OONGREBB -81 ; 0011 D EiBMIOII, Jan. 23.—Secretary Stanton yesterday sent In I oommutdcatiou to the Senate stating that the several resolutions calling for information in Wept* wagon, had been banded to him on tie return to tsipateleceZi awl that information would be sent H o w as pearible. The credentials of Mr. ard, Senator elect from Michigan, were presented by Mr. Chandler. Resolutions , from the Ohio- Legisla tive and the Missend Constitutional Convention, were presented, asking for the passage of - the Con stitutional amendment. An act was Introduced and referred to the Military Committee, to Increase the compensation of certain officers In. the field. Mr. Sherman reported that the Committee of Conference on the Deficiency Sill had been unable to agree, 'and moved that the Senate farther insist upon its amendmeMa and appointed another committee. The mann reasoned to. A - resolution deelaring 'the sense of Congress upon the subject of negotiation, was printed and laid on the table for the present.— ' The 'Chair laresented a communication from the See. rof War in reference to naval credits. The fl u Zellning t e a. rank reso lu tio nnof aymasters In the • *ivy was passed The advising retalia tion for cruel treatment of our officers and soldiers, takeri np,and alter some debate, postponed for consideration to-day. resolutiun was adopted reducing the duty on Imported paper to three per cent ad valor em. A resolution of thanks to Gen. Sheridan was selected to the Military Committee. The resolutions 'of the L egi slature of New-York In reference to the Constitutional amendment were presented by Mr. Frank. A resolution was Introduced and adopted appointing a Committee to Inquire Into the facts of the reeent assault upon Judge Kelley, and mind bur Mr Field from the privileges of the House until the report of the Committee shall have been made. Mr. Brooks, of New-York, caused to be read a let terr which he had received from Gee- Butler, asking him to explain certain disparaging remarks made in a recent speech on the floor of the Howse. Mr Brooks complained that the sending of the letter constituted a breach of privileges of a member of Congress. The Speaker decided otherwise. A lone and excited debate arose on the question, in which Messrs. Gooch, Stevens, Brooks, and Kemal took part. Mr. Stevens at length gave way to a motion to adjourn. fisitars, Jan. 24.—Mr. Sherman reported hack the bill to appropriate money for the Post-Unice Depart. meat - The House bill to provide for Aetiag Assist ant Treasurers or depositories of the United grates iii certain cases, was taken up and pastel Mr. Sumner reported a series ofreso e luilous as a substi tute for th e resolution before th Senate on the sub ject of retaliation, setting forth that It would be im practicable,lmmoral and d'derading for the Govern ment to Im itate the practice of the rebels In the treatment of rebel prisoners, and reiterating the de termination of the peopleto put down the rebellion. Mr. Sumner supported the views expressed In these resolutions In a long and able speech. The subject will be taken up again to-day. Mr. Wilson intro. -dotted a new and very stringent conscription bill, which was referred to the Military Committee, Housa.—A resolution was adopted Instructing the Committee of Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill removing the tariff on all materies used In the manufacture of ?tinting pa per. A bill was introduced for the remnstruction of the Medical Department of the United States Na vy, which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. The House then resumed the eonshieration of the question of privilece raised on Monday by Mr. Brooks, based bn the letter written to him by Gen. Butler. Mr. Bontwell, of Massachusetts, mode a very able defence of Gen. Butler's career in New Orleans, to which Slr. Brooks made an evasive and = nal reply. Masers. Cox, Ingersoll, Stevens and also participated in the debate; Which closed by the withdrawal of the appeal from the decision of Samara, Jan. 25.—Mr. Trumbull prMented the pe tition of army.chaplains, risking that they may be al lowed the MUM pay that is allowed to line-oflicers of the same rank. Toe House Bankrupt Bill was ',- with amendments and ordered to he printed peeled of Hx-Surgeon-General Hammond was reported back, and the Committee discharged from the farther considemtion of the subject. A resolu tion was adopted instructing the Finance Commit • tee to Inquire into the mcpeliency of relieving the tonnage of the country from the income tat and re ducing the duty on chains and anchors. The rest,. lotion of the Militaty Committee, advising menus Bon upon the rebels, was discussed at some length by Messrs- Clark, Henderson, Saulsbury, Wade and Foster. Me. Wade moved en amendment, :making the resolution mandatory instead of advisory, and compelling the President and officers of the army to retaliate in kind; bet eo action was taken in the /s matter. The Senate voted to adhere to its , amend meet of the Deficiency Bill, and the bill consequent lyfails on account of disagreement between the two ome& floras.—The Niagara Fall- Ship ('anal RDs post paned till Monday. A snbstitnte was reported for the Senate bill for the collection of direct, taxes in the insurrectionary States, which was recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means. A resolu tion was agreed to directing the nominittec an Com mence to Inquire in the matter of a Treasury permit to exchange provisions with the rebels in North Carolina for cotton. A resolution of thanks to Gen- Sheridan was almost unanimously agreed to, Mr Harrirl;tor Maryland, and Mr. White, of Ohl., alone Toting in the negative The House recce ed from their disagreements on the Deficiency Bill, with the km or tie. 000 erehie sire c4.4.1ia ansi dAripley.... , • C t IM House twenty per cent. additional pay. The House then proceeded to the consideration of the re. port of the Select Committee providing for the heads of the departments to occupy seats on the floor of the House, to be interrogated under certain rule, concerning their respective departments, and, to a limited extent, participate in debate. The measure was advocated by Mr. Gannon. of New-York, and opposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont. No action was taken an the subject Saugrx, Jan. 28.—T00 credentials- of Mr. Sante. Wry. Senator elect from Delaware for six years imin the 4th of March next, were presented. A bit for the construction of a bridge over the Ohio at Louis ville wasreported and laid over. A petition from Mr Webb, asking Inc increased compensation for build ing the Iron-clad Dem erberg, was referred to the Na val Committee. The House hill was passed anthor. Laing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Treasury notes in lien of any bonds authorizer) by the Act of June 3014 1861. The Hrase bill to make appropti• *thin for the military Academy was passed, as was also this House bill making appropriation for the support of the Post Office Department for the next fiscal year. CommuuteallareS were laid before the Senate from the &cranny of War, in relation to the loyal earners of enlisted slaves, and in relation to the thfriy and hundred day volunteers from Delaware.— The resolution advising retaliation upon the rebels. for cruelty to our prisoners in their hands, was again taken up and discussed. House —An act was passed to relieve antrum-3 of customs to certain cases. A bill was reported and referred to the appropriate committee, to provide for a tar bell or fifg-trumpet. on Governor's hiand.— A bill was reported and referred to the Committee OD LOMMerVe providing for two east-taut inspectors Of sicaintratts at the City of New-York, and Iwo lo cal ins re ctors at Galena, 111. A bill was reported de lining the limits of National Bank issues, and its consideration was postponed till Monday week. Tue House then resumed the consideration of the bill proposing the admiasion of Cabinet oft:twee to seats ,on the flour of the House. After some debate the further cungderation of the hill was postponed for one week, Another D•ficiency Bill was MI rodured sad passed. The Committee on Pohlie Bnildinas was instructed to inquire into the origin of r he lima, be of the Staidesmisn Institute. A bill eta, 'lnns diced and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, propoeing a tel on National Bank dastere4an. 27.—Tue credentials of Mr. Wilson, of it maactinsetta, as 13-nator elect for six years from March next, were preeenred. Petitions for increase of salary were presented from employees in the de partments at Washington. A resonation was offer ed, and obj,cted to, to legnire Into the charge against Gen. J. IL la Mats sit in auttan conduct to went the Degrees who bad joined his army la Geor gia.- a, joint resolution was laid on the table, &- elating toe State of Arkansas to tie no longer an ln serrre ion against tie Culled Whites. A hill was in. traduced, and refer. d to the Judiciary C bill to amend the act to restrict toe funadie lon of the Claims and provide for the payment of Quarter master's stores and slobs - isle-nee furnished to the Army of the Felted States The deficiency bill from the House was then taken up, and alter being amended b,ystriking out the - section glilug extra ettaapateatiOn , to the employees of the capitol, it was of qThe State taco renewed the consideration uestionth of retaliation. Masers. Johnson and fisulsburc spoke against, and Messrs, Howe, Wade,' Morel, Doolittle and Howard in favor of the reso lution. Candid Admissions - From Army and Nary Gesetfe. (British.) L • • • Tue tact is, that hood's retreat lees re-1 "toted to the Fedenda nearly sit ttey had kit by Mbermau's countermove in districts where, in our judgmen_ the Issue will be eventually decided by , mum obtained on the seacoast of the maritime States. Let us terra moment remember what has occurred alneerthis War began: Shortly after the United etates trona sumnidered to BeaureFord in Fort Sander,. the'4.frderscy flew its /lag Imm Brownsville, on AtiaMioGrande, to Alexandria, on the Pottimac.— birldarell was heart and soul a Southern State. Bo yOnd the Mlsalssippl, Arkansas and Missouri were eonsidertimmtain auxiliaries. The atarsandstripes did not ay On adagio point south of Baltimore ex- S p s ' thwaatwtain M e Virgoin iaPickens eann d u n h o e n sTtiotruttuiognaas.l— ly divided into two Stator, of which ono has been ap propriated by the North, Maryland is bound fast in the Federal Union; Kentucky to to the hands of a Federal Governor ; Tennessee makes no effort to shake cause arm grasp welch holds here Northern • Butte ; Now Orlawas ha fanny, Penkareola is under inierbarsand &dims Basin ,• the Mississippi is a lila km dm; Missouri wad arimasas aro Federal States- Inc Mame of North Corollas are scaled, with the allerSk lll - 01. Wilmington- The mouths of - Charles. tow,: alavannah and Mobile belie fallen tutu the bands OW. Lincoln', roma. Every city on the banks of the itlisslialppl is to his power. - Great Brilale in the areas war'beld a burr pert of the revolted , olonitra ; ibs Imod war- with France • and the thirteen Stenna ., :etuf had one enemy arrow s i g h t of her aborts, loathe ratter abets:night tiy tome back to Be adleganee WsaB,ooo tulles away. The North Is Ilia itropho with tito &nth.: 'Tare is no tormgo war to didtant the epetaJtaxd her people, and She tuts made enough pnof,reartoUneortrage her to make fresh dissents' train 'Bavannalifall, an attack on Charles. inn by bind swill 110 doubt follow; and Stith the pr.os leaskra,of the foils at pe entrance to Cape Fear My *slammed,' the irork of 'closing the Bouthern.fanna inn steeiver aril" be accomplished. Whether the North caningbaust tam wn, itoi re newer or - not UM .nest M ui to bartataruplak but irisf am ;0 r: . 4* lliolif go ilnap gbh independent gepublican "A Union of takes and s Union of lands, A Union of States none efin sever; • A Union Of hearts, and a Union of hands, And the Flag of our Union forever." CIRCULATION 8,100. H, FRAZIER EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Montrose,Pa,, Tuesday, Jan, 31, 1865 lerrir The conspiracy is nor k, own. Armies hart beln raised, war is lerkd to accomplish it. 'Pure am only tm , aides to the question. Every man mmt befor the United s, or dgainst it . There rarity no neuteuts in :hi , ,ear only patriots ortmitnrs.--STRIMEN DocoLsa, at Chicago, April 11, 18(31. • Ur Mat right him the Yorth meatier!? What fn,. tire here 15.hm denied And what riaint, founded in jun lice awl right, ham been withheld? Can either of ynu day wane one single act of wrong, delibenwely and pur mtly done by the Governoneut rtt tr.Aingto”, of which the South has a rialit to complain I I challenge the an szoer.—RON. A. IL STEPHENS. 1861. BUTLER AND RIM ENEMES The recent cowardly - and unrighteous attack on Maj.-Gen. Butler, by one of the Representatives In Congress, from New-York, 'Brooks of the New-York Erprefu, has ended, as every honor able and sensible man in the land anticipated it would, in the complete diseomfitnre of tht. as sailant, his slanders recoiling ou his own head. and the very means ho sought to ruin Gen. But ler, becoming instrumental in the hero's vindica lion. The old story about the seizure of gold in New-Orleans, by Gen. Butler, rankles in the heart of every traitor North and &nth. It was hoped by the traitors that that seizure would embroil the country in a war with Europe—that it could Le turced to good account against the Government, but the result having proven s• entirely different from what suchotraitors Brooks and his associates in and oat of Congres , anticipated, they have now combined in a corn mon crusade of slander, to Gverwhelm Gen. But ler with disgrace by stigmatizing him as a gull robber. The debate in Congress established the fact that Gen. Butler had regularly and seriipul ously accounted for every dollar in money and property he had seized while Military Governor of Louisiana —that the Secretary of War had ap proved his entire action—and that his accounts with that Department and the, Treasury were audited and settled, the Government having never lost a penny by the action or the adminis tration of Gen. Butler. Yet in the Mee of these facts, Brooks persisted in re-iterating his char ges, so that Gen. Butler has demanded an hive.- ligation at the bar of the House, where hi? foul mouthed traitor assallants will have opportunity to prove their charges or expose their hste in the disgrace of their failure. These repented assaults from Democratic legislators and jOurnal ists, on Benjamin F. Butler, constitute really the best stan4ard of copperhead sympathy for trea son we have in the land. As a copperhead hates and vituperates Butler, so in proportion ne loves riltd trimlz t 5.11.4.4 4%. Mat_ ler Is only antagonized because he is to-day the most strenuous opponent of treason in the coun try. PAY OP ARMY OFFICERS. The 11. S. Service Magazine calls earnestly upon Congress to increase the pay of army off cars at least fifty per cent., and says unless it is done soon, the army will lose many valuable officers. It asks the press generally to unite In this demand and to press it upon Congress until the point is gained. Let us see about this. In addition to the rations, forage, and the pay, clothing and rations of servants, our officers now receive pay in money as follows: Lieutenant General SBGIO per year; Motor General, $5310; Brigadier General, $3504; Colonel, $2428: Lieutenant Colonel, 2010; Major, $181? ; Capt., $1422; First Lieutenant, $1 02; Second Lieu tenant, 1212. The pay of naval officers of cor responding rank is nearly the same, and they have besides chances for prize money. Nobody will obj^ct to giving just and cenerons pay to our army ofileere, but when the people oompare these salnries with those earned by the same men in civil life before the war, it will he difficult to convince them that there is any spe. eial necessity for increasing their pay. For dl except offices of the highest ranks there ar. plenty of applicants as capable and bravo as those now filling them, who will be ghvd t? rut fill the duties for the pr.-rent pay. Very .few men can can be selected from the army of brig adiers who would command as good pay as they now get in any other business ; and there is no evidence that the Siajor-Gsnerals or Lieutenant General Grant are not satisned with their pres ent pay. Paper MOM yis cheap, to be sure, and easily printed, hot the government should not cheapen it still more by prodigal expenditures. Unless, therelore, the pitied and necessity of an incrotse of pay for army officers can be fully made out, Congress should give no heed to the clamor for it. LINCOLS AND DAM So much has been said.bath N,.rth and Squib, in detraction of Pruodent Lincoln, and not by copperheads and rebels altogether, but by well meaning though: misguided Republicans, thrt it is refreshing to find an enemy so untiring, cm-, compromising, and unrelenth7sas the Charleston Mercury driven to do him a grudging measure of justice, as it does in the 'following paragraph, which; despite the use of such tenant as " knave," "blackguard," and "'buffoon," pictures him to its readers as possessed of the very highest quid:. Ries: "When Abraham Lincoln took the chair of the Presidency of Use United States, he promised In hie fist-boat lingo to ' run the machine as he found IL' Whether he has strictly kept his promise., those may doubt who choose, to consider 'be subject. ti is enough for us to know that whether 'running his machine' In the pathway of his pnalee.u.sors or not. he has run It with a stern, intlextble purpose, a bold, steady hind, a vigilant, active eye, a !Sleet/lete energy, a fanatic spirit, and an eye single to his end --conquest—etuancipation. its has culled annual him, in counsel ' the ablest and most earnest men of toe country. Where lie bas lacked in individual ability, learning, ex_Pericatc, -or stateentusulp, be has sought it, and has found it, in the able men about him, whose assistance be unhesitatingly as cepts, whose powers he applies to the advancement of the cause he !Ai Undertaken. "Iu toe Csidnet and In the field he has consistent ly and fearlessly, Firessixt ou the search for men who `tumid advance his busts, and his as unhesitatingly cut (Jell those who clogged it with Weakness, hubeclUty; or failure. Force, energy, brains, earnestness, he has collected artmud him in every department Thackguarti and buffoon as he is. he has pursued 'hie cud with an energy as untiring se ladh4, r and u'eitigleuews ot parp.se that might almost Wattled petrioqe. if ha were not an un seruptdotis knave in his end, and a fanatic in his ph- Mica views, lie would tunittubledly command our respect se te ruler, an Lei' as 'we are concerned-- Abroad eild at home ha bas exercised alike the same Ceaseless energy_ and circa m eyeettun. " We tutu our eyes to Richmond, and the eon ,that eirketilug to thd heart." • Row few northern Democrats Were are Wto 49.10,4tbrahatti Liwco . Ltt the justice., which this -dil etO r gaita &nth .CarCallit sebelliaa Chas THE VALVE OF FORT FISHER. The capture of Fort Fisher closes the last sea port in the rebel states. That is to say it cuts offihe rebels from one of theliehlef sources of such supplies blankets, beef po rk,long range cannon, and other necessary articles. The business of blockade-running at the port of Wit mington was of such importance to the rebel chiefs that, more than a year ago, they took it almost entirely Into their °wetlands The ves sels engaged in this contraband trade were freighted for the most part either by the rebel government at Richmond or by the state of North Carolina. They were specially hunt for the trade; the most skillful and daring men were engaged as pilots; and great risks were readily taken, because, if only one ship out of three got in, the venture paid for itself,' the prof- its were us• enormous as that of the -African slave-trade. It is said that Trenholm $, Co., of Liverpool, have wide not less than $lO,O. o,not. m gold, us their share of the profits of this busi ness. Not only is this illicit trade stopped, however and most important supplies for therebel armies cut olf, but the capture of Fort Fisher puts s stop to the payment of interest upon the rebel loan in Europe. This interest has been paid with tin proceeds of cotton skipped from Wilmington. In order to provide for it, the rebel leaders ant! their agents abroad have strained their resourcer to the utmost, to procure vessels, and hay, obliged every outward-bound ship friim Wilming ton to carry a certain amount of " Confederal. cotton." Hitherto they have succeeded in pay in; their interest regularly ; but the holders ol Cloofedcrate bonds have now received their last payment of that kind. THE JOHN nnows ANNIVERSARY The Richmond rebels have not forgotten their execution of John Brown, and they have good cause to remember the shedding of the blood ol that martyr to human freedom. The Richmond Dispatch of December 21 speaks of the"memor able day," and as it trouoled with the blood ol -brave old Ossawattamie," declares that "the events of the day, and the week that preced ed it, will never fade from our memory." John Brown was hung on the 2d of December, 1859, and the Dispatch says "that was the beginning of the war." It adds: " We say we °hall never forget the day when Brown was hung. ft was one 01 the most love)) .15)s that ever come from Heaven. it was as mho as thougu it was the noddle of May; and It might well hove passed for such, had it not been that the trees weir. bare Or foliage. Hut tive years, as Link Is counted, have passed since that memorable day.— Aud yet tne events of a whole century have beet, compressed into that little apace. When we look upon du: day, over the live intervening yeas, we can hardly relax..., the tact that we see the same per *Pi, that this is the SAWS country, and that the oh pcts most handier to us are in reality the same ots .p eta. It all seems ' like the phantaama or a hideous dream.' We had all, then, read of war, and had ward of war; but how few of no bad any conceptior, of what it ready was? We had beard old people talk of the trials and troubles or the old Herniation, find their juniors eloquent on the subject of the Nievialn war. Hut the most lively imagination had never Panned a conception of the gigantic struggla of which that day's work was the opening scene.' Grant and Lee . on the Capture of Richmond The London Throes of thesth Inst., has an interest log letter from Its Richmond correspondent, undo date of December sth. It contains some account ca a conversation that had just occurred, in which the interlocutors were Lieut.-General Grunt and a "for sign gentleman in intimate relations with the Con federate Government," who hail just come to Rich mond trim the North. This foreign Contederate, It seems, describes G-neral Grant us " s gentleman 01 eminent courtesy, tranquil and dignified in manner, free from bluster, awl studiously contitliatlug in Language." lien. Grunt we are told con:menet-4 the conversation by praising the abilities of Davis and Lee, and then proceeded to give his views of the prospect of capturing Richmond. The correspon dent writes that— " Ile (Grant, proceeded next to make the startling assertion that Richmond is a doomed city, and that Sir Oasis and Gen Lee are well aware of the fact. lie pointed out, with emphasis, that slowly and in citi•vselty V•dc, at cony is corrertinatly ..d radrcieg • step. and tha never, since the 4th of Jane, has it made a quart of a step backward. ' The end,' he continued, m st be the fall of Richmond. Row long It will be be re the end comes it is impossible tot me to ray. Gen. Lee knows the position of my ar "v to be impre.gnatile on both sides of the river, and he will attack on neither. I do not expect the city to he suddenly evacuated, but some day, little by little, my guns will get within eliciting distance of the capital, find, from that hour, it Is merely a question of time. it is probable that if, ar this stage, tna redelence be obstinate and prolonged, We whole city win 1p burned to the ground. Anyhow, its evacuation by Gen. Lee's army is In the mid in es Rattle." Raving thus been entertained with the opinions of the army operating sualaat Richmond, the frame writer next entertains us with the views on the same subject of the noel commander on the other side of the lines. Ile says; "1 call minim Gen. Grant, that if he was In a posi tion to orrice at. the undisguised opinion of Piesitlent Darks and Gen.. Lee, he world come to a conclusion different from that which he last week evpressed, hut which it is difficult to believe that be sincerely entertains, It is the deliberate conviction, not only of the two eminent men In question, but also of eighteen twentieths of the Inhabitants of Richmoud, and ninety-wise hundredths of the army which de fends it, that the city was never an safe since the war commenced as at the prevent momettL" The opinion of Gen. Grant, thus given, was ex pre-sed before he knew of Sherman's triumphant m arch through Georgia, and before he could tell as suredly the co operation he would get from that °l acer and his army. II he felt confident of success In tue beginning of last December, how greatly must his COTllidenkb be Westland now. Davis and Lee, it seems, differ from Grunt In - opinion; but so they did about Fort Fisher. They have done so vets often, and have always come out wrong. So we most adhere bathe present, as the past, to the faith of Grant, which bids fair to be strengthened before long.—A. Y. Times_ Assault on Fort Fisher The following account of the assault on Fort Flatt er is from Ad.tdral Porter's report: Ail the arrangements on the part of the sailors had been welt curled out ; they bad succeeded In getting up to within a short distanee of tbo fort, and bald • ,icarely in It, Ir ditches- We had hot very few tided aced wounded to this point Tne Marines were to have hid the rifle-pits and cover the hoard mg party. which they failed to do. On rushing tarough the palisades, which extended front th, i.rt to the se-a, the head of the column received a mu-dertms Ore of grape and canister, which did not hit w ever cheek the 01211eurs and sailor who were L tiding ; the parapets now swarmed who rebels, who poured In a destrucilve the or musketry. At till, moment - had the marines perboned their duty, every one cat the rebels wuecd have been killed. I witnessed tun le.kne affair, saw how ricalersly the retails exposed thetoreives and what an advan tage the) gave our etuirpshouters, whose gnus were scarcely tired, or tired with no precision. Nut with. standing the hot Ore, ottleers and sailors in the luad rubbed on, and some even readied the parapet, a Wee number having reached the ditch. The advance was swept from the parapet like chaff, and notwithstanding all the efforts made by cannot:lndere of companies to stop them. The men In the rear, seeing the slaughter in front, se4 that they were cot covered by the matinee, commenced to retreat, and as there Is no stopping a sailor if he falls on such an occasion on the drat rush, I said the whole thing had to be given up. In the meantime., the troops were more encorsaful on their side. The rebels, saadrig so large a body of Men - coming at tlicw on the wa side, was under the Impression that it was the main attack, and concentrated the largest pat of tacit' force at thl point, and when they gave three rebel cheers, thinlibig that they had plubd the day, they receceived • volley of musketry In their hacks from our gallant soldiers, wlin tkt4 been successful is 'gaining the highest parapet. Then eutnrneneed such a system 01 fighting as has never oven beaten. Oar roaUller had gained two traverses, while I directed the iroushies to fire on the traverses occupied by the rebels. Yous,f) ye cud six traverses were carried by our troops In the spare of an hour. These traverses are Immense boitiltprains, about slaty lest long, fifty feet wide, and twenty feet WO weenteen In ail—being on the N. E. Lice. Setween each traverse or boonitt-proof are one or two heavy guns. The llghthaelasted until 10 o'clock at night, the hut:tales and monitor firing through the traverses In itlteutm of our troops, and the level pleat of land caned Federal Point beivg enfiladed uy the ships to prevent relufurconeuts reselling the rebels. t . blinseg went wo the fartituld I General Terry, kept up eonetant ettmintinladiun with. Itlta With three hearty cheers, whieh were taken' up by the litwl,Obettenett-d the capture of Fort sbher, .Thad lug that the (lateral felt” aralout about the enemy ft - C.4011g rUillrOneerDellte, I directed the sailor* and marina to rebel's the ;reaps In the outer hue of our defeue, and a large Lumber of aoldlera were thus cuuttled to join our lorreato the fort. It will not :he UMW for Ina LO remark here that I nee,: saw anythinglike , the fearleas.galittutz.Y at& eudttrunee dhiplayed by: - our trtop4 They (ought Mx lions, and knew no Bush won! as fad. They dually fought and eharaA the : rebels from traverse to traverse unlit they 'reached battery Lapin at the mound, a face of wow* extending about 1,400 yards intength. At 11th point the broke end fled to the e9d ,of Federal foir4; Our ; trope foilowed them up an they,aurrendenint diactetiow. Taw oral crab oat pagnoblii tittiks tal record, and one that will do more darnaze to the rebel cause than any that hue taken place In this war. Twerdy•three hundred. retitle manned Fort Fisher•, werellikert Planners rent were killed ok,arr..,-..ded. hare stated some Mae cursekis wlth* , antto these military matters, which Lwitt leave to General Terry to supply. here elate Tinned Fort Fisher and Its adjoining works, and Ind their strength greatly beyond what I bad conceived. An englocer might be excusable In saying they 'could not be captured except by regu lar rlego.',l wonder even now how It Was done. The working I said before; is really stronger than the Malakoff' tower, which defied so long the combined power of France and England,' and yet It la captured qy a handful of men, under the the of theguns of the fleet, and in seven hones alter the attack com menced In earnest. Burning of the Smithsonian Insti tute at Washington. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan. 2-10, 1.865. Tile afternoon about :I o'clock, a tire broke out in the Smithsonian Institute building. in the loft above .sha picture-gallery, between the ceiling and the roof, caused, It is believed, by a litfeetive One.. The ceil ing soon fell in, and in a few moments the gallery wan nue sheet of flame. The fire, as It mounted the central tower and hur.t forth in full volume from the main roof was magnificently grand, and a curious npectacle was presented by the steadiness of the rev olutions of the anOmeter or wind register, surmount ing the tower, while the tierce flame was ravenously mounting to its destruction. The windows of the picture-gallerysoon burst out, disclosing only the shell of the room. There were some two hundred of Stanley's pictures here. lie had negotiated for their sale to the Michigan U uL versify. Only live or six of them were saved. The loss Is very serious, including the lecture-room, the philosophical Instrument aturtmeut and most of the valuable instruments. The offices In the towers and the originals of the private records and archives of the 11.11W/012 were dm*yed. The top of the prin. elpal tower and several attic. battlements fell. The conflagration was nearly altogether confined to the main building and shove the first story, the latter containing the 'unseen', which was damaged more by water titan by fire. The wings and corri dors were not much injured. The large library in the west wing was not damaged. The furniture of Prof Henry an , ' other property wan injured by hunt) removal. The fall extent of the loss Is not 3et W - certalywd. A strong military guard was in attend ance. (treat difficulty wan experienced at first In getting water. At no time could all the steam flre engines have full play upon the flames, and It was ate in the evening before they were under full control The Smithsonian Institute. The Smithsonian institute was organized by act el Congress in April. ]5441, to carry into effect the pro. visions of the will of Mr. James Smithson, an Eng. Itch physicist, who died in Geneva lu 16g9. Mr. Smithson was the natural son of the third Dnke of Northumberland. Ito was educated at Oxford, where, In 17li, he took an honorary degree under the name of James Lewis Marie, bat soon afterwanl adopted the name of Smithson, the family name of lather, by which he was sunsequeffily known Several years before his death Mr. Smithson execu ted his will, In which. upon the occurrence of I•er tale contingencies, he bequeathed the whole of his property to the United States of America, to found .t Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institute,en establishment for the increase and dB . . lesion oknowiedge among men. The condition on *tich the bequest was to take effect In favor of the United States having °et:tarred In Ittitri by the deat't &a nephew of the testa Air without lean, the Gov ernmeni was officially notified of Its reversionary in . erect In the estate. The fact being communlmted to Congress, a joint committee recommended the acceptance• of the trust. It was accordingly Accept. -d, and Hon. Richard Rush was sent to •Eugland as commissions" to prosecute the claim. At the end 1 of eighteen months he was able to report the sue *caste! termination of his mission, and on Sept. 1, deposited in the United States mint the pro reeds in English sovereigns which yielded In recoin age tY.515,1611 lu April, ISAR, an act in eleven sections was passed organizing the Smithsonian Institution. The fourth, ffilh and sixth sections assigned the location nod gave power to erect a suitable building for the recep tion upon a liberal scale of objects of natural history, chemical laboratory, library, art gallery and lecture rooms. The entire cost of the - building, improve ments, eke. was about =von, but by careful Man ageultut of the Board of Regents, to whom the man agement of the Institution Is assigned, the original hind has increased by accruing interest to /16.55,000 A free library has been collected which is unequaled in this eountry as a resource for scientllle research, and happily this useful collection was Lived from destruction which yesterday threatened it. The Mu seum, which was also saved, bad attained a tnagnl tude and completeness seldom surpassed In collec tions for the-illustrations of natured science. Lec tures, chiefly on e;cleutific subjects, have been deliv ered every season to large audiences Prom every part of the country. The contributions of the Institu tion to science and art in this coentry have been most important ; and the destruction of so many of Its tine collections will be viewed us a national ca lamity. _ _ _ erp m Mexico Northern States of Mexico Ceded to Louis Na poleon.—Dr. Gavin the Governor-General of the emperor of the Preneh. BAN Fiuogotsco, Wednesday, Jan. 25th, 1865. The Demneratle Press, the Democratic paper of this city, which Is likely to be well eer:tainted with the views of Dr Garin and tile friends la this city, who arc numerous here, publishes the following state ments: .• We have refrained from Indult4inat In specula tions or expressing any opinion In reord to the ma ny reports and rumors relating to the position and det.igus ol Dr Gwln In %l- t 12,a until we could give the 'exact facts and Indisputhbly avouch for them.— Teta we tire now prepared to do by Information re— ceived from Barclay Henley, Esq., accredited agent ol Dr. Owin, under the protection of the Emperor of Me s I co. . . " Maximilian has conveyed by trust-deed to the Emperor Louis Napoleon Sonora, Senatolln, and other Northern Staten of Mexico,. the boundaries of whielt have nut yet been determined un, to be held and governed by the latter, under Mexican pro tection, as security for the payment of the claims of France against Mexico, the same to be restored to Mexico in lull upon the payment of the said claims, with all the private rights secured under French oc cupation continued " Dr. Groin is Governor-General or Vice-Secretary of the Emperor to the French, and Is invested with plenary powers for the government of the states which have been ceded, and the disposal of the pub lic lands and mines. . _ Dr. Gain has drawn np a code of laws, which have been approved by the Emperor of the French, of the most Itbend kindp,..rtsrantecing civil and reli gious liberty, providing for preemption purchase of the public lands, and regulating the tonna of occu pation and the use of (be mines. "Tne Emperor of the French guarantees a milita ry force, under the direction of the Governor Oener at, aullicieut to maintain the public peace, and de feral toe people of the States against internal and ex ternal force. " The policy of Dr. Owln, which bat the approval of both Emperors, is to encourage emigration from the American States by offering the most liberal terms to settlem,in order to bring intelligence, Indus try, energy and enterprise to the development of the well-known resources of that rt=ion, so bhshly fa vored by the natural advantages of soil, climate and mineral wealth, and to form an enlightened mid Olt,- stanlial population, which will assure permanency and security, and give strength and power to defend the State from fitibust/ ring expeditions, which the unappropnated riches and .amt barbarous condition Of the pcopie have heretofore invited. The Capture of Fort Fisher We are ail the more proud of the taking of Fort Fisher by a body of soldiers from the loyal start* for the reason that In Its capture General Terry and lus men bare what the French cad " done the Im pp In the report of Admiral Porter, pub• itched in this journal two or three days since, awak ing; of that fort, he says: " Mute works are tremendous. I was in Fort Malakoff a taw days altar Its surrender to the French and &apish. Toe combined armies of the two na tions were many months capturing that stronghold, and it will not compare In gee or strength to Fort Fibber." This'estimate of the strength of the works which we baVe captured Is c'edltable to Admiral Porter's candor. It seems fatly to exonerate General Bottler from blame, fn declining to entpose his men o must have seemed the certain danger of being slaugh tered in an assault upon a stronghold more difficult to reduce than even that fortress In the Crimea which for so many months defied the assaults of the combined armlets of the tvro greatest powers of West ern Europe, and for a long time seemed Impregna ble. If General Welted, an experienced engineer, gave General Butler the same idea of the prodigious end eptralling strength of Fort Fisher that Admiral Portee r givesin his report, there ea. be no wonder that, with but a handful amen in comparison with the captors of Malakoff; It was. deehted to refrain from the assault. Tee fort has Dental:en, however, by a marvellous conjunction of heroism and ',mod fortune.—N. Y. Eve..ll.st. Dizcomfitiare at Blockade-Runners— Positive Capture of Three of Them. POUTKIMS Motown, Thursday, Jan. 24. The gunboat !Ounce arrived at Bort Flaber ti le morningwith a partion fit the crews of the blockade. runners 'Stag awl Charlotte, captured on the inst Inst., while endeavoring to run into Wilmington with cargoes of rifles, blankets, tte., , being Ignorant of the occupation of fort Fisher by our forces. The night M•tore the capture of th6te redacts, the blockade runner Owl, commanded 147 Capt. Wit, eiw , e very near matting a aiming mistake, but sus• p . ,-ct lag 'something wrong, AA ht. supposed, In the of our forces, main Our escape and succeeded' Ir. Audip,,4 the, vigilance of our croincrs, on the alert for _ bluets add. runner& duother,blueltade-runner Wad, however, captured On Just Sunday morning, off fort Fisher, but bur name was not aseertalhed. A POOR RICIJ Marl to this city, who has he4l)subpored to ,bo very deb, took n note to one Or our bahlif, a reit days since, to be discuunted, istkeis it ow rifused, became from. Ida return of tu• hi#P4Fil ropoiLeiblUttrif 1141000,0 go* tro4itop.maivirorna GREAT NAVAL BATTLE Rebel Iron-Clad Attack on City liaint.—The EntLre Rebel Fleet Engaged.--Thetr Maas. trees. Repulse by the Fortahe Iron.Cind Tlrgtala Destroyertro OtherspaininOti and Run Aground.—Agseape of the Remain. der. WASIIINGTON, WcdnesdDy, Jan. 25th, 1865 The Star says:—" Dispatches reeelced here state that yesterday morning at I! o'clock a rebel fleet of dye vessels—the Richmond Squadron, so long being prepared—came down the river to destroy our de pot. and works at City Point. The Mei water caused by the freshet ernalped them to pass the obstructions which our commanders had placed above City Point; for the bet ter protection of the place. A battle quickly ensued .between the rebel fleet and our nearest battery or fort, in whirls one of the rebel vessels was blown up and Instantly.and entire ly destroyed, while two others were so badly dam aged by shot and shell as to compel them to seek safety by speedy flight back In the direction of Rich mond; accompanied by the other two, which escaped damage to speak or Admiral Farragut left here yesterday evening for the scene of tale action, and It is understood that he will at once assume naval command there. WIBLILNOTON, 3tonday, Jan. Md, The Time, special correspondent, at City Point, states that the idea entertained at headquarters of the descent of the rebel fle.t, which ended so disas trously to the rebels in the sinking of the chief iron clad, the I ovisia, and the disabling, end running lir:round of the other two, is lhat the effort was en the part of Lee an attempt to raise a great hullabaloo, under ewer of which he would evacuate Richmond.— The evidence daily accumulates that the trbel chiefs would now be Very gLal to withdraw themselves and the only remaining army of the rebellion safely from liqt it in too late to - etlect this design. THE PEACE BUBBLE Result of Mr. Blair's Admlla It to bee A Pallurc."...The Terms of Jeff. 1/Avis.— Independence First and an Armistice Nest,. Spirit of the Rebel Press on Peace. S'pccial DiApatch of the Sena York 11mr..1 WASHINGTON, Friday, Jan. 27. 1 The peace bubble that has fur ten days past floated en brilliantly before the gaze of men, has to day come to a sudden collapse. Late last evening Francis I'. Blair, at., returned from Richmond. and l.rought with him precisely what sensible wen expected—that is, just nothing,. Ile brouttlit neither olive branch is his hand, Peace Commissioners under his cloak, re.r a treaty in his pocket. tits mitsiou, so tar as practi cal mai:life are concerned, bt, iu fact, as Mr. Blair ex pressed liltunell to-day, " a total failure." Thnt Jeff. Davisdesires peace, his own oft-repeated official annouueementn leave us no room to doubt: but we bow know that as condition preced , ut to any overture looking to this cud, he demands, tßrst, that negotiations shalt be conducted AS between two independent nationalities ; and, second. that peed big each negotiations an armistice shall be proclaim- ed. Neither or these propositions, it need be raid, can be accepted try this GOvvrnmvut, To yield rittirr would be, in tact, to surrender the whole i‘sue al the war. There is not the staglitvot diaponitiun on the part ol the Adwtuiatration to du one or the other. The dominant tone of the rebel chiefs is substan-, tiaby Indicated In a semi-official utterance published in Jett Dania' (won, at the %cry time Mr. Blair wan In Richmond. It is declared lu the distinct alteruu iadependentr or subjvano.." In such au al ternative there is no room fur healtatiou ou our part. Turning aside, therefore, from this dream of peace, which has for a lime beguiled so many, the nation soberly addrexeca itself to the work of war, through a continued vigorous prosecution of which a satis factory peace can alone be obtained. The rebellion will be raided as most rebellions are ended, by iater raa d..rraptana nod collapse. It will leave uo treaty in history'T—uo treaty in which the names of "Jefferson Davis and "A ssham Lincoln" will appear as ar , bitrators of Very HoneMl Dianatch PIIILADELPIA, Friday, Jan'y 27th, The following la a epeelal dispatch to the Phila. delpala Eevaing Telegraph: WASHINGTON, Friday, Jan'y 27th, IS6I. It is now definitely known that Mr. Mar's mis- 810 U to ltielunond ha been crowned with complete Surreal'. Mr. Davis elated distinctly to Mr. Blair that he would couctudepeace and return to the Union upon terms, that would he perleetly satisfactory to Mr. Lincoln and Gongres. Mr. their also Imd au interview with Gen'l Lee, who avowed himself desirous of ending the rebel by laying down their arms and returning to the Union. Mr. Blair also conversed with a majority of the rebel Congressmen, who represented themselves as in favor 01 abandoning further hostilities. .... . There can be no donut hat in u day or two at the farthest commissioners will reach Washington to bring trout tlie repentant ichele renewed allegiance to the Union, Constitution and the laws. Mr. Blair experienced the kindest of treatment at the hands of the authorities, and reports that since the reduction of Fort Fisher an entire revulsion in public opanon has taken place. Tue most extreme advocates of "fighting it out to the bitter end" now admit the hopelessness of their Cana, The probability of an early peace was freely dis cons,A in leading social and political circles In Richmond, and n general ireling ol Joy and relief r,,,altui trout the rapid clreulailon ol the informa tion. Return of Francis P. Blair. BALTIMORE, Thurnd■y, January ihitit, 18G5. A apcsdal dispatch to the American from Annum.- Ils, eaye: '• Ron. Mr. Blair arrived here this afternoon at 4 p. m. Ile lett Richmond yesterday. Ile is under stood to report that among many of the leaders in Ri ebuioud, Jett. Davie Included, there is a etrong tenting toward makteg peace on the beet t.-rula they can.' The Victory at Fort Fisher Our Losses only 119 Killed snd 535 Wounded —We Captured Mt Guns. [OFFIGLAL. I FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GEN. DIX. WAR DEPARTMENT, WARRINGTON, Jan. 24, '65 Gen. Uta —The lollowing telegram has been received by this Department I rom.Lieut.-Gen. Grant. Eowi:v IL STANTON, See qf /Var. CITY PO/NT, VA., Jan. 23d, 1b65. lion. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secrrlary of War: One of my staff has itt,t returned from Fort Fisher with dispatches from Gen. Terry, from which I ex tract the following: On the 16th the enemy blew up Forts Caswell and Campbell, and abandoned them and the works on dadth's Inland, and those at Sudthville and Reeve's Point. These places were occupied by the Navy.— rhole number of gone captured amounts to le . A large number of email arms also fell Into our bands, berldes quantities of ordnance and commissary stores. . . Our easualtle. prove smaller than nt first reported. They foot op thus: 12 °liken and 107 tnen killed; 45 officers and 490 men wounded. Sheridan to Command the Army of the Potomac N , Awithstanding the denial attributed to General Meade that he has been rerno‘ed Imm the command of the Army of the Potomac, it is well understood here that the two armies of the James and of the Potomac hut. been consolidated, and that Sheridan has been selected to commend theta, and that au other command or new duties have been assigned to General Meade. The time has at last come to bring about peace by hard, smashing' lighting, silt' the odds in our favor, and Phil. Sheridan is put Into the North side of the ring. Sig beta are made here that be will knock Lee out of time In the first round.— Washington (,r. Large Incomes The New York World publishes the list of Income tax payers in that city, greatly to the disgust of said tax-payers and In spire of the prohibition of George P. Putnam, the collector, who thinks the law require g the tax books to be open to the In spection of the public, more honored In the breach wan the observance. Some of the large Incomes are A. T. Stewart, the great dry goods merchant, $1 - 843,637, Moses Taylor 537,491, T. M. Taylor 105,1X10, C. L Tdfany, the Jeweller, 63,903, W. 11. Appleton, photogmpb album manufacturer, 05,147, John Ja cob Astor Jr, IX),101, Rufus T. Andrews, United States surveyor, 21,010, Isaac Bell 18,0(X), George Bliss 149,980, George Bliss Jr., 7,319, Hobert Bon ner, publisher of Gm Ledger, 25,0( 1 0, Rev. W. 124146 5192, Iliram Barney, United Stateseollector, 30,025, August Belmont, banker and leader of the democratic party. 100,M , Leonard W. Jerome, bro. ker, 100,000 ,. C. Delmouleo, the restaurant man, 70,- 653, Julio J. Chico, late: essisbint ITtilledStatess trlMS urer. 12,521, Gen. DI: 4.250, William E,Dmige 3%2,- 717, Fietpher Harper, publisher, 9,000, Joseph W. Harper 3,039, chilled Low 77,313, ellya Louise Kel logg, the prima donne, 2,400, George Law 59,443, B. T, Morgan 134,17.18, cx- Gov. Morgan 110000, R. B. Minium 30,500, Eilword Minturu 57,899, ex-Mayor (h-urge Opdykc 112,800, W. Yermilye, banker, 70,- 178, I/ A. Williamson 4,0'14, Calvert Vaux, the archi tect, 3,87-1, Jervis McEntee, artist, 2,103. -Gov. Wise, of. Virginia, Ming John Brown at flarpur's Ferry. One good turn - deserves another. The Governor's farm, some eight miles south of Nor folk, has been connarnted by the Government, and several schools for eoutrabands!established upon It. The teack , ers make the family mansion their real deuce, and m the parlor John Brown is hang again —but lu a laurel wreath. Tao soul that la " march• log on" has traversed the-Old Dominion, land will presently Mute swing on unl ittlantleettast. —A Connecticut man baaluvkatill a watch which Is eh:nisi. In' lin an:clank= than ordinary watches, w U l ' rl2l3' three 44 4 0 ihy-50540 4 . 01 41 visit visik wiat iot --Sixteen years ago General Grant was setting type n an Ohio printing office. —Within the past eight months upwards of four hundred papers have dted "in consequence of the eaurbitant price of printing paper. —After a deice straggle the House has passed the joint resolution seducing the duty on foreign print ing paper to three per cent ad valorem. Toronto; papers say that the story that 6 num• ber of gunboats were coming from England for ser vice on the the lakes, Is untrue. —lt Is stated that In the late memorable conflict at Fort Fisher, the agenta of the United States Sani tary Commlision effected a landing no the day of the battle, and were on the hospital ground with ample supplies several hours before the wounded arrived. , —The ArtnstrOng gem which wascaptured at Fort Fisher, was-the one which was presented by the manufacturer, Sir William Armstrong, to Jeff. Davis. A soldier describing It, says It " It is by all odds the handsomest gun I ever saw, being entirely of twist wrought iron, and mounted on a magnificent solid . mahogany carriage," The. Whilington Chronicle says that Maj..Genemi Butler, In pgrsuance of orders, will soon leave for his home In Lowell, Mass., with the kindest feeling for Mr. Lincoln and his Administration, and that he will there' await any call the Executive may make. —A diipatch from Washington announces that It appears froin a communication or the Secretary of War, that the entire subject of an exchange of pris oner.; is noW placeo in the hands of Merit 'General Grant; and ithat, although only partial cichanges have thus far been made, there Is reason to believe a full eachangetyliksoott be effucted. Fortygueirillas under Pratt and Stegregor, on Tuesday, made a dash Into Bardstown, Ky.,fur the purpose of recovering one of their men conined in the jail of that place. The guerrillas set the depot ollb tire and It was burned to the ground. They were dually routed and driven from the town. The pur suit was continued until dark. —lt Is officially proclaimed that the Ciovernment have now a reserve of I.AOOO serviceable ihorses, over those Ih servlae In the various military branches. An order to suspend further purchases W. 6 made some weeks since. The Canadian Attorney-General on Wednesday placed before Parliament a bill for the.prevention and suppression of outrages on the frontier, and the manufacture and shipment of arms for nnlaa fat pur poses; and providing for the seizure and examina tion of suspected vessels, and giving notice to per sons proving unworthy of the hospitality of thecoun try to remove from it. —Gen. Terry was not only confirmed he the Sen ate as Major-General of Volunteers, but was nomi nated sa a Brigadier in the Regular Army. He was confirmed without reference. The that Instance un der the Government In which a volunteer,was thus snatched to the bosont of the Regular Army from that leveL Rh appointment as Brigadier last au tumn was due to Gen. Butler's persistent efforts to have his ollautry rewarded. —A son of Herschel V Johnsen, who Is an of. firer in Hood's army, writes trom that baud of de moralized scamps to his father, that the people of . Allatits, instead of looking upon the Confederate I government as a protection, ace in it nothing but a great t) rant crushing them to death. He expresses the opinten that the war will stop within thirty days after the 4th of March, for the Southern people will come back on any terms, —The Rebel Congress has passed the bill (by an almost unanimous vote in each house) creating the otilee of Commander-In-Chief, with the moat Impel• stable addition, for Davis, that Joe Johnson ought to he restored to active command. One of the Richmond papers of late date has a doleful article recommending the impressment of all the cotton in the rebel Buttes and the abandonment. of slavery; In short, 'anything and everything for the sake of seeming foreign recognition. General Sherman writes privately to high officials meet endonnsging views of the situation of South Carolina. There is no point of Importance in that State that does not Ile at his mercy. Lite Richmond papers announce that seven days ago he was at Mc- Pbersonville, forty miles Irom Branchville, and there In no doubt that he is by this lime In possession of that point. Panic prevails throughout South Caro lina. —A steamer from Mobile arrived at this port yesterday, bringing 1.000 bales of cotton on account of the Rebel Government, to be disposed of here and the proceeds to be invested in blankets and other creature homforts for rebel prisoners now held in confinement in the North. That amount of cotton ought to bring two or three hundred thousand blankets, which, in case of an immediate and full exchange of prisoners, would make a handsome ad dition tolhe wardrobeof Lee's armv.—N. Y. Tribune, —The Government has received information that the Canadian authorities are determined to remove all causes of dissatisfaction on the part of this coun try, growing out of recent occurrences. They have determined to remove Judge Coursol from ofil , e, and to make themselves responsible for the return of the mousy stolen from the Bt. Albans banks. This will probably lead to the spot dy abrogation of the pas. port system so far as It relates to Canada. A Special dispatch to the Eeeninu flag says: " The Committee on the Conduct of the War have completed the investigation of Gen. Butler's con duct in'the that attack upon Wilmington. Their report will soon be presented to the House, and will completely exonerate the General." —The latest telegrams from Gen. Fry add 14,000 to the quota of the state of New York under the De cember Pill, making it 01,010, which is divided as follows: Smithern Division, First to Tenth Con gressional District Inclusive, 25,6:11; Northern Eleventh to Twentieth District•, 14,'2'6; and Western Division, Twenty-first to Thirty.tirst Dla tricte, 13,179 --A Missouri Postmaster thus certifies to the correctness of his official returns: I hereby certif . ) that the four going A Counte In as near Site as I now how to matte it if there Is any mistake it is not Dun a purgers." —The Vice President elect Andy Johnson, will leave Nashville for the National capital at the be ginning of February, and on his tour visit some ol the western, middle and eastern States. It Is more than probable he will tarry a few bouts In Harris burg, when the opposition In the Legislature can again vote against allowirnt him the use of the cap :tot In which to address his friends. —Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, In his speech In the Home on tie. Reconstrneflon Bill, reproduced a etrikieg incident from the history of Tennessee. In 11531, when the State constitution was undergo- log revision, petitions were rent in from sixteen counties, signed In many Instances by slaveholders, and pre} lug that the slaves might be freed by the year ism. Man was deaf, but God heard. The time and the event have come together. —The cavalry expedition of 109 men, consisting of detachments of the Sthlllinole, tinder command of Col. Clendenin, and the 13th and 16th New York, ender CoL Gansevoort. which started from Prospect Hill, Va., has returned, having scouted through Fairfax and London counties, as far np as Warren ton. They found no large bodies of rebels In a'me, but brought in 52 horses and 41 prisoners. Daring Friday Col. Clendenin . with his command, dashed into Leesburg and captured a mall carrier with let ters from men in Itosser's Walston of rebel cavalry now stationed to the Einenandloah. to parties In London county. In this expedition the Union troops did noVluse a single man. —Gar. Smith, of Rhode Island, has issued a oro clamatlon, announcing that the quota of the Slate under the lust roll has been filled by volunteer en listmeets, and no draft will be made in Rhode Is land. lie adds: "The Executive Is gratified to be able to- again assure the good people of the State that they are ware from a draft, and urges them to use every means to promote enlistments; and while sustaining the bright record of our State, to encour age out noble regiments in the army, which have on every field, reflected credit upon themselvea and Rhode Island." —One of the results of Secretary Stanton's visit to Savannah is to solve the doubt as to the soundness of General Sherman on the negro question. This suldierle views and policy are those of the Govern ment. Hie treatment of the negroes of Savannah has inspired them with confidence, and they rely on him wholly. Ile has borne in his heart a great aehetec for the beneat of their race le Georgia, and it is Undenttood that the country will be elec trified in a few days by an order from him partition ing among them the abandoned Sea Island property of fugitive rebel planters, and establishing them In their new freehold,, and laying the foundation of a new. social condition in tbo South, whose super strnetUre but few politicians in the country are now permuted clearly to see. —During the recent rebel occupation of Matta aille, Ala., Rev Mr. Bannister prayed for the" Presi dent of therConfederate States," hut has since re fused to offer up any supplication in behalf of Mr. Lincoln. Colonel Ramey, of the 18th hilchhom, who is new Proyost.Marshal of liontaville, !sent for him and demanded an explanation of his conduct. Re said that the canons of his church required him to pray for the President of the Confederate States. " Very well," said the Colonel, "the cannon of our army require you to pray for the President of the United States, and if you refuse to do it you will leave our Ilnea." He has got ten days to pack up. U. S. WIANT, Littd.-Gen ()trod Fisher and the adjoining works, Common dare Porter rays that their strength was "greatly he' ond vb. 4 tie had conceived. An engineer", ho adds, " intKlet be excusable in saying they could not be capturea except by regular siege. I wonder even now how it was done." This voluntary justification of the withdrawal of tlen. But ler—for such, no doubt, It was Intended to be—ls wrrthy of the proverbial franknpas of a sailor. Geo. Butter, 'lt will be remem bered. had neither siege train nor entrenching tools, commanded a mach smaller force than Gen. Terry, and hart an enemy to confront outside the tort stranger than his own command. lint history will set s ha t matter right in due smison.—Tribrese.- - the &I press of New York scatters Its knee very t rough the West.' Mr. Greeley's Weekly Trilmea got* everywhere, but the metropolitan dallies act westward only until, like a tide streak, they meet the counter current of the Cincin nati press, chiefly: The Commercial and Mis Gamete; whicti; in turn, cover the coiudry as p the waters do the pc* .they meet man ne r, delrcad. Chicago hi rthicie; w ch, In like divides the South siestiritti the 131. Louie Republican and opecuterat. All these journals are able and Intluen tiiii--grotring rich faster , than their brethren f la o Now Tatit t - The' t whJeh the; Ner4 Pt* 441110141114$ News Items. In the West, an Influence not directly upon tie people but upon tlid journals. But even Oils Ir. ducnce Is diminishing, not Increasing. New York perhaps will always remain the metropolis of ti Union; but it can never become like Par 6 to prune, —Western neirspapers are publishing, with OEMs eraUou of belief, the report that Rirby Smith, the. Rebel General commandleg the Thine Misaisstrpi Department, la going to Mexico with his army tn join Maximilian. This story find* absolute credence among St. Louis rebels, and the Cincinnati Commer cial thinks it worthy of consideration. The Commer dal remarks: "It may be observed that Indications have long been apparent of some peculiarities in Kirby Smitlestlepartment. ft is whispered latterly, and the whisper comes from the direction of Mexico and the , French people of LonisLana, that an Inde pendent movement In ask the )watstrince of France, and take refuge under the protection or Napoleon, has been Inaugurated in-the Southwest. The story Is, that the proposition amounts to giving to the French, Texas as a cotton colOny, as the price of re. cognition of the Southern Coritederacy, or err/weight of State scestsion. If Napoleen recognizes the right of a State to secede from the United States, he will have - no difficulty tn recognizing the•ht of the same State to leave the Confederacy and put Itself under his protection." It is plausibly observed, to support of these mysterious Intimations: the , ' the correspondence ofJ. P. Benjamin, while Secretary at State, captured off Charleston, (In a dispatetehas Intrusted to Reid N. Sanders, eon of George N., San ders,) show that events of the French Government did broach the subject nearly two years ago. gavatis , gnu. FOR SALE CHEAP ! TINKLE & LYON P cwiscs MACULNE. Engulf* at th A I ern sins DIGCr ItRIIIItII . /131 Mee. Montrose. JlOl. y th, Irtett.4l( FOR SALE! AO.l nem-m.llth Cow. Esaulre at tee Isatirrazrt flu 1.10.0. Ottlce 34 omt roec. 15(.5.-tt HORSE THIEVES! T ;TIM' " I"' very smell premim. ell ' lon i.l3lifiatoLvls, At'jc Also, and tire Immune...llva. Montrose. Jan. aith. OW. Mr GOODS FALLING. BRING In yorr GREEN-BACKS. or other cord money. L e, gat a share.. 1664. Or J. (gib &SOL Mamma, Jas aXI2, WOODEN HENS' EGGS, FOR REST EGG S ••WELL ce se ottattd to demise the LIES& Throe `ear` • umlauted sot It 'lra& Or 1112011. and VIII be e 006041.4 t,e those that ',ln—" even up." Fur ale a Crorstlatfs Vats, Facture. Moms , le. Pt, Atoutmes, Jan. 20th, 1565.4 w C. 31. CRA.NDALL, 31 - A b NII I ZN , TLR , V Ic or Llnon-whoota; Wool Yrhrela , In Blenent , s• manner. 'Lurnl . 4 4 ;iho W p and ood t aTacel Faeto th I ry o In :fayo you• dry Bu dint. op ataln Mov.tone. January COO. 1,343.-If , TO WHOM IT MAY CONCEIN. ALL per.orm are b•reby fartli barbortng or trwolng my wife Percl•l • Jane Pamato on ray .0:41113t. 1 'FM o t p 7 .ry ts of c-mtenelot 14.111Q4 FAILNeII Kenos, Jan. 30104113013.-4• To LOST, Bi , TWBEN New Milford and Brooklyn. on eatortlay. Jan Slat. a sloth) cox after eresperoent Watola, Invicot • sena. or ellver colored Nice. The ender will he liberally raw.rded er , eg notice to tbe subcriber at North Orwell, Bradford co, , North Orwell. Jan. tOth, 1913.-wwp JAN. BlNft. PUBLIC VENDUE. T HE 71r" ale c!g."`tli 11. T tee fellow= pro perty t l one pa , r matched baraca comtag loy clxt ' r!:• matched mite. Raldlear. col two; cow; h2B ' 8 1;`• ,;;.' ner wagon, 1 market wagon.] bum, cotter 1 abt draft BO: bard mower. 1 pet doubt, ham", one set lbiltt humeri, /MY. eve oar; rye, buckwheat, founder ateralkk &e. TM - MS.—All rums under $5. earn down ; CM,. It.. months' cora, olelt thereat and approves! seaulzy. Brooklyn, Tan." 46, 063.4.rp J. 11. SMITH VALUABLE BEAL ESTATE FOR SALE. to TO:able lumber oral wad lot In Lathrop tollseehlp. Panzat 7. ts. c..xinty, Pa.. enotaining atone KO *ark with a good dwrlhe home and torn thereon. and shoot lee ears 10 grew. On all pay- •• I env h a goal Essunill and beihmlll, mashie of.eultlng 'OO.OOO Se of lumber per year. T. outman ts witldn two miles of filcher., .' Station, on the le. L. et W. Railroad. A good lead Inns thwod th• whole propony. There Is wood and lumber enough .0 It to sal for It twice over. A tare thanes—will be wild low, estate.) toms ALSO, the Gum kestwo as the • fassolre Roberts Plum," le NIA tls Wyoming ctxtoty, Pa., mintaluleg about SOO aura Ili Wirt rona Nicholson .itsdon, lying nude Tougher:none Creek ; short 13.) acres of dal land :the bal•oce op land—a verldextrable prt.Terty,' A LSO. a vaheahle 11111 morerty. ohs Z11611'0132 Mrsetnase. Otto • outlet of Jo .es's Laktelne of • crielmell and wormill, cd about V) son. of land, `with the water power. The gristmill Is see dola gad engem busionn,and level adapted Ihrfoercrant wort' A ore, a vsluslie farm one ogle from Ifoutroatacootalrdeg eau acra Flftyacree of choke wood land: the Waage Imprastl.: This hum Is well fenced lath good done wad..ool watered..ol2. o high state of cultivation ; Is cstrahle of lumping bout forty te,,, fifty covre—a eery dadrable propene. X ALSO a noose and lot to the B•rymhed Ilontnee, frond. slf , the Poetic *mare Toe lot contidesabout 15csace of lead, eh), 1,, barn and e-eued thin dladdebeil by the artkin they =thin ow owl War, and, Una& eosnotlinee doyen with erelonlor. thin any se• th eye then treat be the different eland points , , width ey are written. be read and studied with adrattelte bt wayward& touthy,,Of entry and and party. THE FOUR REVIEWS FOR 1863 • •• Altrw topknot' Ow above rinuhs oq hand, and will be sold a for the when seer. or Plan any one. . We oleo puhlleb the • . . • FAIIIIIIEWS GUIDE, 7. l'AingtrlnoloritnitoYbuNtin7lir Pia:a4trng K rittSlC ST bribe two votamei—b, mil. post pad, LEON*RO SCOTT & CO.,Publtsbas. no. 38 Walker Street,Ness York. -2" A; BOGH BINDING. - mrfleT at Wilet9.lMbrar FOB SALV. ►nile sotualbo. wonl4 Gra fin We Ids Pork kihrun WOW / 6 teen Waabbare Earm, eonWintnx ow hundred and ha , lua ACICA. With appropriate Imbibes. Vol patt.rnlan 1.4.1"" the satanlber ontae tam. - li. ORILLA,. ahem; Ya., Jan. IS t 11145.—e1p.' . , • - wrArrkE ... D, . . BT.& iroErNo lutc...nd la. • restittata or Wren'. Oxus* clal tbUegt, • oltasUot at that Of boot tom.. Use k.i some uteMeaco. AALIMost • • : • 0,. 11.111iital LIM ~. J•14.14.1145.—wl - - , . aloatrosnri — 1 , , FOR _SALE. •FillrrnarOVi - 1 aV~ r tes iIriOXOL S A uu glt i mi c i,"4,iik . 'p a . jaw , r0a d .... ; 3. L.!. 11111.011SRA Fotlisakwiteat. ihuat4ww. El 0 ra oI otu le I 1