The New York Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1862, Page 4

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BRYANTS' MINSTRELS’ way.—ON To Richaoxp. CHRISTY'S OPERA it ‘1 road’ Era ease anette yin, mag lway.- PLAN Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, Son Buwimsyues, 6 hermes ac. ee = NATIONAL THEATRE AND ee HALL, Canal Street—soxcs, Danes, BuRLesquas, 4 GAIETIES CONC’RT HALL, 616 Broadway.—DRawixa Roos Extearanacawrs, PEOPLE 8 MUSIC HALL, 45 Bowery.—Soxas, D, Busimsquas, a0. as, Daxces, PARISIAN CABINET OF WoNpe! 863 Broadway.— Opea y¥ from 10 A, M. till 10 5 has New York, Sunday, Ja THE SITUATION. Nothing of importance occurred yesterday in front of Richmond, beyond the ordinary skirmish- {ng which takes place every day, notwithstanding the rumors of an engagement which were circu- fated throughout the city. General McClellan telegraphs to the War Department that things were very quiet; that there was not so much shell- ing going on from the rebel batterfes as usual, although the enemy opened with his heavy guns on Friday, but did no damage to our troops. The General represents that his own preparations are Progressing well.. Affairs around Richmond are anquestionably going on favorably for our arms, under the wise and discreet management of the Commanding General, and although we may hear of a desperate encounter before long—it may now he only a few days or hours—the intelligence which announces a battle will also proclaim a vic- tory. Our correspondence from White House will give some insight into the prospects before the Army of the Potomac, and contains a succinct account of the state of affairs in the peninsula. Our special correspondence from Newbern North Carolina, will be found highly interesting, as well as the extracts from the newspaper of that city, the Progress. From the latter we learn the significant fact that six regiments in the rebel army from North Carolina have been disbanded at Richmond for their loyalty to the Union, and are at present under guard as traitors to the Joff. Davis bogus government. Before being disbanded it appears that they hung the brigadier genera, who commanded them. This is but another indi- cation of the feeling which exista in the Old North State in favor of the Union. In our news from Tennessee to-day we give the details and official account of the late expedition of our gunboats up the White river. A body of our troops, under command of Col. Fitch, com- prising the Forty-sixth Indiana regiment, were landed and advanced to the rebel fort, which they stormed in the most gallant manner, and carried at the point of the bayonet, driving the encmy out. “The object of the expedition was to remove ‘the obstructions placed in the river by the rebels eighty-five miles above its mouth, at the town of St. Charles. While the troops were landing, the gunboats Lexington, St. Louis, Conestoga and Mound City, kept up a brisk cannonade upon the rebel battery, which lasted for an hour and a half. Unfortunately, during the engagement a ball entered the boiler of the Mound City, causing an explosion which resulted in killing and wounding one hundred and twenty-five of her crew out of one hundred and seventy-five. The latest reports from the vicinity of Corinth ‘state that General Beauregard’s army was at Oko. Jona, 80,000 strong. Twenty thousand men, under General Kirby Smith, are at Chattanooga. Fifteen thousand men, ander General Price, are at Fulton, and General Van Dorn, with a small force of ca- valry, is @t Grenada. Such is the disposition of the rebel army, as far as can be credibly ascer- tained. The Union sentiment in Tennessee is said to be on the increase, and is every day making itself manifest. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, several petitions in favor of @ bankrupt law were presented and re- ferred. A bill was introduced authorizing the acceptance of League Island, on the Delaware river, which has been tendered as a free gift to the govemnment fora navy yard. A bill opening post offices in the insurrectionary districts was passed. The bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio river, at Steubenville, was discussed, and recommitted to the Post Office Committee. The consideration of the Confiscation ‘vill was postponed till Monday. The House bill presoribing the oath to all persons holding office \ndor the government was taken up and discussed till the adjournment, The House of Representatives was not in session yesterday, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. From Maynguez, Porto Rico, we have dates to the evening of June 4, per schooner Globe, Captain Acnes. Many English vessels were in port waiting vargo tf. Europe. Freights were considerably lower, sugar and molasses very scarce, and prices igh, ‘The crop will be soon over. No political news. The new Captain General has done nothing~ ro far. He is in favor of establishing a bank of discount; but there are serious difficulties in the ways Sead of the orders relating to the capture of Mush okers pr guerillas are peculiarly signif. cant and easily understood. We give the point of afew of them:— Secretary Stanton says—* Tet thom swing.” sa Dix advises to orn theme tho spot.’ Gon. Schufieled says—‘ Exscuto them im-aediately.” Gen. Kiuat say— ‘Give them no quarter.’ Gen. Loan says—s Shoot thum when found.” Gen. Halleck’s ordars are—‘ Lat (hom bo tried imm>- a, by & drumbead court, and punishd with ‘Beig: Gen. G. F. Shepley, having been frequently spoken of as the democratic candidate for Gover- nor of Maine, and also as a candidate for Congress, writes from New Orleans declining all such honors and requesting that his name shall never he consi- dered in connection with any political office. He says his highest aspirations and hopes are to see his country again united, and then to return to private life. The Provost Marshal of St. Louis has perpetrat- ed an “ outrage” upon three prominent ‘‘la- dies’’ of that city, who insisted upon the right to insult loyal citizens, sing secession songs and dis- eg toe Se Their names are Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs, Hannigan and Miss Galvin, and they were or- dered to vacate the premises they occupied within’ forty-eight hours, and if in any other locality thoy should repeat the offences they would be sent out of the city. A firm in St. Louis advertises for a number of salesmen, and admonishes those who are “‘ afflict- ed with secessionism,or any other stupidity,”’ not to apply. Four hundred and sixty Butternut prisoners, captured by General Fremont, between Harrison- burg and Strasburg, Virginia, arrived at Harria- barg, Peunsylvania, on the 15th inst. The above are all “‘ for three years or the war.” We have, besides, some fifteen regiments of three months militia, either in service or ready to move, and about five thousand men in camp. Beriah Magoffin, Governor of Kentucky, was in Louisville on the 11th inst. This is the first ap- pearance of his Excellency away from the Execu- tive mansion at Frankfort since the breaking out of the rebellion. It is reported that Beriah is looking for a place to creep back into the Union fold. Among the lost tribes of Dixie are Gov. Isham G. Harris and the Tennessee Legislature. When they fled from Nashville they took refuge in Mem- phis, and since the capture of the latter city dili- gent search has been made for them, but they are non est, The Confederate States Bible Society advertise for.all the old paper boxes in Dixie to bind Bibles for the soldiers. Among the deaths of Union soldiers at Harper's Ferry of typhoid fever we notice the name of Je- rome M. Doubleday, of the Eighth regiment New York Cavalry, aged thirty years eleven months and seventeen days. He died on the 17th of May last. It is rumored that ex-President Martin Van Bu- ren is lying dangerously ill at his residence at Lindenwald, New York. The steamship Eagle, intended for the New York and Havana line, was launched yesterday afternoon from the yard foot of Houston street, East river. She is @ first class boat, strongly built, and 1,600 tons burthen. She is a staunch craft, and will, no doubt, prove an excellent ac- quisition to the line on which she is entered. The Board of Excise held its twenty-ninth ses- sion yesterday, granted several licenses, and ad- journed till to-morrow afternoon at half-past one o’clock. It is understood that the Police Com. missioners will commence on Wednesday, the 25th instant, to rigidly enforce the Excise law, by ar- resting every person who shall sell liquor without license, and that the Governor has determined that this law shall not be openly violated with im- punity any longer. This is said to bg the reguit of a petition of the ‘ Licensed Liquor Dealers’ Socie- ty” to the Governor for protection against the unlicensed associations, The stock market was dull yesterday, without any Particular change in prices, Money was easy at 4a5 percent on call. Exchange closed at 1173118; gold closed at 1063¢ @ 3%. The export of the ss § was $2,346,000. ‘The cotton market was firmer yesterday, and ons with a tendency to higher prices. The sales embraced about 2,600 bales, parton speculation, on tho basis of 32e. for middling uplands. The medium and low grades of Stato and Western brands of flour exhibited more activity and rather more stiffuess in prices. The higher grades were also in fair request, and prices were Sustained. Wheat was easier and less active, move- ments being somewhat cnrcked by the firmness in freigbts. The demand was chisfy fer ‘export. Corn was lower by 1c. a 13g¢. per bushel, with fair activity at the concession. New Wostern mixed sold at 60c., and old do. at 5lc. @ 52c.,im store and deiivered. Pork was easier, while the market was tolerably active, closing at $10 80 a$10 8734 for meas, and at $9 6235 0 $9 75 for prime. Lard was active and prices steady. ‘Sugars were firm, and some holders withdrew from the market, while the sales embraced about 900 hhds. Cof- fee was steady aud quiet. Freights firmer. Flour to Liverpool was taken at S4., and wheat at 10%. s 11d., the latter figure in ship's ‘page. Afterwards 10%4. in bulk was refused, and lid. demanded. To London wheat was engaged at 104d. in bulk and ship's bags, and to Glasgow Sour was taken at gs. 3d, PRrovasie Ovseors ov Beacrecary’s ARwy at Vicxsuura.—A considerable portion of Bean- regard’s Corinth army is Féported at Vicks- burg. What for? We think we have it. A short distance above Vicksburg the Yazoo river empties into the Mississippi, and on the op. posite side there is a railroad which runs a con- siderable distance into the interior of Northern Louisiana, towards the Red river and T. We suspect, therefore, that as this Yazoo river will farnish the steamboats and transports, Beauregard’s object is to command a crossing at that point for his army, and possibly for Jeff. Davis and his associates in the rebel government at Richmond, should they be able to get down to Vicksburg. We cannot imagine what other object the rebels can have in so stubbornly holding Vicksburg, when, except. ing this point, the whole Mississippi river is in our possession. Sovtuern Necrorms txper THE Coxriscation Bitt.—Under the Confiscation bill lately passed by the House of Representatives the slaves of rebels are emancipated, while those of loyal men are retained in bondage. The natural effect of this distinction among the slaves will be to make them all rebels, aseuming that they all desire this doubtful boon to them of “human freedom.” The slaves of a Union master will do all they can to make him or prove him a rebel, if freedom is the one great object they are after. Under this view, the bill in queation will produce the greatest confusion throughout the South, and, so far as the negroes are concerned, is all in favor of the rebellion. Such are the incongruities and stultifications to which our negro philanthropists are pushing the legislation of Congress. Waar Witt tue Canapian Pavers Say apovr ms Attacks or tas Exoris Press?—Our readers are aware that the leading organs of public opinion in England have loudly pro- tested of late against the idea of the mother country being put to expeuse in future for the defence of Canada. They have declared that if that colony is not able and willing to defend itself it must be left to its fate, and England cannot interfere. We had always supposed that allegiance and protection were reciprocal: Will Canada take the hint fo ret up for herself, What bave the Canadian journals to say on the subject? Will they suffer their country to be thns snubbed with impunity ? | impotent a nation, _ NEW YORK. HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNB.23 102 SUNDAY, JUNE..22, 1862. Europe and America. From every quarter the news now has but one significance. The hours of the rash rebel- lion whioh has so long distracted the nation are at last numbered, and no possible contin- gency can avert the speedy restoration of the Union to its former unity, and more than its former powers. Time, the great pacificator: will soon make all the citizens of this great republic one in sentiment, as they are one na- tionally, Past feuds and hatreds will be buried with the dead which have sanctified our battle fields. Prejudices and animosities will dissolve with the armies which they have cre ated. Our people are not those who cherish useless quarrels or brood over impossible re- venges. North and South, we have said our hardest words to each other from the cannon’s mouth. Both sections will now be glad to shake hands and be friends, with a higher re~ speot for each other’s resolution, resources and heroism. Already the statesmen of both con- tinents are anticipating this conclusion, and ‘anxiously debating the question, “ What is to follow reunion ?”” With European statesmen this question is of vital importance. They have played a losing game throughout this rebellion, and have made such false moves and unskilful combina- tions that our triumph is their utter defeat: They have calculated upon a long war, con- cluded only by foreign intervention. They find the war brought to a close by a campaign greater than any ever planned before, and carried out with unparalleled bravery and with appliances of warfare which have startled, astonished and revolutionized the world. They have calculated upon an ultimate division of this country into at least two republics, neu- tralizing each other by constant contentions and antagonisms, They find the United States of America once more-an undivided nation, its institutions vindicated, its moral force increas- ed, its navy numbering five hundred ships and one hundred and fifty thousand sailors, its army composed of a million of veteran soldiers. Like an insane capitalist who has devised some grand scheme upon the theory of perpetual night, and suddenly finds his plans disarranged and prospects annihilated by the rising of the sun, the statesmen of Europe have based their projects for the future upon the idea that this country was destroyed, and they now discover that it is greater, stronger, more powerful than ever. To France and England this country has been bound by a thousand ties. Upon every page of our history is a pledge of peace. The momentary ill-fecling towards Eng- land, caused by the wars of the Revolution and of 1812, long since sub- sided. The assistance rendered us by Franoe during these wars is still gratefully re- membered. Every emigrant ship bas brought us new missionaries of amity. Our increasing commerce carried always a white flag. French- men and Americans were natural friends. Eng- lishmen and Americans became countrymen. And yet no sooner did we become of sufficient importance to be considered in Earopean state problems than the aristocracy of England be- gan to intrigne against us, and first secretly and then opéaly fanned the fame of anti-slavery agitation into a blaze which they hoped would burn out the vitals of this nation. The South- ern rebellion was devised in Exeter Hall, armed from English arsenals, advised by ths English aristocracy gud first recognized by the English government. French recognition fol- lowed. England returned our splendid recep- tion of the Prince of Wales by discriminating against us in her laws and insulting us through her officials. Her professed neutrality was « practical assistance to the rebels. She probi- bited the export of tre to the North, but sent hundreds of ball with ammuni- tion, to the South. e refused to allow Secre- tary Seward to sign the declaration abolishing privateering. and made a special law in regard to her harbors in order to protect the rebel privateers. Eagerly seizing upon the Trent affair as a pretext for active interference, she prepared for war before officially asvertain- ing the cause, and sent troops to Canada before her diplomatic note had been received by this government. Her leading presses have been the organs, ber leading orators the apostles, her leading statesmen the apologists of secession. Only the moral cowardice which has always distinguished English diplomacy has prevented an active championship of the South. Never was cowardice more fortunate, for the South now fully sympathizes with the North in its feeling towards England. The record of France is hardly morg credit- able, thon h of a different character, Me Napoleon iynasty jas Aided, if it has not insti- gated, the Palmerston and Ruseell administra- tion in uprooting all good feeling in this country in regard to Europe. Napoleon is strongly suspected of haying given a secret countenance to secession agents, and of im- atiently urging upon England the policy of reaking the blockade. But, with the alliance of England and Spain, Napoleon has chiefly occupied himself by interfering in Mexican’ affairs. It was characteristic of his subtle shrewdness to take advantage of our civil war to do what he well knew we would never have consented to see done in regard to Mexico, No one but Napoleon could have invited us, with deceitful courtesy, to join in the tripartite ex- pedition against that unhappy republic at the very time when he knew that al! our army and navy were only too busily engaged at home. No one but Napoleon could have had the assuranee to ask this republic to aid in imposing ® monarchy upon an- other republic, situated, too, upon our own borders. From this delectable scheme England and Spain withdrew immediately that our civil war seemed near its termination; but Napoleon announces that he shall proceed to accomplish his designs alone. Upon the fixed- ness of this resolution and the suceess of his forces depend great future consequences, At home Napoleon is balanced between the revo- lution and the Pope, and plays back and for- ward between them as it suits his purposes. He stands upon very insecure ground in France, and in Mexico his footing is even more unsafe. Thie country will never permit a foreign throne to be erected in Mexico, and if Napo- leon persists in his enterprise our fleets and armies may find their first labors there, when this rebellion is finally settled. Napoleon's fleets and armies will have enough to do at home in such an emergency, for heirs to the throne of France still live, and are not without adherents, whom the support of this country might make bold, powerful and perlaps sue- cessful. Aa for Spain, we have no concern ohont se gunboats could sail past the Moro Castle, as they sailed up the Mississippi, and settle any quarrel with her by the capture of Cuba, summarily and with scarcely a ripple on the surface of international comity. Our ‘relations with France and England, bow- ever, demand carefal consideration. France must either retreat from, or be driven out of, Mexico; and as for England, there is a most bitter and implacable hostility against her in the minds of the people of both the North and the South. We may be abused for creating. be- cause we refer to, this feeling; but it undenia- bly exists, and it ignot without cause in either section of the country. It will require the greatest efforts of our leading men to prevent this hostility displaying itself overtly; and Eu- rope may yet find its dread of the leaven of free, democratic institutions justified by most unexpected results. During the Crimean war ‘Prince Albert declared that ‘constitutional monarchy was upon its trial.” England may find, however, as we have, that a foreign war is no fair test of a government; but, unlike this country, when tried by a civil war, aided by foreign sympathy and aid, she may be found wanting. The Pacific Railroad Bill Passed—A Groat National Measure. The Pacific Railroad bill, on Friday last, passed the Senate, by the decisive vote of thirty-five to five—a majority which indicates the popularity and national importance of the measure. It is the House bill; but, as it goos back to that body with various secondary amendments, it isto be hoped that the friends of the measure will lose no time in effecting a final agreement between the two houses, so that this continental enterprise of peace may be speedily inaugurated, as one of the great com- pensating results of this terrible domestic war. When this important subject began first to be agitated in Congress, as far as then known, there Was nothing but @ howling wilderness of desert plains and barren mountains betweon the frontiers of Arkansas and Missouri and Cali- fornia, with here and therea patch of arable soil. Since that day the Mormons have estab- lished a populous community, and many profit- able sources of wealth and trade in and around the basin of the Great Salt Lake; while several hundred miles to the eastward the Pike’s Peak gold region, and some five hundred miles to the west from Great Salt Lake the Sierra Nevada gold and silver country, have each attracted a population which in another year or two will be sufficient for the nucleus of a new and powerful State. This continental road will connect all these settlements and mines with the Mississippi river and the Atlantic coast on the one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other and will contribute immensely, too, in sett: the great agricultural regions of the State Oregon and Washington Territory, and in de- veloping the gold mines lately discovered in that remote section of the great Northwest. Some idea of the passenger traffic of the Pa- cific Railroad, when completed even half way, may be formed from the immense emigration which by the route of this rond has gone out to California, Oregon, &c., within the last twelve years, by the dangerous, difficult and costly transportation of wagons, horses, mules, oxen and handcarts, in a journey of three, four or five months. The whole route from the great Plaing tg the Pacific is lined wi e bones of fomished Guies. the grar6s of exhausted emi’ grants and heaps of abaidoned property. And yet {i appears that, following thé government escort which left Omaha, Nebraska, thé other day, six thousand emigrant wagons crossed the river at that point alone. At this rate, with a railroad even to the Rocky Mountains, its pas- senger traffic will perbaps amount to ten thou- sand tickets aday during the summer months) and when completed to the Pacific the road will be more profitable than that of Panama. But, best of all, it will fill up our vast Pacific slope with populous and wealthy States, and bind the Atlantic and Pacific sections together as firmly as the Mississippi binds the Gulf of Mexico to St. Louis and Pittsburg: We care nothing for trifling side issues. The government is secured by the bill, and the country will be vastly strengthened and en- riched by the work. Let the amendments of the bill, then, be settled between the two houses, and let us have this great national road. Our Naval Triumphs and Power. Notwithstanding the jokes and jeers of the press about Secretary Welles and bis long, flow- ing beard, his twoand a halfper cent to Morgan, and the extravagant prices paid for some of the vessels purchased for the use of the govern: MEM at the beginning of the war, he has achievements { show Which compare favora- bly with the results from the ¢ action of thé Wat Department. He has taken good care of his brother-in-law; but he has also taken care of the main thing, and made our navy respected throughout the world. It is true he began badly, though not worse than the fuue pas at Manassas by the War Department; but he hes ended well, which is more than can be said for the Secretary of the other arm of the public service. He has finished up his business in first rate style. The names and deeds of Du- pont, Foote, Farragut, Davis, Porter, Rodgers, Stembel and other heroes of our navy will live forever in the annale of the republic. The ships equipped by Secretary Welles in the space of a year have not only annihilated the entire naval force of the enemy, but have coptributed in an eminent degree to the success of our army in several battles; and with the addition of the jron-clad vessels now in progress of construc’ tion he will have by next faltsuch s powerful force on the ocean as will be able to confront the combined navies of England, France and ain. SPhat is the cause of this success? It is due entirely to the circumstance that Congress has had nothing to do with the navy. The poli- ticians probably could not find a man connected with it who could be made an available can. didate for the Presidency; so they let the de. partment alone, and hence its brilliant victories andthe completion of its work. How different is the case of the army. In the Southwest, where it was beyond political control, it hag been very successful; but in Virginia, where i was directly under the eye and influence of the radicals, they have almost ruined it. Owing to the imbecility of the War Department, they succeeded in splitting up the Army of the Potomac, for the benefit of political generals, into several unconnected divisions, each so weak as to be unable to resist a vigorous onset of the enemy; and at this very moment the whole country is trembling with anxiety for the fale of the largest fragment of it, which is so greatly outnumbered by the A few of our iron-clad | rebels that not only has General MoClella. been unable to make an advance for want of sufficient reinforcements, but the safety of his force has been imperilled. Already, from the conduct of the politicians in Congress, se- vious disasters have befallen our arms in the valley of the Shenandoah; curses deep, not lond, have risen from the hearts to the mouths of thousands against the criminals, and, should any great misfortune happen to the army now before Richmond, the indignation of the people will be beyond control. Secretary Welles may bless bis stars, and the country has ample ground for congratulations, that our noble navy bas not been subjected to the same disas- trous influence which has delayed the capture of Richmond, and may prolong the war into another campaign in the fall. On the contrary, it has disposed of everything that floated be- longing to the rebels, and will soon be ina position to successfully defend the coast against the united fleets of all the naval Powers of the world. Tam New Yous Era Answerep.—Tho editor of the New York ra, a new sprightly weekly Saturday paper published at three cents, wants to- know why the Hurato, after advertising the Tribune from day to day, without charge, can- not say a word or two for the Hra, a new. paper that would appreciate a notice in our columns. We answer that. we. are compelied to keep watch over the mean and unscrupulous nigger- worshippers of the Tribune, from a sense of public duty; but that as the Hra seems to bea decent, enterprising, law and order paper, that may be trusted by the public, we are satisfied to let it go quietly along. Crry Porrrics.—In another column this morning we publish an article upon the cur- rent gossip in regard to city politics. We de- sire our readers to remark the utter want of principle and the contemptible selfishness ex” hibited by all the aspirants for office of whom the article treats. The weifare of the city is of no importance whatever to these politicians. ‘They all labor only for place and spoils. We hope to hear the last of them when the millen- nium comes. It is hardly possible that they will subside sooner. Consprracy or THE Evrorgan Powrs aGaINst Americs.—England, France and Spain have evidently conspired against repubiican institu. tions on this continent. They have begun with Mexico; but they will not end with it, if they are let alone. They desire to wipe out every vestige of republican government on this conti- nent. The great object of their aversion is the United States, whose growing power they hate and fear. New Scnmanins Batrery.—A submarine battery, the {avention of @ mechavic named Duffy,of Paterson, N. J., wow tested yesterday at Jersoy City. Mr. Duffy twice approached a target of eight inches of oak, and under sixteon inches of water, drove his ball through it. ‘The experiment was witnessed by a large assembly of scientific men. Among them were mombers of Congress and the most public spirited citizens of Hudson county. A tompcrate banquet was prepared by a geutleman of Jorrey City on the ‘cccasion, Spooches were made by Isaac M., Scudder, the Prosecuting Attorney ef the coun- ty,and by Mr, Wakeman, Mayor Edwards and Judge Whitley. 3fr. Duffy was cordially greoted for his suc- cessful exhibition of his model submarine battery. Tug SatcrpaY Ovry Atm Amusexents.—The Central Park Concert was yesterday attended bys at joast met Spenty thousand persons. The cornet baud tn the o take Was charming and effective, and the concerted pieces from (Ge tausic stead on the common wore very pleasing. Nosgithstsagin the fact that several t car- riages visited the drives yesterday, by tho new police regulations the noise of the wheols did not disturb the attention or the audience. The weather was fine, the music was fine, tho ladies’ dresses were of fine mate- Finl; in fact it was ‘a Sne ir’ altogether, fn Jones’ Wood thord was a festira.; but it was of an tained by private invitation. afternoon. A la#ge and fashionable assemblage of vis!- juveniles enjoyed the levee of the two dwarfs. It is the intention of the proprietors to perform nursery tales in character during the holiday or vacation season for the benefit of the young folks, in addition to the usual afteruoon amusements. Fro anra—Mr 0. C. Benjamin, of | No. 274 Broad. street, Newark, N.J., has just issued a beautiful photo. graph representing Major General G. B. McClellan at his headquarters, Camp Seminary, pear Alexandria, Va., just before embarking for Fortress Monroe, April 3, 1862. ‘The Genoral appears in full uniform in front of his quar- tors, while Mrs. McClellan and her mother—Mrs. Genoral Marcy—are seen standing at the door. The likeness of General McClellan is one of the bost we hare yet seen, and the coe altogether is a most interesting one. Military Fanerals To-Day. LIECTENANT PALMER. ‘The remains of Lieut. Palmer, who lost his life while iu the performance of his duty as Acting Assistant Adju- {aut General to General Sickles at the battle of Fair Oaks, on the 14th inst., will be interred to-day in Trinity Oeme- tery, Cartmaneviile, Lieut. Palmer was only twenty-two years ips bbe very Lope young man, highly edu- cated, ines. He was a native of New mk, vm Delleve, the only son of a —_ mother, to whom his loes is irreparable. He was a, favorite in the Excelsior Brigade, from his genial a} soldierty qnalities. He died ow Sunday afternoon, just a wesi etiam * death © of his fellow aid, Lieut. oe who Tho funeral morlahy 3, Wn oe rer the renideaee jase w. Cone, No. 140 Wore eee msirees, Cal ‘teruoon, at three d'eloek. CAPTAIN waanoae ‘The funeral of Michael MeMahon, late Captain ot mt} Twenty fifth regiment, New York State Volunteers, who was killed at the battle of Lanover Court House, Va., lately, will take a this afiernoon,from the residence of his father, 28 St. Marks pi ace, East Fighth street, Hie remains will be eacoried to Calvary Cemeie: company of the Second regiment, New York State by iitia, Another Southerner for Fort Lafayette. UNITED STATES MARSHAL’S OFFICE. Joye 21.—This morning Geueral Butts, Surveyor Gene- ral of thie State of Georgia, was given into the eustody of Deputy Lee, on the charge of being a secessionist. Mr. Butts and a party were out on an exploring expedition, to discover salt Sie Ges on the eoaste of Florida and reued by the van little orale waa upset. of the but theenersl'h held ou to the capsized taken off by the Kingfisher, and Rostal Irregularities. 10 THE KDITOR OF THE NEW YORE HERALD, Fort Macon, N. C., June 12, 1862. ‘Will you favor ue poor, forsaken individuals with seme assistance from your pen, in redressing « wrong which ali the garrison of this fort feel to have existed quite long enough? I mean the miserabje manner in which the postal duties are and have been performed in the manner in which business is eee to, I will mention that on Sunday last we roceived, the same }, three copies of the New Your Henatp—one of the Zist of ‘one tnd one of the 4th of June. the intermedi: ate dates we havo no intelligence. 1 am troubling you with I can appeal to the whole gar- rison at this fort. As it is scarcely to be suppesed that of one hundred and fifty men all are #0 forgotten as never to receive a letter fron eithor friend, brother, sister or sweetheart, When we laid on the lonely sand bar at Hatteras, our maiia came with every steamer. Even on the camp ground opposite Carolina City, when preparing to take this fort, we did manage to ovtain nearly a whole mail; but now ‘the port is taken, locomotives are running bt tween here and Newborn (I could go through by from hore to Norfolk), the port of Beaufort is open, ve sela arrive every day, bat we cannot help Inquiring “Wherg isthe mail for Fort Macon)” You fully, A MEMPER Firat Artillery Motte | & NEWS FROM a]. mavens and Amerions [gunboats could sal pus tho Move Can as | toon nnable to mate an savann Or west] MEWS FROM WASHINGTON. WAR GAZETTE. OMecial. OBDER TO BNOOURAGE ENLISTMENTS. Wasurxeror, June 21, 1868, Pursuant to a joint resolution of Congress to encourags enlistments tn the regular army and volunteer forces) It is ordered, that a premium of two dollars shall be paid for each accepted recruit; that volunteers for three years or during the war, and every soldier who here> after enlists either in the regular army or the yolune teers for three years or during the war, may receive bis first month’s pay in advance upon the mustering ef his company into the service of the United States,or after he shall bave been mustered into and jolmeda re ginent already fh the service. ‘This order will be transmitied to Governors of States and recruiting officers. EDWIN M. > SRAM TON, Resewlery, of War. GENERAL NEWS. ‘Wasumarow, June 21, 1868. THE REPORTS FROM THE ARMIES. No ‘ater advices than those published, relative to mate ters of public interest, bad been received at the War De- partment up to eleven o’clock to-night. ‘The reply of President Lincoln to the Quaker abolities delegation yesterday, has not given great satie- faction, to) the radicals. In his \exteniporaneous reply to the formally prepared address, urging him to use his ‘position for the extermination of slavery in the South, Mr. Lincoln firmly put courteously eorrected the glossing given to his antecedent positions upon this subject, and was consistent with all that he has horetofore expressed. He reminded the delegates that the extract from his Springfeld speech was incom- P! and in his quaint but effective manner expresse@ the oplvion that if a simple decree of emancipation were sufficient to abolish slavery, J hn Brown would have done it when at Harper’s Ferry, but that while the con- stitution itself cannot be enforced in the Southern States ft eould not be expected that a dccree of emancipation could be, All these efforts to commjt, the President im some way to the programme of the radicals have faile@ to swerve him a hair’s breadth from the line of conduct he prescribed fur himself, or from the policy announced by bim tn the beginning of his administration. THE BANKRUPT BILL, ‘There isat last some prospect of = movement towards tho passage of a Bavkrupt law. During the debate ia the Senate to-day, Mr. Sumner called upon the Judiciary Commit:ee to explain the delay in reporting the bill re ferred tothem. Tho reply indicated a willingness and intenticn to report at an early day. Thore’ is nodouds that the measure is favored by a majority of the Judick ary Committee of ‘he Senate, as well as the select com- mittee in the House, and it is believed that it will com. mand the support of a clear majority of the members of both houses, if it can be brought forward im time tobe acted upon during this session. REBEL ASSASSINS. Rebel prisoners state that, se creat is the fear enters tained by the rebels a Richmond of certain Union gene+ ra‘s, that whole companies have bom specially detaile® to kill them in any engagement, One instance is related of a company of Georgians, in the battle af Fair Oaks, firing a valley at General Kearney, whom they denomi- vate “The one-armed devil.” They concluded be was | bullet proof, HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATIONS AT WASHINGTON. ‘The most ample urrangements. have been made here. for hoapital accommodatiors, In addition to the regue lar hospitals, ten churches have beon socepted, six of which are already fitted up for the reception of sick an@ woundedjeoldiers. There are now ready three thousand spare beds—two thousand in the hospitals and ond thousand In the charchos—which aro intended for the reception of convalescents. Dr. Settenwoll has beem sent to the Army of the Potomac, and Dr. Page is assigned to duty as Medica! Director here, CHANGE IN THE parce COMMANDS AT WASHING- Ne as boen made here by the divored O -ewotig ote rst i) clvil jurfadlotIob, ahd the altora tion of the mixed authority hitherto exercised the military government of she District. “Genera Wadsworth has beon relieved from se Provost gute the military in the District, except the duty in the city. Geveral Sturgis has been assigned to the command of al military forces in the immediate vicinity of Washington, and has already begun to orga nize them into brigades, and to make arrangements te increase their officiency to thegreatest extent. General exclusive and private nature, admission dels only ob- | Sturgis’ high reputation as a soldier and able command- errenders his appointment to this duty particularly Cromorne Gardens was a complote success Sieh ] ng.geable to the troops, and inspires thom with confis denee thes wolan thetr-eemnepeteions are required they tora was present to hear the concert, and numbers of | will be ready for any emergency. mu WAVY x5BD. Soveral government have trived at the Navy Yard, during the last t » {rom differens points on the Chesapeake, bt repoft to 20ws of Lieutenant Parker, the exceutive officer oF the Navy Yard, bas been granted a furlough, and Lieutenant Mo> Crea assignod to duty in his place. The new gun! Paul Jones has taken on her armament, and will be ready for service as soon as ber complement ef seamen are provided. NAVAL ORDERS AND APPOINTMENTS. The following orders and appointments were issued from the Navy Department yesterday :— Lieutenant Wm. Gibson ordered to the command of the United States steamer Yankee, Assistant Paymaster Melville Hanna ordered to take passage in United States steamer Connecticut, to repors to Commodore Porter for duty on the mortar flotilla. Samuel P. Berger appointed Acting Assistant Surgeom. and ordered to the bark Fernandina, at Port Royal. ‘Wmi. A. Smith appointed Acting Assistant Engineer, and ordered to the gunboat Sonoma, at Portsmouth, N.E ‘The Senate to-day confirmed Edward “MeDarnell, of New York, Brigadier General 1 of Vol Volunteers. at For Ixprava Sotbhts, A Of Padjanians was held to-night atgGovernor Wright's room. ra ey gee op Shae and Schayler O.Ifax, SecrétaFy. eee ia ees dent; Hon. J. P. Usher, Treasurer, and W. T. Dennis, Seerctary, An Executive Committee of eight was ap- potgted. ‘The subscription was in addition to $800 al- ready exponded by Indianians. PREVENTION OF SICKNESS IN THLE ARMY. Through the efforts of General Wetmore, of the Usion Defence Committee of the city of New York, and Dr. Griscom, and others of the Honpital Department, the sickness caused by sleeping upon marshy ground ie obviated by the use of the Morgan hammock tent. Dr.) Watson, the Brigade Surgeon at White House, Va., has already given them his approval in hospital use. CONDITION OF COL. VAN WYCK. Private advioes from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac,represent that Col. Van Wyck, of New York, fs recovering from the injury he received in the leg dur- ing the recent battle, His sword was struck by « six inch shell and considerably bent, forming an angle at the point of contact. The weapon, acting as a shield, doubt- lesa saved his leg from fracture, EXPBOTAD ARRIVAL OF GEN. POPE. Major General Pope, who has so greatly distinguished himself by his operations in the West, is expected shortly to be in Washington, at the invitation of the go- ‘vernment. THINTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. FIRST SROSION. Senate. ‘Wasmmcton, Jane 21, 1962. THR BANKRUPT Law. Several petitions for a general bankrupt law were ACONPTANOR OF LEAGUE IRLAND. Mr. Grrums, (rep.) of lowa,from the Naval Committee, reported « bill authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to agcept the title’ to League Island, on the Delaware river. ‘TAR POSTAL SERVICR IN THR REBEL STATES. Mr. Cor.ammn, (rep.) of Vt., from the Post Office Com- mittee, reported a bill opening post offices in the insur- rectionary districts. Passed. BRIDGH ACROSS THR O10, Mr, Wan, (tep.) of Ohio, called up the House bill to ‘establish certain post roads. ‘The dill authorizes a bridge, with a draw of two,hun- dred feot, to be constructed across the Ohio river at vite. er ove an, (rep.) of Pa. oppored the bill at Yength, am obstructing the nay ion Of one of the greavesy rivers. ‘ . 2 ae ome ——