The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1863, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFvI0B N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. eee ennnanaenanel TERMS cash fn advance. Money sent by mail will be etthe risk of the sender. None but bauk bills current in Now York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Tunax cents per copy. jo. 155 xxvii AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING ‘tux Duxs’s Morro. MIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadw WALLACK'S THUATRB, Broadway.—Tuz Wire. RA KEBNE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Lapy or tne | —Diana—UOLDEN Eoe. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ernxst Mat. aeavers—Cepnen Dancing Mastea—Kosert Macaink— Rep Keven BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Tar Duxe’s Device Moruee Go@se—State Seceer. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSSUM, Broadway. —Gxw. Tom Touma axp Wir, Com. Nort and Mixxre Wanney, I. Afternoon and re = Faint Heant—'Twas BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechantes* Hall, 472 Broad. u—Sencran Sonas, Bortesqugs, Dances, 4¢.—1 au ae, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 61¢ Broadwav.—Ermiortam | cmos, Dances, &0.—Runxing Tux BLOCKADE. THR NEW IDEA. 485 Broadway.—Sonas. Buauxsoves, | Barexrs, 40.—Tux Usvourexare, AMERICAN THEATRE. No. 444 Broadway.—Batters, Pawrommgs, Buutesoues £6. MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.—Corrosimigs, Woxvens axp Lecrunes, from 9 A. M, till lo P.M. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermrorian fonGs, Dances, BuRLESQUKs, 4. New York, Friday, June 5, 1863. THE NEW GEOGRAPHICAL FEAT. All scientific persons, all geographical stu- dents, in fac! all classes, are greatly interested hy the discovery of the sources of the river Nile. Some days since we published a map of the newly discovered regions. We will produce in the Werxiy Heraip—to appear on Satur- day—tbis map, improved by data received by MIBCELLANEOUS NEWS. It {a very probable that, in consequence of the difference of opinion between the Mayor and Comptroller Brennan as to the interpretation of the law giving the Corporation advertising to the four morning papers having the largest circula- tion, the question, which is now before the Corporation Counsel (Mr, John E. Develin), will be left to the adjudication of the courts, The point upon which the Mayor and Comptroller have this disagreement (though of a friendly nature) is as to whether the Legislature “intended” that it was the morning papers having the largest issue or merely the largest circulation within the city. Whatever way the decision may be, it cannot affect the Hgraxp, as we are far ahead of all our contemporaries, not only on the whole amount printed, but upon the vastness of our city circula- tion, In the Board of Councilmen yesterday a resolu- tion was adopted directing the Corporation Coun- sel to make a return of the amount received by the | Corporation Attorney for fines, fees and compro- mising suits since the Ist of January last, and what disposition has been made of the moneys so re- ceived. A long debate ‘ensued on‘a resolution to make the New Yorker Journal a Corporation paper. The matter was finally setiled by the adoption of two resolutions—one offered by Mr. Jones, the President—to make the Herat a Cor- poration paper in place of the Zvening Post. Mr. Cook offered the other, making the New Yorker Journal a Corporation paper in place of the New Yorker Demokrat. A communication was received from the City Inspector explaining his conduct in reference to the street cleaning operations. Or- dered on file. The resolution from the Aldermen to give each of the returning regiments a recep- tion, at an expense not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars for each regiment, was lost, A motion to reconsider was also lost. A resolu- tion was adopted fixing the salaries of the engi- neers of the steam fire engines at one thousand dollars per annum. The Board stands adjourned until Monday evening next at four o’clock. Gen. Burnside's order No. 87 says that the pub- lication or circulation of books containing senti- ments of a disloyal tendency. comes clearly within the reach of General Order No. 38, and those who offend will be deait with accordingly. It is reported that Sam Houston contemplates running for Governor, atthe August election, in Texas, and that if unsuccessful he will cut the Lone Star State loose from the Jeff. Davis con- the last steamer, the Persia; also additional 4etails, which will appear with the interesting accounts we have already published of this great discover THE SITUATION. Unofficial reports received in Washington yes- terday, which were considered entirely reliable, state that up to the 31st ult. no material change in the affairs at Vicksburg had occurred, and that no fighing had takon place for several days. A despatch from Washington yesterday also states that a robel officer informed the bearer of a flag of truce, on Wedmosday last (on the Rappahan- nock, we presume), that Gen. Grant had tried to take every point of the rebel defences and had been repulsed with great loss at each; and fur- ther, that he had fallen back upon the line of the Big Black fortify- ing himself there. Reports from Cincinnati to the 30th ult., direct from Vicksburg, say that for several days previous everything was quiet on the lines; that earthworks were then being thrown up to protect our troops, and mines were being constructed to blow up some of the rebel forts which cannot be approached by any other means. The idea of carrying Vicksburg by storm, according to this statement, appears to be abandoned, and slower operations must be looked +for. A despatch from Jackson, Miss., to Rich- mond, dated ‘he Ist of June, says that General Grant had demanded the surrender of General Pemberton, which was peremptorily refused. No news from that quarter appears, however, in the Richinond papers of yesterday. Scouting parties sent out from Murfreesboro have failed to find any of the enemy on the left or rear of Gen. Rosecrans’ position. It is reported, apparently on good authority, that there are at Tullahoma not more than two regiments, and that the enemy have thrown all their forces forward to Shelbyville, Beech Grove and other points. General Baird, of the Eighty-fifth Indiana, in command at Franklin, was attacked by the rebel cavalry yesterday, and at last accounts was still fighting successfully. There is an evident dispo- sition on the part of the enemy to keep up a suc- cession of reconnoitering expeditions along our whole line near Murfreesboro to annoy our army. They are making demonstrations on the Manches- ter and Shelbyville roads, keeping our pickets constantly employed. A mounted force of rebels advanced on the 24 instant and engaged our videttes on the Manches- ter p'ke road, The firing between them was very rapid and lasted about an hour, when the rebels withdrew. The news from the Rappahannock to-day is in- toresting. Colonel Kilpatrick has been making ther cavalry raid from Yorktown to Urbana, ‘Nesex county, Va., touching again at Glou- ester Point and Court House. He destroyed in lis way much rebel property and carried off about one thousand negroes, three hundred horses and mules and clearing out the granaries and hencoops to an unlimited extent on the route between York- town and the Rappahannock, Mosby's rebel'ca- valry made another raid on our pickets near Fair- river and was federacy, and set up again a little model republic. Old San Jacinto has always been a progressive man, and since the day when Sam Houston he Whipt Stanberry in the streets of Washington, he has contributed as much as any other single individual in keeping the political cauldron at a boiling bubble. It has been decided that each one of the cove- nanting male members of the different Shaker communities is entitled to the exemption of six hundred dollars from the income tax, as they pre- viously claimed, and that all between the ages of twenty and forty-five are subject to the conscrip- tion laws. The former decision is in perfect ac- cordance with their peculiar religious belief; but the latter they cannot work into their tenets. A train, consisting of three cars of ice, two of sanitary stores and one with surgeons and nurses, left Chicago on the 1st inst. for Cairo, en route for Vicksburg. Over five thousand dollars have been subscribed for the sick and wounded soldiers in Gen. Grant's army. A lady in the Memphis theatre, after listening to the singing of the ‘‘ Star-Spangled Banner,’ said the tune was good enough, but the words were a disgrace to a free people. She afterwards took the oath of allegiance. The law passed by the last United States Con- gress fixes the rate of postage on newspapers as follows:— Daily, per quarter. Six times a we +. .85 cents. -30 cents. Tri-weekly.. seeeee15 conta, Semi-weel on -10 cents. Weekly... se cccececesccs . 6 cents, —weight not to exceed four ounces. The new rates take effect July 1, 1863. The oilcloth factory belonging to D. Powers & Sons, in Lansingburg, New York, was destroyed by fire on the 2d inst. Loss $30,000. Insured in this city for $15,000. The Richmond papers have been ordered not to give the vote of the soldiers at the recent election in Virginia. The rebel authorities fear the publi- cation of its returns from the army would expose their weakness. In the Surrogate’s Court yesterday Mr. Walker was examined, and the marriage of E. P. Christy by Justice McKnight, of Buffalo, was proved, and also that he possessed himself of the record of the ceremony ina manner which made it difficult for his family to find it. It was also proved that he had got his wife’s money to open business in New York. The case comes up again to-day. There are at present 6,326 inmates in the public institutions of the city, a decrease of 101 for the past week. The number admitted was 1,581, and was 1,682. ‘The stock market opened lower and dull, but began to Improve towards the middle of the day, from which dull, closing at five P.M. about 14634. Exchange was About 160 on the street, with fair inquiry. Money was easier, and good call loans were mostiy made at 6 per cent. The cotton market was more active yesterday, witha further rise in prices of middlings to 56c.a56c. There ‘was less doing in flour and wheat, at drooping rates. A good inquiry existed for corn, which was a shade higher. Sugars were active and rather dearer. Hog products were selling more freely, but at irregular quotations, The demand for whiskey and tallow was fair, and prices favored firm, Oils, metals and naval stores were dull, Coifee, teas and molasses were in very moderate request. The freight market was moderately active. Notice To Tax StTockwoLpErs tm TaMMany Hatt.—tThe glory of the Old Wigwam has de- parted. Its days are numbered. Sic gloria transit mundi. Those who own stock in Tam- many Hall and the Pewter Mug had better sell out as soon as possible, and invest in Mozart | Hall. The Chevalier Clancy, in particular, ought the Administration. The adiministration, at the present time, ap- pears to be in the predicament of a bewildered traveller in a wild and strange country, who has reached the junction of several roads and knows not which totake. Except in the South- west, the war languishes; our soldiers, by regi- ments, whose terms of service have expired, are returning home, and neither by volunteering nor from a conscription are any going out to fill their places. We presume that the adminis- tration is awaiting the issue of the great strug- gle at Vicksburg and at Port Hudson, in order to justify itself in another call upon the people for more soldiers; or, perhaps, with a lively hope that so decisive and comprehensive will be the defeats of the rebellion on the Missis- sippi that very few more soldiers will be needed to bring it toanend. “This is a consummation devoutly to be wished;” but, turning our atten- tion for a moment from Vicksburg to Washing: ton, what is the prospect before us? From the beginning of the war to the present day our only weak point and our only point of danger has been Washington, and the incompetent officials and pernicious influences prevailing at Wasbington. Our most serious military disasters have occurred immediately around Washington, and our great- est successes have been gained at the greatest distances from the blighting influences of the War Office. The military blunders thus occur- ring directly undor the eye and supervision of the administration, from the first Bull run down to the late blundering fiasco of General -Hooker, have created the impression among the great body of the people of the loyal States that, though we may have gained a victory here and a victory there, from time to time, the war, under the management of the existing Cabinot and its factious political affiliations, will still “drag its slow length along” to the end of Mr. Lincoln’s term, and with the rebe!¥ion as de- fiant as ever. . The military blunders of the administration have resulted from its political blunders—our generals have been defeated by our intriguing politicians—and the most carefully considered plans of our wisest military leaders have been overthrown by intermeddling Jacobins. Presi- dent Lincoln’s war policy, as defined by him- self in the beginning, was sound, conserva- tive, and satisfactory to the country. He has struggled faithfully to keep it above water; but the dominant radical abolition faction in his Cabinet and in Congress have proved too strong forbim. To the extent of their power they have compelled him to yield to their de- mands, with one very important exception— their demand for the removal of Mr. Seward from the State Department. Instigated by these abolition radicals, we find that General Burn- side and General Hascall, with their arbitrary arrests of private citizens and their military edicts against offensive newspapers in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, have stirred up a popular agitation throughout the country which, we fear, it will be difficult now to allay; and the administration, in sustaining these proceedings, is involving itself in the most serious political blunders of the war. The most guilty parties the number discharged, transferred or who died | time it stiffened considerably, closing steady. Gold was | éeliers. Hay and laths were saicabie and , in all this dangerous business are, doubtless, such Cabinet officials as Messrs. Chase and Stanton, and such Congressional managers of the war as Senators Wade, Chandler and Wil- son, and such as Thaddeus Stevens and Owen Lovejoy of the House; but the people will fix the responsibility upon the head of the govern- ment. The arbitrary arrests and imprisonménts of last year, under instructions from Washington, operated powerfully in turning the elections of last autumn, from New York to Illinois, against the administration. These arrests were then for a time suspended, and it was generally believed that they had been abandoned as worse than useless. Under this belief, and upon the sim- ple issue of a vigorous prosecution of the war, there was a general reaction in the late spring elections in favor of the party in power. But now it has become alarmingly apparent that General Burnside, in bis arbitrary proceedings against Vallandigham, and against an offensive newspaper.at Chicago, has acted as rashly as in his rash attempt to carry the heights of Frede- ricksburg. We see, too, in the dangerous popular excitements thus created, that they are rapidly assuming the form of another and a more inflammable political reaction against the administration. What is the remedy? What course should President Lincoln pursue to extricate bimself, his administration and the North from the dis- cords, dissensions and fearful popular commo- tions threatened by such obnoxious, arbitrary proceedings as those of General Burnside in the loyal States of his department? We should say let all such military proceedings in the loyal States be suspended, and let the civil law and the civil authorities therein deal with all offending civilians. But to seoure this im- | portant object, and to put an end to all the | blunders, military and political, which have thus far marked the progress of this administra- tion, the only remedy for President Lincoln is that of Andrew Jackson—a complete recon- struction of his Cabinet, upon the basis of his | own conservative policy and inclinations. Nothing else, we fear, will now avail to restore public harmony in the loyal States or public confidence in the administration. Feravanno Woop iv His New Rows.—By a grand strategic movement Fernando Wood has fax Court House yesterday morning, but did not alge ‘ea bright lookout, lest the large amount | outgeneralled the timid and slow party demo- effect much. Tho miiitary order of General Burnside, eup- pressing the issue of the Chicago Times, has been withdrawn by that officer in consequence of the revoking of the same by the President. The sol- diers who occupied the office of the Times have been withdrawn by General Burnside, and the cir- culation of the paper within the army lines and elsewhere is henceforth permitted. The voice of the people, as expressed openly and fearlessly upon this infringement of the freedom of the press, thus appears to have had its weight. We have intelligence from the Red river to the effect that an expedition recently made to Shreeve- port succeded in destroying two iron-clads of great power found on the stocks there. No con- firmation, however, of the rumor has been re- ceived. The rebel blockade runner Cuba, while attempt- )ig to run from Havana for a Southern port, with a yargo worth $400,000, was pressed s0 closely by the Jnion ship De Soto, on the 17th ult., that she was pot on fire by Ler crew and burned to the Water's yige. Her officers and crew were taken on bo ra the De Soto: brs her whole cargo was lost. holds should become worthless on his bands—just so much waste paper. On the other hand, Mozart stock is not only up, but will rise higher every day. The lager beer in Tammany has become within the laet few days “ flat, stale and unprofitable.” That dispensed at Mozart Tall is fresh, has a fine bead and of a racy flavor. Which concern will have most customers it is easy to see. Boss Purdy and his followers ought to send fora handsome coffin, and give a decent funeral to the Tammany concern. Requieseat in pace. A Sian or Tam Tres.—From one of the Nar- risburg papers we learn that the soldiery in Harrisburg a few days ago burned down the negro quarter in that city and drove the ne- and so are the abolition leaders, Beecher has already fled to Europe, directing the sale of his | pictures, and Cheever, Phillips, Greeley and Garrison ough! to follow him as fast they can, Gerrit Smith is the only man of the party | who foresaw in time the coming storm. It will not be necessary for him to seek safety fn flight. He is all right on the record. ut the o!aer radical leaders look out, as let | cratic leaders who elther had not the sagacity to see the temper of the publie mind or had not the courage to take the initiative. How does Fernando Wood appear on the stage? As if by a magician’s wand be brings out and leads the democracy in all their strength. He is their groes out of the place. This isa sign of the | times. The soldiers detest the negroes, The | black race are tn danger of being exterminated, | | ments, has outgoneralled all the political lead. ers of Tammany Hall and made captives of their forces. It is time for the administration | to call off their stupid dogs in the West, and | bring them here, where they may find some- | thing todo. Tho speech of Fernando Wood was the best he ever made in his life. | Napoleonic in its conciseness and point, and in | its prophetic, oracular tone about thefuture. It | | is as statesmanlike as it is bold. Tux Constrrvrions or Norri ann Sovru Apot- isHep.—The old constitution has been abol- | ished by the administration at Washington, and | | Jeff, Davis has abolished the new constitution | of the Confederate States. The people of North and South will soon, in a voice of thunder, de- one constitution, adapted to the mar will eufice forNorth and South--( | of ils violation to be death, events, t malty rear Sune 6, “1863, ‘The Military and Political Biunders ef | Tus Cusnces Aacwet Tax PoLice Comas- siowERs.—We publish {a another column this morning the charges and specifications against the Metropolitan Police Commissioners. The Commissioners have until the 13th inst. to reply to these charges, and they will probably be tried before Judge Daly, or the matter will be decided by Governor Seymour without the in- tervention of the court. There seems to be no doubt that the Commissioners will be removed; but Governor Seymour is desirous of being in- tensely legal in the premises, so that any action he may take may not be subject to ihe imputa- tion of partisan prejudice. But, though the Commissioners may be changed, we sincerely hope that the police system will not. It is undoubtedly the best that has yet been devised for this city, and every citizen will fecl an interest in having it preserved intact. The police cap- tains, officers and men are almost uni- formly polite, attentive and efficieat. We can speak of their merits from our own experi- ence, particularly of that portion of the force located between Manhattanville and Kings- bridge. The present Commissioners have man- aged the department very well in every other respect than in regard to those arbitrary arrests and confinements. They have been betrayed into their present trouble by Kennedy, who al- lowed himself to be used as the tool of Secre- tary Stanton, and whose illegal acts they very foolishly endorsed for political reasons. Sec- retary Stanton, who is a sort of small lawyer by profession, ought to have known better than to interfere with our police department, and deserves all the blame of the affair. These Commissioners. are at fault because they were not bold enough to disavow the atrocious pro- ceedings of Stanton and Kennedy, and they must now take the consequences. Tue Recent Tremenpovs Democratic Meer- ina.—The greatest meeting ever held in this city was that of the democracy on Wednesday evening. It numbered thirty thousand men, including all the fighting elements of the city, manifesting such an unmistakable bitterne3s of hostility against the administration as has never been witnessed before in the history of the United States. The enthusiasm was up to the fever point. A spark of opposition to the ob- jects of the meeting, or the right to hold it, would have exploded a mine and let loose # volcano. The most singular phase of this meet- ing was the absence of the democratic political leaders. They were opposed to it, and kept aloof: The sickly weekly papers representing Tammany Hall were against it; yet the rank and file of the democracy were there, not only the men of Mozart Hall, but the whole legion of the Tammany section. All agreed that “failure” was written on the brow of the ad- ministration, and that it was high time to stop the war. “Peace” is henceforth the platform of the democracy. Tue IqNorayr anv Pomrovs Wori.—The World is the most ignorant and pompous newspaper in the country. It began its career as a pious organ; was soon trans. formed into an abolition organ; then be- came a shoddy organ; then subsisted upon Cumming’s army crackers and cheese, and | army ale and porter; then, for a brief space, it | was an india rubber organ; next it appeared as | a stock jebbing organ, and now it pretends to be a democratic organ, professing to represent the very party which a few months ago it exe- crated and denounced. Such is a synopsis of the history of the World, which is now under the control of a set of ignoramuses from Wall street, who know no more about dem ocracy than they do about the man inthe moon. For sucha paper to presume to defend democracy against Fernando Wood is absurd and ridiculous. Let | Stonewall Jackson, who, by his rapid move- Tt was | {Quand tho restoration of constitutional law, and | it confine its efforts to attempts to obtain a cir- | culation, and say nothing of topics with which it is totally unacquainted. i Mozart Haut. ix Its Grony.—Mozart Hall has | taken the wind completely out of the sails o Tammany. The best thing the remaining ad- | herents of the latter can do is to join Mozart as Mozart Hall and its leaders, | fast as possible. boldly seizing on the elements of discontent and disaffection which exist in the commu- nity, have inaugurated a peace revolution which is bound to be successful, and have left | | the Tammany lights of other days licking the | empty plates in the kitchewof the Corporation, ! and draining the old lager beer bottles in the Pewter Mug. ™M ADELIN, The extraordinary succoss achieved by DMlle, Patti | triumphs each night that she appears in opera. Mario, | | | abroad still continues. In London she achieves fresh the wonderful tenor, seems to have recovered bis voices, to enhance the success of Adelina Patti, with whom he is slaging. Together they create @ sensation such as the musical world has seldom witnessed. We regret to learn that a serious disagreement has oc. curred between Mile. Adelina and her father and brother- in-law, Mr, Maurice Strakoech, The young artiste bas petitioned the officers of the law to Interpose between | herself and the above named individuals. Mile. Patti asserts that all her gains, amounting to over one hundred thousand doliars, bave been appropriated by Messrs. Patti and Strakosch. She also avers that in view of their personal interests they prevent her marriage with « young Spanish gentleman of good family and very wealthy. She says that her father at first consented to the union, in case the young gent!sman could also obtain the consent of bis family; that be did do so, and that now he is not allowed to see her or correspond with her, and al! through | motives of personal interest on the part of her father and brother-in law. She further petitions that during the seven mouths yet to clapse cre she reached her majority (twonty.one years) she may be placed under tho | care and protection of the court. §he gives } up ail claim to aby sums earned by her, | and morely requeste to be rid of what. | sho deems undue coercion on the part of her relatives. — | ‘The London public is much ngitated upon the subject, : | which may be termed @ most wufortunate domestic and | | lyric scandal, Rumor has it that the gentleman who , Beeks the band of the young cantatrice is Mr. Aguado, of | Paris. Mile. Carlotta Patti bas appeared ia concerts in the provinces with the same success as in London. The | journals vie with each other in praises of her fine and | | splendidly cultivated voice. i } MLLER, VESTVALI. Laat evening there was no opera given at the Winter Garden, owing to the severe indisposition of Mr, Henry | A. HL, Davenport and « respectable company, appear thie | ' evening in “The Cricket” and “In and Out of Place.” | Their former performances at this house were quite suc | cosaful. «The Cricket’ is a favorite play in Brooklyn ! post Around. TO THE RDITOR OF THE HERALD. ! bas beon collecting coutributions in the city of New Yorke and elsewhere, pretending to be authorized #0 to do in pohalf of this monastery, | beg most distinetiy to say that we know pot such person, and have never commute sioned him to cotlect any | pines. S7. Many'® Mas center \ Jape 4, 1360 toney from anybod: y | Fever Co NOHTON Bee | a, New Joevey, | | Cassy ve. Baboock, 9204, Having learned from trastworthy authority that aman | 8856, co THR DIANS, BTC. Information has just yen received here showing that faa Sight which recently tou place in Utah between the California volunteers aud a party of Indians, at a sottle- ment called Battle Oreck, tho Morimgns assisted the Indiana} one of their number,aman by the name of Potter, bringing the Iodines into town, and show ing them the whereabouts of the volunteers, who were in only small force, not expecting am attack, After the atsack was made the Mormons gathered to- gether to enjoy the sport, ovor two hundred looking quietly on in @ contest where the Indians outnumbored the volunteers ten to one, Fortunately the arrival of reinforcements saved them from marssere, though for three hours they kept up the unequal contest. Colonel Conner makes a similar compiaint of the Mor- mons in his official report of the battle of Bear river. THE TRIBUNE AND TIMES’ ATTACK ON THE ADMINIS- TRATION, =. The concerted attack of the Tribune and Times upon the administration, touching the conduct of the war, is regarded here as having been inspired by the clique of Congressioual overacers who wish to direct cbloquy (rom themselves by reason of the disasters that have resulted to our army from their dictation. Revelations to-day demonstrate that the Tribune's arti cle, agsailing the admivistration for the conduct of the war, was incited by the Congressional clique of over- seers of the administration. Greoley’s avant courier of the article in‘queation has been hore for some time. THE ZXCHANGE OF PRISONERS OF WAR. Tn the account of prisoners exchanged under the recent cartel, contained in the letter from Fortress Monroo, pub- lished in the Hazan of Wednesday, there aro two orrors. The fifth specification includes ali the officers and men of the Niuety first Iinois Volunteers captured at Bacon creek and Nolin, Kenticky, December 26,1862, 15 well as those taken at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, December 27. Specification seven only includes tho enlisted men of Col. Streight’s brigade captured near Cedar Bluff, Ga., about May 1. As has been before stated, all the commissioned ‘officers of Streight’s command have been retained, hav- ing been demanded by Gov. Shorter, of Alabama, undor the Retaliation act passed by the rebel Congress at its last session. Until the rebels deliver up all of our oMcers as well as enlisted men that may fall 1nto their bands no more revel ofticers will be released. Fortunately the rebels now hold but few Union officers, nearly all of them having hereto- fore been relensed. The officers and men exchanged under this last cartel will be ordered to duty with their commands immediately. Twenty-five hundred of the prisoners captured by Gen. Grant in lis late operations have arrived at Indianapolis, ‘They will soon be ordered to the James river for ex- change. THE RECEIPTS OF INTERNAL REVENUE. The Internal Revenue Burcau his been in operation since September last, but the first official statement that has been made of the receipts is that for the month of May, which bas just been furnished by Mr. Rollins, the present cashier. From this it is estimated by Mr. Bout- well, the late Commissioner, that the averago receipts will reach twelve and a half millions of dollars a month. ‘The statement as above is our firat reliable data, and surprise is exprossed that the figure fur May, as far as returns have been received, is so low. PROMOTION OF COLONEL GRIERSON, Colonel ‘thomas H. Grierson bas been appointed a brigadior goneral for gallant and distinguished services. DISMISSED THE SERVIOR. By direction of President Lincoln, Second Lieutenant Charles Lyman, of the Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteers, has been dismissed from the service for furnishing the descriptive list of a man of his company toan unauthorized person, im disregard of general orders on the subject. ‘This order, as an example, was read to every company and regiment in the army. DISABLED SOLDIERS DISCHARGED. it is stated that over one hundred thousand men have been discharged from the armies of the republic since January 1 for disability. ARMY EAR AND BYE INFIRMARY. ‘The house and grounds of Mr. George Hill, in the suburbs of this city , have been converted by the govern meat into an eye and ear infirmary for this army. NAVAL ORDEUS. Acting Master Zarego is ordered to the command of the steamer Jasmine. e Lieutenant Commander Horner C. Blake has been or- dered to the command of the steam gunboat Futaw, at Baltimore, in appreciation of his gallantry in the defence of the Hatteras. PROPOSALS FOR STEAM MACHINERY. ‘The Navy Department has advertised for steam ma- chinery proposals, to be received until the 16th instant. MOBMONS ASSISTING THE IN- | The department will consider the propositions of parties who may choose to offer for machinery of equal power, or plans or specifications of their own, in place of those ad- vertised. IMPORTANT DECISION OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY. An important decision has recently been made by the first Comptrolier of the Treasury, Mr. Taylor, in re. ference to the authority of the Postmaster General. Io @ California case, involving large interests to the government,the Hon. Green Adams, Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Uffice Department, decided, among other matters, that the words, ‘ waters of the United States,” used in the Post Office laws, mean only internal waters, and do not embrace the waters within a marine league of the coast to which the jurisdiction of the federal courts extend, and also that the Post Office Fepartment has no lawful power to employ mail service Dy sea unless specially authorized to do so by an act of Congress. This decision was referred on appeal to the Comptroller, who, in an elaborate argument, has sus- tained the Aoditor, whoze decision has prevented ap un- authopized grab at the public funds. DECISIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Tho following decisions have been made by the Secre- tary of the Treasury of questions arising from appeals made by importers from the decisions of collectors, re. lating to proper classifications under the Tariff act of July, 1862:— As to the width of silk velvets, the Socretary expresses the opinion that selvage, being manufactured and bought and sold with the velvet, is an integral part of the fabric, and should be iucluded in computing the width to ascer- tain the square yard, Crape trimmings, understood by expert: cotton trimmings, of which silk is the compons of chief vaiue, are subject to o duty of forty per centam. American grown cotton, imparted Havre, but not identified as such in accordance with the law and. regula. tions of the department, was properly charged a duty rate of one-half cent per pound. Cotton bay » Understood to apply exclusively to articles wu or snitable to be used for the baleing of cotton, and also flax yarn, must each pay a duty of thirty- five per ceotum ad valorem. NEW YORK SOLDIERS DEFRAUDED BY PASSENGER IOKET BWINDLERS. Some of the returning New York soldiers bave been led by outside ticket agents at the Washington raii- ition, being overcharged for their fares, im cases coming to the knowledge of agents of the State of New York restitution has been obtained. Soldiers belonging to other parte of the country have been likewise victimized, PROVOST MARSHAL FOR MARYLAND. Major Granville 0. Haller, of the Seventh United States tufantry, left here to day to enter upon his duties as Pro- ‘vost Marshal for the State of Maryland. THE POTOMAC AQUBDUCT. Work is progressing 80 well on the Potomac Aqueduct that water will be brought into the city from the Great Falls by October. ARRIVAL OF CONTRABANDS. About one hundred of the coptrabands brought from Middlesex county, Va., by the recent raid of Colonel Kil- patrick, have arrived here, They are comfortably cared for at the contraband camp, but do not seem anxious to find employment PERSONAL. Senator Morrill, of Maine, is at Willard’s, Bright is also here, Jesse 1. v tional Finances. Porapeena, Jrne 4, 1863. The Subseription Agent reports the sale of $1,567,300 Jadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and the West. 2000, 9630, 9693, S826, 9853, 9549, , 8834,'S187. "Part h—Nos. 7181/, 1348, 630, 1491, 1722, 1668, 806, 590, 1142, 1984, 1613, 2328, 1408, 2208, 1486, MOS, 2060, 848, 87), 1512. 2704, 8198, 3245, 56, 8834,’ 31 anny Brextos—Sehr Wm Lancas Wheeler, EM Tilton, of New Maraworoe Sehr Senteam—. Peimout L Giua. ott Seon, of Berminta; 7 Jas Dobbin, Andrew Rane, twenties to-day at the various agencies in New York, | Ng. THE GREAT CANAL CONVENTION. ‘Wasumarox, June 4, 1863. Proposed Canal System from the Miscis- CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS AND Sippt to the Atlantic—-The Several Projects—Camalization of the IJimois River from Its Mouth to La Salle—Kn- largement of the Iilinols a: Michi- gen Canel—Comstruction of Canal from Michigan City to Toledo—Eniarg- img the Loeks of the Erie ana Oswego Canals—Canal Around the Fails of Ni- agara—Their Commercial, Social and Military Importance=@Rival and Con- Mlocting Interests, &e. OUR CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE. Cmcaco, Ml. May 31, 1863. Thad little idea, before my arrival here this morning, of the immense interest attached to the great Canal Con- venfton which assembles in this city on Tuesday next, the 2¢of June, nor dol suppose that tts importance is any more appreciated by the public at large than it was By your correspondent. But I dnd the city overrun with delegates to It from all parts of the free States, 50 that the hotet accommodations, extetisive and excclient as they are, are atterly inadequate for the multitudes that are flocking here in attendance on ttie Convention. It would appear thatthe railroad interests of the countey have guocumbed #0 those of the moreroid fashioned, but incaiculadly more efficient, system of canal commentca- tion, The object which thie Convention proposes to itself ts to operate, through the means of public opinien and other. wise, upon the genera! government to indugs” it to under- take @ stupendous system of interna! improvement, com- prising the following grent works, viz :-— First—The improvement of the navigation of the Illinois river from is mouth, im the Missiasippi, above'Alton, tor its present highest navi int at La Salle—a dist: i” rupoing noe pr donk a) wr , OF mites, s ‘The enlargement of tho present [MMnois- and Michigan Canal, from La Salle to Chicago, ‘These two projects torm in reality but one, tte estt- mated cost of which is $13,500,000. Third—The enlargement of the locks of the Erie and Oswego canals of New York to guch dimensions as will admit the passage of iron-clid gunboats, twonty-five fost wide and two hundred feot drawiug not less tham six feet six inches of water. The extimaied ost of the latter work is $3,500,000. ‘This 18 as far as the origiuators of the Convention pro- pose to go. But there are other interests represented ere which propore to go still furthe:, aud to ask the geueral government to complete this groat system of camal communication by the following works:— Fourth—The construction of a canal from some potnt om the southeastern shore of Lake Mickigan to some point om: the western shore of Lake Erie—say (rom’Michigan City to Toledo. This would obviate the tocious and dangerous navigation up Lake Michigan, through the Straits of Mackinaw, down Lake Huron, and through the St Clair Flats to Lake Erie. This would be an immense under. taxing, ana I do not know whether any estimate has been. made of its expense. It would probably cost some twenty: miilions; but a giance at the map will show its necessity as a great link in the chain, and [ believe the topography of the country is very favorable to the covstruction of such @ work. Finally, to complete the undertaking, there shoufa be a canal around the Falls of Niagara, t» connect Lake Erie with Lake Ontario, and to render American commerce entirely independent of the famous Welland Canal, which, being on Canadian soil, cannot be relied upon as @ resource for our commerce or for military operations, Areport drawn up by Mr. J. W. Foster, Chairman of the Chicago Committee on Statistica—which is to be pre. sented to the National Convention—elucidates tho social, commercial and military advantages that would result from the completion of the first threo works; and, of course, those advantages would be incalculably auzinent- ed by the construction of the two last mentioned ones. Some ot the statistics may be here quoted. A table of the agricultural products of the eight grain. growning States—Ohio, Indiana, Jilinois, Michigan, Wis- , Jowa and Missouri—is given, showing, lowing increase tn in the ten years ending in 1860, the: fol such products:— 1850. 1860. vee 43,842,088 89 203,603 + 222,203,502 302.280,681 42,328,731 62.738 908 739 507 3,007,001 831.517 4365, 8,536,182 11,039, Cattle. 4,373,712 7,204 B10 The shipment of copper from the Lake Superior mining region shows a still more wonderful increase—going from 1845, when its value is set down at $290, to 1 when it is represented by $4,000,000, tho increxse for the last ten years being from $300,450 in 1852 to tho amount already quoted for 1862, °o So, too, with iron, the product of the Lake Superior re- gion, which weut upfrom 1,447 tons in 1855—the fret year of ils working—to 115,721 tons im 1862. The richness of the Michigan salt basin—estimated to be 17,000 square miles in extent—has only begun to be deve! . The luct in 1862 neached 1 270,000 bushels of salt—the result of twenty-two wells. The estimate (or 1863—the number of wells having reached about 100—is 4,000,000 bushels, nearly one-half that of the Onondaga salt springs of New York. These are marvellous results; but their application to the question of canals lies in the fact that the cost of transportation of these products by water averages leas than a fourth of their cost of transportation by railroad, as is shown by the following table, tho calculation of Mr. McAlpine, while State Engineer of New York: — per Tom per Mile. Ocean, long oo Ocean, short voyage. Takes, loug voyage .... ‘es, short voyage . Soe Hudson river... ... 2h Mississippi and St. Lawrence. 3 Frie Canal, on! 4 Ordinary canals. ... 5 Railroads, ordinary 12% to 13 Following out this vier estimate the cost of transportation of corn, wheat ‘and flour from the Mississippi river to New York city, by commodious water navigation, as compared railroad, shows these results:— with its cost in 1862, by ; 47 9-10¢. ravsportatian of corn from the Mississippi go in 1561 was sixteen cents, while the cost of gathering, shelling and hauling ton station would excecd the between the rate for transportation and the Chicage price; 80 that, as the committee well remarks, if & person bad been gratuitously offered given amount of corn, to be gathered west of the Mississippi, om condition that he sent it to the Chicago market, he could not have affordea to accept the gift. That year the freights pad by one corporation on more than 1,500,009 bushels were 15 18-100 cents trom Chicago to Buffhlo, and 17 66.100 ead er to New York, makiag in all 32 84.100 cents a bushel. In other words, it is estimated that, with the improved facilities sought, i the three first mentioned works—and costing not over $17,000,000—the raving in the movement of a single erop would amount to $30,000,000. If that be the case, will be the immediate and natarat response, why would not commercial men, capitalists or Stato author ities, eet to work,themselves, independently of the general government, and carry out theee great ans as a tinancial undertaking’ The answer to this—so far, at least, as the State 0° Litnols ts coucerned—is sug. gested in the report. It is that the State cannot enter tipon the work without first changing her organic law, which would require two or three years to accomplish and while she is agreed on the policy of surrendering this Toute to the general government, to be used as a national highway, it is doubtful whether ’a like unanimity prevail with regard to the State taking such action, e if constitutional impediments were not in the way. to the second f tional Convention, surrender this work to a chartered company. The report discusses the military importance to the nation at large of the provceee, works; but as this is merely subservient to the great and! rating idea of ‘their commercial importance, an@ simply put forward as @ reason why the general government id undertake them, I will not pursue that branch of the subject further than to eay that the constitutional power of the general government in the premises is derived from that clause which says “The Congress shail have power to levy ——— —o and yg provide for the com- mon defence and promote general welfare of the Me oh ior th general objects of tho Ni touch for the 's of the National Conven- tion ef Tuesday next. With this outline sketch of them your readers will be able to appreciate the roe! import once of the affair, and to follow Inteltigently the proceed- loge that may take place. A few pow im regard te the personnel of the Convention and to the con@icting inte- Tests that may be represented in it. There are some of the usual and indeed inevitable dim. cuities in regard to the interest that shall bave coutrol of _ ee ben ns several names suggested for 16 post of pres At present appearrnces seem, to favor General igen Waibridgo, of Now York, for that position. Outside of the Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, of Chicago, who, 98 member of the last Congress, toa such an active part in bringing the matter before Congress, and almoss succeeded in having @ bill for LM passed by tho Jast House, but who, as a matter of delicacy aud reapoot to the delegates from other States and. cities, Would nom sock the poritioa of chairman, no other gentleman sont has so identified himself with tae movement or 80 much to promote it as General Walbridge, and proba- Diy no one ja betier qualified, cither from parliamentary knowledge or from practical business qualifications, to preside over the Convention. It was he who, at (ha grow Union uprising in New York, ta 1862, presented « seriew of patriotic resolutions, which were unanimoely ¢ lope . wiry, the State, through her Constitu- indicated her policy in no event to for opening the lopg-dur Atlan. Jos throu should at once open the meBn~: b our guDbaate wativeal strength aud defence Fate with Ou orlance asm great Mad Lime Power, He has used his groat induonce in favor Of thi with the New York Boary Hi he veral * ‘hes on subject ber en by) vere esr of rade, stance, before the Cl G, 1962; before ihe Poerd of Trade, ow the same month, and befote the Vuffalo Hoard of Trace cw the 20th, He miso made a spegeh on the came subject at the Uroduee bm io New York,on the ugth of March