The New York Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK: HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE M. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ——— seeereeeseess MO. OB AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Uncue Tom's Cast. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—East Lyxwe. After- noon and Evening. BROADWAY THEATRE. Brondway.—Dor; 08, Cases on tum Hasta. Matinee at One o'Clock- Tus WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Conronat CaBTOvcHs. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—GoLp SEREERe— Buanp or Caime—Broruze But Reo Me, cast WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Umequat Matom. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Honarsoon. ARNUWS MUSRUM, Hroadway—Two Mauxorn Far 2 Dwans—Gian ‘Bor—Masauns we Living —| Or Mapeib. "Open Dey and Brening. BRY, Mw Mechanics’ Hr 473 Broad. area. woop's HAI Broadway.—Ermiorian somes, Daxons, bof urnouaviania, Om Ole on Tam Baan be my se 4 91 Bowoery.—Sonas, Dancna, ao. 199 an iL Maniacs. —Rosent Heruxe’s SALLE BIApOLIOTE. 68 Broadway. Sere et One Pst al seaiaraianerpeammaata HIPPOTHBATRON, Fourteenth street. Equestrian, Gramastic any Ackonari0 ExTexTaurMEnts—O' DONOUGRU. Matinee at One o’Clock. ¢ AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batuers, ‘BURLESQUES, &0.—Dom Juan. Matinee at One IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Tuzo. Tuomas’ Sru- Pruoms Soiree. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10.A. M. till 10 P. M. New York, Saturday, April 8, 1865. THE SITUATION. Gorere! Cran * mot content to let the flying enemy punishment, He has again struck \t, this time in flank and with heavy veveral general officers. and many troops. f the Oth instant, at daylight, the Army , Which has been marching and fighting ly m week, moved promptly on the enemy, then supposed to be at Amelia Court House, Lee had, how- ‘ever, attempted to steal away during the night of the 5th, ‘and morning found him moving wosterly on a road to the forth of Meade’s and Sheridan's positions at Jettersville ‘and along tho railroad. As soon as they ascertained this fact the Union generals changed front and marched in three. columns against Lee. Two of these suc- eceded in stricking the tall of Leo's retreating forces’ at Deatonville, and, cutting off one corps, succeeded in capturing ‘a large part of it, while the rest of the demoralized rebels were rapidly pushed fo voy bagorder towardj the Appomattox river, taking ¢ betiind the swampy banks of Sailor's creek, This » yemect results in patting Lee west of Meade, but at a fearfol cost to him, and still with no positive assurance of saféty, | We have no news of operations on the part of Genera! Ord, who was at Burkesville with the Twenty- fourth and Fwenty-fifth corps ‘on the morning of the 6th inst This position is upon the rear of the position which ‘Je heldion Sallor’s creck at nightfall on the 6th. It is motto be.presumed that the command of General Ord ‘was idle during the 6th inst., and good news may be ex- pected from it atany hour. If notagain interrupted in his retreat, General Leo may still be forced to make the passage of the Appomattox and pursue the longer routes ‘to Lynohberg, The next news will doubtless reveal Generat Grant. with General Ord’s command, interposing himself between Lynchburg and Lee. ‘The nows of the additional splendid achievements of our soldiers in Virginia caused another outburst of patri- athuste!n: vesteraay in this city and throughoat the Pho events of this Week, the most momentous country s!née those of the Revolu- ‘duslity, have heen such as to ren- Qe tin, " apporent to the dim- mest OF mons e , show, tia, ‘that it will be extiaguit!!” mph anner as to de awarning to all woul’: on and State supremacy propgandists for « ‘rough what saerifices of blood and treasure, if...) -<d una- avoidable, the republic will ultimately assert its unity and sovereignty over every acre of its territory. ‘We give this morning an admirable map showing the scene of the important military operations west of Amelia Court House on Thuraday, when the Second and Sixth éorpe of the Army of the Potomac cut off and captured the rear of Leo’s fleeing army, including Gone- tals Ewell, Kershaw, Barton, Corse, DeBoso and Custis Lee, several thousand men, fourteen pieces of artillery, with caissona, a large number of wagons and other army paraphernalia. We also publish sketches of several of the rebel generals killed and captured in the recent engagoments. An attempt was made by rebel agents to destroy the city of Newbern, N. ©., on the 24 inst Several buildings filled with government stores and ‘the bridge over the Neuse river were simultane. ously fired; bat the flames. wore soon extinguished. A rebel officer suspected of being connected with the plot was arrested. There was a rumor in Newborn that rebol cavalry had made a dash in Sherman's rear; Dut it did pot receive much credence, It was reported ‘that General Sherman had commenced his march north- ‘ward from Goldsboro. Steamers loaded with prisoners ‘Captured by lisarmy are continually arriving at Fortress Monroe from Newbern. An exciting scene whieh was presented in the vicinity of Corunna and Ferrel, Spain, and on the adjacent wators, on the Sst alt,, 18 described by our correspondent in the former place, These two towns are only nine miles distant, and in the harbor of the latter had beon for some time lying the rebel ram Stonewall, while at Corunna, watching her, were the United States steamers Niagara and Sacramento, About noon of the day named the Stonewall was observed to be moving seaward, followed by the Spanish frigate Concepcion, and the Niagara and Sacramento immodiately started to meet and attack her. As the officers of the Stonewall had expressed their do- termination and dosire to fight the United States vessels, a desperate naval battle was anticipated, and the shores were soon crowded with an expectant multitude, But all were doomed to disappointment; for when the Niaga- ra and Sacramento had nearly got within range of the Stonewall the latter suddenly turned round and put back to her anchorage, The officers of the rebel ram say that they declined to fight because of the heavy sea prevall- ing. Another account gives as tho reason a request from the French government for her detention at Fer- rol. The steamer Harriet Deford, noticed in Thursday's FERRALD 08 baving boon seized in the Patuxent river, Md., on the previous day by a band of rebel robbers, and oon verted into @ pirate, has had « very short career in the marauding business to which they converted her. Com- mander Parker, of the Potomac Flotilla, yesterday in- formed the Navy Department that his gunboats had her blockaded in Indian oreek, Va., and that she would soon be rocaptured. It was revorted last nieht that the rebel aptore of the Deford, after removing from her such articles of valuo as they could, destroyed her and escaped. ‘The St. Albans robbers arrived in Toronto from Mon- treal yesterday, and were arraigned before a magistrate. ‘At their request, the trial of their case was postponed til! next Monday. ‘The government transport steamship Arago will sail from this port to-day for Charleston with a large number of gentlemen and many ladies who design taking part in the Interesting ceremony of raising over Fort Sumter, on the 14th inst., the identical flag which was the first to be fired upon by traitors at the commencement of the rebel- lon. General Robert Anderson and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will be among the passengers by the Arago, Tho steamship Occanus will leave this port’ on Monday with other passengers on the same mission. Our Natches correspondent says that on the 0th ult, the steamer Rob Roy came out of Red river, and re- ported at Natchez, Miss,, with fifteen hundred bales of cotton. Her officers report the steamer Mark R. Cheek, with one hundred and eighty bales of cotton, as having been burned at the mouth of Buffalo bayou. It is sup- posed that rebols sct her on fire. ‘The same correspondent, under date of Natobes, March 31, says:—Sevoral expeditions have lately. been made from this place under different ocom- manders, and one with great success, The most important and successful of these was under command of Brevet Brigadier Gonoral B, G. Farrar, and moved to the vicinity of Trinity, La, where a rebel camp was surprised and thirty prisoners captured. Forty horses were taken in the camp and brought back with tho prisoners. General Farrar's force returned eafely day before yesterday to Natchez. The expedition was ac- compan‘ed by a detachment of the crew of the United States gunboat Benton, which is stationed off hore, who carried launches on tho running gear of wagons and gave great assistance in all the operations, EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship China, from Queenstown, March 26, ar- rived at this port yesterday. Her nows is threo days later. Captain Andorson, of the China, has been appointed to command tho Grcut Eastern during tho laying of the At- lantic cable. It is expected that the submarine commu- nication between Europe and American will be complete Dofere the 20th of July. Sir Frederick Bruce, British Ministor to Washington, landed from the China, Earl Russell submitted to the House of Lords s notifi- cation from the government of the United States of their intention to terminate the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty and the convention regulating the armed force to be kept upon the lakes, He said the Washington Cabinet was Justified in its course with regard to th» convention, b2t hoped that an agreoment would be come to under which small naval police might be maintained on the Canadian waters, Earl Russell then entered into an able and, ap- parently, earnest defence of England’s policy towards the Union and ‘so-called’? Confederates during the re- Dellion, deprocating the idea of her seeking a war with the North. Parliament made an appropriation of £50,000 to be expended on the defences of Quebec. During the debate the Marquis of Hartington acknowledged to the vast mili- tary power now controlled by the United States, and the great ability of our generals Lord Palmerston contended that it was the duty of England to assist Canads. The safety of Canada was in her strict un‘on with England. ‘Ho did not th'nk that war with the United States was to be appr: hended. Censols closed in London, March 26, at 005 a 808% for money. The Liverpool cotton market was dull, with prices unchanged from s decline gn the 26th ultimo, Breadstuffs wore steady. Provisions were quict and steady: THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday a bill was introduced by Mr. Laimbicr for the protection of the Fire Department Fund of New York. According to a provision embraced in the bill the present trustees, and two others to be chosen by them from the exempt fremen, shall have the disbursing and custody of the moneys belonging to the fund, and they are authorized to receive or collect all taxes, allowances, fines or feos to which the depart- ment, as heretofore ostablished, has been entitled. Bills were reported to incorporate tho Brooklyn and New York Turkish Bath Company; the New York Riot Bonds bil, incrvasing the rate of inte. rest to seven per cent, and to incorporate the Now York Subaqueous Metallic Dock Company. The news of Shoridan’s victory and Lee's defeat was announced by the Clark.and received with cheers by ihe Senators; The Registry bill was then taken up. An ameadment was moved that the inspectors of elections in Brooklyn shall be appointed by a two-thirds vote of the city Bupervisors, which was adopted, and the bill passed. Bills were also passed to authorize the Second Avene Railroad Company to construct a mew track; to amend the art relative to the collection of tolls on the Harlem bride; toamend the charter of the City Fire Insurance Company of New York, and to amend the act relative to the justices’ and police courts of New York and relative to district courts. The New York Central Railroad Fare Dill was made the spectal order for Tuesday morning nxt. In the Assembly bills were referred to exempt the estate of the Father Mathew Temperance Society from taxation; to incorporate the New York and Huntington Transportation Company, and to incorporate the Corn Exchange Warchouse and Sccurity Company. Bills were passed to provide for the incorporation of clubs for social and recreative purposes, also the annual Supply bill. The New York and Brooklyn Railroad Ferry bill was orderod to a third reading. / MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. 4A Paris journal professes to know that tho city of Mon- tovideo capitulated to the yn terms arranged by Admirals Chagneau and Biljott, commanders of the French and English squadrons in the waters. Itt was provided that the Montevideans wero free to elect. a tiew Proeident, and Genoral Flores was likely to be chosen. ‘We have received the Boletig Oft:ial, of Santiago, Bt. Domingo, to the 26th of February. After the resigna- tion of the Provisional government a jurfa was formed for tho regulation of public affairs, and several impor- tant decrees respecting customs dues were adopted. Hostilities against the Spaniards were suspended until the decision of the Cortes could be known; but the Do- minicans are as decided asever to expel the invader from their territory should they not prefer to get away of their own will. Drafting has not been resumed fn this city, and the present good business being done im recruiting volun- tects indicates that there will not be any necessity for {ts resumption. Chairman Blunt is now supplied with plenty of funds. Over s:venty men were mustered in at bis office in the City Hall Park yesterday, and a large additional number were received at the various provost marshals’ offices. Drafted men are daily reporting; but the majority of those who have presented themselves ro | far have been exempted. A new feature in the work of filling our quota was presented yc sterday afternoon, when « number of ladies of the Sixteenth ward met at the corner of Seventh avenue and Twenty-second stroot and appointed a committee to solicit subscriptions to pay bounties to volunteers. The ladies also design issuing cireulars to the citizens of the ward setting forth the objects of their patriotic enterprise. In the Court of General Ssasions yesterday Christina Tietman, jointly indicted with Henry Langwith, was tried and convicted of grand larceny, in stealing a quan- tity of English sovercigns, valued at thtee thousand dollars, from Ernest Rutter, at 227 William street, on the 27th of March. The woman was not seon in the house at the time the money was stolen, but five days afterwards the accused parties were arrested on a steamer which was about to sail for Bremen, and the bag containing a por- tion of the money found in possession of the woman, She was remanded for sentence. Langwith will be tried noxt work, Owen and Patrick Mclotyre, indicted for robbery, charged by James Burns with forcibly taking from him @ pocket book containing ono hundred and seventy dollars, were convicted of a simple assault and battery. They will be sentenced on Monday. Henry Precht, who pleaded guilty to arson in the fourth degree & few days since, was sont to tho State Prison for three years. Mary Howard pleaded guilty to stealing six hun- dred dollars from Thomas Kerry, on the 4th inst., and was sent to the State Prison for two years. Richard Greenwood, alias George Key, was indicted for burglary in the second degree, charged with breaking into the office of John EK. Brown, # broker in Greenwich street, on the 2ist of February. The safe was broken anda number of burelars’ tools were found. After the prisoner NeW YORK) HERALD, SATURDAY, APHIS, 1865. was arrested, he attempted to escape. He is am old offender. Recorder Hoffman imposed a sentence of five years in the State Prison, ‘The steamer Empire City, from New Orleans and Key West, which arrived here om Thuraday, brought one hundred and seventy bales of cotton, consiguod to Capt Noyes, who will sell it ithmedately for the benefit of rebel prisoners, it being the balance of that turned over by the rebel General Maury for that purpose. ‘The Inman line steamship City of Manchester, Captain Halcron, will sail to-day at twelve M. for Queenstown ‘and Liverpool, from pier 44 North river. The steamer America, for Southampton and Bremen, also sails at twelve M. The mails close at the Post office at half-past yesterday, and » large amount of business was trans- acted by the members. The telegrams announcing additional Union victories were read, and the gravity of the body gave.way to wild enthusiasm, which found vent in hearty cheesing snd the singing of a thanksgiving hyma, in which all present joined, Peter Brightweiger and Robert Burns, boys of twelve and fourteen years, were yesterday locked up on charge of having, in company with two other boys, who have not yet been arrested, broken into No. 267 Tenth avenue, and stolen therefrom over one handred dollars worth of | Dr. John ©, Peters was yesterday taken before a magis- trate and required to give five hundred dollars bail to answer the charge of having committed an assault with &@ cowhide on Dr. Thomas B. Gunning, * ‘Two colored men, named Henry and Edward Williems, ‘were yesterday committed tothe Tombs for trial, charged with having broken open a case inthe bonded warehouse, No, 290 Water street, and stolen goods therefrom. ‘The telegraph office opened in the St, Lawrence Hall Hotel, Montreal, is in direct commutcation with the American Telegraph Company of this city. ‘The stock market continued active and inthe as cendant yesterday. Governments were firm, Gold was depressed by the military news, but closed at 1493, down town. At the evening board the closing price was 149%. The commercial situation was without especial change yesterday. The lower rates for gold caused some decline tn certain articles, but it was by no means general. Cot- ton, petroloum, &c., were rathor lower; but the decline was not marked. On 'Change the flour market was dull and heavy. Wheat was dull and heavy, Corn and oats wero without ossential change in value. Pork was heavy and lower. Beef was more active st previous rates, Lard was scarcely so firm. Freights were quiet, and whiskey was steady. The Pursuit of Lee— tain. The theatre of the latest operations against Lee is that part of Amelia county that lies in the bend of the Appomattox river and between that stream and the Danville and Lynchburg railroads, which form a right angle at Burkes- ville station. Burkesville station, on the Rich- mond and Danville Railroad, is fifiy-\wo miles west of Petersburg. Amelia Court House is on the same railroad, about twenty miles nearer to Richmond—that is. twenty miles up the rail- road in a northeasterly direction from Burkes- ville station. Jettersville is on the railroad between Burkesville and Amelia Court House, but nearer to the Court House. On the 6th, at daylight, General Mende, with the Second, Fifth and Sixth corps, was at Burkesvifle station, and Lee was’ nesr Amelia Court Howse; consequently oer troops were south and west of the euemy, amd our men’s faces were tarned to the northeast. Oureavalry advance was at Jettersville, and, ae it moved. toward the ewemy at Amelia Ceert House, its left stretched well out toward Puinesville, a point about temmiles northwest of Amefin Court House, and direetly on the Hine of Lee’s retreat toward the Appomattox. Doubtless wiier our men were first pushed forward to Burkesville the intention was to strike at enee for the Appomattox river and cateh Les in his at tempt to cross that stream. It wae tlie- pian that promised the greatest result, and it will be observed that cur men at Burkesville were only about ter miles distant from the point at which Lee is likely to eross, while Lee; at Amelia Court House was, twenty miles: distans from the same point. But it seemed as if Sheridan’s positionat Jettersville, with his left across the line of Lee’s westward marek to the Appomattom, would compel Lee to stand still, and hence-the movement toward the Appomattox was given up, the men were faced about ond moved northeast, towards Amelia Court House; ex- pecting to fight Lee there. Lee, however; was already on his way from the Court House toward the river; and when this became known the directiem of our movement was changed once more. From northeast it was now change@ te northwest, and the Second corps, having the centre, reached o point on Lee's line of mareh (Deatonsville) ¢ four P. M, and went into the enemy in its usual gal- lant style. Lee, of course, had to face and fight, Ine short timo tho Sixth corps got in on the left of the Second, and the cavalry te tho loft of the Sixth Lee was very roughly handled, as is instanced by his immenee losses in generals. He was driven rapidly from several positions, and finally at night found a very difficult one in the angle between the Appomattox and one of its tributaries. His losses in this series of fights mast have left but little of his force fit for use. The purpose of whatever fighting or manau- vring took place yesterday (the 7th) was to get him out of this difficult position on Sailor’s creek, or, better still, to hem him into it, and 80 prevent escape. General Humphreys’ deserip- tion of the front of this position on the smaller stream shows it to be well chosen for defence. Fortunately it is- not necessary to assail it im front. The plan will no doubt be to operate above it, on the Appomattox, with a sufficient force, meantime keeping close to Lee with another, The weakness and very evident dis- tress of the enemy will make such an operation easy, They also, taken in connection with the enemy’s position, give the most absolute assu- rance that he must surrender. s Capture Cer- Winprsa Ur ov Tus Repetition sy Lanp AND S2a.—The joyous excitement in the city yester- day was but an evidence that people are con- vinced that the rebellion is finished, both on land and sea, A few days ago we announced the capture of Petersburg and Richmond and the flight of Lee’s army. On Thursday our extras told how Sheridan had headed off the retreating rebela at Burkesville. and vesterday we were able to declare another splendid vic- tory over Lee’s forces near that place by Grant, Sheridan, Meade, Wright, Grifin and Hum- phreys. We have also announced the opening of the fight at Mobile, which is probably con- cluded by this time, with the capture of that place; and no doubt in » short time we shall hear of the defeat of Jobnston’s army by Sher- man, who is now closing in on him. Thus much for the fate of the rebellion on land. There are one.or two remnants of it still left at sea, and tho most important of these is the iron ram Stonewall, lying in the port of Ferrol. Concerning her we publish some news to-day from our Corunna correspondent, show- ing that she started out to sea on the 31st of March, accompanied by s Spanish frigate, and that the Niagara and Sacramento immediately got up steam and followed her; but, not liking the company, the pirate put back. So all that remains of the rebellion on the ocean was safely shut up in a Spanish port at lastacoounts, frightened by two wooden national vessels. With such = prospect people may + well rejoice. ‘The Relations Between E: nd and the United States—Earl Russell’s Apology. The speech which we publish this morning of Bari Ruseell, delivered in the British House of Lords, on the 28d of March last, on the policy of her Majesty’s government towards the United ‘States during the last four years, is a model plea of injured innocence, harmless duplivity and honest neutrality. The hitherto snappish and supercilious Earl Russell is becoming ex- ceedingly affable and gracious. The stern logic of events, the convincing diplomatic arguments of the army and navy of the United States have worked wonders in the British Foreign Office. Abrabam Lincoln must indeed be a bard-hearted “rail splitter” if he can read Earl Ruseell’s apology unmoved by emotions of thankfulness and gratitude, or without being reminded of a “little story.” The defendant Russcll, in his plea for miti- gation of damages, first touching upon the ab- rogation of the Canadian Reciprocity treaty, approves the course of the United States in this matter, as eminently just and proper. Noxt, in reply to the charge that there was just cause of offence on the part of this country at the hot haste in which he proclaimed the “bellige- rent rights” of the “so-called Confederate States,” he pleads that the United States ns- sumed tlie position of a belligerent in declar- ing the coasts of particular States under a Blockade, and that we had no right or power, exeept asa belligerent, to interfere with neu- trod commerce. If be did not wait the arrival of President Lineoln’s representative, Mr. Adams, it was because it was thought best to avoid a troublesome controversy by settling the question without him. But, of course, no offence was intended. On the contrary, the ob- ject was to place Englamd as quickly and qui- etly as‘peasible in a position of fair and square neutrality, by. placing the government of the United States and the spurious, the wretched, vagrant, imsurrectionary establishment of Jeff. Davis on:tite same footing. Next, iim regard to the Trent case, her Majes- ty’s goverment jumpod at it as a favorable pretext for aa alliance witts Davis, offensive and defensive, ami the demand of reparation, though ‘materiality softened in its harshest expressions by our true friend, Prince Albert, deceased, was still manifestly designed by the British Cabinet rather to provoke a fight than compose a quar- rel. The United States was then supposed to | be in the condition of a dangerows fllow caught | at last, with both hands tle@,ané our diticuity | was England’s opportunity... Abrxham Lincoln, howover, with his ruling mazim of “onc war at | a time, gentlemen,” yielded to the demands of England in the Trent case; but there was a public sense of humiliatiom in this thing which Earl Russell’s spology does not reach. We could not accommodate England with a war on the uncqual terms proposed) but the offence in- volved in her demand remains in the bill of her unsettled accounts, The fiagrant ontrage- of that Anglo-rebel piratical craft, the Alabama, is skimmed over very lightly by Earl Russell. He did what he could to prevent the departare of the pirate; but it so happened that he was too late. The information received from Mr. Adams had to go through the circumlocution office, and mean- time the Alabama slipped oat to her incendiary work. on the high seas.. ‘TRe noble lord who favors us with this paltry excuse is right in supposing that this matter remains to be dis- cussed between the two governments; but he might have added that ite settlement will pro- bably involve a bill of costs of some thirty or forty millions of dollars. The rebel iron-cled rams, subsequently seized and suppressed at Liverpool, were put om the stocks when further experiments fn the way ef furnishing Jeff. Davis af active navy began to wear a look of danger to England and her commerce, or, in all proba- bility, they, too, would have had the benefit of her Majesty’s circumlocution office. But as those rebel rams weve looked after in time to prevent them doing any mischief, we cheerfully set down their seizure to the credit account of Earl Russell. We likewise conear in his opinion that since our recovery ef all the Southern seaports “there is less reason than ever to apprehend the occurrence ef hostilities” between the two countries in reference to the “breaking of the blockade, the imprisonment of the crews of vessels” and other questions of maritime rights; but yet there is something of cruelly in the ‘withholding by Earl Russell of any word of sympathy for those suffering merchants and shippers of her Majesty’s port of Nassau. As a vindication of England’s neutrality during this war this speech of Earl Russell is a lame affair; as an apology, it is some- thing better. We accept it, however, rather as a confession that Jeff. Davis, as a tool of Eng- land, was great mistake, and that the United States are not broken up; but that their general government is firmly established, and can be trifled with no longer. Tavina Hata—Banri’s Concents.—The second and last of the two concerts announced this season by Signor Ettore Barili, took place at Leving Hall last ovening. Unfortunately, the woather was rather unpropitious, and many of the friends of thoartiat and his popils living ata long distance, were unable to attend. The audience was, notwithstanding, large, brillant, fashionable and appre- ciative, Tho programme was well selected, presenting choice morceauz from favorite operas, most of whic were exceedingly well rendered. One of attractions of the evesing was the first a seater bute tie heat es Seonlrea vory cnthuslastically, and played twe selections with much earnestness and effect, evincing, in bis deli. cacy of touch and expression, the évidence bf careful and thorough training. It is not too much tq say that great things may hereafter be expected of this of m should he perrevero in thein. ladies and cue whe took an adtive in the e do- fer ail preien, 08 dose Me, Bayh hime, for the offorts 4 Sonteewend uoeess WICh which all thelr exertions . ‘ NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. WAR GAZETTE. apes tenants A OFFIOIAL. MOBILE. ‘Was Daranrusyt, Apsotant Gawmnat’ ‘Wasuixaros, Officers in the First army corps (Hancock's) are om titled to be paid from the date of aeceptance of their ‘appointments, Under special regelations which have been made with the corps commander their musters im ‘will be made as soon as organizations are complete, ang ‘Will cover dates of acceptance. The Bixtocnth corps this evening received orders to THE SECRETARY OF WAR. march to-morrow morning at daylight. As soon as the order was given to the troops the soldiers of the various commands Gommenced to cheer most heartily, The ‘Thirt ath corps, together with General Canby and staff, ‘Will follow a few hours later. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. ‘The President is not expected to revurato Weahingti till the middle ef next week. mand quietly turned their horscs and ‘rode leisurely away without a shot having been fired. ONE OY OUR SOOUTS KILLED AND TWO CAPTURED, Yestorday morning one of our scoute was found dead two miles beyond our lines. He was one of a party of three who-passed out a few hours previous, His com- panions ar) supposed to havo been captured by the enemy, as they bavo not returned up to this time, DESTRUCTION OF THR DEFORD, Information believed to be reliable reached Washingtes: this afternoon that the pirates who ran the captused steamer Harriet Doford into Indian creek, Va., destroyed the vessel after removing sundry articles of the most value. ACTIVE REORUITING. Tho returns at the office of the Provost Marshal'Gone. ral show that since the fall of Richmond’ recruiting: hep become very active. The prospect of an early termine. tion of the war induces a desire to enlist, and. secure the bounties while a chance remains, The amount of the bounties paid must soon matérially decrease under the improved aspect of military affairs. MR. LINCOLN’S HISTORICAL CLOAK AND'SOOTOH CAP: ‘A good story is in circulation here, that the'day before the commencement of the recent military movement which has resulted in the capture of Richmond Mr. Lia- coln, then at City Point, sent by tho nandsof'‘*a relia bie contraband,” as a present to Joff. Davis, the identicab long cloak and Scotch cap in which, in 1861; Mr: Lincola is said to have travelled from Hartisburg to Washington, ‘The present has evidently been appreciated. EXAMINATION OP SURGEONS FOR HANCOCK'S: CORPS. A board of medical officers, ot which Surgeon B. B.' Wil- son, United States Volunteers, Medica! Director of the Firs corps, is Prosident, is now in seasion at Stanton ‘Hospital, ‘Washington, for the examination of applicants for the po- ‘sitions of surgeon and assistant surgeon in the corps, The- Secretary of War has caused the rule requiring two years~ Pee neva: teciing hipasit gn, ad service to be relaxed in the case of assistant surgeons» ee ae ware: wartion to: | appoimted for the First corps, Graduates in medicine: rag re aged sresvine: We the fide of ino Br | whe wish to enter tho service should send thelr appiica- | eee bursting into teafs, threw herself at tho foot-of" |. tions, xecompanie 4 by testimonials, to the Surgeon Gene Ty “Archbiohop of Pics and, eahsr hed sumo aim. | "#1 P& the army, whon permision will be given to prenent; culty in withdrawing him from the spot, and supporting | themselves before the board. Dike haste io'nio hess fortune. of Aftocs milion, ae ae Yaad Aidit ha hee ,}y Iaformation has boon Frodericks- A postmortem examination of the bedy of the Dake ba apres atvng cers can ella chek ie’ countey around the former place swarms with rebel-de Personal Intelligence. HENRY 8. FOOTE’S RETURN—UK 18 TO BE BENT BACK TO EUROPE. , The Heratp of yostorday announced the return of Ton. Henry 8, Foote among the emigrant passongers of the Etna. Government has sinee provided for him, tem- porarily, a retreatas sequestered as any that could be found in Europe. Ho has been lodved in Ludlow street jail, When General Dix was notified of the ex-rebel Senator's arrival he telegraphed to Washington for in- structions. A reply was received that Foote was to be kept in close confinement and sent back to Europe by the next steamer. Accordingly the preudo rebcl, protesting and complaining, was yesterday locked up in Lud'ow strect jail. The governmont.will be more lenient to Henry 9. Foote than Henry 8. Foote was to himself. Me ‘Will not-bo sent back in the steerage. vost encral, has Dec’ he yh oc Driver mast Cooweh te P. T. Barnum is“clvcted on the Union tickot to-the Connecticut Legisiatur’, from: the town of Fairfield, by one hundred and cighty-seven majority. Tho last adieux between Napoleon and Eugenie and the Duke de’Morny w'ro oxtremely touching. It is sald. oaaemy of Medicine, Delis. hy al icine, ie personien- if Inga its wosul oprived af wana gaged tn the i pt : patient ‘succumbed to an exceedingly grave | cectere om way Dome, anemic state, occasioned by an organte lesion paa- f NAVAL CAPTURES. - ereaiic gland. and a discasod liver.» The brain welghed | ' ame Navy Department/has beén informed of the cap- ture,.o@ the coast. of Florida, of the British schooners: ee ‘Lost Mary and Conness. Their catgoes consisted of shoes, Arrival of Sir. FP. Bruce,. Gv-O. B., tire | rym, cottem, percussion caps, &¢. The vessels were seat British Ambassa@br. ; | to, Key West for adjudication. Sir Frederick Bruce, G.-C. B., who parceeds Lora Lyons |! PROPOSED YRERDMEN’S NATIONAL BANE. as Queen Victoria’s representative at Washington, ar--|, Seve days agoadozen colored men from Bostem, rived in the China yesterday: Thonew British ambassa- | Now York, Philadelphia, Washington and elsewhere, met - ‘dor was accompanied by “his private Eecretary, Mr: | py invitation at the room ofSenater Pomeroy, of Kansas, Bythesea, and a suite of servants, Hie- landed between | to initiate measures for establishing a Froedmen’s National six and sevon o'clock imho, morning aad proceeded of | tank, te-be located in this city. One of the colored: mes once jar sadon Hotel, where apartments had been | is reported to be worth one hundred and fifty thousand a reception... Every courtesy was shown to | dollars, which he has invested in government securitien rst sil-t \ointeter on bia landing by.the Custom House | ‘There.wae wealthy enough there to subscribe to a capital authorities The steamer: was placed at his dis | of three hundred thousand dollars, Application was poral hy Collector Draper, and:had the China arrivediim | aecordingly made to the Comptroller’ of the.:Cum the daytime tive consular authorities-would have gone out | rency fer the proper authorization to éatabliah suck . im the steamer to meet their chief. Sir Frederick pus- | pank, This request will be granted, providing the State ~ poscs leaving for Washington to-day; banks-converting themselves into national banks, which This ts not the first timo Sir Frederick Bruce has | have-mproference, shall not absorb the limit of theage visited Amer cain a diplomatic capacity. He accompa | gregate- capital prescribed by Congress, A final decisie® nied Lord Ashburton on his special mission to Washinag- Sratane heas ea eh ents eas oh ton in 1842. He bas also had considerable exporience | sion; tore Freedman’s Bank. among the South American States—im Bolivia and Ure- = guay, and afterwards was Lieutenant Governor of New- foundiand. But it is as the. representative of his gov- ernment in China that his most important services were rendered, He was Colonial Secretary at Hong Kong from 1844 to 1846. He accompanied Lord Bigin on his famous mission to that, country in 1867; and conveyed to England the treaty of Tien-tsin. In 1858 he again returned to China as Envoy Extraordinary.and Minister Plenipoten- tiary. A democratic Journal in. this olty, which lately be- moaned the appointment of a baronet instead of a live- Jord to the Washington embassy, might have intensified its sorrow. Sir Frederick Bruce, though a brother of the late Lord Elgin, and closely connected with the most aristocrat’c families of Great Britgjn, is not even a baron. net. Until he was created a Knight Commander of the Bath for his services in China, he was plain Mr. Bruce. He was made a Grand ‘the Bath priog.to: his leaving for th's country. Teetimonial te Mayor Gunther. A very:pleasant affair took pitce at Delmonico’s last evening, the occasion being the: forty-third anniversary of the bieth of Mayor Gunther. ‘The testimonial consisted: of a couple of elaborately wrought silver pieces—an epergne and convivial bowl—wrought im the style of Louis XVI., by Ball, Black & Co, The epergne, which stood in height two feet eleven inches, was supported up- on a,single massive column of silver, resting upon = pedestal beautifully moulded. On either side of: the Whiskey Frauds on the Revenue . Sr. Loum, Aprit 7, 1808, Extensive frauds by Ilinois whiskey distillers havea, been discovered, amounting to half a million, by evading, the pevenue. Some fifteen hundred barrels consigned tex mesehants here have been seized by the authoritiss,. Curious Case of Assault and Battery, . MISTRESS BRATS A WOMAN WITH A, decosated with medallions. Both pieces were i as-follows:— acceso ancmanceee. HON. C. GODPREY GUNTHER, ‘PROM HIS FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIRENS. Now York, April 7, 1865. nnenonne ne oe ‘The following are the names of the member of the tation committee:—J. E. poor Dig Hi Anthoa, + —— Charles H. Close, Hilger; and Geo, . Me ‘The presentation was prefaced by Mr. Anthon with a drief and vory appropriate address; to which the Mayor Copy “he was. not prepared lo make.an address, e juld not say that he was un) pee! thank his friends for this erabediment of thelr jendship and ap- Bae of his ro a a concedes. he tendered e gentlemen presen! ani the. honer they Be coos upon ay ‘ @ company was then Invited to partake ofa. got up in aieo’s usual classic poming — Manixes. —The-Cricket on the Hearth will ho presented this afternoon at the Broadway theatre for the last time ag a matinee performance. After aoxt week Mr. Owens courteously gives place to Mr. and Mre. Kean, whem the play, which hae had a very succesaful run, will be pers testified ng follows :~—T Jive iv thechouse, tly-wit " assault yesterday noe, n Mra, a nl Flanigan ; Elizabeth White dared Yet Seong come Lecture, ox Mos Exon 11 A. duature was de--] dow’ ots — Nerenomennt had ma, Fianni- livered at.the Cooper Institute lest: evening lby Mies 1. 1 fn fait nOtliN, i cn en eae hee, Hordinge, on the “Day of Recongtruction.” Anexceed- — pirs strack bla kened eye, and tne ingly Inrge saudience was presant, which. frequently show. | othoy daughter, Mary, caight her ty the hair, they P rs | dmwgod her to the Ii nt 1 ‘on ed is approbation of the talented leaturer’s remarks, | ATT and arms abo mos Wi) the elub; at dui nty t, — ima I fan and wenched. tho clam from’ her, The St. Albans Robbers. webich eho ntterey tad to stri'so me; ahs teen pashed ihe Tovor™, April 6, 18€5. | Bleunigan out of the streee door gud down the stomp; Tho St. Albans robbers. arrived here this wornkng from, | Wh! aésistanco T Mrought er up. atalee; Mrs. Wlannagan | Gikk Bot #trike elsher of them. Montreal They wore Reought ‘before the Recorier this, | “ "ows weer uans PaNO. afternoon on a charge of inisdemeanor, when they ‘iss Lizzie White, on ths other hand, gives @ very different acconnt of (bo trageaction, placing the onus plied for delay till Munday, imorder to obtain coungal,, ( Aoliitent nosognt | Flaw wi which was granted, ‘They were then remanded an&th® | Wain the act of beating Naapeod ; Tot ‘be - cago adjourned ungil Monday. interfered and u the club im ber own and har mother’@: defence, The affair is ina vory confused vinge, and it ta very difloult to assert which Fide was i error, officinis nt the Coroner's office seem to be favorable to Miss White, and séeato that Mra. Flan was said to have been under the inflaence of liquoy when the assault took place, We give both sides of the story without z News from Fortress Monroe, Formrss Moros, Aprit 6, 1863. ‘The stearper James T. Brady, which arrivytt from the front thigfternoon, brought down five hundred rebt ‘youching for either. Mrs. Flannigam was badly totureds but it is believed she will recovor, The Court of Appenta, The following is tho ai dar toF talent Lis \ 6 following is tho day oatendar for Saturday }—Nom! 6h 30, 0h, 9s 00,97, SH Moe oan aN ‘ud the headquarters band of General Lee, cap- the recent battlor. liy wrriving from City Point, Va,, re. / out two thousand were New York,