The Sun (New York) Newspaper, November 26, 1864, Page 1

THE OO ——— ee waa ~—_— ea THIRTY.-FIRST VF NUMBER 10,106." } The Latest N ews By Telegraph to the N. ¥. San. a Gen. Sherman's March. Reported Occupation of Macon, BURNING OF SEVERAL CITIES. Proclamation by Beauregard. THE DESTRUCTION OF SUPPLIES URGED Great Alarm in the State. Efforts to Collect a Rebel Army. FRANTIC APPEAL TO THE REBELS. FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Arrival of 1200 Union Prisoners. THEIR DEPLORABLE CONDITION. 9,000 More on Their Way Home. REBELS IN| NEW YORK. A Tight ot Te VLror. ATTEMPT TO BURN THIS CITY Many Hotels Fired. The Inmates Wild With Alarm. FIRE BALLS THROWN ABOUT. Barnum’s Museom Fired. &e., NERAL SHERMAN, Progress of the (srand Advance. The orders issued by Generals Sherman and Slo- eum previous to the commencement of the present campaign throws consderabic light on the plan of operations. General Sherman's order divided the army into two wings The right wing, command. ed by Major-General! ©, C, Howard, consisted of the Sixteenth aud Seventeenth Corns; and the left wing, under Major-General Slocum, included the Pourteenth and Twentieth Corps. The cavalry were led by General Kilpatrick. General Sherman ave down plain rules for the guidance and rafety ofhismen, The order of march was to be as ‘ar ar possible in four paralle! columns, each moving fifteen miles a dav, and foraging liberal'y off the country as it passed along. Aepecial foraging party was to te formed in each brigade to gather mupphes of corn meal, vegetables, cattle and live stock of al! kinds for the support of the erry. The foraging parties, as far as possible, were to keep the army wagons supplied with ten days’ provisions and three de forage. Boldiers were permitted to drive and earry off all kinds of eatatles and provisions but were express!y prohibited from enterins any houses to commit trespasses or injumes of any kind. The power of destroying factories, houses, @aw-mills, cotton-gins, and other property nseful to the Confederacy, was reserved exclusively to the coremandera of army corps. In places where the army waa unmolested, no destruction of much property was to take place ; but wherever bust. whackers and guerriias interrupted the march, end the inhabitants turned ous to burn bridges, hock up roads, or coromit other acts of boat lity, » destinction more or lesa relentiess according to the character of the hostilities, was to take place, at the diseretion of commanders. Horses, mules and corps wane | | Mobile world caune its evacuation, posted his troops 'n a favorable position for strik ing him on the route t) Selma and the Gulf, But the distance to Bavannah, Charleston and Beau- fort were shorter than to Mobile, and the capture of the former citios offered superior military ad- vantages. Ther are in line with the Unionfpositions on the Atlantic coast and furntah surer points for operation against the gulf citice than the re- toote bare at A'lanta, Besides the capture of Charleston and Savannah, would confirm our hold upon the State of Georgia, while an advance againat It would also be far more diffoult for Beauregard to throw an opposing force against eclumne moring towarde the Atlantic than the Gulf coast. Thess are some of the reasons that probably indnced the adoption ofthe present plan of campaign, and though it in- volves groat risks, the advantages, in case of sauce erss, are of the moat important character, The probatie course of General Sherman on lear- ing Atlar would be nearly parallel with the Georgia Central Railroad to Augusta, The distance from Atlanta to Auguata is one hundred and ser. enty miles, and from Atlsuta to Macon, one hun- dred and ten miles, For the operations of Geueral Sherman wince loaving Allanta on the Lith of No« vember, we are compelled to rely upon the South. ero popere which give the f Nowing accounts 5 RY TELEGRAPH, Washingt n, D. Cy Nov, 2%. to-day received the following dispatches : The Government City Point, Va, Nor, 24.—Rebel deserters, ar- rived here, report the occupation of Macon by General Sherman, For'ress, Monroe, Va. Nov. 24.—The steamers Avlantic and Blackstone arrived here this morving with shout 225 prisoners, Ten were lost on the vor They lett the Sevaunah River at noon on Ke. the 22d instent, Captain Gray vs, thas just before he left there it was reported! that Macon and Milledgeville were burned The Levislature was in session at Milledgeville, bat was dissolved in baste, and the membere bad scattered in every direction, It is aleo reported that the Yankees have burned Monticello and Hillsboro’, whica, if truq clearly indeates that they design tapping the Central Railroad at Gordon or some other point. The following is taken from the Savannah Re- PUBLICAN of the Zist instant: Corinth, Nov. 15, via Selma, Nov. 18.—To the People of Georgia’ Arise for the defence of your nanve wil! Rally aronnd your patriotic Governor and gallant soldiers, Obstruct and destroy all the roads in Sherman's front, flank and rear, and his artny will soon starve in your midst. Be confi- dent; be resolute, Trum in an overruling Provi- dence, and siccess wil! soon crown your efforts, I hasten to join you in the defence uf your homes and firesides, Signed) aT TO THR PROFLE OF Gronaia Richmond, Nor, 19.—We have had a special con- ference with President Davis and the Secretary of War, and are able to assure you that they have done, and are etill doing all that can be done to meet the emergency that presses upon you. Let every man fiy to arms. Remove your negroes, horses, cattle and provisions from Sherman's army, and burn what you cannot carry. Burn all bridges and block up the roads {n bis route, Assail the in- vader in front, flank and rear, by night and by day, Tet him have no rest, Julian Martridge, Mark Dratrraann, | Blanford, J. A. Reynolds, Gen N. Lester, Jolin & were to be seized wherever found, with a discrimi- | nation, aa far as practicable, against the rich, who are usually hostile, The horses and be used to replace our jaded artillery and wavou horses. No sluse or threatening languave wes to be used aysinss ihe juhalicants, ne command tng officers of foraging parties mi ht give written eertificates, but no receipis, for the produce taken, end they were eu) ined to leave with each far ly, astaras practicable, a reasonalle amount of pros visions for immediate meaiutenance negroes, who might be useful tothe army, were to betaken slong, cut General Buenwan required his commancerst pot to encumber the feed, Their first and those capatie of act ehermy. : By the lith of November the entire army had evacuated and destroyed Rome, K Janta, While Jet. Davia ant Bosuregard were proclaiming that Scerman was to be driven out of Atlanta and Northern Georgia, and boasting thas she rebel flag was to be carmed in triuriph to the Ohio river, General Sherman was qiuetly and ener getically pursuing the details of his grand plan to vurn the sables upon his enemics and penetrate the reart of the cotton states, By a strat lence or chance all Beauregard's operations fi nan's plans, and atthe very time when o sons prevailed in the North re lood upon our rear, the Union ng his army into two paris, eah superior tothe ‘suemy of these he left on the Tennessee iver, under Geuersl TLomas, tu take care of Hood, ad with the other be turned and marched hun- a were to artoy with wast usclesa Mouths to foed the fiehting men @ wartare against the epr 00 rede of miles away from the scene of his most ree | »wned exploits, He ignored Beauregard's mag- ficent engineering preparations at Corinth, and nducted bis operations so sk‘li{ully that every Able-todied | exercise due precaution, eo as | gston and At- | | tack upon Forwyt!, i Bhewmaker, James M. Smith. Micon, Nov 19,—The military f‘uthorities are active and vigilant, and every men is under arma, Confidence is being restored, The enemy are be- lieved to be on our right, distant about 80 miles, The city will be defended to the last. Savannah, Nov 21.-A private dispatch received inthis city this morning from Macon, sare t! enemy crossed the Ocninlgee in force yesterday, at Planter's Factory, efyht miles East of Indian Bprng. They are reported to be from thirty to forty thousand stronz, This would seem to strengthen the lelief that Augusta is their ot ject The Central Railroad, near Griswoldville, was cut ach P.M. ou the 2b, The telegraph is ales dea. troyed. Communication between Savannah and | Macoul: destroyed, Wires Letween Gordon and | Miilidveriile are also cut, Late Georgia papers received in Washington, have been received bere, The Savannah News of | the 19th sa Woe have authentic Tation thatthe enemy bas appeared bere Macon, and another raiding party has come down, probably from Covington, on the track of the Stoneman raid, and had reached the it's town of Wallace, in Jones county miles North of the Milledgeville and ¢ way. It ie reportet that this party has burned Monticetlo, the county seat of Jasper Co,, and the ttle town of Hillsboro, in the south of thas! County, No doubt they are alming to strke the rai'road at Gordon, end thus atep the poasage of the cars over either the Central or the Milledgeville | roads and perhaps proeced on te Camp Lawton to release thy Federe! prisoners, or €o coperal damave | in that direction, ave also reports, apparent+ Jr suthentic, that the enemy yesterday made an at- Monroe County, on the Ma- con and Western R oad, gud were # gually re. pulsed, We learn that @ good deal of excitement ex ste in Macon, and that a numier of women and children are leaving, It is evident, from the appearance of the enemy at all these points, it is ny a cavalry rail, aiming to strike and de. ail the railroad communications to Macon before the maim army approaches, and perhups to venture farther in the dircet on of thie city or Au- asmuch mischief as possible Ii is believed the force ut Macon and M,lledgey lie is ample to protect those places for the present Whe. ther the man army of Sherman will ever get that far down is ® matter We cannot venture an Opimion upon, e writing the foregoing, we have received a private dispaich from Macon, showing that up to this writing (ha'f-past one, P.M.) the enemy Lad not struck the road, The dispatch states that no trains would leave Macon to-day for this place, P,8.—3 P, M—The telegraph is ati!) working to »vement of the enemy concributed towards his | Macon, from which we conciude the epemy have signs The rebs!s bad evidently under-estimat- Sherman's strength and resources, and commit- | 2 the fatal error of leaving the interior of Georgia | covered, General Beauregard ev.dently antici- |» ted thar Shermap would move to Mobile, and not struck the Central Railroad at any point. The Bavannah ReruBiican of the 21st rays: The telegraph b ings us no information of the whareebrule and intentions of the enemy, who are said to left Atlante in force some dayn ago, end the rts brought by posseuyers and vrivae NEW YORK, | thovementa and make foraying extreme letters are xo vague and contradictory that there is bo such thing as founding any fotel!igent opinion upen them. Possengers who arrived from Macon aud poluts ou the Ine of the road, this morning, say the enemy's cavalry force encamped last night within seven miles of Griswoliville the firat «ta. ten south of Macon, and that the main body of Sherman's army was ata point some 23 miles dia tact from Milledgevile. It wae also reported that that place was being evacuated by the citirena, The Leyislature adjourned on Friday night, and the manibers left with some degree of precit tation rome of them arrived here last nicht, and some thie moming. How true these reports from the enemy may be we bare no means of knowing, and We candidly state to our readers that we place but Httle faith in any of them. This much, at least, ia reliable: The enemy with all artog, but in number not ascertained (but perhaps from v0,000 to 30,- (H)), have set out on thelr grand tour through Georgia to the sea-board. he best military au. thority is of opinion that the move in the direction of Macon is a feint to cover the march of their main body on Augusta, the real ol ject of their des- Nnation. Millodgeville will probably be visited by the right wing of the army, and if unsucc oasfully defended, the capital of our State will be laid in Tt does not become un, says the wane journal, to speak of our preparations for this formida le in- vasion, Buftice tt to may that if the people of Georgia will only co-operate with the army, it will be met and successfully resisted. Wo have only bo be true to ourselves Dow to wave the State end utterly destroy the juvaders. If we fail from tame lukewarmness or other cause, we shall prove our- selves unfit to be free and worthy of the sbolition yoke that awaits us, In this connection we would Urwe upon the minds of our readers the patriotic end earnest sppeale to General Beauregard and our members of Congress, That the sulutary advice they give be followed by every Georgian, Those ving in the path of the enemy shou'd not fail to burn and destroy everything that can be of the slightest assistance to the enemy, Nothing can be lost by it, for {f leit, every dollar's worth will be swept away by the invaders and it will only fubsat aud ald them tn their diabolical designs. Let no man consent to be their quartermaster or commissary, The country thus made deste snd the roads aod crossings of streams obstruct- od, the enemy will be delayed to his certain de- struction. Aud again les every man who is able to shoulder @ muskts fly to the rescus in this time of imminent peril. Don't be guilt of the folly of — mipponi that = ail is lost; that we have no army to be brought to bear against the enemy, and that it useiens to peril life and property in a hopeless cause. None of these things are true, We have troops, ample in number, and what wre our Carolina frends ao- ing in th.eyreatemergency, Will they not pour forth across the Savannah by tens ot thoussnds, sud uniting with their brethren of Georgia give ® finishing blow to this ruthloss attempt w reauce us to slavery, A special correspondent of the Coxrrpgnate CoRONICLE AND Sentinet, writing from the right wing of the Army of the Tennessee, near Jones- boro Gia, Nov. 4th, says: A portion of the army having been reinforced, such a disposition bas been tuade of itas to wake foraging by the enemy extremely dangerous, Our army is well fed, tut many soldiers are destilute of shoes blankets, de. Lreyret our cause is now in os critical a condition, perhaps, as ever before, ow- tug tothe great number desertions and those absent without leave, This istrue and is well kuown, aud there can be, therefore, no impropriety in mentioning it, Friendsand relatives of soidiers et home owe their country @ solemn duty. Let thetn cease writing discouraging letters, 1 sem encourage their country's defenders toyo on inthe good work, and much fewer will be derelict in thelr duty. Sixty-one of Col, Wing's command lave deserted in five weeks. The Savannah News of the 21st saye: Our latest and moat reliable advices are, that the enemy was in force in the vicinity of Monroe and Joues Counties and a cona'deral le body bad crose- ed the Gounilgee river at Planier'’s Factory seven m.les west of Indian Springs, taking # direction which would indicate Gis purpose to take August tein bie route tothe Atlantic seaboard, The eue- May may, aud no coibt will, infilot much damages butif the poople ot our noble Biate nerve thern- selves os Che Iuan to the importance of the & geucy, and torgetting self direct their inces: united efforts egainst the foe asadvises by General Beauregard, aud our patriotic representau ju Congress, the ,reat Yankee army of the Tenues- seo sud their brutal wud insolent leader wili te gnnihilated The Augusta Conetitetios atiet of the 9th anya: Afier a careful country lying wre Sherman, the distance he must travel before he cap strike any vite. part, ana the difficulties that naturally environ an ineursive army of the kind, we apprehend no serious result from the movement. The editor does not believe it is Sherman's pur- pose to visit Macon, Augusta or Savannah, but that he has been driven to bis present movement by the force of circumstances that be does not anticipate retracing his stepa; hence he procluime the devas- tation and desolation of the country over which he masces, ‘The destruction of Rome, Atlanta and arietta bave been sunounced, oud be bas now takeu up bis line of march more with the view of KaVIDg Wwe retunent« of bia aruny ian of capture tug any fortified cities, A firto, unfalterny neart and determined resolution 16 all we Went at pres. ent, aod wfew weeks will perbays suthee te drive the last vandal frou the suid of Georgia, A Georgie paper bas the following : We learn from a valuable source that Governor Brown's residence, in Canton Cherokee Cont embracing bia comnmudions dwelling-house, ky ek, outhousen, Ae, together wits his ¢ orber buildings were ail burnt to the the vandal foo a few daya ago, The sa Curut the Court House, Acadew boeln jail, and sboubtwoeshirds of the beat dwelling aod Dusinvess houses iu Canton The Santiner of Tues lay last states: If the rains which have been descending so cop!- ously bere for severe, Jays extend toGeorgia, SLer- men will have heavy traveling. Tbe popular tradi- fiog tm the country suroug. when hig route has been projected, is thatiu suc seasons the Lotus of the reade fall ous, If Buermau shell fud hinself | thus bernired, it must 6) ratly to bis diswd- Vantage, and to our be Ik will Our conceutration of troops to operat being by raure will not experse terrupiion. We at that ihe! hold (im till our Generals ashe for hie destruction The Confederate cause has been iavored by many special providcnces durin e war. Thus encou- raed and made earners | tenee of Ihe necesm- ics and dis.resdes of the country, ia nol this atime when the faith of our poopie so0Uld mace ed and imporwunate prayer to Goe, epecaly forthe destruction of Buermau's army, uow engaged in» bol. enterprise against @ sigur Baler It may be that Ho is wiready sendug wown the floods that are to be the means of nis ruio, But ituctin that way 10 # buuured others oureffor # may be bl s6ed aud favo-ed to Bherman's overthrow, Tho Wuta hints broadly at the necessity for another Moscow in order to chock Sherman, but intimates that the people of Gcorga cannot be trusted to pertorm this duty, which sbould be taken in hands ly the Confederute authorities. [t aa. The Exqrraee commends the $-nate tn!! suspend- fing for sixty days the law which requires the State Reserves not to go beyond their respect. vo Biates 5 pile oe, the of org to dolses Sharman by m it be wi sure - a4 Fetfnd bim, and says :—TIi isnot the duty of the military authorities to take this matter of a! eround hm rvey of the topography or the | din unit. | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1864. | ceived ber crew from the Laurel off Madeira, | we country, Fet so ruinous to himself? If legislation is required, we hepe the Congress will promptly actin thie mater. Unless we deprive Shermen of supplies be will march to the coast and return again in the &pring, to continue further tis march of ruin and devastation, The Disratou pivea the following tolerably cor- Tect view of SAERMAN'S position : From Sherman's army we have the intelligence that it «moving in two columus, aa the repo | Says, one tipon Alytista, and the other upon Ma. con, Itie not likely that he is about to separate his columns for any length of time; and his line of mareh will probally be as followa: The column marching on the Georgia Btate road for Augusta, will go as far as Madison, sixty miles, and there turning to the right, march on Milledgevilla, the capital of Georgia, The column marching on Ma- con will proba! ly go to Crawford's, within filteen milesof the town, and there turn off to Milledie- ville aad form a junction with the other body. By ibis movement Macon falla, and the enemy are at re liberty to more on Auguste by following the G wie Ceutral Railroad to Prinsonville, and then marching worth, or on Savannah, by followin rail-oad to its terminus there. sibly, to Augusta, Sherman ia moving rapidly, and is not mmich troubled with transportation, He han burned.several mations at the depots be hue pasaed, and! is devastuting the country wovera!ly in oraging. Troops Dtapatehed by Lee to Oppose Washingt 2, Now. 25.—It seema probable from concur cat ru wors, that Lee has dispatched some of bin troops tu Georgia, The intelligence received by the Government, hy telegraph from Fortress Monroe this morning, from the Saveanah Rerventoas, i« regarded as highly favorable to the programme which Gen, Sherman ia cons omating. Karly Reinforcing Lee. Washington, Nov. /5,-The mail-boat from City Point to-day brings nothing of spocial importance from the front, except the report that « part of Early's force has arrived in Butler's front. Wash ngton, Nov. 24.—Your correspondent with Gen, Butler sencia tho following : Headquartera s'rmy of the Jamea, Nov, 22. The force known to bave arrived here from Early comprises two dives ons Kersha Ib ia not certain th .t ehese two di have arrived, but thea is all I be from. done other — From Tennessee. Rebel Occapiition of Wayneebero’ Lovisvilie, Ky., Nov. 24.-The Jounnan reiter- ates that the Arniy of General Hood occupies Waynesborc’, Teun cases, froma which he threatens and E'aducah, Thai portion of our army confronting b. my, is concentrated at Pulaski. loth Nashy Paducah {5 being pha ced in w atate of defence. The Released Union Prisoners. Arrival of the First Instalment. Fortress Monroe, Nov tined for their disembarkation. ance of those already recepwed, nyust be io deplorable condition A Letter from the Vreahiient Boaton, Now, city. Hospital : Exrorrive Manaton, ) Washington, November viek 1s64. f Dear Madam 1 have been shown in the til the War Department a stitement of the Adj Gronecul of Massachus of baule, public they ched to save Upon the altar of treedona. auG respectiully, ‘Lo Mrs, Buxby, Boston, Mass. From Europe. Twe Daye Later News. Halifrx, Nov The steamnelip Aga, from Qurenstown the 15th ius, bas arrived. Her dates are two days later. The steamer Saxonia hae gove {nto her dock at Southampton for vepaira, The accident to the Sax- on.a's machinery occurred tive days affer she left New York. She bione her stern box and bad to lay to for five days duro a heavy gale. Hor steam pope compartracnt filled with water, bat with the escephou af # fow bays of collee ber cargo sus- ta ned bo datuage, Boe was unven mo much out of ver Course a4 to heave been within two hundred gules of Greenlan, Tatec advices frown Madeira confirm the etate- inens thet the steamer Liurel, from Liverpool, bad transicrred a crew to the large Contedeuratve screw steamer named the Sea Kiug, off Madeira, Capt, Semmes was on board the fea King when she ro- He expisined to the menu what be expected them to do in she rebel service, A cousiderable row then en- sued, aod cut of about on hundred men, thirty- aix diclined to go The English journals publish the official corre. spondence between the /american consul at Bahia end the President of that Province, Under this correspoudence eome of the English journals re- iterate their denunciations of the seizure of the A. Lincons, | Florida, The London Munning STAB saya: the We alall soon hear of their cavalry around Macon, aad very near, pos. @uy inforwetion ) Mrs, Bixby, the recipient of the following letter from President Lincoln, ia a poor widow, living im the Fleventh Ward of this Her eixth ron, who was severoly wounded in arecent battle, is now lying in the Readville thy that you an the mother five sone who have alied gloriously on the field T feel how weak and fru tions must be any words of mine which should attenapt to beguile you from the grief of » loas so overwhwiming. But cannot refrain from tendering to you the conso- lation that may be found in the thankm or the Re- T pray that our Heaven- ty Father may assnage the anguish of your te- Teavement, and leave you only the cheitished mem- ¥ of the loved and lost, and theselemn pride thay must be yours to have laid go comtlyt » aacrifice Yours vey sincerely .M.—The steamers At. Jantic ond Bisckatone arrived thie morning in Hampton Koads, from the Savannah river, Ga, with 1,225 released Union priso vers. The remain ler of the fleet, under Lieut, Col, Mulford, aro on their way to Annapolis Md., that being the place dea. The total number of prisoners to be brought up by ‘he whole fleet in entimaiod at 100, and, judging tvom the appear. . Altbough the Federal accounts of the seizure of | the Florida have not yet been received, there cau be no doubt that « very ¢ ross violation of neutrali- ty bas been committed, and it hopes that the United Btates Government will repudiate the trens- action and offer satisfuctaon to Brazil, La Feasxor announces: that Brazil has broken off friendly relations with the United States on ec- connt of the seizure of the Florids. Parie, Nov. 13,—The Parers asserts that Eng- land has called upon the Great Powers to collec- tively protest against the seisure of the Florids. The Amy axp Navy Gazerrs says thats very considerable number of officers of the British army ying provisions into their own hands, and | have now visited the American camps in the North not trust to frail men aduty vo uecessery 10 tbe | aud the South No instance of affront or ennovs | | {iwoe ONE CENT IN GOLD TWO CENTS IN CURRENCY, 4 ance offered to them has ever reached na “and, '* adda the writer, ‘any officer desires to ace whab {a passing in the American compa, we balers ie can accomplish his olject by minply presenting Himself io bis proper uniform to any superior oif\- cer." A statement having been put forth that Gariha ih had virtually expreseed himself in favor of the South, @ private letter from the ceneral ia po Kiahed, in which he asserts that he bas bean mian deretood, and says: “My opinion on the American question i« «'t known. Not only do I hope fron it the abo! of slavery, but I consider the question to be «ve affecting all mankind, aud woe to the world if tha North dora not come out victorioua,”” Earl Russell has been installed Rector of + Aberdeen University, Tn the course of a epee by which he made on the occasion, bo sald : There ia another portion of the globe where ve have to lament acenes of bloodshed. We «til have to lament the bloody arbitranent of war in Ame- rica, We have to lament that that war has pot yet boen brought to aclose— If there is any brighs tpotin the dark acone itis forthe Afiican rare, L cannot but believe that the civil war in Ameries, whichever way it might end, whether the States unite avain, or whether there isto le afinal ecp- aration, I cannot but boliere that out of these Ovente the African race are to receive their freedom. Hon, J.C, Scarlett, Inte British Minister at Athe ns, is appointed Ambaaaador to Mexico, Preparations for the execution of Muller, on the 14th iustant, were progressing ot Newgate, The Home secretary has refused to reprieve Muiler. Lord Peibam Clinton, a eon of the late Duke of Nowcastle, » young midshipman in the navy, has been dismissed from the service, by court-martialy for desertion. General Tom Thumb with his wife and muite, are giving private recepiions to the leading people in Liverpool. Insurrectionary movements are again reporte L in Venetia. Armod bands hai made demonstra- tions in Frinl at Venzone. Troopa wero sent im pursuit of them. Additional details of the flooda in Tuscany show that deplorable damaye waa done to properte in and around Florence. Itis believed that but fow lives were lost. LOCAL NEWS, MRW YORE AND TIE VICINITY, DARING INCENDIARISM, The City Simaltanecously Fired in Many Places Arrest of a Negre —Supposet Rebel “Kaid* om New York--Activity Displayed by the Firemen Laat evening the firemen were ca'led on duty by the alarm-bella atriking for ea firo that had been discovered, near nine o'clock, in the Bt, James? Hotel, Rroadway, near Madison Square, the cure tains of one of the teda having been set on fire,elther purposely or accidentslly, About the same time the Perf irmances at Rarnum's Museurn were interrp! = ed by cries of fire,cansed by a bott) of some tnl'ame mabhle substance be'ng thrown on the floor, About 1,500 persons were in the building at the time, an® for @ jew moments @ panic prevailed, causing many in the audience to rush for the doors. The women shrieked ima manner that caused consid- erable anxiety, but by the admirable arrangementa (at band in the Museum) the fire was almost i mediately extinguished, and as soon aa confidence was restored the performances proceeded as usual. A fow minnter later, fire was discovered in several of the roome at the St. Nicholas Biel. The flames broke out in the differant apartmunts at the same time, causing @ great commotion ia the building, which was filled with guests. Al- moat immediately the fire engines made their sp- pearance, and in less time than it takes to wriia this, five stearn-enginos were being prepared fon work in front of the Hotel Howe was Inid, ' oie were flung out, and streams of water poured int> the various rooms, Tho fires were speedily avtir - guished, but not until $5,000 damage bad been done, by the water and fire combined. An alarm, twenty minutes later, called the fre laddies to the Lafarge House, whore slight damaye was done, and a negro arrested on mispicion of t+ - ing connected with the arson, Damage to builit- ing, $50; to furniture, $200, Ata quarter past ten o'clock the Metropolis 1 tel was found to be om fire in several room The hotel arrangements ware so per’ect thai tle flames were immedliately catingnished. A fire in one of the roore of the Bran 'reth House, corner of Canal street and Broadway, wows put out with litte trouble, About thia time fire was discovered in two bit- rooma in the United States Hotel, The flames were extinguished, the damage being catimated at gin. Flames next | urst outin the Girard House, co.- per Chambers gtrect and West Broadway, Vo fire was speedily subdued, but our reporter oi! { not sacertacn the damage done Lovejoy's Hotel, corner Park Row and Beeks as strect Was wet on tiro about the aame tine, Bary guished speedily, damage probably #200, At Tauwmany Hal! # bed im one of the roous set on fire, A few Luck: ta of water drowned ito) About 12 o'clock @ fire was discovered in or the roows on the 4th floor of Tammany Hai! of the servants discovered that the sleets tal burned by acid or phosphorous, This was wt) p * ed to be done by a man who bired a bed thers os 10 o'clock, P.M, Near widuight, the Belmont Motel, oppostte too Bun office, was discovered on fire, and within tw minutes the steam and other fire-er rex'7 to pub oub the flarnes, A bed in « rourns on the fifth floor was found burning A fireball, taken from it, was quckly thrown inte the street, where 't biazed up furiously for seve» moments, Although the fremen were anxious % the fray, no opportunity was given at this hort for @ display of their bravery, For some time considerable commotion disturbed the atreet; steam engines whistled, tire lanterna gleamed, the men shouted, and a crowd collected iu antici- pation of witnessing @ ecene which f rti- nately did not come off. As soon an it became Spparent at Police Headquarters that fires wore de- signed)y kindled tn the various hotels, ord rs wern sent to all the Police Precincts, ordering the roservs forces upon immediate duty, and instructions were given to the officers to exercise increased vigilance Then orders were sent to the captains, prvbibiting them from affording any information to onquirers Continue’ ov thy tas’ ur ines were aii ne of tle