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SHERMAN. Rebel Accounts of His Devastation of South Carolina. NOT A HOUSE ON HIS ROUTE SPARED. ’ Another Battle with Hampton’s Cavalry. “The Bebe) Colonel Aiken Killed and Major Bar- ker, of flampton’s Staff, Wounded, &c., &e., &c. The Pesotation of South Carolina. PSTATEMENT OF A REVEL OFFICER—FIGAT WITH SHERMAN'S CAVALRY ON ‘THE 3p INST. [From the Richmond Examiner, March 10.) We saw last evening an officer from South Carolina, ‘He reports that the enemy have completely devava'd the | count y Ur ugh which they have passed. They have not = spared a single house along their track, and have wreaked their vengeance upon that State with a most savago and ) murderous spirit. Thvy have shown no mercy to either aex, and have spared nothing on their march which » could be devoured by fire aud sword. Woe aro told tho p- ple have no concoption of the conduct of Sherman's army, and the widespread destruction and tho infamous “excesses they have committed, In another column will be found an account of Sher- man’s burning of Columbia, which we get from a South- orn paper, kindly furnished us by the same officer. We regret to hear that Col. Aiken, of Genoral Butler's :South Carolina cavalry, was killed in a skirmish near last Friday evening. Major Barker, Assistant Adjutant General of Geperal Hampton's staff, was wounded at the eame time, but not dangero: sly. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Warnivatoy, March 12, 1865. THE OHANGES IN THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. ‘It has been determined by the President to place ex- ‘Senator Morton 8. Wilkinson, of Minnesota, at tho head -0* tho Indian bureau as the successor of Mr. Dole. Tho change will take place early this week. The new Secre- “tary of the Interior will probably also assume the duties +of his positién at an earlier date than was anticipated. “Tie cause assigned for hastening these changes is the maladministration of Indian affairs. All sorts of rumors <are afloat with reference to corrupt transactions connected ‘with the purchase of goods for distribution among the va- erious Indian tribes, and the names of the Secretary and “Commissioners of Indian affairs are freely used ag being interested in this matter as well as in that of the scrip of ths Fox Indians mentioned last night. Whether ‘whey are really culpable, or that this is only a war upon them instigated by parties now out of the ring, who are ‘anxious to secure some of the. spoils under the new ré- <géme, is dificult to determine. At all events it is pretty ~cortain that the changes will take place almost imme- diately, and that they have been precipitated by the re- Ports of a committee of investigation, which has recontly made am examination into the affairs of the Indian Bureau THE DAMAGE TO THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL. The damages to the Chesapeake’ and Ohio canal are ‘thus reported officially:—Dam No. 6, above Williams- port, washed away; the stone aqueduct, two hundred feet high, at Williamsport, fallen in; the stone culvert, four miles below, carried away; three breaks near Sharpsburg, thiee more at Edward’s Ferry, and four be- ‘tween Seneca and Georgetown. OONFIRMATIONS BY THE SENATE. John G. Nicolay, Eaq., the private secretary of Presi- ~dent Lincoln, was nominated yesterday for the post of ~eonsul to Paris, to fill the vacancy created by the promo- tion of John Bigelow, the late incumbent to the post of Charge d’affairs at the French Court. The nomination ‘was unanimously confirmed. Mr. Nicolay is a tne scholar, speaks French and German fiuently, and will be sable to bring to his position a thorough i:nowledge of American politics, and a full insight into the workings of the administration since the beginning of the rebellion. Mr. Nicolay will not proceed immediately to Paris, but ‘will continue for some time yet in the discharge of his ~-duties as private secretary. : The Senate also confirmed the nominations of Oscar Malmers, of Minnesota, consul at Galatza; H. H. F. Gur- Jey, of Iowa, at Quobec, and Thomas P. Smith, of Massa- chusetts, at La Rochelle; Richard M. Corwine to be attor- ny, and Alexander C. Sands, marshal of the Southern istrict of Ohio; Geo. D. Hill, of Michigan, surveyor general for the Territory of Dakota; Lyman E. Munson, of Connecticut, an associate justice of the Supreme ~Court of the Territory of Montana; James Russel Jones, marshal for the North of Illinois. The following gentlest wees confirmed as the judicial ‘officers for the United States for the District Court of Nevada:—Alexander W. Baldwin, judge; Robert M. Clarke, attorney; Edwin Irwin, marshal. VIGOROUS RECRUITING IN THE WEST. It has been ascertained from an authentic source that ‘volunteering is progressing vigorously, especially in the ‘West. Wisconsin, with only six districts, has put in more men under the present call than the State of New York. The bulk of the recruits are enlisted for the old infantry regiments, New regiments are, however, being rapidly formed, and already the following organizations have been forwarded to the fleld:—From Ohio, five regi- ments; from Indiana, four; from Illinois, ten; from Wisconsin, one; all infantry; and also from Wisconsin ‘one regiment of hoavy artillery; total, twenty-one. Dis- tricts which fail to recruit rapidly are now being drafted -or about to be drafted for their respective quotas. EXPIRATION OF COMMISSIONS OF OFFICERS AP- POINTED IN 1861. ‘Tho commissions of a large number of federal officers, ‘who were appointed for four years in 1861, will expire in ~& few days, whon their commissions will be renowed by ‘the President or other appointments made in place of the ‘Incumbents, the Senate to act upon them at its next meeting. ‘VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON RESTORED TO HEALTH. The Chronicle of to-day says:— Vice Prosidont Johnson in the Senate yester- day in company with his nd, Hon. Preston King, of New York, who is beng f with him at the residence of our hospitable fellow tii Francis P. Blair, Sr. His health is entirely restored. was as ch las any man could be after ha' rere an indisposition. We have no doubt he win fay jose the ‘warmest anticipations of his countrymen. During his — in plicecr tak ven Vey born number of ~ 4 = satisfaction, that teey were pleased to see him { ‘WM. B. BELCH PARDONED BY THE PRESIDENT. ‘Wm. B. Belch, late special officer of the Fourth Con- @roasional district of New York, who was sentenced by ‘military court martial to the Penitentiary at Albany, has ‘boon pardoned by the President for the remainder of the ‘term for which he was sentenced. OPBRATIONS OF THE NATIONAL BANE, Two milliohs two hundred thousand and five hundred ollars of national currency were issued to the banks from the Treasury during the week onding yesterday, making @ total ciroulation of $101,526,100, STUMP GPRAXING IX NEW HAMPSHIRE. ‘Mr. MoPherson, Clerk of the House, who is an accom- plished public speaker, left town on Monday evening to make «few speeches in New Hampshire, which State is always considered somewhat erratic til! after clection. end NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS, The Appropriation bill appropriates $24,500,000 ‘for the completion and repatr of vessels, and for their equipment nearly $6,000,000, and for the fepair, wear and tear of machinery of vessels in commis. sion, over $17,000,000. The appropriations for the navy yards are as follows :—Portamouth, N. H., $817,000; Bos. ton, $26,000; New York, $896,000; Philadetphia, $286,000; Washington, $218,000; Norfolk, $468,000, TRADE WITH REBEL STATES. ‘Tho bill to repeal the section of tho act which provides for the appointment of agents to purchase cotton and other products of insurrectionary States was not vetoed ‘by the President, but, it wns said, failed to receive his signature, which amounts to about the same thing— namely, ite failure to become a law. THA HASTY LEGISLATION OF THE LAST HOURS OF cor Fas, The hasty and confused manner in which business was pasned ‘hrouq’ » last two days of the Session ia Sut smnav L2.e most creditable of the orgeredings (of Congress. The Bemate amendments te the Amendstory ‘Revenue, the Amendatory Tariff and the Indian Appro- priation bills were not even read to the House, being 80 Rumerous, but were all non-concurred in bodily, and forthwith sent to the conference committees, on whose reports and with but brief and occasionally imperfect explanations they were adopted; and again, to a bill merely to define the pay of officers’ ser- vants, twenty or thirty sections were added in re- lation to military aflairs, including an amendatory Enrolment bill and kindred objects; and on these thoro had to be a committee of conference, and rushed throigh without an intelligent knowledge of thelr character, The Civil Appropriation bill owes its dofeat to being loaded down with oxtraneous amendments and the want of time to adjust the differences between the two houses. ‘The Amendatory Tariff bill imposes an additional duty of two dollars a ton on railroad iron. INSIDE VIEW OF FANCY STOCKS. sures, de. [Brom tho Boston Travetter, March 7.) The report of Henry K. Oliver and Levi Reod, Commis. sioners of Corporation Tax, recently made to’ the State Senate, contains facts of some interest to ing in what are termed “fancy stocks.’’ sioners had assessed the tax on coal and mining compa- nies, us reqnired by law, basing their estimates of the cash market value of the stocks, in many cases, upon published notices of sales at the ‘stock board. Some of thece cotmpanies asked fora hearing that there might be a reduction of the atnount assessed, and a hearing was granted, when evidence was presented in reference to some of the companies, as follows: — Albert Case, Treasurer of the American Gold Min'ng Company, which had ben quoved at 1061, reported that afew shares of the stock had been sold at twenty-five conts a share on the lat of May, but no stock had been sold at the brokers’ bourd. He certified that the sales reported to have taken place at the brokers’ board in April ‘were mere quotations, The salea were not real, and no stock thus reported sold was transferred or pald for.” James Foley made oath that the roported sales wero ‘what brokers term ‘scratched siles,’’’ and that “Mr. Caso obtained! 120,000 shares at twenty cents per shar». The Atlantic Gold Mining Company had been quoted at $1 8734 a $2, and Charles Barrett deposed that an agree- mont was mede among the stockholders not to sell their shares for a certain time, with a viow of allowing a member of the board to dis- pee of twenty thousand shares sale at said pard, and thus give the stock a market value; that under this avrecment efforts were made, as he believes, by said broker to sell some of said shares of stock, and the stock was quoted on some days at two dollars per share; but he believes no sales were made, and that the stock ‘was not worth more than twenty-five cents. Isaac 8S. Morse deposed as followa:— I, Isaac S. Morse, on oath depose and say that I have been connected with the company called the Atlantic G ld Mining Company, sine its organization. That coms month since, as T am informed and believe, there was an effort made by the parties interested in the stock of said company to obtain the signatures of all the owners of stock in said company to ap agreement not to sel! in transfer, their stock for sixty days, with a view of aliow- ing a member of the brokers’ board to dispose of ten thousand shares of the stock of said company by from time to time at said board, and thus give the a market value. That under this agr:ement efforts wero, as Iam informed, and believe, made by said broker to sell some of said shares, and the stock was quoted on somo days at two dollars per share, and in somo cases at a higher rate, when, as I have reason to b lieve, no sales were in fact made, ThatI had nothing to do with the aforesaid transaction, further than to sign said agree- ment when requested so to do. That the aforesnid broker gave, as Iam informed and believe, fifty gents Per share for ten thousand shares, on the condition that all the stock owned by him ‘should be kept from market, That from my knowledze of thé condition of the affairs of said company on tho first day of May last, I do not believe that the said stock in said company was worth more than twenty-five cents per share, nor do I believe there has been any day since, when said stock was worth in the market a8 much as twenty-five conta per share. ied ioorig owned by said company is believed to be of considerable value; but the company is ombar- rassed for want of acash capital to prosecute its business, and I do not believe that the stock would now bring in the market as much as ten cents per share. I know of no actual sales of the stock of said company for more than fifty cents per shara, Jamos Dana, of Charlestown, one of the largest share- holders, deposes that he sold two thousand sharos in April for fifty cents; but he doubts whether they would have brought twenty-five cents at auction. Albert Case, Treasurer of the Brome Mining Company, quotedat $2, reported that, prior to the 1st of May, hd endeavored to seli at thirty cents a share, but could not find purchasers, am pois ores lee het se the bare read — mM psny, james ley deposed. it they of some of the stock for sale at the brokers’ 5 it was Serer hs erp eaees times, but the sales were fic- jous. Gustavus Farley, Treasurer of the Champlain Copper Mining Company, that Ie egret me made at the brokers’ board of that stock forthe two weeks prior to the Ist of oy A fictitious sales, E. D. Bell, jident, and other officers of the Chatham Mining Company, quoted at twenty-five cents, deposed thas sales of the stock of that company were fictitious, and that the cash market value was not more than ten cents. Benj. F. Martin, President of the Coalbrook Mining Company, depoved that the mere composing the company advanced ten dollars per shar, bat had failed to meet the success anticip»ted. He did not think the stock could be sold for one doliar per share. Should the company succeed in Making the undertaking ee bie they would cheerfully pay assessments made by the government. J. E. M. Gilley, Treasurer of the Chebucto Gold Mining Company (quoted at $1 15), certified that the stock was not worth over seventy-five cents, and the quotations made at the brokers’ board in April did not represent the true market value of the stocks. W. M. Parker, President of the Colonial Gold Company, deposed that some of the stocks was put on to the brokers’ board last spring, and fictitious quotations were obtained and reported as high as fifty-nine cenis, with a view of influencing immediate sale of the stock, but real sales were being made at the same time at twenty cents. In July he was willing to sell any amount for less than ten cents. Matthew Cox, Director of the Colorado Gold Mining Company, and other officers, testified that the stocks, quoted at $4 60 per share, would not have brought more than ‘to $2, if @ forced eale of 5,000 to 10,000 shares had le. A. B. Ely, in the absence of the treasurer of the follow- ing Mining Companies—Colonia! Gold, Lae (quoted at twenty-cight cents), Glencoe, Dayton and Roscoe, re- ports that only the Glencoe had any substantia! value on the Ist of May, and the value of that was only twenty- five cents. Since then all those stocks had sunk out of sight. W. M. Parker, President of the Dayton Mini Company, would engage to deliver certificates for $40,006 of the stock at two per cent of the par value. oe Mk) boven = value of the heap hed ¢ Grand Copper Mining Company was one d per share, and that the sales in April at one dollar and twelve and a half cents to one dollar and seventy-five cents, were not actual sales. Officers of the Green Mountain Mining Company re- ported that about the Ist of May the market value of the stock was two dollars and fifty cents, and that the quota- tions of as reported, did not represent actual sales to any iderable extent. John H. Chadwick, Presi- dent, says the sales made at the brokers’ board were mostly quotations by outside parties, made for their own Private purposes, as a maticr of speculation; and that the company, as such, had nothing to do with such sales and quotations, The officers of the Kent Gold Mining Company, quoted at thirty cents, declare that the reported sales were ficti- —_ and that the stock was not worth more than ten cent vi gg ener a aoa Joseph H. Bragdon Verance, sev ly deposed that Logan Coy stocks, quoted at one dollar and seventy-five conts totwo dollars, were selling in large lote at fifty cents, A. B. Ely reported that he thought the stock of the ‘oal Company, quoted at seventeen dollars and fifty cents, was not worth anything, and that the in- vestment would prove a total loss. Shares of the Newton Mining Company were quoted at thirty cents, while real sales were made in April at six anda ‘see cents. C. Clinton Beers, President, and Augnetus Merrick, ‘one of the directors of the National Mining Com: ved juotations of the stock of said brokers’ boards in Boston, ‘Were mere quotations; that there never was an actual sale at either of the boards of said stock; that the high- est cash price ever received for any of said stock was twenty-five cents per share for one thousand shares, this having been made on or before the 12th day of April Past; that on or about that day the stockholders entered {nto a stipulation not to nell Any of sald stock for days, on account of EE irpose of ing the same heer iration of the eald term the said stock sold for prices ranging from 8 few pellers getting over for ther 4B fated that shares of the Oxford Plu - ago Mining Com; w | ing at from fourtten to twenty-two cent, Wan, Ramen that the reported sale at thirty cents was merely jotation. Levent heey pln jnoted at two dollars and fifty bat could not have ‘old for more than one dollar and cont ta, ‘Owners of mock in tho Waterloo Mining Compan: quoted at one dollar and fifty cents, dopoesd that they would have been glad to sell at twenty-five cents, Coroner's Inqueste. Fatar Bursino Casvartize.—About seven o'clock on Saturday cvoning, a lad. named John Wood, who resided 80 Frankfort stroet, was #o terribly burned by his clothes secidentally taking fire that he died some ane subsequently in the New York Hospital, whither he ha beeen Coroner Gover waa notified to hold an Gover was also called to hold an inquest over the remains of Elizabeth Gilbert, a child two and a half rears of age, who died st ee lence of her parents, in ifty-secon: near Seven’ ore in consequence of burns received by her clothes taking fire from a stove, during the absence of her mother from the room. KiLueo BY Fatzina Dowx Stams,—On Saturday oven- ing, 4 man named McDermott, while under the influence of liquor, fell dowh a flight of staira at No. 93 Oliver street, and was so terribly injured that he died soon a terwards, His remaina were conve’ to the Fourth precinet station, house, and Coroner Gave to bold an inquest have temporarily abdicat NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1064 THE CLERGY ON HEALTH. Sermons Yesterday on the Sanitary Question. The Rev. Drs. Vermilye, McClintock, Smith “and Thompson on the Condition of the Metropolis, &e., &o., &e. A number of our leading clergymen turned municipal reformers yesterday and preached sermons on the sani- tary condition of the city. Wo give brief reports of what they said on the subject. Sermon by Rev. Thomas E. Vermilye. ‘The Rev. Thomas B. Vermilye delivered a forcible ser- mon to his congregation, in the Reformed Dutch ehurch, at the corner of F:lton and William stre-ta, yesterday, on the subject of reforming the Legislature and the eity gov- ernment, so as to procure a better sanitary condition of the city. After reviewing the relations of the citizen to the government of a free country in genoral, and showing tho importance of every good man performing his indi- vidual part in controlling its management, he passed on to the more immoiiate part'of his subject. He said Now York is the metropolis of the United States, the chief city of the continent, and almost tho chief commercial mart of the world. ler citizens are of no mean origin, Her history is most honorable, her progress and wealth unparalleled; yet, in other rexpocts, she is the meanest city. on the globe. More healthful in situat‘on than London, Boston or Philadelphia, the porcentage of mortality ts crate hwe than im any of them. The cauge of th's is to be found in the mismanagement of her.affairs. Etyht hundred thousand dollars are re- coived annually by the inspector of the department which has control of the cleansing of the city; yet the markets, the streets and tho vacant lots are a disgrace and a dan- ger. The proacher pictured the miserable condition of several tenements which he visited, and showed that there is work for the benevolent also in these. Tho remedy for all the evils is to place no_rioters or convicts in the offices of conncilmon or’ heads of departments. The debt of the city is now $42,000,000, and the ann:zal expenditure $15,000,000—or more than the whole ox- penses of tho government when Juhn Quincy Adams was President and people were crying out against his ex- travagance. Ho impr.ased upon his congrogation that they have the remedy for all this waste and dan- ger in thoir own power, and that God will hold them accountable if they do not use it, The Chelsea Presbyterian Church. At the Chelsea Presbyterian church, in Twenty-second street, near Ninth avenue, Rev, E. D. Smith delivered a discourse yesterday morning, in which he made somo allusion to the present sanitary condition of our city. He took his text from Corinthians, 2d chapter and 4th verse—Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on tho things of others,"’ The nd gentleman called attention to the prevailing sin of sel- fishness, Christ was the great exemplification of benevo- lence, but few'there were whe strictly followed his exam- ple. In our city we had good and benevolent institutions, such a3 Sunday schools, missionary and tract sociotics, where religion, Pillnsiory: and love of the Gospel were clearly exemplified. But there were many other things that we lucked. In our very midst, annually, thousands were sacrificed, who hi been abandoned to bo- come the prey of disease and death. This was no sensational = asserion, Thonsands had been destroyed in the city of Now York trom the want of the adoption of proper sanitary measures, San‘tary science had beon entirely ignored by democratic Amo- rica. We were far behind the monarchical and despotic Powers of Europe in this particular. According to the City Inspector's report for 1861 our chief mortality ‘was owing to wretched habitations. More than twenty thousand of our citizens were living mnie gro gn in cellars, inhaling the miasma and noxious odors of those places, The annual death rate in London some years ‘ago was one in twenty; bat, after vigorous efforts on the part of the authorities, this was reduced to one in forty- five. If we reduced the death rate in New York in-com- parison with that of London should save annually nine thousand lives, For nine years our Academy of Medicine had made efforts to do away with those evils; but they had been unsuccessful; the Legislature had re- fused to act. belies all yor hy this Cea — in petitioning the Legislature, necessary, doman tho removal of those evils, 1 After some further remarks of # similar nature the reverend gentleman concluded. Rev. John McClintock’s Address, In the Methodist Episcopal church corner of Twenty- second street and Fourth avenue, after the ordinary services, the pastor, Rev. Dr. McClintock, addressed his numerous hearers on the vital subject of the day—one most properly and appropriately taken up by many cler- gymon in the city and made tho subject of eloquent dis- courses in the pulpit—an appeal for sanitary reform in the poorer quarters of the city. The reverend gentleman took for his text a portion of the twentieth verse of the sixth chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians—‘‘Glorify God in your body.” In his opening remarks he reviewed the gradual decay in the patriotism of the men to whom has been entrusted from time to time the administration of the municipal goverument of the city; men, who, bent only on their oO izement, pecuniarily and politically, had per- ‘the most naturally salubrious and healthful city in world to become the most pestilential and destruc- Uve of human life to be found an; here. New York, not only om account of {ts natural advantages, but ns the centre & great Christian civilization, ought to be the home of « lived and vy ous people. Christian civilizati was a a in imparting and establis! healthful tone to the physical system of men. London—the great centro of moral power, the centre of wealth and population— was a proof of this. London—a very much larger city, and one whose site and position and environs could not compare with the site and environs of New York in point of possessing all the elements that go to make a salu- brious city—was yet far more salubrious and healthful. And, witb all her advantages, if New York had a popula- tion as large as London, at the present rate of deaths be- ‘tween the two cities, New York statistics would present ten thousand deaths annually above those in London. The question arose, What had individuals to do with it? A great deal. Physiologically ing, houses, streets ‘and sewers were the organisms of life in citics and towns; and these ought to be so iaid out and constructed with a view to procuring pure air and dispelling the causes of miasma. Have the laws of God in this respect been obeyed? If not the question is, how far we as individuals are responsible for the violation, and what have I, or one of you, as an individual, to do with this terrible state of thin If we had « Louis Napoleon among us, who, having @ regard for the health and welfareof his people, would say, “Let a street be run here; jet this long line of wretched houses in their narrow streets be thrown down and the street widened’ —who would order improve. ments in every needed direction and a perfect system of drainage to be ostablished—all this g: work would be done quickly and efficiently, and the public health pre- served, But yet, if I be asked, for the sake of such a good, would er to be ruled by a Louis Napoleon to go on enduring the present state of things, I would answer; I prefer the present state of things with freedom to the despotism of any one man; for the people, in their freedont and in their {atelligence, can remedy these temporary though very destructive evils, if they will Let there be no thought of a despotism tovalter abuses here, The people here are their own rulers, but they their rights, and have ne. glected to look after their own interests and their own welfare; they have neglected to vote, or cared little about the result, and their exertions for the public good have been only spasmodic, and only put forth when some pressing danger threatened them. The upshot of all this ‘was that more active men—men more cunning and in terested—have seized the prize, while the great bulk of the people looked listlessly and idly on. But the remedy was still in their hands, They were stil the rulers of the city; they still controlled the Street Inspector, the Common Council, the Aldermen and the Supervisors; they still had the admin'stration of the afairs of the city in their own hands, and their behests, if imperatively put forth as the rulers, that they were, all the evils now #0 flagrant and oppressive would at once disappear. If the people did not do this they had none but themselves to blame; they alone were responsible for all the evils that may befall the city, One haif of the peo- le of the city lived in tenements; twenty thousand lived in cellars—a fearful thing to contemplate. The work of reform must be taken up by all. It was not enough for clergymen to take care of the souls of men; the bodies must also be taken care of. Half the record of our Baviour's life was taken up with his deeds in behalf of the bodies of men. He went to the bedside of the fever stricken boy and bade him arise; He gave strength to the limbs of the poor paralytic man; He opened the eyes of the blind; He unstopped the ears of the deaf—thus half his life was taken up with curing the bodies of men. Imitate your Master, and care for these teeming millions burrying to the grave year by year, faster and faster, Decause of their ignorance and your neglect. The fratncidal will not excuse you:—“Am I_ my brother’ ny soit The inarticulate wail of humanity comes up from East and West, North and South. The wail of innocent chinhood comes up day by day and hour by hour, and meets no nse but the three thousand yeare ago—Cain’s motto—“Am I i come as rotributions upon your he grand march of the human race before the judg. ll the King on his minister am- ye honor Him 4 ‘ wealth and the things that make up ‘grandeur of the world. No, But to those who have served Him here in comforting the poor and needy—to those who have cared for the bodies of their fellow beings—those who @ glorified the body, ‘He will aay, “I was hungered and you gave me to cat; { wag thirsty and you gave mo to drink; I was a stranger and you took ine in; I was in prison and you visited me," ‘Think then of what the Inet words of our Saviour may be to you. afd that you may hear the inexprossible Jay of bearing tho words, “Enter into the kingdom prepared for you." I implore you ta look to the poor and the debased and the despised and the safforing of this city, and say, God helping you, you will beter thelr com: of the u ie Broadway Tabernacio In the above place of worship the Rev. J. P. Thamp- son, D.D., preached # most eloquent sermon af evening servic? ysterday. He selected his text from Matthew, xil., 10-13, and in the first piace proved that @ greater portion of our Lord's miracles were performed for the relief of physical suffering. Of the thirty-six* miracl-s Focorded by the Evangelist, two-thirds were performed |- for the direct relicf of human want and suffering, and such was the general way in which Ho displayed His spirityal pow ‘The relig'on of the heathen nations un- dervalued human life by the institution of caste, human ox, &c.; but Christ anity ateps in and places its protecting hand on the head of human Tho’Bible mnukes the care of health # religious duty, vad Christianity concerns man's present visible condition, ag well as his future happiness. ‘Tho san tary rules of tho Mosaic law wore rgid im the extreme, and the treatment prescribed in tho case of infectious diseases so admirable as to, cause us to lony for the reappear: ance of the oid lawgiver to act as. chty inspector, and take in hand the smallpox and other d.s- eases which afflict th’s plague ridd-n ity, Having thus proved tle intimate relations between Christianity, as re- garded as a means for the iuprovement ot man’s’ social 4nd religious condition, the eloquent proachor continued: First, 1 publicly, as a man ster of Christ, indict those ra road corporations, whieh, by want of proper precau- tions, endanger tho life of man, H» did not refer to acel- dents—to calamities at the hands of God; but crimés at the hand of man. Ho referred to the number of deaths which had occurred to persons whilo travelling by rail since January, monuments to the crim'nal neglect and recklessness of the companies who had constitated Mo- loch tho divinity of the sleeping car and run Juggernant by steam. Secondly, I indict, as guilty of a erignual con- splracy, the wholo army of grogsollors and thoif allies and rs in city offices, Ho roferred ut 1 ngth to the extent of ‘this ovil, when a Senator should Present himscif in a niaudiin state of” intoxication during the inaugural ceremony at Washington. The grogshop was made the polfing placw during cleotions, and thoir keepers appointed to posts of honor and trust in the government of tho first city of the United States, He assorted that in many casos. the grogshop proved a stepping stone to Congress, and stated that more than half the health wardens are keopera of those dens of vice and wickedness. Thirdly, I indict the clvic administra~ tion of New York for thoir gross nogicet of the sanitary affairs of the city, and also the people, who tamoly wit- ness thoir conduct. He brought forward a number of statistics to prove the alarming increase of mortality in this city, which averages now one in thirty-five—that of London being one in forty, and Liverpool one in forty- four. He argeed that tho dirt and filth of the strocts of our metropolis Invites disease ; that the existeneo of teno- ment houses fosters it, and that the criminal conduct of thoso in authority has brought New York te the state it is now in. He concluded by exhorting his congregation to stir themselves, Ho had been told in a letter he had re- evived to contine himself to the preaching of the Gospel, and leave fooling to the Now York Zibum:. He woyld a tt gi answer his correspondent by at all times crying down ¢ this monster evil; and, in doing so, he would be but fol- lowing in the steps of his blessed Master, whose mission was to alleviate the temporal and advance the spiritual welfare of the world. KEY WEST. Our Key West Correspondence. Ky West, Fla., Feb, 21, 1963, The Empire City AU Safe—Attack by Redets on Fort Mey- eri—They are Repulied—Diastrous Raid of Moje Weeks—Troops Sent Up the Coast—Ga'ian! Ac: of a ! val Ojicer Up the Chattahoocher—Sveral Prives Cap- —Prize Distribution—Wiashing’m’s Birthdry, dc. Von the 18th inst. I wrote that the steamer Empire City had gone ashore on Carysfort Reef on the night of the 16th, and that the United States steamer Albatross had gone to her assistance without effect. On the 19{h the Empire City arrived here, having succceded in gotting off, even while the Albatross was in sight. Sho has sinco Joft for New Orleans, with the troops she had on board. She wiil thence leave for New York, where she will bo overhauled for repairs, No damage has apparently beon sustained from her having run on the reef, save a slight increase to her loak, although it was coniidently asserted here that she would be a total wreck. Some alarm was caused here, on the night of the 21st Instant, im consequence of a report brought by the quar- tormaster’s steamor Alliance, from up the Western coast, that Fort Meyers had been captured by the rebels. The Alliance, in coming in through the Northeast Pass, went on shore, whence she was not got off till yesterday. ons to send off troops that very night, when the United States steamer Honduras a asa a it was shortly after known that Fort Meyers was in the hands of the Union troops, although an attack had been made on it. The information respoctiny the affair is very meagre, but the pith of it is as fol- On the 20th instant, a force of rebels, estimated at about five hundred in number, with several pieces of cannon, appeared before the fort, and an officer ap- proached and summoned the garrison to surrender in twenty minutes. Captata Poyle, of the One Hundred and Ninetoenth New York Volunteers, who left liveright arm- at Port Huisou, lad no intention of com- plying, however; so ho told tho officer to inform his su- perior, in polite languaye, that he would see him damned first, AS soon ax the rebel officer had fatlen back to the ed on the part of Tt was impossible to esti- mato the casualties on the part of the rebela, as they fell back at dark, At daylight scouts were sent ont, when the rebel Pi 4 were discovered about twelve’ miles from the fort. The garrison of Fort Moyers consisted of two com: jes of te Second United States colored regi- mentand two companies of the Second Florida cavalry, On the 22d inst. the United States steamer Magnolia left with @ detachment of troops, and she was followed by the Honduras, also with troops, on the folowing di Tatelligence has also been received that Major Weel commanding the Second Florida cavalry, baying mad* a raid on the rebel cattle, on the main ae bere. Cedar Koys, in which he succeeded in capturing four hundr.d head, was, on his return, attacked by an overwhelming force of rebels, and forced to abandon his beeves, with a loss of six of his men killed, and twenty-four wound:d. Major Weeks, it may be remembered, was the officer who was recently tried here for shooting a sentry, under such circ imstances as led to his acquittal and reinstatement in his command. I await particulars of this and the be. forementioned affair. A verbal report has reached here of a gallant act on the part of an officer under seine een, ells, ip command of the United States bark Midnight. Iam sorry I have not yet been able to learn the officer's name. It seems that Captain Wells sent him up the Chatta- hoochee river, from St. Andrew's bay, on an expedition At some distance up he | that there was a rebel camp farther oP, upon which he returned down the river, entered the bay, and proceeded up a creek, run. ning into a port of St. Andrew's called East hay. One hunvired and thirty miles from the mouth of the creek he fell in with an ox wagon, which he confiscated; and, iacing his boat and working tools thereon, crossed over- Kina to the Chattahoochoe—a disian:¢ of nineteen miles— where, having launched his boat, he again embarked with his men, and, proceeding down the river, succeeded in surprising the rebel camp, and in captoting a rebel lieutenant and sixteen men, in spite of the brag of the rebel officer that he would not be taken alive, The enjoying comfortable quarters in Fort Taylor. ¢ schooner John Hale was captured off Deadman's bay, on the 10th inst., by the United States schooner Matthew Bascom, one hundred and twenty tons burden She was loaded with lead and blankets. She has arrived here. ‘To-day the schooner Delia was brought in as a prizo by the United States steamer Mahaska. Sho is the three hundred and thirty-ninth case on the docket of the United States Marshal of Key West. She was captured off Bayport on the 17th inst. .She was set on tire when capture was found to be inevitable, and when she was boarded not @ soul was found on board, neither were any papers discovered, She was loaded with lead and a fow cases of sabres, Hor tonnage was about cighty tons. Asmali boat (name unknown) has been brought in here, recently picked up off Manaltee, No person was on board at the time, She had on board about five hundred pounds of cotton, some sugar and coffee, covered over with raw hides, Length about twenty feet. The cargo is said to be worth about one thousand dollars. ‘Two other vessels, which bave not yet been broaght tay are reported captured up the coast—one with a lund and tem and the other with thirty bales of cotton on bowrd ‘The following i# the list of decrees of distribution made by the District Court of the United States for the South. ern District of Florida, in January, 1865 :— Name «f Prise, tg Decres. Steamer Mayflower Steamer Un $18,223 21 Sloop Mary... 4,543 00 Schooner Linda, 1,066 15 Sloop Florida, 1,104 72 Sloop Resolute... 440 72 Seber. Three Broti 1,446 29 Sloop Hannah, . 216 60 Sloop Garibaldi, 4,770 80 Schooner 0. K... 2,502 84 Sloop Maria Loui 607 86 Schooner Miriam, 24 601 87 6,609 25 38,880 93 ‘458 85 8 54 764 06 Fe Up to jan 1865, the pt creed the sum of $3,000,907 98 in prize canes, for distri. bution, the total sales being $2,301,000 32, showing th the expenses were only nine per cent. Of these nses $126,000 were incurred in transportation to New Fork for rales there; but as the sales there were, proba- bly, more advantageous than they would have been perhaps, the additional expenses have been tm: than met Since the Ist of January last six cases hi been decreed for distribution, amounting to $11,000; and sixty more cdses will probably be similarly decreed in ten days, Among them is the case of the steamer Cum- = Washington's birthday was cqjebrated with the demonstrations, Salutes wore fired from the fort al from the ro het vessels a} noon, and there = 4 Amount o' and wine dfinking throughout the sud during thé evening, 9 - ° \ prisoners were brought here on the Alliance, aud are now | | WILMINGTO The Exchange of Ten Thousand Prisoners. General Schofield Appeals to the Sani- tary Commission for Aid for the Suffering Prisoners, Important and Valuable Property Cap- tured at Wilmington, Ree, key &e. Mr. Thomas M. Cook's Despatch. Wiraansroy, Reb. 23, 1865. Having given a day to a survey of the town of Wil- mington and its surroundings, the capture of whieh was & fitting celebration of Washington's birttlay, let mo give you some-of the results of my observations, THE GIKENGTM OF THK DEFENCES OF THK CHEV. Im the first place it is clear to any military maw that had ths rebels really desired to hold the place, aad had they had troops to spare to properly garrison ita defences, no force that we could have sent against’ it would have been sufficient to wrest it from them. No rebel city, with perhaps tho «ingle exception of Ricimond, wasever more thoroughly fortifled. Th» maps with which you havo been furnished, and which have been spread before tho readers of the Hxnaun, faithiully exhibited the char- acter of the works surrounding the city, with th: single ‘exception of an additional line of temporary earthworks, in which Hoke held our forees in check on the 21st, in order to gain time to dismantle the older works, Ths line ran from Drumtree Point directly east across the Peninsula to the headwaters of a small stroam omptying into Masonboro Sound, Otherwise your maps exhibit the works as we found them, only that maps at best but im perfectly portray the topography of a country, ite un- dulations, &c., upon which its defensive nature depends. The face of the country about Wilmington was and is ‘all that could be desired for dofensive works, A small force, morely suflicient to man the existing entrench ments and batteries, could not have been overcome save by the slow and tedious oporations of a regular in mont and s'oge. The rebel loaders had not this auitic force to spare, and thorefore they evacuated the posit on, But this fact must not be takon as conclusive proof of tho waning fortunes of the rebellion. From protract- | convorsations with citizens of Wilmington—ofticial and otherwise—I am convince d that this city was not consi- | dered worth holding after the full of Fort Fisher, That sigual defeat to them doomed the town, It was an un- | looked for catastrophe to them. Hal it been consi | dered necessary, they would havo concentrated haif their forces here to defend the mouth of | the riv But the bombastic assurance of Bragg | tliat Fort Fisher could not possibly be taken | by any fores, deceived them; and when it fell the hogus | confederacy received a moro st blow than had | over bofore befell It, Thonceforth Wilmington t . of but trifling Importance to them, and was left to be taken whenever wo should choo to advance aga'nst it, THE RKOMPIURED PRISON: Whon our forces wore boing ma vat | nallod for a Gnal blow at the immed ate defences of the town, and when the enemy had oxhausted his resources to held us back in order to get away his troops and material, a flag of truce was sent out to General Terry's nos proposing an exchange of twenty-five hundred prisoners aad a suspen. sion of hositilities for that purpgge. Al this time we had | no knowledge of the possession of any Union privoners by the rebels at Wilmington, nor had information bocu | received of tho agroement entered into between Gon >- rals Grant and Lec, by which prisoners may be delivered | at the most convenient point to the party holding them ; bat, considering tho whole affair a rue to cain time, the | proposition was promptly rejected. It now turns out that the rob*ls did have here seven or eignt thousand | prisoners who had been brought from the prison pens further south in the route of Sherman's a Ar. | riving here they were sent forward to @ boro then immediately brought back here, ether for ox- | changé, under the Grant. arrangement, or to avoid | some féncled daigor at pene knd on our advance | were again sent North. Transportation being & arce, the bulk of them were required to walk, many, teot sore and sick, being pressed on at the point of the Bayonet, while about three hundred, tuo sick and emac’ated to move, were loft here in a hospite! in a most pitiable condition of squalor, filth and misery. Many more were concealed by citizens in houses, OF these two or three hundred have been found and enred [ One geutle- nan presented forty thousand dollars rebel money to the | prisoners to relieve their pressing wants, APYCIAL RXCHANGH OF TKN THOUYAND FRISONERB AT Wit.- Since our occupation their proposition to exchange prironers he Schofleld has entered into arrangements with exchange of ten thousand at th us will commence immediate! made as rapidly as rebel prisoners can be Dj from the North. The reports we have heard Schotleld has already mado a Commission and other channels 0 the North to prepare to meet ant ciy is upon pab: Me bounty. The bounty of the benevolent canuot be too quickly forthcoming. Of course during the pendency of this exchange mili tary operations must be suspended hereabouts. Or lines at present are advanced about ten miles beyond the | elty, where they confront the column of Hoke on ¢ site banks of the northeast branch of the river, General Terry advanced to this plac and 0 closely did he follow the retreating rebels many of their siragglers were picked up, and the pon toon bridge by which they were crossing ‘the river was | captured, \ Til CAPTURED PROPERTY AT WILAUNGTON All the rebel property stored here was either removed , or destroye Immense amounts of cotton we stroyed, though there yet remains, scattered small lots, perhaps threo or four thousand bal belonging to private partivs. ‘Thonsands of bales were | sent up Ute river on fate and barges, some of which may et be captured. The reels’ ran off the roll ing stock of the several railroads, burned | Has all the depots and the bridges in the viel the public and priv , factories, large warehouses , ‘rosin, eurpe ete. burned and de of tine steamers, and made a wreck, 50 far as thoy could without lit rail destroying the town, of everyting that could be of any service to us, Dorng the withdrawal of the rebel troops, whieh ix represented to hi it der and prope infest all large town wholesale — Stor: in, the result of the lawless conduct The ettigens of W here, and yield ver A large popmlat agents, 1 others y w ments as It had be i a strong and very it is not of that biite that is generally 60 Their allegiance, through mistaken ideas of ment, has been given to the South, Th quered; but the mere fact of being con demands of them a subialesion which t yield, does not operate to alter their mieguid poltical allogiauce. This seems to be the diepoation the better class of the people. Therearo, ofcourse. ew of miserable sycophants here, who, in the days ot 6 bel rule, were loud in their protestations of ‘loyally’ to Je Davis, and now are equally conspicuous with the now régime, aod noisy with their counsel and advice. Such characters furnieh no index to the genuine sentiments of a population, and are more to be avoided than the out- spoken, inanly enemy. Wilmington, before the fall of Fort Pisher, was the most thriving and wealthy town within the rebel lines Tt was the great en report ‘of Southern. foreign trade, calb ing into activity and employment merchants, astisaney ehipbuilders, sailors, and all the branches of business trade peculiar toa commercial city. Hore centred the Dulk of the foreign trade of all rebeldom. Upwards of « hundred steamers were engaged in the trade from this port, and as Rome of them were constantly being captered of destroyed by our blockaders, others were purchased or bait to keep the namber good or to Increase it te the demanded by the unlimited demands upon the Gold and silver cirenlated here more freely than at any ‘other point either North or Soath, The crews of the blockade ranners were rs. im specie, while they de- manded specie payment for all the articles they so ae smug@led th h in the cargoes of their block runners. Hav! nothing but — specie ‘an spent an ue the Saas rete that 2 ae is thoney, and thus kept up a sort o sopply th siterbalanced the sums that wore hoarded by ot are preover, =! haracter of the ioe onies on brougtit to thig port the hurplus gold and silver c fourok ntyy for the purchase | Its contents will € | tion of the Inauguratic | will News from Fortress Monroe. Fortress Monrox, March 10, 1865. and will leave immediately for Annapolis. 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