The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1865, Page 4

$ NEW YORK HEB JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ae OFFICE M. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU GTS. eae AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. _ asia WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas Unnav4e ‘or Naw Qururio THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Staxsts OF 5 D. Trot—Warrs 1ATRE, Bowery.—Daun PEN Blare fe tan Sa. NIBLO'S GARDEN Broadway.—Bast Lene. ADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Dor; om, Tax quem on ps Hessre. PL a GARDEN, Brosdway.—Matines at One o'Clock— ————_ NRW BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ganuio Curmrs— ‘Tas Boszanos. 8 MUSEUM. Brosdway.— pares Nomn Bratriak San ‘and Brening. ‘ Y MINSTRELS, Mechanios’ Hall, 472, Broad- BEY ANT Mr Sons, DANcx, ‘Puauzsquis, £0.—Ma- Mamuora Fat Bor—Pisanno— way. aurea. STREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ermioruan somen De eee Persousuaania, ox O11 ON THE Beaute 2 rr ti sre been taxes without asking questions long enough, and sa- paying | The Court ordered a verdict for the plaintiff fer the full amount claimed ‘The Merchant will case was pat off for the term yes nounces that if the people of Georgia decide to have ® | csrgay in the Supreme Court, oiranit, im consequence of convention they will hold it in spite of all the soldiers in | the business engagements of ex-Judge Pierrepoint, one of the State, The Montgomery (Ala) Mati says that the the counsel for the defence. \idepression which is laying hold on the country is sap- Ping the vitals of ite power both at home and tn the | burgiary in entering thé residence of Mr. Andrus, army.” EUROPEAN NEWS. days later. * Yesterday in the Court of General only fourteen years old, pleaded guilty to The news of the capture of Wilmington had reached | effect. Judge Russel, in passing sentence, observed that England, but the fall of Fort Fisher having been previ- ously reported its effect. was not remarkable. United States stocks improved a little The rebel cotton loan experienced only slight change, having fallen heavily in anticipation of the event. English sympathizers were seceding on every side from their advocacy of the rebel cause, Some of the newspapers acknowledge that Lee cannot maintain him- self, and that Hood and other rebel generals are in nudi- bus, or nowhere. ‘The London Times thinks that efforts will be made by Mr. Lincoln to restore the revolted States singly to the Union, and other Londdn journals denounce in strong terms the idea of a war between Engiand and the United States. The Opinion Nationale of Paris (Prince Napoleon's ergan) eulogizes General Sherman's operations and tac- tics in the high®st torms, and accuses the rebels of having EI 199 and 201 Bowery.—Sonas, re ee ivan boc Wuo Gum Fixp Us Now. Broadway.—Max Sraaxosou's Cox- ares anp Ma, Wee. oanms—Muta Da Kar LLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Bioadway.—Rosurt Heuten’s tlenons AND Coad SoLos—G rags. PPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street. EqurstRiay, ghunamne ji ‘Acgopatio ENTERTAINMENTS—Tak Fast OF IERIOAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Bauczrs, Mink, BURLESQUES, £0.—KimxA. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 ?. M es —a New York, Friday, Mar ch THE SITUATION. . An ongagoment on Sunday last between the armies of Generals Sherman and Jobnston, near Bentonville, N. C., between Goldsboro and Raleigh, is announced in an offi- cial despatch’ from the rebel General Loe. He reports that tho attack was made by Johnston, about five o'clock in the evoning, and claims that the national troops were routed, lost pieces of artillery, and wore driven back a when, _receiv- tng reinforcements, they “apparently assumed the offensive,” but were “Pesisted without difficulty until dark." The next morning, he says, they were discovered intrenched. Of the operations of that day (Monday) we have no positive accounts; but there are rumors that nother battle was fought, and that Sherman had made his appearance In front of Raleigh and demanded its q@urrender. In the affair of Sunday, which the Richmond papers, starving for good news, and ready to go wild over the smallest crumb, denominate “s brilliant victory’ for the rebels, doubtless nothing more than Sherman's advance, or a ‘very small portion of his army, was engaged. We shall ‘Bot have to wait many days, perhaps not many hours, for adifferont and true account. In Washington it is be- three mile, Weved that she Union force engaged consisted merely of | flankers of General Sherman's extreme left wing, who had been sent out to cut tho railroad between Raleigh and Goldsboro, while the main body of his army was oooupying the latter place, which we know it did on Sun- day last, tho dayof the aight. Our New Orleans dates are tothe 17th inst, General | ‘Camby was then with bis troops near Mobile, and it was ‘expected that the combined land and naval attack on hat place would be made within five days, General Onaby, Admiral Thatcher and Generals Granger and a wont up the harbor on the Sth inst.,on board s , to within four miles of the city, and drew the {fe of several of the rebel batteries; bat nome of the shop took effect. Free trade is to be extended along the line of the Mississippi river. An agent of Jeff. Davis’ from Richmond, hed arrived in the rebel Trans- Mississippi Department to manage the cotion ‘trade there and secure to the rebel government its as- eeesed tax on the commodity of twenty-five per cent. General Lew Wallace has left New Orleans on a special mission to Matamoros, Mexico, it is said for the purpose of inquiring into the arrangement of Mejia, Maximilian’s commander there, with the rebel commander in Texas, for the delivery to the latter of Texan refugees escaping into Mexico. Fort Meyers, on the Florida coast, has been abandoned by the Union troops, who were quictly withdrawn to Fort Delancey, on the Punta Bassa, No new movement of either the Army of the Potomac orthe Army of the James is yet reported. Under the fain storm of last Tuesday night, the roads, which had become passable, were again put ina miserable condi- tion, The influx of rebel deserters still con- tinues. They report that General Heth’s division left the front of Richmond on last Sunday morning to reinforce General Jobnston in North Carolina. Admiral Porter's flagship, the Malvern, arrived in the James river n last Tuesday, and anchored off Aiken's landing. The Officers and mon of the Sixth corps intend to raise a fund 6f ton thousand dollars with which to erect at the West Point Military Academy a bronze statue of Major Gencral Sedgwiok, their former commander, who was killed on the 9th of last May, in the battle of the Wilderness. Right thousand poorly mounted but well supplied gybel cavalry, under Forrest and other leaders, are said. © be operating inthe northern portions of Mississippi and Georgia and Southern Tennesseo, A Major Bradford as been assigned to @ band of rebel desperadoes to Qushwhpck along the Big Black and Mississippi fivers, Large sumbers of deserters from For, fee's «and Rod(y’s commands are coming into General Thomas’ lines in Alabama, and report great demorslization im the rebel ranks in that fegion and great destitution among the inhabitants. Gaptain Thrasher, @ notorious rebel guerilla chicf, and ‘fifteen of his outlaw bind, wore captured by a party of General Thomas’ scouts on the 7th inst. On the Ith {nst, General Thomas had over fifty wagons, loaded with @upplics, ready to start to meot the Union prisoners who ‘Wore expected to be exchanged at Tupelo, Rebel blockade runnipg onthe lower Potomac, from Maryland to Virginia, having become somewhat brisk again lately, Lieutenant Commander Eastman, with portion of the Potomac flotilla, explored Mattox creek ‘and the bordering region on the 16th, 17\h and 18th (natant, and succeeded in breaking up a rendezvous of the traders, dostroying three of their schooners, and cap. éuring sooks of tobacco, guns, ammunition, &. Ono of our Washington correspondents states that in- fired Charleston. It adds:—‘‘They have nover been any- thing but rebels against a just government," having for their watchword “slaves and slavery." England has forwarded to Washington ‘numerous claims” for compensation for damages growing out of the war, No claims had been made against England, within six months, for damages donoto United States commerce by the Alabama. An English naval officer, accused of Having aided the privateer Rappahannock, was placed on half pay, as “unworthy of the Queen’s confidence’ in active servios, Tho rebel privateer Shenandoah had reached Mel- bourne, Australia; she reported having burned eleven ships during her voyage from the Cape of Good Hope. Lord Palmerston said that England disapproved of the “principles”? on which the war on the Plate river was conducted, but she would not interfére if British in- terests were respected. Portugal was scoking to re- establish friendly relations between England and Brazil. Our special correspondent in London states that within a @npto of yoars the Prince Imporial of France {s tomake a royal visit to the United States and take a tour in the country. He is to be attended by asplondid flect and two or threo Ministers of State, and move about with Drilliancy which will completely, it is sald, eclipse our recollections of the Prince of Wales’ pageant. Consols closed in London on the 11th of Maroh at 88% 8 8834, The Liverpool Cotton market- was dull, with prices unchanged from easier rates, on tho 11th instant. Thore were no sales of breadstuffs reported on the 11th instant, Provisions quiet and steady. THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Sonate yesterday, bills were reported fa- vorably to amend the charter of the American-German Colonization Society; to incorporate the Veteran Union Club of New Yerk, and to authorize appeals to the Court of Appeals from certain orders, The bills to incorporate the New York and Brooklyn Passenger and Baggage Com- pany, and to amend the charter of the City Fire Insurance Company of New York, were referred to the Committee of the Whole, Bills were noticed to jncorporate the Metropolitan Torkish Bath Company; to authorize the Central Rail- road Company to™ increase way passengers fare; to amend the Brooklyn Water act; and for the incorpora- tion of the New York and Spayten Duyvel Railroad Com- pany. Bills were passed to amend the laws for’ the in- corporation of life and health insurance coipanies; to amend the general fire insurance law; and to extend the charter of the Allaire Works. strictions from the charter of the Manhattan Gas Com- | pany as to the price of gas was discnssed, but no result was reached. The bill amending the Militia law, and appropriating seventy-five thousand dollars therefor, was ordered to a third reading. 3 In the Assombly the minority report in rolation to the | billto establish a Paid Fire Dopartment in this city was presented, Th? annual report of the Soci ty for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents was received. 1 ils were passed to faciitate the acquisition of laniis for thy use of the Croton Aqueduct We incorporating thy Twonty-third Regiment Armory Association; authoriz'ng plank road and turnpike roud companies to, collect increased toll. In evening session tho Pa'd Firs Depart- ment dill—being the special ord r—was bat d at length, when it was ordored to a third readi vote of yeas 52, nays 43—Mossrs, Ansel, Be:n’s, Lewis, Shultz and Strong voting in the negative. Th's is equivalent to, the passage of tho bill, it having alroady passed the Senato. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our Havana corr spondent informs us that the Pope has, a little too late, written another letter to Maximilian of Mexico, forbidJing him to sanction the sequestration of the church property or to tolerate freedom of wor- ship. The daily number of men for the military service re- ceived at the Supervisors’ rooms in the Park has very much decreased since the issue of tho order from the division Provost Marshal General's office requiring substi- tutes to be onlisted in the districts in which their princl- pals reside. Still those who are lost here are gained at the different provost marshul’s offices, and count the same towards filling the city's quota. Only twelve men were enlisted at the Supervisors’ headquarters y: sterday ; but a considerable additional number were mvstered in st the district offices. At aspocial meeting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday a communication was received from the Comptroller stating that the amount subser'bed to the two million dollars County Soldiers’ Bounty Fund bonds is only seven hundred and ninety-three thousand dollars, and that there is no more monoy except one hundred thousand dollars advanced by &@ capitalist to continue recruiting. A com mittee was appointed to go to Albany and confer with the Governor with a view of having five hundred thousand doliars of the State loan transferred to the county. A resolution to {consider the subject of exempting the militia, police, firemen and heads of in- digent families was also adopted. The recruiting com- mittees in a number of the wards are actively engaged in efforts to fill their respective quotas. Drafting has not yet been resumed. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon and passed the Tax levy, as amended by the Board of Council- men. The budget was also amended 60 as to include fifteen thousand dollars for the work on the Eighth ave- nue, between 140th and 159th streets, and adding four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the apropriation for public institutions, as recommended by the Comp- troller. A resolution was introduced authorizing the Comptroller, in pursuance of an act of the Logislature, to borrow on revenue bonds the amount necessary to pay the sum now due, or which may hereafter become due, until provision is otherwise made for cleaning the streets of the city, which was laid over under the rule. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday. A mossage was received from the Mayor submitting a communica- tion received from Provost Marshal Dodge, urging the Common Council to assistthe United States authorities in encouraging volunteering by urging the citizens to hold maes meetings in the various wards. As this sug- gestion has been acted upon by the citizens, the paper ‘was referred to the Committee on National Affairs, The Board adhered to Ms former action in reference to the Tax levy, and appointed a commities of conference with the Aldermen. Both Boards took a recess, in order that the committee might meet, after which the report was presented, and the Councilmen concurred with the other branch in adopting the Tax levy. They alse concurred with the Aldermen im passing an ordinance appropriating five hundred thousand dollars to centinue the aid here- tofore granted by the Corporation to the families of volunteer soldiers from thie city, After passing®s large umber of routine papers, the Board adjourned till Mon formation has been received there to the effect that the Span ish government has forbidden the fitting out In the of Ferrol of thofrebel ram Olinde, alias Stonewall. We luve Richmond papers of the Qlst inst, They say ere are in that city between five and six thousand on and children bolonging to the families of men have fled froui rebel conscription and escaped to the h. As provisions are scarce commodities in Rich- 4, it is proposed to send these non-fighting, non-pro- ing consumers to the North also, The Milledgeville Ga.) Uri n tosiste (hat it is time Jeff. Davia’ administra. the sos cain a RAGA, ayaa Le day. Yesterday was opening day in the metropolis for the spring fashions, and none of the usual interest and at- tractivencss of the occasion to the lady portion of the community was lacking. On the contrary, the displays even exceeded thore of preceding years, ; In the case of Dart versus Meyer, in the Supreme Court, before Judge Mullen, yesterday, where the Plaintiff sued to recover @ difference of $1,729 on a sale of gold, the defendant ploaded that undor the act.of Con- grees of March 8, 1863, the tale was void, the contract net having been stamped and signed, and « tax paid thereon. The plaintiff held that the contract required Old to be delivered in three days, and that therfore fala did nok some mile fhe wenvinions Of Wye gqti The Vill to remove re- | the youthful burglar, who appeared to be very intelli- gent, had a notorious reputation. He sentenced him to five years imprisonment in the State prison. Francis Merth, who is also known as an expert burglar, ploadod guilty to an attempt to enter the promises of Mr, Ebbardt Paffrath, No. 183 Canal street, on the 6th inst, and was sent to the State Prison for two years and six months. Michael and Mary Gough, charged with robbing a sailor named Michael. Smith of three hundred and sixty-five dollars on the 20th of January, were acquitted. John F. Schweskie, indicted for receiving a barrel of sugar, knowing it to have beon stolen, was also acquitted, the accused having proved an excellent character. Archibald Gilles was convicted of -grand larceny, in stealing three barrels of oll from the promises of James Gault, 302 Seventh avenue, on the 18th of February last, and was sent to the State Prison for two years. Other cases were on the calendar; but in consequence of the absence of police officers they wore not tried. The City Judge stated that hereafter if polico- men disregarded the subpoenas of the Court he would or- der them to be locked up. ‘The New York express tran on the New York Central Railroad ran off the track eight miles west of Utica about noon yesterday. Five passenges cars were piled in a heap in water from three to five feet deep, and two p:r- sons wore killed and between twenty and thirty injured. One of the stringers of the trestle bridge four miles weat of Vincennes, on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, was acoldentally burned on the night of the 10th instant. ‘The casualty was not discovered in time to stop the ox- press train due at Cincinnati on Saturday morning, and the express baggage and second olass cars were thrown off the track, by which five or ix persons received slight injuries, ¥ ‘Tho late freshet was particularly severe in its damages in the city of Rochester. Storehouses, mills and bridges in great numbers were swept away, suddenly reducing men of opulence to a condition of poverty. It is said that twenty-fivo or thirty stores were wrested from their foundations and carried down the Genosee river to Lake Ontario. By a fire at Springfield, I11., on the night of the 18th inst., about forty thousand dollars worth of property was destroyed. President Lincolm and Mrs. Lincoln left Washington yesterday on a visit to General Grant and the armies on James river. Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky, a Louisville paper ways, has emancipated all his slaves. A young man named Henry Mallory was yesterday committed to the Tombs for trial on the charge of having stolon five hundred dollars worth of jewelry, on the 20th inst., from Mrs. Adams, of Morrisania, in whose house he had been for some time previous sqjourning, during a protracted sickness, Nearly all the stolen articles have bean recovered. The stock and gold markets were in a panic yesterday afternoon. Governments sympathized. Gold closed down town at 1615¢. It closed at the evening board at 1503. ’ The feeling in commercial circles was again very fever- ish yesterday, and the depression in gold caused the markets to again become very shaky. Imported mer- chandise was very quiet and prices were entirely nomi- nal, Domestic produce was dull and nominal. Cotton ctive and prices were decidedly lower. was dul! and"heavy, Groceries were quict. n | Chinge four and grain were unsettled and lower, the former tuaving deglined 10c. to 20c. The pork market was viry quiet. Jef. Davin and His Congress—The Se- nate Report Against Him—A Dismal Picture. The closing scenes of the late and the last | rebel Congress were, smidst the prevailing gloom eronad them, made ramowhft “tively BY ® contoversy brtnvbu Feit. Davis and his Congrmss as to which is responsible for their recent crushing ry disasigrs and the pre- sent forlorn condition of their confederacy. Davis, in lis recent special niessage, threw the whole blame upon the dilatory action of his Congress, Th's was more than his previously submissive Senate hud bargained for; and so, in its own defence, a committee of that hody was appo‘nted, Mr. Jumes L. Orr, of South Carolina, chairman, whose report we pub- lished yesterday. Tke report opens with the following statement of the case:—“ihe measure: passed by Congress during the present ses- sion for recru the army are considered by the President insufficient; and it is said that the results of the law authorizing the employ- ment of slaves as soldiers will be less than was anticipated, in consequence of the dilatory action of Congress in adopting Jhe measure.” The committee then go on to say “that a law so radical in its character, so repugnant to the prejudices of our people, and so intimately af- fecting the organism of society should en- counter opposition and receive a tardy sanc- tion, ought not to excite surprise;” but still, if the thing had been seriously urged in “an exe- cutive message, legislative action might have been quickened.” So from the repords a clear case is made up against Davis, showing that his Congress acted at last, not from any advice or warning coming from him, but in consequence of the urgent appeals of General Lee, for that last resort of “putting in the niggers.” The committee next declare that all the mea- sures recommended by Davis were adopted, and some thathe had not thought of—“suoh ar | the creation of the office of general-in-chief, with a view to the restoration of public confi- dence, and the energetic administration of mili- tary affairs”—which is » palpable hit, Next, in the matter of exemptions, it is shown that while by the laws of his Congress some nine thousand professional persons east of the Mississippi within the military age are exempted from the army, some “twenty-two thousand five hundred men have been detailed by executive authority.” Hence the disngreements with Davis in the matter of exemptions, Next, it is urged that if his request to have control of all the militia of the States concerned was dis- regarded, it was because the militia reserves left in the States are necessary for local order and the arrest of deserters. But it is upon the subject of his finances that Davis is most effectually demolished by this Senate committee. They say “the Currency bill (for the reduction of their paper currency) was recommended to Congress, and based on the condition of the, finances presented by the President in hig message, and by the Secretary of the Treasury in his report. But it was aban- doned without regret, because at a subsequent period of the session it was ascertained that the arrears of the public debts, constituting cash demands on the Treasury, exceeded by nearly four hundred millions the amount origi- nally reported to Congress.” A little mistake of nearly four bundred millions, which Davis of this stight mistake of four hundred mil “an increase of taxation to meet it.” Toff's however, could not stand this desperate experiment; for, as this Sen- ate committee say, “to require the agriculturist to pays tax on the income derived from his farm (ten per cent) in addition to the one- tenth of his gross productions, and the pro- perty tax of nine per cent ad valorem besides, would be manifestly unjust and oppressive,” especially after the impressment of nearly all that was left him in the way of horses, cattle, flour, corn and bacon, in exchange for Jeff.’s worthless promiseg to pay. Such are the leading specifications from the rebel Congress against Davis. But they finally compromised the matter with him, by adopting his principal demands, including ‘ bill anthor- izing him to seize twenty-five per cent of all the gold that he can lay his hands upon in the banks or in the possession of individuals, as the only chance for securing provisions for Lee’s army. It is quite possible, however, that the gold which Jeff. may be able to grab will be divided between him and his accomplices on thgir way to Mexico, leaving behind them the curses of their victims, swindled of all they possessed in a forced exchange for promises of redemption “one year after a treaty of peace with the Confederate States.” From this brief review of @ defensive report from the rebel Congress, and in the legislation which has followed, the intelligent reader will comprehend to some extent the horrible charac- ter of the despotism of Jeff, Davis, and the frightful sufferings which ithas brought upon his deluded followers. Who can doubt that they are anxiously awaiting their deliverance, or that the end of their remorscless tyrant is close at hand? Tus Sprino or Fasaion AND THE SPRING OF Praog.--Spring has opened in a genial and friendly fashion. The weather for the past few days has been, with the exception of a rough gust or two yesterday, such that one might expect to seo the buds bursting, and to hear the early birds of summer commencing their liquid carols. We have passed the crisis of the equinoctial gales and St. Patick’s day, and may, therefore, expect fife weather. The prospects of the season are not less bright in other respecta, The haloyon bird of peace is pluming his wing. The war is coming to a close. The people of the insurgent States are Pee" and-his secretary doubtless considered as a matter of “no consequence.” In this disclo- sure we have a fair elucidation of rebel finan- elering. To mend the matter, their Secretary @ he Tressucx (Tranbalm), unon tha discovers beginning to recognize the fact that insurrection was a mistake; that the idea was a hallucina- tion for Which they have suffered terribly; and that the only cure for their self-inflicted misfor- tupe is a generous submission to the govern- ment which has protected them in the past and will make them prosperous and happy in the future. The contrast between the condition of the loyal and the rebellious States is forcibly demonstrated by the present state of affairs in this motropolis. While the cities of the South suffer and mourn under the miseries of war, we never enjoyed more brilliant time than at presont. Onr theatres are crowded nightly. Money is plenty, and flows freely. Gold, which for the past three years attained an exorbi- tant value, fell yesterday fo hundred and fifty, and is only struggling not to go any lower. An opera season, unprecedented in length, novelty and success, closed yesterday, only to vu renewed ia Philuaelphis, Baltimore, Wash- ington and Chicago. Yesterday also witnessed, with, the close of Italian opera at a grand matinée, attended by about two thousand five hundred people, who wanted to see the last of Maretzck’s troupe, the opening of the season of fashion, The modistes then ruled the hour. The most delightful spring bonnets, the prettiest mantillas, and all the other charming acces- sories of, the toilet, which make Broadway and Fifth avenue a moving parterre, were ex- hibited, and no doubt entranced the yiston of several hundreds of interesied visitors to the various establishments from which the dictum | of fshion, like the voice of the oracle of Delphos, was proclaimed. ’ We give in another column a description of the fascinations in the shape of dress and general adornments there presented, to which we direct the special atten- tion of the ladies. By studying our report they will know what to select to render their beauty more beautiful, and where t6 obtain what they most desire. With the opening of the spring season, and in spite of the panic in Wall street, equipages for summer display in the Park are being refitted and burnished up, and everything gives token of a brilliant and splendid coming season, in which wealth and show and fashion will prevail with more, queenly power than ever. Let the South but gracefully submit to the irresistible force of destiny, and by the Fourth of July we will have such a jubilee throughout the country on that auspicious festival, as was never witnessed before. Tre Reprison Cot.aPsep.—The news from T.< ope yesterday only confirms the opinion we c-pressed a few days ago: that the cause of the rebellion has completely collapsed in Europe. The insurgent States of the South are no longer recognized as a living body, or their aspirations as anything but a departed spirit. The London Times, which in a recent article described the rebellion as merely an “anti- national insurrection,” ‘now implies that it is a body which must bleed to death—a corpse which foreign Powers will wait patiently to see dissolve into corruption, cut of which the united republic will assuredly arise and healthier than ever. Events at homo since this opinion was expressed confirm its truth. The movements of Schofield and Sherman; the tone of the Southern press expressing want of confi- donoe in the rebel administration; the moeting at Wilmington, at which resolutions were passed acknowledging submission to the gov- ernment, which is only the initiatory expres- sion of opinion in all the Southern States— these are the cumulative evidence furnished by present circumstances that the rebellion is subdued. There may be another battle; but it will be the result of accident rather than of necessity. Sherman is crowding Johnston so closely that the latter may be compelled to fight or fly. On the 19th inst. there was a skir- mish near Raleigh. Richmond, cut off from all supplies, must yield before long, for its inhabb tants cannot live on air. Lee is too thorough a soldier to maintain @ show of resistance, at an immense sacrifice of life, when ultimate defeat is inevitable. Therefore we are justified in con- cluding that, as the cause of the rebellion has been abandoned by its most prominent sup- porters in Eurqpe, so also ita fata is sealed at by to-morrow. Must the committee again stop workt We hope not. Let our citizens come forward and subscribe for one, two, five, ten or s hundred thousand dollars each. The invest- ment is a good one, for it saves us from the draft and pays seven per cent interest. It seems that there is some difficulty about the subscriptions from our barks and other moneyed corporations. These institutions have, subscribed for the State loan, which is quite a different thing from our city loan. A committee went up to Albany yesterday to see the Gov- ernor and arrange with him to have our share of the State loan transferred to us at once. We hope that the Governor will grant this very reasonable request without delay. But during the interval which must necessarily ensue we must rely upon voluntary subscriptions from individuals to fill up our coffers and our quota, and we sincerely hope that there may be no hesitancy about the matter. Extra exertions are needed because of the fact that every pos- sible effort seems to be made by the Washing- ten authorities to add to the difficulties of our situation and diminish our chanoes of escaping conscription, The greatest want in the Provost Marsha! General’s office appears to be a want of common sense. Blunders, impediments and contradictions on the part of officinis make our + task more arduous, and should urge us to in- creased exertions to fill our quota in spite of opposition, Tur. Last ov Sonar, Bary.—The rebel Gene- ral Early in July last, with a vetoran fighting army of some thirty thousand men, swept @ilboa, der; George G. Hommingway, in the back; O'Conner, of Oneida bounty; J. 0. Rockwell, of Pros pect, Onelda county, in the neck; Frank Allen, of Troy, fm the abdomen, badly; M. ©. Jewott and str. Redwood, of Jefferson county; Mra, Howard, slightly; Mr. Neb down the Shenandoah valley and down through Maryland to the very back door of Washington. Subsequently, from the terrible thrashings given him by General Sheridan in the battles of the Opequan and Fisher’s Hill, ho was compelled to procure from Richmond a fresh supply of men, artillery, small arms and provision wa- gons, This second army, in October, was 80 hor- ribly cut up, routed and despoiled of its artil- lery and wagons, at the battle of Cedar Creek, that poor Early was again compelled, with the remnants left him of his command, to retire to the head of ‘the valley for repairs, There, in his late terrific raid, Sheridan overhauled him, and at Waynesburg captared all that was left of the army of Early, except some two hundred men, and the “bad old man” himself. But ho was followed up and so hotly pursued that in the rear of Richmond he was again overhauled, when it was discovered that his fighting force was reduced to two men—one private and an orderly. These three,-all told, were attacked by three of Shoridan’s troopers and dispersed, Early, “solitary and alone,” saving his bacon by swimming his horso- across the South Anna river. This waé ‘the last of Early’s “Army of the Valley,” and we guess the last of Jubal Early. Tae Count Joannes.—We have received a copy of the prospectus of a weekly paper, the first number of which is to be issued in May, under the name of the New York Joannes Jour- nal, by the Count Joannes, From a glance at this prospectus we aro afraid that the Count will be the death of Joannes. To avoid this eatastrophe we would advise Joannes to cut the Count; or, if in this matter we are asking too much, we would still admonish him that thete is such. a thing as giving us too much of Joannes. The poor returns of his Joannes trumpery libel suits should warn him against the folly of Joannes journalism. If he can get rid of Joannes, and go to work with a fixed purpose and in a modest way he may prosper. It is a shame that a man of such capabilities for use- fulness, if properly directed, as plain Mr. Jones, should be the victim of such a foolish indi- vidual as the Count Joannes. Tae Newsparer Press or THe SovrHern Conrepsracy.—The war has made sad havoc among the journals of Rébeldom. There were more of them in the single State of Tennessee at the beginning than can now be found in’ the whole “confederacy.” The pioneer of them all—the Charleston Mercury—has mysteriously disippeared, gone, perhaps, in search of the wandering Memphis-Grenada-Jackson-Chatta- nooga-Atlanta Appeal. The Richmond journals, which for four years have blown the trumpet of Davis in the highest possible key, are getting short of paper, weak in the lungs; and are on their last legs. Their editors, reporters, clerks and printers, as the last resort, in order to try their own medicine, are being drawn off into Lee’s army. And this will be the end of South- ern journalism on the South Carolina platform of State rights. 4 Trauay Orgna—Fanewai. Mativer.—The opera season concluded yesterday with a grand matinés, at which Fre Diavolo was sung tos large and fashionable audience. After a season of more than a hundred performances of opera, remarkable for yariety and success, Mr.” Maret- zek’s company took their farewell of a New York ‘audi- ence, and will play to-night and to-morrow in Philadel- phia, and proceed from thence to Baltimore and Wash- ington, to delight the denizens of those provincial towns. ‘We shall have the pleasure of hearing them once more, however, bofore they take flight for the Groat West under Manager Grau’s direction; for Max Mareteek is to havea benefit here on the 11th of April, and another, we be pea in Brooklyn, on the 10th. We are led to under. that all the leading artists will volunteer their ser- ee oe Ceaeicee ae eee jerous tribute to the moet conscientious and liberal of managers, and we pre- sume that the directors of both the academies will ten- der the free of th order to make the com- |. Mr. Maretzek deserves every that ho will reoeive a approsehing ort, substantial ackno' it it tm the ~% wledg ment io Arrivals and Departures. ARRIVALS. meigen, of Lansingville; H Green, of New York, in the neck; J. N. Bowers, of Chicago; Mr. Robinsem, seriously; Mr, Sauer; Susannah Van Nollendorf, of Cincinnati, seriously; H. J. Ogden, of Cleveland; Aw BR Delarand, of Piattsburg; R. Z. Hill, ; Major A J. Adams and Major W. A. Hale; MoCarthy, ef Pulaski, N. ¥.; Mra, Moulton, of Delta, ‘The train was running at a high rate of speed. Several pereons narrowly escaped drowning. The St. Albans Raiders. A CURIOUS CASE OF IPENTITY—ONE OF THE ALLEGED GUILTY PARTIES IN NEW YORK UNDER ARRHST. ‘The argument in the case of the St, Albans raiders has been concluded, and judgmont is to be rendered om Monday noxt. Ono of the alleged raiders, named Geo. B Paine, who was arrested at Detroit and subsequently taken to St. Albans,.is now at Polloe Headquarters, im Mulberry street. A curious inoidont rogarding his identity is related by a gentleman from St, Albans. nr appears that the first intimation the villagers of Be Albans had of tho raid wag the appearance in their midst.of goveral m2n galloping about on horsos and dis charging firearms indiscriminately about the streets, ‘This created the utmost oxcitement, in which tho raiders thomselves soemed to participate, Itis said of Paine tat ho lost his hat, and, secing a man standing in from of the Amorican House, he galloped up, and, drawing his pistol, cried out, “Give me your hal” The man he ae coated wasa stranger in the village, having Come from New Hampshire that day on business, HeJpoked Paine full in tho face, and replied very coolly, “I don’t seo we “Don't see iM! thundered the latter; “give me your hat, or I'll blow your brains oui” The New Hampshire man looked him straight in the eye, thrust his hands into his pockets, and sald, ‘You blow and be damnedt* Paine wheeled on his horse and rode off. Whén he wae captured his photograph was taken, and placed in the bands of the Postmaster of the town to which our New Hampshire friend belonged, with instructions to let the latter see it in some casual manner, and thus identify the original. When he came in tho Postmaster was turning the pictures over carelessly in his bands, “What have you theret” said he. Tho Postmaster handed them over. Ho looked at them at a moment, rubbed his oyes as if te make certain that he was right, and exclaimed, Beg that's the son of a b——h that wanted my hat at Albans the day the raid was.”’ ‘The noxt day ho was taken to St, Albans, and picked out the prisoner from a number of othor persons am®ng whom he was sitting. When he saw the prisoner in the Sheriff's oflice ho waiked towards him and moroly “Woll, you didn’t get that hat of mine, did you?” “It was considered a clear case of idontity. ‘ Destructive Storm at Baltimore. Baxrtworr, Maroh 23, 1865. Violent storms of wind occurred to-day at one im the morning, at eleven o’clook A. Mj; and again 98 three and four P.M. The force of the wind almes® amounted to a tornado. In the western part of the city considerable damage waa done. Tho boiler house of the Vulcan Works of Hazichurt & Wiegand, was blown down, and one workman was killed, one fatally injured and several severely. Tho roof of the new government hospital on Townsend street was blown off, and a colored boy was killed. A chimney of the Eutaw House .was prostrated, fell through the attic, Othor similar damages are t6; Seb Relief for Rebel Refugees id Deserters. Pamapetrma, March 28, 1866. A large mecting wes held at the Academy of Musto to night in behalf of the refugees and deserters from the rebel army. Judge Strong of the Supreme Court pre- sided. Rev. Joseph T..Duryea, Rev. Dr. Newton, Geo, , Stuart and others addressed the meeting. Resolutions PLATE—ENGLAND’S RELATIONS TOWARD ie . of the ry whether he had any objection to state to the House the substanes of the information received by the English packet as te the condition of affairs in the River ; and whethes instructions had been given to the British Minister and Admiral to prevent a recurrence at Montevideo of = stm. lar depl: sacrifice of life and property by the Bra- silians and insurgent forces as the Under Secrotary of State lately mentioned had been occasioned at Paysamdd, by the same invaders of the repubjic of Uraguay. ‘Lord Panwerstrox—In answor to the question of the honorable gentleman I have to say that according to the latest accountsan attack was likely to be madeon repeal : i For @ week or two past » young man, twenty-one years of age, named Henry Mallory, hes been lying sic inthe house of Mrs. Mary Adams, residing in Morrisania, Westchester county. During Mallory’s illness he wis carefull sttendod by ire. Aten, Oe tere Server to his sufferings. ee eetaes Mallory suddenly oe. house of his on the morning te ae oe which two gold wae, one — twe dozen Siver sqcoms, aol pin, pei case, divers other New gtd hoe: vane Sty intpureatt of * nanan al he i i