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

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, * EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 87S. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. AQADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Irautaw Orans— Pre tr pax Destino. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Hasunt. HEATRE, Bowery.—Romso xD pores Wasitu~ Howes Jom. JuLum—Povaarr 4xD arene THEATRE, Broadway.—Tioxst or Laave an. wourerie THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas Sraxevs or Naw ORK. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Daus Taot-Oxp Beai- wemrats—MuLinea’s Hovipar. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Nigsr snp Moawung. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Toosiae—Fomtr Wous, sie caro ARNUM'’S MUSEUM, Wouxn-—Living Sxuetos—Dw., xx of New Youx—Day and ve —Two Mamuorm Fat tant Box—Tus Woas- ming. BRYANTS' MINST! Mechanics’ Broad. Yazaermonie Bowes, Bancen,Buasaaeuta, ots WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 5i4 Broadway.—Erurorun Danoxs, £0,—Pstro.evaanis, 08 O14 OM THB Brain, BALLE DIABOLIQUB, 585 Broadway.—Rosers Hatczn’ ut QUB, way. 's VAN AMBURGH & CO.'3 MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, ‘SB9and 641 Broadway.—Open from 10.4. M. to 10 P. M. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth _strect.-Equusrata! Orunastic aup AGonitio Exrmcraiusvrs—MoTuam Goose AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Brondway.—Batiers, Panrommxs, BumLesqoxs, £0.—J xxx io HOOLEY'S MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery.—Som Dances, Bon.usques, &c.—Live hake. me 2 Ppa aig HALL, 806 Broadway.—Bunwerr's Even- ov Mintu anp Patuos. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10. A. M. ull 10 P.M. sie VANNUCHI’S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movixa WAx Figuns. Open Day and Evenin, Monday, March 6, 1863. THE NEW INTERNAL REVEN E LAW. On the second and third pages of this morning's Hexaup 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 0 additional of | The Work of moraing supply very interseting particulars Batre RA the demonstration and ceremonies attending she second of Mr. Lincoln as Chief Magistrate of the republic, on Saturday last, the 4th inst. A continuation of the list of bills passed and joint resolations adopted by the session of Congress just closed, which we commenced in yesterday's Hunaxe, is given in this morning’s issue. We also publish im full tho amended Internal Revenue law. Max 8. Hirschbeck, a pedier, residing at No. 35 Hester strect, has been arrested on suspicion of being the person who, om the night of the 25th ultimo, entered the store of Mr, Nathaniel B. Falconer and stele thorofrom a large quantity of valuable goods; and Joseph Cohen, of Chrystie street, and a man named Harris, living at No, 3 Bayard street, have also been arrested, suspected of being the Feceivers of the stolen articles. On Hirschback's person ‘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 Cohen have all three been committed for further examination. By the bark Idaho, which arrived here yesterday, we learn that the passengers from San Frazicieco intending to take the North Star, for New York, had not arrived at Aspinwall on the 14th of February. The Panama Mer- cantils Tlegraph 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 concession of territory on which to colo- 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 off ‘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 CGnally gratifying. On February 27 Major ‘Uiheral Sheridan, with a large force of cavalry, out on an expedition up the valley. His column moved with great rapidity, insomuch that spies and sympathizers along the route had no time ép raise the alarm pnd 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 2a and poor, as by this iaw the government expects to realize an annual revenue of four hundred mil- lions of dollars, with which to maintain the finan- @ial credit and honor of the republic. THE SITUATION. General Sheridan’s now movement up the Shenan- doah valloy, alluded to in Saturday morning's Hana, has, as appears from the despatches of General Grant, met with brilliant success, Deserters and refugees from Lee'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- lottesvilie and Staunton. General Sheridan has taken possession of both Charlottesville and Staunton. Whon dast heard from he was at the latier place, en roule, as supposed, for the important rebel town of Lynch- burg, to which additional forces had been sent from Richmond to opposd him. General Sheri- Gen commgneed his movement on last Monday, and ‘during bis @eiive operations in tho fleld General Hancock ‘will be ia command of Middle Military Department, with headquarters at Wii Va. A map of the fleld of Goneral Shoridan’s movements is given in this morning's Hara. ‘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 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 1s said to have occurred on the weet side of Cape Fear river. No additional positive intelligence han.been received regarding General Sherman’s progress. 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 fine for the annihilation or cap- ture of his entire foreo 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 accor- plishment of theso sanguinary but extremely difficult tasks, we have now to add a no less formidable military ‘antagonist than Governor Vance, of North Carolina, who is said to be “actively at work rallying the people and organizing resistance. ’’ ‘Mud appears to remain to a considerable extent master ef the situation before Richmond, The rain, up to Saturday last, had been so heavy and continuous for some days as to turn all the roads into sloughs, end put a stop to any very important movements on either 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 consequently are stil anticipating @ great battle in that vicinity. The Union forces along James river are nightly watching for Semmes and his rebel floot to attempt another raid. The rebels each night keep up @ heavy fire on the 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 withia the Union lines in large num- bere, A vory gallant little feat was performed in North Carolina lately by a 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. ~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 necessitato'iis further postponement In caso of favorable weather, the day will no doubt be obsorved as an almost universal holiday, and the demonstration will probably excoed anything of the kind which has ever yet been witnessed tn this city. ‘The general features of the Jubilee will con- Gist of unlimited displays of bunting, bell ringing, # mon- tor procession, an immense mass meeting in Union @quare in the afiornoon, and {iluminations and pyro- teohnio exhibitions at night; but all the particulars of each of these divisions of the proceedings are innume table, The procession will commence moving from the ‘corner of Fourteonth street and Broadway about one o'clock in the afternoon. This t# the day forthe commencement of the March torm of the law courts; but it is not likely that much ‘Dusiness will be done in any of them, on account of the @ational celebration in the city. Probably the calendars ‘Will be. called ig each, after which, it is supposed, will be sajonrnet ail bo thorrow. se , Gur Wesbingjoa deagatcbes which we publish this inst., between Staunton and Charlottesville, capturing Early himself and his whole com- mand. The enemy, alarmed at this sudden Congress—Taxes ond ‘Ways end Means. ‘The acta of the late session of Congress, the list of which we partially published yesterdey, we finish to-day. The schedule embraces vari- ous important public measures, the most promi- nent among them the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, the Internal Tax and Tariff bills, and the Annual Appropriation bills—excepting the omnibus bill of odds and ends, which could not be brought up to time. Among the other measures which have failed is the General Bankrupt bill, and the Washing- ton and New York Air Line Railroad bill. We presume, however, that there is nothing in any 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 fopr hundred millions, or go 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 Decembor 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, famatical and factious bes iPFbih Congress has done much to build upé creditable record. With- 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 entrep6ts 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- 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 issue of our recent and rapid suceession of victories, Gradually the armies of the nation are envel- oping the centre and Iast stronghold of the re- bellion. Grant holds 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 Cetesration 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 sa 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 tho 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 shali 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. Narotzon TB Parvenv AND JOHNSON THE Pizneux.—When Napoleon IIL published his official announcement‘of his intended nuptials with the fair Engenic, 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 hisname? of the Navy, were also plebeians, These ought to make company sufficiently respectable for the most fastidious tastes. These gentlemen certainly mingle in highly influen- out farther remark we submit our synopsis of the new Internal Revenne 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.. , In our Washington despatches will be found some allusion to # curious declaration said to have been recently made by the Emperor Napoleon at a grand ball at the, palace of the Tuileries, to an American gentleman of high 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 importance 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 before 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 ot 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 o 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 bonsted 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 @ destructive war with such « Power 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. Avom mm Dnarr.—In ten days from this time we shall have a draft in tho city if the people do not bestir themselves to fill up the 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- terie 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; but some of their descendants, so far from con- sidering themselves @ lower order of society, are now the most influential outcroppings of metropolitan aristocracy. 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 lable to be drafted hurry up with a substitute. It will cost nothing, for the committee will give six hundred dollars bounty. Let every patrlot not liable to be drafted, who desires pence and Union, burry up with a recruit, and 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 qoue all the better if the ranks are filled up. New York is proverbial for doing things on a 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 huge fashion. We have the largest Park on the continent. Let us go to, work, thea, in a like spirit, and on « big scale, and fill up the quota of men required of us, and spare the me- tropolis the dishonor of a conscription. The End of the Delusion—Rebet 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 thelr 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 at a meeting of these leaders at Montgomery, at an early period necessary of secession, it was deemed for the prosecution of their plans that “blood should” be sprinkled in the faces of the people.” « Ina very able article on this subject, attri- buted at the time of its publication (July 31, 1868,) 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 olared 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, thoy 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: nota 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 a 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 beon resisted by their unhappy victims; that the peo- pie, so down-trodden and betrayed by Jefferson Davis and his followers, have been stupefied by their dangers and their sufferings into sfence; but no persons know better than they that they have been grossly wronged and injured by their rulers, The North is full of unhappy 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 tho 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 of the last two years is to be laid at the door of these three interests. But, nevertheless, the promises originally made by the Southern rebel leaders to thuir 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 Ixavcuration 1x Wasurnaton.—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 » peaceful and brilliant éolat 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 a cerdon 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 oan 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 and lofty spirit of patriotism. New Tarez Orwr Coms—No Morn Parr Tanse Cent Cvnrencr—A law was passed by both houses of Congress during the closing hours to suthorize the coinage of three cont gloom, to be coumoned, of copes and nickel, antediluvian antiquity; but it was to besupposed that his name would have lived in history like lost to the memory of the second officer in 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 think of Rip Van Win- Kle or some other ancient, and the patronymic of the antiquated Gideon will immediately ocour to him. Amusements. ITALIAN OPERA TO-NIGHT. Verdi's grand opera, La Forea deb Dectino, the chef @auvre of this composer, with all its delicious musto, 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 opera demands for its propea interpretation a complete and well balanced orchestra— for the instrumontation is not the least meritorious part of the composition—a full chorus and artistic scenery, all of which are furnished by the liberality and good judg- ment of Mr. Maretzek ina way to leave no causo 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 more fully at future repetitions, GRAND COMBINATION OHARITY CONCERT. ‘Tho Society of tho Christian Alliance, whoso charitable ministrations are extended to the disabled soldiors and tho widows and orphans of the heroos who haxafilion in defonce of their country, announce a Wi cert, wo 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 numbor Mrs. Jennie Van Zandt, Mile. Helene de Katow and Mr. Webli. We hope thatthe concert will be as woll attended as the attractions offored and the cause for which it is got up deserve, PIANOFORTR SOIREE OF MR. MILIA. Mr, & B, Mills, tho planist, will give his first plano- forte soirée at Stoinway’s rooms this ovening: He will be exsistod by his pupil, Miss Luokhardt, a débutante, Tho seloctions are all from highly classic music of French and Gorman composers, ‘Woop'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 is mainly local, including William street and the Exchange, and is got up in splendid style. The events are funny and appropriate, and the (ableaua are said to be very fine. Of course it will draw an immense house, AMUSEMENTS FOR SAVANNAH. Mr. A. Hi. Davenport leaves the city to-day on the steamer Arago, for Savannah, 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 San Francisco Direct. On Sunday morning at three o'clock the wires of the Western Union Company connected with the Pacific ines and communication direct between this city and San Franciace, 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 busl- ness was transacted. The distance is nearly four thou- sand miles, and the difference of time about four hours, ‘Thin is unquestionably the longest telegraphic circuit ever worked, and the fact that such a length of wire was telegraphee ever in one circuit is @ notable era in the history of telegraphing. City Intelligence. Muzerixe ov Tax Fire Derarruunr.—A special meeting of the joint committees of tle Boards of Representatives: and of Engineers and Firemen, of the Fire Department, will be held this evening, at half-past seven o'clock, at Firemen’s Hall. , Fine cx Barpae Srreer.—Botween-eight and nine o'clock last night a fire occurred in a brick stable No, 14 Bridge stroet, ocoupied by Thomas Dowling. The flames spread into the adjoining stable, occupied by Charles Sweeny. The damage done to the property of Dowling amounts to about fifty dollars; no insurance. Mr. Swoeny got out his five horses, and all the horses belonging to the other parties were got out in safety. Mr. baa Ke cbepeenare sy tig tg apa harness, He becupied apartments for his stable. The damage to his Les amounts to about $100; insured for $2,200 on horses ai household furniture in the Brooklyn Insurance Com- . Tho building is owned by Joseph Naylor. The Ramage to it a ousts te ‘dpout $100; said to be insured. ‘The cause of the fire is at present unknown. Condition 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 romoved 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. Frequont falls of snow and rain have made our city a Tegular enlarged edition of the village of 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 fall to imagine himself gazing upon the canal-interseoted 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 ran the risk of being drowned by the water, he is almost suffocated with mud—an escape from Scylla to Charybd's. How is it that other cities of the world, London and Paris for le, much than New ¥« sep cwrittng e cubtense to Wie this partiowlar? br difference of climate account for the existence of #0 much more d-bris, but this does not sanction the it neglect in allowing it to remain as it does in New Yon updisturbed for a ner period. aan weather, more when are 80 bomo means should be to remove this nuisance. Footy and crossings, when not in a sloopy condition, are Ii tp pey er | te trian. Our Park is open to the citizens to “big things” on ice, without having opportunities of witness- ing them almost daily in the strects of our re But mud and water, snow and —, e not only inconvenience. In no street New York, thaps with a few exceptions, is thero @ level sur- ce of pavement, Numerous depessions, — where stones have been, &o., afford a convenient locale for water into which the unsuspecting pedestrian ofton slips to his unutterable discomfture, How aro these ovils to be removed? Tho streets could be proper! ved, with a gradual declination of about one and a half feet at either side towards o channel, which might be kept perfectly oear; not as at t, completely choked up, and pi ling no for the water to the ings of the #ewer®, which should be very numerous, fie would carry off all the water which now accumu- lates in the inequalities before referred to. The mud, froz peal 1 mi , ee Ahad rives, or = uw |p such gaps as exipt in seein the city. Now York Pomedten teclitite at AD} of \- Pf veethier to Itself in having rivers so easy of ac- cess, and when we see a large sum of money annually de- voted to the purpose of street clean’ and preserving “our thoroughfares in he a Condition, we can only ascribe the vast collection of filth in our streets to gross fe ‘<. lon, meester ta behold Ty Ly tn the baving of the INAUGURATION. Our Report of the Second Installation of Abraham Lincoln 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 CONTRA. INCIDENTS OF THE EVENING. The Herald Photograph of Inaugu- ration Day, Kee - Ker &er The morning of the inauguration day oponed most inauspictously, A violent rain storm prevailed. The wind howled viciously. Tho rain poured in torrents, ‘The streets were transmuted inte beds of rivulet. Upom looking out from the chamber windows the scene pre- sentod was mud, mud everywhere, and not « dry spot te got foot upon. A pretty prospect, indeed, for @ grand procession. Thousands of anxious visitante to the groad political centre of the republic awoke with feelings of deep disappointment. They had come hither for enjoy- ment, They were doomed to seek it by trudging throug ‘a sea of mud and a torrent of rain, But they bed come to Washington to take part in the imaugare tion, and participate in it they would at whatever tacrifice of patent leathers or of dimity. Pantsloons wore tucked into boot tops, skirts were looped up. The spirit stirring fife and drum, end the swelling muse of innumorable brass bands were already sounding, and tho heavy tramp of soldiers, firemen and civic societies marghing to the rendezvous was beard, warning loiterer® that tho time of action was come, Thousands are am riving from Baltimore to take part in the coromonies. THE CONTRAST—1861 AND 18665, All are ready for the start, Abraham Lincoln ts 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- Dellion bad Just brokem out, It was hardly fully de veloped. The muttering of the storm had been heard, but it had not yet burst with all its fury upom a startled na- tion. The incendiaries of the South had been busy inané out of the halls of Congress, predicting that a republicaa: President of the United States would never be inauge- rated, They had been for weeks marshalling thele forces for » grand coup d'état. Threate of assassination of the President elect had been openly made. Washing» ton, #0 long under demooratic 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 tho republican party, but re- felt that he had taken his life in bis hand, an@ might at any moment be called upon to begin upos. cocasion the great civil war whose dar® already darkening the land. nent in the proceedings was to make cach a shining mark for the enmity that was everywhere manifested, To have participated in tho inavguration was to ostraciss oneself from Washington society and to become the marls for the finger of scorn of mion, tho curled lip and up- turned nose of women, and the curscs and threats of o» cession bultics in every public place in Washington. ‘The inauguration, then, was solemn and serious, There try at the peril of his life, To-day the scene was totally changed. The city 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 splendos, It was a bappy 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 wae busy signing bills at the Capitol. The procession moved along as onagala day. It was indeed a gala day im ‘Washington. The national flag floated gracefully, nos only over the public buildings, but om 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, an@ over the whole country. The solemnity of 1861 had gtv- en place to the joyousness of 1866. The commencemeas Ply ‘and the conclusion of the war wore strongly typified t= the contrast, The change between now and then is the most striking commentary that can be made ugon the condition of public affairs. —_ Around the White House. In the beginning & drizzled seriously, making thiags invisible, It looked as if the world had not yet gotten, over its primitive hes stage—as if the crust were not yet cool, and the rain that came down was turned into steam, ‘ea it touched. It was an atmosphere of warm sicam/ fatal to appearances. It softened all things that ought not to be soft, especially the pomp, pride and clroum stance, &o. Is made people put on their old clothas—an@ what very old clothes the people in Washington have got, and can puton when put to it. No one, of course, will pat on his good hat with the cestainty that it will gos wet; #0 Washington wore its old hat What a batt Ne crown to it, no brim, no sides, nothing left of it Dut the holes in it, Washington also wore its old coat—a seedy coat, out at elbows and grim with the promedigated pove erty of patches. Washington, doubtless, tad a shirt on; butas clean shizte are principally known thoir starch, and asthe day was fatal to starch, it is @ point that no one can preve, Say what we will about thé dignity of human naturo and manhood, and womanhoo® ‘end all that, dreamer to human pride ps of peoplo on the Street trying to do a hy in the rain with their old clothes on. OLRARING UP. ‘At about half-past nine there was a favorable change.’ ‘The world got cool and the steam disappeared. The sky, that had boon old in a very dirty article of robel gray, put ona better color. ‘Things that were before \n= log becauny opgaronh, Seyeral gen ntey seen wit