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twenty Thousand Dollars Lost I'm .
Gambling House.

CoMPL Amt AGAINST THE GAMBLERS-Two or THM
ARRESTED; ETC. -'ssi4ss -, : :. u
Mr. Rafael 0rte7a, Spanish gentleman, residing =
Morrsania, westchester county recently appeared be-
fore yysilee Hogan and preferred complaint againee
three men. sn5ah IL George iil g. shsnsr nd Sto11s
Andrews, whom be charges with keeping and maintah
ing gambling house the second floor Of promises No.
23s Broadway, where money lost and won at the gss
Of "faro" Mr.. ortsga In his andavit further swesrs
tina, between the 1st day Of February aud the last day
Of December $685. he lost in that house BY betting 81
the game Of "fsron the Of $40 900 and upwards o.
this complaint the magistrate issued hts warrant tho
arrest OF Hin, shafcr and Andrews and placed 10 the
hands Of Captain JourdAn OF the Sixth preoint police ot
execution. Andrews and Sbaner were found with0ue
trouble but Hin has not yet been arrested The preoo.
ers held for examination, which will take place
eoYne day next week
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VoIDNTEERlNG.-Everye effort should be made
to help along the enlistments, in order that the
quota Of the city and county may be filed and
a resort to the draft be rendered unnecessary.
The Supervisors committee are earnestly at
work, and the citizens of New York and the
public press should aid the cause by every
means in their power. We are glad to receive
information that the State bounty of seventy
five dollars to recruits, on being mustered into
service, will henceforth be promptly paid and
arrearages attended to. This is as it should be-
All doubt and uncertainty about the receipt OF
the bounties are now removed and addi-
tional inducements are offered TO those
bringing in recruits. The small number neces
sary to complete the quota should and can be
raised within the coming week if the exertions
of the Supervisors committee are responded to
in proper manner.
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Ssvs FROM rHe SOUTHWEST.

aeoorts re xarding 0snerai snsrman's
acknowledgements OF Five Rebel
G~nboats at s.>Ina, Ais.-slassacre or
. Company or CSs0rcd Soldiers Near
0raad Lake. Miss., So. &c.
CAIRO, Ill.,, March z, 1854.
Tue steamer Golden Eagle from Memphis for Cinciu.
natl passed with SOC bales Of cotton on board
Aprivats letter. dated Memphis. February. 90, from
an ofioer ct Vioksburg, writing on the 22d, says
We hear nothing Of dsaaite character from General
sherman but doubt he possession OF sama,
Alabama
It Is said that General sherman captured dvs rebel
gunboats al Selma
rebel brigade ls between vcksburg- and Jackson.
Washineson's Birthday was celebrated at yicksburg
In hne manner All the troops were reviewed by Gen.
Macarthur.
Tue clerk q the steamer Priagls makes tue following
statement
While the steamer Pringe was sorag!ug expedition
to Johnsons plantation Tscumseh landing ave miles
above Grand Lake. Mississippi. the 14th Of February
band OF sixty we'll mounted and well armed guerlllas,
dressed in Union uniforms surprised company OF the
First Mississippi (Unen) colcred infantry, who wore
standing guard about mile and half from che main
body Of the foragtng party, capturing and dsarming
thsm before assistance could be rendered all were
killed MORALLY wounded, except two. who fegued
death-Iieutenant Coz and Sergeant Spencer
Some of the negroes were pinned 10 the ground win
bayones had their brains Knocked out and others
shot through the head while their kuees begging
for quarter.
The guerillas escaped without losing man.
After the dead had buried the prncsly mansion
around which the guard had been posted and al
lowed to previous TO the slaughter Of troops
fired by the gaerl,as and its magnificent furniture
consumed.
Four thousand bushels OF corn taken from crib
containing fifteen thousand bushels whom the forsgiug
party returned to vicksburg.
Four hundred guerlas, Of whom the murderers were
part reported by citizens 10 be eucampeda short
distance back in the country from Tecumseh landing.
By the arrival OF the steamer Empress we have Nov
Orleans dates Of the Esd Of February.
The voteof the State OF louisiana as far as re
ceved is 0,293. Hahn's majority for Governor over
Tellowes is 3,542 Flanders 1895, and over both
1y27 The other candidates the free State ticket
elected by about the same majority.
The Empress has very large cargo Of sugar aud mo-
lasses Tor Cairo and other points.
The Memphis cotton market Is active at Csc. for gooc
mddlng. 6tc coc strictly N. iiIing aud 62c CSC for
middliug.
Sherman Reported Bound to Mobile.
CAIRO March 3, 1864
A comes from vicksburg. by the steamer Misss
sppi, from Now Oreans that General sherman, having
returned from Meridian had Ia the direction ant
was within forty miles or, Mobile. No dates given
and the report cannot be traced to reliable
Adjutant General Thomas leaves here 70 day for Mem
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The Lord my shepherd II.
l shall be well supplied;
Slice he IL mine aud I am bis,
What can I want hcaifo fc.


CiScsSAu, March 3, 1864.
The Emptrc oice at Dayton, was completely riddled
today by some soldiers OF the Forty fourth Ohio 10 the
nsee mat occurred shortly Afterwards was
FIlcd and two soldiers wounded There was considerable
excitement al one time, ADD the Home Guard was called
nasf
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TIE POLICE CoMMIssIoN.-W learn from
Albany that another obstacle In the way Of
the settlement of the Police Commission ques-
.tlon has been interposed in the Legislature.
1t consists in proposition to enlarge the Com
mission by the addition Of another member.
Let the bill pass as it stands. There will be
Just as much wrangling and jobbing about the
additional member as there has been about
the other four, and the end 80 earnestly de.
sired by the citizens of New York will be de-
feated or hopelessly deferred. The Commits
sion as it now stands, and as it has already
tremendously worked together in one important
instance, is all that Is wanted. Messrs. Acton,
Bergen, Bosworth and McMurray have proved
themselves qualified for their duties as Com
missioners. The citizens and taxpayers most
interested are satisfied the Governor Of the
State is satisfied. and why should the Legisla-
ture halt in the performance Of positive duty,
and by haiassing delays increase the demo-
ralization which is becoming so apparent in
the police force OF the city,
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SouuybKifL HAVEN, Pa, March 3, 1894.
mob OF drunken furoughed soldiers are tearing out
the store vs Augustus Deifo. whom they CHARGE WITH
bong Kplgbt oftbe Golden Circle
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vicinity Senator Wilkinson must have been
acquainted With this passage when he uttered
the Islander that 1t so positively contr adicts;
and In no other deIiberative assembly but the
Congress Of the United States could such an
indecency occur.
Senator Wilkinson's whole trade was Ia
keeping with this slanderous statement, and he
only alluded to the circumstances of the PENN
sular campaign to betray the most lamentable
ignorance Of it. But this, after all, is what We
must expect from the radicals. General Nc
Clellan 10 their mania Talk to q lunatio who
believes that he is an umbrella, and he will make
every possible subject turn on umbrellas.
Wars, sick dogs, blind horses, church steeples
and toothpicks are all umbrellas or parts Of
umbrellas. And with the same maniac iuge-
nuity the radicals can make all subjects, even
defence against Governor Andrew, oulminate
in abuse of the hero Of Autietam.
1t is in this mad spirit that the radicals have
ruined the country to the extent Of their abili-
ity Desperate in their hatred, they will sac
riice the nation to crafty it.
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IN ~ senate yesterday the House joint resolution OK
i0udhs y lgs i9r Pay1s sGqs.s Y Soldiers 70 'hels
Of April wS adopted. This viii no doubt lead 10 post.
pnemcnl OF the draft perhaps indefinitely the secre.
ay Or War has exospsssd himself as decidedly 10 favor
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Iuips Place.-IranAs OPERA
LgoRsziA BoRcIA.
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CAIRO, March g. 1864
comes from vicksburg by the steamer Missis-
sippi from Now Orleans, that General sherman, having
returned from Meridian. had gone 10 the direction aud
within forty miles or Mobile. No dates are given,
and the report cannot be traced to reliable source
Adjutant General Thomas oaves bere 70 day for Men,
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NEW BowERY THEATRE, Bowery.-CoLLEEN BAwN-
Mn PoLI AND Mr. Partner JoR-MY Young WIFE AND
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MUsICAL.

The death OF Mrs. Joseph W ood LADY Lennox) II
again announced in England-though it wa,
understood the demise took place more thar
q year ago. Mrs. Wood the most
eminent eantratiee that ever appeared on the
English stage. She was, up TO nearly the time
Won Weber, was known in London some thrty-fve
to forty years ago, chiefly occupied with concert-sng
ing and parts in the little musical dramas that pass
ed by tho name Of operas. Her success in De,
Freisclut-, along with Mr. Braham, Was followed
by invitation to the ilustrous composer TO vsi,
England and write an opera for Drury-Lane
He came and occupied himself with some eighteen
months preliminary studies, and produced Oberen,
and then diedand received tho honors of o distin-
guished funeral in London. The opera of Oberon
did not prove a success, however, even with Mrs.
Wood, notwithstanding the fine music. The over
ture alone is worth more than soma operas. The
fault lay in the poor lbretto--words untitled for
music and scenes of supernatural Rubbish instead OF
direct dealings with tho humorous passions Mrs.
Wood at that time, was in the fulncss of her must
cal power, and Was gifted with physique and vol
ume of voice not second to Gosi. She came to this
country some where about thirty-four or five. The
impression made not equal at first to the expec-
tatons formed of her exalted reputation. The fault
was not hers, but arose from the fcebeness or in
efficiency of the Dramatic situations II was not
until Mrs. Wood appeared in wretched translation
Of the .Sonnambvia that her supremacy was felt
Her lcvl singing was not Of the first ORDER her
enunciation of words not distinct in the tanner
passages, which, however, was often a gain,
considering the trash verbally she had TO
deal with; but in the chamber scene, where
extreme passion and very heroic one Of
despair arc needed attended with prousc action Of
gesticuaton she was probably never cqualled. We
have never seen any ono to compare with her. The
present generation does not know what La Som
nambuIa musico dramatically is on the stage.
On her third visit to this country Mrs. Wood
played Norma, In 1872 in Philadelphia 1t was
especially translated for her, and was the rstsump-
tuously illustrated drama, musical or otherwise,
ever put on the stage in this country. She had
immense success in it, but circumstances called hcr
back to Europe suddenly and she never appeared In
II in New York. In the flaming wrath and denun-
Citations Of the Druidoss, she was Oh aplanc with
Madame Grisi and the miscer scene Of the American
performance contmsted so magnifcently with the
povcrties of the LGliens at Paris that travel
ers who had seen Mrs Wood in this country were
sorely disappointed with the opera abroad. Here
the stage setting WAS as miniature painting; there
il IVES daub. Mr. Joseph Wood was very fine
tenor, and his retirement from the stage left q
hiatus much TO be regretted.
II. Gounodes new opera, MueiHe. hos been with
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commissioners from the Confederacy TO the Cop
perheaas Of the Loyal States, helping them to
shane the proceedings and issues at the Chicago
Convention to their mutual advantage-we con-
slider it only so much the more desirable that
thew sbould have been Withdrawn from that
field of diplomacy to one wherein our Govern
ment should play leading part. Rely on
it. there is far more of'peril to the Union cause
from their operations at Chicago than from
ancbt they could achieve at Washington.
The Herald has most ridiculous report from
Niagara that Jsdge Black (of all the world y
has been there as a secret envoy from President
Lincoln to the Rebel commissioners, and that
"They talked upon terms. Mr. Black endsavored to
obtain the ultmaum Of the Rebel representatives, and
va, NO more fortunate than Greedy on this point"
is there no end to u lie 30 baselcss as this
There was never word, a hint, a suggestion Of
an .ultma.um" between the Rebel representa-
tiyes and the aforesaid "Greeley," nor Of any
conditions or negotiations whatever save on the
single point of allowing those representatives
to proceed to Washington. Said "Greeley
was entrusted--or at least understood himself
TO be entrusted-with no authority or discretion
beyond this point Hence, he rcfrained from
calling on the Confederates personally, and only
saw one Of them for few moments, in the pres
ence of and at the instance of Major Hay, aite'
his own agency in the business had termi
mated. This has been stated once and again
and is indisputable Why is 1t, then, that some
journals Of pretension persist in talking Of con
ditions of peace discu ssed, or proposed, or O.
least solicited, between Messrs. Clay and Hol
comb on the one side. and Mr.. Greeley on th'
other1
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TOO MUCH NIAGARA
Ma N. Y. Times SAVE:

The N. Y. Times sdyt:
Hon Clement c. CLAY. ono Of the Confederate gen.
temon recently at Niagara Falls declared in letter
10 Mr. Greele, taat he and is associates not
powered BY the rebel Government 10 negotiate for
peace"
1t is wise a. well Ss just, when protesting to
give the language Of an adversary, TO be strictly
accurate. We think The Times violates this
rule in the above. Here are the precise words
of Messrs. Clay and Holcombe
The Safe Conduct Of the President Of the United
States has been teDoefcd regret to STATE under
some mnapprehensOn of ficis. We have not been 40.
credited hin from Richmond the bearers OF piopo
sitions looking to the establishment of peace.
1--WE IRE. however IN the confidential employment Of
our Government, aud are entirely familiar with It's
wishes and opinions on that subject; ard We feel au
thoIzed to declare that IL the circumstances disclosed
in this correspondence we're commune iicd 70 Richmond
We would be at once invested with the authority 10
which your eltcr refers other gentlemen clothed with
full powers would BE- Immediately sent 10 Washington.
with the view Of hostening consuBmoton 80 much To
be desired, and terminating az the earliest possible
moment the caiainities OF waf."
We think these assurances, from Confede-
rates so conspcuously eminent and responsible
as Messrs. Clay and Holcombe, presented m
opening for negotiations which might wisely and
safely have been improved and we cannot help
suspecting that Tie Times does not at heart dis
agree with US. For, suppOsing the Confederates
had not been "at once invested with the author.
ity to which your letter REFERS" but had been
dlsavowed and dscredi,ed by JEFF Davis, would
not our Government have made strong point
on the Rebellion by trusting TO their assurances
and sfiording them every facility for trying to
procure from Richmond the powers which they
thus pledged themselves to soliciti So great
and successful warrior as Napoleon was re-
for the esgerness wherewith he con-
tinually sought, or at least seemed to seek, for
in utter contempt of diplo.
matte formulas and prccedents. A Government
fighting an insurrcction is naturally and
anxious TO eItinguish it at the
earliest moment, and can rarely afford to
repel an overture which opens even doubtful
avenue to cancellation. AID if-as Tie Times
proceeds 10 argue and a. We also believe
Messrs. Clay and Holoombo were at Niagara as
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LABOR AND WAGES.
The Daily Ners says:

I'VE see to-dsy, clashes that ought not to exist
employers 1yed against workingmen. and working
men Grrayed ono against another. This state oil
things anticipated some time ago a. sequence from
the depreciation Of the currency and look forward 10
now, certain 10 go on In afg awaited Violence AS
preventive OF the evil we proposed IN former Issues oi
TIE Daily Nr' standing committees OF arbitration oi
employers and employees for making from day IL day.
binding awards al questions OF labor arising out 81
the that expect to on rapidly.
IN the currency. through the Fall and WiLter. IHe
TRIBUNE has We observe .h the force Of our reasonins
the subject and accepts our proposal In reference To
the difficulties Of the printing trade We urge H. there.
fore upon al the Of that calling now on STRIKE AMI
do 40 in hope that both parties may be benehted-the
saved from Inconvenience and the othor from pri
I vation."
We beg The Ne,os to be assured that, while
We concur most heartily in the above sugges-
TONS we have not "felt the force of its reason
ing" very severely, inasmuch as we have always
favored what that journal now SO forcibly re-
commends. We joined the Printers Union In
its infancy on the understanding that it was to
be an organization Of employing as well as jour-
neymen printers, 20 the precise end above sug-
gested. We believe it was no fault OF the jour-
neymen that it became one-sded in its charac-
ter; the wrong inheres in the assumption OF
right by one party to bargain TO make both
sides of it. We believe in good wages wheney-
or they can be paid, Though We think smaller
better than none,) and we are willing to
pay such rates for composition as shall be
agreed on by such joint committee Of arbitra-
ton as The Nens suggests. 1t is not of so much
moment to US that the rates should be little
higher or lower as that they be uniform; and
whenever We cannot aifp3l55 pay the rates es-
tabllhed as aforesaid, We will quit the business.
But the demand that the rates to DO fixed for
printing shall he fixed by the journeymen alone
and not even by oil the journeymen. but by a
minority is utterly insdmissible. Ono evil
consequence is fragrant inequality whore equal.
ity is palpably required. The rates recently
decreed by the Printers Union are notoriously
not paid to onc-third of the journeymen now at
work in our city. They are not paid by ma
jority of the Morning Journals, and we presume
not OF the Evening Journals either. They are
unreasonably hard on newspaper rs compared
with book.work. In short, they are just such
as might be expected when one class at empts
10 dictate respecting matters wherein other
classes are equally interested and have equal
rights. They cannot be maintained, because
they should not be.
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GENERAL NEWS.

The frgate Pomponoosuo and the double.
nrreted sos-going iron-clad Quinsagamoud are pro
crossing finely at Boston. and will add two splendid
bran to navy. The steamer Rhode Island Captain
esephsn d. Trsnchard. is undergoing repairs. and viii
be ready for In about ten days The following
Ie, are fitting out for active service; The steamer
hco. Lieut. Com. John @. Walker which will be rendy
10 shout three weeks the doubleturreted sea-going
m i-cad Monsdnock. which viii be ready In three
'neaths; the screw steamer Manitou. the de.wheel
D. lssssoit tho bark Nightingale and the new fgate
a mmonoosuc.
The Hon. Tom Florence's Democratic Com
nI'tee met yesterday at Saratoga The Hon Florence
|" msgnanimous and picus-be gracioqsy coude
sended to solicit one A. Belmont to unite with him
1.-THE GENTLE Florence) in asking Gov Seymour " call
tho Chicago Convention to order: and then the Hon.
Thomas y. Florence and his Committee unanimously
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out helping hand TO Lee. 1t would have
suited him and his Northern syinpathizers
exactly could Grant have been persuaded to
leave rebel army intact and at liberty
to follow an open road, TO the North,
while he went up the james, or
waided through the Chickahominy swamps, to
leisurely investment Of the intrcnchmcnts OF
Richmond which the Rebels have been allowed
two years to complete. But as he chose anoth'
err path. driving Lee before him and holding nun
in his irongrip, it is now very much 10
be desired that he should be lured from
carrying out the plan which has thus far been
successful. Therefore it is impossible to carry
the works before the Rebel capital, which it
needs only twenty thousand men to de-
fend. successfully therefore Lee still has
an army of 100 900; therefore he is reinforcing
Hood. and IL about to add 81, 900 more to Early's
army of already %, 900: therefore Washington
and the North are again to be threatened under
Lee himself, and therefore "Gcn. Grants army
cannot be drawn from the Peninsula and brought
ND for the defence of Washington moment
too soon" This zeal in desperate cause over
laps itself. This very anxiety to produce Q
popular panic, by wild overestimate of Lees
strength, and q startling proclamation of hi:
purposes, shows that Grant is precisely where
he ought to be and where he is most feared, ant
that rebel safety can only be secured by com
polling him to let go his grasp upon tho rebe
stronghold.
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agreed with the government Of Egypt to sub.
NIT the ease to the arbitration Of the Emperor
of France. The award of the Emperor, which
has just been published by The M'"aeur' hxes
the compensation to be paid by the Egyptian
Government to the Suez Canal company, foi
broken engagements on the three points men
toned, at 81 900. 900 francs. The agents Of the
viceroy of Egypt have accepted the decision
which is generally regarded as equitable.
The Company feel confident that they will bt
able to complete the work. even without en-
joying any longer the privileges which it had al
first obtained from the Egyptian Government
The jealousy of England has now to be quoted
and the world may therefore hope to see th'
noble work of uniting tho Mediterranean ant
Red Seas soon accomplished
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II seems We did not have in our dispatches
yesterday the whole story Of the fighting on
Friday south Of Petersburg. Our troops, we
now learn were unsccountsbly gurprised-for
the fear of wetting can hardly account
for the want of vislance-permitted the
rebel forces to get between the Fifth
and Sixth Corps. the flank of the former being
turned. The line was forced back some dis
lance when the Ninth came To tho rescue and
checked the advance of the rebels. An at
tsck was made on tho Second Division
at the same time which broke, losing
five or six hundred as prisoners. The
net result in losses on our side is estimated at
over 5000. At the latest advices, however, we
still hold the line Of the Weldon Road. Rein
forcements had been sent forward. II is hard
to say that it is well it ia no worse, for such
blunders ought to meet with condign punish
ment--only they wont.