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 The New-York Times.

NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1865

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NEWS OF THE DAY.

Maj. Gen., in apprizing the citizens of the Middle Department, says, evidently with reference to guerrillas: "The marauding bands which have so long infested this section, subsisting on the plunder of the defenceless, effecting no great military purpose, and bringing upon you the devastation of your homes, must no longer find shelter and concealment among you. Every outrage committed by them, will be followed by the severest infliction, and it is the purpose of the Major-General Commanding to destroy utterly the haunts of these bands if their depredations are continued."

Dates from our forces before Mobile are to the 5th. On the previous night Spanish Fort was severely bombarded, and a small magazine in it was exploded, but the damage was not known. Deserters report eighteen to twenty thousand rebel troops in and near Mobile. Our losses so far have been about 500 killed and wounded. Mobile papers admit the capture of Selma, with 23 guns and much government property.

Gov., of Indiana, has just received from Lieut. , of the Twelfth Indiana, the identical flag which waved over the capitol at Columbia, S. C., at the time that city was captured by forces. He has deposited the trophy in the State Library.

The batteries which were encamped In the vicinity of Frederick City, Md., all the Winter, were ordered away the early part of last week, and have gone to join Gen. forces in the Shenandoah Valley.

The Richmond, Whig, of Thursday, says: "The Provost Marshal's office is crowded with people anxious to take the oath of allegiance, and the only question among citizens seems to be who ehall be first to secure their citizenship."

The rebel Col. has arrived at Memphis under a flag of truce, for the purpose of conferring with Gen. upon the subject of exterminating guerrillas. The result of the conference is not known.

The people of Kentucky are hunting down guerrillas with such zeal that the business is pretty much stopped, and offenders are skulking away in any disguise that can be made available.

The Mediterranean Squadron, under Admiral, is to comprise 30 vessele, the Colorado, 52 guns, to be the flagship.

Gov. is at Richmond, attending to the wants of the sick and wounded Pennsylvania soldiers.

STATE LEGISLATURE.

In the Senate, yesterday, the Annual Supply Bill was reported. A report against the retention of the present Commissioners of Charities and Correction was agreed to. A report was received from the committees to investigate municipal frauds in New-York. The Governor sent a veto on the Dry Dock Railroad Bill. Bills were passed to relieve the Croton Aqueduct; incorporate the New Rochelle Savings Bank; to incorporate the Long Island Savings Band; to incorporate the Harry Howard Association of Exempt Firemen; to consolidate the Brooklyn and Carnarsie and Bergen-street Railroads. The New-York Central Railroad Fare Bill was adopted, after sharp contest, by 18 to 14.

In the Assembly reports were made on bills: For the erection of a new Capitol; to provide grounds for a final resting-place for the remains of New-York Volunteers, who fell at Gettysburgh and Antietam; to incorporate the Students' Aid Society of the New-York Free Academy. A bill was passed relative to the marks on casks and packages containing butter and cheese. The Metropolitan Health Bill was then taken up, and after a long and exciting contest it was finally defeated. Yeas, 51; nays, 61.

GENERAL NEWS.

Gov., of Missouri, named April 15 (to-day) as the occasion for popular rejoicing. In his proclamation he recommends "that on that day the people, regardless of all differences of opinion in the past, meet in their respective places of worship, and unite in religious exercises, the evening of the day to be marked by large assemblages, to be addressed by patriotic speakers, and that, amid bonfires, illuminations and resounding salutes of artillery, they testify their appreciation of the heroism of the army of the Union in the reestablishment of the National authority in Richmond, the seat of the insurgent forces, the capture of the Army of Northern Virginia, and of the manifestations of a disposition on the part of men in authority to stay the effusion of blood of Americans and freemen."

The Sandusky Register says: "We happened to be on Johnson's Island, Friday evening, when the extras were received announcing the late Union victories. As is usual on such occasions, the news was placed on the bulletin board in the bull pen, (prison for rebel soldiers,) for the benefit of the Johnnies. Among the oath-takers in block number one, the news was received with loud and repeated cheering and other demonstrations of joy. In other portions of the prison they affected not to believe it. The old flag was roised and lustily cheered by the oath-takers, whilst the regular secesh hissed it."

The St. Joseph Union learns that a wretched state of affairs exists in Lafayette, Chariton, Ray, Carroll, Clay, and part of Platte, Mo. A man named, living near Waverley, was murdered by banditti, one day last week. The people of Carrolton had been alarmed at a threatened attack from, at the head of a band of twenty or thirty men. Many persons had left that section. On the 1st inst.,, residing near Smithville, was killed, and two others taken prisoners, and afterward summarily dealt with.

A ruffian named, who signs himself "Young Hell-yan, of Callaway County," killed two negro men in the vicinity of Cote Sans Desseir, Mo., some days since. He also so frightened a negro woman that she ran off and is supposed to have fallen in the river and drowned, as nothing had been heard from her since. He was alone when he killed the negroes, and gave as a reason for his atrocity, that they had left their masters.

The French bark Eugene, of Marseilles, with a cargo of about 3,000 bags of coffee, 2,000 pieces of mahogany, about 12,000 pounds of wax, 1,800 dried hides, and about 30 tons of logwood, was totally wrecked on the northeast point of Great Inagua on the morning of the 25th of February. The captain and part of the crew were saved; the mate and two seamen were drowned.

Hon. joined the Baptist Church, in Washington, on Sunday last, being Immersed. He said: "Though for many years I have endeavored to live the life of an upright man, yet by not attaching myself to the Church, I felt that my life was a standing opposition to Christianity."

Mr. J. C., the well-known publisher, has been appointed Government Dispatch Agent in this city. We presume his first important official act was to send off Secretary 's important instructions to our agents abroad in reference to harboring and assisting pirates, under the transparent veil of Confederate privateers.

, of the United States military railways, late from Tennessee, has been ordered to Norfolk to take the superintendency of the railways diverging from that point—the Seaboard and Roanoke, from Norfolk to Waldon and Clarksville, and the Norfolk and Petersburgh Road.

, firm of, was killed on Wednesday afternoon, at their saw and grist mill in West Hartford, Conn. He was attaching a belt to a grindstone shaft when he was caught and dashed against the wall many times with great violence.

The blockade-runner Banshee, with one thousand bales of cotton, arrived at Nassau on the 30th ult. from Galveston. She reports Galveston garrisoned by twelve hundred troops. Twelve Federal ships were off the bar. Six steamers had sailed recently from Havana for Galveston.

While the steamer Corsica was on her way to this port, a barrel of whisky was dropped into the hold, burst, took fire from a lamp, and exploded. , the storekeeper, was instantly killed;, carpenter, died on arriving here, and three of the crew were badly injured.

A boiler explosion occurred at the Missouri Iron Works, in North Wheeling, on Monday afternoon, by which four men were dangerously, and two seriously injured, besides six or seven others who were more or less injured.

Hon., late Postmaster-General, announces through the St. Louis papers that he has returned to the practice of law. He limits his sphere of business to the General Land Office, the Court of Claims, and Supreme Court.

The New Orleans True Delta claims to have official Intelligence that Gen., commanding the chief army of in Central Mexico, has abandoned the contest, and his whole army has given up fighting and returned home.

The United States stamer Ruby, from Beaufort. N. C., on the 11th inst., reports that when ten miles south of Ocracoke Inlet buoy, a vessel's mast was seen about ten feet out of water, in 15 fathoms.

Indefinite charges of frauds having been made against Gen., in Indiana, he published a card saying that it is an infamous attempt to destroy the credit of his services in that State.

At the great Sanitary Fair in Chicago, Mrs., and Mrs. Gen are to have charge of the tables under the auspices of the Roman Catholics.

The loss by the late floods in different parts of the State of Pennsylvania is estimated by englneers, architects and agriculturists as fully reaching $10,000,000.

, an old and eminent citizen of Maryland, died a few days ago. He was often a representative of Frederick County in the Legislature.

San Francisco has at last issued $400,000 in bonds to aid the construction of the Pacific Railroad. About 1,800 men are at work on the road.

The President has recently recognized as Consul of the Mexican Republic at San Francisco.

, Jr., the editor of the Litchfield (Conn.) Enquirer retires from the paper. His successors are Messrs..

There is a movement among the Ohio soldiers to bring out Maj.-Gen. Cox as Union candidate for Governor.

The citizens of Portsmouth, Ohio, give a Thanksgiving offering of $2,000 to the Christian Commission.

The General Assembly of the Old School Presbyterian Church will meet at Pittsburgh, May 18.

The Methodist churches in the Boston district have paid $108,000 of debts during the past year.

LOCAL NEWS.

The announcement, yesterday, that the draft and recruiting were suspended in this city by order of the Secretary of War, was joyfully received by every one except the bounty-brokers. A salute of one hundred guns was fired at the County Volunteer Committee's Rooms, and it was announced that the business of the office was at an end. The whole amount expended by the committee is about $8,000,000—of which about $2,000,000 is to be refunded by the State.

The few surviving Revolutionary pensioners—only four or five in all—have been invited to join the citizens' celebration in this city, to come off in a few days. One of them has already arrived,, of Saratoga County, N. Y., and is at the Astor House. He is 104 years old, and his loyalty has grown with his years, ever since at that memorable morning at Lexington, in April, ninety years ago.

The strike at the Navy-yard continues, and about 3,500 men refuse to work at the reduced rates of 25 to 50 cents per day. They have sent a committee to Washington to state their case; but the prospect of a return to the old wages at a moment when the government is curtailing work everywhere, would seem to be slight.

Notwithstanding the postponement of our general celebration in consequence of the Sumter anniversary falling on Good Friday, the cities of New-York and Brooklyn were profusely adorned with the national colors; salutes were fired, bells were rung, and the people seemed thoroughly jolly in view of the event in Charleston Harbor, and the near advent of peace.

, a wine merchant living at No. 269 William-street, and, a jeweler living at No. 6 Roosevelt-street, were arrested yesterday on a charge of setting fire to the store No. 176 William-street. has made a confession admitting his guilt, and implicating the prisoner.

Col., of California, celebrated as a vine-grower, and commissioner from the State of California to report upon wine culture in Europe. arrived here yesterday by the Golden Rule, and is at the Metropolitan Hotel.

Kings County has furnished during the war about 35,000 men, of whom between 17,000 and 18,000 have been paid bounties varying from $40 to $600. The entire war expense of the county has been $6,022,660.

The Ninth Ward Draft Relief Association met for the last time last evening. They voted a surplus in their treasury of $750 to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home on Long Island. and adjourned forever, after voting thanks to our armies.

The Post learns that Hon. accepts the office of United States District-Attorney for the Southern District of New-York.

The popular demand for the Seven-Thirty Loan continues quite active. The daily average of subscriptions to the loan is a rising one, being this week up to $3,199,137, (as against the daily average of only $2,512,433 last week, and $2,381,360 the preceding week,) as follows: Monday, $2,873,650; Tuesday, $3,132,400; Wednesday, $3,526,000; Thursday, $3,264,500. The orders for the $50 and $100 notes of the loan, thus far this week, have averaged 2,241 a day, as against the daily average of 1,650 last week, and 1,652 the preceding week. At the present rate of distribution, the sales of the loan through the entire of the current week will reach nearly $20,000,000, as against only about $15,000,000 last week, and about $14,000,000 the preceding week.

Good Friday was observed with unusual unanimity in commercial circles yesterday. Business in Produce and Merchandise was partially suspended. At the Produce Exchange transactions were quite light. Spring Wheat and New Mess Pork were dearer. Whisky was decidedly cheaper. The changes in other articles were not important.

—At the moment when Secretary announced the end of drafting and recruiting throughout the country, New-York City was supplying volunteers for the national army at the rate of forty-six thousand a year. This the city was doing under most disadvantageous circumstances, arising from the insufficiency of the available State bounty fund, the hectoring of petty military officials, and their refusal, latterly, to allow substitutes to be mustered in by the County Volunteer Committee. Last, as well as first in the grand national struggle, New-York presents a record that no other community in the Union can show. It is almost time that this fact was generally recognized.

The events of last night in Washington will strike with profound horror the whole American people. At this moment of writing, we have only a partial announcement of the facts, and have neither the data nor the spirit for comment.

Probably no act of the Government of the United States was ever received by its people with profounder satisfaction than the general order, just issued, stopping all drafting and recruiting, and announcing the speedy reduction of all branches of the military establishment. It was the first practical earnest that this dreadful war had indeed ended. To tens of thousands of families, who have been for weeks haunted by day and night with the terror of having a father, a son, a brother, taken away from them for years, perhaps forever, it brought a relief which no language can describe. To a vastly greater number of families yet, who for months and years have been in sorrow for the absence of a loved one, and in daily apprehension of tidings of his death, or of a capture entailing horrors worse than death, it brought a hardly less joyful assurance of an early reunion. And then there was the pleasure, hardly worthy to be mentioned, perhaps, in this connection, yet gladly coming home to the "business and bosoms" of millions—the pleasure of being spared any further increase of the burdens of taxation, already very hard to be borne. One of the most wonderful things of this war is the cheerfulness with which the people have met the immense taxes and voluntary contributions necessary to support it. But this cheerfulness was no token that the sacrifice was light. To multitudes that sacrifice trenched far upon the comforts, and even upon the necessaries of life. An intense love of country alone braced the people up to its acceptance. How far it could have continued to augment without reaching that point where endurance is no longer possible, it is impossible to calculate. It is enough that every man feels it to be a great personal blessing to himself that it is to go no further.

It will pass into history as a striking and most admirable fact that the close of this four years' war found the loyal people in the very midst of raising three hundred thousand more men, in addition to the million and a quarter already furnished. Our European enemies have asserted, from the first year of the war, that the war spirit of the North was dying out, and that the time would surely come when it would be impossible to recruit our armies. They have held to this misrepresentation in spite of the fact that every new call made by the President for more soldiers has been responded to with increased promptitude. Had the last months of the war passed without any further effort of the people to fill up their armies, this cry that the spirit of the North was exhausted, though utterly false, would have been beyond any effectual disproof. But the response made to this last call has forever silenced all that. It demonstrates to the world, beyond all possibility of contradiction or cavil, that the close of the war found not only the armies in the field irresistible, but the spirit of the people as firm as ever. This call has cost the country much, with comparatively little practical effect upon the rebellion. The work was finished up almost exclusively by the old troops. But all the new burdens imposed by this call will be requited a hundred fold over, by the new testimony it affords of the moral strength of American loyalty. The world has been amazed that a self-governing people could have so long sustained a war involving such unprecedented sacrifices. But this exhibition, at the very close of the war, of such a reserved power, will be the crowning marvel.

There is, in fact, nothing to impair the completeness or glory of this war, viewed in any aspect. It was protracted enough to show the world the unequaled resources of our republican system and the matchless stamina of our people. It was severe enough to pulverize into powder the adamantine institution of slavery, upon which no earthly thing could previously make an impression. It was carried through to the absolute consummation of its original end—the crushing of the rebellion out of existence by the strong arm without any attempt to compound with it. History rarely shows a piece of national work, even on a minor scale, so well rounded in all its parts, so thoroughly concluded in every particular. And what is a most happy thing, there is no material left behind out of which evil-minded men can hereafter manufacture mischief. Our revolutionary war, and our last war with England, brought out a great difference between different States and different parts of the country, in the exhibition of public spirit and the performance of public duties. The remembrance of this difference was kept alive for many years to produce bitterness and alienation. Nothing of this kind is possible in respect to the present war, for all the loyal States have vied with each other, from the beginning to the end, in maintaining the war; and all their soldiers in the field have fought with the same gallantry and success. The war has redounded alike to the glory of all, and more firmly cemented the common brotherhood.

This war might have been ended without giving satisfaction to the people. Had it been abandoned without securing its object, we should have seen none of the present demonstrations of joy. Even had an unmistakable necessity demanded this, the advent of peace would have brought a humiliation and sorrow which would have swallowed up all the satisfaction that might spring from the cessation of drafts, the return of the absent, the lightening of taxation. The end of the war is hailed first of all, and most of all, because it is the accomplished salvation of the Union.

The practical import of the President's proclamation, respecting the treatment accorded to the United States vessels of war in foreign ports, is best seen by a reference to the special order of "neutrality" which first subjected our flag to the insult against the continuance of which the proclamation is a protest.

It is needless to say, that in this, as in every other "neutral" project of the last four years, England was at once the exemplar and the leader. On her suggestions all the other powers, whose conduct invites the present protest, regulated their demeanor toward the United States. To her the protest will come home with special appositeness, and from her will come the earliest response.

The order of Lord, by which our men-of-war were put on a footing with the rebel pirates in British ports, has been in force three full years. It was issued from the Foreign Office on the 29th of January, 1862—precisely at the moment when everything looked the gloomiest for the United States in the struggle with the rebellion. The circumstances which, professedly, called for it, made its emission peculiarly offensive to our Government and people. At the date named, the Bahama Islands formed almost the only points which piratical vessels issuing from "Confederate," ports could possibly make an available base for operations against our vast commerce on both the North and South Atlantic highways. These islands formed also the only convenient anchorage-ground for the United States vessels sent out to protect our merchant-men. And it was with the fullest knowledge and appreciation of these facts, that Lord } directed the Governor of the islands, through the late Duke of, to see that "during the continuance of the present hostilities between the Government of the United States and the States calling themselves the Confederate States of America," none of our ships-of-war should be permitted to enter "any port, or roadstead, or waters of the Bahama Islands, except by special leave of the Governor of the Bahama Islands, or under stress of weather." If, by special leave, or under stress of weather, any one of our vessels did thus enter the Bahama ports, the authorities of the place were to "require her to put to sea as soon as possible, without permitting her to take in any supplies beyond what may be necessary for her immediate use."

The more general declarations of the order, in its application to all parts of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions, were summarily these: First, that our vessels should not be allowed to resort to any British station or port for warlike equipment; and that twenty-four hours should elapse between the departure of United States and "Confederate" vessels from British ports, in case of their coming to a temporary anchorage therein.

Second, that if, after the issuing of the order, our vessels did enter any British port, roadstead, &c., they should be required to depart and put to sea within twenty-four hours—unless in case of stress of weather, or of requiring provisions for the subsistence of their crews, or repairs. Twenty-four hours after such necessary supplies and repairs were had, the vessel or vessels were to be ordered to sea.

Third, that no extra supplies, in any case, were to be allowed to be taken on board, and "so much coal only as may be sufficient to carry the vessel to the nearest port of her own country," and "no coal shall be again supplied to such ship in any port, &c., of Her Majesty without special permission, until after the expiration of three months from the time when such coal may have been last supplied to her within British waters."

All these rules will be applied, under the President's proclamation, to British war vessels before May day, unless Lord order is promptly recalled. The same rule will apply to the vessels of other powers that have copled and practiced the British order. Nothing in the way of diplomacy could well be more neatly done.

—The accession of Gen. to the immediate command in Richmond is so directly in the natural order of military arrangements, that it requires no ordinary share of the faculty of malicious invention for a newsmonger to pervert it into a censure of Gen. conduct. A Philadelphia story was allowed to circulate, during the greater part of yesterday, by which it was made to appear that Gen., in giving safe conduct to certain "Confederate" representatives of Virginia to assemble in Richmond, had disobeyed the orders of his superiors. Gen. did grant facilities for certain citizens of Virginia to assemble and discuss the question of the readmission of the State into the Union. But the statement that his doing so was the cause of his removal, is simply a mischievous falsehood. We are asked to give the story contradiction, and we readily do so. But the evil its circulation was intended to compass, was done when it was allowed to pass through the hands of the telegraph censor. One would suppose, that if a censorship is any longer necessary or useful, or ornamental, the suppression of such malicious paragraphs as this would have been attended to before it had gone through a hundred different offices, and been put in the hands of probably a million of credulous readers. If Gen. had been removed for allowing representative Virginians to meet and deliberate over the return of the State to its allegiance, the inference would be that the War Department was at issue with Gen., if not also with the President himself. To create such an impression as this, even for a few hours, would temporarily serve no end of schemes. And it would, no less, gratify that class of intemperate politicians who are now bawling—each louder than the other—to have their peculiar theories of reconstruction, of subjugation, of retribution, and so forth, adopted. The mischief-makers here need the closest sort of watching. They are more dangerous, for the time than the disjointed bands of insurgents that still wear the ragged livery of.

The small amount of control which, after all, communities possess over their own destiny, was never more strikingly illustrated than in the catastrophe we have just witnessed at the South.

When the Slave States revolted, it was the opinion of their ablest men that it was the best thing they could do; that slavery was the best basis possible for civil society, and that the best way to preserve slavery was to separate from the North. To carry out this programme, the whole resources of the country were brought into play—men, money, arms and horses. Its ablest soldiers and statesmen moved heaven and earth to further it. Nothing was left undone, that the most fertile invention could devise to bring the revolution to a successful issue. Blood was shed with a profusion never surpassed, and wealth squandered with the most reckless extravagance, and there can be little doubt the great mass of the population did look for its success, did really believe that they would achieve their independence with but little trouble, and that once achieved, the Confederacy would become the dread and envy of all nations.

The result has proved exactly the reverse, in every respect, of what was expected. Slavery, instead of being saved forever, has been completely uprooted; independence has not been achieved, and the fate of the Slave States has been placed in the hands of the Yankees to a degree which no number of peaceful political successes could have rendered possible. The South, so far from becoming the "dread and envy" of the earth, is at this moment an object of general pity—a scene of widespread ruin and devastation. Its armies, its pride and boast, have been defeated, dispersed and captured; its Generals have lost their reputation. So far from raising aristocracy in popular estimation, as an instrument of government, which was one the great objects of the revolution, it has doomed it everlastingly. Had, in short, the bitterest enemy of the Southern people, and of their institutions, the man most opposed to their political ideas and aspirations, been asked to sit down four years ago, and put on paper what calamities and reverses he would like to see overtake them, he would almost certainly have sketched a state of things vastly less terrible than that which we now witness in the Slave States. A more remarkable illustration of the remorseless certainty with which the great laws of Providence work, is, perhaps, not to be found in history. The law which has brought ruin on the Confederacy, is that no political or social system founded on injustice can stand, and that the horrors attending its overthrow will always be in the ratio of its atrocity.

There are two other great examples of its operation—the downfall of the Roman Empire and the French Revolution; but both of these wanted the close and striking connection of cause and effect which has made the Southern catastrophe so impressive. Two hundred years have seen the growth and overthrow of African slavery, and of the society which it cursed and corrupted. The great Slave Empire of Rome, the greatest, foulest and most barbarous the world has ever seen, ran a course of a thousand years before the sword of the avenger struck it. But then the penalty was a frightful one. The condition of Europe between the years 500 and 800 bas never been painted by any historian, but enough is known of it to satisfy us that nothing more awful has ever been witnessed. A great, wealthy, refined and polished community was abandoned to the mercy of roving barbarians for many generations; every spark of civilization came well nigh perishing amongst them. We are told that population diminished or disappeared in many parts of the continent, owing to men's unwillingness to bring children into the world to share a lot as miserable as their own.

The French noblesse exercised their power over the peasantry and abused it in the manner so familiar to all readers for over a thousand years also, and French society atoned for it in that tremendous convulsion which our fathers witnessed, from which Europe, after a lapse of seventy years, still trembles. Fortunately for the South, the remedy has been applied in its case at an earlier stage of the disease, and terrible as it has been, it has fallen far short of rivaling in its horrors either the fall of Rome or the destruction of the old régime. We have had much bloodshed indeed, but it has been nearly all shed in fair fight. We have had no massacres or proscriptions. We have had much destruction of property, but it has been through the ordinary operations of war, and never through wanton love of destruction. And now that this is all over, the victors seem likely to err rather on the side of leniency than of vengeance. We dare not hope that had the Southern leaders succeeded in carrying out their programme and giving the institution of slavery greater permanence and solidity, Southern society would have expiated the crime so lightly. Retribution would have surely come, and it would have been made heavier by every added year of wrong and injustice.

A terrible accident occurred on board the steamship Corsica on her late passage from Havana to this port, which resulted in the death of two persons, and three others seriously injured. It appears that when four hours out from port, a barrel of spirits was about being lowered into the lower hold, when, owing to some wrong management to arranging the slings, the barrel slipped, and fell with great force into the hold, where it immediately burst. The storekeeper, Mr., who was to the hold af the time, with several others, upon seeing the occurrence, went immediately to the barrel, and having a lighted candle in his hand, it set fire to the spirits which exploded, killing Mr. instantly, and mortally wounding the carpenter, Mr., who died last night. Three others of the crew, named, and , are seriously injured, but will recover.

The passengers held a meeting on board for the rellef of the sufferers, whereupon some $500 were subscribed.

, Ill., Friday, April 14.

New-Orleans advices of the 8th inst. are received.

The True Delta claims to have official intelligences that Gen., commanding the chief army of in Central Mexico, has abandoned the contest. His whole army has given up fighting, and returned to their homes.

, Friday, April 14.

Some of the foreign journals have reported that it is the intention of our government to acknowledge the Mexican Empire. A recent act of the President does not, however, support that assertion, for he has recognized as Consul of the Mexican Republic at San Francisco.

, Wednesday, April 12.

Recent explorations have demonstrated that the Colorado River is navigable for small steamers and sailing vessels for six hundred miles above its mouth, to a point within four hundred miles of Salt Lake, and it is quite certain to be the highway of a great trade between Utah, Arizonia, and California.

Recent heavy falls of rain have greatly beneatted the crops throughout California.

The City of San Francisco finally, after a long and vexatious litigation, has issued her bonds to the amount of $400,000 in aid of the Central Pacific Railroad.

Eighteen hundred laborers are now at work on this enterprize.

The exports of treasure for the quarter just ended show a falling off of about six and a half millions as compared with the same period last year.

, Friday, April 14.

The Pacific Mail steamship Sacramento sailed to-day, with a large number of passengers, for New-York, and $1,153,000 In treasure, of which nearly $700,000 go to New-York.

The steamship Moses Taylor sailed for San Juan del Sur with numerous passengers.

The market continues variable and unsettled, and traders pursue a continuous policy. Prices of Eastern goods are slowly falling.

Sailed, ship Flying Eagle for Boston.

, Friday, April 14.

reports the subscriptions to the 7-30 loan to-day $3,642,000, including a single subscription of nearly half a million from New-York and large Western subscriptions—one from Pittsburgh of $160,000 and one from Chicago 110,000. The number of individual subscriptions for amounts of $50 and $100 was twenty-five hundred.

, C. W., Friday, April 14.

A dispatch from Halifax states that the Canadian delegates arrived there last night on board the steamship Asia, on their way to England. They had a public reception, at which speeches were made in favor of the confederation scheme. They were escorted by a procession a mile in length, and much enthusiasm was manifested on the occasion.

, Friday, April 14.

Gen. has published a card saying that the charges against him are all infamous attempts to obliterate the credit of his services in Indiana. His friends say that the matter grew out of a misunderstanding with paymasters, and that all the money for which he is responsible is deposited to the bank ready to be turned over.

, Friday, April 14.

Mr. reported the Annual Supply Bill, which was made the special order for this evening.

By Mr. —Against the retention of the present Board of Commissioners of Charities. Agreed to.

To close Dwight-street, Brooklyn.

Mr., of the Select Committee appointed to examine into the affairs of certain departments of New-York, reported that the committee was not yet able to make a written report, and moved that they be allowed to continue the investigation during the recess, and that the investigatlon be extended to all the departments of the City Government that the committee may deem advisable.

Mr. thought that the committee had accomplished all the good it can accomplish, and moved that it be discharged.

Messrs. and opposed this motion, and the report was laid on the table.

A message was received from the Governor vetoing the Dry Dock, East Broadway and North River Railroad Bill, because he considered the grant too indefinite.

The message was ordered to be printed.

The Mariposa Mining Company Bill was referred back with power to report complete.

The evening session was devoted to the consideration of the Supply Bill. Adjourned.

, Friday, April 14.

Relative to County Court criers. For the erection of a new capitol. To provide grounds for a final resting place of the remains of New-York Volunteers who fell at Gettysburgh and Antietam. To change the name of the Mariner's Savings Institute. To incorporate the Student's Aid Society of the New-York Free Academy.

Relative to marks on casks and packages containing butter and cheese.

Mr. moved to take from the table the Metropolitan Health Bill, and moved the previous question, which was ordered by 55 to 51 votes. The motion to take from the table was carried—53 to 51 votes.

Mr. moved to adjourn. Carried—53 to 52.

After spending several hours in the attempt to stave off the motion to reconsider the vote by which this bill was lost, it was finally reached, and the previous question ordered by a vote of 60 to 54. While the question on the reconsideration was being taken Mr. asked to be excused from voting.

The Speaker said the gentleman was already recorded.

Mr. said he had voted by mistake, having paired off with another member.

Mr. would excuse the gentleman, providing his request was made to good faith, for the Union party had already been betrayed enough to defeat the bill. Some Union members had proved recreant to every obligation they owed their party.

The Speaker—The gentleman, Mr., will be excused, if there are no objections.

Mr. —I object.

Mr. then voted "No."

The result was announced, and the bill declared lost, by the following vote:

—Messrs. Andrus, Barkley, Biddlecom, Bonham, Brandreth, A. A. Brown, J. W. Brown, Branson. Carpenter, Collins, Crandall, Godfrey, Gleason, Green, Hallenbeck. Humphrey, Hasbrouck, Hulse, Hungerford, Kellogg, Lapham, Lee, Lord, Morey, Olcott, Oliver, G. Parker, J. L. Parker, Perry, Pickard, Pitts, Post, Redington, Reed, Richardson, Rogers, Rost, Sanford, Severance, Shaw, Shepard, Shook, Spoor, Stafford, Stanford, Stewart, Strong, Tolman, Van Buren, Wilber, Wood, Worth.

—Messrs. Angel, Bemis, Boswell, Bookstaver, Blauvelt, Burditt, Burns, Cooper, Cutting, Chapman, N. Clark, Creamer, Crowell, Daniels, Edwards, Eldredge, Fonda, Gaughan, Haynes, Howard, Ingraham, Keegan, Kimball, Lockwood, Loutrel, Lyons, Maloy, Matthews, McConville, McDonald, McNeill, Mersereau, Murray, Nickerson, Nolan, Palmer, Penfield, Platt, Ridgway, Robertson, Reuse, Salmon, Sammons, Seebacher, Sumner, Stutts, Smith, Stanard, Taman, Turner, Vandersce, Vedder, Ward, Weaver, Webber, Wecler, Weed, Whitman.