The New York Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. - JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. jlace.—Matinee at One @ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Irving Nock. eR Tux WDDING. Lonpon ASsuRANcR—Da¥ BOWERY THEATRE, bowery.—Unctx Tom's Canin. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Cousioan Brotuxns. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Dor; Catoner on tas —* by ~ WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Corronat Cartovcus. BOWERY THEATER: Bor 8: ont np Out or Prace—! larry Max saints d WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Lear Year. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Lonpon Assunance. yay MUSEUM. Broadway. —Two Maxuors Par Gay and bpeaog zs woop’s MINSTREL HALL a1 514 Brosdway.—Ermioriax "RELS, Mechanics’ 473 Broad. ‘Daxoms, Soacmerak 40.—Conro- geen Darcas os eee REROLEUMANA, O8 VIL ON TUB Bualn, at One Sbiook HOOLEY’S MINSTRELS, 199 and 21 Bowery.—Som Dancas, Buatesques, bo ctave sTRIOWS Famity. ie im DIABOLIQUE, 585 Bioadway.—Roserr Heccer's Liteon a Come BoLoe-Sriniv Sid. “Matiuse at One FEFLOTHBATRON, Fourteenth street —Fquestnian, IC AND AcKOBATIO ENTERTAINMENTS—O'DONOUGHUE. Matinee at One o'Clock. IRVING HALL, Irvi 81 — MIRVING HALL, Irving place.—Srmaxcoscn’'s Coxcents pAMBRICAN THEATRE, Pantomimas, BURLESQUES, NEW YORK MUSEUM ok ‘Saameainie 618 Broad - Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P. sabes 444 Brondway.—Batcers, Tum Rivat Autizans, New York, Wedneeday, Apen 12, 1865. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisemonts for the Werxty Heratp must be handed in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mochanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted in the Wacx1y Henazp will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United Stains. THE SITUATION. President Lincoln yesterday issued an important Proclamation giving notice that our vessols-of-war must no longer be harassed in foreign ports by the restrictions to which they have been subjected for the past fow years, Dut that they must have the same rights and hospitall- ties accorded to them that are extended to foreign men- of-wer inthe ports of the United States, He declares that hereafter the cruisers of every nation shall receive ‘the same treatment in American ports that our vessels receive in theirs. ‘The Executive Mansion, the public and a large number of the private buildings in Washington w inated last night in honor of the great triumphs with which the rational arms have recently been crowned. During the evening thousands of persons assembled in front of the (White House, and in response to their calls the Pres!- dent appeared and addressed them at considerable length, referring to the great importance of the results achieved, acknowledging our entire depen- ‘denee on higher than human hands, and discussing ‘elaborately the peace and reconstruction questions He ‘disclaimed being entitled to any credit himself for the plans of the great campaign which has just terminated so brilliantly, and accorded to General Grant, his officers ‘and mon the honors of the victories. A call fera day of ‘national thanksgiving, the President seid, was being pre- (pared, and would soon be issued. The demonstrations of rejoicing were continued yes- Yerday to a considerable extent in this cily and through- out the country. The services of thanksgiving at Trinity church were of a grand and impressive character. The sacred building was crowded to its utmost capacity, and ‘hundreds who desired to gain admittance wore un- ‘able to do so. Rev. Drs. Dix, Vinton, Ogilby and Haight officiated. A number of changes were rung on the bells, and, in the rich tones of tho organ and the ‘volves of the choir and the thousands in the assemblage, the edifice was filled with the songs of gladness and praise. A salute of one hundred guns was fired at noon fm Union square, under the direction of Colonel Teller, of the Fourth regiment, State National Guard, by order of General Sandford. ‘Wo have additional interesting despatches from Rich- mond.. A committee of gentlemen left that city on Sat- ‘arday last for Lynchburg, to invite the members of the rebel Legislature to return, in pursuance of negotiations which have boen conducted by Judge Campbell and the rebel Senator Hunter. The city of Richmond appears to be rapidly losing its rebel characteristics, and becoming nationalized. A national bank is to be immediately es tablished there, whence national money will be issued and where government securities will be sold. Libby Prison is filled with captured rebel soldiors and Castle Thunder affords accommodation fora large numberof febel citizen prisoners, The Richmondites were afforded quite military (reat on last Saturday in the review in their stroote of the Third division of the Twenty-fourth ‘army corps, The people were astonished at the contrast which the boys in blue presented to the wearers of the dirty gray whom their eyes had been accustomed to forfour years. A marked feature of the display yas the evident wuperiority of the national to the rebel troops in drill dis- ipline, morale, order, the mestness of their dress and equipments and the dasaling brightness of their arma ‘The value of the property destroyed by the fire which the rebels ignited before evacuating Richmond is esti- mated at thirty million dollars. The headquarters of the Army of the Potomac are soon to be established in Rich- mond. ‘The Anglo-redel blockade running steamers Lark, Ow! Faloon, Colonel Lamb and Denbigh sailed from Havana fm the first four days of this month. The Owl is under. @tood to be fitted out asa pirate, The United States gun- oats Cherokee and Iuka left Havana on the 4th and 6th ton’ ‘The steamship Arago, which sailed from this port on Beturday last, with Major Generals Dix and Anderson and a large number of others designing to participate in the Fort Samter ceremonies on next Friday, arrived tafoly in Hampton Ronda on Sunday afternoon, where Secretary Stanton and many others from Washington ‘wore received on poard. THE LEGISLATURE. tho Senate yosterday bills were passed to provide for the payment of cortain oxtraordinary expenses of the olty of Brook! to confer additional powers on the Marshals of New York; and relative to the Marine Court of this city. The report of the conference committeo om the bill authorizing plank road and turnpike companies to charge additional fare was codcurred in and the bill The bill for the relief of the Central Park and the North and East River Raliroad Company was feoommitied, with instructions to strike out the clause allowing the company to lay tracks fm Thirty-third stroot, Bills. were reported rela $ive to the powars and doting of the Cavtain of the Port of New York, and relative to the savings banks of this city. The bill to authorize the’ Mariposa C issue preferred sto k was ordered to 4 Uuird re Central Ratiroad bill was then taken up for consideration, when, after being amended, progress was reported aud the bill was made the special order for to-day. In even- ing session bills authorizing the consolidation of horse railway companies \n Brooklyn, and for improving the navigation of the Hudson river {rom Waterford to Fort Edward, were ordered to a third reading. The Assembly passed the bills to provido for a revision of the Supreme Court d cisions by the Court of Appesis; to amend the charter of the city of Brooklyn; also ‘he State Charity bill, The report of the select comm/tice in connection with the charges of corruption made in reference to the passage of the New York Paid Fire De- partment bill was presented, adopted, and the committee discharged. Mr, Van Buren, by permission, offered a resolution providing for a’ joint meeting of both houses of the Legislature to-morrow evefling to receive the flags of returning regiments, which was adopted. The bills to amend the act concerning passengers and vessels coming into the port of New York, and relative to the holders of unsecured bonds of the Erie Railroad, were advanced to @ third reading. Bills were passed to amend the charter of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; to in- corporate a permanent committee of thte Board of Mis- sions of the Genoral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church; to incorporate the New York State Medical So- olety; to incorporate the Eclectic Medical College of New York; relative to the Westchester Railroad Com- pany, and relative to the assessment and equalization of taxes. MISCHLLANEOUS NEWS. The statement of s Paris journal, published in last Saturday's Heratp, that Montevideo, the capital of Uru- guay, bad been captured by the Brazilians and the in- surrectionary Uruguayan forces under Flores, is confirmed by an arrival at this port yesterday from Pernambuco, Brazil. There wasa procession and an illumination at Pernambuco in honor of the event. The date of the cap- ture is not given. We have advices from the elty of Mexico to the 27th ult., by the arrival here yesterday, from Havana, of the steamship Liberty ; but the news, though interesting, con- tains nothing of great importance. Additional defeats of small bands of Juarists and guerillas by the imperial troops aro recordod, and the country ts said to be assuming a more orderly condition than it has experienced in many years, There hud been a street fight in Pucbla between the citizens and some Austrian soldiers; but it is not represented as an affair of much consequence. Maxi- milian bas divided his empire into eight milltary depart- ments. Trade at Vera Crus is reported to have wonder- fully revived, In Havana, on the 5th inst., business was said to be extraordinarily dull, though in the matter of sugar ex- portation there has been an increased business transacted lately. Street robberies and attempts at assassination are now of daily occurrence in Havana. In the United States District Court yesterday, Judge Botts presiding, the ruling in the matter of the habeas corpus for the discharge of Bickley, known as the Presi- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 186% The Work of Ree the True Policy? As this tremendous war, with its terrible work of destruction, draws to a close, the con ditions of peace and the reconstruction of the rebellious States as members of the Union be- come the leading topics of the day. In this great work what is the true policy of the gov ernment? If Mr. Senator Sumner’s theory be correct—that by their rebellion the States con- cerned have forfeited their existence as States, and are reduced to the condition of unorgan- ized Territories—the first thing in order, after the dispersion of General Joe Jobnston’s army, will be to lay off the States subdued into new Territories, regardless of their existing names and boundaries as ‘we are of those of the In- dian tribes of the West in the absorption of their domains. But if the prevailing: popular theory is correct—that the rebellion has not carried the States involved in it out of the Union, but bas only suspended the operation therein of the laws and sovereign authority of the Union—then the work of reconstruction becomes exceedingly simple and easy. That this popular acceptation of the rebélton" is the true one we have never doubted. It is so clearly established in the very preamble of the constitution, in opposition to the fallacies of State sovereignty and secession, that no argu- ment is needed to prove -it, From the begin- ning of the war this is the construction which the administration has applied to the great con- spiracy of Jeff. Davis and\Company: that the States concerned are still in the Union, though certain individuals therein, usurping the State authority, are in arms against the Union. And yet in the outset, in failing to apply this doc- trine to our Southern seaports, or in failing to comprehend the nice distinctions of the law of’ nations, Mr. Secretary Seward, in declaring a blockade of the Southern ports, instead of declaring them closed, furnished Earl Russell that convenient pretext upon which he excuses his swift concession of “belligerent rights” to Jeff. Davis. That which has been done at the end (the declaring certain ports closed) should have been done at the beginning of the war. Upon the main question, however, Mr. Sew- ard, some two years ago, in a despatch for the information of the French government, sug- gested the policy of reconstruction, which will dent of the Knights of the Golden Circle, was given. Judge Betts has denied the motion for the discharge of the prisoner, on the ground that he bas no jurisdiction, Bickley having been removed to Boston previous to the service of the writ, The boarding house suit, on trial before Judgo Leon- ard, in the Supreme Court, circuit, resulted yesterday in 8 verdict against Miss Baxter, the jury assessing the dam- ages at three hundred and three dollars. The jury in the Flint Steel River Mining Company case rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant yester- day, thus exonerating the secretary from all blame, The Bouton habeas corpus case about which so much has been written, resulted yesterday in the child being awarded to the custody of the father. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Christians Tietman, who was convicted of grand larceny last week, was sent tothe State Prison for two years and six months. Bridgé Sheridan was tried and convicted of picking the pocket of Bridget Conway, in Washington market, on the 29th of March, and was sent to the State Prison for two yearsand six months Julia Dugan was charged with receiving forty dollars stolen by the daughter of Francis MoCormick from him. It appeared from the testimony stealing from her » and her matement was 80 unreliable that the jury acquitted the accused. Joseph Dombski, the girl wasin the habit of indicted for an attempt to kill Carroll Beres, by firing a pistol at him, on the 20th of January, at 31 Wost Twelfth street, pleaded guilty to an assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm He was remanded for sentence. Michael Canni- van, @ porter at the Fifth Avenue Hetel, was tried on a charge of rape, preferred by Mary McBride, a chamber- maid in the hotel, who alleged that the offence was com- mitted upon’her in a house in Groene street, The jury convicted him of assault and battery. Sentence will bo passed on Monday. A mecting of merchants interested im the tobacco business was held yesterday at the Tobacco Exchange, to take action relative to the recent movements of tho government as regards their branch of trade. It ap- pears that a large amount of tobacco, captured in the rebel States, has recently been sold by the govern- ment, on which no internal revenue tax was charged. ‘As this line of policy interferes materially with the regu- Jar business of these gentlemen, it was determined to send a committee to Washington, with appropriate revo} lutions, to request the abatement of this practice. Volunteering continues quite active at Mr. Blunt's rooms and at the different provost marshals’ offices in the city, and drafting has not been resumed. About eight thousand men are still required to fill our quota, ‘The funeral of the late General Frederic Winthrop, who was killed in the battle of Five Forks on the Ist inst., will take place from Trinity church at four o'clock this afternoon. Guard, will parade as escort. The Sevonty-first regiment, National A German named John Winterfield was yesterday ar- rested in this city, and committed to await the requisi- tion of the Kings county authorities, on the charge of having caused the death of bis wife by shooting her, in January last, at Fort Hamilton, He was arrested on the complaint of his brother-in-law, Charles Borderus, of 182 ‘West Thirty-third street, An Italian named Domingo Parody was yesterday committed to await the result of supposed fatal injuries alleged to have been inflicted by him with a knife on the person of Patrick Hays, during» quarrel in a James street drinking house on Monday night. ‘Tho United States tail steamship Costa Rica, Captain ‘Tinklepaugh, will sail to-morrow, 13th Inst, st noon precisely, for California, via Panama, connecting at the latter port with the steamship Golden Age. The Costa Rica will sail from the company’s new and commodious pier, No. 43 North river, foot of Canal street This new and magnificent wharf is six hundred and twenty féet long, nicely covered, and has been fitted up ex- pressly for the California trade—the old lumbered up pier No, 3 having been altogethor discarded for the future, Thochange of location will be duly appreciated by the travelling public as well as by California shippers. Three thousand bales of the cotton captured at Savannah by General Sherman were sold yesterday, on government account, at the Merchants’ {Exchange sales- rooms, Broadway. The conditions were payment before delivery in gold or gold certifieates. Middling qualities sold at 26c. ; ordinary to middling, 21¢. # 22}<¢. ; low mid- dling, 19¢. @ 19%. ; good ordinary, 15. # 16c., and some repacked and pickings sold at 8 s¢c. Three thousand of the workmen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard are now ona striko, owing to a reduction of fifty cents per day on their wages Heretefore they have been receiving four dollars por day but they are now asked to work for three dollars and # half. ‘The stock market was irregular at the first board yes- terday, and afterwards weakened. Governments were strong. Gold was firm and closed at 14634. At the evening board the closing price was 145%. The commercial status remained unchanged yester- day. Business was moderate, but good fecling ob- tained, the steadiness of gold imparting greater confi- dence everywhere. Foreign merchandise was stady. Domestic produce was not rally active, but prices were without change. 10¢., while wheat was duil and drooping. Corn and oats were quiet and ashade cavier, Pork was Ormer, while beef was steady, Lard was firmer and in good demand Freights continue about the same, Whiskey was scarcely so firm. There was a short supply of beef cattle again this week, owing, it ts said, to the break in the Central road (which is now repaired), and, with an active demand, prices advanced le. per pound. The sales were active at the advance, and the bulk of the offerings were sold at 230, a 25c,, and some went higher. Cows wore steady. Veals were firm at 100.0150, Sheep and lambs were f tive and higher, ranging from $8 60 to $12. $16 each, Hogs were dull and heavy at Ic. a12%0. 012%. The receipts were 2,641 beeves, 140 cows, 2,303 veals, 7,008 abeen and lambs aad 3,422 hows hold good to-day—the simple policy of pro- viding for the return to the federal Congress of the members due*#from the rebellious States. Congress is the proper national convention for the business in hand, and no other is wanted. The proclamation of a general amnesty; the holding, if you please, of every State concerned to the actual facts and consequences of the war, in reference to African slavery, to the extent of its complete abolition; and the military protec- tion of the people, under these stipulations, in the work of a new State organization and inthe election of a new set of members to Congress, are all the proceedings required to complete the task of reconstruction. General Grant, in his magnanimous terms of surrender to General Lee, disarming his veteran legions of their physical and moral weapons of resistance, has indicated the true policy for the administration. It is only to say to the people, including the leaders and the armed forces of the insurgent States, lay down your arms, re- tarn to your homes, obey the lawa, and instead of being prosecuted you will be protected. The “military necessity” of confiscation having ceased, that matter should be turned over for & liberal revision by Congress. Nor need there be any difficulty apprehended on the slavery question, though President Lincoln may insist upon the binding obligations of his emancipa- tion edicts. Slavery is dead ; the rebellion has killed it. Let the people of the States con- cerned, then, be invited to treat it accordingly, and 4 little reflection will bring them to it, We apprehend no danger from a pardon to the rebel leaders, political or military. They have played their game of rule or ruin, and have lost it. Refuse them the honors of mar- tyrdom. They may be left to the judgment of the people whom they have so cruelly and sel- fishty betrayed. With’ the violent death they have brought upon their institution of slavery, the cause, the argument and the party ofa Southern confederacy cease to exist. If four years of this terrible war have done the work of a century of peace, we must advance a cen- tury now that the work is done. Our Generats.—It is a remarkable fact that we have developed more generals of first class military talent in our four year war than Eu- rope has produced in any twenty years of her military history. This fact is the more extra- ordinary when we consider that most of these men were taken from the civil walks of life. Many of them, it is true, had been educated at our military academy at West Point, and held commissions in the regular army; but a large number of these had retired from the service long before the war broke out, and adopted more profitable occupations. The regular army four years ago was & very small nucleus— amounting, in all branches of the servicc, to an average number of fourteen thousand men— ont of which to form the brilliant catulogue of great soldiers which now occupies the muster rol Another curious fact is also worthy of notice, and that is that the most prominent of our generals are descendants of those races who inhabit the British islands—the Celtic, Gaelic, Cymric and Saxon races. Grant, the Gael, is of Scotch descent; Sheridan, the Celt, was born of Irish stock; Sherman, the Anglo- Saxon, comes of an English family, and Thomas, one of the Cymric, springs from the Welch race. Few if any generals of the Teutonic or modern Gallic race have made any conspicuous position in our armies. The descendants of the races reterred to have developed more military talent in this war than their representatives have ever done in Europe, not excepting the Irishmen Prince Nugent, of Austria, and Mar- shals McMahon and Niel, of France. The con- clusion, therefore, is that this is the country to bring out to full fruition the military genius of the old races of E of Eurc pe. Tum Foxman Lyvartors—It is notorious that the French, English, Russian and Italian ministers to this country have sympathized strongly with the rebellion. Perceiving this, the French and English governments changed their representatives when our triumph was as- sured. Count Mercier and Lord Lyons have been replaced by two gentlemen who will, doubtless, see the right road more clearly. Now the Russian and Italian ministers ought to be changed, and ministers should be sent over more in accordance with the present condition of affairs, especially should this change be made by Italy, a country which ought to sympathize with us aa we did with her vatriota, ' occupy their time and experience; and as rebel Field—W hat is to be Done with Them? The United States must now have something like five hundred thousand soldiers in the field. These men are of the flower and sinew of the land, trained for four years in the field of danger and adventure, brave, reso- lute and intelligent, and, for the most part, conquerors in some of the most brilliant and formidable battles recorded in the history of any nation of the world. In the South there are perhaps some one hundred and fifty thousand men, inclusive of the trans-Mississippi army; but these organized forces will not much longer continue to exist ina compact form. It is evident that Johnston will speedily follow the example of Lee and surrender, and all the other rebel leaders will do the same thing. There will then be no longer any necessity for very large armies, either North or South, and we must consequently reduce the immense number of men that we will have on hand. The question therefore suggests itself: What will the vast bulk of the armies of the United States do? It is certain that many thousands of our soldiers will never again return into pri life. After four years of continuous active service they have become so imured to the danger and excitement of military life that the placid and monotonous routine of their former occupa- tions will no longer have any attraction for them. They will still cling to the idea of an adventurous career; and wherever an oppor- tunity offers for the gratification of such a desire, they will not fail to profit by it. Under these circumstances it would in no way surprise us if, within the next six months, a strong tide of emigration should set in for Mexico and Canada. The greater por- tion of our army being set free, one hundred thousand men of the North and South—the best fighting material in the world—might readily and easily find their way into Mexico, while fifty thousand more could emigrate to Canada. That organizations will be found to manage and superintend this emigration of Northern and Southern soldiers in the proper way is, of course, to be expected. There is no doubt that such a strong force of military emigrants into Mexico at about this time would be both useful and profitable to that country. President Juarez, of the constitutional republican govern- ment, would be glad to welcome them, and by a little persuasion some of the veterans of a hundred battle fields might be induced to take service in the likgral army. Upon the princi- ples of international law and of non-intervention recognized and endorsed by England and France, this would be all correct, and our gov- ernment would have no direct right to inter- fere. President Juarez could then send on a commission to New York to negotiate a loan of ten millions of dollars in Wall street, and we are confident that he would get that sum in less than a fortnight. This would also be in accordance with the international law and non- intervention principles recognized by England and France; for during the rebellion the rebels sent agents to both of these countries and openly negotiated and obtained loans there. If there was no objection to this proceeding on the part of the Southern rebels, there can be much less to a similar course on the part of the regu- larly elected President of a neighboring re- public. The transaction would be a perfectly lawfal one, so far as we are colicerned. As for the fifty thousand men. that will emi- ‘grate to Canada, they will find plenty there to raids from the Canadian borders upon our ter- ritory have never been objected to by the Brit- ish authorities, they will surely not interpose any objection to the immigration from this side of a robust body of vigorous men, well trained in the art of war, who may be very useful in that colony. In this way we may do a great ser- vice both to France and England, in considera- tion of their extreme kindness to us during the tremendous struggle now closing, in allowing privateers, rams and war vessels to be con- stracted in their ports, manning them, and sending them out to destroy our merchant com- merce. The operations of these large bodies of military emigrants in Mexico and Canada would of course be strongly in favor of repub- lican principles, and would be but the begin- ning of the realization of the prophecy of the first Napoleon, that in fifty years all Europe would be either republican or Cossack. ‘Amer- ica must first be thoroughly republican, and then Europe will surely follow. Moniricerce or 4 Mrzionaie.—Only a few days ago the whole sum collected for the mon- ument to Shakspere amounted to seventeen thousand dollars. Twenty thousand dollars was the sum that it was understood must be raised before the monument even went so far as to be drawn in a plan on paper, and the dis- tance between seventeen thousand and twenty thousand yawned like an impassable gulf to the friends of the monument. Three thousand dollars, as Mr. Shingle would say, “is a great deal of moncy,” especially to actors and authors, and the commencement of this labor of love was still a great way in the future, to all appearance. But at this point Mr. Hackett, @ man of happy ideas, called upon a millionaire of the city—Oommodore Vanderbilt—a man, like Shakspere’s Henry, “ripe for exploits and mighty enterp: ”? He stated the case to the Commodore as we have stated it here, only that, being a man of “plenteous wit and invention,” he stated it better, of course ; and the Commo- dore, in a burst of enthusiasm, put down his name for the three thousand dollars, So the monumental alabaster will begin to take shape. Enthusiasm becomes all men, but especially commodores, Generat Grant as a Drrvomatist.—General Grant has proved himself not only a great stra- tegist but a great diplomatist. His letter to General Lee proposing to receive his surrender, and announcing that he had but one condition ‘to require of him, actually disarmed the rebel leader. He could not have declined the con- dition had his army been in better condition than it was, for the reason that he could not have made his demoralized men fight the foe who had so magnanimously tendered such generous terms, He could not keep secret the conditions offered. The appearance of the flag of truce and the conversation between the men on the picket line were sufficient to spread the information; so that, from the moment that the generous terms which Grant offered to Lee were delivered, the latter had an army which he could not fight. The only option left him was to surrender it. A Poor Donar.—We call the attention of the President, or the Secretary of War, or both, to the fll-mannered and fll-advised note, which we published yesterday, from Major Dodge in tory greater than the Revolutionary war was. The immense effect of that war upon Europe, kindling as it did the French revolution, is well enough known. But what grand effects are to flow from this greater one? Perhaps an oblit- eration of the whole present political Europe in the struggle, foreseen by the first Napoleon, that is to make Europe either republican or Cossack. ington on Monday, Bethel-Fisher Butler said:— “In the future the danger to our liberties can come only from the ambitious of those in the army, who may conspire aghinst the life of the nation?’ Does Ben Butler refer to himself? He *is the only officer im our army guilty of insubor- dination; aad, had he belongil to any other army, he would have been court martialed and shot for his mutinons harangue at Lowell, come for Ben Wood to cease making an ass of himself. Let him drop his theories ahout State sovereignty and behave like a sensible man, or else follow his friend Jeff. Davis into Mexico, where lotteries are popular and profitable, Sherman to General Grant. Tho despatches were imme- diately forwarded to the front. is a report in circulation that Johnston is moving this way, and that Sherman is close behind. Maretzek was the recipient last night of an expression of the good will and appreciation on the part of the opera going public as well deserved ag it was hearty and en- thusiastic. in their efforts to render the affair all that was desirable. Il Poliuto was never sung by this company half so well. Zucebi and Massimiliani excelled themselves. The acting ‘as well as the singing in the second and thirdacts.of both these artists, was very fine, and elicited repeated ap- plause, and a triple encore for the grand duo in the third act. Bellini, too, sang very well. calléd out twice before the curtain, and fairly cheered; Dut he could not be coaxed into making a speech. A compliment as substantial as the one paid before the cur- tain was flattering was tendered to the impresario be- hind the scenes, It was in the shape of a gift of $7,000 in United States stocks, seven-thirties, from the artists, and his other friends, as a fitting recognition of his Uberality, talents, and indefatigable services in the ad- vancement of operain this country. The performance closed with the third act of La Forza, the brilliant camp seene, and was very finely give. The directors of the Academy were not outdone in generosity by the artists; for they gave the house free of rent on this occasion,in order to make the compliment to Mr. Maretzek the more complete, and thus testify in this handsome manner to their appreciation of his worth. We have never seen upon the oceasion of any bencflt a more cordial spirit prevailing towarsis the benefciatre | than the audience ex- hibited last night, * “The Fairy Prince O'Donoghue,’’ produced at this house, fs something which, in point of transformations, cos- tames and fine effects of tableaux, has been rarely ex- celled in this city. It abounds in funny incidents and clever tricks, while the spectacular acenes aré-admitably managed. The public seem to appreciate these facts, for the house is crowded evory night, as well as at the somi- ‘weekly matinées, one of which takes place today at half- past two, ever, was power over the balls in masse shots. enemy nn lease and astonish the regard to the draft in this city. An official who thus displays his ignorance of good man- ners, and his incapacity to appreciate the posi- tion of the country, ought to be at once removed. Dodge appears to forget that he is a major, not @ monarch, A Tvnsiva Ponvr iy History.—The termina- tion of the war will be a turning point in bis- One More Revet.—In his speech at Wash- Last Apvice 1 Ben Woop.—The time has SHERMAN. Mr Tifeodore C. Wilson’s Despateh. Crry Porn, April 9, 1865. NEWS FROM SHERMAN. OMcial despatches arrived here last night from General The news from Sherman continues to be good. There Trauan Orzra—Beverit oy Max Marerzex.—Mr. The artists appeared to vie with the audience Mr. Maretzek was ‘Tus Hirrormearnon.—The new pantomimic spectacle, ‘Tas Sepawice Moxvment.—Officers and men who have served in the Sixth army corps, and who are dis- posed to contribute to the monument to be erected to their late commander, Major General John Sedgwick, killed in battle at Spotsylvania, may send their contvibu- tions to Colonel M. T. McMahon, at General Dix’s head- quarters, No. 49 Bleecker street. Colonel McMahon has Deen requested by the committee of officers, who have ‘the matter in charge, to collect the contributions from officers and men who are not now serving with the corps. Ten thousand dollars have already been contributed by the troops in the figld. Billiard Exposition—Debut of Monsieur Carme. ‘The début of Mons. Carme, Professor of BilMards, at the Cooper Institute last evening, was a most agreeable affair, ‘and may be considered quite an event in the history of billiards. The hall was well filled with @ select and ap- preciative audience, among whom were a large number of ladies, who seemed to take as deep an interest in the exhibition as the sterner sex. Michael Phelan, William Goldthwait and several other distinguished professionals were in attendance, agd contributed to the general amusement of the evening. The playing commenced at eight o'clock, Mona Carme and Goldthwait playing a French carrom game of fifty points, which resulted in the foreigner winning the game by six pointa. The play- tog was Nocremarkable ¢ for its exceHence until quite near close, when Carmo got his. blood up and made two Tuns—one of =. and the other of twelve—which elicited loud The feature of ‘the evening’s entertainment, how- ’s exhibition of his remarkable spectators were of get and fet an impreesion equal to that created by the celebrated Berger in 1860. The amount of “twist” that Carme can put upon a ball in one of these masse strokes is positively astonishing, and exc: lled anything of the kind ever before attempted. Carroming clear aronnd a hat was a inere trifle i the Professor's estimation, judging from the ease with which he performed the feat. He made several al- most circular shots, carromed upon the bells in every im- mich cogcol over tbe cue bal'as though it were part and much control over the cue ball as were ‘His calculations in the “trios” and parcel of himself. fe Alla accra: Riis Pane a hr Pithe Master of Ceremonies nced that Mons. Carme pene api ses ‘any man in ‘United States at the Pa PoP 1 D a like tee chalet the helder ition to defeat the ee aa — thing. In De hed Mons. 6 insists on two condit! namely, ‘ond the table || be a second sized on 2 6-6 inches in diameter. make the United States his future home; said he would. become a vay Oa of the Billiard Associat! Panag my phe look out for hie laurels; for he will nee lable antagonist in the person of this oung Parisian. rere exhibition concluded with a four ball carrom ‘two hundred and fifty points up, between the Professor an Mr. Phelan, w! to give unbounded satisfaction to the audience. Carme had « most flattering re- ception, considering he was an entire stranger. The fact that Phelan consented to introduce him to the public was ‘ Lemond ger year however, for the {4 of npn = Neon ‘and will be the means of ning im r he chooses (sean bis wonderful ters. whi nll in bh billiard The Seven-Thirty Loan. Pmapenema, April 11, 1865, Jay Cooke reports the sales of the seven-thirty loan to- day at $3,132,400, The largest Western subscription was Jand, and the largest Eastern sub- Srpbon were $100,000, trom the. First National Bank of Westchester, Pa. ;' $200,000 from Boston, and $300,000 from New York. ‘There were also 2,193 individual eub- verpion, of $60 and_ $10. “Rally Round the F' Poutanp, Me., April 11, 1865, Superintendent Latham, of the Grand Trunk Railroad, who Wore a flag from a train yesterday, was waited upon by a quiet mob to day, and conducted through the city, dreesed in soldier's uniform and carrying a flag, which he was obliged to salute. He was also obliged 10 make pariotte speeches. Finally the flag was nailed to his ” Destruction of a Pewene per OMece at Portsmouth, N. H., by Rioters, Ponmemotrn, N. HL, April 10—-3:60 A riot commenced here at two’ o'clock this The crowd has cleaned out the S'aes and Ui clear of everything, Rumor aye thay have on ag wie WASHINGTON. Important Proclamation by the President. ‘ Retaliation for the Treatment of Our Ships- of-War by Foreign Powers, POSS Effect of the Proclamation Closing Rebel Ports, General Meade’s Headquarters to be Located in Richmond, kee Ker, ae. Proclamation by the President. Whereas, for some time past, vessis-of-war of tle United States have been refused im certain ports privi- loges and’ immunities to whioh they were entitied by treaty, public Inw, or the comity of mations, at the same time that vessels-of-war of the country whefein the sald privileges and immunities have been withheld have en- Joyed them fully and uninterruptedly ta the ports of the United States, which condition’ of things has not always beon forcibly resisted by the United States, Although, om the other band, they have not at times failed to protest agaipst and deolare their dissatisfaction with the same, in the view of the United States no condition any longer existe which can be claimed to juatify the denial to them by any one of said nations of the: customary naval rights, such as have heretofore boon 60: unnecessazily porsisted ng therefore, I, ApRanam Lincoty, President of the United States, do hereby make known that if, after a reasonable time shall have elapaod for the inteitigence of this proclamation to have reached any foreign country in whose ports the said privileges and immunities shalt have been refused as afuresaid, they shall continue to be 20 refused, then and thenceforth the samo privileges and immunities shall be rofused to: the: vessels-of-war of the country in the ports of the United States; and this re- fusal shall continue until the war vessels of the United States shall have been placed upon an. entire equality im the foreign ports aforesaid with similiar vessels of other countries, The United States, whatever claim or pre- tense may havo existed heretofore, are now at cast en. titled to claim and concede an entire and friendly equality of rights and hospitalitios with all maritime nations. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my band and caused the sealof the United States to-be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this eleventh day of April, in tho year of our Lord 1865, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth. ABRAHAM LINGOLA, By the President : ‘Wnts H. Sswarp, Beoretary of State, GENERAL NEWS. Warumaton, April'11, 1868. BYFKCT OF THE PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION CLOS- ING REBEL PORTS. It is understood that the proclamation of the Preai- dent, declaring the rebel ports closed, which virtually raises the blockade formerly existing, will be regarded by foreign Powers asa recall of the quasi recognition of the rebels as a belligerent power, an and will be: immedj- ately followed by the rescinding of thoir recognition of them as belligerents, which will render the rebel rovers pirates and outlaws upon the ocean, The proclame- tion is in accordance with a law passed as carly ae 1861. It was then understood, however, that while foreign Powers would respect the éffective blockade of those ports, a claim to exercise legal authority over them, as over other ports of the United States, would not be respected. It is believed that the time has come, however, when the United States government can claim to ex¢rolse that legal aw thority over all ite porte—whether bleckaded or not— which belongs to every independent sovereign Power. A sufficient number of Southern ports are left open for legitimate trade, and those now proclaimed closed will, it is presumed, be reopened after s time. Meanwhile blockade running is likely to be effectively ended. The issuing of this preclamation is understood to have been the business upon which Secretary Seward was about to visit City Point to confer with the President last week. THB LOYAL VIRGINIA GOVERNMENT SEMI-OPPI- CIALLY RECOGNIZED. In order to puta stop fto the absurd canzrd afloatin Togard to the proposition of the President to recognize the rebel Legislature of Virginia, we are enabled to state that early on yesterday the President telegraphed to Governor Pierpont to come at once to Washington, where a long conference was held between them, tho object of which was to perfect the plan for the restoration of Governor Pierpont’s government at Richmond. THE CONDITION OF SECRETARY SEWARD. Secretary Seward’s condition is gradually improving, though he occasionally suffers much pain. APPOINTMENT OF TREASURY AGENTS IN THE DIG- THICT OCCUPIRD BY THE ARMIES OF THE POTO- MAC AND JAMES—GENERAL GRANT AND HIS FRIENDS. Colonel John 8..Loomis, during the: last four years the Assistant Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, hae Just been appointed assistant special Treasury agent im the bureau under the charge of Hon. H. A Risley, who has assigned him to the district of country now os- cupied by the armies operating under the immediate supervision of Lieutenant General Grant, including the important points of Richmond, Petersburg, Danville and Lynchburg. ‘When the present Lieutenant General very modestly tendered hie services to the "United States government, at the commencement of the war, in any capacity im which the Governor of Illinois might think he could ren- der himself most useful, he entered the office of Colonel Loomis, armed with a letter of: introduction, and stated that he had been educated at West Point and served in the regular army fifteen years, but had gesigned and turned his attention to other pursuits latterty. Now, however, that his government seemed liable to get into diMculty, he thought it his duty to tender his services. Governor Yates told him the President had called on him for ten regiments; that he did not know experimentally how to organise them and put them into the fleld, and that Captain Grams would render a great service if he would assist Colonel Loomis in the organization of the Adjutant General’s office of the State. The Captain at once went to work, and absolutely with a pen ruled the first blanks used im that office, Under his guidance the machinery was at ‘work in four days, and the books of that office have the credit of being the most perfect in the country. Grant then established camps of instruction throughout the State, which were numerous and of the most excellent character, Governor Yates, appreciating his talents, urged him to accept the colonelcy of the most trouble- some im the State, and sent him to the field, since which time he bas written his own his tory with the sword. Ail are familiar with hie several promotions and their causes, The confidence he inspired !n Governor Yates and his Adjutant General tm those early days has never been forgotten, neither has the Lieutenant General lost any of the respect, esteem or confidence which he then placed in them; and this te the reason why Colonel Loomis, though comparatively a young man, has been selected as the Treasury agent to take charge of government property in the highly im- portant district in which General Grant has hitherto pro- hibited commercial intercourse, Colonel Loomis will leave for Richmond im a day or two, as soon as bis instructions are completed under the modified Treasury regulations, which are now being pre- pared in the Department, Until he reaches that place, and confers with General Grant, no captured property, coming under the act of Congress authorizing the Trea- sury to take charge of it, will be allowed to be removed. XO TAX ON BALRS OF SEVEN-THIRTY BONDS BY BANKS AND BROKERS. It has been decided that banks and brokers are not Hable to tax on their sales of seven-thirty bonds, when such bonds are the property of the government, they being regarded as agents of the Treasury in such sales TRADE REGULATIONS WITH THE REBEL STATRS. It is understood that Important’alterations of tho trade regulations with the States in rebellion will soon be made, ‘ FIGHT WITH MOSBY'S GUERILLAS. An engagement with Mosby's guerillas took place yee terday fourteen miles from this city, The guerillas were badly beaten. THE NEW BRITISH MINISTER. ‘The how British minister has reached Washington and taken possession of the logation, but has aot yet pre Rented bia cradeabala wo Abe Kxasidant \ * £