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CTRSS THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 9452. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1862. es PRICE TWO CEN ‘The sanitary condition Of ¢he city elicite the warmost Praine from eveyy One bys those who bave been praying for the aprearnace of, “Yellow Jack.’ In adwinistering practical charity Geueral Butler ha® evingod the shrewdness and care for the interests of the government that cheravterize all of department. Fimling that the poor people here were tafiering foarfuily from want of food, he gave orders to ‘Polonel Turner, Chief Commissary, to sell government flour snd provisions to those whe could afford to pay for them at an adyance of 2 hundved per cent, and distribute Bratuitoasly to those who had ne money. ‘Tho result is (hat both classes bave been immensely benefitted, for tuo peopie with money have obtained their floar (for in- stance) at $10 per paryel, when they would have been obliged to pay $25 to Confederate holders of the stall of lifo, while those whe were too poor to pay bave becn fed “without money and without price; all this good accomplished, the government {s to-day two re better olf in pockot for the arrangement. Tp arranging and executing the details of this Jarge ebari- ty, Colonel Turnor bas dispiayed unusual ability ang talent for the duties of his position. We bave recently had some cases of punishment that ly justies is administered amony ofli- cers of our army ,a5 well 1s the stvingent conviction meted ent community, aud proves the firmnese of the United States authority in this city. ugo aVieut. Tobias, of the Thirteenth Con- ing been connected with nan in obgiining money from coffee house keep- ors for giving them bogus extensions of licenses, ‘Tho » Tobias his choice between resi: Me selected the MARUN VAN BUREN'S GBSEQUIES. The Funeral Services Yesterday at Kinderhook. Address of the Rev. J. Romeyn JRY LATE FROM NEW ORLEANS. RIVAL OF THE STEAMER MARION, ominent Citizens Returning to Loyalty. OTTON COMING IN, e Thonsand Laborers Employei on the Streets and Wharves, is actions in this ‘The funeral of ex-President Martin Van Buren took plage yestorday afternoon at Kinderhook, from the Duteh Reformed church in that village, in presence of an im mexise concourse of the frieuds and neighbors of th ceased, Previous to the ceremonials in the church im- pressive prelimimary servicestook place at Lindenwold, lence of Mr, Van Buren, which were con- Romeyn Perry, These services were held in the spacious hai running through the house, wherein the coftin had been placed contgining all that re- mainod to earth of the eighth President of the United and yet. with o Uvited States steamship Mer‘, Captain Phillips, ducted by Rev. J. ived ot this port yesterday. ‘she "brings dates from lv Orleans of the 20th, and iro‘ Key West of the 24th show how impar' he Marion brought mails fregm Onited States steamers Leissipp!, Pensacola, Cayugi) and Itasca, at New Or- pe, and san Jac) The coffin was of rosewood, with pure silver orna- ments, and a plate, with the folowing inseription:— out to evil deers in the r into (Gags! sip), Muntsville aud Merce. Qeerrreseaeee, OPO LL OE IRE TESS OOLELE EDS t, was found guilty of he s still very good. Gen. Butler two theasand uv vine ble cnoitement occurred on the of the news of the exploits of the Confederate ten ram Arkaneag, ‘olorel T. B. Thorpe, of the Cnstom House at New Or- eands per Marion # pair of pelicans (Louisiona te emblem) a8 a prevent to Central Park. ates Steamer Hunisyitle arrived at Key Jest on the 23, having in tow small prize steamer petered off ihe Floride-ooast. Ackp 79 YEARS, 7 LOULLLLAELEOEEETELLLOLEEDEPES IPDELEDEAEATCOUE IGE The cornee wos shrouded in # white eatin robe, a satin sash psssing around the neck, ever the heart, the neck being enveloped in a white tie. After the serviews at the resideuce the corpse was re- moved to the plain village hearse, and the long and well ordered procession tovk up its line of march for the church, two miles distant, where the final commemora- ‘The racred ediflee was appropriately draped in mourning throughout, the pulpit being additionally decorated by so that the last earthly st, and was thereupon declared dishonorably discharged from whe service. The policeman was tried bofore Major Bell, and sentenced to |. two yeurs in the parish prison. On Thursday a Lioutenant Robinson, of the Yourtesnth convicted of having been cone witha man named Allen, who bad heon acting as a sol” dier in the regiment, but who never enlisted, in swind. ling sick soldieva out of their money. Ths case was this:—The Fulton was to carry home a large number of diers, but bad not sutticient accommodation for ail the sick. Allen had charge of making out the list of thoge to go from the Fourteenth Maine, and the poor fellows were so anxious for the chance to get home that they paid hin Yarious sums, from five dollars upward, The levying of this ler the direction of Lieutenant Robin ved from Allen as a preseut $20. Maine regimens, wa tion wok place. American colors, ees in relation to the dead were not unmarked by the presence of that proud symbo! of American nationaity, beneath whose fold he had been reared and attaine? to ail his greatness, but upon which he turned bis eyes to behoi it for the last time, isaster and torn by c Our New Ortcans Correspondence. New Onreans, July 20, 1862. “Heated Term” 4m the Crescent City—The Canines— Gothly—Weneral Butler Preserves the Morale of the City—Its Excellent Sanitary Condition— Beeryihing Goes on & Generel Buller’s Chavily—His Impartiat Jvstico—The Ongiroller and City Surv-yor and Other Se ved”? from Duty—Recruitina Progressing Pinely—The Corps—Outrages of Guerilics—How the Secesi erp their Pisdgee—An Embryo Assassin Convicted for precedence on Diaok mai! was w go, ant he reve! used wae arrayed in deep dlack. The procession entered the chorch in the ensuing The Funcrat Kuloyist, Rev. Beijamin Romeyn Berry, Accompanied by Rev. Mr. Van Zanut. by the following named pall bearere, all citizens of Kinderhodk, and neighbors and personal friends of the deceased ex-Prosident:— Albert Hoes, Esq. Kpbraim Hest, ¥ ©. H. Wendoner, John Frisbie, Feq. Choster Jarvis, Faq. William A. Mesick, Esq. Abram A. Van Allen, Fsq. ‘The immediate mourners, consisting of al) of the fa- mily that eurvive; the aged agseviates and companions of the deecased; citizens of Columbia county ; villagers of Kinderhook and friends from abroad. Among the dis tinguished persons present wer His Excellency Governor Edwin DP, M ratio Ballard, Secretary of State of New York; senator Right Reverend Alonzo Potter, DD. LLD., Bishop i ; Sndges Hegeboom, Pot weme Bench of this State; Hon, &. J. Editor Albany 4: fxq., the Honorable the ¢ New York Common Council; lion. George yoord, of ‘Troy; ‘Hop. A. Vanderpoal; Jo Hon. Williom Kelly; Rey. William James, y; Gouverneur Kembie; Thos. W. Ludio William Kemble, Exq.; Judge Cot Vanderp el; Charies Butler, Msy.; Judge Judge Barnard, ef Hudsou; his Honor Mayor Bachman of Hindson; Judge Newkirk ited States Mai! Service; the President und officers of the Farmer's Bank of Uudson, Pardoned—Arvett sda dosh ‘The same cnolee offered to Tobias was extended to Robinson, aod he also rerigned, and was dociared dis- honorably disebarged, and was then orderod before Juige Bell, whon,on® charge of swindling, he got two months in the parish prison, accepting Avte of Manumission frou. the Slavehotders— wer Marion Gets Into Difficulty by Rusning the ‘The conpse, borne ‘e—'The Rebel Rum Arkansas, be. When the profoundty wise and magnificent monarch philosopher, King Solomon, said ‘there is nothing yw under the sup,” I think he must have referred to the jevlar gun that reigns (and rarely permits any other jing to interfere with his authority) supreme over this ing city. How anything, however {reah,can remain w ,afier a half hour's drying up under the raysof sucha rE old specimen ef a Sol, is a*‘thing never dreamed in my phitosophy.” Indeed, I don't know what we Allen was also sent to the or the same time, and was further obliged to 3 the moncy he got from them, in his course 1 consider bis Nathan Wild, Esq. Hou. Win, H. Tobey. refund to the sol If Robinson persey chance for a seat in Congress a sure thing. allow anybody to pay him for his influence. Oh, no. Bat How are you, Mr. Simmons, of David Van Schaal, Fsq. Charles Whiting Exq. ‘Hugh Van Alstyne Raq. he accepts presents. Rhode Islavd? Since Covernor Sheyley’s absence, Lientenant Weitzel, tant Military Commandant, has been acting Mayor, and has already commenced the very necessary work of clearing the City Hall of @ lot of rebel hangers on and officers, Yesterday he turned out the Comp. veyor of Taxes, they having. refused to take the oath of allegiance to the United States. Two members of “the Barnacle family,” who have been ro- ceiving fat salarias for doing the heavy etanding around and newspaper realing, were also dispensed with. The City Treasurer and others will soon follow probably ‘The recruiting for the new brigade iz going on finely, and it makes one feel quite at home to see the numerous Aunorican flags, with their posters pinned on, w from office doors in many streets of the city. An entir, Frenok regiment of eighteen hundred men offered their services in a body, but, as they insisted upon being off- cored exclusively from their own members, Lieutenant Weitzel concluded aot to accept thom, The commander, Colonel Fontaine, is now recruiting a company. have an wxcclleut signa! corps, under the direction of Lieutenant Russell, acting chier. this branch of the service has already become very use- We can signal every point, where we have troope, within trelve or Afteen miles. We constantly hear of the outrages committed by the guerillas in the surrounding country. being hang almost every day by thove outlaws. ‘the people hare acd were not for the fine alr which has been psiant throughout the “heated term’? that we have en. sineo our entree into the Creecent City. But with ail heat we have been particularly favoredthis summer ; the atmosphere haz been up to this time dry, clear 4 healthy, and the fitful showers, followed by over” ig f#onsbine, that create a deadly miasma and oe epidemic, have been complete strangers this . Those of us whoare not obiiged to bein the street wring tho heat of the day manage to keep pretty com: and what with clear consciences aud the coo! tg we could “woo the drowsy’? with the most gre- fying success, if it were not that New Orleans is the nd canine metropolis of our cou! No family here is considered complete or entitled to aristocratic nameof double F. unless possested of a trotler and the ©: and the Common Coun Captain . 8. Johugon, V munity of dogs, sufficient in numbers and in variety Preed to set up, the autoblographic Barnum ip busi- on a soale commensurate with his brilliant and ver Hike genius. These doge lie doxing about the streets all , stretched at full length in an attitude more condu- to their own comfortthan to any known idéas of ural grace or beauty; and, when might ¢omes, refreshed themselves with sixteen hours The religious ceremonies at the church covaisied of an opening prayer, the ainging of the 90th Psalm—tune Dun dee—commencing :— ‘Oh God, our help te ages past, and the reading of selected passages from the Psalms and the prophecies. w@ After which the Rev. Dr. J, Romeyn Rerry, for many years past the affectionate and devoted pastor ef the ex- President, pronounced the following glowing, eloquent and sincere funeral eulogium :— + The occasion of our assembingd to-day ia more than an it is not merely a family cirel nor a congregation, Hor a local community who stricken by this event, but the State mourns the death of her most honored son—the mation laments the depar- ture of one to whom it fermeriy of itadestinies in the highest ofice of ite world has lost ove of thore who. have much to do jn moulding the hi the iutereste uot merely of a single land, butot the entire sae, The pasi and present of our country's his- tory are impressively linked together by the life of our ‘The armies of the Revolntion trod the land at bis birth, as the annies of the Union tread it at his death. The same pening march at beth event: Corn’ the last of the British The treaty of Bosce which confirmed Under his instruction would eay innocent, other's won of them didn’t look as if they were hung) slumber, they aro fresh and for ali soris of “treason, stratagem and spoiis”— icularly spoils. At just about the time that ali t mon get tho best of the mosquitoes by eveconcing lvoe suogly uuder the bar, these 7 orgies; aid, from that time until the eastern its first tint of rosy dawn, they make night 5 Que worthy Provost dge, Major soll, hae made an attempt to abate the nui- peo by ordering at indiscriminate slaaghter aud exter- the rage; but, although this step was tnken least a wionth ago, the ‘dorg’’ population is 80 enur- that the eflect of Ris edict bax not begum to be felt . and I believe that they have resolved, iu conven. , to die game; for eertain it is that they show their Lor his autherity by meeting under bie win- sctery might aud Darking defiance into bis tortured Tt js sual at this time of the y ar w accidentally obout the streets; but ing, I fancy, to the fact that sausages are a drug in market tiis summer, this humene expedient has yet been resorted to. However, when I said thing new under the ran, I did not intend enter the Jists as a lecturer ou natural history, Mince my last letter everything has been going on Nobody has been hung (i. ¢, in the Mediate precincts Of the oity), and Fort Jacksun has mrelnforced by only ona oF two of those designing is whoge final end it # not pleasant to conuls have either become too eneryated by ne too thoroughly aquelched by General dnige in sy more pon ts in more thaw donbifol Kughish. seins have swakemed to ibe knowle lye the protection of society are being on: ‘ Ocersionally a fair and in e female “secesh” tarus up her pretty nose at ibe pdest and civil gentlemen who wear and honor tho our venerable Uncle Samuel; but, beyond this, 4 the exultant smile on the faces of th Union men are ordinary bereavernent, » bad faith with General Butler He has been in the habit of granting passes across tho Jake to Mobile and other points on* the coast, the parties ving the pases giving their parole that they would give uo aid or comfort to the enemy, and would take only sufficient provisions for family use stance they have broken their promise, nnd have carried Jeers, information and provisions, erpecially salt, to the rebel army. ‘The General is 60 disgusted aad discouraged with their duplicity, that ho has stoppei all communica- tion acfoss the lake, and ordered the boat that has been bringing flour from Mobile to return here no more, as the Leavy importation of tbat article from the North has vased the market very considerably and lias recuewd the price to a lowers andard than it cau be bought in Alabama. Capt, hornton, commanding at the lake, is charged with the order against permitting communica: tion, and if apy man"can siop it he can. A Frenchinap, named Armand Thomas. was convicted on Friday of having threaten»! General Butler's life wan sentenced by Judgo Bell to imprisonmont tm tho rday hin young wife called onthe Goneral aud begged pariion for her husband. The poor ated and sobbed convulsively. ‘The who, with al! bis Jagksonelike firnnes: tender hearted, coulda’t stand tt, and iesued an order ap- proving the decision of Judge Bell, but, on the ground that be did not heed threats of assassination, remitted his wife were very grateful, ‘nod, 1 don't think his future ver affect an insurance? policy on General ‘Thomas protests that he uover sud sys that his accuser was 8 going to publish a card avout initted the guidance in position of power, story and controlling In almost every in- iJainous yells. departed frieud. shook beneath their ir Independence idings bad not yet cuntiy; the sunrise of peace had wR moIutain tops when our honored ex- Ke was nearly a year old when the Army of the Revolution was disbanded, and be was tive yption of the natimal constitution. While he was the first President born after the last bat- tlg of the Revolution hai been fought, he was succeeded by one who was bern before that Kevolution had ‘Thus, while he belonged not directly wo the Revolutionary; esaor of that age. Much of his public life was associated with the venerable men ted in those early scones, He lingered among of their companions, vecoliections ef bis Cbarles C. G. resident was born. years old at the p pieces of poisoned age be was tho mu parish prison. girl was terribly agi history @ large wud importaut part of tho histery of the republic. It would bo very intoresting to tra urst drew brewth, nowr this very spot, up through that remerkable fr honor which be ran highest offices of his history from CORRE at trinmph, until the State and the conuaitted (0 bis bands. be pleasant to dwell hue personal traits of character which distinguished hin: the talents and itidustry and persoveyance by which he won his way often against the stro with which he read the charactr and par ; the wonderful s¢'f-eontrol, which no per- dis gould impair; the courtusy with which discourteous op kod upon the fault he kinduess of luis the afebiliny e @ven & stranger the arity of m wih which "he resize to his high positions, nabits, to whic and, as far as he i@ conve Th rod: he rad-handed To Jor's life a particle. tnveatened (he Coneral actuated by malice. st opposition; the Col mel Stafford, Mepaty Provost Marsha), having com pltined to Genern! Butler that mauy slaveholders, ag a punighment, teli their servants to‘ Go to the Yankecs,” the General has ordered that such instruct! considered as emancipating the servants by tho content of thelr owners, and (hat horeafter ail slaves 40 treated are free by virtnal manum wero arrested yesterday by Lieutenant Houry Finuagaes while they were attempting to pass our On their pereona were found money and a Baad: of letters addressed to meinbors of the rebel ary they Were attempting to o8 charity with whiel hi his friendship, the cordwity of yy hear a rumor of disaster to out gallant army before mond, there is nothing to distur the equanimity of ty. We rarely get hold of papers frem Mobile or bate! potuta in the confederacy, but the secessionist resi uie* have private means of getting rumors every day ld wal can tell by their jooks whether the nows is good ts him ae & a quietuce of ho rth ordinauces of neo upon then, fon he hatened to the tri H ben. t ere is another medi of inte ti public contdence or doubt ws to the Confederate cur amount of (his toch change y, & 1d ib is Ma BoNsILVE to tho slightes " toa chanye in the temperature of tha ai as fabyod, since our arrival, all the way oto slaty cents on the doliar; but sine Ciellan's rep wico I¢ has maintained ite stand at s1 vional fall to lity Peven ete mado very © 3 ine ieoutationt® po 1 etter commantery on the advantage ova y Wid thaw tho. Comparatively exceliont a ot YY. By bis adiaivable selection of for the vite @ Of Prowgpt Judge he has recured spoly and Just , Puiishraemt of the wretchas wie vo injured the repata ‘! Hite iu w lal Lite Tady Beit is one of she most gonial Ak nd hearted mea in te world, itr aie judicial posi n ho is oa inflexible in (\'¢ dispensation oF justics as jy one could wish, Im assy wlog the funetions of his portant office he fully appe eciatod the Jact hat, for , polition influenced had a cured fo tie thiev Kc and respectability InN Cla mod to be British eabjects whe edt; Dott Chey will fad that will b ibed for their offence with apything | comid@ation of chose hiker meral aad which this Pro cpowics, end one Dighe@st io 4 aad taterpret iho sth this event. tig lees thoy may think thew. | poniticns whict Tha steatas sip Marion bas jost got heregl into a When she arrived in the r kK she rou the Quarantine, ais) Thursdey. erdored the ¥ ugculiar tame in fit to call bi serious sttiiculty. Netermined to Patriotic devetion to the coun. Uuy’s wollare. Beiure us lies the lifeless body of one of the Prectéents . Bae aod Sel efte \cuwtaun f @ Pie-dent of the people’s neaged tn there sole: fous rebollion is warring Shalit euuceed? case was brawls While we Are Xambuad the bill of yas all wos right tatieer boarded viter destruction, tthe Wie of this republic Was measured A one of iis rulers? ( New Orleans 0 6 The cass is odjourned to noxt Wed Are you ready to Aro you wiliing OF a Fepatiic, whieh in om thres to thirty rill svoniant glory the vere! will lee @ hoavy list of y ngeve and frog! biessri—eiudled hope Drightouod the prospect of the fay jour’ 4 pub wv dewih, ons would Dot defend it against the fonloat conspiracy tho sun ever locked which hung the Lord of glury on » who would ever who would Wish to who’ bas boi Superintending important transact Able to comfort and happiness in tits het ‘The thanks of your correspondent aso due to ir, Parsor of the Mavion, for value ity from punishment, and he dot med that he would teach (item that law nieaut some. Wells, the oti 8 roeelvred at his hands orday w'¢ recaived the Haws of the rebel ram Arkan a taut of the Yauvo rive Sho is now ander (ae gans ot tS #ay Chat she i conduct is, that, of his vigorous aud fe: at tha time when he first took th @ bench, his court tin four PM. with | of the upper feet: rowed from oigitt o'clock A now, if it wo onla be alnioot a lip the spprehougion of criminals tho F joo has siiown a a wt a doopor ine Ha siiaitored an ow il remorse and bitter with which we have been Adve tage of (he . she probably negnaged to escape Comiindore Fa f Commodore Fai © tha first ime ab y of the highess commondatt bicnels French ands taftird, the Com ver foils to award the oredit duc to olligur baat uly aml well 9 redinbly ifian we pave pad it wy tite Dy, ar camer Mutanzas, from New yor Jivoy bore Friday morn Alavknons of ihe day veprily it Aq) bab YO Jvingd uujo the days of the yoar. Lot it not eome into the nambor of tho inonth Vith @ more poignant grief than David's we would cry’ —“ibe beauty of Is: slain upon hy high places. How are the mighty failen, ‘Tell if not in Publieh $4 not in the streets of Ashkelon, the of the Philistines rejoice; lest the ¢ re of cuncised triumph.” As the mod Jow of Jerusalem, de 4 roma the tompie of his fathers. weeps every week at the outside of the impenetrable wall, aud prestes bis throbbing head in agony against the stoner, to think that he may no more see (he ylories and taste the joys aud tread the courts of that holy plave ch ougo was the commun heritage of all, 80 would we, i @ couniry couquered and destroy: ed by treason; weep at the outside of the wall of an irrerievable ruin, Over privileges and blessings, over the uames of ruter# and the prosperity and in the hovr of Shall it be @ of your na nm you bear the though! of sfanding in future y beside that tomb only to look over that pation’s ra Can you congent to Ht, If it be in the power of man, by the help of God, to avert 0 dive a doom? If uot, then hear the voice which God ia bis providence speiks to you to-day, It ts not the voice of partisanship or pasion or prejudice, itis the voice of high and holy duty, vid. ding you, iio Herael of old, to play the nien fol people and tor the etties of your God.” Your natural objiga!ions ag citizens demand it, the eauge of trath and rightoouswess demands {t, the remembrancet of the past, the dangers and strugelinge of the prevent, the hopes and fours of the jnturo deidand it, gratitude to Got demands it, a regard for the Cauge of religion aud relig. demands it, all shat wo bold dear in our julerests and hopes for this worl!, the love we bear our off. spring, (he trembilug hopes of millions of the oppressed among the ustivas, the evi eye and maticious wishes of tyrants—all, all combine in imploring us to know the day of our’ visitation; to cast away every partisan and prejudiced and avaricious thor ght, and, over the grave of our departed President, to pledge oar country now, in the hour of its stupendous danger, what true patriotg pledged it at the hour of its birth—our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. But thore are other considerations suggested by this event which pertains to us, nob 60 much as civicens Of a tingle country as gitivens of the world; as members of the general race; a3 pilgrime ona common voad of mortality, Dartaking of « comiuun \.fo, Bud #ubjected in inaay tings to the experi of Ube same relations and destifucs, the oo and aesmmble today to be. to the tomby © yourselves and your ia ‘a. Asoleum and tmpressivo ad- monition whigh ws receive to-day is-— 2, The yanity of man viewed merely in his relations to tho pres nt jife. There aie moments when the trath of our carthly posi- tion and relaijons breaks iu open usas it is not wont to do at other Uimes, when the ckarm of “earth’s enchant ments,” whieh “so beguile us with their glare,” seems for a moment at least to be veiled, when man and ajust what thoy part of human exisience is made ng. The throbbings of life within hjects: around us-—the crowd, the cl ite us’ to a forgeitulmess of © frailty andof the unsubstantial charneter of the objects for which we grasp, Whoever may be the dead, we are the living; whatever may have been thelr disappoint. mente, anamtried future is daily beiore us anda thou- sand myrterious voices come ous of it, Muriug us on to ew experiments and expectatione, Kvery man inde it 0 1p bis own life, ‘The humbiest pursuit has its decep- tive influences on the goul, filling the poor man’s mind with many an idle dream; and as men ascend higher in the attaiuments and pursuivs of this world, uew delusions: continually rise in the breast to counteract the new les- sone of experience and observation. New losses spring oat of the azhes of disappointment, ana men, strongly in love with lite end bevt upon its yaing, refune to believe that “every man walketh in a vaiu show, aud that surely ‘they are disquieted in vain.” But besides the: Mae wiods which men may cherish in regard te their own istonee and fortunes, there is often another delusion ip regard to the condition and experience of those who are above them, whether as objects of simple contenpiation or of envy, as the poor look up to the wealthy, or the ignuble to the honored, it often appears as if those more favored ones move upon a plat- form go elevated that life, to them, is altogether ‘thing from what it ia to ordimary mep; as if there at feast its vanity was laid agide; as if frailty and sorrow and the common aoe of our nature dwelt not in that rows atinosphere, So the peasant is wont to jouk upon the palzce of royalty, as if its sons and hters were something else than joint heirs with h foe a frail and fallen native, whose smiles and tears, pains and Tanguishing, wants and uncer:ainties, are just like his own, But amid all these glitermg delosious in regard to earthly fife and ly objects, by which men may be Deguiled as to their owa condition or that of others, comes @yer and anon some great providentia) shock, some moral earthquake, which rouses us, for a moment at least, recognition of ‘what shadows we pursue.”? , how it fends to quiet the agitations of every earthly interest and earthly passion, when death rtep: forward aud demonstrates the littleness of them all—-when he stainps a character of such affecting insignificance on all (that we are contending for--when, as if to make known the greatness of bis power in the sight & whole coun- . he stalks in ghastly triamph to the dwelling of one of te most honored nanies, and singling out him whom a whole iand bad crowned with bovu, lays him prostrate athisfeet, What acrue) and impressive mockery does he put on all the glories of mortality. What a demon- stration does he make of ‘‘the grim ascendency of bis power over all the hopes and fortunes of our svectes.? Have any of you still any exiiing doubts in regard to these things? “Do you tail to recognize the vanity of man in the light of an evanescent existence and perishii ins? ©, we bid you iook inte the coftu of the hovered joad to-day. Soe’ the last of @ lite of nearly fourscore years, Think of the three thou: lions of the race who, in that period, have returned anto their dus Think of the world’s changes in that tune—tbo revon tions and upheavings umong the natione—the exthroue ment aud expulsion of king#—tho march of freodom and trath—the new wonders of science. How different the map of the world nad the page of its history #: his deatly from what they were at his birth; or, confining oor thoughts to himself alone, how varied and active apd successful was his own history. What changes in nir own experience fince bis ebilibood trod there same streete along whieh weshall bear him to histomb? Do any of you expect # longer, more eventful or successful life than his? But look—it is gone! All ite scencs—all the cotemporancous history of the warid are past. These eyos see no more the glittering pageant as i sweeps along—these ears hear no more the applaus of friends or the assaults of foct—that heart rejoices no moro at the suceesses it won. Ail is ever. The sun has set, and.around (he shadows of that coflin two still small voices full upon our ear— The things which are seen are temporal—ihe fashion of the world passeth away.” This is bnman life in its mortal aspect—this is earth in ins evanescent giori's. And itis amid such scones as these that we catch the meaning of those inspired symbols in which the vapor, the wind, the morning cloud early few, the flower of the field, the shadow, §the momery of a drean are made to tell the vacuity of man. Let me not be wolerstood for a moment to under, aine in the least the duties, the interests ov the houors of our present life. No man can udervalue (hese without com. mitting a erime agamet the God who made him and placed upon him tue obligations of hix state. Short as this life is it has for this world alone ia- terests of vast impontance, duties of the greatest solemnity. Its bonorsare worthy of ap honest expiration. Deeds of virtue ofter bear their fruit througbout ail Lime, and the memory of the just is blesred. We speak only of tho ephemeral datire of man’s present oxistence, and of the earthly objects with which he har to do. Make the most of them, and they are stili transitory and perishable. Earth's bighest honore end in “Here he lies,” and “Dust to dust’? concludes her noblest gon, When we look at man in the light of these things—when we contemplate the incupacity of all these things to sat- isfy the son! ‘even for the present—when we murvey the reatness of that soul in its powers and its pantings—we feel that the present scene i# altogether digpropertioned to the character of ite inhabitant. Its scope is not wide its time ig not long enough ita thrones are not bigh enough, ite boners are too mean, its rickos too poor, its joys too sad. If this is all then is all unworthy of map. Who would build a ely ship only to auneh it in amuddy pool? Who could enppose for a moment that man. with all his powers and bound- Jose aspirations, was intended for nothing bit the viele sitades of Uns Jittle earthly ife, withont exclaiming with the Pealinist, ‘Wherefore hast Tia made all men in vainy? ‘Thanks be to God, we limit not our views of man to this nartow and temporary scene: nor do we grope amid the Cark conjectures of human re know what Hes beyond, Jesus Christ hath ab death, and bath brought He aud immortality to light through the Gosyel. There is the glorious truth whieh solves the riddle of Our present existence, o us ta isting dertioy Deyond thy eourul- sions «f death amd the sleep of the graye. Let me, then, remind you fer a moment of 8. The glories of a Tavure wortd, #& thoy sthud In com tragt with (he itm Matioas of the present Never do we (eel (he triumph of reveintion to be more complete than when it takes its pleco be ide tho eofin avd (he grave, aud there, at the end of every earthly pion aud prospert, whore o dark and hopeless ruin feom to fall on man, unfolds the glory of a new existopes, and the agsurance Of pleasures Which ere for evermore. W omnfesa to a din prosent state; with fnfirmivies wo do groal, being burdeved; wo are toseed with changes, we are subjected to thee mortal bodive aro destined svon to be ete: a vy the Yes, it were vain to deay it: we aro » (hinge a poor, frail, perisiabie race. Veri'y every pian, at hts boat state, is aliogether vanity. Yet not agaiuet me, O, mino enemy, In all those thin aro Mure thaw conquorots, through Him that loved ve. A mew atid living way bax beon opened to us, and by ‘A1th in the ceneitied we conquer deatt, we over Joep the graye, aud We press on in a houndlues career of glory ave d immortality. Tho shadows of the present oply eubence the epiondor of the fuuure, Throagh the tears Of Our mortal grlofs Wwe look up the more gladly to that. bieseed abode whore God «Rall Wipe away all tonrs from their eyes, and there lull be no more de neither actrow nop erying, noigher shall thore be more pain, fur the pete) pawsod avtay.” Cod. stanly «ffiict by (he changes and vacortainties out Mean Hation, how gi we cach the vis telly which fonndations whoee buylder and maker is Ged.’? Do the honors of thi world wil even on our mortal by glory never fade y ani renowned tn this tor at last in the dust of death to a lovel Yho peagant aod the save? Oh, in that broad empire of lite on high even tho slave becomes a king and priest unto God, finest governments that man ean de- vis0 are shaken by lutions and rebellions. Natiuns 2. @ in disitese Aad Men's Rearia are faiing them for aad for looking ation those things which sg osang of the carth, but the moment we pass beyond thix troub ‘VERY LATE FROM MEXICO. scene up ‘to roa! z which cannot | i and gloritios News from Verw Cruz to the 14th f uccess of the Brench, The Ren ee uc ; Renorted Tutliations of thy makes this life, whe ward form, a mur mt i 8 from the fotters of the 0. ath, where in thy steamer Columbia, Captain Barton), en P. M, of the 24h inst., arrived af ‘The United stat orrival we have some later aud interesting sieo, which will be found Wetaiied in the Jeviers Gi our Havana correspondents, OUR HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE, us the victory throngh onr Lord tees ¢ are some of the Ithas its spee of sorrowing hearts who are bowed clive stroke, There mourn for one who was to them a f. of his heart, and moré than a father im the ¢ and familiarity, almost of 6 May the spirit of the heave wre these who re @ wy Inst of the 7th Instant, by the Columbia, w@ eived here uo intelligence from 3 and hopes of ail wo sympath f Jueves and yearn for tho annihilation to gratify the feel With the cause « in the soi) of an Aunorican repub! whatsoever (heir vationality, their pretexte or their tinal pretensions. We bave had only two arrivale from Vera Cruz, anty and unsatisfactory, as neither French war ivigate La Guervivro, which arrived at thig pov. on the 10th listant, oor the French transport Sevres, which arrivet yesterday, has brought any papers from aud the intelligenee published in the Dia dela Marina and La Prensa, of this city, is pot entire); reliable, ae you can judge for yourselves when T assure you that it was couveyed through tho chunne) of the Consulate General of France ia Havana, 1 i th Vice Admiral Reynaud on Board) y Lows after arrival, bound to New York, 1% received no files from the rée- rained to roly onthe information re 8 of those most interested in exagger the disaster sufiered by the Me oan armies lost month, in frontof Orizaba. Thus, you Will read inthe Diarioand La Presa, with reference to correspoudence reeei “the French army was enjoying at Ori yal and incterial ace satages; that the army of General Zar ragort was entively disbanded after their re'veat; that the vols from Vera Uris to Orizaba were enlivcly free from General Lorences was without the leas! trouble IT sind more Dope, and iitting them to stand at last with @ Joy in the provence of Him whe, eve Upper world, ‘isnot ash a ornid the ytories at Inet rent asunder, a May the grace than e brother day and forevei earthly way, make their eventide to bo tight with tho radiance of (he approaching bliss, an gailowed up of lite. impressive suggestions made today, nto ye do well that ye take heed r the news is & it length bid their Yu allur you these ) ant a before us here, Hoth are weighed in (ue balance of death, and in view of the result, what manner of persous ougnt yo to be; aud, as we st ing and death, how empty did citements and alluremonts ent They Vauirhed at the threshold—ete past, like a withered flower, ny ur The stmpencons future then demanc demands every thought to-de: Often have you watched fo Messages as they came from the seai of earthy power. To day he rends you a meys sof the eternal world, Tts burden is you miber of languish- eed at the door, | and our journa’ Cevery thought, , and anxivisiy read bis we from the far mc salvation; it bits y wnistiess: it bids you look higuer that tho ho ¥ than the grave: it pointe you to a i tho Guerriere, that br ait Ioiuds of mo, 1, and to Josus nd (0 God, the Judge of compense of the reward on the olke: Juctd utterances to me, im al one relianee.’! done tor hin, or ali Uhat it could do, w when the yisions rsion to Hie Say jon, W28— iving supplice near eternity feli upon t enas of that elernity his pressively, that same Harken, then, ye living men, whatever your posision or cter—whateyer your pursuits or bojes—whatever your regard or noglect of these things—the one grand, comprehensive lesvon of this scene iy, bore is but one worthy of credit tho nowe of @ misunderstanding e back, far more 3 influence is paramoun# in Juarves’s Cabinet, and the ox-Commander-in- Chied, ‘ast, Goneral Zaragoza, though I not give ihe same credit tothe rumor of this General pretentious to the Presidency through the everthbrow @. of the Army of the I ‘The impressive exercives were brought to a ciose with & prayer and benediction by the Rey Wisconsin, who, fer a period of ten years, was a uuch respected pastor of Mr. Van Buren. The remains were interved in tho old faily Jot, in the Village burial ground of Kinderhook. And thus ends the General Gonzalez Ortega continued auffering from the fovere wounds received iu the encounter of the 24th of June, Dut see nothing to confirm the news previously credited ot his arvest and trial im acourt martial, ‘The reinforcements sent from Martinique, amounting te one thousand men, had arrived at Vora Cruz. Conexal Lorencez had also refreshed hisstores with the abundant supplies received from France, and com ba without being molested by guorillas, The health of the troops was good at Orizaba, but in Ver@ Cruz the yellow fever was doing the utmost im faver of the Mexican canse, The Sevres conveyed to Vera Cruz a good supply of coal, and returned to Havana yesterday, withdut: briags ing any inteliigence worthy of special notice. General Cobos arrived here on the 2ist inst. English steamer Thaines, from St. shomas, where he been conferring with Santa Anna, and devisiug; the of reorganizing Uke reactionary party without tho eo-opes ration of the traitor Almonte, General Cobte remained here, as he would not be aliowed to disembark at Ve Cruz, but Colonel Portocarrere coptinued his voyage the Thames, charged with very important i¢ structions the accomplishinent of the plans and orders of Santa Anna. § Lic affairs there ig nothing worthy of ne tice, except the resolntion of Captain retufn to Spain as soon as her Majesty's government will doign to accept his resignation, tendered so many times? Thave itfrom the most reliable source. and financial matters there is no improvement, I you the commercial review published in the Mario o§ ‘The entire ceremonies of the day were alike remark- able for their rustic simplicity united to a monrnfal im- pressivenees,and the old Dutch quaintness of all that transpired. In the lengthone@ train of carriages there ‘was scarce one of modern <degign, and tbe great numbers of aged people in attendance was particularly remarked: ‘There wore no military, the ouly dazwling foatare in the proceetion being Kinderhook Fire Company No. 2, There was Lo ding the absence of those usually held to be nécersary appendages to a State funeral, the scene/of to-lay was grand in the extreme, and could bavé scarce beeu other than eapevialiy gratifying to the sirickim family and friends of the departed states- man, whe aseisted in such generous numbera in those last sad rites. ‘The last words of Mr. Van Buren were in respovse ¢b bis pastor esking how he felt im view of his og diatolaution, when he answered:—‘‘Thore is liance, and thet is upon Christ, the free me. diator for us ail)? INTERESTING FROM KANSAS. Who Shirk Militia Duty in Own State Ordered Out of Kau- sus—News from the Southern Expedi- tion-—-A Third Indian Regiment Joins the Command, &c. Laavaxwonrs, July 28, 1862. General Biunt bas directed the military authori notify persons coming to this department fram Missouri, in order to evade the anilitary laws of that State, to leave In case of refusal te comply, sueh per- sone will be arrested as rebels and vagrants, care being taken pot to interfae with pérsons comiug bither on legitimate business. Arrivals from the Southern éxpedition report tac Union troops ues Fort Gibson, but thai they found no enemy uniforms ef the who cacupied ieneral Serravo te Havana, July 24, 1902. { ary Condition of the City—News from. ico—Quarrel Among the Mexican Chief-—Proofs of Efficiency yy Our Blociade of the Scuidern Coast, de. We have no news. Itiy hot, aud there is little or n@ business doing. ‘There is less sickness ashore than during any previous season for some time, thongh there is, ag considerable yellow fever in the harbor. The French transport La Seone came in yesterday from Vera Cruz. She left on the 17th, afior disehargs ing @ cargo of Goal, and returns from this to France, She brought no mail, aud there is no news, ‘The say” the health of tue French troops 1s improving Oriaxba, The officers amuse themselves at the they establi-hed some time since, and the troops wi private thestricale, The reinforcements from Fra rtinigue, there to wait till they Favorable Sar thie department. A third Indian regiment had been formed from those lately joining the command. Brigadier General Salomon, tate eolonel of the Ninth Wisconsin regiment, is now in command. NEWS FROM COLUMBUS, OH10. Arrest of Secession Ministers—The Hon. digham Reported Imphi* cated—His Arrest Probablc—nrohment of the Militia—A Draft Expecicd, dec. Covumaus, Ohio, Ju, ‘The Rey. Dr. Brooke, Presbyterian minister, turmeriy of Dayton, but for the last year im St, Louis, aud the Rey D. Hoyt, Of Louisville, were arrested lust night at Jones’ station, at the hovse of one Jndge Clark, of Haiilton, Ohio, a voted secession sympathizer, who is wt that place ‘They bave both been the guests of the Hon. C. L. Vailan _ digham, of this district, and it ie reported that important papers were found on Hoyt Ciat implicate the honorable member, and be w!! aiso bo taken with the tl are to land at 3 needed in Mexico (¥) From Yecaian we leam that a new tax bas been dained by the government of two per cout. merchants are not Hable to it, our Consul has against {t, though apparently witbout effect, politely tid that he was mistaken. ile ‘Wo need some guag M—at Vera Croz especially. ad Ortega bave bad ,and are havi fe the guerilias are wit from (be Orizaba road, and the way is clew from Ve Cruz. ‘The army is either dend or sleeping ; at least ace thing bae been , ‘Thi vas cons.derable rejoicing in Vera Craz, also among the French hare,on the occasion of the port of the recall of my. He has always been de- roughout the Mexican repabe Ho. Graviere may don Retter, but any change is ade weptable, az it cannot be for the worse. Another steamer of the port ou the 15th of June, Md reaches bane oy the Sth inst., with one undred men, surgeons, toys and despatches for Gen. Lorencer. v ‘The Englicl, corvette Petral left Nassau on the 1 foro on who 18th; sent are told that she goes clith interests there, ir blockading id more than ri tested by the Frenchmen Nazaire Ja Florido left Teached Santiago de Cul ‘The Governor has issaed orders to the assersors for en. voliing ail abled bodied men between the ages of sigh! and forty-five. The enrolment is to be comp!cted by the assessors on the 10th, and t be in possession of the Go. vernor on the 16th of August. this morning. squadron , as this breakers of the blockade, Nagsau im the protest ion . wybody is grumbling at the change made cousiguees of the steamer Columbia in her day ing advertised for the 26th. ly by merchants aud parseng?rs. an advertisement that she wou'd leave on the Many passengers will be and passage money, as it is only suit. ‘The asscasors If reeruiting does nol progress: favorably cmough by that time dratting will be resorted to ge of Prisoners—The Tariff Praparations were made of Exchange of 1512. The cartel of 1812 in regard to the oxchange of prison- ore of war, as will be seen by the following order, was eatabliehed last March by are now to be effected und The Exch , and lose their t rhable after a tho game system: — GENERAL ORDER—NO. 1. HEAnquantens, Denar MENT OV THY Mussoun! March 3, 1862. cllan the following (FORMERLY Brcoycixe to THR Mouneain Dsvai RV IE, Va., July 19, 1862. ‘The Commanding Geucsal of this corps opders that al coutaissioned ofiicers aud aultsted mou, whose leave of absence has exp! ed, and all convulescents who are able to join Weir regiments, shall jmpv Spective regiment, battery or desacl washington City, D.C garters aul dealt with a All recruits enlisted for this corps should be sent ag onee by way of Washiugton Cliy to their regiments oy eral F. SIGEL. By direction ef Major Ceveral Me tariff of exchange of prisoners of war, adopted between at Britain, iv the war ot 1812, ie substituted for that given in general orders Ni the United States and join their res i, by way of or uhey wili be considered dee eommanler-ine<! Majo! Brigadier gone and a captain under biin—twenty men, of a line-of battle phip=-ft el, or captain of a irigute— nier of a sloop-ol-iwar, bomb keteh, f Major Lieutenant col T. A. Muxsnnucro, Assistant Adjutant Major, or comm fire #hip or packs Watack'® Tratar.—Anether rich novelty" Th@ Irish Mormon; or, The Man With Three Wives "wag produced at this theatre last evening beforoe very fait y The pice is an exceedingly amusing tri giving » very bich colored picture of the Mibernian char~ acter, like most Irish farces ; but atiil so ivresistibly droll as to make the audience compictely lose sight of ite jerriment eecastoned by the ad witticisms that pervade it. jorence, as Hryan O'Lynn, managed to kaep the house, i one continual roar, and the reprosgents tions of an Irish fav, an Irish fightand an trish wake, introduced ia tha play, were greatly r is ono of Florence’ pelry appreciated, 1ot OF mester—s.X nen, ters mite—four men. Sub-lentenant, or ensign, or midshipmen, warrant , masters of merchant vessels and capiaing of med yere}s—threc wen, sniisei: ned officers, l yorsels, mates of itonamts and m: ity command of Mi 4 No M, MeLaay, Aesistant Adjutant General. in the abundant Arrival of the M The United States steamer Massachnge Commanding Cooper, from Port Royal, via Charleston bar aud Norfolk, and twenty-two houre from Hampton J at this port yesterday evening, bringing fn mumbor of #ivk aud wounded oiiceia and sailors from the blockading squadron, ‘Tho officers and crew of the Massacbugetts are all in good health. The following is 4 list of her offigers— Lieutonan! Command: Marler ang Beco s, Lientenant jeuce. The piece ‘vest, and should be seen 0 be prov Wisin Gandes Taratee.—Colonel Buckingham, of the Vifty-third regiment, bas accepted an invitation from, Mr, Fleming to visit the theatre this evening, with hig staf and other officers io his eommand, The Uniteg States officers on duty here will accompany them, Tenoorarey or tur Loxd Istaxn Marte.—We have 19 to us recently, from the Looust Valley, and a yi »¢ op Long Island, in relation © tributim of tho nowspaper mal and which has caused a great deal of We would request® o the matter, Oficer8. ©. Gray. Kasersthenj, Yuiltemere, J. MeDoneld, T. H, Richardson (coast pyov), ity omJ. Us, Wobetor. ’ Mates—Jon. B. Cox, Joa, ©. Butler, several gomplaints mad masters at Rosi! —acting Virst Apsistant and Cii¢ esistant ing ii T. B. Fiteh @. M. Hartwell Third Assistant Winelia, Jas, iin teiaerom rogularlty of tho dist at there stations, pnoyancs to oar subscr pas! agent on, (is route to nyestt Oyaminary—!, K goranton,

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