The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXX. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—La Ficus pat Rea xnTo—RiGoLxrio, BOWERY THEATRE, Pauw —soors at Tas Sw NUMLO'S GARDEN, Bi Bowery.—Daxe Tror—Warre av. —East Lyswn, BROADWAY THEATAE, Broadway.—Dor; oa, Tus Cacwet ox tue Hnanru. WINTER GARDEN, Broudway.—Hamurt. NEW POWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Gaxuio Curers— Howxst Jox—Kanra. K's THBATRE, Broadway.—Sti. Waters Row i tye basow § re Saale THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Staeuts or New Ouk. BARNOWS MUD . Bro dWay.—Two Manor Pat owgs—Livine Skea vi Dwanr—Gtant Box—Wintiaw Trit. Open 15 wad svening. SKYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mochantes’ Hall, 472. Broad- Way.--ETsivrlAN SUNGS, DaNces, BuRLxsques, &C.—Ma- were. WoOOD'R MINSPREL HALL, SU Broadway.—Mrasoriax Sonss, Dascus, ku —Piernockc 4aNia, of ULL OF Tua BRAIN, HOOLEY'S MINSTRELS, 199 and 2) Bowery.—Soxas, ANU vas, &O— Wao CAN Fina Us Now. LLE DIAROLIQUE, 583 Bioadway.—Ronenr Heviun's HLUUSIONS Av Comic SOLO>—G XG. HIPPORMEATRON, — Forrteenth _etrest.—TZarestnran, G2 LNasHC aN Accobane LovenaucuenTs—Tite Feast OF AN Thi 88. AMERICAN THEATRE, Paxroniaes, BoMLESQeEs, & NEW YORK MUSEUM OF “ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open trem iw uli lu P.M. = = = ‘0. 444 Broadway.—Batiers, Maato Piuss. Monday, March 20, 1865. New York, THE SiTUATION. Bo wonderful and grand have been the two marches of Sherman's army thro gh the Southern country, and so absorbing are their deta is, that people will never tre Tho additional particulars the de- which wo in reading about thom. of the patches of the Hx ato correspondents, give this will be found = fully as interesting as those which we have heretofore p»b- Wshed. They wre aceompanied by a chronological sy- ‘aopais of the movement from Savannah to Fayetteville, Carolina campaign contained in morning, aud by a map showing the routes travelled by the four corps and Kilpatrick's cavairy. from Savannah about the 16th of Junuary, and reached Fay ays marched about four hundred and ‘fty mites, cover- Tae army commenced moving wille on the 11th inst., having in the fifty-four ing a breadth of country of about forty miles, and ‘eweeping before tt everything of a hostile character. Some additional deta ls. of Geusral Sheridan's opera. ¢ions north of Richmond, the main poiats of which ap peared in the Taiany on Suturday, are given by one of our City Point correspondonts. General Sheridan not having yet reached White Toure, whither supplies for him wore sent, on last Friday morning, it was supposed that ho had continued his raiding work in some other direction, ‘We have additional exemplification of th scars which Sheridan produced in Ri hmond in tho fact of somo of the newspapers beng entirely suspended and others ap- ‘pearing on only half sheets, Ia consequence, according to their own: explanations, of all the'r regular employes being taken “temporarily” for the military service, to fepel the raiders, It is reported that the robels In front of the Army of * Potomac bave concentrated their lines in the vieinity ‘Of Dinwiddie Court House, and taken add:tional precautions to strengthen their hold on the Soath-ide Railroad, Their and the national troops are held ia readiness for a movement at any hour that Movements aro closely wnt Circumsiances may demand it, ‘There has been no rain for some days to iuteriere with the condition of the roads, which are rapidiy becoming dried up and ap- pronohing » fair contivion Despatches (0 the 9) just. from our Mobile bay cor- Tospondenis reached us by (he ste Lip George Crom- well y ay. Refugees who had come tho city of Mobile re- ported that rebel troops lawl beon going fren there eco tie Lat of February, some of them to South Carolina; but thers sttil reunain and around the town about { masand, Mi ae, however, were citizens, many of them ver. oye and old and infirm men. The attack of the navienat forves was daily expected, and fu sovicipalon of & the women and children were being sent awey. There was great distress fuong the poor, cera meal selling for fifteen per bushel, wheat flour for two dol- lore and a half per pound, and bacon for four dollars and abalf per pound. Ono dotiar green ssold for.wenty- five dellarseach in rebel votes. Twenty thousand bales ‘of cutton were piled up ia one vast heap at tho depot of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, ready for transportation into the interior as soon a8 the rebels s!.culd become con- vinced of their inabitity to Mold tue place. ‘The citizens Dolieved Genoral Maury, the rebel commander, would burn the city if hoe was compelled to abandon it, A se- vere Wind storm visiie Mobfe bay on the evening of the 6th inst., avd continned svarly tweuty-four hours. Two transports of the naronal Heot were driven ashore, and gome damage was done to one or two 0} ess1s. A San Francisco dospateh states that a force of about three thousand California and Arizonw volunteers is soon to cominence a camp gainst the hostile Indians in | Arizona Territory. A namber of white families have fled | from Walker river on accor urocities In that | out a fight may enable him to effect a junction been an‘t-tpated by the Afilea, which left Liverpool on the saae day. s ‘The heavy freshot and thaw inaugurated by tho rain storm of last Thareday night have caused immense damage, extending through a wide extent of country. The aceoants of the devastations of the food mul uply. ‘Throughout vamougs States, as far east as New Hampshire and as far west as Mis- souri, the rivers have been swollen to an extracrdi- pary height, and the increased volume of water and ac- colerated currents have carriod everything before them, overilowiug thousands of acres of lowlands, inundating cities, towns and railroads, and sweeping off vast amounts of property, Travel has been temporarily stopped on several of the main ra!lways of the country, as also tele- graphing on some of the lines. One hundred miles of the Erie Railroad, and several miles of the New York Central and other principal routes of travel, were on last Saturday under water. Alarge and enthusiastic meeting was held on last Saturday ovening in the Sixteenth ward for the purpose of dovising means to fill the army quota by volunteering. Finance and arrangement committees were appointed and the meeting adjourned to reassemble this evening in the Eighth district court room, corner of Seventh avenue and Twenty-second street. A meeting of citizens of the Tonth ward to further the same object will be held this eveuing in the Easex market court rogm, é Surrogate Tucker has decided tho question presented by the two wills of Mrs. Sophie Dayton, deceased, by re- Jecting them both, on the ground of mental incompe- toncy. The deceased was the widow of Dr, Daniel Day- ton, formerly of this city, and was very advanced in age. At the time of making her first will she lived with her daughter, Mrs, Crossman, and this will gives all her prop- erty to her daughter, Subsequently she was carried away from her daughter's residence to the house of Mr. David Harrison, in Williamsburg, where the second will was made, in Mr. Harrison’s favor, The Surrogate declares both wills to be vold, and the decedent to have died intestate. Under this decision her property, which is ¢onsidorable in amount, passes to Mrs. Crossman, her daughter, A committee of our State Legislature who visited this city during the past week, at the request of Governor Fenton, had conferences with somo of our principal capi- talists, which resulted in securing a subscrip- tion of more than ten million dollars to the thirty million loan authorized, by the act of the past winter for the purpose ‘of paying bounties to volunteers. Besides the ten millions taken there is every prospect of a speedy completion of the entire loan. The bondsare now ready, and their distribution to the counties and towns will be commenced this week, and ‘ho doubt give a great impetus to recruiting. The movement for city governmental and sanitary re- form inaugurated by the ministers of our churches on the previous Sunday was continued by some of them yesterday. Sermons on the subject were yesterday morning preached to large and interested audienced at ‘St. Thomas’ church, by the Rev. Mr. Morgan, and at the Thiriy-oighth street Unitarian church, by Rev. Dr. Ocgood. The trial of Roger Lamb for the murder of his wife will be commonced in the Court of General Sessions this morning. Portions of the wreck of an apparently now vessel, of three or four hundred tons burden, the name of which could not be asc rtained, were discovered on last Satur- day in Staple’s cove, Cape Elizabeth, coast of Maine. No clue to the fate of the crew or the identity of the vossel has been gained. The bondholders of the Mariposa Gold Mining Company held a meeting at the office of the company on Saturday last, when it was resolved that any further delay in assert- ing thoir rights was useloss, and that a committee of three NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1865. terrible draft riots of July, 1203. As there are several competitors for this distinction we think that, in order to settle the question, and to prevent qnarrelling and fighting over it, Mr. Acton ought to name his man. Collapse of the Rebellion in the South im Europe—Special Mission to France and England. We have already been able to declare, from the victories of Sherman; Sheridan and Scho- field, the forlorn message of Je‘. Davis, and the tone of such Southern papers as still exist, the collapse of the rebellion in the South. We are able to declare to-day, from the letter of our London correspondent and the leading article in the London Times, which was always the staunchest supporter of the rebel cause, the collapse of the rebellion in Europe, The Times admits that, with the full of Charleston, the re- bellion has gone under; that the Southern States are no longer able to oppose the march of the Union armies; that blockade running is at an end, and the South is henceforth shut off from the rest of the world. The Times, which all along maintained this foul rebellion, and in- vested it with the rank and character of a righteous war, now designates it by the modest title of “an anti-national insurrection.” Our correspondent states that the news of the fall of Charleston not only produced this extra- ordinary change in the tone of the leading champion of the rebels in Europe, but that it startled the whole of England from shore to shore. Rebel stocks fell six per cent in an in- stant, and United States stock went up six per cent, and orders were sent at once abroad to recall the blockade runners. Thus, in Europe as well as in the South, the rebellion has caved in. When the rebellion broke out, and when it was yet unknown what amount of power ex- isted on the pert of the North to suppress, and on the part of the South to maintain, the insur- rection, England hastily recognized the belli- gerent rights of the rebellious States, thus giv- ing them a status which only belongs to inde- pendent nations in a state of war. Regardless of the remonstrances of our government and its agents and representatives abroad, the Eng- lish government maintained that an acknowl- edgment of belligerent rights in the Southern Siates did in no way infringe upon the prin- ciple of strict neutrality; and while they pro- nounced that they would neither recognize the South as a nation, nor formally give aid and comfort to its cause, they were still determined to accord to it the rights of a belligerent. France followed the example of England, and em- ployed the same arguments to justify her course. We know with what subtlety the laws of neutrality were evaded ; how arms and am- munition, and ships and crews were supplied to the rebels; how our merchant marine was ob- structed by piratical vessels carrying the Eng- be appointed to take stops, by foreclosure or otherwise, towards that ond. The present Board of Trustees is re- tained, The Impending Downfall of Jeff. Davis Probable Evacuation of Richmond. The two houses of the rebel Congress have made short work of the late special message of Jeff. Davis, Of all his budget of proposed ab- solute powers, they have granted him only the su:pension of the habeas corpus, and have made haste to adjourn. They are no longer in the mood for the discussion of impracticable schemes and empty abstractions. Each man has the more important business of his own safety to look after. It is probable that by this time, excepling the Virginia delegation, the members of Jeif.’s disbanded Congress have left for parts unknown; and that the railroads and common highways leading off towards Danville and Lynchburg are lined with the moving non-combatants of Richmond and Pe'ersburg. This general exodus of all useless consumers would be demanded by the shortness of Lee’s supplies, whether stripping for a fight or pre- paring for an evacuation. The recent restric- tions imposed by Longstreet in the exchange of newspayers, the consequent difficulties of geiting any p pers from Richmond, the evident uneasiness of General Lee, and the suspicious activity in his lines, as if preparing for a heavy battle, all taken together with the critical dan- gers of his situation, justify the presumption that, if not already moving off his stores, artil- lery and materials of war, he is preparing for a stealthy departure. Left to his own judgment, General Lee would doubtless elect to make a fight for Richmond, so that, in the event of finding the odds too heavily against him, he might at least claim the honors of a respecjable capitulation. But the intractable Davis manifestly determined to keep thé™flold while he can hold the frag- ments of sn army together. He has, per- haps, made the discovery that while Richmond cannot be held by Lee against ihe concentrating forces of General Grant, the wisest. course is to withdraw in- time, in order to save Lee’s army. Thus Hardee, when he found that Sherman was flanking him, pulled ap stakes and abandoned Charleston in order to egeape the fate of Pemberton at Vicksburg. As the opposing armies now stand we are drawn to these conclusions:—First, that as the evacuation ef Richmond by General Lee with- Tegion, and reached sort Churchill, ada, Troops have boon sent to the vene of trouble from one of the | Pacitie j The Levan nce very troublesome at ju various vis of the Western territories, | sof late Riel woon pers show, among other that the ef wer or the | ae > Peneeny eee ane Riel OF. Seen, ‘| ion of Richmond, then we may consider Jeff. froe, Las nate " fiend rchcecasss | Davis overruled by Leo and his Virginians, and ome int f huing {vom pedient appease: at they will at least have the honor and satie- ances, thoir ' a very short one. | nu of sacrificing Davis and bis confederacy General Ler tus on the 1G) inet, urge’ | with fhe surrender of their favorite city and on the work of raising nu 1 negro troops, and | thoir Slate. @ays be is very ansions wy wit Leir fist experiments | In any event, we think it most probable that fp fighting for the rede . | Richmond and the confederacy will go by the gm , of " on the 15th inet., | board without another great batile, Johnston fa compliance 1 pesed, by | in North Carolina is as powerless to check the thirty ae thir \ niling the | re advauce of Sherman, as Lee is at privileges of doen On owt, | Richmond to shake off the tightening embraces Congre a Ml ompowering th sof | of Grant. We have no doubt that either Shez- the Teo to revive from eitizens cvntributions of | Man or Grant is strong enough, single handed, ane den vinte, be, &8,, for the beuoht of their | to cope with the combined forces of Lee and Ging Sk eee Je n. There really appeats to be no MISCELLA THOUS NEW. chance of escape to Lee or Jobneton, except Ont #pocini eorrosyoncent in Landon faruishes interest- | (0 9 epee ly movement on the part of Lee to a tng evidence of the compiete revolution effected in Eng- junction with his subordinate at Danville. Yeh poll ies aft se rio the Union and rebel | Hence, from the necessities of Lee and in com- eau lof Charleston, The London | pliange with the policy of Davis, we look for gine vos up advocacy of the febela, and ackue secoded Btates oxnvot furnigh mom to Wwiihalapd Whe a: vance of the Northern Woops, Tt wns thoaght in that a battle would + © betweok the United Buea frigalo Niagara and tho revel ram Olinde ‘The steamship Clty of Cork, from Liverpool on the on take pla 4 that the population of the | | Pulling Waters, can sical away, with Joe Jolnsion at Danville, and hold the field for some time longer, this is the course which is most likely to be adopied under the influence of Jeff. Davis, still apparently pre- dominant fn, rebeldom, Secondly, that if we hin a few days hear of this evacua- the spoody evacuation of Richmond, and with- mut qnolher battle, if Lee, ag adroitly as at lish flag, and manned by English seamen. But it may be urged that at the time when England and France acknowledged belligerent rights in the rebel States there may have been some shadow of a basis upon which to found an argument ia favor of it; because the rebels still held the ports of New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston and Wilmington, and it was not then certain how long it might take us to prepare a fleet sufficiently strong to wrest these ports from them. Now, however, that question is solved most effectually; for the rebels have nota singlo port on the whole line of coast from the Poto- mac to Galveston through which to receive sup- plies. Our ficets hold all the seaports, and block- ade running is a portion of past history. The rebellion is driven into jthe interior, and held there within so narrow a compass that it may be almost said not to exist any longer. Certainly, in its present desperate strait, hemmed into a little corner of Virginia, we have armies enough and fleets enough to de- molish it in a very brief time. Hence there is no longer any excuse for foreiga Powers to re- cognize the rights of a belligerent in sucha crushed and broken down concern as the Southern “confederacy” now represents. It is no longer a rebellion. It is only an “anti- national insurrection.” We conceive, then, under these circumstances, that the duty of Mr. Lincoln is very clear at this time. All inconsistencies with reference to the position of the rebellious States should be re- moved, and the world should be instructed officially as to the precise relation these States occupy towards this government and all foreign countries. Need we say that it is the position of discomfited malcontents? Mr. Lincoln, therefore, should select three of the most promi- nent, dignified and influential men in the coun- try, and send them on a special mission to the governments of France and England— without, of course, disturbing in eny way our present diplomatic representations there—with instructions to inform these Powers upon the exact condition of affairs in this country. These commissioncrs should be directed to explain that the rebellion has collapsed ; that itis, in fact, virtually dead; that the mili- tary and other resources of the United States are sufficient not only to preserve the integrity of the republic, whole and entire, at home—as we have already proved—but to protect it from all aggression from abroad; and at the same time to demand that all proclamations of neu- trality, and all recognition of belligerent rights in the insurgent portions of ihe country, be at once withdrawn. Such a declaration on the part of France and England would make the rebel vessels on the sea mere pirates, and nothing more. The time has errived whon such a mission is proper and necessary. If Mr. Lin- coln only judiciously selects the right kind of men to confer with the governments of France and England, and arms them with the instruc- tions we here suggest, it will prove a potent in- fluence in directing the policy of Enrope towards this country, and in settling at once the status of the rebe!lion as a mere insurrection against the lawful authority of the government, which has been crushed by the force of arms, and condemned by the moral power of public opinion. ms Tux Drastnovs frame Froons—The de- struction of property by the flood on the Susquehanna river and elsewhere is im- mense, The water is unpreccdentedly high, and carries along with it houses, barns, fences, an incalculable number of logs and timber of all kinds, cnitle, ond, it is foared, many human beings, in ite resistless and overwhelming progress to the Chesapeake bay. Portions of towns are euluorged, rall- | rond fracks, telegraph cables and poles de- siroyed, and a general sweep of devastation is Whar 1s fe Sin?—Mr. Pollce Commis. sioner Acton says to the Senatorial Committee 1 hay, acid ph aap Wyss lad evening Hor nwa hag { that he can name the man who staried the to be seen for many miles iu extent. The flood had not subsided at our last accounts, and mech further damage wor v The disaster will be pro@uctive of great distress ; and measures should be taken to relieve those unfortunates who have been rendered houseless and homeless by this terrible visitation. A Catt Uron ovr Crriexs to Avoip THE Drarr.—We are gratified to notice that our pub- lio spirited citizons are beginning to take active measures in response to the timely and eonsider- ate suggestions of Assistant Provost Marshal General Dodge, in regard to the draft. There need be no necessity for the enforcement of the draft in this city if proper efforts be taken to fill the quota by volunteering. There should be @ general and spontaneous effort to this end in all the wards, The Chamber of Commerce, the Corn Exchange, the Stock boards, the Loyal Leagues, insurance companies, banks, brokers, merchants, and all our wealthy men and publio organizations, should adopt measures imme- diately to aid the movement already com- menced in several of the wards. The citizens of the Tenth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Six- teenth wards are already in the field; and on Tuesday the people of the Ninth and Fifteenth wards will hold an important meeting in reference to the subject. It should be fully attended. Comptroller Brennan is active in urging upon our citizens to subscribe to the seven per cent loan in order that the Chairman of the Volunteering Committee may be kept in funds, All moneyed men should appreciate the paramount necessity of taking the balance of this loan without delay; and all others should promptly put their shoulders to the wheel, and do the work of relieving the city of the misfortune of a forced draft, with the utmost vigor. Let the drafted men go to work and aid in this moveniont, ad LO . “Ig So Br.”=A profound military critic. of one of our rebel journals argues that if General Lee can send down from Richmond a sufficient force to Joe Johnston to enable him to smash up Sherman, then Jobnston, moving up to the support of Lee, may, perhaps, enable him to smash up Grant. Perhaps. So, likewise, if we were to have a heavy shower of pork chops over Manhattan Island there would probably bea decline inthe price of beef steaks in Washington Market. Tae Rota Passion Stroxe 1 Deata.—The principal feature in the law of the rebel Con- gress providing for a levy of three bun- dred thousand slaves, to serve as soldiers for Jeff. Davis, is this—“That nothing in this act shall be construed to auihorize a change in the relation of the said slave.” Jeff.’sslave* holders are consistent. They hold him to his bargain. He is welcome, in the character of slaves, to use their negroes as soldiers, ifhe can get them; but let him get them if he can: Seccmiviten H¢ The National Finances. JAY COOKE TO CONTINUR SUBHCRITTION AGENT FOB THE NEW LOAN, ETC. Wasurvaton, March 19, 1805. ‘The popular appreciation and rapid absorption of the seven-thirty loan unaer the management of Jay Cooke, general subscription agent, has ‘mined Secretary McCulloch to mako no change in the character of the loan to bo placed upon the market after the present one shall be disposed of; Tho arrangoments heretoforo ex- isting between the department and the subscription agont will be continucd, and the new series of seven-thirties will date from June 16 next, and will consist of an tasue of $200,000,000, payable three years after date, and convertible at maturity in five-twenty bonds, atthe o Aion of the holder. Ex ing in the dates of issue and matiirity, the now 4 ries will be in all respects the same as the current series, which, at the present rate of subscription, will be taken up cae the coming week. In addition to the arrangements which have been made by the subscription agent with Wells, Fargo & Co. for placing the loan through their offices in \ifor- nia, Oregon, Nevada und Colorado, spreial agents are being despatched to the Pacilc coast and to the South atlantic and Gulf cities, including Boaufort, Newborn, Charleston, Favaunah and New Orleans. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE SEVEN-TIIRTY LOAN—SATIS- FACTORY ARRANGEMENTS MADE TO PREVENT VIOLENT DISTURBANCE OF THE MONEY MARKET. Purapenroia, March 19, 1865. ‘The subscriptions on Saturday to the seven-thirty loan, recelved by Jay Cooke & Co, was $2,587,100, including one of $200,000 from Boston, and one of $50,000 from Providence, There were also one thousand seven hun- dred and seventy-one individual subseriptions of $50and $100 cach. The total subscriptions for the wock were $24,692,200, ‘The order of the War Department of April 22, 1864, directing all officers of the Commissary and Quarter- master’s departmeuts having public moneys in their charge in the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and San Francisco, not to deposit in national banks, but solely with the »As- s stant Treasurers and Colicctors bas been rescinded by fe. retary Stanton, upon request of Secretary McCulloch, except eo far as it “applies to New York and San Fran: cieco, ant a new order has been issued, giving such oifl- cors pormission to deposit with any of the national banks in Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore desiguated as de- positories’ under law. This is done that the large pay- moni into the depository banks, on avcount of the sales of seven-thirties, Which’ the -ecretary of the Treasury desires to have disbursed as spredily ax posible, may not embnrrags and disturb the ordinary course of the money market. The checks drawn upon the depository national banks wi'! poss throuch the exchanves without distarb- ing the mouvey market, The measure is very satisiactory to the bi lat receive thi leporits, and it i ped here that if will be appiled to New York, where the bulk of the money is received and disbursed. The Draft. MURTING OF THE CITIZENS OF THR SIXTEENTH WARD. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of the Sixteenth ward was held in the Eighth District Court room, corner Twenty-second street and Seventh avenuc, on Saturday evening the 18th inst., for the purpose of taking measures to aid recruiting and relief from the draft, Alderman Lew's R. Ryers was called to the chair, and Hi. C. Parke appointed sceretary. The mecting was addressed by Moesrs, Robert A. Adams, Wm. R. Staiford, B. B. Daravilie, Michael Halpin and others, after which a finance and a committed to suggest a definite plan of action Were appointed. The meeting then adjourned to meet on Monday evening, at the same place. Some of the very best citizens of the ward are taking an active interest in the matter, and the prospects are fair to quickly accomplish the purpose aimed at, Trauan Orrna.—This evening ta the first of the sup- plementary operas, on which occasion the whow of La Pigtia del Regg'merto will be given, with Kellogg, Lotti and Sueiul; to be followed by the fourth and best act of Higoltto, with Mra Jenny Van Zandt as Gilda. The first Thursday matince will take place on that day, whon, by particular request, the opera will be Fra Dia vlo. We shall bo curious to see how th s experiment of a change from Saturday to a midweek matinge will work; Dut we presume that, os it is the last one of the season, the Academy will be crowded by our suburban friends, Concent at St. Steraen’s Cavren.—The grand sacred concort at St. Stephen's church came off last evening, in which the whole strength of the Italian opera company of Mr, Maretzek took part. Such a crowd as aseerbled there wae rarely if ever soon undor slinilar cireurnstances There were crowds In the church, crowds in the vestry, crowds on every staircase, in every doorway, and on every sidewalk fronting and flanking the beiiding, A chosen fow got pood seats, a fow hundred got indifferent ones, and n vast number got nono at all, Liowever, so much the better jor the fund out of which the cost of the enlargement of the church te to be pad, Tho attraction wi ndoubtediy very great, and the difficulty of a By ing the immense mass of people war proportionate to the attraction, When we any that the porformance--whtcl ‘veluded i from the Stabar Mater of ¥ vi, and the Mregh Move > », Was unexceptionable, we do not much. 0 Irs ammatus of Zacodi, and the Quis by Zaceb! and Morensl, in the Saat Mater, as well as th Qui Tollia of Moicadante by Mwainiliani in the rece part, were the gems of the evening. Dtss Kellocg’s a e a ja the second part was well rendered. Yan Zondt never sang te more advantage the: the grand arte y Meverheer, The Otiwr tiste P usin di aud Mace cri—-Aid ample yiatice te the part ob . Robert Helier pre. sided at the orgag with & “1 facility, pertorm | ing a very dxcellen\ ac intermleson, Ay ert from tho immenre crush and beat, whieh rendered fh fair enjoyment of the music cane.’ impossible, the con 1 GTORE suECoRS, Musically O& Well BS Peorslgr unts si fa the variety of talent yb therefore dgrw an extranrtyrerity law THE FRESHETS, Unparalleled Rise of Rivers Throughout the Country. Cities Inundated, Railroad Trains Stopped and Telegraphing Suspended, The Great New York Central Railroad Bridge at Rochester Swept Away. FOUR PERSONS REPORTED DROWNED. One Hundred Miles of the Brie Railroad Damaged. THE FLOOD SUBSIDING, dey ke, ke. The Flood in Western New York. Burraro, March 18, 1865. ‘We learn this morning from Rochester that the New York Central Railroad bridge was swept away at twelve o'clock last night, and it is reported four men wore drowned thereby. The water is three feet deep in the Arcade Building at Rochester, preventing all ingress or egress, All the lower portion of the city is under water, and the damage will be enormous. Thore is no communication from ono part of the city to the other. Tho papers are unable to publish, the water having extinguished the fires under thelr engines, ceee aed BINS i Ss 0 Si There is no telegraphic communication east of Utica as yet. The Western Union Company are, however, making herculean efforts to have the lines working to-night. We are Informed that the injurics to the Erie road extend over a distance of nearly one hundred milcs, mostly east of Hornelisville, There are several breaks betwéen Hornelisvillo and Dunkirk. : ‘Tho Lake Shore road is but slightly damaged, and will be all right soon. Burrato, March 19, 1865. The New York Central Railroad tr: ins commence run- ning to-morrow morning, passengers being transferred by the Andrews street bridge, in Rochester, without ex- pense. Beyond Rochester the road is but slightly da- ‘maged. Freight trains will be sent via tho Batavia and Canandaigua line, which is but slightly injured, and will be all right to-morrow. Rocumstzr, March 19, 1865, ‘The greatest flood ever known in the Genesee has just abated. Tho damage done by it in this city cannot be estimated at present, but is immense, amounting probably to several million of dollars. The water first loft its proper channel on Friday about noon. From that time it was constantly rising and breaking over in new places, until on Saturday morning the entire business part of tho city on the west side of the river was from four to six feet under water. ‘There was no perceptible fall in the water up to dark Saturday evening. The Genessee Valley Railroad bridge, near the south line of the city, and the Central Railroad bridge, just above the falls, are both carried away. All the highway bridges are standing, though one or two of them are considerably damaged. About two thousand fect of the Valley Railroad track is washed away, and over a mile of it was submerged. Of the stores on Main street but little ts loft except the front walls, The banks of the canal burst in several places, and nearly the whole of the Second ward, to- gethor with parte of the First and Ninth, were feoded. About one thousand of the principal stores were filled with water allday Saturday. Several buildings have jbeen undermined and have faHen, and others are con- sidered unsafe. Ths watir swept like @ mill race through Front, State and Fitzhugh streots, and the Arcade, so that many of the people in the upper stories could not be got away even with the assistance of boats. The gas works were flood:d and some of the mains destroyed, so that at night the o'ty is in darkness, The newspapers have all bocn compelled to suspend publication, their press rooms being full of water, It {s not certainly known that any lives have been lost, Syracuse, March 19, 1865. The freshet Thursday and Friday was very sovere in this region, the water in Onondaga and other creoks having been higher than ever beforo known. Quite a number of bridges over str°ams within the county—have boen swopt away. Dams were carried away, somo build- ines destroyed and many Injured. In the south and east portion of this city several streets were flooded so as to be passable only by bon’ s, and over three hundred dwel- lings were flooded more or les. The salt works, on the Reservation, sufler severely, especiallyi n the First ward— probably to ths extent of $150,000 to $200,000. The loss in this city and county caused by the flood will not be less than hal a million dollars, ‘The water in the creek has fallen to its uzual spring level, butthe luke is very high, aud the salt works are duffering in consequence. ‘Atnaxy, March 19, 1865. The river has fallen between four and five feet from ite highost potut, and asa boot bas arrived here from Cast- kill, coming through the main channel, It ts believed that navigation Is fairly open between New York and Albany, and a pavscnger boat is expected to-morrow morning. Telegraphic communication west was resumed to-night. Two trains from beyond the Fonda break on the Con- tral Railroad have arrived. For the first time since Thursday the cleven P. M. mail train was sent out to- night. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. The Flood in the Mohawk. {"rom the Albany Atins, March 18.] ‘The Mohawk has overilowed ite banks and risen to a great height, doing serious damage at Fonda and other villages. At Fonda the Contra! {allroad track is three or four feet under water, and one or two bridges ond a mile or more of the telovraph wires have bern swept away. One train reached Liore at nine o"elock yesterday morning ; but no other train arrived here during the day, en none were sent out, while there were no means of telo- phing to the West during the entire day and evening. Free thor ght that all ‘his would bo remedied by this morning, a8 both the railroad and telegraph companies wore hard at work, endeavoring to get everything in working order at the earilest poseible moment, mm Prom the Alliany Atins, March 18.) , moet of the Ice which moved : upon the Castleton Flats, and ip toagreat height forced back the water wutil locks were enbmerged toa depth of from eight to our ton feet, Between two and four c'clock yesterlay inorn- ing n wind and rain storm of great ret in, sind citt zens who had watehed the slow @ water Thursday night found it day morning cousiderab'y higher than they had anticipated. It tame up Into Broadway throvch Hocson atreet, and lo the vietnity of the steam- Doat landing It completely esbmerged (rat thoroughfare, lt in Liberty and many of the other streets in the Arch street it reac lies across Peas! rtreet, Teadeos much inconventence and some sufforing to poor famiiles that bave been driven from | th ir tenemeate, but yet not eo much as in former years, boca: ge this tine ull hed due warn.ng of the visitaion, and all or pearly all bad prepercs for it. Wo do not bear of mech demage bet periy hereatoute; but eleewbere it is south part of the clty, a to pro- ‘\ this morn. aod mails kof the Hudson River Rail- dl, bat buried over with ce & —_— rixty fort long, in has ase down tho ti noderstand that ¢ place, has been carried away. rhern Rejlrood the trams Lave been delayed ; ‘on have yet been encount red. ed ne though the water bad reached ht; but 1 ft be trio, aswome suppoee, that ar not yet come down, We may vot on the worst of it The Flood the Cumbertand, The Cumberland river is very high, nud a portion of the olty of Noshville ie tnnndated, 1 of pro: rty (coms belong.ng to the gore as been de atroyed. Travelling Ubroughout th Y Almost suspetded, on account of the destructiva of ra'troads and Drldges by the flood In the rivers and water courses, The Flood tnt [From the Hartford Even'ug Times, March 18.] ) WASTY-THREB PERT TWO 8. | Tho Cons and (tore | stowty) dariy i rover aud red Dor during the ight, and at noon the “4 Du.) cupwe Ot ve Great Brigee ylarked twenty-three feet | y is artved at clover o'clock, sith some. pasneng nag en o'clock, passen; great freight list, and anchored “ff State street dock. cers and employes ge ‘ashore in boats. It would take a gel alee ht {nto tho store! met e quant-ties of broken i¢é, Very thick solid, from o'clock to LIVELY TIMES. scnted'in'e slsr 4 woth mn id cellar an where witnessed in saving household ye draws r a curious crowd of sexes in arene poultry are leagely fimized™ with eats tar |g, bales mu bi and boxes. ‘The ‘water reaches the cellara along the cast sido of Front street. There a scone of busy activity has pre~ Of both, sexee and” all ‘complesion rout 7 every clime in Saad the’ Orient. Boss rope were everywhere paddled about, and shouts of would arise whenever th ppen mishap — Ps in the are ‘iced ees elow Front street 1] of water; yet most of the evn sae al no ed, even temporarily—thelr ecczpants goln up toa height of t ty ‘The of ice passing over the grent dam made an im) ive which drew a crowd of spectators. The tributaries og Connecticut this side of the dam were the Chicopee and the Agawam rising ver: ry high, necticut itself rose fur awhile. at etlounse at the mous rate of eighteen inches per hour, At Sprii where all floods are less than at Hartford, the " on Friday night at ten o'clock stood above low water mark. On the Connecticut River Railroad two 1 ‘wore washed away be:w en Bernariston and South Vere non, one with an erhbankment ton feet high, and the other with one of thirty feot high. ‘The track at Holyoke ‘was covored with ics, proventiug the cars from passit till the way could be cleared @y a yang of one Hundred mon, a The canal railroad was badly washed in Westfield, and a train yesterday (Friday) ran off the track, the engineer ba oe ing aware that the rails were completely min The railroads in Berkshire county suffered much more severely. A mile and @ quarter of the Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad was washed away, just south of North Adams. No train passed over the road on Thure- day, as the water inthe Cheshire swamps was threo feet deep on the track and put out the fires in the engines, No trains went out of North Adamson Friday on the Troy and Boston Railroad, on account of the high water. Om the Housatonic road the water came up to the upper step of the cars in @ long stretch of road a mile south of Pittsfleld to the Connecticut line. This road suffered badly near Lee. The damage to various kinds of property in Berkshire county, Mass., is extensive. Tho mountain streams filled up and overfiowed so suddenly as to sweep dams and do other damage which it will take thou: of dollars to repatr, Not for thirty years, at I such @ freshet been known, Highways and rail many places aro flooded; dams and bridces which haye not already been taken off are endange and mach excitement prevails. The roads at Sliver ‘Taconite and othor points in Pittsfield were subtaerged and there were fine marine viows in the East Housatonie street collars, and numerous @xtemporized water leges, Other pla es in Pittsfield suitered in the same way. Bobtown factory was flooded out. Tho dams af Pontoosuc and most of the factories were endai and the old dam of Tillotson & Collins was swept and the stoppage of a portion of the machinery o! works is necessitated. At South Adams Plunkett Wheelor’s dum, as well as William Pollock’s, was de stroyed. Tne bridge below Pollo-k’s dam has from its abutments. Perry & Penniman’s dam at Adams is gone. Smith’s dam at Lee is also swept away. The Housatonic and Hoosac rivers are higher than at any time previous for thirty years, 0 DETENTION OF TRAINS. [From the Boston Evening Traveller, March ban ‘The tra'ns on some of the railroads at the Ne olayed by damage to the tracks by high water. Bath, N. fi., on the Concord and Mon' road, considerable damage by the rise of the At and thre was no connection yesterday with trains on upper part of the road, At Fitzwilliam, on the Cheshire road, the track has been d-stroyed for some di and passengers have to walk arvund tho ‘‘Creek."” beyond Krvinz, on the Vermont and eomeynn: sixty ‘The track on Rotthers read above. W badly washed in places. Near Hatfeld a had to and as ‘a i reed, be constructed, in order to got over a bad . about one mils this side of South Vernon e culy washed away, tog ther with several rode of the The damage will be rapidly repaired. Sprrxoriein, March 18—10 A ML Tho river bas risen about half an fnch since o’clock this morning, and is ten inches higher than ten o'clock last night. It now siands at eighiewm ten inches, Bratrignoro, March 18—11:45 A. ML The river here has riecn four fect within an hour amd@ half, and is still rising. Mound City Jnundated. [From the Mound Clty Journal.) Water, water every where. The whole city isan tensive lake. A good sized stcamer might pass throu; the streets, The finid Is encroaching on the first floor the Mound City Hiotel. Yorme of the houses look like Monitors or Merrimacs, only they don’t move,.and thete turrets and smokestat are mere fluetops or chimneys Thore must be a great deal of inconvenience experies and no little distress. If we could jest about au; serious, we should remind our fr end of the Ju whore there is so much water, must be the place of others for a navy yard. Our own city looks like a city of lakes; but the levee stil looms up, aud the pumps are busily engaged in des livertug the sipeave on the outsde. Some of tho lowed floors in tue lowest places have been encroached upon by the water, THe MOUND CITY NAVY YARD UNDER WATER, The ste selected by the commissioners ia now under water, the workshops inundated, work suspended, an@ government timber tloating down the Ohio, Every! is now sirictly naval. Even the marines are expect to bo ome expert sailors, provided the barracks rei long enough to allow them to complete their nat education. The Damage to the Hudson River Rail road Repatred. Ovrice ov Tua Hopton Riven Ranoan cory fe Morch 20, 1865. The dumage by the recent freshot having been paired the trains will leave Thirticth stroet station fod Albany and the West as usual. JOHN M. TOBIN, President, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasutxatox, March 19, 1868+ GLOOMY STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE REBEL CAPITAL, Private and seml-official information received here within the laet day or two represonts the state of things at Richmond as most gloomy and discouraging for the rebellion. Davis has repeatedly declared his intention of obdicating unless the rebel Congress will confer upon bine the@xtreme powers which he has asked for. General Lee aleo declares that the combinations against him are too strong to bo resisted successfully unless ald & promptly afforded by Congress, The banks, in anticipa: tion of seizure of their speclo by the rebel goverm ment, have disposed of it by the relomption of their cireulation and otherwise; #0 that even if Com gress should accede to the demands of Davis and Lee no considerable amount of specie could be obtained, and without it Davis bas officially declared that the rebel army around Richmond connot be fed. Every man im the confederacy who has any specie is hiding it to avoid being robbed by the government, and to awa! the reoo cupation of tho country and the restoration of the authe rity of the nation, when {t will be once more available, Everybody, from Jeff. Davis down, is convinced that the end of the rebellion is at hand, and are exsting about for tho means of persoual eafety when the final crash shall comune. SECRETARY STANTON'S RETURN TO WASHINGTON. Secretary of War Stanton and his attendants retrrned to-day from their visit to City Point and the army before Richmond. They report the whole army in the most oplendid condition and “eager for the fray.”? Sheridam ad arrived ai right at a bace of supplies, and would coon be ready for another promenade as brilliant as the Inet it MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL BANKS. Gonoral N. P. Banks, accompanied by Colonel Wilsom, of his staff, loaves Washington this evening for New York, It is understood that General Banks is on bis way to resume command of the Department of the Guif, wa hia beadquartere at New Orleans, RETURN OF ADMINAL PORTER TO WI PLERP. Asslstant Secretary ef the Navy Fox and. Admiral Pow ter left on the captured blockade runner steamer Bat fog Forweas Monroe on Saturday afternoon. Aa the steamed passed the Monitor Montauk the crew camo out and em ‘thuslastically cheered the hero of the naval fight at Fort Fisher, Secretary Fox will be absens for threo or four Lt ARRIVAL OF THE MONITOR MONTAUE. The Monitor Montauk arrived at the Nawy Yard here on Saturday afternoon, Sho is to have hot guns ‘haimee and soine repairs made to render hor mete effigtent. Hea . new armament will be of Sfteen-inck.guns. Firrorme.tnox.—An eatire change of ‘equestrian pers formnnces wit! take place in this house to-night, in ad dition to the favorite spectacles of the,@east 6f Lanterns and Mother Goose,