The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE K. W.COBNUB OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash i advance money sent vy maii will be stthe risk of the sender Nowe but bank bills current in XXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway Tax Doe's Morro. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Leau—Riaurs 4XxD Wrongs or Wonen NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowers. —Camrantl's Mine ETKELS IN Lm oPIAN BoNGs, DaNcxs, BURLESQUES, &C, BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSSUM, Broadway. —Livi xe OUTANG—AUTOMATON WriteR, &o. big suo’ OF ye aNp Deniem Bro- all hours youn’s Orexa Tuo TKS —Afteruoon aad Evens WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 5ié Broadway. —Ermiortax Foros, Dox 4o.—Tagaer Excugsiox aND PanozaMa or tax Nowru Riven. si SH NEW IDSA THEATKE, 485 Broadway.—La Srurais— JocKo. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Coxiosities any Lecrouxs, from 9 A, M. ull 10 P.M. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Breoklyn.—Brmorun Bones, Dancka, Buxiusaues, New York, Friday, July 24, 1863. ‘THE LATE TUMULT. The New Yorx Weexty Henraxp, tobe published on Saturday, will contain a carefully corrected map of the City of New York, showing the localities of the riot of last week. The map will enable the country reader to form a correct ides of all the places attacked, and will mark the course pur- sued by the erowd. THE SITUATION. The position of the two armies on the Potomac is now said to be fully comprehended at Washing- ton, although for some days past their movemeffts were enwrapped in mystery. The rebel army is reported to be now completely entrapped by Gen. Meade, and not only isthe retreat of the enemy to Richmond improbable, but it is doubted whether they shall ever reach the upper end of the Shenandoah valley, It is reported trom Baltimore that about four handred rebel cavalry, encamped near Nolan’s ferry, three miles from Point of Rocks, attempted to cross the Potomac on Wednesday night with the intention of tearing up the rails of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. But their designs were frus- trated by a band of Independent Rangers, com- manded by Captain Means, who drove them It is further stated that at three o'clock yesterday morning General Lee's entire army was moving rapidly in the direction of Winchester. Ewell, who had made a move in the direction of Cumberland, also fell back and followed Lee. There remained but a few of the rebe: cavalry between Martinsburg and the river. Scouts report an increased body of rebel cavalry near Harper's Ferry, supported by two regiments of infantry. From the rebel side of the story we have yester- day's Richmond Examiner's comment on the “situation,” which says:—“From the Mississippi we have no news, which is good news. From Northern Virginia the lines of General Lee ex- tend to the old battle ground of Manassas. Of the Northern (Meade’s) army we know nothing except that it cries loudly for reinforcements and has received none.” There is nothing later in detail from Charleston than the news brought by the Circassian to For- tress Monroe on the 19th. The last news received in Washington report General Gillmore still pro- greasing with the siege of Fort Wagner. All ru- mors of his repulse at that point are discredited by the government, The news from the Southwest is still of the most cheerful character. 7 The reports of our successes at Natches, Yazoo City and Jackson, are fully confirmed. Large amounts of munitions of war, especially of ammuni- tion, have fallen into our hands as we before stated. A despatch from Memphis, dated on the 2lat, says that General Hurlbut’s scouts from Okalona, Miss., report Johnston at Brandon. The rebel Geuerals Ruggles’, Chalmers’, Saunders’ and Fer- guson’s forces are at Tupola. Ruggles is concen- trating his forces with the intention probably of making a dash on our lines. Correspondence from Bragg’s and Johnston’s armies depict them in great destitution and greatly de- d. They give up Mississippi and advise the planters to stay and make the best terms pos- Our scouts report the majority of the planters anxious that we should get possession of the country before Jeff. Davis has time to con- script there. Great consternation exists throngh- out the whole Southern country, consequent upon the recent successes of the Union armies. General Morgan is making desperate efforts to escape with the remnant of his band (which is said still to number 1,000) out of Ohio, but he is closely hemmed in. His last effort appears to be directed to crossing the Ohio river near the mouth of the Muskingum. He crossed that stream at Eastport, eighteen miles below Zanesville, at ten o'clock yesterday morning. Colonel Lemont, of the Eighty-sixth Ohio, sent his regiment anda large number of militia after him, The latest reports from Eastport say the Fighty-sixth regiment, under Lieutenant Colonel McFarland, are fighting the rebels, and driving them up the river towards Zanesville, but the news was not quite reliable. The Petersburg Dxpress (rebel) of the 224 en- lightens us as to the object and result of the recent expedition sent out from Newbern, N. C., by from the river. morali, sible. will be remembered that the Griswold took ous $200,000 worth of. food to the starving Kaglish | operatives last winter, and was on her return érip to this hemisphere when captured, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen is called for Monday next, 27th instant, at one o'clock, for the purpose of taking action, ahould | any be required, on the ordinance which passed both boards of the Common Gouncil on the 16th instant to equalize the burthens of the Conscrip- tion act and to encourage volunteering, the term of ten days allowed to his Honor the Mayor to approve or veto the said ordinance expiring on the 27th instant, We are regueated to state that the absence of Alderman Froment from the last few meetings has been occasioned by illness, The Board of Councilmen did not organize last evening for want of a quorum. A special meet- ing of the Board will be held on Monday next, a call to that effect having been signed by a majori- ty of the members. We have advices from Truxillo to the 25th of Jane. The whole of Honduras was in a state of great uneasiness on account of hostilities in the interior of the republic. The rebellion was great- ly on the increase, and the inhabitants of Truxillo were in constant fear of an attack. The Great Eastern, which sailed on Tuesday, carried out over 200,000 bushels of grain, a large lot of logwood, bacon, pork, &. The American Telegraph Company have opened an office for general business at the Hudson River Railroad, near corner of Thirtieth street and Tenth avenue. The stock market was better yesterday, with more ‘business and a general inquiry for railway shares. Gold fell from 126 to 125, and then rallied to 126 again. Ex- change was 138} a 139. Money was vory easy; call loans 5 per cent. Cotton was steady yesterday at 64 cents for middlings, with sales reported of 800 bales. Thero was less doing in breadstuffs, groceries, provisions and whiskey, at drooping prices. The demand for tallow and lard oll was more active, at uniform quotations. Hay was in fair request, at advancing rates; and for most other commo- dities the demand was quite limited, at unsettled figures. ‘The freight engagements were light. The Late Riots—A Mountain Reduced to @ Molehill. Now that the smoke and the dust and the noise and confusion of the late riots in this city have cleared away we may without much dif- ficulty get at their true character, their causes and the elements involvedinthem. We are all satisfied that while under the general panic which they created throughout Manhattan Island they were greatly magnified—that, in brief, what was supposed to be a prodigious mountain has dwindled down to a contemptible molebill. These riots were commenced by a body of laboring men in an active, lawless demonstra- tion against the draft, including a number of enraged individuals turned over to the army by the first day’s working of the wheel in the dis- affected district. Carrying everything before them in the outset, and finding neither police- men nor soldiers on hand in sufficient numbers to check them, the rioters were rapidly joined by all the thieves, burglars, pickpockets, incen- diaries and jailbirds of all descriptions in the neighborhood, until a large proportion of the villains and vagabonds of every part of the idland and every hole and corner of the city had joined the original mob, and completely changed its character into various hordes of rogues and ruffians, seizing the occasion for a carnival of terrorism, fire, blood and plunder. A single regimenttof, our State militia on Monday morning would have been sufficient to quell the original disturbance. Certainly the troops and policemen collected by Monday afternoon, if managed with anything like skill and system, would have been sufficient in a few hours to put down every vestige of a law- less assemblage. But between our supreme federal military officer, General Wool, and Governor Seymour and Mayor Opdyke, all of whom made a great parade of doing wonderful things, while, in fact, they were doing little or nothing, there was so much of confusion in the management of our soldiers and policemen that it was not until Wednesday that the war was turned decisively against the rioters. It is due, however, to Commissioner Acton, of the Metropolitan Board, to say that, from the moment he assumed the general direction of the police to the end of the disturbances, his conduct was that of a skilful, fearless, energetic and able officer. He has nobly earned the gratitude of the whole community. Captain Wilson, too, of the Fort Washington precinct, operated among the rioters after the fashion of General Grant, breaking up one gang here, another there, and soon from point to point with his faithful squad, giving the enemies of law and order no rest, but smiting them hip and thigh, right and left, till his work was done. There were several other detachments of the police which did good service against great odds in various encounters with the rioters; but still there is a considerable number of these grenadier Metropolitans who seem to be fit for little else in their vocation than to escort the ladies safely across Broadway “among those horrid omnibuses.” Mayor Opdyke would doubtless have done something had not this functionary been de- prived of the power to do anything by our tinkering Albany politicians. They have by their tinkering, in fact, given us such divided counsels and departments in our city govern- ment as to render it almost completely helpless in any emergency like that of a carnival of rogues and ruffians. It is to be hoped that this fact will not be forgotten by®ur city members at the next meeting of the State Legislature. But these late riots which have so disgraced our city have been exaggerated by our radical abolition organs into a grand rebel conspiracy in bebalf of Jeff. Davis. Nothing could be more absurd, except the absurd speculations of some of the newspapers of rebeldom. The Richmond Dispatch, for instance, supposes that these New York disturbances are but the be- ginnings of a general Northern rebellion against the Lincoln despotism, and that by these out- breaks the Davis confederacy is to be lighted to its national independence. Such are the straws NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1863. Settlomont of Our Accounts with Foreign ‘The most sanguine sympathizers with the cause of the South are compelled to own that the rebellion is played out. The despairing tone of the rebel organs themselves would belie any other conclusion. After the discove- ries made in our recent cavalry raids it was plain that it required but a few effective blows on its upper crust to insure the caving in of the whole rotten structure. These have followed in rapid succession and with stunning force. Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Port Hudson have exhausted the vitality of the resistance, and we have now to encounter but a few last expiring kicks. Before autums has stripped the trees of their foliage there will not be a rebel in arms from one end of the quondam confederacy to the other. It is all nonsense to talk of the pro- crastination of hostilities by asystem of guerilla operations. Wars of this magnitude never thus degenerate. Besides, the revolted States, once returned to their allegiance, will be compelled, through their local governments, to guarantee the good behavior of all within their limits. The restoration of the Union once insured, what becomes the duty of the President? In the troubles by which it has been overwhelmed the nation has with impatience beheld the ad- ministration compelled to temporize with the indignities and provocations offered it by the two leading European Powers. This state of things must not be suffered to continue. The submission of the South virtually secured, Mr. Lincoln should not hesitate a minute as to the course to be parsued. Let him at once issue a war message declaring his intention of calling England and France to account for their hostile and treacherous conduct towards this country and convoking Congress to pass the measures necessary to support his determination. There is not a man of any party, whether he be re- publican or democrat, copperhead or ex-rebel, who will not hail with gladness this step. Of all measures calculated to heal the wounds of the country, to harmonize its divided feeling and to insure the revival of the old sentiment of devotion to the Union, we believe this to be the most effectual. All history teaches us that after internal. convulsions a foreign war is a sovereign specific for the restoration of health to the body politic. Thus it was with the ancient Greek and Roman republics, and thus it will ever be with communities similarly organ- ized. We are no advocates of war in the ab- stract; but we consider that a government is faithless to its trust and encourages aggression when it shrinks from resenting insults and injus ries inflicted upon it in its hour of weakness. Never has a Cabinet observed less of form and management in its manifestations of unfriendly feeling towards a nation with whom it pro- fessed to be at peace than has that of Great Britain towards this country. It not only sus- tained the South by according to it belligerent rights at the beginning of the war, but it con- nived at the building of privateers to prey on our commerce; and now, in violation of its own laws, it openly permits the construction of iron- plated vessels of war in its ports for the inva- sion and destraction of our seaboard cities. The French Emperor has exhibited towards us the same faithless and treacherous spirit, profit- ing by our divisions to push his schemes of aggrandizement in Mexico. The plans of both were fast approaching maturity, and if they have failed it is only because a Power mightier than theirs has so controlled the fortunes of war as to place us in a position to defy all that they may be disposed to attempt against us. But will our people now rest satisfied with this attitude of patient expectation? We do not know the national spirit if it does. We are satisfied that Mr. Lincoln has but to appeal to the feeling which is burning in every breast against the two Powers who have so largely contributed to the aggravation of our troubles to obtain any amount of support that he may require in hostilities against both. Lethim but declare that it is the determination of our people not to lay down their arms until the French are driven out of Mexico and the British out of Canada, and he will enlist the sympathies of every man in the country, Southerner as well as Northerner. The Southern men will rush into such a war with even more eagerness than those of the North; for they accuse Great Bri- tain and France of having betrayed them into their present unfortunate position by under- hand assurances of support and recognitien, which they only meant to fulfill when it suited their own interests. The opportunity has been suffered to pass by, and the Southern people will resent it energetically when the occasion arises. It will depend upon Mr. Lincoln to furnish it. Let us but bring the rebellion to a close, and he will not want the means to call both governments to a severe reckoning. The draft, which he is said to be desirous to enforce merely in reference to this latter object, will not be necessary. Let him but declare war against the two traitorous governments that have aimed to destroy our national life, and willing hearts and hands will accord him all that he requires. The Atrocious Invasion of Mexico by the French, History has no parallel of such a bare- faced and unprincipled use of might against right as the invasion of Mexico by the Emperor Napoleon. The world knows that it was at the instigation of the greedy speculators who surround him his Majesty first entered into the ; scheme. He had succeeded in engaging the co- operation of England and Spain; but these Pow- ers, though never very scrupulous, were still unwilling to lend themselves to the great wrong which Napoleon contemplated against the Mexican republic. The momeat England and Spain ascertained what his real motives were they withdrew and left France to prosecute alone her iniquitous designs. It is evident that, | had this country been at peace, Napoleon alone | would never have undertaken the subjugation of Mexico; but he saw us hampered by a re- bellion, the nature and future of which his de- sires caused him to overestimate, and hence he General Foster on the 18th, to which we allnded | that drowning men will snateh at. It will not ; deemed himself secure, and, though abandoned in our columns on Wednesday. It is admitted by the rebel journal that the expedition ‘was most suotegsful. The troops did fear. fal destraction, They burnt the railroad bridge across Tar river, a stracture three hundred yards long, on the Wilmington and Weldon road, be long before these Southern newspaper phi- | losophers discover their folly and stupidity in ' believing for a moment the partisan claptrap | of our abolition organs in regard to these late riots, They are ended; for we are sure that | President Lincoln, in returning to the business ! of the draft, will, in a liberal application of the burnt the depot at Rocky Mount, destroyed two | Jaw, render it acceptable even to the working tiles of the track, five thousand bales of cotton ; man, who has nothing but his daily labor to ganda large cotton factory, and captared a train of | depend upon for the subsistence of his family, , two of which contained ammunition, which, | The New York riots are ended. They will with thirty thousand pounds of bacon, | 2Ot be renewed; and the sooner the newspaper destroyed. j ongane of Jeff: Davis a Richmond dismiss the ! idea that he has a great political conspiracy in The rebel privateer Georgia has captured the | the North maviie. for bie support the ew Yorkwhip Geo. Griswold, bound tromCarait, { Wwint the misery and the suspense of Darla and ales. for Callao, and bonded har in £100,000, It | ius fellows be ended. by his allies, he in nowise gave up his filibus- tering intents. ‘The Mexican expedition forced upon Napo- leon a ecttled hostility against the federal Btates. In more ways than one has this enmity shown itself, and wo may safely assert that nought kept him from open acknowledgement of our rebellious subjects save the long con- tinned non-success of his invasion. Then, too, contrary to the desires of the rotten aristocrm cies and governments of Europe, the people of the North betrayed more power and determins- tion than they were given credit for, and as vio- tories occurred the wily ruler of France kept aloof from overt: hostility to the North; but he encouraged the rebels by bis constant promises of future recognition and his officious provosala of i The jaa of the Imperial | violent hostility towards us will become as desire of France | meek as sucking doves; for such is the prevail- that the Davis goverament-should take its place | ing characteristic of John Bull. - among the nations of the earth, and Napoleon wrote to Forey, his General in Mexico, that bo was determined to check the power of the American people on thig continent. We of course know that he is our enemy, and we assert that he has been the enemy of the people of the South as well. His faithless promises have caused them to in- dulge in hopes never to be realized. Na- ‘poleon, when he heams of our late victories and of the forlorn condition of the rébels, will utterly discard them, and they will then realize the truth of our assertion, that he is their enemy. To the rank and fite of the South we say, throw aside your violent and selfish lead- ers, come baok into the Union, and then let us drive from the continent those Powers who, in our hour of trouble, have dared to insult the majesty of our government. The people of the South are Americans, and, spite of their fatal errors, must still feel that the insults of the despotic rulers of Europe are not to be borne on this side of the Atlantic. We can nover allow the atrocious invasion of Mexico to go unpunished. France must be taught a lesson which shall benefit the rest of Europe. Napo- leon, with his trumped up claims against the people of Mexico, will find that he cannot with impunity rob our neighbors. We will defend them against his attacks, if only in the name of mankind. Has the subtle monarch of France never reflected upon the consequences of his actions? Does he not comprehend that against him.and his dynasty the people of this country will ever be arrayed ?—that his pretended sympathy for the South, displayed, we feel assured, merely to cause the continuance of our troubles, will have occasioned, as a certain result, a strong desire on the part of the federal States for re- venge? Man naturally seeks redress against those who wrong him; and for two years Napo- Jeon has done all he dared to accomplish our ruin. Under cover of our troubles he has stolen into our continent, fondly hoping that, spite of our best efforts, we should find it im- possible to master the rebels. The fallacy of this belief he will now understand, aad if he is wise he will take the first opportunity to with- draw from,this continent and save us the trou- ble of ejecting him. Viotesce or THE Rapicat Press.—The radi- cal press on both sides are doing their utmost to plunge this city into another desperate and bloody turmoil. The Tribune, Times and Post, the organs of the extreme republicans, are con- stantly filling their columns with incendiary articles tending to prejudice one class of the community against another, and thus increase the animosity raised by the recent scenes in the upper part of the city. It would seem that they are determined to widen the breach and make the contest more severe, bloody and re- lentless, should the draft be enforced. The World and News, the organs of the opposite extreme, take up the controversy on the other side, and with a like spirit labor to excite the people and bring about a conflict. These two extremes seem to have no thought or regard as to the result of their dangerous appeals, or even stop to consider the appalling scenes that their course may plunge the city into, or the loss of life and property that may result from their incendiary teachings, The course of all these papers is just what the public might have expected. They are all organs of some political clique or faction, and view matters through glasses accordingly, and only show the drift of the Political factions that they represent, and the danger of such inflamma- tory articles being thrown broadcast among our citizens at this time. In their bloodthirsty course the radicals and extreme republicans have thus their co-operators in the extreme on the opposite side. Both tend to the same result— precisely the same that the two extreme tac- tions have done heretofore to bring all the troubles and disasters upon the country. It is somewhat singular, but not at all surprising, that through all the disturbances in this city, and, in fact, long before they commenced, Mo- zart Hall and the outside clubs have taken the same incendiary course and labored, just as zealously to incite the public and prepare the minds of the people of this city for revolution and bloodshed as have the radical and incendi- ary republicans, and that Old Tammany is the only organization that has pursued a safe and wise course. The latter organization has stood firm for the prosecution of the war to crush out the rebellion, considering the maintenance of the Union the first and the most essential work to be accomplished. They have, nevertheless, criticised the inconsiderate acts of the admin- istration, but, instead of endeavoring to stir up a revolution in our midst, have patiently waited for the time to speak through the ballot | box, the great rod to correct unwise acts of the rulers in a constitutional government like ours. All throughout last winter, spring and summer } Mozart Hall and Company zealously labored to arouse the people against the administration, and were aided and abetted in their dangerous work by the organs of the radicals and the sa- tanic committee at Washington, with Chandler | and Wade at its head. The fruit of the teach- | ings of these two extremes has been brought | ! home to our doors, a sad reality. During the late disturbance in this city this was made more manifest than ever. Whilst the radicals clamored for blood, blood, the leaders of Mozart Hall counselled defiance, and urged on war on the part of the State against the na- | tional government. Tammany leaders, on the other hand, rushed to the assistance of the au- thorities, and did all that was in their power to quiet the troubled waters and stay the hand that was raised in the excitement of neighbor against neighbor. In this action of Tammany the democracy of this city can see where rests their security. They have precedence to show that in the councils of Tammany Hall is their safety. Let them take warning from these facts, and give Mozart Hall the go by, and they may avoid dangerous and unwise counsels in the future. . Berons ax Arrer.—Roobuck’s motion for | Vow recognition was to come on in the House of | Commons on the 11th. The debate, according to the usual practice of adjourning over where @ question of vital importance is under discus- sion, was likely to spread over a couple of weeks, particular days being allocated to de- bates of this kind. The news of the defeat of Lee and of the surrender of Vicksburg will reach London between the 15th and 20th—in ‘all probability before a vote bas been come to. ‘We are curious to see how far these events will affect the tone of the speakers. It is not im- probable that those who have manifested such {with @ Marrun Law,—The radicals are making des- perate efforts, through the columns of the radi- eal press and other representations, to induce the administration to declare martial law in this city. The authorities at Washington should not for a moment listen to their clamors, Their counsels are dangerous and incendiary. Plao- ing this city under martial law will only make matters worse and increase the troubles we are now laboring under. é AQUATICS, Great Rowing Match for the Champion- ship of America ond One Thowsand Dollars, Between Joshua Ward, of New- burg, N. ¥., and James Hamill, of Picts- burg, Pa.—The New York Oarsman the Victor—Immense Attendance and In- tense Exeitem at the Result, d&e. Yesterday the long anticipated and exciting aquatic contest between Joshua Ward, of Newburg, New York, and James Hamill, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, for one thousand dollars and the championship of American wators, came off on the Hudson river, at Poughkeepsie, and resulted in the victory of the Empire State repre: sentative over his game and gallant antagonist and for- mer conqueror, For tho last five years Joshua Ward has Claimed and maintained the title of champion seuller of the United States, having met and defeated Bucceasively all the crack oaramen of New York, Boston, Philadolphia, Newburg, Poughkeepsie and other cities that entered the lists againat him at the various regattas held at the above Places. His unvarying success and extraordinary abiti- ties as @ rower inspired his friends with such strong oonfl- dence in his powers, that about two years and a half ago they offered to match him against the celebrated Robert Chambers, who then, as now, held the title of Champion of the Thames in England, agreeing at the time to allow the latter the sum of $500 for expenses to row in this country on the river Hudson. Chambers immediately ac- cepted this proposal, but owing to some delay in the ne- gotiations, and the breaking out of the civil war hero, the match fell through, and Ward continued to hold unchal- lenged bis titie of champion until last sum- mer, when James Hamill, a rising young carsman, of Pittsburg, Pa., who had beon successful in all his provincial matches, threw down the gauntlet to him, and boldly defied bim to row two races of three miles and five miles respectively, for $250 cach race. Ward promptly accepted the terms proposed, and the matches came off last September, on the neutral waters of the Schuylkill river, at Philadelphia, when Hamill won both with consurumate ease, to the consternation and surprise of the backers of the champion, who had invested very heavily on their representative. After this double victory Hamill, as he was justly enti- tled, assumed the title of Champion, and chialionged any man in the United States to row him a race of five miles for any amount. At this time a great aquutic contest for the foes ogy the was pending in Kngland, Chambers avis been challenged by two par- ties, Everson, Greenwich, and Richard Green, who claimed to be the Champion of Australian oarsmen. Hamill published a challenge, offering to row the winner, or any one of the above three contestants, a match in this country, a liberal sum to be allowed for ex- peuses. This elicited no reply, and Chambers subse- pe. met and defeated with consummate ease both verson and Green. About three months ago the friends of Ward came to the conciusion of affording him another opportunity of retrieving his laurels, believing his agser- tion that when defeated before he was not iu good condi- tion, having underrated the powers of his ent, and had consequently not paid sufficient attention to his train- ing preparation, offered to match bim against Ha- mill for $500 a side to row a race of five miles on the Hud- sou river, at Newburgh. Hamilljumped at tho proposal, only objecting to beng my selected for , and @ven- tually the course was fixed on the Hudson, opposite Pough- keepaie, to be rowed on the 234 July (yesterday). The money being duly doposited both men went into active training. Hamill, during bis ae, visited Boston twice, rowing at the regatta held on the Charies river in June, and again at the recent Fourth of July regatta, deteating on both occasions easily the mea op- posed tohim, He put the final polish on his preparation on the Harlem river, under the mentorship of the clever and experieuced oarsman, Mr, Stephen Roberts, and bis condition on the was magnificent. He stands about five feot six inches in height, but his muscular develop. ment i# a study for a sc , for there was not.an ounce of superfiuous flesh on him. Ward trained at home, at Cornwall, about four miles from spb a the Hodaon, and he spared no exertion to get into the finest possible condition, His height exceeded Hamill’s six inches On i Coe Srl Poughkeepsie yesterday noon we found the streete of the piace crowded by strangers, and every train and steamer augmenting the number of visitors. ‘The patrons of the aquatic sports from Pittsburg, Boston, Philadelphia and New York, were present in great num- bers, while Newburg seemed literally to have turned out ea masse to witness their favorite oarsman contend again for victory. Speculation was very brisk, and an immense wut of greenbacka were staked on the re- suit. Hamill was the favorite, for alter $100 to $80 had been bet to a large pite, $100 to $60 was offered, and before the hour fixed for the start (three o'clock P, M.) 80 anxious were the Pittsburgers to get on their money that they bet $100 to $50, odds which were greedily poe, to up by the backers of the New York Stave repro- sentative. Precisely at three o'clock the two men came alongside the judge’s boat for the start, which was moored in the ceutre Of the river, nearly opposite the pier at Pough- keepsie. The course was a straight one of two and a half miles up the river to & point where two stakeboats were agchored, one for each man to go around, 80 as to avoid any chance of fouling, and back again to the place of starting. The judges were, for ill, Mr. Stephen Roberts, of New York; for Ward, Mr. Tim: Donohue, of Newburg: for referee, Mr. Edward Mavis, of Poughkeepsie. Hamill rowed in @ beautifal outrig: ger, built by Mackay, of New York, and in which he had rowed and defeated Ward twice before; it was calied the “Alexander King.’’ Ward rowed in an exquisitely built shell boat. built by the well known George sha vol New: burg, and named the ‘Dick Risdon,” after one of his (Ward's) staunchest backers and ' warmest personal friends. This boat was tweuty-pine feet six inches b seventeen inches wide and tive inches ucep, and only weighed forty-three nds. Hamill’s shell was a lit- tle heavier and slightly longer, The colors of the latter were blue shirt and red cap, while Ward had a white ebirt and was minus @ cap. As the boats drew into line the sight was a most beau- tiful and exciting one. The Coll Rock—a nobdie eminence, which towered aiort, far above the bay—and immediately opposite the starting point, was crowded to its summit with spectators, among whom were numbers of gay and elegantly dressed ladies, whose presence gave an addi- tional attraction to the scene. The New York side of the river was denge with surging masses of humanity, there belng fully fifteen people present to witness the exciiing contest. The men were warned by the start: Jndge that they were to go at the report of @ pistol, precisely at three o'clock the signal was given. Ward dashed bis care into the water immediately, but Ha- mill rema motionless. ob (to the start, and de clating that “be wouldn't go.” |, after taking a stroke, ceared rowing for a moment; but at the cry of ‘go on!’ from the jndge’s boat he resumed his onrs, when Hamtil,at the advice of his judge, started to row, he was « full boat's length ahead. And now the struggle became interesting, while the contrast in the style of Towing of the two’ men was pleiniy visible. Ward rows ig, Steady, sweoping rtroke, as regular and steady action as the movements of a piece of power- ful, massive macbinery. He bends to his oars with a will, throwing 1 entire of hie muscular powers into stroke, while its efects are seen in the swift cleaving of the waters by bis frail shell. Hamill, on the other hand, sets more pe mpy bis oare, rowing with a quicker and shorter yet withai a powerful arms. His action is #0 much quicker than Ward’s that be takes at least five strokes to the latter’s four, and nothing bot his extra- ordinary physical powers can enable him to maiutain EH quick action for #0 z (i He a [iar ity iff ateit i ig ii i | i i: ti HH HI 3 ‘3 a NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasnumcrom, Saty 23, 1863. ‘THE DNDEBTEDNESS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERN- MENT ON THS 1ST INBTAWR, ‘The following is a statement of the public debt, July 1, 1863, derived irom an official source:— 4 per cent tem: due 1566. de, due 1871, 1, due 1874, F332 YER: y #3 HH 800 7. 186,684,141 cont Treasury oeee TLT 100 Cont cor tifio's of indebtedness. 157,003,241 —---— 431, Per cont bds., duo Ang. 19, °64. $52,931,000 poms 80 per cent bds., due Oot, 1, 64. bedankt ono, Debt Nat Bearing Interest, eee notes ne. 100 United States notes. Lees Si Yence seeee = Total debt July 1, 1868, as exhibited by the books of the Treasury Department. 81 Total debt July 1, 1803, as estimated by Secretary in report of December, 201,297,688 431,275,874 Aggregate debt at 7 30 100 per cent interest 139/920 ‘Aggrogate dubt without iuterestn a 376;021 ee Total debt Joly 1, 1963, as exhibited by books of the 11 Department. Total dobt July 1, 1863, a8 estimated oe im report of December, 1863... 1,122,297,408 Actual debt legs than the estimated debt. $25,023,037 THE DRAFT AND THE VOLUNTEER QUOTAS. It is stated by republicans of New Hampsbire, who are here to effect an arrangement whereby the conscription may be equalized among the towns of that ‘State, that the War Department has consented that such towns as have hitherto furnished an excess of their quota are to be relieved to that extent under the new draft. This wilf materially serve the citics of Manchester, Concord, Porta- mouth, Nashua, Dover, &c. The samo principle wilt doubtless operate to tho benefit ef the city of Now York. Massachusetts bas had the seamen who enlisted at Boston counted as part of her military quota. If the same rule be applied to New York city sho can show that thirty or forty thousand seamen haye enlisted at that port since tho beginning of the war. THE RELKL STEAM BLOCKADE RUNNER KATE DRIVEN ASHORE AND BURNED. Admiral Lee, in a commanication, dated off Newport's News, enciosos a copy of a report from Captain Caso re- specting the driving shore by the Penobscot and the subsequent abandonment by her crew of the steamer Kate, on the 12th instant, at the south ond of Smith’s Island. An attempt was made by the Penobscot’s crew: to get her afloat under the guns of the blockaders, but without success, and she was subsequently burned. She is reported to have been a double screw schooner rigged iron steamer, with an agsorted cargo of merohandise and ‘a notorious blockade runner. CONFISCATION OF THK PERSONAL ESTATE OF A BON- IN-LAW OF HENRY A. WISE, To-day, in the District Court, a decree was granted con- filseating the personal estate of Dr. Garnett, son-in-law of ex-Governor Wise, during his 1ifetime, while his real estate is an absolute forfeiture. The same principles af- fect seventeen other cases, in which similar decrees were ordered to bo issued. There are two other casos on the docket, to be continued until the next term of the court. GENERAL HUNTER AND THE ATTACK ON THE DéE- FENCES OF CHARLESTON. Without wishing in the slightest to derogate from the brilliant merit of Gen. Gilimore's services in tho attack upon Charleston, it is but justice to Gen. Hunter to say that the records of the War Department show that pre- cisely the eame attack had been planned by him, and that all its details were ready to be put in operation on the day following Admiral Dupont’s first attack with the tron- clads upon Fort Sumter, Gen. Hunter's preparations were defeated solely because the iron -clads could not oo- operate in covering the crossing of Lighthouse Inlet. It is said that Gen. Hunter has demanded a Court of In- quiry, and that the correspondence which will be brought to light by the investigation will place the affairs of the Department of the South in an altogether new light. It will be seen, his friends say, that while he has been blamed for inactivity, it will be found that he bas beem active to the utmost extent of his power within the in- structions sent him by the War Department, amd that against the hampering and paralyzinggoature of those in- stractions he entered frequent protests. General Hunter thinks highly of General Gillmore, and has no doubt that the destruction of Fort Sumter will be accomplished speedily. His friends only claim for him that the same thing would have been equally well done by General Hun. ter, assisted by his Chief Engincer, Major J. C. Duane, had the War and Navy Departments scen fit to furnish to General Hunter the assistance, and, above all, the active Marine co-operation which have been vouchsaled to Gene- Tal Gilimore, It is also to be rememberod, they say, that at the time of tho former attack there were between fur- ty-five and fifty thousand rebel troops in and within sup- porting distance of Charleston, while now thére are said to be not over eight thousand. THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AGAIN TO BE THE MAIL ROUTER TO NEW ORLEANS. The Post Office Department will resume mail communt- cation between the West and New Orleans by the Misays- sippi as soon as it shall ascertain that it can be done with safety. The mails between the Atlantic cities and New: Orieans will continue to be carried in the usual way. the recruiting of the negro nacostia Island, upon the authority of an officer who neither knows nor ever did know about the matter. The Hexaio’s information is from much moro tateiligent and reliable sources. Theatrical. NIBLO’S GARDEN. “The Duke’s Motto” was played last evening to a crowded house, and will be repeated every night until the end of August. Manager Wheatley has engaged Mrs. Jobn Wood, the most piquant of New York actresses, to reopen his Chesnut street theatre, Philadolphia, next week, with Brougham’s unrivalled burlesque, “Pocahon- tas.” NEW BOWERY. Mr. M. C. Campbell, of Campbell's Minstrels, toxes his benefit this evening. All bis company will appear in choice programme, and Mr. Rollin Howard, Mr. J. E. Green, Mr. Mert Sexton, Mr. George Dougherty and Master Eugene Florence and Master Bobby have volunteered their services to make up one of the strongest and longest bills of the seasun. The audience ought to be as great as tho performance. Manager Lingard wil, reopen bis theatre with bis regular company on the 3d of August. ‘Sraamemr Lacyce.—A pew steamer will be launched on Saturday from the yard of Capt. F. Z. Tooker, Marine Rau- way, Red Hook, Brooklyn, of 2,360 tons; length, 290 feet; Deam, 40 feet; depth, 23 feet. She is built in the strongest. Catherine NV. Forrest ag. Edwin Forrest.—Pinimie alleges that, besides the sum of $36,560 for arrcars of al- lowance and costs heretofore adjudged to her, and in re. to which action is now pending, the defendant Eee py ber ul ahownnas ne Angus and and that since there has bee 750; thas the United States ‘Trust of Rew ork told = Owned! by tha Boclety ot at de Poole ant be ‘