The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1863, Page 4

4 JAMES GORDON BENNEYT, EDITOR AND PKOPRIELOR OFFICE M. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Velume XXVIII -No. 190 ANUSEMENTS THIS EVENING BIBLQ’S GARDEN. B: ‘az Duge's Morro. WINTER GARDEN. Nive Powrts or THe Law—Wantxp, One Tuousanyn Mminers—A RxGULaR Fix, LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Wives oF Pauis—WHEN Tax Car's Away tHe Kittens Witt Pray, NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Camroeit's Mix- sTkELS IN bruioPtAN SoNGs, Dances, BURLESQUES, 4c. NUM'S AMERICAN MUSSUM, Broadway —Gum pow Tavus AND Wire ano Cox. Nurr, at ait hours Saxe Foro’s Ores TRourk—Afternoon and Evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall. 672 Broad. I OT NEW YORK HERALD. the platform. The programme for the occasion | prose and poetry, was excellent. The regular @- | niversary exercises of the Academy will be held at the Academy of Music next Thursday, Hamill, the celebrated oarsman, who is train- ing for his rowing match with Joshua Ward, at Poughkeepsie, has been drafted in Pittsburg. His brother was also drafted, ‘The stock market was generally better today, tho largest advance being in Pacific Mail, which touched 190 again, Gold rose to 183, closing st 1323. Exchungo rose to 146. Money was very abundant. Call loans 6 per cent Cotton advanced to 59c. a 60c, for middlings yesterday, with sales of 700 bales. A fair business was reported in flour, wheat and corn, at firmer prices. Pork was higher ahd active, while beef, bacon, lard, butter and cheese were in limited request, as also were hops, hides, leather, coal, seeds, spices, metals, hemp, skins, rice, sugars, molasses and whalebone. A cargo of Rio coffee was reported sold on p.t. There was more doing in tal- low and adamantine candies. Petroleum was saleable and buoyant. Teas and whiskey were heavy and cheaper. way.—brmioriam Sonca, BuRtRsqums, Dancus 46.—Cuaw Boast Bree. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL. 514 Broadwav.—Eraiortan Fomcs, Danows. &0.—Tancet Exovasion avo Panonama or tax Norta Rives. IRVING HALL, Irving place —Tas Stzagorticon. ee THE NEW IDEA. 685 Broadway.—Tax Daziu—Gaesn Monster, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Countositizs any Lxcrunss, from 9 A. M. till 10 P. M. HOOLEY'S PERA HOU! ‘Broo! |. BIMsOrLan Boxes. Daca, Qonneanzs a as New York, Saturday, Jaly 11, 1863. THE SITUATION, Cannonading was heard at Frederick yesterday morning in the direction of Boonsboro, on the road to Hagerstown. Some slight skirmishing oc- curred there between the rebel force of General Jenkins and our cavalry under General Buford, who drove the enemy two miles. It is said that General Jenkins was captured, and passed through Frederick on his way to Fort McHenry. General Naglee, who arrived with reinforce- ments from General Foster at Newbern, N. C., ‘was at once ordered by General Meade to a com- mand at Harper's Ferry. The trains of General Lée, it is said by a refugee, cannot number leas than three thousand wagons, and they are all on the road between Hagerstown, Williamsport and Shepherdstown. The same Guthority states that General Lee’s forces number fifty thousand men and two hundred and fifty pieces of artillery. ; The rebel accounts of the late battle of Gettys- burg, as contained in the Richmond papers, boast & great victory for the Confederate army. They speak of a great battle on Sunday last (of which we have no account). They claim that their centre under Hill fell back, thus drawing our troops from their works, when Generals Long- street and Ewell advanced upon both flanks of our army, and that forty thousand prisoners were consequently taken. Most of them, they say, have been sent to Richmond. The fight of Sunday is Gescribed by the despatches from Martinsburg, “from which this news comes, as the bloodiest of the campaign. The Richmond Enquirer of the 8th, in describing the battle of Gettysburg, says, the rebel loss was ten thousand. It states tha’ Generals Barksdale, Armistead, Garnett and Kemper were killed, and that Generals Scales, Pender, Jones, Heth, Anderson, Hampton and Hood were wounded. The Hexa.» correspondents appear to have had 6 brilliant encounter with the rebel guerillas. A despatch from Frederick last night says that while our correspondent T. M. Cook was en route from Baltimore to the army he was captured by a band of five guerillas, near Cookestown, on the turn- pike road. While the rebels were searching Mr. Cook for papers two other Harap correspondents arrived—Mesers. Knox and Hosmer—made a» dash at the guerillas, drove them off in the direction of Westminster, and all three entered Frederick in safety, and proceeded to their positions in the front. ‘This is one of the peculiar incidents of the war, in which our correspondents are always liable to par- ticipate in the faithful discharge of their duty. The Cincinnati papers of the day before yester- Gay say that the number of troops captured at Vicksburg was twenty thousand, including one lieutenant general, four major generals and some- what in the neighborhood of twenty brigadiers— that is to say, brigadier general to every regi- ment of a thousand men. According to this state- ment promotion in the rebel army must be very rapid, not to say irregular, when every command- ant of a regiment ranks as a brigadier. What has become of the colonels? It was reported at Cincinnati yesterday that the rebel forces are operating on the Ohio river, be- tween that city and Louisville, with the intention of capturing passing boats. The news from Tennessee yesterday reports that the country north of Franklin and Spring Hill is filled with deserters from General Bragg's army, tothe number of from ten to fifteen thou- sand Tennesseeans. The army of General Rose- crans is still at the bend of the Elkriver. The Army of the Cumberland are now in such a posi- tion, and the condition of the enemy is so demoral- ivod, that the camypaivn in Tennessee is regarded iu Nashville as virtually ended. Our latest news from New Orleans is up to the evening of the 4th, and comes by the steamers George Waslington aud Continental. At that time Bothing definite from Port Hudson was received, except that it had not been taken by General Banks. Oar correspondent's accounts of the state of affairs in that region will be found very interest- ing. The rebel privateer Florida is reported to have been seen off Gay Head, on the castern coast, on Thursday. She was then engaged in burning a bry; and a fishing schooner. ue draft is progressing in all the New England States and Pennsylvania and New York. As the enrolment is completed in each of the various dis- tricts @ certain proportion of men is designated. It is certain that the entire number to be called Out in all of the States has not been designated. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Among the drafted men in Boston are two Ca- tholic clergymen, six editors, the United States District Attorney, the Provost Marshal General, On artillery armorer, and three John smiths, The annual prize speaking exercises of the pu- pila attached to the New York Free Academy eam off last evening at Irving Hall before a large end fashionable audience. Dr. Webster, Progi. dei of the Academy, presided, and several mem. Doers of the Board of Education oceupied seats on ‘The dry goods market was extremely dull and irregular. Our special advices which we publish this morning from Washington will be found ex- ceedingly interesting, important and sugges- tive. They show that while we have passed the military crisis which menaced the occupsa- tion of our national capital by the rebel army of Virginia, and that while we have secured the rebellion fairly within our grasp, we are approaching a political grisis which may con- vulse the different sections of the Union, and especially the loyal States, as they have never been convulsed, with the violence of conflict- ing factions and opinions, from the beginning of our Revolutionary troubles with England down to this day. The correspondence between the Louisiana Committee of Planters and the President, touching the restoration of their State to the Union, is very significant. The committee ask for the necessary authority, as the citizens of a Tevolted State anxious to return to the Union, to proceed in November next to the election of federal and State officers, under the existing constitution of the State. The President de- clines to give the authority solicited: first, be- cause a portion of the people of Louisiana are moving in favor of a State Convention, with a view to some amendments of its existing con- stitution; and, secondly, because the authority to act under this constitution might result in embarrassments to our military operations against the armed forces of the rebellion still at war with the Union in different parts of the State. Now, while we all know that the planters of Louisiana are overwhelmingly the controlling class of the citizens of the State, we have reason to believe that the parties interested in this State Conven- tion movement are political adventurers and speculators, whose object {s to revolu- tionize and abolitionize the State, in order to enrich themselves from the division of the spoils. But if the federal administration may deny the return of Louisiana under her State constitution existing before the rebellion, every rebellious State may be required so to amend its local constitution before it can be admitted again to the benefits of the Union as to secure the abolition of slevery within its borders. We apprehend that some such design as this underlies this Cabinet decision against the loyal slaveholding planters of Louisiana, and that the abolition faction in the Cabinet are getting the upper hand of the President and his oft-repeated sound and sagacious conser- vative opinions and purposes. This conclu- sion is strengthened by our advices concern- ing the late Cabinet discussion of the peace question. Thus, while Mr. Seward, Mr. Blair and Mr. Bates are represented as in favor of a liberal amnesty to the people of the rebel- lious States, including the revocation of the President’s military edict of emancipation, and the return of sald States to the Union as they were before their several acts of secession, it appears that Mr. Chase, Mr. Stanton and Mr. Welles are violently opposed to any such con- cessions for the sake of peace, and in favor of prosecuting the war at all hazards and at any cost to their grand ultimatum of the ex- tirpation of African slavery, from Virginia to Texas. The idea is also suggested, from Pre- sident Lincoln’s allusions to the Declaratien of Independence in his recent congratulatory war speech to the citizens of Washington, that he too is inclined to the abolition policy of Mr. Chase and his radical faction. Thus, we have reason to fear that, while the people of the loyal States are felicitating them- selves upon the successes of our arma, and the Prospect of a speedy restoration of the Union substantially as it was, we are-in danger of the prosecution of a revolutionary war policy at Washington which may convulse the country for twenty years to come. We think the ocgasion a proper one for a word or two of admonition to the administration upon this all important subject. The conservative masses of the loyal States desire the suppres- sion of the rebellion and a complete territorial restoration of the “Union; but we doubt if a majority, even of the people of Massachusetts, desire the prosecution of this war to the ex- tinguishment of Southern slavery, when peace and the eld Union are within our reach upon the basis of the proclamation suggested by Mr. Seward. We are quite sure that an everwhelm- img majority of the people of New York andof all the other central States would cheerfully support a treaty of peace upon the simple sub- mission and restoration of the rebellious [States, including their local institutions as they now exist. We would recall the serious attention ef Pre- sident Lincoln to the fact that his edict of eman- cipation was a military measure, justified upon the plea of « military necessity which ceases to exist the moment the armed forces of the re- bellion are within eur powor; we would ad- monish him of the danger of diverting this war from its legitimate purpose to the perilous ex- periment of an abolition crusade. The war programme of the abolition disorganizers com- prehends not only the blotting out of African slavery, but the practical enforcement of their fanatical notions of human equality. The mo- ment the administration becomes committed to this revolutionary programme there will be a popular reaction against it which nothing can resist. The people of the revolted States will accept the war as a war of extermination, and the conservative popular majorities of the loyal | States will rise up in their wrath and burl the | administration and its party from power and into everlasting disgrace. The loyal States have assumed and are freely bearing the bur- \ thens of this war to put dowe the rebellion and was of a high order, and the speaking, both in | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY U, to re-establish the rightful authority of the | we may fairly conclude that he will not rua Union; buf neither New York, nor Pennsyl- | the risk of a war with this country. The peo- vania, nor Obio, nor Illinois, wil! consent to ple of France would not submit to the conse- delay this paramount object of reunion in order | quences it would entail upon them; and the to continue the war for the abolition of South- | Emperor, being well aware of this, will suit his ern slavery and the reconstruction of the Union | policy to circumstances, and not run counter to upon the platform of negro equality. the desires of his subjects, who have so recently We believe that the opportunity is at hand | given him a warning which he perfectly under- when the proclamation of am amnesty, as pro- | stood. posed by Mr. Seward, will put an end to the Wanted—A True Statesman. war and secure the triumph of the Union. The | ‘The speeches of President Lincoln and his people of the States committed to Jeff. Davis | Cabinet, on Tuesday evening last, and of Gov- cannot fail now to perceive that his cause is | ernor Seymour and his companions, on the hopeless; that his armies are beaten beyond re- | Fourth of July, have attracted a great deal of covery, and that against the overwhelming | remark throughout the country. We are sorry power of a united North further resistance is | to add that the comments everywhere heard, vain and suicidal. But, on the other hand, let | poth in public and private, are the very re- President Lincoln reject those pernicious aboli- | yerse of complimentary. All these speeches, tion counsels, which, if followed, will bring ruin although delivered by different persons, upon upon his administration, and the country into « | giferent occasions, are alike in their want of state of political turmoil and anarchy, the end | spirit, tact and statesmansbip, and they all of which will be dissolution, foreign interven- | equally lack talent, eloquence and force. On tion, and two or three or half a dozen petty | the whole, after a careful consideration of the confederacies. matter, we are inclined to think that the two Tax Niogerneaps anp Correrueaps in New | Seymours and Mr. Pendleton, or Peddlington, Yorx.—The niggerheads in this oity have | were ahead; but our only reason for this avoided holding any demonstrations for the | opinion is that the President and his Cabinet Fourth of July or the victories of Meade or | bad the greater opportunity, and utterly failed Grant. Is it that they do not like the princi- | to improve it. ples of the Declaration of Independence, and The speeches of Governor Seymour, of New that they do not desire conservative generals to | York, ex-Governor Seymour, of Connecticut, win battles? To say the least, it looks sus- | and Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, at the Academy of picious. On the other hand, the peace men | Musio, were remarkable because they ignored are rampant and belligerent. According to a | our glorious victories and our victorious gene- report in the Daily News, they held a meeting | rals, and were mainly devoted to Vallandigham on Thursday evening, in which Chauncey Burr | and other copperheads. The speeches of Pre- and others denounced the conscription act, and | sident Lincoln, Secretaries Seward and Stanton threatened resistance to it. “The administration,” | and General Halleck were noticeable for says Mr. Spring, son of the Rev. Dr. Spring, | almost precisely the same causes. Governor “now feels itself in want of more men to re- | Seymour and his friends did not deign to allude place those it has slaughtered, and to aid in | to our triumph at Gettysburg. President Lin- upholding its despotism, and for this purpose } coln and his Cabinet carefully avoided men- has ordered the conscription. They themselves | tioning the name of General Meade. We are, will never fight; they will lie and steal and | of course, aware that any congratulations upon tyrannize over the people, but never fight.” | our victory would have completely nullified And as for Lincoln, they say he ought to have | the orations of Seymour and Company, as been hanged eighteen months ago, and it is | these orations had been prepared with refe- only from the lenity of the people that he has | rence to a defeat, and we cannot expect public not before now suffered “the penalty of his | speakers to cruelly sacrifice rhetoric to the crime.” Vallandigham never approached such | news of the day. A French savant, being re- language as this. Why has he been banished | minded of certain facts which conflicted with from the State of Ohio, while such speeches as | his favorite theory, angrily replied, “So much these are permitted in the State of New York, | the worse for the facts.” In the same vein and such speeches are connived at in Massa- | Governor Seymour might have said to the chusetts as have been recently delivered by | newsboys who were crying out the great vic- Wendell Phillips? One thing is very clear, that | tory, “Confound the victory! It shall not in- all the pluck and fighting qualities are with the | terrupt my speech.” But the President and copperheads and the men of peace. The radi- | his assistants have not even this lame excuse cal men of war are nowhere, except in dark | for not eulogizing General Meade. The crowd star chambers, plotting like the Jacobin clubs. | called upon them, with a band of music, They fear to show their faces in the light of} to hear and cheer just such praises. day. Wendell Phillips will probably say that Tux InsurrectionaRy Demonstration iw tue | the administration is a great electioneer- Twentrera Wanv.—The speech of Ohauncey C, | ing concern, and that the President and Burr and its reception at the meeting in the | bis followers did not care to say anything Twentieth ward on Thursday evening are | #bout Meade for fear of creating another rival calculated to stir up a moblike spirit in this | for the next Presidency. This theory may be city. If Mr. Burr is not careful he will raise | correct; for Wendell Phillips tells a great deal a storm that will terminate in insurrection and | of truth in his way; but we should imagine that bloody scenes in this city. When this mob | the Washington officials had learned from their spirit is once started mo person can tell where | dealings with McClellan that jealousy and it will end or who will be sacrificed by its | Neglect sometimes make s man more popular vengeance. Whilst Mr. Burr poured out his in- | #24 increase the very dangers they seek to vective, counselled resistance to our national | 4vold. authorities, and appealed to the beastly pas- | During this war we have managed to dis- sions of the assemblage, he still declared himself | Cover three or four good generals, such as @ democrat, and would have us understand that | McClellan, Grant, Rosecrans and Meade. We he is one of the leaders. But his speech was | have not yet had the good fortune, however, to anything but democratic in tone, and shows | heppen upon one great statesman. At one great lack of statesmanship in the leaders of | time everybody though that we had found a the demooratic party in this city in allowing | prize in President Lincoln, and at another such blustering men as Burr to assume to set | time Governor Seymour was hailed as the man msélves up as leaders of the party in a ori- | for the crisis. These anticipations have un- like the present. fortunately proved fallacious. Sometimes Lin- Were there any statesmen among the leaders | Coln is the brighter, and then Seymour eclipses of Tammany Hall they would have long since | him, and then Lincoln flares up again; but held a public meeting and marked out the | neither of them is very brilliant even at the course for the party—the rank and file—in such | best. If anything great was ever expected of a way as to render the efforts’ of all such blus- | Secretary Seward, beyond his administration tering revolutionists as Burr to lead the masses | Of the State Department, he has at last of the party futile. In former times there | Plainly demonstrated that such expectations were men who stood in the front ranks} Were unfounded; and Lincoln, Seymour of that organization whose abilities and moral | and Seward make up a trio of incapa- worth commanded the respect and admiration | bles. Their recent speeches are very ofthe public. Their counsels were heeded and | characteristic of the men, and no one can read their lead on public questions was followed. | those speeches without a feeling of disappoint- Not so with the present race. When the Albany | ment. It was very natural that the Connecticut Regency was first organized its leading men | Seymour, and Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, should consulted with the principal politicians in thie | waste breath in defending the copperheads, and city, and on all public questions they moved | just as natural that Stanton and Halleck should in unison, and thus in « great measure | make themselves ridiculous by abusing the cop- determined the action of the democratic | perbeads and by claiming the credit of victories party of the nation. But now the Re- | which were won rather in spite of them than by gency is nothing but a jobbing con- | their aid. From the President of the United cern. The party is nothing to them only so far | States, the Secretary of State and the Governor as it can be made subservient to their interests. | of the State of New York, however, the public The result of all this is that neither Tammany | bad a right to anticipate something worthy nor the Regency have any statesman who can | of their exalted positions, and not namby- step forth and grapple with the great issues of | pamby and balderdash. Our race of great men the times. They have no one wno can lay be- | seems to be extinct, and political dwarfs now fore the public in an impressive manner the | ffl the places of giants. Perhaps this war, duties of the hour. They have no great mind | Which bas alréady produced us splendid gene- among them, towering above all others, to | Tals, may give us true statesmen by-and-by, who whom the masses of the party look as the | will be equal to the requirements of this na- pilot ‘in this, their hour of danger. The con- tional crisis and of the great future before us; sequence of all this is, the masses are left to be | and then the present breed of mere politicians preyed upon by unprincipled and designing | will soon be totally forgotten, or remembered men. Here rests one of the great dangers of the only as a hissing and a reproach to the age times, and it renders the speeches of such men | Which permitted them to exist. as Burr all the more dangerous, Inorngasep Activrry or Tue Biockape Rux- Naporron tax Turrp Atrertno His Poticy.— | xens—Neoricence Somewuere.—It will be seen, It is asserted by Za France, a Parisian journal | by a statement published in another column, known to be the organ of the Empress, that the | that there had arrived at Nassau within a few Emperor Napoleon has directed General Forey, | days no less than eight vessels from Charleston, upon his entry into the city of Mexico, to state | and five from Wilmington, N. C. These, no that France would recognize the Southern con- | doubt, all contain valuable cargoes of cotton, federacy. This may or may not be true; but | and the impunity with which they have run the we do not believe that Napoleon will act in the | blockade does not reflect much credit on the matter when he heara of our recent victories vigilance of our cruisers. If the vessels com- on the Mississippi and over General Lee. posing our blockading squadron are too slow to At home Napoleon has greatly altered his | put a stop to the traffic, steps should be taken policy. He,has changed his Ministry, turned | to replace them by others better adapted to the out Persigny and Walewski—the first known to | work. We would fain believe that this is the be a friend of the secessionists and the other | explanation of the facility with which British an advocate of the Poles—and replaced them | vessels run past our cruisers both in and out of by men unknown to the public. He does this | Southern ports. We cannot for a moment credit to satisfy the people in France, who are averse | the easumption put forward by one of our con- to the warlike policy which bas been encouraged | temporaries, that it is to the peculations by the retiring ministers, and as result of the | charged against the prize courts here the fact late elections in the empire, which must prove | is owing. It Is n0 doubt very hard for eur incontestably that the people were determined | brave sailors to be cheated out of their prize to have more intellectual and legislative free- money; but they have too much patriotism to allow such a consideration to weigh with them for a moment. At the same time it is the duty of the government to see that they are fairly ak Wis he dle dealt with, and that the cormorants who fatten aaah tee fen of great repressive power, upon the fruits of their hard labors and watoh- they had barely succeeded in returning, by peed scant majorities, the government eandidates, ee. Sean Arse and expressing great fears as to the results of ‘Tae Wartertvo Pace Season.—The watering future elections. Napoleon felt the need of | places ought all to be crowded by this time; changing his policy. Hence he turned out his | but they are not. The rebel invasion of Mary- bellicose ministers, and from that same reason § Jand and Pennsylvania checked the emigration dom. It is well kaown that his Majesty was alarmed at the reports sent to him by the prefects of the different departments, all of them announcing 1863. to the summer retreats, and it has not yet been resumed. Instead of thinking about the water- ing places, everybody is now thinking about the war, and conjecturing what will be the issue of the next battle, upon which so much depends. For the present, therefore, those who would otherwise be at the watering places take their recreation in the Park; and, as the Park is now more beautiful than ever, we do not know but that our citizens might only go farther to fare worse. Tus Satanio Pourricians at Work my Wasi- mNaton.—Recently the radical politicians have congregated in Washington from three of the cardinal points of the compass—enat, west and north. Conspicuous among them are the members of the Satanic Committee. Wilson, Wade, Chandler, Hamlin and the rest are ply- ing their vocation as busily as bees. They have discovered that General Meade is, after all, eligible to the Presidency, and, what is still worse, that he is a conservative, as far aa he has any politics. In fact, he is not a man suitable to be a tool for the radical faction, though most valuable in warding off danger in the hour of need. Already, therefore, they begin to de- preciate his victory, and say that he ought to have bagged Lee; while some of them express adoubt that he has won any victory at all. One of their organs—the New York Times— chimes im with their ideas, by representing our losé as far greater than that of the rebels, and warns the public against believing the con- trary. The special correspondent of that journal, professing to derive his facts and figures from semi-official sources, sete down the losses of the Union army in the late battle as seventeen thousand, whereas the loss of the rebels in killed, wounded and prisoners only amounted to fourteen thousand five hundred. It was in this way that they ran down General McClellan and intrigued against his success. Already they are playing the same game in the case of General Meade. Why hashe not bagged Lee? Let Halleck and Stanton answer. They have the control of all the military forces of the country. EfGeneral Meade had not sufficient numbers to capture Lee’s army the adminis- tration at Washington alone are to blame; and they have listened to the malignant counsels of the Satanic Committee, who are determined that no general shall succeed who does not play into their hands. ‘ Prorzcrion or Our Harsor.—The recent de- cision 0” the Chief Baron of the English Court of Exchequer in the case of the Alexandra renders it iniportant that our authorities should no longer delay the work of fortifying our har- bor. Under that decision a regular fleet can be fitted out in England and attack the princi- pal ports on the seacoast without delay. For aught we know, that decision may have been made with that very objectin view. Taking that decision, with the depredations that are being daily committed upon our commerce with these semi-British rebel crafts, longer de- lay in placing our harbor in a state of com- plete defence is criminal. This is no time for dilly-dallying or squabbles of commissioners at Albany or elsewhere over the necessary expen- ditures for that purpose. Now that Governor Seymour js here, and, in connection with Sapir Me , is devoting considerable time forlg in Gi bef, General Wool, the City Corporation, Chamber of Commerce and our merchants should co- operate with those officials, put their shoulders to the wheel, and see that no time is lost ia perfecting our defences. Their condition has Deen alarming. Steps have been taken to imme- diately strengthen them; but what has been and is being done is but a drop in the bucket com- pared to the work necessary. The danger of the hour requires prompt and decisive work. Will our city authorities, merchants, &c., move in the matter at once? A delay of a few days may cause the loss of millions. Action, action, is now required, and that, too, without a mo- ment’s delay. Tue Recent Cuanoe or Ministry tn Fraxcr— Irs Staytricance.—The displacement of Persieny and Walewaki, and their substitution by new and untried men, are events of no small impor- tance in the present position of European affairs. They are the logical results of the electoral successes of the opposition in the De- partment of the Seine. Previous to these mat- ters were assuming very much the same aspect as they wore under the administration of Guizot, when the demands for an extension of electoral franchise, made through thé public banquets everywhere held in France, were so obstinately and foolishly “resisted by Louis Philippe and his Minister. Had those demands been com- plied with, and the franchise enlarged to the moderate extent of a hundred thousand votes, there is every reason to believe that the Orleans family would to this day have kept possession of the throne. Louis Napoleon is too cautious and farsighted to make a similar mistake. His system of per- sonal government has been strained to a point which can no longer be borne by the French people. The recent triumphs of the opposition convinced him that between its relaxation and the downfall of himself and family it was neces- sary to make « speedy choice. Were he to wait until next year, when the opposition would be certain to sweep the provinces as they have swept, Parla, the alternative would not be left him. Like a wise man, he yielded his own will when he found that he could not bend that of his people. In this he has profited by the political lessons which he received in England. There the aristocracy only maintain their ascendancy by resisting popular encroachments as long as they can do so with safety, and yielding when the point of danger is reached. It is this close watchfulness of the signs of the times that con- stitutes the real strength of Napoleon. Divested of ithe would be a very ordinary sovereign indeed—as infirm of purpose and blundering, perhaps, as our own rnilers. Waat Wenpewt Patsirs Tunxs or tar Ap- uinistRaTion.—Wendell Phillips says the ad- ministration at Washington are merely a com: | mittee to manage the next Presidential election. | There is a great deal of trath in this. Their | speeches on the Fourth of July go far to prove | it. Silly as the orators in the Academy of Music in this city, they seem incapable of rising | to the height of the occasion. For the great victory at Gettysburg they do not praise Meade, oreven mention his name, while Hallock takes to himself all the credit of Grant’s victory. Meade and Grantare both conservatives. Hence the administration would give them no credit. | Upon what evil days is the;republic fallen | when such shameless things are openly prac- : tised by those who have been placed at the head of our national affairs! = i ee The Emancipation Question in Missourt, THE ACTION OF THE LATE MISSOURI sraTE con- VENTION DENOUNCED, Sr. Loow, Mo., Juty 10, 1863. A large and enthusiastic meeting wa held at the Court Bouse last night, which was participated im by those op. posed to the action of the late State Convention in adopt- ing the present scheme of emancipation, in dectaring slave property free from taxation, in denying the people the privilege of voting to elect their own rulers, and ro- fusing the people the privilege of voting on the ordinance of emancipation. Mayor Filly presided, and Charles D, Drake, Henry J. Blow, 0. R. Jobngon, B. Gratz Brows and others spoke. Resolutions were adopted setting forth that the actiea of the State Convention in its last seasion was arbitrary, tyrannical, and in opposition w the plainest principles of republican government, proving the body from which it emanated to be unworthy of the respect and con- fidence of a free people. ‘That, although ite enactment is entitled to be an ‘“‘or- dinance for emancipation of slaves,’’ we can regard tho enactment of the Convention in no other light than a covert attempt to strengthen and perpetuate slavery io Missouri, under the disg uise and professed purpose to as- complish freedom. ‘that the attempt to favor the owners of slaves by & body of men, lorge majority of whom were large slaveholders, at the ex} of others, by exempting slave property from taxes, exhibited a spirit so nar- row and mean and mercenary, and at the same time 80 unfair, our condemnation amt contempt. That ped hold that the people of Missouri. as the citi- zens of a State occupying & piace in this republican gov- ernment, are entitied to the privciples of popular sover- eignty and the right to choose tneir own rules. "Phat, in condemning the acts of the Convention asa body, we exempt from our condempation a few men who labored to secure the pevple their constitutional rights and the bevelits of speedy emancipation. That in our judgment condition of Missouri demands relief, which cam only be effected by emancipation, vot , but now; and we therefore declare ourselves favor of @ plan of emancipation which will be most speedy in its operation. That we im the authority of the Legislature the power to call a convention fresh from the people, which convention can take appropriate means for obtain- ing redress from the impositions practised by the old convention, and relieve us of the burdens entailed upoa us by the institution of slay le We therefore call upon ‘he Logisiature ‘to order an elec- tion for members to a new convention at ascarly a day a8 practicable, and hereby instruct our Senators and Re- presentatives from this county to give their votes aud im- fluence to that measure. ‘That a committee of seven be appointed by the Presi- dent to Ox the time, place, etc., for holding the State cen- vention to carry out the views of this meeting. Music at the Park. The Park Commissioners anpounoe that there will be musio at the Park to-day, on the Mall, at four o'clock P. M., by the band, under the leadership of H. B. Dod- worth, if the weather is fine, Tho following is the pro- gramme:— Pal 6. March, “Characteristic” 6. Overture to ‘‘Preciase’”” (op. 121).. .Franz Schubert . Von Weber . .-Bpobr jerbeor @. March, ‘‘Du Sacre,” from ‘‘Le Profeta..... Moy: ry, quickstep...- Downing . “Battle Cry,” quicl -Down! 10. Alexander Mazourks... 0. 11. Duet, ‘1 Would that My Love” 12. ib Trab begs | even esses Sommerlatt jational Pot The Academy of the Sacred Heart. ‘The annual commencement of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville (under the superintendence of Rev. Mother Hardy, whose extensive labora in the cause of female education in both hemispheres have been crowned with the largest success), took place on Tues- and next the and duties they bave to dis- charge in this world. * The celebration last Tuesday was therefore a tely marked by an uupusually copcourse peonle all se denominations. There were not less than five hundred carr! in attendance, and igh the excessive heat of the is taken into consid- a Te Wee 3 wae J ooo aa een rere could bay tae ge schoo! room, ample though it is for oy purpose. The fellow- was ramaie: 6 Sy BatrersMasarda and heata, Lobecind Git NR AA Et mores, 3 ni mau, Brennan, Ol Coulter, 0. H- Goodman, a MoCabe, ‘houriguer, Me. Be Banith Mes. 6 Halo Fatrg Misson L. Smith, M, Smith, M, Garrison, Bride. Gea Dunning, Bishop, Stanton, Culver, Purser. Parsons, Fleteber, asda tnaten Brown, L. Lynch, Ulaget Kathleen Mevourneen— Miss F. Connoil ye Crouch Corregio—Miss Radford. Zampa—Overture@) hands jasc Cameron, E. Doherty, Donoghu LAurora cL Augel.-.---- nan Mise Barattini. Harp accompauiament, Tanged by W. Berge. La Bclener, La Modiatie, La Glorie, et La Fol—Misses Gaf- y, Montgomery, 2 io. Bonnie Scotignd and Laat of Ven ie de Concert Sur Lucrezia, imetach and W. Be Miswes Werneke. Gafney, Binsse, Richmond, Melvin, € McCarthy, Wurzbache, M. Faye, Bipzy, H. Weidenfeld. The Rose and the Butterfly—Misses Forzert and Juanita Garcia. The Red Riding nor K. Gay- ‘ulover c. 01 1, Gratton, M. Gurete, K. Gaynor, M Garri- $00, flour. Wikiams, J: Garcia, Schre'ner, M. 4. Kite. F ruckman, 8. Kelly, . el, ord, N. Wallls, # Northali, Wright M. Lynch, e M. Smith; A. Brennan, Borda. — DISTRIBUTION OF Pi ‘The Seasons of Life......Valedictory. - The Graduates All the young ladies acquitted themselves to the catire satisfaction of the audience. The piano by forty-eight and sixty tho same piece of music) was executed in rabie atyle that it seemed to the listeners as if but « sia. gie periormance upon one eeaor bien The recita- tions of the young ladies were of a high order, and the ot octal music were delightfully listened to by the au At the close of wore dis- Reverend the educatiof and refinement of those yg To on the su 8 trainin, generations: The coup dil the two hold. Cakes, lemonade and other refreshments wéte supplind to the audience during the exercises, which wore | eta close in the evening ina very bappy man. Ilumination of Paducah, Ky. Papvcag, Ky., July 10, 1868. This city is ‘Numinated, and an immense meeting is ta progress im Market square. Jeff. Davis has been burned ey: Bavawrs’ Minerama.—The Bryant Brothers—Dan and Neil—take a benefit at their coay little hall thie evoning. ‘This ia the Inst night of their season, and the perform- ances, always excellent, will be especially good upon this ‘oocasion. Arrivals Departures. = Bteamhip 0 R Mw theron, Mere ni et baby, J Bucgas “ cron, Men Pratt) a ; Garverrs, L Loper, MB Pawat, F Compos G We Monmn, We H Hall, M Dei » Mrs F Bardina, Bone, A'N Wite- aed non, FA ag Gault, J Phillips. P Petite a, J Vandrell, Mesina Mre Hubbant and two children, baby, D Beott, B ® Lawton, Bee, — Naess jente and two sous, ‘and sister, Tar. i, and child Ca) Ber Mrg,S Bilten, Ma ogres Mew olker Mrs DC Tortey. Mra Bryant, Mrs Wi Orary: M odrews. Mrs Alex Pinkerton, Mre JB MreA Diliet, Mre Bro a M mM a Mred ieGow- re ‘Cape’ Mason, Mra Hamilton. Capt Peat an hervant. Mrs James Ur Buchanan, Mra ff Williams, Mrs J O Babiming. Mrs Pi Mr aod Mra Futler, Mrs Lant, child and servant, Mre tow, Mrs Greenwood, Mrs Burke, Mrs Morris—Total 155, and 290n deck. New Onceane Steamship Continental— Irvin Lieut J Tucker and servan' Wilson, ‘Mine Carine Mr Kimball and lady Dr servant, Mra J M White. ° bi ‘A Baker, Col 8 G LB Hunt, J Newton, T Buck wel 263 in the steerage, a"