The New York Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1867, Page 3

a ‘WASHINGTON. | AsMINGTON, Deo. 21, 1807, Fama Clock PM Me ‘The Republican National Conveation-- isfaction of the Southern Rad@oig, The action of the National Republican Cov. mittee re- specting the time of holding the Presideny’a! Nominat- ‘ng Convention next spring does not meet with univer- sal favor. From the South the radirls express much dissatisfaction, It was hoped thasthe Southern siates ‘would have been represented 10 the Convention. The determination of the Norther® radicals, asexpressed by themselves, is to secure thee States’ admission at the earliest moment, probably in course of several months. ‘The Southern branch, however, do not feel so confident, aud interpret the action 0: the committee as a precon- verted pian to Bead off all opposition to Grant by mak- ing the time as short as possible, It is said the Southern radicals havo taken up the cause ot Chief Justice Chase, and are desirous of getting an opportunity to place his name formally be- fore the republican delegates of the people, Some meation is made of an intention, in the event of exclu- «ion from the Convention in May next, to hold one of their own, composed of delegates from the Southern Btates. It is not certain that the action of such a Con- ‘Vention would harmonize with the views\of the leaders ef the North, as the former have but the two extremes—that of radical republicanism or radical de- meecracy—while the latter feel evident concern at the manifest reluctance of the great mass of the Northern people to co-operate in any extreme measures. Tee Freedme Bereau and the Virginia Convention. A lively debate arose in the Virginia Convention yester- ay in relation to tho retention of the officers lately mus- tered out of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and on the continu- ‘ance of the Bureau itself, The proposition received bat ‘twenty-three votes, while forty-nine were given in the Megative. It is well known here that notwithstanding General Howard’s recommendation that the Bureau be Giscontinued in July next, a combined effort is being made on the part of the civil employés in this city, and throughout the South, to bring an influence to bear upon.Congress to havo the Bureau continued for another year. Genoral Grant, however, seems to ve of the opinion that th® District commanders, with the force under them, can discharge all the duties now performed by the large army of civilians in the service Of the Bureau, with scarcely no additional expense. I¢ is certainly very significant that a body so thoroughly Radical as the Virginia Convention does not désire the Ceatinuance of the Bureau. General Howard has issued « circular, and the same has been approved by General Grant, allowing all officers and agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau to purchase sub- sistence stores from the Subsistence Department, at government rates, and onthe same terms as be = pur- @hases are made by officers of the army. Congress and the Removal of Secretary McCulloch. A majority of Congress feel disposed to question the Yogic of Xecretary McCulloch’s financial conclusions in reference to the payment of the national debt, The general expression of feeling in reference to the con- duct of our finances by the present incumbent of the ‘Treasury is decidedly adverse to bis present manage- ment and inimical to his further continuance at the bead of the most important department of the govern- meat, From all that can be gathered in reference to this wabject no doubt prevails that the removal of Mr. Mc- Calloch would be endorsed by three-fourths of Congress. ‘Tho Investigation by the Ordnance Com. mittee. ‘The sub-committee of the Ordnance Committee of the House, composed of Generals Logan and Butler, bad a meeting to-day and continued taking testimony respect- fog the Absterdam projectile, The evidence thes far secured, it is said, tends to some important exposures fa the purchaze of munitions of war by the War De- partment during the late rebellion. The committee will take no more testimony until January 2, United States Supreme UCourt—Confiscation Casee—Sult Against Ex-Secretary Stanten fer Alleged False Imprisonment. Two write of error were to-day granted by Justics ‘Wylie in she cases of Dr. James J. Waring and H. H, Lewis for the reversal of the judgments of confiscation rendered by the District Court here in 1863, Mr. Caleb Cashing and Messrs, Appleby and Edmonston sued out these writs, as also others in the case of Dr. A. Y. P, Garnett, for the recovery of his personal property; also hie residence on Ninth street, now occupied by 8. P. Brown, These cases will be tried next January by the Court in General Term, To-day the motion made by the plaintiff in the case Of Smithson against Stanton for oyerand inspection was tohave ceme before Justice Wylie, but at the request of counse) the hearing has been postponed for afew days. ‘The plaintiff, Smithson, was a banker in this city, and Guring the war was arrested by the military authori! en the charge of sending taformation to the enemy, victed by a military commission and sentenced to the Albany Penitentiary, from which he was afterwards par- dogg by President Lincoln, Smithson brought suit “against ‘Mr, Stanton for false imprisonment, laying damages at $50,000, and the defendant put in a special to the bill in which reference is mado to a number of documents, and the plaintiff now makes this motion of eyer and inspection to compel the defendant to pro- @uce the documents referred to, or to furatsh copies of them for the inspection of the piaintif. The plaintiff is represented by Judge Hughes, Denver and Mr. Peck, of the firm of Hughes,+ Denver & Peck, and W. D, Davidge, of this city; andethe defendant by Hon. H. Stanbery, Attorney General; James T. Brady and Judge Pierrepont, of New York, and Mr. W. Y. Fendall, of ‘this city. Military Orders Be Argued in Mr, J, H. Sullivan arrived here yesterday from Louisi- ‘apa, and is understood to be preparing for an argument ‘& test case to be heard in the Supreme Court, which will ‘wmvolve all the issues raised by reason of the military orders, in the South since 1861. Eminent counsel from both North and South are in communication with him, ‘and the issues will be thoroughly examined. Weekly Treasury Statement. The fractional currency received from the Printing Boreau of the Treasury Department during the week ending to-day was $530,500, The amount forwarded during the same period was as follows:—To the Assist. ant Treasurer at New York, $100,000; to the Assistant ‘Treasurer at Boston, $100,000; to the Asmstant Treasurer ‘at Charleston, $36,000; and to national banks and others, $222,604; total, $458,604. Small notes to the amount of $16,000 were also sent to the Assistant Treasurer at Charleston. The United States Treasurer holds in trast for the na- tional banks at this date $378,920,700, of which $341, 102,950 is in government bonds, as security for cir- culating notes, and $37,817,960 for deposits of public moneys ‘The national bank currency issued during the week was $145,050, and the total amount to date is 805,490,511. From this is to be deducted the currency returned, juding worn-out notes, amoonting to 95,600,695, leaving im actual circulation at this date $299, 829,816. ‘The fraciional currency redeemed and dgstroyed daring the week was $264,600, The receipts from interoal revenue for the past week Pere not quite two million of doliara, and for the fiscal year commencing with June last to date, $96,000,000. Expected Visit of Indian Deleg La About the let of January several delegations of Indians from various tribes {n the far West will arrive in Wash- ington, for the purpose of consulting and making treaties, Bome of the chiefs expected are uacivilized. The Postal Arrangements with Germany. Instructions are now being prepared at the Post Office De: iment to govern the transportation of the mails this. country and Belgiam and German pro- under the recent treaty, which goes into effect on the ist of January next. By the terms of the treaty, each country is allowed te reguiate ite own charges, The Adjoarnment of Congress—The Policy of the Republicans—General Grant on the War Office Clerke=Changes ia the Medical Staff of the Army. {From the Evening Telegram of yesterday.) Wasutxctos, Dec. 21, 1867. capital, the etreets begin to assume the quiet appearance customary during vacation, and the hotels and barroume ‘are comparatively deserted. Washington, if less lively without Congress, is at all events far more and citizen, except the hotel keepers Nquor po qiea to be rotieved of ite presence, Afver the adjournment yesterday the members ap- Siopeved ied is oe Opeaty and candvdly ow wo ore plans for the fetere, Some of the mest Storial and Represeatative lenarrs a Pat Dothing whaeves of ony deBail NEW YORK SE de done ‘eferds settiing down on @ financial policy tial election, although, a5 0”, sigh Le rg rer eanject’ to ele adout and Sich ©) to amuse the public mind, warte we arrange + “ biicana generally express themsel"v¢6 resolved salen as their TUCtiON, icy, $0 as to admit the negro vote of the Southern wm the next Electoral ‘Conege. Conkling declares that this is a necessity which should unite all republicans, conse vatives and radicals, since he d of carryil York next fall, and thinks cnough other northern Stats may go anti-republican to render the Southern vot necessary to elect (ne repablican candidate, whoever he be. It was privately agreed among members that. they should thus Fepresent the question of reconstruc- tion on the basis of negro votes to~Their several con- stituenctes on theif return to their homes for the holi- z days, in order to head off the unpopularity of the measure jand to endeavor to unite the republicans on it as a partisan measure. General Grant seems anxious to make amends to the Dengan clerks for w: to-day to Wi ‘Depart. ment, directing that from the 25th inst, to the 2d of January mols half the number of clerks in each bureau shall be on duty each day, the other half remaining away from the office—each half being on difty on alternate directing that during the time specified the hours for duty shall be from nine in the morning noon, On Christmas and on New Year Day the offices will be closed. ‘The following changes in the medical staff of the army have been announced to-day :—Assistant Surgeon Carlos Carvallo bas been ordered to Jackson Barracks, La; Brevet Major W. United States Army, been ordered to Baton Rouge, La, to relieve Lieutenant Colonel W. D. Wolverton; Surgeon Dalias Bache has been ordered to San Antonio, Texas; Brevet Major G. V. Middleton, Assistant Sur- grea United States Army, has been Camp ‘erde, Texas, IMPEACHMENT. Letter fr Hon. J. M. Ashley. [From the Toledo ( ) Blade, Dee, 19 (Mr. Ashley's ‘Wasmnaron Crry, Dec, 13, 1867. Eprom Biape—I sa it will be conceded that a Tepresentative 15 ‘entitled, when assailed, to a hearing z criminal, ought ‘without the best of commit blunders, and in whieh the more prudent might say and give utterance, in moments of could be found to In the situation demanded a have been selected by the anti-im- bear off their sins pad. Va Sivert rote, at. the stupid inconsistencies of panic- stricken impeachers. As a rule those who were the most noisy tor impeaebment when first proposed and up to the moment whea the committee reported in its favor were the men who so suddenly pronounced against it, without reading either the evidonce or the po papomt bee) the peeve wale “sae be Br fully sustained by unquestion imony, as they deca charges now allege, use which I never made were not su: ined. In no public which I ever made did I ever speech charge Mr. Johnson with complicity m tbe assassination plot, In wy public speeches I bave been far more reti- cent on this question than any of the gentlemen who have been speaking with me, and when I have alluded to it in public addresses, I have only stated what wero wy im s and suspicions, On the 7th of March, when introducing, without the alteration of a word, the same charges and specifications above boeary T referred to the assassination in the speech which I then made under more than ordivary excitement. Of course no one wit claim that in what I then said Mr. Joboeon is charged with complicit; jon, As I made no such cl T did not, when presenting evidence to the commiites, direct the attention of wit- nesses ly to that matter, .If any fact thought to be materia! on the matter of the assassination was stated by a witness during the investigation, and before the ex; of tho Thirty-ninth such state- ment was carefully excluded by the committee from the impeachment record and ed separately with the assassination testimony, the Judiciary Committee being algo charged at that time with the investigation of the conspiracy. The very fact that the Judici- ary Committee excluded = euch + rhe pared SS the im- peachment record preserved the agsassina- tion evidence and handed it over to the Butler Assassin- ation Committee 1s proof if it were wanting, that neither the committee nor myself looked u; 1m ima, ment resolution as ‘asanssination. 7 ridge co- Oe re Lf ny = T suspected Mr. Johnson of ‘ity Ly a a knowledge of the assassination is trae and T have re. peatediy said in private conversation that events had transpired s.nce his inauguration tending to confirm me Bem oral Of Missouri, i the only representati ve, I belicre, who has ever oitoally charged Mr. Johnson on the floor of house with complicity in the great oth ee one assassination trials disclosed the 1° fact that onthe vight of Mr Lincoln’s murder, there were a buaéred armed men in thie city to co-operate — the Grespereess rt the herribie of Evidence which canaot lished that fact. No effort worthy of the name Deen made by the government to arrest justice any one of the mow at conspirators Surratt was captured and brought home, despite the indiffer- ence‘of the administration, as was shown in the report of the Judiciary Committee submitted by Mr. Wood. bridge, and it is believed by many that he will never be convicted, because the government refuses or neglects toconduct the case as they would an ordi suit tn- volving a few thousand do)lara, It is believed by many the conviction uf Surratt would to disciosures which would lift the veil which to-day conceals of the conspir he fact that I anxious to ol apy evidenve at La ed $b0 Assassination I have tfa' 9 ob*ain evidence on this by +4 miles and spent much ne prison. If a criminal, for to-morrow, should send mo that he could and would testimony foto, ¢ would most certainly go. et <'Taboaid go ‘would most certainly once, an if Bir, Jonson bad ceased’ to be President, Wheat visited the prison im this city, it was with the expectation and receiving letters written Davis, Johnson and others, who, it was all had a guilty know! Of the assassination, and that these letters were in the handwriting of the parties named, and would that fact. Under the samé circumstances I would visit any prison to- morrow, And here, and now, me to sey that the reckless assertion is without g g H H the min- caren tape Colin gr been “my | or purposely m: jose whom as iene, ‘while professed republican journals exult over every sensation paragraph any penny-a-\iner might set afloat, and many of these journals that they cannot fusiva Ope me'suae aianccsr, justly assail but time has vindicated me | bi fusn’vo Deleve thes Labail again be Wineiamel over ast alwaya, Truth’ s enemy wine a defeat with victory, The facts adduced by the Judiciary Committee will make an inefiaceable record, and the verdict of history be Las boson a ad ean crimes misdemeanors,’ as charged, and, ition, that be became the ally of the authors ef the and attempted to secure their restoration te power, That he ought to have been im hed on the made, o majority of the ablest lawyers on the Judiciary Commit- tee, who carefully and patiently investigated the case for nearly a year, full and 60 reported, id Saute, aud a maajority of the Talrey ik mae an @ maj the 2) were, from the first, Yo fr impeachment, and if the Fortieth Congress could have been convened \e- dintety after the removal of Stanton no one doubts it would bave sustained the report of the Ju- diciary Committee and voted to im; The evidence then before the committee has 3 z. PH 5s 5 5 F i BF | f the ablest democratic lawyers in Congress, aid not ‘Resitate to susvatn the position of the majority of the committee om the law of impeachment, and so far as I know the leading lawyers and law writers sustain tho views of the impeachers, ‘That the evidence compiled by the committee will put Andrew Johnson into bistory where be belongs, no im- Partial man who reads it can doubt, Lenst of all, will this evidence, or the report of the committee, or the action of any one voting for impeachinent, ‘‘rostore Mr. Johnson to the piace be occupied in the hearts of the People, which he forfeited by tus treachery to his party and bumanity."’ T dislike very much to reply to such charges os have been made against me touching this impeachment in- vestigation, and I would not, au they not come from our own party pre: Now, as ever with the mass of ‘8 only vindication. If 1m; had succeeded, no opposition paper would hi guilty of making such untruthful charges agai! bave many republican journals, while all papers had ever favored impeachment would have shouted hail,” and reproduced their first articl ia its favor in order to impress their readers with a just sense of the wisdom, savacity and consistency of their editors, Prudence and a proper regard for the interests of the Tepudlican party, it seems to me, require that such unwarranted and unjust aitacks upon the men who labored and voted for impeachment should cease. Such a course can certainly be productive of no good, and, if continued, will pro- voke an unprofitable controversy, For myself I have always found evough to do to fight the common enemy, without making war upon republicans who happened to differ with me on matters of policy. Our condition asa party ie pot so promising as to invite dissensions in our ranks, When tho men who favored impeachment are taken out of the republican party it will not take long to enumerate those who remain. We who favored impeachment must now await the Verdict of those who are to come after us. No one of ail the actors in this movement can escape Chee Time is the friend of truth and the enemy of all false- hood, and I am confident that time and history will vin- Saw ens eh oar motives ai the justice of the ve we have m Respec ‘ J. M. ASHLEY. THE LATE ADMIRAL JANES S. PALMER. The Funeral Ceremonies Yesterday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. ‘The remains of Admiral James S, Palmer, lately com manding the North Atlantic squadron, who died re- cently at St. Thomas, in the West Indies, were interred ‘with befitting honors from the Brooklyn Navy Yard yeaterday. The body of the distinguished deceased was encased in an elegant silver mounted coffin which, duly draped with the national colors, was lying at the residence of Admiral Bell during the forenoon, The flags of the station were at haif-mast, and the officers participating wore the customary badge of mourning on the left arm. Six white haired — sailors, from the receiving ship Ver- mont, stood on guard, with uncovered heads, over the coffin, which during the ceremony was exposed upon the broad porch of the noure, Rev. Dr. Francis Vinten, of Trimity churob, recited the service for the dead id the most impressive silence of the spectators. The lengthy and solemn ceremony having terminated, and the handful of earth having been fiung upon the coffin, the remains were cently lifted by the veteran sons of the sea and borne without to the hearse, around which, with ten others of their comrades from the Vermont, they formed three sides of a hollow aquare, the whole escort being under the com. mand of Master Rerremore, of the receiving ship, The pallbearers were Admirals Stringham and Beil, Geperais Anderson, Butterfleld and Wallen, Commodore Sveedman, Surgeon Palmer and Paymaster Watmough. The hearse passed in front of the line of meee, who presented arms amid aroll of drums. Tho relatives and friends and participating officers of the army and navy took carriages; marines fell in by the flank, with reversed muskets, and the procession moved out through the main entrance in the following order:— Detachment of National Police, Battalion of Marines under Command of Brevet Lien. tenant Colenel Roome. Pallbearers Carvings The Hi rs sak learee, With Sixteen Sailors as Guard of Honor. Carriages with the Relatives and Friends of the Deceased. The Marme Band discoursed a series of dirges and other solemn musical refrains as the procession wound its slow length along Fi avenue to the Naval Hospi ich it entered, and Here the coffin was re- moved from the hearse and borne, as before, by the aged sailors to the grave, which was dug in a little ravine beneath two willows, whose broad-spreading arms covered the last vesting place of many another gallant spirit, as was too truly told by the tombstones that filed the enclosure. Here the attending friends alighted, ‘and stood uncovered while the coffin was lowered The last was = taken at the bottom awaiting the sods, gathering of people wittdrew to the carrages again, the sharp words of command rang out, the gravediggers cast the earth, while three volleys of m awoke the echoes of the silent enclosure and the final tribute of respect bad been paid. It would, perhaps, have been improper to omit say ing that as the 'uneral cortége left the Ni the rol! of drums nal for @ discharge of minute guns by the receiving ship Vermont, and, as it moved along parallel with the river, the deep booming of the cannon over the water seemed keep pace with its solemn Among the prominent officers present, in addition to those whose names are above were Senersseumnesagy:. Smith, Gove modores Turner, Boggs e, Captains Almy, ‘Trenebara and Nich jorson, and Captain Upshur. The officers of the stanen participated a The Breech Sort cpa er thsieans tongnd tne The body of Admiral Palmer has been only Ua open im the burying ground of the Naval Hospital. t will at a tutare day be removed for interment in one of the surburban cemeteries. MUSICAL. fecond Pyilkermonte Concert. Tho Academy of reoslled the palmiest days of this great society. The display of toilets was something that would delight the eyes of the most critical mediste, and the most cele- erica, Ole Bull, Mills, Leopold de ito. x ge Pianist, Mise Ali ” and Mendelssohn's 10" ” by worked ‘le. The minuet of the third eflective light, playful, theme, which is thing clear and Intell nothing gross or sen- tational, Part of it seemed to be the Lisst drew bis best ideas forthe preludea We have Abb of much merit, and weaknesses i5st? F i i Et ot 43 “Concertatiek, '’ ta either conception of the compos- or’s ideas or in the ich was entirely too siow. Mendeissobn’s beaubitul overture was played by the orchestra of one hundred performers io Irving Hall. Mrs. Anna Payne gave her annual concert at this hall last night, assisted by Mise Lizzie Allen and Messrs, Pease, Leggatt and Crane, Yhe programme consisted of selections from Arditi, Verdi, Pease, Donizetti, Gum- Raf and Gounod. Mra shoul Poeolly before the Metropolitan public, and one tat neglect improvemen: joes not it ia voice and style every seauen. BURGLARY AT COLD SPRING, L. I. A Safe Blown Open and $1,100 Abstracted— Escape of the Robbers. out seems to give e1 tothe Hon of those succeeding them. burglars ently make a ciroult, nor is their progress the close walls of @ gd Bg Say defy their nefarious skill, was the spot chosen on the night in question. There sre few stores 1p that little let, the birds of bad litle Fagan tne whereon to pounce, after the ment o: Messra, Jones & Hewlett, the most extensive in the locality, bad been Sw by Ey two men effected an entrance by some means i emptying the drawers the packing w) @ ouye of dry goods. A next attracted their attention — and their ou r. Naturally Lh i Gontainea valuable, they dritied a hole im the door near the inserted some therein and biew itopen. Si: hundred dollars in money and five bundred dollars in United States bonds were and taking ap the bundle ary the robbers ‘An em- , SOTES ON NEW PUBLICATIONS, Military History of Ulysses 8. ¢ April, 1861, to April, 1565. By Apxtay Bapgav, CoLoNEL AND Aipg-pe-Camr TO The GeneRaL-In-Cume. New York: D. Ap- pleton & Co, Below we give some extracts from the adv of this important and admirably written book :— 8 NAME, Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on the 27th of April, 1822, at Points Vieasant, Clermont county, Ohio. His fathor was ot Scotch descent, and a dealer in leather, Ulysves was the eldest of six children. He entered the Military Academy at Woat Point at the age of seventeen, the Congressman who procured his appointment giving his name by mistake as Ulysses S, Grant, Simpson was the maiden name of his mother, and was also borne by one of his younger brothers; this doubtless occasioned the error. “Young Grant applied to the authorities at West Point and to the Secretary of War to have the blunder correcied, but the request was unnoticed; his comrades at once adopted the iniials * in his behalf, and chrisiened him Uncle Sam, a nickname that he never Jost ip the army; and when he graduated in 1843, twen- ty-first in a class of thirty-nine, bis commission of brevet second lieutenant and his diploma both styled him Ulysse 5. Grant, by which name he has since been D, ‘His regiment was the Fourth infantry; he remained in the army eleven years, was engaged in every battle of the Mexican War, except Buena Vista, receiving two brevets for gallantry, and was afterwards statiened at ‘various posts on the Vanada frontier, and finally im Cali- fornia and Oregon, In 1848 he married Julia T. Dent, eldest daughter of Frederick Dent, a merchant of St Louis; and in 1854, having reached the grade of captain, he resigned bis commission 1m the army, and removed to Gravois, near St. Lous, where he owned and worked a farm. Afterwards, in 1860, he entered the leather wade, with his father and brother, at Galena, Illinois, HIB ORSCURITY, Thus, when the civil war broke out, Grant was a Se citizen, Reni | his bread in'an insignificant town, He was of simple habits and tastes, with- out influence, and unambitiou, Having never been Drought in contact with men of eminence, he had no personal knowledge of great affairs. He had never com- Manded more than a company of soldiers, and although he had served under both Scott and laylor it was ase sul , and without apy oppportanity of inter- course with those commanders. He id never voted for a President but once; he knew no “politicians, for bis acquaintance was limited to army officers and Western traders; even in the town where he lived he had not met the member of Conyress ‘who represented the district for nine successive years, and who afterwards became one of his most imtimate per- onal friends Of his four children the eldest was eleven years old. He lived ina little house at the top @f one of the picturesque hills on which Galena is built, and went daily to the warehouse of bis father and brother, where leather was sold by the wholesale and retail. He was thirty-nine years of age before hix coun- trymen became acquainted with his name, ‘B18 READINESS, Fort Samter fell on the 13th of April, 1861, and the President's call for troops was made on the 15th. the 19th Grant was drilling a company of volunteers at Galena, and four days afterwards went with it to Spring- field, the capital of Ilinois, mm there he wrote to general of the army, offering his services ment, in any capacity in which he could ‘de of use, The letter was not deemed of sufficient im- portance to pre: : it stated that Grant had received & military education at the public expense, and now that the country was in danger he thought it bis duty to place at the disposal of tne authorities whatever skill or experience he had acquired. He received no reply; but remaining at Springfield, his military knowledge mado him of service im the organization of the volunteer troops of the ptate; and at the end of five weeks the Governor Richard Yates, offered him the Twenty-first Tegiment of Illinois infantry. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BERN, Before receiving his colonelcy Grant went to Cincin- Rati to visit Major General McClellan, thenin command of Ohio volunteers, The two had known each other in tue old army, and although Grant had no intention of making any application he still hoped that McClellan might offer him a place on his staff, He went twice to beadquarters, but did not find McClellan there, and re- varned to Ilinois without mentioning ms aspirations to any one. HOW HE FIXED THE HUNTERS OF KE Grant's first act when apy the District of Southeast Missouri was the seizure of Paducah, at the mouth of the Tennessee. The Governor of Kentucky was at this time insisting that tho State should maintain a ition of armed neu- and all Paes who sympathized nt from sheets by General Polk, commander im that region, He seized Columbus — Hick: on the Mississippi, and threatened can, within three days aiter Grant assumed his new command. All these places were of military importance, a: cah completely commands the tavfpnon et Tennesseo Ohio. Fremont had previously ordered a movement in Missouri, whicn Grant was to superintend, and had directed the construction of Fort Holt, on the Kentucky shore, bat op the 2d of September Grant arrived at Cairo, and on the 6th heard of the advance of Polk, which had occurred the day before. He at onco notified his commanding officer, a8 weilas the Kentucky Legislature at Frank- fort, and, later in tho same day, having received addi- tional information, he telegraph, to Fremont at St. Loute;—“I am getting iy go to Paducah, Will start at six and o heif o’clock,’’ Still later on the bth, he -weote:—‘I am now nearly ready for Pa- ducan, should ‘got telegram arrive preventing the move- ment. ‘i Getting no reply, be started at ten and a half o'clock that ene with $wo regiments and a ligt batiery; he also took two Renbosts, the naval force in that neighbor. bood being un iis control, He was delayed at Mound City by an accident to one of his tran 6. but arrived at ah at balf-past eight on the morning of tho 6th. The city was seized without a gun being fired, Brigadier General Ti ghmao and bis of tho rebel army, with ® company of recruits, hurrying out of town by the rafirosd, south, while Grant was getting ashore, A force of thirty-eight hundred rebels was reported to be sixteen miles off, and rebel flags and stores were found im the town; but this movement saved Paducah and the control of the Ohio river. Grant stayed in town only until neon, when, leaving a sufficient garrison, he returned to Cairo, where received Fremont’s permission to take Paducah “if he felt strong enough,” The next day Brigadier General C. F, Smith was put 19 command ‘orders to re; of t direct ria Oe oe a ieee cet pees, resolutions favorable to the Union, and litical] 1 position of the State was secured; no more was heard of the neutrality of Kentucky, The seizure of Paducah was violently criticized by those whom It di inted, and furni an illustration of traits afterwards pecuilarly to characterize coneralapiy of GrREL « one = UTH AROUT THE RATTLE OF ae . This batile coafirmed Grant in the beliof on Which he always atterwards acted, that when neither party is well disciplined there is potbing to gain in the mater of dis- ciplive by delay. The enemy organizes and improves as rapidly as yourself, and al! the advantages of prompt movement are lost, The strategic results accomplished by Belmont might perhaps bave been attained had the inal design been carried out and oniy @ demonstration made; Sue the troops, who had Merman a = the a of active cams paignig, were restive during Ul delay at ing out, the of officers and men was up; had been taken back then without a fight confidence in themselves and in their commander would have been impaired, Grant noticed this, and even if he had not received the information on which bis attack was based, would neverthelens have made the assault, The influence of tho fight upon the troops engaged was of the bappiest sort. It gave them a confidence and a fortitade which they hever lost, and e “Belmont mei neseee. The country, however, knowing none of the objects of the movement, and seeing only the fact that had advanced and then regarded the disaster, while the enemy, of Course, heralded it tor a rebel victory. Long after, many who jooked upon Grant as one of the of soldiers, declared that he should be forgiven for Belmont, end remained rant, not only that he accomplished more than he was sent to do, but that the very traits which contributed most materiaily to later succenses, were displayed ag sigoally at Belmont as on any occasion during the war, GRANT AND GERMAN. On the 15th of eee was assigned to the new Military Mistrict of with “hmits not defined,” and Brigadier General William T. Sher- man to the command of the disiriet of Cetro. Sherman had been at West Point with Grant, but graduated three years earlier, and they had not since been intimate; their first official intercourse oceurrod daring the siege of Fort , When Sherman for- warded troops and supplies to Grant with extraordinary despatch. Shermas was the senior, but, ‘on the 13th of February, he wrote: —''I will do every th: in my to barry forward your reinforcements and supplies, td Am Opportusity occur you will carn for yourself that promotion whieh you are Kind enough to say belongs to me. I care nothing for promoijon so long as our arms are successful and no few ‘subjected a clten as fs was epeght to Tetenerrt of extraordioary anxiety and AERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER ,22. 1867.—TRiPLE SBEET. of these, he lost probably three thousand, in killed and wounded. [e, however, was met by an army, instead Of agarrison. Pemberton, according to bis own state- ment, put eighteen thousand five huodred men in the ‘renenes. It was, therefore, mo reproach to the gul- lantry or soldiership of the army of the Tennessee that it was unable to carry works of the sirengin of those which repelled it, manued by troops of the same race as themselves and in numbers 50 neariy equal to their own. Neither can the generalahip which directed this assault be fairly censured, The on'y possible chance of breaking through such defences | and defenders in massing the troops, so that the weight of the columas should be abdsglucely | irregistible, But the broken, tangled - ground, where often a company could not advance by flank, made massing impossible; and this could aot be known in advance, The rebels, too, had not shown in the week preceding the It any of the deter mination which they disp! behind their earthen walls at Vicksburg; the works at tho Big Black river also were imapregnabie, if they had been well defended ; and Grant could got know, beforehand, that iberton’s men had recovered their former mettie, Any moro than he could ascertain, without a trial, how inaccessible were the acclivities aud how prodigious the | difficulties which protected thess reinvigorated soldiers, But Badajos was thrice besieged and oftener assaulted ere it fell; and the stories of Saguntum and Saragossa preres tbat Vicksburg was not the only citadel which jong resisted gallant and determined armies. GRANT AND THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS, It Js not national partiality which declares that the combination of traite that made this army what it was, and enabled it todo what it did, was essentially Ameri- can. Tbe mingling of sturdy independence with indi- ee vidual intelligence, of ane feeling with practical talent, was American, These men were not more gal- lant nor more devoted than the misguided countrymen they fought; nor do 1 believe that their courage or en- durance was greaier than has ofien been dispiayed ou European fields. But it is seldom in the history of war that a race bas sprung to arms like that which wou the battles of the Union, Not, ind a highly culti- vated people, but one in whom general education was more widely diffused than in any that ever fought. It was the appreciation each man had of the objects of the war and his determination to accomplish them; bis intelli- gent love for the Union, inspiring ag adventurous man- }ness often acquired in the Western woods and on the Indian frontier, and combined with the American prac- ticainess—itwelf often the result of a fronticr lile—that produced the American soldier, ‘That soldier had a devotion and a gallantry which equalled any displayed on the moet famous fields in war; but to these were added a peculiar faculty of applying his intelligence to the the outs of @ campaign id extraordinary di! means failed to try another, and when ali means seemed lacking, to create means himself, and with these to achieve victory. This asi ty was conspicuous in the men who conquered Vick’- burg. ‘This made soldiers and officers, and division gev- erals and corps commanders all act as ono, ail co-oper- ate with their chief, hold up his bands, carry out hie act, indeed, as the of which he was the ead; he the brain to concei the will to direct while they were the means, the limbs and nerves muscles to execute. For Grant bimeelf shared the same combination of traits, His military character was thoroughly tho re- ault of American life and Americ@ institutions, The same devotion to an idea, which was maniest, not in words nor ia enthusiastic expression, but in the deeds e we fun the same intensity of purpose, that was betrayed more in achievement even than in effort; the Practical determinath ‘solf-assertion ; the than red—to biaze not, bat to burn more; all these traits hho shared with the soldiers whom he led to victory, Holiday Books. The depressed condition of the book trade is attested by the unusual meagreness of its exhibition of holiday books of domestic manutacture, Too many publishers have this year been content with repeating an “old trick Of the trade’’ and, importing a few hundred copies (with their imprint on them) of London holiday books, make a showy display of finely bound and illustrated imported works, Sevoralof these, however, are really superb, and not a show how extensive the application of photography to the illustration of books is likely to be- come, In London, also, the nook trade has been in such @ languishing state recently that our own publishers have not had a great variety of novelties to import. we fallen back for the most part on the glitter- jog veniles,? of which the London market nbver lacks for a supply. Of these, Messrs, Routiedge & Sons offer at their New York house as choice assortment. Mary Howitv’s ‘‘Four-Footed Friends,” Mrs, Elivart’s “Bo of Beechwood,” Apne Bowman's “Young Nile Voyagers,”’ James Greenwood’s ‘Pui tory of Peter the Great,” and a new edition of “Original Poems” by Jane and E. Taylor, are among the most noticeable, Mr. James Miller offers a tony and attractive list of books for litte people, including the “Nursery Picture Book’? and, the ‘‘Child’s New Picture Piay Book.’ Scribner oas imported all the juvenile publica- tions of Warne, several of which are admirably illus- trated by Oscar Pletach, Ticknor & Fields, at their Now Yor House, bave perhaps the largest assortment of javenile books of indigenous origin. Among them are Grace Greenwood’ tories and Sights of France and Italy,” Alice Cary’s ‘snow Berres,’’ Mrs, Chila’s “Rainbows tor Children,” and Mrs. Stowe’s “Queer Little People.” They have also ‘Grimm’s Goblins,” with fine colored illustrations from Cruikshanks’ de- mgns. And their “Atlantic Almanac,” edited by Homes and Mitchell, is {ull of colored illustrations fuily equal to the London standard. Some ot them, indeed, are superior wo it, But, for the most part, our publishers have not made any special effort to astonish us by re- markably fine holiday books, Celestial. A Srevian Key ro tae Scuuer Lanp. By Andrew Jackson Davis, author of “Nature's Divine Revelations,’ “Harmonia,” ‘Arabula” and other volumes on “The Harmonial Philosophy.” Part1. Boston, William White & Co. E , the self reliance, rather than Among other whimsical questions propounded by Charles Lamb to Coleridge, while the latter was studying in Germany, was the following:—‘In a tuture state will the mind acquire knowlegge by laborious investiga. tion or by some awkward process of intuition?’ This, at least, was the purport of the question. It is obvious from this, as well as the other works of the Poughkepsie Seer, Andrew Jack is, that be pret iB ig the Present state of Saab awitatd frais of in. tuidon.” Nevertheless, in the present volume he professes, in approaching the repositories of ideas and “essences, to ask for such facts and Miys*fations as can be seen and admitted by pbisophers and skeptics of the most mate- Ye\ic habits of thought, ‘We seek,” he says, ‘(or ‘ata in the recognized fields of positive knowledge, for acientitic facts and recept discoveries in matter, which eball serve as stepping stones for the millions, whoreby they can, intellectually and rationally, gain a clear vision of spheres celestial and heavenly.’’ There are, therefore, interspersed throughout the most ical as oy aed volume ample evidence of the fact that ir. Davis is not so unfamiliar with the latest scientific works as bis early disciples used to ciaim that he was, ‘We have not forgotten their attempts to make it out that he was almost wholly illiterat order to render with which he jaidance of tho erudite that Mr. Davis accom. course of reading. or not in bis youthful days by little collection of books in the rear, if we mistake not, of a tan shop in Poughkee) tho fruits of hia exter jing, as weil as his own peculiar method: iritual training, are, as we have intimated, vi! jo the *“Steliag Key.’’ The object of the book 1 to far. nish scientific and philosophical evidences of the existence of an inhabitable sphere or zone among the suns and planets of space. “These evidences,” sarn Mr. Davis, ‘‘are indispensable, being adapted to all who seek o solid, rational, phiosophical foundation on which to rest their hopes of a substantial existence after death.” The book is illustrated with diagrams and en- wings of celestial scenery. If we were sure that So were from * photograpus taken on the spot” they certainly would fortify our belief in the glowing descrip- ons of the text, . Davis has become a most vo- luminous author and the large number of his avowed disciples must secure a large sale for his works, Sock Science. Tue Farexpsairs or Women. By William Rounse- ville Alger. Boston: Roberts Brothers. ‘We confess that we foel much more at home in the society of the women to whom Mr. Alger introduces us in this charming volume than among the stars of Mr. Davie’ “Summer Land.” We thank Mr. Aiger for leav- ig to somebody else the odious task of writing @ history of tho enmities of women. It is more agreeable to learn that it is possible for them 1 among themseives, fhe book uil of interesting aneo- dotes of the friendships of mothers and sons, daughters aod fathors, sisters and brothers, wives and husbands, mothers and daughters, sirters, woman with womaa, A largo share of it ie dev to Platoaic Love, the Mar. Souls, and it conclades with a capital Duties of Woman in this Ago. Political. Tar Fatt or tue Conrgveracy. By John Baker Holmes. London: W. Freeman. ‘We are giad to see that the author of this short but comptohensive survey of our late civil war from « simi- Jar standpoint to that of Goldwin Smith and other per- sisvent friends of the North throughout the struggle modestly says that he ‘does not presume to offer an inion about the goverament of America to Americans. views ing the ition aad prospects The fature of this country be depiets ia radiant colors, Novels. “Dr. Wilmer's Love, or a Question of Conscience,” by Margaret Lee, Appleton & Co, The authoross of this novel, Miss Margaret Lee, is already familiar to the public through ber prize story, ‘‘Aroold’s Choice,” for which she received $1,000 from the Warxit Henatp, In ber present work Miss Lee exhibits the sate skilful power of depiciing scenes of every day life. In the outset she describes a very natural death- bed scene on which depend the succeeding plot and ine cidenta, The reader's attention is at once arrested by a dramatic a sort of modern Lady Maobeth—who plots to obtain entire jon of her late hasband’s ‘Wealth and to deprive her stepdaugoter of bor share thereof, To achieve ber purposes sho hesitates to resort to noxious rugs, the use of yg her ward, whe to the Ward's Isiand Lunatic attending physician of the first scone George Bush we have been to! ished @ most extensive 3 oy by an accidental interview, discovers the plot of the wily mother, and, by @ lucky interposition of favoring circumstances, succeeds in the rescue of the girl, who is then restored to health and educated under the aus- pices of the doctor's mother and sister, At the same time he loses bis Leart to the fair young object of his | philanthropy, and the prosecution of bis suit under such circuinsiances makes the question of conscience. The novel is. in fact, two stories in one, for afier this remarkabio series of events, sufficiently interesting to | hurry the reaaer to the middle of the book, a charming Liktle love plot is eutered upon. The heroine is married to the wrong man, while the right man goes off to the War as surgeon, is terribly wounded and is narsed by tue wrong man's sister, who in her remorse finally con- fesses that the esicangemeut of the loving pair has been her doing in order that she might (urther the ambition Of her brovher. The wrong husband is Gually killed by @ runaway bore at Long Branch, and the surgeon mar- 1 3 aflections. The whole story ically told, Tbe scenes on the battle field with a truthfulness surprisio, lady writer, Ile medical fraternity will feel inte: ed in the doctrine of conservative surgery which .@ advocates, aul which, unbappily tor many @ poor 2 WhO May DOW Le seen about our streets devoid rf more limbs, was vot practised until the later f the war, Tho book is issued in neat style, and is among the most agreeable novels for the library or for holiday presentation, “Chrietmas Stories,” By Charies Dickens. Philadel- ‘eterson & Bro, This eighth volume of Peterson’s excellent people’s edition of Dickens, is iliastrated by H. K. Browne. It contains “A Christmas Carol,’ “The y » “Yne Cricket on the Hearth,” “The Battle of ‘he Haunted Man,” and “The Ghost’s Bar- By Sarah Tytler, author ‘A Tale, gain.” “The Huguenot Family.” of “Citoyenne Jacqueline,” ‘Stone Edge,” Now York: Harper & Brothers, Both of theso works are reprinte—the former of an elaborate, successful and interesting novel, and the latter of a (prilling, dra- matic little story. “The Widow's Son,” By Mrs. Emma D, E. N, South- worth, Philadelphia: T. B, Peterson & Brother, The Not of this story is said to be literally founded on fact. Kira Southworth informs readers that ‘this tale ie no mere fiction, The scenes in the widow's cotiage are Photographed from lite. The history of ‘The Widow's Son’ is that of one of our wealthiest merchants and most celebrated philanthropists.’’ The author is dete mined to give her readers a satisfactory answer to oid question which children ask after hearing an enter. taining story —‘Is it true?” Ky Not;’’ or, Hester Powers’ Girlhood. By Mrs. Edwin Sheppard, Boston: Loring. A story of a lovely English village, where a costly monument has been. erected to Hester Powers, ‘The Village Beauty,” i bred bigh-born companion, by way of atoning for the judgment that crushed her, Periodicals. Harpers’ Magizine for January comes to us promptly with all its fresh variety of matter and illustrations which givo the magazine so wide a circulation. Among the contents of this number we notice the first article, entitled ‘Chattanooga and How We Heid It,” an inte esting sketch of that famous siege, copiously illustrated ; “The Cafés of the Paris Exposition,” also illastrated, in which the writer gives a very amusing and curious a0 count of those cosey retreats for hungry and thirsty visitors to the huge “Gasome' The reader is made acquainted with the peculiar various nations gathored together in capital, and the strange habits and manners that obiatn among them, especialiy in the style of living. Jacob Abbott farnishes a memoir of Babylon (illustrated), which dispia: reat research and a thorough knowled of his subject. The story of ‘(My Brother-iu-Law’” completed In this number and maintains its Interest to the last, A fine descriptive article, entitied mg | tye Wheat Fields of Minnesota,’’ gives a great deal useful information regarding that rich country, with many valuabie statistics, The facts are presented in @ readable light, The author of ‘John Halifax, Gentle~ map,” communicates the first chapters of a new novel, calied “The Woman's Kingdom; a Love Story.’ It opens capitally aad must prove a great attraction to the readers of Harpers’. The poetry and other articles, including the spicy and witty Editor's Chair and Drawer, are fully up to the high literary standard which the man- agers have always maintained in this popular magazine. The Old Guard, published by Van Evrie, Horton & Co,, ia out for January, This magazine, which seems to be principally devoted to political principles long ex- loded avd buried, contains sume clever translations and original stories, and a poem or two of merit. Some ac! ic writer gives us an article on "The Types of the subject, and has succeeded, with the aid of a lithograph portrais of o Wasbington offi in establishing bis position, The magazine is for sale by ali bookselicrs. * ‘The January number of tbe Riverside Magastne, pab- Mshed by Hurd & Houghton, is before us, It contains a number of cleverly written articles, excellently iilus- trated by engravings drawn by our best artists on wood, which cannot fail to prove at interest to young people, whose tastes are catered for by the editors of tl magazine, The young folks will be delighted with tl charming stories contained in this number, and will fod much pleasure in looking ovet the numerous and varied pictures which splendidly adorn its paged. ‘The staid, scholarly and critical Edinburg Review re- published by Leonard Scott & Co., has appeared for Octoder, ts table of contents extibits a series of articles of varied character and syle. ‘he leading article is a view, critical and exhaustive, of the cele- brated correspondence of Napoleon I., taking up that portion of the letters which expiains the traditions of the imperial system which still survives in France and influences her government, or on those which Mllustrate the personal character of Napoleon. writer takes an English and boeule ground of criticism, bat shows pretty conclusively the despotic tendency of Napoleon’s administration and jitica, He cer- tainly sbows that tne publication of the cor- odeuce bas dealt a heavy blow to o spread delusion of the present day, which ho declares to be the great Napoleonic superstition, All the articles, eight in number, exhibit that bigh scholarly ability and vigorous style which characterize the Edinburg, and which will commend them to the at- tention of all men of letters. Tho prominent subjects are—Codification, The Christians of Madagascar, Trades” Uniong, and The Session and its Sequel. The Texas Almanac for 1868, published by D. Ricbard~ son, No. 16 Jacob street, New York, is devoted to the resources of Texas, contains a great variety of readin; matter not usual in almanacs. The agricultural ‘and mineral resources of the State are described, and ite general information will be found valuable to readers looking South for new homes. NEW JERSEY. peaeser +" ai '. Two Mex SurrocareD ow A Scttoonun,—Yosterday morning Edgar 2mith and Peter Eyres, two of the crew ‘on the {schooner Nelly Potter, lying in the river near the Central Railroad dock, were found suffocated i oir banka, Smith was quite dead, but by the aid of restora- tives Eyres showed signs of vitality, (hough be remains believed he will recover. It Conn., last Tues@ay. Deceased was thifiv-twe years of age, while Friday, Eyres is about forty, The ‘Y of Smich was taken in charge by tbe melan- Coroner choly tidings to the wife mud. 15 Star strect, New London, . to-day. Tur Sreawtva Exriomow. —The inquert on the remains of the unfortunate fireman, he met with so horrible afateon Thursday in the steamtug Unit, was com- menced yesterday, and, after some testimony had been given, it was further adjourned for a week, by which time it is expected the bull will be raised. An examina- tion will then be made of the boiler, In order to ascer- tain the responsibility of the owners for the bate disas- ter. This is the third explosion in Hudson county within agfew weeks, where the cause had been referred: to some one party, The investigations so far resulted in a verdict of censure simply, so thatthe Legulature will bave to move in the matter, ren of Smith, at ‘equest will bo held THE TORMAY TRAGEDY AT NEWARK. awaiting execution on the 24 of January, for the mur der of Patrick Tormay on the 4th of July last, is only nineteen years of age, His parents immigrated to this country about twenty-eight years since, and are both living, When the doomed boy was but five years of he was takon by his father on a canal boat running on the Morris canal, in the boating business he bag been reared, his education baving beon sadly neglected. Since his confinement in the county jail be bas occu. pied the second cell op the right of the at ten ment, and siuce bis sentence bmg curtain has im from the of Scone raised before his cell to screen curious visitora, The awful fate to which he does not seem to be realized by the unfortunate youtb, sull he devotes serious attention to connected with his spiritual weifare. He vistted by Catholic Vg pod In answer to the query of a visitor yesterday he repiied that he did mot feel Hog vent Detition presented to the Governor in his If was mentioned, but be remained silent in re. gard thereto, looking intently on the floor, He remarkabiy well, h's hair being neatly convene ince the trial a careworn expression has crept over bie face, and a deep melancholy marks all bis movements, It is only seldom that ho regaine bis former composure, and then a smile flite across his countenance, The namo of Farreily, Walsh's associate in the {8 not frequently mentioned, but the latter still 1m bia statement that Farrelly gave en account of the pv meen blame on Walsh, wo il oF ait iH Eiger U i i reiance on the represent that there was | the removal of the prisoder gave itive tearding the execution, The oath, mou the petition to the Governor and well-meaning citizons was teprovoked. hah fas proven uo} tit highwaymen. To escape the fu tion for acrimee fines of z : i Hi