The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-02-21
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| viding government Iof INT AoAiisoiJ VI
was nsssed. The bill enabling the people Of Ne
vada Territory to take preparatory steps for being
admitted into the Union was reported back. SINH
lar bills relative to Nebraska and Colorado were
1 reported The Annual Post Route bill was passed;
also the bill providing for the appointment OF an
Assistant Treasurer and additional clerks. The
joint resolution directing the payment of troops
in hospitals and convalescent camps within sixty
days was adopted, and Committees of Conference
on the Indemnity and Finance bills were ordered
In the House of Representatives, the bill to es-
tablish uniform national currency was passed as
ii came from the Senate, by vote OF Is against
IA The bill to construct wagon road from West
Point to Cornwall Landing was passed. The
Senate Post Office Reform bill was taken up and
several amendments adopted, among them one
establishing postal money order system.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Captain A. DeGroot's new steamer, Jacob d.
Vanderbilt, just completed, has been purchased by
the government and renamed the United States
steamer General Hunter, and is to be the flagship
for General Hunter and staff. She leaves for Hill
ton Head this morning.
The Aldermanic Committee on Railroads held
meeting yesterday, to hear parties for and against
the proposed route Of the railroad through West,
South and other streets in the upper part Of the
city. Several persons opposed its passage through
Fifty-ninth street, on the ground that the street
was too narrow for a double track, and that it
would be injurious to property. Others advocated
it as the proper route. The committee adjourned
to the call Of the chair.
In the Supreme Court yesterday Mr.. James T.
Brady made his argument on the motion for q
mandamus in the case Of the Fort Gansevoort pro-
perty.
The wills of the following named persons have
been admitted to probate:-Phila P. Lowell, John
Clarke, w. Smith, C. T. Lewiness, Elisha Peck,
William Van Wrinkle, Thomas Frazer, James Gar
ner, Henrietta Fieches, Catherine Fish and Sophia
Druchl.
In the Court Of General Sessions yesterday,
before Recorder Hoffman, Francis Reichert,
German, thirty-three years of age, was tried for
Grand larceny, in stealing jewelry and money to
the amount Of 1923, on the sth of January last,
from 1913 West Twenty ninth street. The evidence
of defendant's guilt being very slight, the jury,
after short absence, brought in verdict Of not
guilty, and Reichert was accordingly discharged.
Some of the copperhead journals are raising
hue and cry over the dispersion of what they call
the Democratic State Convention of Kentucky by
military authority. The people must not be deceiv
ed by these denunciations. The convention was
not democratic gathering. 1t was composed en-.
tirely of secessionists, and such was denounced
beforehand by all the conservative leaders and
journals in the State. It was recommend
ed and supported by only one paper, and
that was the Frankfort Te0mda, the rebel
organ of the late rebel Governor, Berish Ma
Coffin The convention OF the democratic par.
ty proper has not yet been called; but when the
representatives of that organization do assem-.
bic we arc confident the meeting will be peaceful
and uninterrupted, and the candidates they may
nominate will be certain of election.
Hon. Martin F. Conway, member Of Congress
from Kansas, has been requested by resolutions
passed in the Legislature Of the State to resign.
The stock market was generally better yesterday,
though there still hesitation the dealings.
Gold 183sl closing at 1881. "a Exchange was
inactive at 1z9 4. Money tolerably easy at
| per cent
The brcadstufs trade less active yesterday, and
prices were generally lower Provisions freely pur
chased and prices tending upward for pork and
beef though less buoyapt for lard Sugars and whskey
in fair demand. Metals more active. good
business reported in hay, hides hops oils, fish, tai
steady but engagements lighter. The changes
in other branches Of trade were unimportant.
The Union or DissOlution-The Issue
with Our Fleets and Armies In the
Field.
The leading Organs of the rebellion are vain
ly endeavoring to DIV consolation from the
elements Of discord, mutiny and revolution
which are beginning to manifest themselves be-
tween the abolition fanatics and the so-called
copperhead peace democratic faction of the
North Thus the Richmond Examiner, the
boldest and ablest of all the journals devoted
to the despotism Of JEFF. Davis, while it recog-
| nizes some cause for congratulation in "North-
ern divisions" is still forced to the conclusion
| that the danger" to the rebellion "does not
consist in anything that the people or the legis-
| lative bodies OF the United States can do" but
that it is the powerful military Gordon Of our
| fleets and armies "that endangers the existence
of the confederacy.'
In following up this substantial idea, this
rebel philosopher further says, that "no politi-
cal events can stay the blow that is now fall
ing;" that these Union armies "are vast ma
chimes, now in full movement, and their
career can only be stopped by shattering
against our lines" that "the destiny Of
the South will be decided by events, the sue
cession Of which is now beyond the control Of
the will Of man." that il "the Southern regi-
ments are full and strong in the next month
! and are able to convert the coming battles into
victories, the life Of the nation (the Davis con-
fsderacy) is saved" but that, "if the federal
hosts can take Vicksburg or gain any other de-
cisive success, this coniederacy is in greater
danger than ever before"
Here we have, in other words the confession,
from a leading rebel organ at Richmond, that
the cause of the rebellion is now in q more
critical situation than ever before, and that if
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