be filled. There are not more than six months fight- ing to be done now, and it will be done all the better if the ranks are filled up. New York is proverbial for doing things on e large scale. We gave largely to the government in money and men to carry on the war. We voteda large sum for a State Capitol. We will cele- brate the victories of the national arms to-day in a hnge fashion. We have the largest Park on the continent. Let us go to work, thea, in a like spirit, and on a big scale, and fillup the quota of men required of us, and spare the me- tropolis the dishonor of » conscription. The End of the Delusion—Rebei Promises and Performance. It was not without immense effort that the rebel leaders in the South got the people in any numbers to follow them. And it was only by promising them a short war, if any, and an easy conquest of the North, that they worked up their courage to the sticking point. Even then it was thought doubtful whether the masses could be kept up to the work, and it is, therefore, a recorded fact that ata meeting of these leaders at Montgomery, at an early period of secession, it was deemed necessary for the prosecution of their plans that “blood should be sprinkled in the faces of the people.” @ Ina very able article on this subject, atiri- buted at the time of its publication (July 31, 1863,) to Mr. Donnell, Speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons, it is stated that several distinct promises were made by the rebel chiefs to their deluded followers. The first was that secession would be peaceably effected; the next, that if a war took place it should be a short one—not of more than six months duration at the far- thest; next, that all the slave States except Delaware would join the confederacy. Again, that the new government should be only a con- federacy of sovereign and equal States, entirely free from all “central despotism,” and that it should become the best, freest and wealthiest government on the earth. These glittering gen- eralities were accompanied by various prom- ises in detail, and arguments in small, to give them consistency and finish. Thus it was de- clared that the Yankees would not fight, and that one Southerner could whip five Yankees; that France and England would certainly in- tervene in their behalf, would raise any block- ade that might be attempted of the Southern ports, and that cotton was king and would bring the world on its knees before it. , Such were the inducements by whieh the Southern people were led to make war upon the North, to violate their obligations to the constitution and the Union; to shed , seas of blood, and with it, incarnadine their souls for- ever. And what has been the result? Instead of attempting a peaceful solution of secession, they preferred and inaugurated an appeal to the sword, commenced hostilities, and sought the effusion of blood. Instead of a six months war, they have had an exhausting one. of four years, to which their re- sources have proved entirely inadequate; instead of maintaining the area of the confed- eracy in its original quantity, four of the slave States have rofused the alliance and are still in the Union; not a single rebel State preserves itself intact; the whole power and vitality of the rebellion are now confined to a patch of ground botween Charleston and Richmond; no- where else has the confederacy an iota of polit- ical power, and this is very shortly to be crushed out by our victorious arms. The “central despotism” of Washington has been replaced by monstrous tyranny in Rich- mond, such as the corrupt and oruel dynasties of imperial Rome never equalled, and the wealth and stability they reckoned on as a nation are as baseless as the fabrics of all their other dreams. We must not forget that, under the terrible sway of an armed force, the gross delu- sions of the rebels chiefs could not have been resisted by their unhappy victims; that the peo- ple, so down-trodden and betrayed by Jefferson Davis and his followers, have been stupefied by their dangers and their sufferings into sfence; but no porsons know better than they that they have been grossly wronged and injured by their rulers. The North is full of unbappy re- fugeos, too happy to escape even with life from theie former hemes; and the army of Lee itself is losing regiments by the week of men who will fight like fools no more. Beyond all question the South would have abandoned the contest at the time the article alluded to appeared in the North Carolina pa- pers but for the aid and comfort received from treason in the North, sympathy in Canada and open advocacy in England. The blood- shed ofthe last two years is to be laid at the | deor of these three interests, But, nevertheless, the promises originally made by the Southern rebel leaders to their ignorant followers were not founded on fact, not justified by experience, and net within the possibilities of performance. This, from the first, has been the opinion of the most profound thinkers in Europe and America. Tas Inaveuration iv Wasaraton.—We yes- terday published a synopsis of the imaugura- tion proceedings in Washington on Saturday last. To-day we give a complete report of the ceremonies. The account will be found inter- esting. The contrast between the Presidential inauguration in 1861 and that of 1865 will strike the attention of every reader. On the former occasion the President elect was escorted to the Capitol surrounded by double lines of cavalry, armed to the teeth, with artillery to the front and rear, and with infantry in line and posted upon every point d’appui in the city. This formidable military array was not for the purpose of adding a peaceful and brilliant éclat to the ceremonies, as had been the custom, to a more or less extent, ever since the days of Washington; but it was to suppress a threatened outbreak by malcontents who had entered into an alleged conspiracy -to prevent by force, if necessary, the inauguration of Presi- dent Lincoln. In 1865—four years later—the same functionary passes from the Presidential mansion to the national Capitol surrounded by @ cordon of enthusiastic people, and amid their loud acclaims recites his second inaugural. The soldiery are not there to put down treachery, the salutes of artillery are not thundered forth as @ menace and « warning, the bunting is not displayed charingly, but in abundance; and, in short, the whole affair demonstrated what the people of the United States can accomplish if the administrators of their government be true to their oaths, firm in the performance of their duty, and self-sacrificing in the exercise of a pure end lofty spirit of patriotism. New Tress Cent Coms—No Mors Parzen Taras Cent Ccvnrencr—A law was passed by both houses of Congress during the closing hours to authorize the coinage of three cent plpors, (9 he counoned of copper and nickel, new Vice President of the United States, ex- hibited during the inauguration proceedings in Washington on Saturday, formed 8 curious episode in the ceremonies. It is true the gray- beard Secretary has been considered a fossil of antedilovian antiquity; but it was to besupposed that his name would have lived in history like those of Noah, Methuselah and that venerabl: race of pioneers; but it seems to have lost to the memory of the second officer in ti government of the United States. If our Vice President should ever have occasion to refer to the Secretary of the Navy again, and forget his name, let him of Rip Van Win- Kle or some other ancient, and the patronymic of the antiquated Gideon will immodiately occur to him. Amusements. ITALIAN OPERA TO-NIGHT. Verdi's grand opera, La Forza deb Destino, the chef @auore of this composer, with all its delicious music, splendid scenery and striking dramatic incidents, will be given at the Academy to-night. Although this fine.work has been produced only three or four times, its success is already firmly established, and it will, no doubt, remain a standard favorite, A great deal of its success is duo to the excellent and costly manner in which Mr. Matretzek has put it upon the stage.” The opora demands for its propea interpretation complete and well balanced orchestra— for the instrumentation is not the least meritorious part of the composition—a full chorus and artistio sconery, all of which are furnished by the liberality and good judg- ment of Mr, Maretzek ina way to leave no cause for complaint, This woek will be the last but one of Italian Opera, and we advise all who have not heard this grand work of Verdi to attend this evening, that they may be able to appreciate its beauties moro fully at future repetitions. GRAND COMBINATION OHARITY CONCERT. ‘Tho Society of the Christian Alliance, whose charitable ministrations are extended to the disabled soldiers and the widows and orphans of the heroes whe kaxaMllon in defonce of their country, announce & Lncert to take place at the Academy of Music on Thursday evening next, under the auspices of many of our most distin- guished citizens, Tho array of talont engaged in this en- torprise is immense, combining some of the leading artiste of Mr, Maretzek’s and Mr. Max Strakosch’s com- panies, including in the number Mrs. Jennie Van Zandt, Mile. Helene de Katow and Mr. Wehli. We hope thatthe concert will be as well attended as the attractions offored and the cause for which it ts got up doserve, PIANOFORTR SOIREE OF MR. MILIA. Mr, 8. B, Mills, tho pianist, will give his first piano- forte soirée at Stoinway’s rooms this ovening: He will be easisted by his pupil, Miss Luckhardt, o débutante. Tho seloctions are all from highly classic music of French and German compoacrs. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS. A new grand spectacular and local burlesque, entitled “Potroliamania, or Oil on the Brain,” will be produced at ‘Wood's Minstrel Hall for the first time this evening. The scenery ie mainly local, including William street and the Exchange, and is got up in splendid style. The events are funny and appropriate, and the (ableaus are said to be very fine. Of course it will draw an immense house, AMUSEMENTS FOR SAVANNAH. Mr. A. HE. Davenport leaves the city to-day on the steamer Arago, for Savannsh, with a full dramatic corps. His company comprises many celebrities of the profes- sion, and, from all reports, his prospects are excellent for success, Thespis always follows Mars. Communication with Sam Francisco Direct. On Sunday moming at three o'clock the wires of the ‘Western Union Company connected with the Pacific Ines and communication ished direct between this city and San Francisco, Though the weather was bad, rain failing at tne time at many points on the route, the wiros worked well, and a considerable amount of busi- ness was transacted. The distance ie nearly four thou- sand miles, and the difference of time about four hours, This is unquestionably the longest telegraphic circuit ever worked, and the fact that such « length of wire was telegraphee ever in one cirewlt is @ notable era in the history of telegraphing. City Intelligence. Mewnxo ov Tax Fins Derarruunt.—A special meeting of the joint committees of the Boards of Representatives and of Engineers and Firemen, of tho Fire rime! will bo held this evening, at half-past seven o'clock, Firemen’s Hall. 8 Fins cx Baroce Srreet.—Between-eight and nine o’clock last night a fire occurred in a brick stable No, 14 Bridge street, ocoupied by Thomas Dowling. The flames sproad into the adjoining stable, occupied by Charles Sweeny. The damage done to the property of Dowling amounts to about fifty dollars; no insurance. Mr. Sweeny got out his five horses, and all the horses belonging to the other partics were got out in safety. Mr. ag i tamed a yearn thy aig $100 on feed and —— ‘i for his family over ane atabl 0, sinorants vo about $100; insured for $2,200 on horses and household furniture in the Brooklyn Insurance Com- pany. Tho building is owned by Joseph Naylor. The damage to it amounts to about $100; said to be insured. ‘The cause of fire i at present unknown. Cond of our Thoroughfares. If cleanlinoss be “next to Godliness,” as some would have us suppose, it is much to be feared that the city of New York is very far removed from salvation, if not altogether belonging to his Satanic Majesty. For a period of certainly not less than two months our leading tho- roughfares have been in the most frightful condition. Frequent falls of snow and rain have made our city a Tegular enlarged edition of the village af Slopperton- squash, in England, where it is said no one dare venture out without a safety belt or patent sir cushion lest he might come to an untimely end by drowning, so miser- able ar tho street there. Any person who might have glanced at many if not all the streets of our city during the past week could not fail to imagine himself gazing upon the canal-intersected Venice, and it required but one or two gondolas gracefully skimming over the muddy sur- face, to make the illusion perfect. Where one docs not run the risk of being drowned by the water, ho is almost suffocated with mud—an escape from Scylla to Charybdis. How is it that other cities of the world, London and Paris for example, much larger than Now York, it #0 striking @ contrast to it in this particular? It ia Ffee aitronce of climate ee of #0 much more d-bris, but this does not sanction the t noglect in allowing {t to remain as it does in jew York updiaturbed for a longthenod period. In this weather, more es) when frosts are so frequent, some means should be ted to remove this nuisance. Foot and crossings, when not in a sloopy condition, are like seas of glasa and especially dangerous te trian, ‘Our Park ts open to the eitizens to “big things’ on ice, without having opportunities of witness- ing them aimost daily in the streets of oe But mud and water, snow and are not tl only inconvenience, In no street New York, re ps with a few exceptions, is thero @ level sur- co of pavement. Numerous depsssions, ya where stones have been, &¢., afford a convenient locale for water into which’ the unsuspecting pedestrian ofton slips to his unutterable discomfiture. How aro these ovils to be removed? The streets could be proper!; ved, with a gradual declination of about one and a half Pret at either side towards o channel, which might be kept perfectly clear; not as at present, completely choked up, and no je for the wator to the ings of ‘the sower#, which should be very numerous, would carry off all the water which now accumu- in the inequalities before referred to, The mud, snow, &o., wd be carted to the rives, or the former might be used for filing ap sach apn as ont in man, of the city. Now York porsesses facilitiés al- m veoh itgolf in having rivers so easy of ac- ‘cons, and when we see a large sum of money annually de- Voted to she perpens of wreet a and prenerrigg, our thoroughfares, ition, we can on! rast collection of Ath in our streets to gross ascribe the gross body tod ta behold a step made tn the Ste ar hi giance was due, and who felt that on them was INAUGURATION. Our Report of the Second Installation of Abraham Lincola as President of the United States. Scenes at the White House, in the Streets and at the Capitel: THE CROWDS, THE JAM, THE CEREMONY, Washington, March 4, 1861, and Washington, March 4, 1865. TED CONTRAST. President Shakes Hands With Everybody. INCIDENTS OF THE EVENING. fho Herald Photograph of Inaugu- ration Day, Key - Key ke. Tho morning of the inauguration day oponed most fnauspictously. A violent rain storm prevailed, The wind howled viciously. The rain poured in torrents The streets were transmuted inte beds of rivulets. Upom looking out from the chamber windows the scene pre sented was mud, mud everywhere, and not « dry spot te sot foot upon. A pretty prospect, indeed, for @ grand procession. Thousands of anxious visitante to the grea® political centre of the republic awoke with feelings of deep disappointment. They had come hither for enjoy> ment. They wore doomod to seek it by trudging throug ‘a sea of mud and a torrent of rain. But they bad come to Washington to take part in the inaugurm tion, and participate in it they would at whatever sacrifice of patent leathers or of dimity, Pantaloons were tucked into boot tops, skirts were looped up. The spirit stirring fife and drum, and the swelling muste of innumoraile brass bands were already sounding, and tho heavy tramp of soldiers, firemen and civic soctetie® marebing to the rendezvous was heard, warning loiterer® that the time of action was come. Thousands are am riving from Baltimore to take part in the coremonies. THE CONTRAST—1861 AND 1865. All are ready for the start. Abraham Lincoln ie to be for the second time inaugurated President of the United States. To those who were in Washington four years age to-day what a contrast is presented! Then the great re Dollion had just broken out, It was hardly fully de veloped. The muttering of the storm had been heard, bat it had not yet burst with all its fury upom e startled nay tion. The incendiaries of the South had been busy inané ‘out of the halls of Congress, predicting that a republicam President of the United States would never be inauga- rated. They had been for weeks marshalling thele forces for a grand coup d’état. Threats of assassination of the President elect had been openly made. Washing» ton, so long under democratic rule, was known to be thoroughly in sympathy with the secessionisia The, friends of the Union were few but firm. They wore anxious faces, but-were determined. There were others who had no sympathy with the republican party, but re- cognized the,elected candidate as the representative of the nation and the government to which their posed the duty of arrival on the day of tho inauguration, The guard of tho President elect was more than simply a guard of felt that he had taken his life might at any moment be called upon that solemn occasion the great civil war cession bullics in every public place in Washington. ‘The inauguration, then, was solemn and serious, There was more earncetness than pomp. Every man who par ticipated In it felt that he was doing a service to his coum- try at the peril of his life. ‘To-day the ecene was totally changed. The olty was Joyous and confident, No military guard was necessary, ‘The rain ceased as the programme of inauguration com» menced, and soon the sun shone out with royal splendor, It was a happy omen. The fears of the olden time wore forgotten. Happy faces and cheerful greetings were everywhere observed. Petticoats were substituted for pistols. The guards were simply guards of honor, Thore was danger nowhere, The President elect was busy signing bills at the Capitol. The procession moved along as ona gala day. It was indeed a gala day im ‘Washington. The national flag floated gracefully, nos only over the public buildings, but on every street ite Stars and Stripes were flung to the breeze from innume- rable private residences, Everybody felt that they were taking part in a holiday pageant, and every one felt alee that the clouds that had so long lowered over our Unien house were in the deep bosom of the ocean buried, and that the rainbow of peace, resting upon the shoulders of Grant and Sherman, was shedding its rays of splendee over the whole country. The solemnity of 1861 had gtv- en place to the joyousness of 1866, The ‘and the concluston of the war wore strongly typified t= the contrast. The change between now and then is the most striking commentary that can be made upon the condition of public affairs, — Around the White House. In the beginning i drisaled seriously, making thiags invisible, It looked as if the world had not vot gotten over its primitive hes stage—as if the crust were not yet cool, and the rain that came down was turned into steam, sg it touched, It was an atmosphere of warm steam fatal to appearances, It softened all things that ought not to be soft, especially the pomp, pride and cireum stance, &0. It made people put on their old clothos—an@ what very old clothes the people in Washington have got, ‘and can put on when put to lt. No one, of course, will put on bis good hat with the costainty that it will got wet; 90 Washington wore its old hat What a bat! Ne crown to it, no brim, no sides, nothing left of it but the holes in it, Washington also wore its old coat-—a seedy coat, out at elbows and grim with the peomedigated pove ‘erty of patches. Washington, doubtless, tad a cl shirt on; butas clean shite are principally known their starch, and asthe day was fatal to starch, itis @ polat that no one can prove, Say what we will about the dignity of human nature and manhood, and womanhoo@ ‘and all that, it isa ssceifying thing to human pride ups of peoplo on the Street trying to do a hol! in the rain with their old ¢lothes on. OLEARING UP. ‘At about half-past nine there was a favorable change.’ ‘The world got cool and the steain disappeared. ‘The sky, that had been olad in @ very dirty articto of robel gray, put on a better color. ‘Things that were before n= yloilg becaany opyarenh, Beyorel mom.y seen wilt SAW Bey