The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ¢AMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. eee ‘The Navy Department, in antiolpation of the appearance of the Stonewall in some of our harbors, is making 6 Proper distribution of suitable vessels along the Atlantic seaboard. An important order has just been issued from the office of the Adjutant Genoral at Washington, making arrange- ments for an immediate further extensive curtailment of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1865. examining surgeons of the several districts have also received notice that & probability of 6000 li been and reports, It the business Second and Third Congressional at the Third district Hy ‘TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be | the military expenses of the government It will be | street, Brooklyn. atthe riak of the sender. None bu. Gui bills current in Now York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Foyrce.:: «copy, Annua ‘subscription price $14. 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All | President pro tem., Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms were yesterday informed that preparations for a rebel raid on the frontier towns of that State were again being made in Canada, and immediately arrangements were perfected to put the national and State troops in positions to repel any attack. ‘Some additional interesting particulars of the capture of Selma and Cahawba, Alabama, by General Wilson's cavalry, are given us by our correspondent accompanying the column. Among the rebels captured at Selma were one hundred and fifty officers. Gonerals Dick Taylor, Forrest, Roddy, Armstrong, Adams and Crossland, who were all there, managed to escape; but the members of their staffs were taken. Forrest was eaid to be woundod. At Cahawba about seventy Union prisoners were released. Wm. L. McDonald, one of the rebel agents in Canada, against whom indictments were lately found by a Toronto Grand Jury for breaches of the neutrality laws, was com- mitted for trial last Wednesday on charge of being con- cerned in fitting out the steamer Goorgian to oporate as a pirate on the Northern lakes. THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday the Assembly amend - ments to the Militia Appropriation bill, to the Registry law, to the New Capitol bill, and to the General Charity Dill, which appropriates six thousand dollars to the St. Ma- ry’s School of this city, were agreod to, Bills were adopted to increase the salaries of the Clerk and Deputy Clerk of the City Court of Brooklyn; to authorize the Manhattan Gaslight Company to charge three dollars and fifty cents per one thousand fost, the privilege being limited to two years; to incorporate the Union Navigation Company; the New York City Tax Levy ; and to repeal the law for opening a road from Yonkers to New York. A message was then reccived trom tho Governor vetoing the Central Railroad Fare bill. After the reading of the message the question was put, “Shall the bill pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor?’? which was decided in tho nega- tive by a vote of yeas 14, nays 17. The concurrent reso- lutions reafirming the Monroe doctrine were calied up, An amendment was offered and adopted to the eflect that “by the adoption of the emancipation policy of the late administration and the successful sup. pression of the wicked slaveholders’ rebellion, the powor and strength of this government bids‘air to be equal to any emergency, and to justify it in offering aid weak and oppressed sister republics.” The resoluti were then read and-edopted, having received twenty-six | votes. Resolutions complimentary to the President, opted unanimously. In the Assembly a resolution of thanks to the Speake was adopted by a vote of yeas 79, nays 8. Bills were | passed to authorize the erection of a new Capitol at Al- | bany; ced'ng jurisdiction over certain lands on Staten | those received after eight o’clock in the evening will have to take their turn in publication. THE SITUATION. Tho last remaining military organization of the rebel- lion of any consequence east of the Mississipp! river has finally succurnbed, and, like Lee’s atubborn Northern Vir- ginia Army, has ceased to lave an existence, General Grant, in a despatch dated at Raleigh, N. C., at ten o'clock on last Wednesday night, infoms us that the rebel General Johnston has “surrendered the forces in his command, embracing all from here to the Chattahoochee, to General Sherman, on the basis agreed upon between Lee and myself for the Army of Northern Virginia.” ‘Tho Chattahoochee river forms the boundary between | Goorgia and Alabama, along about half the western limits of the former and the eastern border ef the latter, and, in passing thence to the Gulf of Mexico, bisects Florida, leav- ing over three-fourths of the last named State on its Island to the United States; to corporate the Knickerbocker Gas Company of New York; to | change the bulkhead and pier tines in the late city of Williamsburg; to incorporate the National Turkieh Bath Company, and to incorporate the Paeumatic Railroad Company. The New York Tax Levy bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and, after a lengthy and excited debate, the bill was amended and passed. Both honses adjourned sine dir at a quarter before one o'clock this morning. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A dreadful calamity occurred early yesterday morn- ing on the Mississippi river, a few miles above Memphis. An explosion took placo on board the steamer Sultana, having on board over two thousand Union soldiers re- | cently released from rebol prisons, and it is estimated | that fourteen homdred of them were killed. The boat | burned to tho water's edge, and then sunk. | Secretary Soward was again able to ride out yesterday, and was comparatively free from pain. Mr, Frederick | Seward is improving as rapidly as could be expected, and | his ultimate entire recovery now appears highly proba- | bie. eastern side. This surrender of Johnston, therefore, completos the dissolution not only of the army undor his immediate direction North Caro- lina, but of all the detached rebel commands in that State, Georgia and the greater part of | Florida, Newbern advices state that Johnston attempted | to haggle with General Grant for terms which would } provide for the pardon of Jeff. Davis and the other lead- | ing insurrectionary conspirators. But the Lieutenant | General would listen to nothing of the kind, and John- ston was compelled to be satisfied with the conditions | granted to Lee. The only remaining rebel armies now in the fleld (if, | indeed, even they have any longer an existence), are those under Kirby Smith and Dick Taylor—the former in the Trans-Mississippi Deportment, and the latter a seat- tered command recently operating in Alabama and Mis- sissippi. Both, even if thoy still survive at the present time, will no doubt eocn be completely disbanded. A New Orleans report published in yesterday morning's Henato stated that Dick Taylor signifled hie willingness to surrender to General Canby some days ago. ‘The remains of President Lincoln reachod Cleveland | from Butfalo at seven o'clock yesterday morning, having | met with the same demonstrations of sorrowful respect all along the line between the two cities experienced on preceding portions of the route, and were escorted by a | large procession to the building prepared for their tem- porary deposit. Ae at all other places, immense crowds of grief-stricken peoplo were assembled, and from | the opening till the closing of the room to the public an uninterrupted train of mourners was constantly passing | ‘Defore the bier to take @ inst lovk at the face of their dead President, The train conveying the body left Cleveland at twelve o'clock lost vight, and will De due at Columbue, Ohio, at seven o'clock thie morning. ‘The time for the funeral ceremonies and interment at Springfield, Ilinols, of the remains of Mr. Lincoln has deen changed from Saturday, the 6th of May, to Thure- day, the 4th of May. President Johneon has, by proclamation, postponed the time for national humilietion and prayer, in con- g@equence of the assarsination of President Lincoln, from the 26th of May proximo, the date originally appointed, to the 1st of June next, in consideration of the fret named day being the auniversary of the asconsion of the Saviour. Nearty all the leading conspirators in the great Wash- ington assassination plot hava now been arrested, and tho investigation of the affair is being proceeded with; but the facts elicited cannot be given to the public until ail those implicated are in custody and the matter has beon thoroughly examined. | rency found in their possession, there was bundle of | of the Sist of March, at the Olympic theatre, He was | Our Enropean files, dated the 13th of April, reached this | city from Portland yesterday morning. | ‘The mails of the Africa arrived from Boston early this | morning. The main points of the news were contained in our telegraphic report from Halifax, published in the Henan of Thursday morning. ‘The Pall Mall (London) Gazett: says the Emperor Max- imilion will probably return to Europe, with bag and bag- | guge, before the end of the year. The Firet company of Royal Engineers was to leave England for Canada on the 27th of April, for the purpose | of being employed in engincering duties connected with | the defences of the frontier. The Turks Istand Standard of the 15th of February | reports:—Several cargoes of salt have been disposed of, one of them to a large versel, now loading, which will take about thirty-five thousand bushels. The stock on } hand continues to increase, and proprietors are gathering | | all that is properly made up, in anticipation of the usual | | rains, Last sales eleven cents. ‘The jury in the Supreme Court of Massachusetts yeag | terday rendered a verdict for thirty-two thousand dol lars damages in favor of Lonard Sturtevant and against | A. HL Allen, for false imprisonment of the former, at the instigation of the letter, on charges of disloyalty, in | the early part of the rebellion. | Over ono thousand bales of New Orleans and Memphis | cotton, brought overland from the West, were sold in this city yesterday on government account, ‘The prices for the various grades ranged all the way from tweuty- | ono to fifty-seven cents per pound. In the United States Commissioner's office yesterday, before Commissioner Betis, James Sheppard and Ellen Morion were jointly charged with passing counterfeit fractional currency, Together with the spurious cur- the came material found in the drawers of a bureau oc- cupied by the accused, They were committed for trial. The Inman line steamship City of Baltimore, Capt. Mirehouse, will sail to-day at noon, from pler 44, North | river, for Queenstown and Liverpool, The mails for | Great Britain and the Contiuent will close at the Post | office at balf-past ten A. M. The steamship Germania also sails to-day for Hamburg, via Southampton. In the Court of General Sessions yestorday John Wil- Hams was convicted of grand Jarceny, having stolen a gold watch from Seymour A. Hutchinson on the evening remanded for sentence. Margaret Keiier, a domestic in the employ of Mrs. Popp, No. 466 Eighth avenue, | charged with stealing a watch and wearing apparel, was | tried and acquitted, Frank Stevens pleaded gatity to an | attempt at grand larceny, having been charged with etealing two hundred dollars from Charles A. Nichols. Sophia Miller, charged with stealing @ silk dreas from Cornelia Mills on the 6th of March, pleaded guilty, Geo, Sloan pleaded guilty to an assault and battery committed upon Ralph P. Barker, of the Fifteenth precinct, on the Pith instant, at the residence of the accused. Michael Rudolf and William Fenton, indicted for stealing wearing apparel worth three hundred and eighty dollars from the residence of Mr. Albert Nagler, No. 64 Crosby street, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, Assistant District Attorney Hutchings stated that the prisoners gave information which led to tho recovery of a large ‘amount of property, but that they were in the habit of Information bas reached Washington that the rebel steam ram Olinde, alias Stonewall, arrived at Teneriffe, in the Canary Islands, on the Sist of March, in three days from Lisbon. She was allowed to coal and pro- vision, but was ordered to leave the port in twenty-four hours. She left on the ist inst., steaming rapidly southward; but her destination waa not mado oublie, ow. getting permite from house agents to visit houses adver- tised for sale, and when they obtained admission stealing whatever they could carry away. Recorder Hoffman reg | at homo, have been the subject of comment in | never made at all. | spondence, and wittily or charmingly expressed | in the liams at work on his person, seized him, recovered the money and caused his committal, ‘Stocks were lower yesterday. Gold closed at 146%. Governments were dull. There was not much change in commercial matters yesterday. The fall in gold had the tendency to quiet the markets down somewhat, ard there was rathor less activity, as well as less buoyancy; but a fair amount of business was done, nevertheless. Cotton was 3c. a 40. lower and less active. Petroleum was firmor. Groceries were active. On'Change the flour market was quiot, and common and medium grades were 10c, a 15c. lower. ‘Wheat was dull and heavy, while corn was scarce and firm. Oats were dull and lower. Pork was leas active and heavy. Beef was quiet but firm, while lard was in fair demand at previous rates, Freights wero dull, and whiskey was 2c. a 3c. lower, with scarcely anything doing. The Surrender of Johnston. The surrender of Johnston to General Grant— or, a3 Grant modestly puts it, to General Sherman—on the same terms as Lee, ends the rebellion. No rebel army or part of an army now remains east of the Mississippi, as it is pobable that Dick Taylor has, ere this, sur- rendered to Canby. As for Kirby Smith, who commands west of the Mississippi, he seems to care more for cotton speculations than for the confederacy. He has repeatedly refused to cross the river to aid Davis, and reports are in circulation that his army is rapidly going to pieces. The bosh about Sherman’s wanting to be dictator is also crushed by the news of the surrender of Johnston; for the magnificent compliment which Grant pays to his old and tried friend and favorite general, by giving him the credit of receiving Johnston’s sur- ler, ends all‘controversy about that mali- nd Mr. James Gor. don Bennett. The offer of the French mission by the late President Lincoln to Mr. James Gordon Ben- nett, and his declination of the offer upon the ground that he could serve the country better all the leading journals of this country and of Europe, the Herany ‘alone excepted, and the topic of gossip and disenssion in the salons of i New York, Paris and London—the world’s three capitals—and of society everywhere that the news has reached. We have not yet heard from India, China and Japan; but we presume that the papers and the courtiers of those remoie regions are equally engrossed in this absorbing | bit of information. Judging from the sensation which the report has caused at home and abroad, Mr. Bennett will soon have the pleasure | of being carefully canvassed a! the extremest | points to which civilizetion extends, and a let- | ter or newspzper finds its way. The journals and the gossips of course tale variously diverse views of the offer and of the declination. Some contend that the offer was | Others that it was made to | some other person of the same name oi whom the world never heard before. Some that it was made and accepied. Others that it was made and an answer withheld. Some that the dectination was from this motive. Others that ! the declination was from that motive. Thus the most contradictory opinions, amusing to Mr. Bennett not less for their variety than for their profundity, have been solemnly expressed in editorials, flippantly expressed in corre- salons of the three capitals. In the meantime the Herap, which must be con- ceded to have the best sources of information upon this subject, has said nothing whatever about it. A brief editorial from the pen of our old and tried antagonist, Mr. Horace Greeley— the author of “The American Conflict,” and the rival of the Emperor Napoleon and his “Life of Cacar”—has been transferred to our news columns without remark or endorsement, merely to allow our readers to eee what was said of an event so much talked about and written about. Beyond this, which was due to our readers as a matter of news, we have maintained a persistent silence. The time to break that silence has not yet arrived, but it will arrive shortly. The offer of the French mission was one of the last acts of the great and good man who has been taken from us, and it will remain as part of his history and of the history of the country. At the proper time the public will be furnished with all the particu- lara of the offer and of the declination, with the full correspondence upon both sides, It is true, as has already been suggested by the tenor of this article, that the offer of the French mission was made by President Lin- coln to Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the editor of this journal; and it is also true, as stated by Mr. Horace Grecley, that the offer was respect- fully declined by Mr. Bennett, on the ground that at this great crisis he conld serve the country better here than in Paris. This much Mr. Bennett is willing to have stated in order to gratify and satisfy those who have devoted so much time and attention to the thorough elucidation of the subject. But for the partic- ulars and the correspondence the journals and the gossips will be obliged to wait a little longer. It is certain that the exceptional com- pliment to an editor, to which Mr. Greeley called especial attention, was by no means un- appreciated in the spirit in which it was intended. Gvertmias—It appears that the country between Washington and Richmond is etill in- fested by rebel guerillas. A proclamation of outlawry, accompanied by a few detachments manded ail the prisoners till next Tuesday for sentence. As one of the items in the general retrenchment which the War Department has instituted in consequence of the collapse of the rebellion, the six provost marshals of this city will, after this week, occupy altogether but two offices—thove in the Fourth end Sixth districts, The of cavalry, would settle them at once; and 60 they ought to be settled, in order that their impoverished neighbors, before it is too late, may have an opportunity to plant and produce something for their own sypport. ‘The Empire in Mextco—Important Views of the French Government. We publish to-day a very interesting report of the proceedings of a session of the French Legislature, held in Paris on the 11th day of April last. The debate which took place on tbat occasion was a most important one. The question under discussion was the propriety of withdrawing the French troops from Mexico after the expiration of the period of service which had been assigned them there, as well as 8 consideration of the propriety of negotiating another loan for Mexico, in which France would have to bear the chief responsibility. The views of the opposition were firmly and determinedly expressed. M. Ernest Picard led off in this direction, and indignantly denied that it was the interest of France to prosecute such an enterprise further. He was, he eaid, “rather inclined to accept the judgment of Gene- ral Forey, who viewed the position of affairs in avery different light’ He wanted official in- formation on the subject, but the government withheld all documents which might throw light on the real state of things, as if it wished to keep the country under illusions which itself did notshare. The government said that the French troops were about to return home, whereas M. Corta asserted that they were going to conquer Sonora.” Much excitement ensued and the speaker went on to say that one reason why the government had left the affairs of Mexico in obscurity was that Maximilian would be obliged to make another appeal to French oapitalists, and he feared that France would in some way be involved asa party to the loan. In con- cluding, ond amid loud cries of “order,” “order,” he adjured the Chamber to “express an energetic opinion, if they had the courage.” The sensation that followed this may well be imagined. The reply of M. Rouher, the French Minister of State, which we give in full, was calm and dignified, yet full of energy and spirit. But he gave no good reasons in answer to the oppo- sition, The same threadbare arguments for in- vading the territory of an independent nation were once more retailed, but failed to convince any one outside of the government ranks. The principal importance which attaches to this speech, however, is in the fact that the Minister of State spoke officially, and his sentiments must, therefore, be taken to: be the opinions of the French Emperor and his government. There are four points in the speech which claim particular attention :-— Hirst—Thut another loan in favor of Mexico has been successfully negotiated among the principal houses of England and France. Second—That the French government and its supporters in the Chambers are sirongly in favor of this loan, and will compel the Mox- icans to repay it, with interest, for the great blessing of an empire which they have “be- stowed” upon them. Third—That the French army will remain in Mexico to enforce the payment of this and other loans to Maximilian, or, as the Minister of State says, “until the object of the expedi- tion be attained and all difficulties removed ;” and, Furth—That the French anticipate no trouble from any intervention on the part of the United States, but are satisfied that they will be permitied to “regeneraie” the couniry | and pocket all its wealth in their own way. Ii is diffienit to reconcile this action of the French government with recent and reliable reports which have reached us concerning Maximilian’s disposition to abdicate. Be this as it may, however, there are signs of a thorough reaction in Mexico against the new empire; and unless Napoleon be wise in time, and follow the advice of the opposition, he may yet make that d'stant country a Moscow as fatal to him as the first Moscow was to his } uncle. | Tae Rewer Generat Lex’s Oprmtons—Tue Ono Vircrvia FatLacy or Stare Rronts,—In a communication from one of our army corres- pondeats we publish this morning the sub- stance of a conversation with the rebel General | Lee on the war, State rights, the prospects of | peace, &c. General-in-Chief, will be read with universal interest, although they are only in a modified form—the same old story of Southern rights, which the Hon. Ben Wood has been hammering at for the last two or three years as the quintes- | sence of democracy. That pernicious heresy of State rights, which places the action of a Siaie, as a nationality, above the sovereignty of the United States, has | been the fatal blunder to General Lee, in com- mon with all his leading rebel confederates. He holds that le had to go with bis State to fight out this question of State rights; but, as the rebel chiefs have lost the game, he thinks they are ready to give it up— | State rights, slavery and all—if they are only excused as having been engaged in a legiti- | mate war for an unsetiled constitutional abstraction. In other words, he thinks that These views, coming from the rebel | there is no treason in levying war against the United States by citizens thereof, if it is done | by State authority. This is an old Virginia heresy, inherited from the time of Jefferson asa | Presidential candidate. He had discovered that the French Jacobin Club, as against England and John Adams, Washington and the old federal party, was a good party hobby; and 80 he mounted it,and it carricd him, with his | radical platform of State rights, into power. Next we find this heresy cropping out in the Hartford Convention at an angle of forty-five degrees; next it turns up red hot in South Carolina nullification, and next in secession, a Southern confederacy and a suicidal rebellion. But still, according to the constitution, there has been treason in this thing from the begin- ning, or the seed of treason. So much for General Lee's doctrine of State righte, He next tells us that slavery hos been & mere secondary issue in this war; that, in fact, the South bas held on to the institution more from considerations of humanity to the negroes than anything else. We suspect, how- ever, that the protiis of slave labor in the culti- vation of cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco had something to do with this revolt for Southern righis, though it is hardly worth while now to debate the question. Indeed, we cannot dis- cover that our correspondent has extracted from General Lee a single idea of any practical value, except as illustrating the shall tences spon which he entered into the ‘serrice of Jeff. Davis, and the impossible cencessions poate he expects to treason in behalf of A Goon Tava ror tHe Govenvon.—His veto of the Central Railroad Fare bill. Let him a by, that and the people will stand hy | lent and unmeasured terms, | fees of the Ch ¢ days sinee the Routevprd, | dificult to ‘Tee Francia Errsor Annoap or TH Fats ov Ricuuonp.—The news by the Africa of the ad- vance of five-twenty bonds in Eagland to 64% a 6534, and the deeline of the rebel loan to 23 a 25, on receipt of intelligence of the fall of Richmond, indicates the powerful effect which that event suddenly exerted upon the public mind there. The capture or surrender of Lee’s army was in all probability not then anticipated. We are therefore led to infer that upon its sur render becoming known in Europe # consider- able further advance in federal bonds would be the immediate result, attended by a corre- sponding decline in the rebel loan, which must soon cease to have a market value. It is not unreasonably eonjectured in Wall street that the knowledge of Lee’s surrender will cause five-twenties to advance beyond seventy on the London Stock Exchange, and hence the expectation that large amounts of these securities would be returned to us is likely to be disappointed, and those who sold them short here in anticipation of being able to buy at a profit in the foreign market, will find themselves cornered. The return of our securities from Europe would, however, have exerted less effect upon their price here than is generally sup- posed; for they would have been readily absorbed by dealers and investors. The effect would have been felt in enhancing the gold premium and the rates for foreign exchange, which has declined under the European advices, To suppose, however, that gold will materially decline in consequence of the favor- able aspect of the market for our securities abroad would be erroneous. The condition of the finances of the country and the still rapidly augmenting debt are not calculated to sustain very sanguine hopes of a speedy appreciation of the currency; but it is satisfactory to con- template the great change for the better which our finances have undergone during the last few weeks, and the generally improved confi- dence in the public credit both at home and abroad. Sovruern Riorts.—Southern rights, as illus- trated by Jeff. Davis, have involved on a grand scale his right of conscription against every man, the right to tax everybody to any extent, the right to steal every man’s property, niggers and all, the right to fix his own price and pay in his own scrip for purchases, the right to appropriate, burn and destroy, the right to imprison, shoot or hang any protesting citizen, and lastly, the right to rob the banks of their gold, and the right of way out of the confederacy with his plunder. Of such Southern rights we guess the Southern people have had enough to last them for a hundred years, Suiine orr Cuxap ror Casu.—According to our last accounts, General Grant having arrived at the front, Jeff. Davis was ready, through Joe Johnston, to sell out for the privi- loge of leaving the country with his pickings and stealings from the Richmond banks. This is a considerable fall for Jeff; but he has not yet touched bottom. THE STATE CAPITAL. Veto of the Central Railroad Bill—The Action on the Tax Levy—The Last Hours of the Legislature, &e. Avnany, April 20—12:20 A, M. It bas beon well understood that the sitting of the Legislature for the past ten days was protracted for rea- sons which had littl: realy to do with the transaction of any great pressure of mizcellancous business. An ad- journment could have been reached within forty-eight hours, and all necessary legislation despatched, at any time within the past two weeks. The extraordinary death of the President, and the consequent proceedings, have been the principal cause ef delay. There was a feeling that the close of the rebellion, or the condition of our national affairs, might need the aid of the groat State of New York, through its Legislature. Tho delay deemed necessary is terminated by the adjournment of the Legislature to-night. It was specially marked by a feeling of assurance and a buoyancy of expression which took a most satifactory form in the acclamation and cheers which greeted the announcement of the sur- render of Johnston to General Grant. Now that the rebellion is finally enppressed, the | national government reorganized under the new Execu- tive, the remains of the late President beyond the bor- ders of the State, and the State government itself fully installed by the confirmation of all the Governor's ap- pointments down to tho last in date, the Commissary General appointed yesterday, the Legislature is fairly entitled to adjourn. Since the hundred days expired there has been no actval business accomplished of much account, The Central Railroad bill has been — pa: but under circumstances which inaured ite defeat by # veto of the Governor, The veto was transmitied to-day, and, like all the acts of the Executive, was sus- tained. Three of the Senators who voted in favor of the Dili changed, and a majority was found recorded on the side af the views of the Executive. The anxiety in re- gard to the action bas been discounted for some days, as weil in Wall street a» among the politi The close of this session prese are in the entire absence of ‘I alation of business. During the forty-eight hours de- voted tothe closing up of business it has been found rovide means to occupy the respective chambers while waiting to concar with each other, Beveralrecesses have been taken from hour to hour. Everybody seems wearied out, and even the usual apimation on the night of adjournment is wanting. ‘There is no sensation matter. A brief episode on the part of Senators Fields and Christie, on the tax levy, made the ouly point of relie? in the wnexampied dul- ees of the sittings since the President's obsequics. The tax levy has been the one bill of importance re- maining to be despatched. It bas been delayed this year purpoke of making it on omnibus for various in tae form of the city government. The tax 7's und city inspector's departments were to be re- organized in the bill, The attempt to carry out this was met by an opporition which bag defeated the scheme. ‘The whole day has been given to the pageage of the tax levy. The nomber of miscellaneous bills which have been acted on to fill up the hours er House are of but little importance. It has been difficnlt to determine what the tax levy would pre- it underwent so many changes from hour to hour. It jeft the Senate and wentto the Assembly for the first time only to-day. It was returned this evening, wit a levy added to R. In the lower house these additions were made by the Committees on Cities, and reported complete atter a third reading. ‘This report created a sensation in the Assembly. Mesere, Van Buren, Stuart and Reed, of New York, denounced it in the most vio- in the Senate the amend. ments were met by Senator Latmbier with a like opposi- ton, and referred to the Committee on Municipal Affurs, Here a bulk of the amendments wero rejected, and on their report to the Benate conference committees were ; ordered in both houses, The session of thie conference committee hes continued until midnight without a re- port, both houres waiting for this to adjourn. The points difterence on which the conference is protracted is in mee to we relative to street cleaning, the jain, the printing for the Common Couneil and pay of the Common Council for last y During this conference both houses are secking to time, which is most effectnally dow by the lower house, Besides a variety of other proceedings, the chamber being crowded with citizens ae well as members, sent arc orpanized as a Committee of the Whole, johe Brown hymn and repeating the verse f rs ing Jef. Davis on a cour apple tree, with renewed accia- mations at each repetition, Aurany, April 20—1:46 A. M. At one o'clock A. M. Mr. Ritts, of Orleans, who has presided most efficiently over the mock Commitiee of the Whole in the Assembly to-night, closed these fac- tious proceedings by a speech reviewing the aspect of the country and the prospects of the government. His allusions to Andrew John. son, the new President, ae high priest of the Monroe doctrine, were received with rapturous acclamation, The ‘erence Committee on tho Tax Wet made their report on the Tax levy at a very late hour, which rejected the bulk of the Aseembly amendments. It was concurred in by both house at too late an hour to have iteis tele- araphea in time for publication, 6 formal adjournment was reached at a quarter be- fore one o’clock A. M., April 20. Among tho bills signed by the Governor to-day wore the bill ding for the completi f Hat Of soa atborng S pletion of lem bridge, 808. Qonetruction of iron piers and ware. ‘The bill widening the Sixth avente, chan, the » tion of the aqueduct near the tight orn i) ped Dill, was sieneyt. WASHINGTON. Orders for th» Reduction of Our Army Expenses. Arrival of the Rebel Ram Stonewall: at Teneriffe. HER DEPARTURE ON A CRUISE. Arrangements for Her Reception on Our Coast, &e, bo, fe. WAR GAZETTE, OFFICIAL. Redaction of the Expenses of the Millie tary Hstablishment. GENERAL ORDERS—NO. 77. ‘Was Derart ADJUTANT GRNERAL’S Orion, | ‘Wasutarox, D. G., april 28, 1865. } Ordered; First—That the chiefs of the respective bureaus of this department proceed immediately to re- duce the expenses of their respective departments te what is absolutely necessary in view of an immediate reduction of the forces on the field and in garrison, an@ the speedy termination of hostilities, and that they severally make out statements ef the reductions they deem practicable. Stcond—That the Quartermaster General discharge al ocean transports not required to bring hume troops im remote departments, All river and inland transportation will be discharged excopt that requircd for the necessary supplies to troops in the field, Purchases of horses, mules, wagons, and other land transportation will be stopped; also purchases of forage, except wha is required for immediate consumption. All purehases for railroad construction and transportation will also be stopped. Third—That the Commissary General of Subsistence discontinne the purchase of supplies in his department except such as may with what is on hand be required foe forves in the field to the 1st of June next. Fourth—Phat the Chief of Ordnance stop all purchasea of arms and ammunition and materials therefor, and re- duce the mAnufacture of arms and ordnance stores im the governmont arsenals as rapidly as can be done without injury to the service. Fifth—Vhat the Chief of Engineers stop work. on al field. fortifica‘ions and other works, except those for which specific appropriations have been made:by Gon- gress for completion, or that may be required for the proper protection of works in progress. Sizth—That all soldiers in the hospitals who-require ne further medical treatment be honorably discharged from tbe service, with immediate payment. All officers and enlisted men, who haue been prisoners of war and are now on furlough or in parole camps, and all recruits in ren- dezvous, except those for regulararmy, wili likewise be honorably discharged. Officers whose duty it is, under the regulations of the service, to make out yolls and other final papers connected with the discharge and payment of soldiers, are directed to make them out without delay, so that this order may be carried into effect immediately. Seventh—The Adjutant General of the army wit! cause immediate returns to be made by all commanders in the field, garrisons, detachments and posts of their respeot- ive forces, with a view to their immediate reduction. Eighth—The Quartermaster’s, Subsistence, Engineer and Provost Marshal General’s departments will reduce the number of clerks and employes to that absolutely required for closing the business of their respective de- partments, and will, without delay, report to the Socre- tary of War the number required of each class or grade, ‘The Surgeon General will make similar reductions of Surgeons, nurses and attendants in his bureau. Ninth.—The chiefs of the rospective bureaus will im mediately cause proper returi® to be made out of the public property in their charge, and statements of the property in each that may be sold upon advertisement and publication, without projudice to the service. Tenth.—The Commissary of Prisoners will have rolls made out of the name, residence, time and place of capture, and occupation of all prisoners of war who will take the oath of allegiance to the United States to the end that such as are disposed to become good and loyal citisena of the United States, and who are proper objects of executive clemency may be released upon the terme thaé the President shall deem fit and consistent with publie safety. By order of the SECRETARY OF WAR W. A. Nicuo1s, Assistant Adjutant General. Taomuas W. Vincent, Assistant Acting General. GENERAL NEWS. ‘Wasuineros, April 28, 1868, THE REBEI. RAM STONEWALL ON A CBUISE. Information has been received that the rebel ram Stonewall, Captain Page, arrived at Toneriffe on the Bist of March, in three days from Lisbon. She wag allowed to take coal and provisions, but was required te leave port at the expiration of twenty-four hours. She took on board one hundred and thirty tons of coal, and left April 1, at six o'clock P. M., and steamed rapidly to the southward. Our Consul at Teneriffe, Mr. Dabney, could hear noth- ing of her probable destination. The Stonewall rolled very much while at anchor. At sea this would be a serious difficulty iu the successful management of hee guns. In view of the possibility of this formidable vessey visiting our coast, the Navy Department is distributing iron clads all along the coast, and preparing all the tor- pedo vessels for service. MOVEMENTS OF JEFF. DAVIS. Information was received here to-day that Jeff. Davia and his attendants composing the peripathetic Southerm confederacy had reached South Carolina in their hegira, It is believed they will be intercepted before they cam reach the Mississippi river. They may, however, make for some portion of the Atlantic coast, and endeavor to get out of the country by sea. THB NATIONAL FINANCES. The continued success of the seven-thirty loan hae enabled the Secretary of the Treasury to pay off rapidly the immense amount of suspended requisitions which had accumulated previous to his advent to the head of the department. Already a very great reduction in the daily expenses of the government has been made, and still more i# contemplated at an early day; but « large | amount of money will be needed for the payment in full of such portion of the armies in the field as may be mus- tered out of sorvice. Another reduction in the clerical force of the Quartermasters’ and Commissaries’ Depart- ments is to be made May 1 proximo. A large number of | government horses and mules are soon to be sold, as the termination of the war enables the government to dis- penee with them, NAVAL ORDERS. Rear Admiral Charlee H. Davis has been detached from the Bureau of Navigation, and ordered as Superintendent’: of the National Observatory. Captain Percival Drayton has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Captain R. H. Wyman has been appointed to command the Colorado, the flagship of the European squadron. Rear Admiral D. D. Porter has been detached from the command of the North Atlantic squadron, and is suc- ceeded by Commodore Wm. Radford. CONDITION OF THE SEWARDS. Secretary Seward and Mr. Frederick Seward continue to improve rapialy. To-day preparations were made by Dr. Gunning, of New York, to fit an inatrumont by which the broken jaw of the Secretary shall be kept in place until the fractured parta shall be firmly reunited, PICTURES OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. Philp & Solomons, of this city, are about to issue several splendia ptotures of President Johnson. They are photographe by Gardner, who to-day made clevon negatives of Mr. Johnson in half an hour, MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL BUTLER. Major General Butler 1 still detained here in attend- ance upon the War Department. It is not improbable he will be immediately assigned to some active command, DEATH OF RICHARD 8. COXR. Richard $, Coxe, one of the oldest and most prominent Jawyors in this city, died here this morning, aged soven- ty-three years. GENERAL HANCOCK'S HEADQUARTERS. General Hancock has established his headquarters in Windor’s Building, in tho rooms formerty oooupted by Goneral Graud