The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 30, 1863, Page 1

ER 9822. NUMB Latest News BY TELEGRAPH TO THE NEW YORK SCN IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE. Lord Lyous on the War. DIXIE TO SUCCUMB IN THREE MONTHS: Comments on the Message. THE AMNESTY HOOTED AT. From East Tennessee. LONGSTREET'S MEN BAREFOOTED, The Mountains Covered with Snow. SERIOUS MARINE ACCIDENT. WRECK OF THE ITALIAN IRON CLAD, Ber Guns Thrown Overboard. Interesting Cc ity Intelligence. THE NEW PASSPORT REGULATIONS. Important Arrests and Seizures. Work of the Temperance Societies. HOW SAMBO BUILT A CHURCH, a&e., a&e.. &e. From Europe. Six Days Later News, New York City, Dee. 29, The City of Manchester tnd Hammonia arrived at thie port to-day, and Qe | Gdriatic at St, Johns, NF, cn Monda, way Dee. 334, The news ts eix days later GREAT BRITAIN The government emplovees at Sheerness who as *ieted in Atting out the Rappahonnock for the rebels, bave bees discharged for vy olation of the neutrality lew. The names of persone rere ing ou any rebel ves from Gal- a) who belonged to the Naval Keserve, are ordered | te be stricken from the list, to forfeit a! end not to be allowed to re-run’ 0 ‘The steamer Vanderbiit returned to privileges, ce ape Town, re- mained there until October 27th, nnd then wisited | Penguin Island, the rendezvour of the Confederates, | where che seired the British bark saxon in Bri woters, it is said, on rupporition thar cue wae eden with the caraoof the Federal Conrad) The fazon was sent to New York with o prize crow. It ts reported that the mate of the Saroo wae shot by | the Federal officers The message of Jefferson Davis wre nenerally re garded as showing no vignsof yielding on the part of | the Benth. It to etated that the rebe! government have made | ae provision for the payment of the £75.00 sterling | Cotton Loan bende, te be drewn for in March The failure was eanonnced !n Loaden of Mr W A& Wetherby, the largest desier of some of the moet eperulative foreign stocks. including Greek, Mexican | and the Confederate loan The London AgMy amp Navy fiarerrr recerds Gen "9 failure to follow Gen Mende in his retreat ae & oe eesel the weakness of the South.and tr Ato General Meade’s tutile advgoce, it rays good generslship, Richmond might have been the prize.” It is aaserted, that the capture ofthe brie Derling Wave, offthe Mexican const, by & Federal crater @ae probably uniuetifiabie. # wing & regular Liverpool rnd Mexican trader, employed in ber ord ®ary comm: rce raawer It (s erated that M Saperille, the new rebel envoy to Prance, hasamision to notify the French (ov frnment of the recognition by the Coutederain ¢ ernment of the Empire of Mexico, and ales totryand eersnede the Emperor Napoleon to recoenize the Booth, in return for ench acknowledermcnt The Holstein quretion remains without change It le reported that the Federal Commissioner in Holstein bad received instructions to administer existing Inwe without preindice to the rights of the sovereign, and with as little ineumbrance to the inhabitants ae mee ble Anetrian troope eontinned toarrivein Ham bore. ov LATEB AND IMPORTANT (By Telegraph to Queenstown.) London, Dec. 22.—The Liverpool Post gives prom menes tothe following paragrenh We consider ourselves in a position t Lord Lyone in @ deepatch to Earl Rusrell, from Washington, announces that the war will be termi nated within the next three months, The Confed erates, being in the greatest extiemitics, will have ppeedily to propose an armistice Jn our informant we bave the fullest possit ie confidence, fee's on which Lord Lyons grounded his conciuson THR PRESIDENTS MPehaGk IN BRUT AR: ‘The eyvopeis of Lincoln's mes ood proclams Hon, received per Arabia vis lio! fax, strated gon tral comment, The London Vivre .ooke yon the meesege ae warlike, ani! save: Ly flect of the whole document, amnesty in reembies thar of the lart batrle Ihe offer of ie on terme that cannot accevted. ‘The whole question still depends ont rtupe of war tie eval it that bineoo anticipates no proces sult; mor does the pec elary of the Treasury, who rd atill to two yenra’ war expend thu Post thinks Linco he ebould have ren itures a uiuet be * jo! membered that a ny was encamped within a hundred ngton, before he ventured to dictae mich terms of annestr he Mom» Digan ridicules the proclamation, end denounces the vindictive epirit of the pote ed neaty, which, it eave, offere nothing which could withheld it the Inet Bontiern town had been tak en, and the Iaet Southern regiment cut to pieces, The real object is to e-tablich a peeudo- state govern ment wherever sreure foothoid can be found The Mogmixo Sts applauds the honesty of Tin. soln, rejoices at bie determination to put down sav sry, and enve bis peace overtures to the South are arge and liberal. It in stated that the Britieh Admiralty rent an Agent to Ame. ica, some titne age, tu in peet and re curt upon (he gune in use there Three blocks of Manchester warehoure’, in Wood street. Londou, were burned to the ground, Lute, £71,000, John Bright, ine letter ty the Marquis of Harting ton, convicts that voble of haviug bh > tbe prow rity ofthe North fac above auything advanerd by jm or Cobden, Polish telegrams continued to report snangemente veaders eed insurgent successes, Three iisurgent bad been pone sf 1 A warlike procis: t Venice hed produced agitation aud excited lively ones. COMMERCIAL. trerpool, Dee, 23.- Corron Sales todas bales. arket qaiet and uncha London, Dee. 21,-Consols ¢ money. American Stocks Tilinois Central 6 Via2d disconnt; Eric R. R., 62064, Laver pool. 9%.—Breadetufle- Market open @nil, end holders demand 8 reduction, Corn steady tae oroyisigad— MAIKOL Ld SWAt and oideds state that | It is possibe | (bat Lineoln's proclamation hae reference to the | a tion by the National Committee 8,000 NEW YORK New York City, Der 29 ~The Mritteh eteamer Tubal Cain, Captain Thomas, arrtved thie morning from &t Dominga, the Tth Meeember, Mar equen, P R.,omthe th; &t Johns, onthe 9b, St. Thomas on the 12th, and Bermuda on the 2x The rebellion we learn is still emngon in St Do) mings ‘ Sess ~ itn ; difficult, because horece are wery ecarce ‘| throngh the Uo federsey, and there is no bert of raids on the taion army, of making up Shearmeo's men—thore who were not left with Poe ter to rete ageinet et—have urned | They had @ bard march of 23 pre visions, and what they con fo country f course they lived hard, and and evations of which little co “found the peopis of Fart Troope are daily arriving from Cube and and ready to contribu othe ert could be found Th M ‘vanersee devorediy | val, to the extent of their ability Spain, there are now about 10.K0 on the Island, but (“Othe aid of oar gallant men The conntry had been they are afraid of being p.cked off hy the Domint- eons, who fightin the guerrilla smle. Asther have fo roads except bridle paths, and they heme in a very | bad condition fromthe baavy rains which have fallen daily for the last two monthe, they are obliged to _ keep near the city. The insurgents have captared | BOO of the Bpantsh trope. the troops hawe taken them. the tneurgente have retaken therm acain Rickness prevails extensively amon, the troope, in consequence of being obliged to sleep on the wet las d. without Dankets or tenta, andewery litte te eat Fifteen hundred were sent home fn one week Thirty to forty die daily, There were four bandred | in hoepitel when we left) The troops which left for Aran, October iSth, hawe only go. as far ee Darrt Santana '* encamped aboot fftr foar mike up the | Arama River, One Spanish war weseel tmlyiog off | the city Parser Rrown reports thet among the wemelein yet at Bermuda, on the [2d, wae the rebel steamer fore, from Wilmington, NC, loaded with eottr be Flora had run ashore on the entrance of the in bal Calin into the port, euppesing her to beu war fteamer The Flora is eo much injured arto mabe tt neerarary for ber to proceed to Haulitar for repairy, pe F T From Havann, Vere York City, Dee 29 The tteamer Koannte ‘. Drew, Hisvara, " Arrived thie morning from hich port ahe left on the 23d inet (Our Havana Letter) Havana, Dee 23.Webave dates from Aros St tothe ith inst. On the 6th, Genera) Le occupied that town after some little #kir The enemy are reported to have lost. h ty in killed and wounded, which probably meane yout a doren the Spenish troops marebed from Pant along the | Comet Traneportation wae furnished (bem by thee feet which they also received their deily rations. The | | | | } Hani until the ocenpation of Agua, is twelve or four teen wounded, and not @ wingle death. The rebels | were chased by the Spanish cavalry abone the San Janu de Matas road. The rebels were let by General Florentino, No captures of prieoners ane reported. | The Spanish war steamer Alawa, fromCadiz, with eebt hundred troops, wasdisabled by a atorm, end having burst ber boiler, p a port im the Canary if *. Subseqnentiy a fire was discovered to the bold, in ths coal, and the veese! was soor in fames, ond asthe flames endangered s powder masgazine on th shore, she waseong.and wi)! prove total lone With ber went down £0,000 rations, 2.500 rinskete, aod 2.000 tenta, all tutended for Santo Domingo | nthe 2aithe Eneligh steamer Clyde arrived at Havana, having on board the Marquisof Montholon, | the Enwoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- | tiary of Prance to Merico. M. Montholan proceeded atoncs to Vera Cruz by the same weasel A report | ta cireul@ted in Havanathat the Archduke Marimil- jan will accept the throne of Mexico only on condition that the restoration of the American Maion he made | imporsfble Serious Marine Accident. The New Italiana Iron Cind Aal New York City. Der 20. ~The Italian trom clad wate Kod’ Trelis. whieb left thie port on Saturday fora trisltrip to Fortress Monroe, has gone aground onthe Jersey shore, between the Hichlends and Lone Branch, Three tuge left thie morning for the seene ofthe disarter. Weare informed thatthe ean. non of the Re dé’ Italia hawe heen threwn overboard iten the frigate The cost of the friqate was one nands halfof dollare and ehe te ontneured atthe ime ofthe accident under cha of one ofthe New York rilote Among thoes on board on the trp were Captarn Comatock and revere! other well Known American sen cep aine and rawr officers, | besides. of course, the officers and crew of the frieate, | Shee with invited gueete Frente PARTIC TT Ak { Lone Dranch, Dee 20 —The Italia lagen the sama n . with four tongs and alebrer alongside The ten hae rone down, and the proepects are favorable that ehe will eet off All hands on hoard are well, end im encod epirite The shin is fort on the beach, bot hae made po water vet Theeteamer Magnolia | arrived to-day, and wainiy eudearored to pull her of | The beach te filled with villagera and enectatore A meeting took place ta the cation of the fricate, to-day, and the following statement was made by the Cap tain 1 wrote to the Officer of the Deck at Sil Mentha _ night of the aiaaster, a8 fo eivise me immediately ; j if the eagine can work, edvise ine. im ings every if ye have twenty five | fathom, ie f you have fifteen father The officer reported v0) fathowe at hal it teu o'cloek, 15 fathom; at tweive then weot on deck, and there veelf and Captain Comtoek, } ving for the light-enip, Ieaid | would re NW, to fallin with her, Capt. Com id be impooni nd told me to # hour ¢ ed the bottom, tr nd f sarde thy shore and halla This Pdid, and soun In an ine! ruck, tha eon ehore: but Capt. Comstock ssid we were oniy 1, The cMeer of the deck po douttomea wiiteatream, which turned out to be sani Cap Cometotk maid: room at twenty niin eh, sod at ntertained that the ship eannot he got me dare, No» easualtioe whatever have oc. Those on board remained there at their own curred request ADDUTIONAL FROM THM UN" MARINE Breorten Thies ship had been tried atthe top of her apeed, with erent eatiefaction to allon boaid. During the night of tb, at 1144, while going at the rate of T knots, with ooe engine warking—the other having tecome disarranged—she siruck on Wardle's Beach, withto 200 | of the Tavern houses, and 15 m.lrs south of Sandy Hook. The lead had just bevm cast, but the wiong ecuudings hed been called Some of ber guns Lave beew thrown overboard to lighten her. The under. _writera have sent steamere and ?)iuch cabiee to her, and it is confidentiy hoped ehe wil! come off #0 she went on at low water. There are con- n on her, and how much. She wan io charge of her own officers, and bad a pilot on board | East Tennessee, News by the Western Mails, Chattanooga, Dec, 19. The rebel Gen Wheeler bas \eft Reet Teoneseee, and is now at Dalton, also trying to ald io the reorganization of the alry: bab he will hawe « diffienlt task to perform, even with eo able an aacistant as the levesesident of the Ohio | taxes in teveral piaces, but mot baving foree enoneh to hold! }ameariy made deseo! at they are unable to penetrate far ints the country, far “the re | | | } | | ! | reported loss of the Spaniards from the time they left | Sons | firet be eupplied, and afterwarde the public liberally. | the sare purpose. by the alternate visitations of 1 and Union armi Knormile, Dec. 17.—Ramore were common of a fight " in whieh our troope were wersted.bat at headquarters here tt was bellewed to have arisen from mero caval ry akirmishes. Indeed, 1¢ je certain thats pitched battle must reeult disastronaly to the rebels, as wa have torce enough to meet and defeat them any- where [tw atill problematical whether or not Leng street will be enabled to pe with e tithe of hie men, He has already lost heartily by desertion, and has been compelled to abandon al! bis heavy artillery anda c¢ quantity of stores, of resistance le evidently intended to cover an at temp! to retest inmeafe direction Of thie T think there can be little or wo question. If he receives ren forcemente they must come from Lee, and he can epare DO more men Tiearn from @ North Carolina rerucee, uetin, (hat 3,000 @ill cover ell the rehel troops in Lis State, Ry Teleorapha News Through Kebel Chnancle Pert Monroe, Ine, 2 .Tho Richmond Evaqrings Thee OMth, containe the follewing 1, Dee 8 Our forces are ettil aronnd Rat- cond Morristown, Cannonading wae beard at the latter place on Sundar Gen. Longstreet was unable to follow op his advantage in consequence of the larce nomber of barefooted men in bis conmand ‘The weavher is cold andthe mountains are covered with pnow, Gon, Morgan (the @ecaped querrilla, Fn. Sex) ered througt Colambia, § C., on the 24th inat There are 800 cases af small pox among the Yankee Prisoners at Danville, The Confederate army in Bast Tennerres has gone into winter quarters re News Items, (Telegraphed to the Now York Sun.) Ma. Crass will soon commence to tasue five per legal tender Treasury notes, The Banks will On Saturday afternoon last Edwin Jones, 19 years, Joneph Haston,§ years, and A. B. Littie,7 years old, were drowned in the Damariscotte river, Maine They were skating, and ventured too near the chan- nel Frow the Army of the Potomac we loarned, last night, that all wae quiet and mud-bound. The 9d New York, Jet Delaware, and Sth Michigan, left yeaterday for home, to reeruit, under the recent general orders, The 7th Michigan left yeaterday for These aro all veteran ragiments Mas frumen, wile of the brother of Capt. Semines, commander of the rebel steamer Alabama, and her daughter, Mre Millner, who were arrested at Halti more tome weeks ago by the Government, ebarged | with sending @ bottle of wine to the West Mospital to poison Vederal offiecrs, have hed thetr case dis- missed by the Grand Jory It was shown, by chem! ea! analysis, that the se!d bottle of wine did contain arsenic, bat it had been put in the wine two years ego by eame ope unknown to Mrs. Semmes or daughter AN expedition to co-operate with Gen. Averill, con- tiating of two regiments of infantry, 400 cavalry, and a battery of eix guns, @ foree numbering 1,400 in all, onder the command of Col. George D. Wella, of the 34th Massachneette infantry, bas returned to Har- per'e Ferry without the loseofs man After pene trating to Harrisonburg, where Averill had finished hie work, and after Wells had nccompliahed bis diver sion strictly aceording to orders, he found bimeelf fontronted by from 7,000 to 10,000 of Lee's forces, and part of Stuart's cavalry in bie rear at Front Koy- al Ry clever atrateey and foieed marches he ee | enped the former and avolded the latter forces, and cde of the mainland, four miles north | flicting reports as to whether there wae any insurance © are comin. renched bis post with hie men and munitions on harmed. fo desperate at one time seemed the chances of the expedition, that the rebels to Wincheater of fered bate that not ® man would retorn. A hundred rebel prinmers were safely brought off General Intelligence. (Py Masl to the N.Y. Bun.) Anory forty decrees @ condemnation of rebel oro | Derty in Wasbingtan heve been issued A maneat down ow the sidewalk in Qneher, s few days neo. and froze to death, dozens of people passing all the while Lownon thievee have taken to dropping witriol into ladies’ pockets, A hole is soon burned, and the thief finds @ purse in the street. Ov 300 horses recentiy sent to Gen Butler from New York, for cavalry ecrvies in hie department, 700 were condemurd as worthlers, Cutry Justice Teney ie very tll at his residence in Washington, and is uot expected io recoves, Le is 87 yeare old, ant hasteen Chief Justice of the su Tere Court since the death of Joho Marebal, io ‘Tur President andthe Secretary of War visited the vebel prisoners at Pulnt Lookout om Mooday They are satisfied, the, y, th ¢ tenth of hole nuuber, are rr service of the United Stat Rarwsen Pembina, Mian. and Crow Wing, a dis tance of SI) miles the (oS. mall is carried by dog evlacharness, fancifully orn n in tandem etyle, at the rate of from 40 to 6) miles a day Awnrariin exhibited ata fair in Gloucester, thir Chrixtrogs week, that is composed of the hair of lun different residents of that town, none of whoin ia un. der TO yenre » while fen ot them are over ardoneis fenarian, Luelady who made it SO, and bar been four yeare about it. org for the N Ne dui from the and have been rep the “seneral Grant," another The latteris ornamented with racenea in the early life of tt Lave returns from the several States to the War | Department indieate that at lenar no-third, and pe: haps one-half, of the nunder the Inateal! will be raised by voluntary tmente before January Sth Io New York and Connerticut recruiting is slow, Peunerlyan 4 makes the poorest showing Tur Legtelature of Alabama hse woted that the car. te thar cover the floore of the Senate Cha: Rial of Kepresentatives, and ali officers’ and c miitee ruome 'u the Capital at Montgomery, be cut up and given ‘othe soldie.s of the «rmy for blauk Since the smuesty proclamation the rebel auchoritie are obliged to pay beites heed to the cousforts of their men, A Wasnrsoton dispateh, Monday, eayr: “The War Departmeut hes ed ofders to-day prohibiting the re part cs here for enlisted into ‘The reeruiting officer the United rtares service made bis escape, A Cairo letter says: Large quantities of cotton in all along the Missiasippl. The prospects ere now that the amount of cotton will increase as the river rises and navigation becomes more safe. Three hundred piantations are now in successful aud Profitable eperation along the banks of the Missis- tippl, and it is expected before May that both sides of the river will be in eomplete operation, by people prepared to labor and defend t \vea."* Tre Commissioners for the sale of land for anpaid insarrectionarr Gatricts efles Gfte-four va'ne EMBER 3 R30, 1863. le homesteads or Mondsr uxt First, @he Arlington cane br Robert FE. Tar, contain: ned nominally et €54 0O0,and the unpaid tas 8 for enir tely ore tate, 1100 an ine to #9907 The next te the Castine mill prooerty, containing 50D acree, a tax of 318.90 then the {Dr M is, Lawrence &. Taylor, Or The U &. Marahal tor the leo offers eighteen con ecrees of the Court : = Fo = 7 WEW YORK AND THE VICINITY. i] | - | Trarerancer Socreties—Inreneetine Are- | Toy OF rieie Riar awn Paoonese. One of the old- ot Temperance Societies pow in this city isthe” st J Roman Catholie Total Abstinence Renefit | Society of the City of New York." For eighteen years it has boon tn existence, and has been presided overduring that period by Mr. John MeGrath, who has been onanimonaiv re elected every year. The Rociety firet commenced with a few individuals, who, | peeing the misery and sorrow which surronnded the | Hearthstone of those who had given themeelve up to | intoxicating drinks, united togetber and formed « | Potiety. They firet went to their clergyman, and on | thetr Knees in the preeenee of God. vowed to abstain | forever from all tntoxieatlog drink-and nobly did thee poor men keep their pledge There wereother sorietion established it ie true, bot none, the pledge ef which, they as Cateolice felt binding They parceived | that the poor Catholic suffered most from this temp tation, end the violation of @ pledge made toe | clareyman te considered @ apecies of sacrilege, they | insisted that el! who wished to join their ranks shonid first go to their priest, and on thelr Knoes os the Irish people did to Father Matthew take that pledge Aw none tnt Catholice wonld do th at holies only are memberes, but any national ity te admitted. The Soriery soon grew to be « flourishing Benefit Association ; their sick brethren are attended to while ick, and @ decent funeral is secured for them at their decease. There are now | aome fonr bandred membere belonging to it, and their funds amount to rome #1,500, whieh fs out ot imterest. Recently, public meetings have heen opened ry eecond Sunday evening, The exercises it of sioging temperance songs, and delivering adireeses urging temperance. At first but few at tended ; now, it ts astonishing tosee the number of well dressed people, male and female, who assemble fo the basement of the Catholic School in Roosevelt street on thoes | to take the pledge, the applause he gete,and the | warm greeting he receives areeo encounsging that others follow, and the average nomber anined to j the society per month is from twenty to thirty. | Sometimes, but very rarely, © man may break | hie pledge, For this he ts brought before “the Coun- | cil (a nomber o f men elected to hear and determine | all complaints), If be exprerees contrition, and prom- {ses to guard axainst ter piation in future, he ia sent , back to ble priest, who admonishes bim, and renewe | the pledge; but should he again break it, it will take | eome time for hiny to be readmitted, If ever. The amount of good done in the 4th Ward by this Society fe fownd in the almost blank police-retorns whieh | reach the Tombe almost daily ‘The next on the liet ia the “Father Matthew United Benevolent Total Abstinence Renefit Society." Like | Ite prototype, the ‘St, James’, it eommenced with | bat few members, and encountered great opposition. | Twelve years ago, o few tradesmen and lsborers—not over adozen—met in s ema!! room, and agreed to | form ep association. They adopted the pledge ad- ministered by the gteat Apostie of Temperance himeelf, tonk bis name, and commenced the(good work. A room wes bired weekly in Tryon Row, end | weekly (Sunday) meatings were held. Robert Wil- | son, one of the originals, having a good voice, sung | several temperance prongs at ch meeting, one of | whieh, tn particalar The Nruakard’s Dream” was eure to bring five or sit up to the Recretary'sdenk tosign the pledge, It tollethe ead | history of a drankard, who waa in the habit of spend. ing every penny ina shop, and then returning in | @ beastly state of intoxication to his home end beat. | ing bis wife and children. A friend mete him after bia rafarmation, and wonders at the change. when he telis him it was all owingtoadream. Le thought he went home one night, as urual, and was astonished | to find several strangers in the room, who ali teidbim that his wife wan deed, and upbraided him ar the cause. The ead sight sobered him, and he cried oat in agony for hiewifetocome She anewered she was there He awoke, caw her bending over him withe look of affection, mingled with sorrow The joy he fel: at finding her alive wae euch that from that hour he foreswore liquor forever Soon the numbers who | attended their meetings became ro large that it was necessary to find more room, and Krookes’ spacious | Ansrembly Roome were selected: thence they went to | the Uolon Amembly Rooms, in (rand street, but as the entrance was through o ber room, they had to retnrn again to their old | quarters, where they etill rem Often on Sunday evenings it is impomaliie to gain admittance, and many gO away disappointed, w that they will soon havo to build a hall of their owm, which they intend to do, if the elty will give them the land, The num- | ber which siga the pledge wretly bas sometimes ) reached as high as fifty, and on one occasion nearly @ | hundred came forward, And yet uo extraordinary | eloquence is used. Now and then @ clergymaa or come noted Temperance lecturer gives bis aid, but the main barinees ted by the members them- selves, Aw ite name implies, thie is also a benefit | ety. Four dollars per wee: given during ilinens, and 250 towards the expenses of a funeral, incase a | meniber dies, ‘The whole Rocimty attend the oleequics fn their handeome regalia, with a band which te paid | ‘from the Soeety'stunds, From small beginnings the Fociety line inereased till it now numbers nearly one )hourand paying merabers, with # cash capital of | nearly 25,000, bearing interest. All nationalities | and religions are admitie!, It ie calculated that since the opening,twelve years ago, over tem thou- sand persons siened the pledge, They elect their off- | cers every three monthe. | The success of thie Bociety, and its growing wants, caused some ofthe active members to extend their sphere of usefulness, Mr. James Brennen and Mr, Frank Pircell, accordingly sought a location up town in the very contre of Mackerelville, where the ene mys forces (ihe g@rog-shop') were etrongeet, and with the ald of the inevitable wocaliet Wilson, “The Father Mattbew T, A. I. Bociety, No, 2," was conbiched, The meetings take place twice a week, | under the Demilt Dispensary, and sign’ come for- | ward in svundence, A short time ago, while the Pree deut of the Bt James’ Soclety was making o speech, a wretched looking ereature, moretheu half. easover, interrupted the proceedings. Some one | ‘Put him out," but the President sald ' No,” and called him forward, He came with dirty and regred cloties, preweating @ very sorry picture, “ Have you a wife? asked the President, “ie dad, { 1 bleeve so,” wae the reply, “Any children!” ‘Two, | a boy and a girl.” “How mucn money did you | epend fer grog to-day 7" “'Abont tin shillias.” “And | | suppose your wife aod children are without food, or perhaps e candle te light them to bed?'’ The men gevee etnpid, half drunkem stare, and \ the Presidems continued “My Giieud those ten ebil- erie Alexandria. on | venings, and when @ man walkeup | | Reward, who E CENT we been far better spent at home with dehildren, Dll be bonnd, when you had no money the liquor seller kickad you ont" “Be forts, he did." was the reply with @ grin, “yee right there’ “And yond like to be revenged on him ‘Fain, Twoald' “Signthe pledge The poor fol: low looked at the President « moment, a light seem | @ttobresk in upon him, and he took the pen anf | fisned, amid some tittering, “ Yee may leugh,"* | Haid he, looking around, ‘but be me sow! it's a lene time before that codger gete any more o' my money.’* Ile passed out and mo more was thought aboat the Matter Four wecks afterwards at one ef the meet- ing, aman cleanly shaved, and with @ passable suit of clothes, accompanied by a woman and twechil- | dren, plainly, but meatly and cleanly attired, wae | seen to approach the President, shortly before the ; business was opened; addressing that gentleman, | he said: “Do you remember me, sir? ‘The Prest- dent was obliged to confess that he did net, “Biddy,'* | enid he, turning to the woman, “tell him.” Biddge | being thus appealed te caine forward and esid: “This tir, jem husband , he war in the habit of drinking | every penny he earned, and I and my little ones hed | to get slong how weconid. Thir night fonr weekn he came home somewhat aoberer ‘han asna!, seying he was revenged on the rum eeller, avd this he res | peated till he fell asleep, Next morning be told me | the’ in one of hie druaken fits be came im here, and war persuaded to sign the pledge, That evening, ta my astonishment, herame home sober, and he hee mever had the sign of liquor on him since, I beve taken his clothes and my children's ont of pawn, oa@ tonight my home {s mare comfortable than it has bean for years, All thir, sir, is dueto your Soetety, | May God bless you" ‘That man is now « promines@ member of the Society, and is determined never ta drink intoxioatiag Mquore again, This Seciaty ia ouly twelve months iu exletew It has four bane dred paying membore, but es the initiation feces aad | dues are emailer than thoee of the orixinal Boeletye the funds are not eo large. Itis going on, howevere under very favorable auspices, and Is ime highly prose | perous condition, Fatending their sphere of usefulness, @ few meme bein of No. f proeseird to the weet side of thecitre and Inaugurated « society, “Father Matthew, Ne. 3.°° Ite first public meeting willbe beld om Sunday, the ITth January, 1864, when ¢ York and Urookiya will ma tion, This is aleo a benefit society, and le eonducte® on the same principle as the others, all natienalitiag oud religious perreuasions being admitted as members, In Brooklyn and Williamabuargh, the eld Fethee Matthew Sec hes bad its imitators, there being no lees than three societies bearing the name off “Father Matthew,” all of whieh aro conducted same principles flourishing condition both numerically and @neae cially, The Neptune Temperance Society is ancther yonng organization, destined to do « great work ia the cause of Temperance. ‘There ie nino another Temperance Society belang= ing to the Chureh of the Immeculate Conception, which has recently been got up by the Rev. Dr, More fegh, end alill another, the “#t. Peter's,” u: the patronage of the Kev. Father Quinn. Beth of these ergan'zations have already done, and are etill doing © vast amount of good im their respective localitiers viz, 14th street and $4 avenue, and the let Ward ‘lure Daart.—From the present time untill the 5th of Janoary, an opportanity will be gives te Partiesclaiming exemption from the draft, for any cause, to make good their clatme befere the Board of t of their respective districts, Printed Bamce ond residences of alliparties enroll- ed in the Southern District of the State, are now displayed at the headquarters of teach Provest Marshal, at the Police stati nd at each of the Diaces where the recent elections were The Southern Distriet comprises the city and county of | New York, King», Queens, Richmond, Westehestem, | Koekiand, and Putnam Counties. A Prorivancer Esrctmant.—Not long since | one of the brethren of an African Church was de- } tailed to solicit subscriptions in aid ef the Bociety. Having tramped the eity with Indifferent saccemone | day he presented hia credentials to the proprietor of a dry goods establiehment,mot far from the City Hall. The owner ofthe store patiently heard the bieaks | man's request to ‘give him something fer tha | Chareh,” and then flinging the eubseription book: | into the etreet, proceeded to kick the darkey after it, | exclaiming as he did eo, ‘‘yes,1'll give you eomething, | take that!" After euch treatment, the colared mam slowly picked ap his hat and book, and loeked eround after rome stones to shy at bis esssilant’s windows. | His anger cooled, however, before he found the reske, | and taking sober second thouvgbt, resolved to “try | again." Accordingly he teld the story te the mer- chant's neigubors, end went through the street onl- lecting so many odd dollers, that before dark his book shewed forty more than it did before be was so bro- tally assaulted. Next morning he returned, en@ while engaged in relating the stery of the previons | day's wishap, e young an aecceted him with » re quest to visit Mr ire, (the ene frem which he had beem ejected.) “Ob, no you doesn't,” said the black man. “I hoows too much for dat. Tain'’t gwine to be histed twice't by dat ar black whiteman, go how" The clerk insleted, aad the bystanders urged compliasce with bis request, Finally, the | darkey consented, and cautious!y drew near the stere. | At last, roustering suMfeient courage to enter, he wae politely received by the merchant, who immediately gsve bim a ten dollar greenbeck, and after apologi- zing for the rough treatment of the day previous, re- quested the negro not to speak of the eecurrenceagaim in that neighborbood, Once morein the etreet, the colored collector rolled up bis eyes, and secratebing bie wool, exeinimed, “Ciolly, dat's too good to he lost fus de Chireh! I'ee gwine to tell boff of dem steries, an@® ton what | gite." Andeohe did, With astonishing rapidity his book filled up, until he had eollecte® enough to pay off the indebtedness of his church. The colored brother mow signifies his readiness tebe kicked out of some other store, for the benefit of aay, other congregation of megro worshippevs that man require his services as their collector. Tur New City Campaion AGAtnet Drare, Marshal Mnrray and bis aldes continue active ia their attempts to put aquietua upon the comtraband _PRICE ON ines would } your w fe ' | trade carried on between this city and rebeldom. Yesterday they arrested « British lieutenant who wee about to emberk for Bermuda, ov board « sailing vere eel, the Amezon, with rebel letters im bis posscesion, The lieutenant is pow in Fort Lafayette. Befurebe went tothe Fort, the officer stated that the rebela had vest stores at Bermuda: that place, be ssid, was a great depot of war materials, and be sllewed thate lerce share of it comes from this city. Becretarp w in this city, was placed in possess sion of the captYfied letters, It ie enid that all the other passengers were allowed to go forward with the, Awaron, ‘The authorities have revested additional informe, tion concerning ,the seizuse of the steamer Gearge Cromwell, some portiess of which are of o highly in~ teresting mature. It eppeare thet on the day the Cromwell was to sail, Marshal Murray's detectives ar rested Mr. H. Bear, former! Minister of tha Unite® (Continved.en Fowrt Luge)