The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1865, Page 4

«? 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNE?PT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU S78. Volume XXXM........04+ New York, Tuesday, March 25, 1365. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Waexcy Heracd must be handed im before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country’ is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- sorted in the Weexuy Henaup will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. i satelite ye 1 , THE SITUATION. so ha The Aghihig in the Army of the Potomac on last Eatur- day was of « much more exttnsive character than was at {ho time reported, and was carried on along a considora- Dio portion of the linea, the Second and Sixth corps, as woll as the Niuth, being engaged on the national side. After the expulsion of the four divisions of rebels from Fort Stocdman and tho position within the lines of the Ninth corps which by their sudden dash they succeeded in seizing and for a short time holding, the Second and Sixth corps, located further to tho left, pushed forward and captured the first line of rebel thus materially advancing General lines in that direction. The rebels mado desperate but eliorts to retake their works, was till after dark. day’s operations were about two thousand, intrenchments, Grant's unsuccessful the The entire Union casualties in the The rebels and struggle continued Jost about three thousand in prisoners alone, and their killod and wounded General Grant estimates at much more than double his own. The day's work was of a sanguinary character; but resulted in most decided and vory important national successes. Our despatches fur. nish a graphic and complete account of the whole aifair. In Washington yesterday rumors were in circalation that a general engagement was in progrss all along the lines in front of Richmond and Petersburg; but they could not be traced to any reliable source, and were no doubt incorrect, as it is understood at a general attack at prosent dos not form part of Genoral Grant's plans. Genoral Graut announges that he has received des- patches from General Sherman up to the 22d inst. at which date the lattor was at Goldsboro, Since leaving Fayetteville, General Shorman says, he had had much hard fighting, but had inflicted heavy losses on the rebels in killed and wounded, and had captured over two thousand of them, Ho states that in all his march- ing and fighting from Savannah to Goldsboro his losees were covered by twenty-five hundred men, many of whom are but slightly wounded. Our Newbern despatch of the 23d inst. confirns the report given in the Heratp yesterday morning, that a portion of Gene- ral Sherman’s army bad reached Smithfield, half way between Goldsboro and Raleigh, and was pushing on after the retreating enomy. Recruits for Sherman were daily arriving at Golds- boro, The junctidi of Sherman’s, Schofield’s and Terry's forces was effected on the Nouse river, about six miles west of Goldsboro, The majority of the in- habitants of Goldsboro remained there on its evacua- tion by the enemy, and were apparently pleased at its occupation by the national troops. It appears that in the engagements at Averysboro, N. C., on the 16th inst., and at Bentonsville, on the 19th, the only forces of Sherman’s army participating were portions of the Fourteenth corps, and on both occasions the rebels were defeated with heavy loss. The subs>- quent unimpeded advance of the Fourteenth corps is suflicient evidence of this, notwithstanding the boast of “great Confederate victories” by General Lee and the Richmond press. From the vicinity of Mobile we have additional re- ports by the arrival hero yesterday of the steamship Evening Star, from New Orleans on the 19th inst. In the latter city rumors were again rife that the rebels were preparing to evacuate Mobile, with the design of forming # junction with General Leo somewhere in East Topnessee. But these wild stories aro apparently as groundicss a Previous ones of the same kind, sines our ‘own correspondent, writing from Mobile bay on the 15th inst., states that the enemy there appeared determined to make a stubborn resistance to the national advance. New Orleans papers say there had been heavy firing in Molle bay during an entire day, the date of which is not given. On tho 15th one of the national Monitors made & Teconnoissance of the rebel batteries without being fired upon. The property of John Slidell and Judah P, Benjamin has been condemned as forfeited to the United States government in the District Court at New Orleans, Totelligence from Havana to the 22d instant was re- ceived by the steamship Havana, which arrived here yesterday. The Anglo-rebol steamer Owl, late a blockade runner, sailed from that port on the 21st inst., supposed for Galveston, Texas, where, it was believed, she would fit out as a pirate, she having a crew of over one hundred men and cannon and ammunition on board. The United States gunyoat Cherokee left the harbor of Havana only about half an hour before tho Owl, and, as it was rumored that there was to be a fight between them outside, they were followed by a Spanish war steamer, but nothing further regarding the anticipated engagement was known. It was reported that Captain Maffit, formerly of the pirate Florida, left Havana on board the Owl. Forty of her crew deserted whilo in that port. The rebel General Preston arrived at Havana from ‘Nassau in the Owl, and there were rumors that he was thore for the purpose of getting up a revolution in Cuba and making arrangements for the recognition by Maxi- milian of Mexico of the Jeff. Davis confederacy, arid the Opening to It for prize purposes of the port of Tampico, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Sonate yesterday, bills were reported to secure to creditors a just divieion of the estates of debtors; and relative to the police courte and justices of Brooklyn. A bill to incorporate the New York and Brooklyn Disin- fecting Company was introduced, The New York City Tax Levy bill was referred to the Committee on Munl- cipal Affairs, The Governor's message was made the spocial order for Wednesd Bills for the relief of the East River, New York and Jamaica Railroad Company, and relating to savings banks in New York were ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly the bill to extend the charter and in- crease the capital of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company was referred to the Committee on Commereo, with power to report complete, A number of land and private claim bills were ordered to a third reading. out “sucerss, and yesterday, as on Saturday, many men who offered themselves for eulistinont had to be rejected for this reason. There appear to bo piouty of yoluuteors to ll our quota; bat of course they will not enlist withou! the promised boanty, I? orders should be received trom Washington to-day, as aatiei pated, for the resumption of the draft, those whose names have already becn drawn from the wheol will be required to report, and the law for the disfranobisement of those who desert their districts to evade the chances of milfiary service will be strictly enforced. A list of, the names of sch persons will be kept and published, One hundred and two men were ep! sted in the city em Saturday; but the number yesterday was smalior, Comptroller Brennan has issued an appeal to the citivens, urging them to subscribe to. the county seven por cent bounty loan, in order to avert the draft, Roturns from forty-three counties of the vote at the recent election in this State on the proposition to amend the constitution by providing for the appontiwent of Commissioners of tho Court of Appeals show thirty-eight thousand one hundred aud fifty-eight in its favor and fifty-eight thousand and seventy-five oppos'd to it, being a jority of yegey srenty toons ggainat it 80 far, was adopted in reference to the draft, calling upon wealthy citizens to come forward and subscribe to the loan, and pledging the hearty co-operation of the Com- mon Council in the attempt that is being made to fill the quota by volunteering. Tho, resolution from the Board of Counciimen authorizing the Comiptrollor to raise money upon revenue bonds for the purpose of cleaning the streets, until the Legislature made provi- sion therefor, was concurred in. Comptroller Brennan’s next, attwo P.M The Board of Councilmen held no meeting yesterday, & quorum not being present when the roll was called. In the United States District Court Ascistant District Attorney Rice yesterday Med a final decree of distribu- tion in the case of the United States against the schooner Joseph H. Toone and cargo, The proceeds amount to twelve thousand ono hundred and sixteon dollars. A similar decree was filed in the case of the schooner Ezilda and cargo. Tho proceeds amount to two thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars. The crow of the United States steamer South Carolina alone share in tho proceeds, The motion to open the judgment in the Singer divorce case, so as to afford Mrs. Singer a new trial, was denied yesterday by Judge Leonard, of the Supreme Court. in the Court of Goneral Sessions yesterday Charies Johnson, indicted for stealing dreas trimmings, worth three hundred and sixty-seven dollars, from Charles K. Walker, at No, 61 Hudson street, on tho 9th inst., pleaded gu lly to the charge. He was sent to the Stato Prison for two years and six months, Mary J. Lalley was tried on a charge of stealing sixty dollars from Elizabeth Filton; but, as there were other parties in the room who could have taken the money, the jury acquitted the accused. Johanna Grimes, Jointly indicted with Ann Constaptine, charged with stealing thirty-six dollars from Daniol Woods, on the 22d of February, was also acquitted. Mary Beekinah’ was iried and convicted of grand larcony, having on the 18th of last month stolen Wearing apparol and jewelry, valued at three hundred dollars, from the rooms occupied by Mrs, Burdett, at the Sinclair Houae, Some of the property was recovered. Judge Russel sent her to the State Prison for two years. Business is briskly carried on by Co‘onel Baker at his office in Vesey streot, Thore have been no important arrosis made recently, nor any orders issued to arrest a provost marshal, as has been erroneously stated in somo newspapers, Major Martin R. Delaney, a colored man, and the first of his race to recelve such acommission in the United States Army, lectured Inst evening in Shiloh church, bo- foro a large assemblage, principally composed of colored people, on the history of Anglo-Saxon progress and goverament, from the earliest period down to tho pre sent time, a Three men, giving their names as Michael Rudolph, ‘William Fenton and Charles Andrews, were yesterday arrested and committ?d to the Tombs, in default of two thousand dollars bail each, on the charge of having, ia the latter part of last December, while looking at a room in Crosby street, under pretence of wishing to NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1865. Beaurerard snd Hardee against the enveloping wings of Sher: n anywhere in South Carolina. Genera! Lee, on the other hand, in bis rash experiments of Saturday last, has doubtless made the important discovery that General tyrant has not essentially weakened General Meade in strengthening the army of Sherman. {t appears that General Lee Lud permitted him- self to be misled »y information that the Union lines in b's front were, in consequence of rein- forcemenis to Sherman, left invitingly open to a dashing surprise, He must, therefore, be now convinced that his situation is extremely perilous. He has found that while Johnston cannot hold any position in North Carolina & single Gay 1; the approach of the overwhelm- ing legions of Sherman, the army holding the defences of Richmond is as much in need of reinfurer men's as Johnsten. in this extremity what is General Lee to do? be Goer of ‘alcormsan ee eabendat! i weantetne Richmond ig now in. reality all that is left of his confederacy, To await tho arrival of Johnston and his thirty or forty thousand men, is only to await the addition of Sherman’s army to the lines of General Grant. To evacuate Richmond now is to give up the ship, and place both Lee and Jo! mn between the upper and the nether millstones. In this dilem- semi-monthly statement showed a balance in the treas- | mo General Loe will probably resign himself to ury of $609,401 10, The Board adjourned until Friday | his fate, by awaiting in Richmond the hour and the neceasity for a capitufation, involving his army, the city and his Southern confederacy. An evacuation in search of supplies may be precipitated upon Lee at any moment by some new movement of Sheridan’s cévalry—other- wise, with the resistless approach of Sherman, & capitulation is inevitable. General Grant is a fisher ofarmies. With one end of his mighty seine fixed at Richmond, he sweeps around with the other end from the Mississippi river to the Atlantic coast, and up the coast to the Rich- mond landing. There, where the two ends of the seine meet, we shall have a grand haul of allsorts of fish—shad and herring, sturgeons and suckers, catfish and cels, crabs, drumfish, swordfish, gudgeons and porpoises, and the draft may possibly include that regular old hammer-headed shark Jeff. Davis. The seine is coming ashore, and we can see from the fluttering on the surface inside that the haul will exhaust “the confederacy.” Jacob Thompson and the Raids. We give, in another column, 4 paper with which we have been furnished by Major Geno- ral Dix. It discloses, in connection with the circumstances under which it came into his hands, the fact, never for a moment doubted by us, that the attempt to burn this city was made with the knowledge and approbation of Mr. ‘Thompson and other leading rebels in Canada, who were the accredited agents of Jofferson Davis, and sent there to embroil the United Stetes with Canada, by setting on foot preda- tory and murderons expeditions from the torri- tory of the latter against our cities and villages, Immediately after tho attempt to fire this city it was ascertained, through an intercepted letter to B. A. McDonald, a resident here, that he had been in communication with some of the par ties suspected to have beem concerned in it, and that the baggage of one of them had been left at his room. It was found that Mr. Mc- Donald was a brother of Mr. Wm. L. McDon- Rebel rent it, and while the landlady, Mrs. Nayler, at their re- quest, was making a fire therein, locked the door thereof and then stole and escaped from the house with about four hundred dollars worth of clothing. Another similar chargo was preferred against Rudolph and Fenton by Mrs. Coddington, of No. 131 West Fourteenth strect. Advices from Portau Prince, Hayti, received by the bark Angior, which arrived here yesterday, show that the fire in that town on the 28th of February, noticed in last Thursday's Henao, was much more disastrous than at Grst reported. Four hundred houses in the business portion of the place were destroyed, entailing a loss of ‘between forty and fifty millions of Haytien dollars. Our previous report charged the conflagration to incehdia- rism; but this later account says its occurrence was acci- bare to the City Inspeetor’s report there woro 468 deaths in the city during the week ending March 27— an increase of 15 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 17 lesa than occurred during the corresponding week last year. Of the deaths which oo- curred during the past week, 219 resulted from acute diseases, 214 from chronic diseases, and 36 from external causes, &c, There were 286 natives of the United States, 116 of Ireland, 11 of England, 43 of Germany, 3 of Scot- rand, and the balance of various foreign countries. Stocks were firmer yesterday. Gold was steady, and closed down town at 1543. The closing price at the evening board was 164. There was decidedly more buoyancy in commercial cireles yesterday, and in many articles prices showed considerable improvement as compared with Saturday. Foreign goods were quiet, but generally firm, while in domestic produce there was more doing. Cotton, petro- loum, &e., were all’higher. On 'Change tho flour mar- ket was quiet, and prices were Sc. a 160. lower. Wheat was scarcely £0 firm, with a moderate demand. Corn was dull, while oats were firmer. Pork was a shade firmer, with a limited inquiry. Beef was steady, and lard was rather firmer. Whiskey was 5c. a 6c. higher, and was active, Freights were dull and sales were nominal. The Late Battl North Carolina and * Virginia—“On to Richmond.” The official and other authentic reports, which we have at length received, of the late battles at Averysboro and Bentonsville, North Carolina, reduce those boasted rebel victories to their true proportions. They belong to the same class of successes as those of Wheeler and Wade Hampton over Kilpatrick’s cavalry— desperate but disastrous efforts to surprise and cut off an exposed detachment here and there of Sherman’s extended lines. The only alternative left to General Joe Johnston after the repulse of his subordinate, General Bragg, from Kinston by General Schofield, was a movement against the approaching columns of Sherman from the south. In both cases the ob- ject was the all important one to the enemy of preventing if possible the junction of Scho- field, Terry and Sherman; but in both cases the results of the efforts have betrayed the desperation of the rebel leaders, the weak- ness of their forces, and the demoralization of their men. The rebel soldiers fight in a charge with their usual dash and recklessness; but with the changing fortunes of the battle they appear to “be glad of a fair opportunity to surrender, or a reasonable excuse for abandoning even their strongest positions. We have satisfactory evi- dence upon these points in the results, not only of the recent battles at Kinston, Averysboro and Bentonsville, but in the rash though adroitly MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Notwithstanding the sanguine expectations of our citizens that a sufficient portion of the State bounty fund of thirty million dollars would be at the disposal of our Supervisors’ Volunteering Cominittee yosterday to enable them to comply with Assistant Provost Marshal General Dodge's demand for payment of bounties to two hundred recruits per day in the city, the money was not forth- coming, and it is expected that drafting will be resumed in some of tho wardd to morrow. The Supervisors have used their beat endeavors to procure the county's allot- wont of tho ttle fund, but @ far wilh contrived attack from General Lee on the lines ot General Meade, on Saturday morning last. In these affairs, in proportion to the numbers engaged, the returns of rebel prisoners are un- usually large. We shall not be eurprised, there- fore, should General Joe Johnaton be persuaded ald, a rebel agent, and Mr. Thompson’s right hand man in Toronto. Hearing of his bro- ther’s arrest, and knowing that he was innocent of the alleged connection with the incendiaries, whose plans had been carefully concealed, ho sent for the principal actors in that diabolical enterprise, who had returned to Canada, and appealed to them to give him a statement which would exonerate his brother from the charge of complicity with them. The paper, of which we give a copy, was: prepared by them, and signed by Lieutenant Colone! Martin, alias Maxwell; Captain Robert C. Kennedy, alias Stanton, and Lioutenant Headley, alias Wil- liams. When the paper was shown to Thomp- son he insisted that it should not be sent, as it would furnish conclusive evidence of the guilt ot the signers, and would consign them to the gallows if they should fall into our hands. Mr. Thompson, George N. Sanders, and other leading rebels in Montreal, professed to be very indignant when they were informed that they were suspected by General Dix of having been concerned in the attempt to burn this city. And yet Mr. Thompson refused to ‘allow a paper to be used for the exculpation of an innocent man, the brother of his chief agent in Canada, because it might in a contingency bring the real perpetrators to punish- ment. No higher evidence of his complicity with them is needed. Kennedy was, not long afterwards, arrested; and when Mr. Thompson was again solicited to allow the paper to be used, after the execution of Kennedy, in order to save McDonald, he refused to part with it; but, he added, in a letter to McDonald, “I am wil- ling at any time to write a letter to General Dix, in which I will state that Williams and Maxwell, who seem to have beer the persons with whom you are charged to have been con- nected, came to me of their own accord, and stated that you knew nothing whatever of their purposes in New York or what business they were engaged in.” He added, ino sub- sequent part of the letter, “If a letter of such @ purport from me written upon honor to Gen. Dix will serve you any valuable purpose with him I will take pleasure in making the state- ment.” This secondary evidence, when Mr. ‘Thompson had the highest in his own posses- sion, General Dix refused to receive; and at a subsequent time, when application was again made to Mr. Thompson for the paper, he re- plied that it had been destroyed. Fortunately a copy had been preserved, and when it was presented to Kennedy, two days before his death, and he was told that a verification of it would save McDonald, he made the certifloate which is appended to it. Thus this criminal has done an act of justice to an innocent man which Mr. Thompson, in order to shield his guilty subordinates, has steadily refused. The paper was cortified by Kennedy, with the understanding that it was not to be used until after his execution. On its delivery to General Dix y@sterday he di- rected McDonald to be discharged, and gave him @ paper stating that his exoneration from all complicity with the incondiaries was com- plete. The facts above disclosed ought not, perhaps, to excite surprise. Mr. Thompson abandoned his post as Secretary of the Interior, and be- came an active participant in the attempt of to.try the issue of a battle for the possession of Raleigh, if the result is the surrender or disso- lution of his army. f¢ hac lost his last oppor- tunity; for, aginst the united forcos now ad- voocing upon him. he is as harmless a were the Southern States to overthrow the govern- ment. He has been a year or more in Canada, the associate of Olay, who ordered tho mur- derous attack on St. Albans; and he was in the neighborhood of ‘Windsor whon Boall and others set out on their expedition to capture and destroy the passenger steamers on Lake Erie. That all these enterprises, in violation of the rules of legitimate warfare, and in the execution of which two of his subor- dinates have been brought to the gallows, were undertaken with his knowledge and approval, there can be no doubt. And they are no more than the natural sequence of the perfidy with which Davis, Mason, Slidell and others aban- doned high positions in the government to take up arms for its destruction. The punishment it deserves bas fallen heavily upon many of the guilty subordinates, and it is to be hoped that the more guilty principals may not all Betiosrenr Ricuts—Lord Palmerston de- tlared in his late speech in Parliament that the recognition of belligerent rights, in the rebel orcad 2 weere ot ngconsty wit the teh government, and not of cho! As be no doubt that there is no longer any neces- sity existing, it is a good time for that govern- ment to act upon choice, aud withdraw all the proclamations acknowledging the rights of bel- ligerents in this anti-netional insurrection... * Prooress or Crvmzarion.—It appears from the late exposé among the rebels at Richmond that about four hundred millions of their bonds have been stolen or lost, or spirited away somewhere, There is nothing very extraordi- nary in that. Here at the North, where we are supposed to be great accountants and finan- efers, there are a hundred millions “lost” every year. The Corporation alone steal about three millions a year. However, as an Aldermanonce said when charged with stealing:—“What’s the odds? the Americans are a people of great resources. If an Alderman or a contractor steals money from the treasury, ho spends it like a gentleman.” A good salve that fora sore conscience. But, after all, how little worse are peculating Aldermen than those people who come to this country with dry goods and linens and other commodities, and after they have made money here go over to Europe to spend it? Comrrimunts Amona Democratic Eprrors.— One of the democratic papers in this city copies approvingly an article from a democratic paper in anothor clty, siating that Ben Wood, of the News, made a bargain with President Lincoln by which Wood agreed to keep neutral and de- feat McClellan, in consideration of a share in the recent Singleton tobacco speculation. If this be true Ben Wood has drawn a blank in- stead of a prize. He had better stick to his own lotteries in future. Tobacco lotteries are very uncertain, and often end in smoke. OUR QUOTA. Probable Resumption of the Drawing To-morrow=—Persons Already Drafted to be Ordered O—Rigid Kuforcement of the Provision Against Skedaddlers, &c. Tho draft ie to be again resumed on Wednesday. This, wo learn, is the irrevocabts decision of Major Dodge, Provost Marshal General. If moncy 1s still scarce and recruiting tardy, tho wheel will be put in motion in one ward of exch of the city districts, or else the men already drafted will be ordered to report for service. If Chair- man Blunt is weil supplied with money and recruiting goes on briskly, the conscription will only be enforcod in two or three of the districts that have done tho least for themsclves, To-day, in all probability, orders will be issucd for some of the drafted wards to roport, and whether or not the conscription shall be enforced over the entire city will reet solely with the recruiting com- mites, Major Dodgo insists that, in the future, General 4g requirement that the provost marshals be kept fuily employed, shall bo strictly and literally complied 4 This means the daily enlistment of two hundred men; unless two hundred men are raised daily by voluntary exertions, drafting will go on till the whole ee eestor eee of the con- jon. for is this all. Five days only will bo allowod tho drafted men before they are callod upon to report, and all enroled men,.whether drafted or not, who may leave the'r districts without gees Sg their change of residence to the provost marshals, with intent to avoid the di will, by tho 21st scctién of the act just published, forfei forever their rights as American citiz’ns. is applica equally to those who leave their districts before the draft as to those who Ieavo after. And in order that this atrin- gent provision may be fully enforced, has ordered tho provost marshals to keep a list of all ske- daddlers, Which list he purposes to have published. The recruiting returns of Saturday last show a more favorable result than for several days past. One hundred and two men in all were enrolled—twenty-two from the Fourth district, nineteen from the Fi twonty-nine from the Sixth, eleven from the Seventh, fifteen from the Fighth, and six from the Ninth. More men could have been had if there had been more money forthcoming. One provost marshal had money for four mon, and at least five- and-twenty offered. The rest had to be turned away. Some of the drafted wards haye manifested the greatest supinenoss, Two in tho Fourth district have done scarcel: anything, and we believe will be among the first to fail under the Provost Marshal’s thumb. In the Twonty- second ward a feeling of dissatisfaction has been occa- sioned by Mr. Fernando Wood's statement on Saturday evening that the rich wards enticed away volunteers from tho poor wards. This in reality is impossible, as by a recent enactment all volunteers are bound to be credited to the ward in which tore d actually reside. Any instances in which Twenty-second ward men have been credited to other wards need only to be pointed out to be instaatly remedied. : MEETING OF WARD DELKGATRS—A UNIFORM RATE OF HAND MONKEY PROPOSED. A meeting of delegates from tho several wards was held last evening at the Sixth district Provost Marshal's office, in Sixth avenue, to agree upon a uniform rato of band monoy to be paid to volunteers. Alderman Ryers was called to the chair, and Mr. John Hayward officiated aa secrotary. Ten wards only being represented, the delegates present, after discussing the question of geno- ral co-operation of all the wards on the subject ey: ing auniform rate of hand money, goa to . nesday evening noxt, when they hope all the wards wi be represented and some definite action taken. TUE KIGHTY-FOURTH REGIMENT TO VOLUNTRER. | A strong desire exists among a number of members of the Eighty-fourth regiment N. Y. 8. N. ¥., Colonel F. ‘A. Conkling, to have their regiment tender its services to the government for one year. The matter is to be acted upon by the officers next Monday evening. The Seven-Thirty Loan. PurLapeurma, March 27, 1866. Jay Cooke reports the subscriptions to the seven-thirty Joan to-day at $2,175,900, including one of $200,000 from Chicago, and one of $150,000 from Syracuse; also one thousand five hundred and twonty-five individual sub- scriptions of $50 and $100 each. The subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan received to- day, and those on the way to this office, will absorb all of the first issue. In forty-three days $161,000,000 have ‘been disposed of to the lo. The sale of the socond series, designated as that of June 16, will go on without interruption. The notes are in all respects precisely like the others, save in their date. Agents of the loan fhout the country have been instructed, on and al to-mnorrow, to calculate interest, at the rate of seven and three-tonths 5% cont, on all subscriptions from their date up to June 15 noxt, and to pay back the amount in money to purchasers at the time they buy. The deliv: of the now notes will be uninterrupted. The public wil not have to wait for them. Gorreonanx's Fanaweit Coxcert.—Tho first of the farewell concerts of Mr. Gottschalk, Miss Simons and Barry Sanderson, under the direction of Signor Muzio, was attendod last night, at Niblo's Saloon, by an im- Moensely crowded and very approving audience. The duots of Gottschalk and Sanderson received so much ap- Plauso that it seemed aa if the audience wanted to keep thom on the stage all night. They received no leas than four encores to Sanderson's Festive Polka, which the artista variod at each call. Miss Simons exhibited much {uereased cultivation since we, last heard her, and now makes a charming concert singer. Her selections from Foust and Lucia, and the ballad composed for hor by Gottechalk, Pasiorelia « Cavatiere, with English worda, wore remarkably woll sung. To-morrow evening the second concert comes off To-night Signor Muzio takes them to Brooklyn. Court Calcondar=Th s Day. Sura Count—Omcorr.—Vart 1, Court opens ab ten o'clock A. M. No calendi Part 2.— Court openg at ae ss “os, Mista Nao ak , , 10u 5 Loah. 1646. 160, L6G Looe ms NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasuinctow, March 27, 1865. PRESIDENT LINCOLN STILL AT GENERAL GRANT'S HEADQUARTERS. President Lincoln was oxpected to return here to-day, but up toa late hour this evening bad not made his ap- pearance. It is believed that the active operations of the last forty-eight hours have induced him to remain a day or two longer at the front, to seo what regults may follow them, ahd to witness the inauguration of the Onal operations preceding the extinction of the military power of tho rebellion. Advices from City Point received this evening stato that ho will arrive hore to-morrow afternoon, REJOICING OVER THE RECENT SUCOBSSRS, The coustant succomion of succesges Feported during the last forty-cight hours has ¢réated great rejo‘cing hore, and increased, if poasible, the general confidence in the apeedy suppression of the rebellion. Even the secession sympathizers universally concede that the power of suc- cessful resietance to the advancing and victorious forces of the Union is at an end, and desire that further disaster And desolation of the Sout bo avoided by an carly submission to inev! destiny. RUMORS OF A GBNEKAL ENGAGEMENT ALONG GEN. te ms ANT’! le encaetndh, ** Beh sien Rumors ive a here all day that & general engagoment was in progress along Geueral Grant's lines; but this is doubtless incorrect, as in his despatchos to the War Department to-day General Grant makes no mention of anything of the kind. It is under- stood that @ genoral attack upon 4ho enemy’s lines docs not form a part of:-dgmeral Grant's pro- gramme at present, as he does not desire to hurry them out of Richmond and Potersburg just now, and it is hardly probable that, after their expe- rience on Saturday, the encmy would be likely to renew an assault which resulted so very disastrously to thom. Important operations are ‘in progress, however, around Petersburg and Richmond, which cannot fail to have an important bearing upon the final result, FINANOIAL MATTERS. ‘Tho reports that the Secretary of tho Treasury intended to resort to any efforts to assist or check the downward tondoncy of gold are incorrect. It is not in his power to do much either way to interfere with tho general tend- ency of tho market. Still, it is well known thatit is not for the financial interest of the government that the return to gold valuos should be too rapid, as a panic involves at levst a tomporery depression of government securities and checks subscriptions to government loans, which would tend to very much embarrass the operations of the Treasury, the condition of which has beon greatly cused by the liberal subscriptions of late to the sevon- thirty bonds. The stcadinoss of the gold market, under the recent favorable news, is regarded as an indication that for a time the limit of depression has been reached, and that the finaucial and commorcial interests of the country will have timo to adjust themselves to the altered standard before any further considerable or per- manent reduction occurs, The one and two dollar notes for the National Banks are prepared and ready for issuo, and wilt be distributed to the banks according to the date of their organization. ‘The First National Bank of Philadelphia, having been the first organized under the law, will receive the first instal- ment. OFFICIAL CRREMONIES ON THR RE-OCCUPATION OF FORT SUMTER. The President has ordered Brevet Major General Anderson to raise over Fort Sumter at the hour of noon on the 14th of April, the same United States flag that floated over it at the time of the rebel assault, and that it bo saluted with one hundred guns from Sum- ter and from every fort and rebe! battery that then fired upon Sumter; also that suitable military coremo- nies be performed, under the direction of Major General W. T. Sherinan, whose operations compelled the evacua- tion of Charleston, or, in his absence, under the direc- tion of Gencrai Gillmore, commanding tuat military de- partment; and algo that the naval forces of Charleston be directed to participate in the coremonies, and that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher bo invited to deliver a public Address on the occasion. DEATH. The only child of Hon. John Rosing, Chargé d' Affaires of the Hanseatic republic, died here to-day. THE STATE CAPITAL. Our Albany Correspondence. ALnany, March 27, 1866. The Broodway and Crosstown Railroad Bills the Order o the Day—Infiuence of the Central Railroad Fure Bidl—A General Expbsion Threatened—City Reformers, Railroad Grantee, Radicals and Conservatives all Going Down Trgether—The Legislation on the Bunty Bills Oom- pleted, de. ‘The order of business to-morrow is the consideration of the Broadway and Crosstown Railroad bills, postponed from Thursday last. No real interest has hitherto been manifested in these measures, and it has boon doubted whother a serious purpose was entertained to urge them toa passage. Tho measure of live interest here has been the Central Railroad bill, defeated last week, As this ia proposed to be revived, and as almost overy bill since that haa been challenged by the partics in the Central movement, their course upon the Broadway hae given it a sudden life and interest which it bas not hi'berto had this session. Indeed, it is now felt that all the leading measures will, in turn, oxperienco the result of the smash up on tho Contra! Railroad bill, Should the Broadway and Crosstown bills be lost, it is probablo that the Paid Fire Department bill, the Health bill, the Common Council Pay, with the bulk of the cae jected reform measures for New York city, will all take the same course. It is understood that the radicals are now taking up tho Central Fare bill at two and a half cents; but unless the two factions of the republicans unite upon some com- mon arrangement nothing can be carried, and good mea- sures and bad will all sharo the same fate. ‘The legistation relative to the raising of the thirty mil- Hons bounty fond was all completed last woek. The last amendment to the Code Robinson passed finally in As- sembly on Thurs The delays made on this Bounty bill have beep so fll-judged as to cause the passage of threo bills to explain the first one passed. The Broadway and Crosstown Railroad Bills=The Old Quarantine Lands—The ‘Tax Office Bill, dc, Aunany, March 27—~11:30 P. M. The trains to-night bring a large number of arrivals from New York. Clark, Schell, Tobin and Charlick arrived on the Harlem train, and will head the host charg- ing against.the Broadway and Crosstown bills to-morrow. The other patriots, philosophers and men of high re- nown in the lobby come up by the boat to-night, so that the lists are not filled op a Bod matters not fer- ‘ment as they do im New on these quest ons. It is not improbable that the bills made a special order to- morrow may again be postponed. The Licuteuant Governor has gone to New York city, with @ committee of the commissioners of the land office, to examining into certain matters relative to the sale of the old Quarantine grounds at Staten Island. A consultation has been had between the friends of the Tax Office bill, when it was determined to relinqu'eh the measure as im; cable, and as calculated to en- danger the Health Dill and Paid Fire Department b I. Jamea M. Thompson having been provided for asa harbor master, Amor J. Williamson will be disposed of in some like manner. Personal Intelligonce. Major Charles T. Dix is about to resume the exercise of his profession. At the outbreak of the rebellion this artist had reached a high position as a marine landscape dainter, Nurtured in the love of art, of whose worthy votaries his father has always been a liberal friend, he carly attained remarkable freedom and skill as a draughits- man; for several years he studied nature in his favorite field, and executed elaborate marine landrcapes, remarka- bo for Adeity, freedom and harmony. A view of the Bay of Gil , by Major Dix, was admired for its truth to fact and nature by all who have over contem: the scene so faithfully delineated. [n the spring of 1861 th young artist cloeed his studio to follow the fing of country, Since that time he has devoted himself aasidu- ously to his doties as aid to his father, General Dix, on whose staff he has acted at Baltimoro, Fortress Monroe and in this city, Now that the end of the rebellion draws near he wisely intends to relinquish the sword for the pencil. Major Dix sails for the Mediterranean next week with the intention of devoting the summer to «tudies of const scengry on the delightful island of Capri, in the bay of Naples. DR. LIVINGSTONE'S APPEAL FOR HIS SON. ‘rom the London News, March 15.) Dr. Livingetone, the African traveller, is at present in cons'derable anxicty reepecting his eldegt son, who was pny inan American port, on board the vessel in which he was serving, by some of those wapri nts for procuring substitutes of whom we ha enlisted in the Third New Hampshire Volunteers. He fa known to have been nt at the skirmish before Richmond: on October 7, 1864, but from that time all traco of bit ts lost, and every mode of sending letters to him has boen trled in vain, He ts believed to have beon made prisoner by the Confederates, oper that if the American papers would give circulation to the above facts the son may be able to notice through the Fouthera journals of his present condition and piace of abmio%to his father before he sets out once more for tho interior of Africa, nsnil General Archibald has beon made a Knight of tad Order of Bath by Quoen Victorie. ‘Tho managers of the Union Home and Schoo! are happy to announce the arrival, by the America, af Mra. Qive M4, DaVom. traamurer uf the institution: SHERMAN. Official Reports of His Success- ful March. He Has Hard Fighting in North Carolina. ‘The Hnomy’s Loss Very Heavy— His Own Loss Not Miore Than 2,800 Since Lezving Savannah. Tho Battles at Averysboro and Bontons- ville Mere Skinmishes. General Sherman’s Opinion on the ae Situation, Mp NB Tn ATE iam DE ee EOC eee wna The Junction of His Forces with Those of Schofield Setties the Game in North Carolina, &e,, &e., &e, The Official Despatch. LIRUTBNANT GENERAL GRANT TO SECRETARY STAN- TON. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Seoretary of War:— Tam in receipt of Sherman's roport of operations from the time he left Fayetteville up to the 22d inst, Zt shows hard fighting, resutting in very heavy lose to the enemy tn killed and wounded, and ovor two thousand prisoners im our hands. His own loss, he says, will be covered by. (wo thousand five hundred men sie he left Savannah, Many of thom are but slightly wounded, U, 5. GRANT, Lieutenant Gencral The Press Despatch. ’ Pimuapenpars, March 27, 1865. A special despatch to tho Philadelphia Bulletin, from Washinton, says:— A special messong*r who left Goldsboro, N. C., on the 22d, arrived here to-day, and reports the occupation of that place by General Schofield’s forces, Ho also brings the highly important information that Genoral Sherman formed a junction with Schofield and ‘Terry at Cox's bridge, on the Neuse river, a fow miles west of Goldsboro, on the 21st, ‘Tho Fourte2nth corps of Sherman’s army had a fight with Hardee at Averysboro, on the 16th inst, in which the latter was handsomely defeated, leaving all his dead in General Davis’ bands, and retreating to Bentonsvilio, At Bentonaville, on Sunday, theg9th inst., one divisiow of tho Fourteenth corps was attacked by Jobnston, an@ for while turned back., But, on boing reinforced by the rost of the divisions, drove the onemy back, and during Sunday gight he abandoned Bentonsville and fell back across the Neuse river to Smithfield, some teu miles wost of Goldsboro, It is the morely temporary success in the first part of the fight which the rebels are boasting over as @ groat victory. Shorman’s loss will not exceed one thousand ‘Tho army is in excellent condition. Detailed accounts of the foregoing, dated Goldsporo, March 21, have atso been received. On tho 22d Schofield moved out to Cox's bridge, on the Neuse river, six miles beyond Goldsboro, where General Terry's forces were discovered laying pontoons to cross the river, having marched all the way from Wilmington. In a few moments some of Sherman's trains of the Twenticth corps were discovered moving from Bentonsvillc to Cox’s bridge, and the junction of the right wing of Sherman’s army with Terry's and Sohofleid’s forces was permanently made. Genoral Sherman had notified Schofield that he would be at Goldsboro on the 22d of March, and he kept his word. Some of his staff were there during that day. After his repulse at Bentonsville, Joo Johnston fell back, to Smithfield to cover Raleigh. Desertions of North Carolina troops from his army were numerous, Our Newbern Correspondence, Nawsern, N. C., March 28, 1866. The news comes in of the most cheering character, although no great battles have occurred, nor is there any: thing very startling to relate. THE OCCUPATION OF GOLDSBORO. General Schofield reached Goldsboro with his forced on Tuesday, the ist, meeting with no particular opposi- tion, and couriers have returned, reporting his arrival there. Tho enemy had previously ovacuated the tows, as I advised you in a former letter. General Terry, with the remainder of his columm (of which General Couch led the advance, and reinforced Schofield on the 1ith,) has also arrived at Goldsboro, forming a junction with Schofleld. He met with noop- position whatever, and at Faison’s depot, some ten of twenty miles south of Goldsboro, captured a large num- ber of railroad cars and some locomotives. SHRRMAN ON THR NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. General Sherman has also reached the line of ratlroad® running through Goldsboro and Raleigh, and a wagon train has come through from his army to Kinston. Some Opposition was presented to him a short distance south of Goldsboro, but i was readily overcome, and it in be lieved that he is now pursuing the retreating rebels to- wards Raleigh. If there is to be any fighting of conse. quence in this State it will be somewhere in that vicinity, or, as I last advised you, still further west, in the vicinity of Hillsboro. The enemy are evidently shying off towards the mountains, so that, if they must accept the dread alternative, they can make those fastnesses their refuge. The same course will he pursued, I think it will be found, by Lee in case of a similar necessity being forced upon him. SURRMAN'S OPINION OF TRE SITUATION, General Sherman is said to have informed prominent: officers, om leaving Fayetteville, that {f he reached Goldsboro without much trouble the game was then up wtih the rebels. Ho apvrehended after that no particular diffoulty; for, with s concentration of his forces with those of Schofield and Terry, nm thing could withtand their momen'um. At last accounts General Shorman wae at Smithfield—nearly midway on the railroad betweew Goldsboro and Raleigh. The weather ts superb, the roads must be in the very best condition, and everything augurs well for the most glorious success of our arma, THE TRADE RESTRICTIONS OF GENERAL GRANT HAVING 4 GOOD EFFECT. ‘The recent order of General Grant, prohibiting all trade communication with the enemy, is having @ salutary effect in this department, and is just what was needed, Cotton and turpentine buyers, who had gone towards the front with the expectation of reaping a harvest, have re- turned with a fles in their ear, Butlers are also in trouble, finding it impossible to get any goods to the front. Genoral Innis M. Palmer has returned to Newbern, an@ resumed command of this district, called now the Dis- trict of Beaufort. He has issued his first order and aa- nounced his staff. THE RAILROAD RETWREN KINSTON AND GOLDARORO ane loft in a sound condition, with the exception of the bridges. They will be built up, #0 that by next Saturday” or Sunday cars can be run all the way from Morel City to Goldsboro, if not to Raleigh. ‘The people of Golds~ boro have generally remained there, and are by no means displeased with the new régime In fact, they welcome out troops with a hearty enthusiasm. The Union troopa were never in better spirits, and a prouder and more effl~ cient army never trod the soll. New troops are coming in here from Morehead City every day and night, com- prising new recraite and conscripts; and « very large army is gathering upon the plains of North Carolina REBEL ACCOUNTS. North Carolina Do’ Her Duty in Sup. plying J ston’s Army. (From the Raleigh Progross, March 21.) ‘We are gratified to sce that the people of our State are roaponding nobly to the call of Governor Vance for com- tributions for the support of our armies. Meetings are being belt tn all portions of the State not a donations made. North tna hea "ant 4 tay tn fondly men to tho field, and P ulone Btato in supporting ee in the fold Hor snore edo Wow GUtyy aad her vogple are doins eles