The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMBS GORDON SENNETY, EDITOR AND PROPRIEDOR. OFFiOg H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume xxvn1 Ministre ibe Th Se AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broa adway.—Tux Doxe’s Morro. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Leag—Loan oF 4 OVER. Tioke UATS—ORaNG OUYANG—AUTOMATON Waiter, &0.. at all hoors Sanrorn’s ree Troure ayo Desise BRro- saens—Afternoon and Eveuing, "REL BALL. 514 Brosdway.—Eraroriax iout EXOURSION AND /ANORAMA Norru Rives. NEW IDEA THEATKE, 455. Broadway.—Tax Suvo- GLERS—MonsixuR LvauIGNON. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Br Cuniosrmes axv Leorunes, from 9 A. M, till 10 HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.-—Er#rOrtat Fores. VaNcks, BURLESQUE, CQNTINENTAL HALL, Paterson.— AMPUELL'G erReLs in Braiorian Songs, Dances, Min. Now bose wneeey: July 28, 1863. ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertizoments for the Waexty Heraup must be hand- ed in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its circulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted in the WaexLy Herat will thus be seen by a large Portion of the active and energetic people of the United Btates, THE SITUATION. There is very little news from the Potomac relative to the positions of either army. On ‘Thursday last the Excelsior Brigade, now com- manded by General Spinola, was ordered to prevent the passage of General Longstrect’s rebel corps through Manassas Gap. The brigade, after ® severe bayonet contest, drove the enemy back and occupied Front Royal. General Spinola was slightly wounded in the heel and side, and is now on his way home. The rebels, it is said, con- siderably outnumbered our troops, and suffered severely. Our cavalry held the line of the Rappahannock on Saturday, from Kelly's ford fo Waterloo. Our latest news from Charleston is from the Richmond papers of yesterday, which contain in- telligence of the state of affairs to the 25th inst. ‘The bombardment was continued from our batteries on Morris Island on the 24th and 25th, both day and night, Forts Sumter and Wagner responding vigorously. Our batteries are said to have been #trengthened. The Monitors and the Ironsides took no part in the action, The map which we give to-day, showing the position of the batteries and the range of fire, will be found very interest- ing at the present stage of affairs. @ Riemond Dispatch of yesterday has a tele- gtam from Morton, Miss., dated on the 24th, to the effect that the Union troops evacuated Jackson on the day before, and that the rebel cavalry had dashed into the city, capturing a few stragglers. ‘The same authority states that Grant’s army was on the move, as was supposed in the direction of Richmond, with a view to sustain ee Union army of Virginia, We give a very interesting account of the recent operations in North Carolina from our special cor- respondent to-day. The destruction of rebel property is valued at five millions of dollars. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamer Roanoke, from Hay: this port vostacing morting- Bhe” brin, “telligence of thg declaration of the empire a the Junta, or Corporation of the City of Mexico, and ‘the choige of Prince Maximilian, of Germany, as the presumptive occupant of the imperial robes. The decision of the city of Mexico was welcomed by @ salute of one hundred and one guns from the fortresses of Vera Cruz. There are rumors of the assassination of Generals Ortega and La Llave by their own soldiers at Queretaro; but there is no positive statement regarding such a bloody occur- rence. A good deal of sickness prevailed in some parts of Mexico, smallpox and measles being among some of the mildest afflictions of the cli- mate. As the Roanoke was leaving Havana, on the 22d, a great smoke was seen in the direction of Reglas, which evidently proceeded from an exten- sive conflagration. The full results of this fire will be made known by the next arrival. Such particulars as have already transpired will be found reported elsewhere in to-day’s paper. We publish to-day some interesting additional information from Europe. It will be seen that the assertions o! some journals, that Spain intended to reco.niz: the South, are entirely unfounded. Spaig will await the initiative of England and France in this matter. General Meade has been highly lauded by some of the London papers; but the Times has sadly blundered in its appreciation of the progress of our arms before Vicksburg and Port, Hudson. A new war has begun against Eng- Jand in New Zealand. The ship Leonidas, Captain Wood, from Monte- video, which arrived at this port yesterday, had on board as catgo one hundred and sixty-five mules, all in fine condition, having lost only six during a passage of fifty-seven days. This, we believe, is the*only cargo of mules ever brought into this port from Montevideo. The ship lies off the Bat- tery. Yesterday opened with an intensely hot, dry at- mosphere, promising to be one of the warmest days of the season. At eleven o'clock A.M. the mercury rose up to eighty-six degrees in the shade, and at noon had advanced to ecighty- seven, when a sudden change took place, and the temperature became mach cooler and more plea- sant. A shower of rain fell about two o'clock in the afternoon, and the rest of the day was quite agreeable. A special meeting of the Board of Councilmen was held at two o'clock yesterday, when a large amount of routine business, which had accumulated during the last two weeks, was disposed of. The President, Morgan Jones, Esq., offered a series of resolutions that the thanks of the city be ten- dered to General Daniel E. Sickles, for his bravery as a soldier and his conduct as an officer; that @ copy of the resolutions, suitably engrossed, be presented to him by a joint special committee of three members from each branch of the Common Council, and that a gold medal, bearing an appropriate design and inscription, be also presented to him. Laid over. A resolution wus adopted directing the Street Commissioner to cause the speedy removal of all the artille- ry and cavalry at present stationed in the pub- lic parks and squares of this city. The Comp- troller’s usual weekly statement wae receiv. ed, from which it appears that a balance of 2} 02,987 remained in the city treasury on the th inst. On motion of Mr. Gross, the Board ade journed until thesecond Monday in September, at four o'clock P. M. According to the City Inspector's Teport, there Prere 644 deaths in the city during the past week, » arriy, during the corcesponding week lust year. ‘Thé re- capitulation table gives 7 deaths of alcoholism, 1 of disvases of the bones, joints, &c.; 121 of the brain and nerves, 3 of the generative organs, 20 of the heart and blood vessels, 92 of the lungs, throat, &o.; 5 of old age,"27 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 6 premature births, 289 of dis- eases of stomach, bowels and other digestive or- gans; {9 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 4 un- known, 5 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 65 from violent causes. The nativity table gives 513 natives of the United States, 117 of Ireland, 31 of Germany, 12 of England, 2 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries, ‘The stock market was active and buoyant yesterday, the chiof advance being in Illinols Central, Harlem and Prairie du Chien. There was every indication of a {j outburst of speculation, Gold opened at’ 129 ana closed atI27X. Fxchango was at 1891, and 1303 at tho close. Money waa very easy at 5 por cent. The bank state- ment shows a decroase of $2,944 200 in apecie, 90,051 fn loans, $105,435 in circulation, and an increase of $814,005 in deposits. ‘The cotton market was quiet yosterday, though prices were essentially unaltered, ‘The inquiry for flour was good, and for wheat and corn moderate, at former quota- tions. There was more activity in provisions and ada- mantine candles, and lesa in hay, whiskey, tallow and groceries. Hemp, hops, hidos, leather, oils, metals and naval stores were lightly dealt in, The freight engago ments wore boavier. The Escape of Gen. Lee—the War De- partment Responsible. The escape ot the Shenandoah valley to a position on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge, from which he may leisurely fall back upon Richmond without fear of further molestation, may justly be re- garded as a great national misfortune. He has adroitly succeeded in his efforts to avoid an- other battle with our pursuing and victorious army, and, having fairly slipped through our fingers, all calculations as to when and where he will be brought to a final settlement may be dismissed. We have lost the golden opportnni- ty for ending the war in a single decisive blow, while Jeff. Davis, with the powerful nucleus of Lee’s army to build upon, may bafile all our plans to catch him, and prolong the war for weeks and months, and perhaps for even an- other year to come. The responsibility for this misfortune we set down among the outstanding balances of the country against the War Office. Technically, Gen. Meade is immediately responsible; but we have no doubt that he has been so embarrassed by his required communications with and orders from Washington, from day to day, in regard to this thing, that thing and the other, as to relieve him of the responsibility and to fix it upon the War Office. We know that the first battle of Bull run was not lost by General McDowell, but through the blundering mismanagement of the War Office, especially in reference to Gene- ral Patterson’s army column in the Shenandoah valley. We know that General McClellan’s peninsular campaign would have ended in his occupation of Richmond had he been season- ably reinforced by the War Department with even half of the fifty or sixty thousand mea which were vainly scattered about the country from Fredericksburg to Winchester to hunt down Stonewall Jackson. We believe, too, that had General McClellan been reinforced at Har- rison’s Landing the army of Lee would never have left the defences of Richmond for his destructive campaign of last August and Sep- tember against Washington and his grand foraging foray into Maryland. But General Halleck could not or would not comprehend how Washington could be defended on the James river, and hence the recall of McClellan and the terrible disasters entailed upon ‘the army of General Pope. Next, after the battle of Antietam, when General McClel- lan had got. his_ _srmy again completed, equipped, in splendid figuting condition and in motion, and was within a few miles of the rebel army, and with every prospect of a great and decisive victory, he was removed, and wé need not repeat what followed. The mere mention of the names of Burnside and Hooker will serve to remind ‘the Fender of all this budget of blunders of the War Departitest. Nor can we doubt, with all these precedents batore us, that the conceited but incompetent chiefs [ the War Office have spoiled this campaign of General Meade by taking upon themselves, as usual, the Inanagement of the little details as well as the general movements of his army the instant that Washington is out of danger. We regard this escape of Gen. Lee as a very unfortunate event. It has afforded the rebels at Richmond more substantial consolation than avy other event of the war. Nor is this very strange; for with the loss of Lee’s army the cause of the rebellion would have been at once at an end, whereas, with the rescue of that army, as from the very jaws of destruction, there is still a hope entertained or encouraged by Davis and his fellows of the final rescue of their Southern confederacy. We cannot resist the temptation for calling yet again the atten- tion of President Lincoln to his intermeddling | but incompetent official subordinates in the War Department. Let him remember that for all their blunders the country will hold him re- sponsible; and that now, while the armies of the rebellion may be utterly routed and dispersed, the people expect tt to be done. Our late im- portant victories, we believe, have been won in spite of these blundering heads of the War Office; but if we may judge of the future from the past it will be a long time before our he- roic and always willing Army of the Potomac will demolish the army of Lee, or get into Richmond under the management of Stanton, and Halleck, and Wilson, and Wade, and Chandler. Tue Caprure or Jerr. Davis CorresPoxp- ENcK.—The private papers and correspond- ence of Jeff. Davis, captured near Jackson, “Mississippi, as we announced yesterday, pro- mise some very interesting and important reve- lations. It appears that a negre disclosed to one of our foraging parties the place where Jeff. Davis’ library was hidden. The party proceeded to the house and found several thousand volumes of books and several bushels of letters and political papers from distinguished personages North and South. Poor Pierce, who seems to be in every diffloul- ty, was represented by a gold headed cane, which he gave to his friend Jeff. Davis some time ago. most in the repeal of the Missouri Compro- mise—the source of all our woes—nnd it is very likely that a few of his letters will be found in this choice collection. We doubt if Buchanan ever wrote ‘much to All of the letters which can be secured ought to be published immediately for the instruction of the loyal people and the discomfiture of the copperheads, It will be a rare treat to see who have written themselves down secession- ‘Bn increase of 21 as compared with the mortality | ists, and this correspondence will areatly aid He ais aaa a a Aa i ll ja “making history.” Gen. Lee with his army from | Poor Pierce was one of the fore- | ‘efforts to bring Davis; for he never really liked the arch rebel. | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1863. The Real Conapiracy im the Late Riow. The mystery that enveloped the events of the week of terror in this city is fast being cleared away. The nest of the conspirators has been probed, and they now atand before the public in their hideous forms. When we saw the Tribune, Times and Post, day after day, amidst the tumultuous and trying scenes in this city, filled with bitter, acrimonious and bloodthirsty articles, we concluded that there was some se- cret under and behind all the disturbances which was purposely hidden from the general public. Time has verified our suspicions. Facts that have come to light within the last few days conclusively prove that the incendiary course of the radical journals was prompted solely by | a fixed determination to increase the extent of the riotand to force a collision between the State and national authorities. The latter point accomplished, it was to be followed with the declaration of martial law, a military Governor, and all the appliances that this satanic radical committee, with Greeley, Raymond, Godwin & Co. at its head, with its dozen or fifteen tails, could bring to bear to control future elections in this city. They were foiled in their evil and bloody work by the tact and skill of Generals Wool and Sandford, with the co-operation of Governor Seymour. The riét and suffering and the reign of terror were, however; extended by them at least three days by their nefarious work. s How these radical conspiritors tampered with the military isshown by the reports of Generals Wool and Sandford. The letter of the former to the Governor states that on Monday after- noon (18th) General Harvey Brown tendered his services. His offer was accepted, and he was directed to report to Major General Sand- ford. It was soon found that General Brown did not act in harmony with General Sandford. Gen. Wool thereupon issued an order; but this Brown did not obey, but presented himself in the evening, asking to be excused from the opera- tions of the order. This Gen. Wool refused to grant him, declaring “that, for efficient opera- tions, a hearty co-operation of the State and United States troops with the police was neces- sary to put down the mob.” General Brown persisting, hé was excused from further service. Mark the sequel. The next morning the radi- cal papers denounced the military authorities in unmeasured: terms and howled for martial law. General Brown also appeared about eight in the morning at General Wool’s headquar- ters and asked to be reinstated, “saying, in sub- stance, that he,was in the wrong.” He was reinstated. What then? The same authority states that he acted without any reference to General Sandford. Right here comes in the important testimony of General Sandford. The latter, in his official report, asserts “that the rioters were dispersed on Monday night and Tuesday morning, and the peace of the city would have been restored in » few hours but for the interference of Brevet Brigadier Gene- ral Brown, who, in disobedience of the orders of General Wool, withdrew the detatchments belonging to the general government.” This act so weakened the small military force in the city that it.was again. placed at the mercy of the rioters, and the bloody scenes were continued two or three days longer. The Tribune clamored the next morning for the removal of General Wool. Thus we have the official testimony that General Brown was used by the radicals. It is a well known fact that Generals Wool and Sand- ford were in frequent consultation with Gover- nor Seymour, and that these three officials worked together in harmony. Brown, on the other hand, was no doubt urged to ask to be reinstated by the little satanic committees com- posed of Greeley, Raymond and Godwin, they fearing that, unless he was there to interfere with the plans of Seymour, Wool and Sandford, the riots would be put down and their plans for mar- tial law and conflict between the State and na- tional authorities defeated. Brown’s reinstate- ment was essentially necessary for the success of their schemes. Hence the pretended con- fession that he was wrong. General Brown is ne doubt @ member 6f a church in good stand- ing ané @ good military officer. He fas done good service for his country at Fort Pickens and other points, and, like Phelps and Hunter, is a good fighter when the negro is not about. But hold up the negro to such men and they forget all their military knowledge. The radi- cals held up the nigger and nigger party to Brown, and all military ability departed except for mischief. i But the sole and entire résponsibility of the late terrible scenes in this city does not rest ex- clusively on the radical satanic committee and their organs. The factions headed by the News ‘and World and Mozart Hall, the ex- tremes on the other elde, were engaged ina similar scheme. These two journals also, but from another standpoint, fanned the flames, and, with the Mozart Hall leaders, endeavored to bring about a conflict between the State and national governihents. These journals labored to excite the people, while the leaders of Mo- zart urged the Governor to take a stand for the State and against the national government. Thus the two extremes were constantly play- ing into each other's hands and increasing the troubles that were upon us. Our citi- zens witnessed the lamentable fact of the partisan press zealously working together for the destruction of our city and government. ‘The riot was finally put down, notwithstanding the action of the two extremes. Generals Dix and Canby arrived here near the close of the week and relieved Generals Wool and Brown. Both of the former officers, immediately on their arrival, obtained an interview with Gov- ernor Seymour, and in all their official actions since have followed the course of General Wool and acted in concert with the Governor. A few days since the radicals prevailed upon Provost Marshal Leonard, of Westchester coun- ty, to apply to General Dix for men and arms | to enable him to enforce the draft there. Gene- ral Dix immediately referred the matter to Gov- ernor Seymour. The same day Judge McCunn issued an order for the arrest of General Canby for contempt. This order was placed in the Sheriff's hands, and the Jatter was forthwith ordered by Governor Seymour not to serve it, Thus our readers will see that the two extremes have been foiled in all their about a conflict be- tween the State and the United States, and that, the most amicable relations still exist. But the end of this ia not yet. The Tribune and Times do not publish or even refer to the reports of Generals Woot and Sandford, which convicts those journals of being the head and front of an atrocious conspiracy. They dare not lay the proof of their own guilt be- fore thair readers. The coutroverar over the riots has only commenced. Developments yet in the background will throw additional light upon the subject and place these radical or- ans before the country in their tMe colors. AnEmpire Prociaimed in Mexico—New | French Farce. The French war steamer Milan brought to Havana last Tuesday official intelligence of the proclamation of the empire in Mexico, and of the choice by the Assembly of Notables of the Austrian Archduke Maximilian as the first sovereign of the new regime. We wore prepared for such news, because, since the very outset of the expedition to Mexico, there was hardly any concealment of the fact that the main ob- ject of Louis Napoleon was to re-establish the monarchical principle on this continent, and to erect against the spread of republican and liberal ideas a barrier of Old World rubbish. This did not happen to be the governing motive of either England or Spain in entering into the twipartite alliance against Mexico; and there- fore, when these Powers recognized what was the Napoleonic idea in the matter, they retired from the business, leaving the French to prose- cute it on their own account. * With the fall of Puebla, the surrender of the capital and the retirement of the Mexican government to San Luis Potosi the way was open for a realization of the French programme. One of the earliest official acts of Gen. Forey was the appointment of what was called.a Supe- rior Committee of Government, composed of fifty-five persons of position and influence. This committee was charged with the choice of a triumvirate, into whose hands the executive power was to be given, and it was also to add to its own ranks two hundred and fifteen other individuals—Mexican citizens—to constitute a body to be designated an Assembly of Notables. This organization was carried out. The triumvirate consisted of General Juan A. Almonte, General Jose Mariano Salas and Don Jaan Batista Ormaechea, Bishop elect of Tulan- cingo. This divine is probably one of the batch of bishops carried out by the French, and he may have been performing the functions of Archbishop of Mexico in the absence of that dignitary, who, with several other bishops, had been exiled by the late government. The first official act of the supreme executive was the issuing of 8 manifesto to the nation on the 24th of June, announcing that the new and improved order of things 4n Mexico had been brought about through the light and unconquered force of Catholicism; that now the Catholic religion was re-established and free; that the church would exercise its authority without having an enemy in the government, and that, under the happy influence of the enlightened head of the French nation, peace, order and good govern- ment would be restored to Mexico: Decrees were issued suppressing all the newspapers, forbidding all controversy in respect to the laws and institutions that were to be given to the country, and annulling the laws sequestrat- ing church property. In the meantime Juarez, the cgnstitutional President, retired, with his ministers, the civil officers, the committees of Congress and the remnant of the Mexican arm y, to San Luis Potosi, in te mining regions, where he claims to exercise all the functions of a legal government and protests against the ille- galacts that have taken place in the capital. Paying no attention to Juarez and his protests, the Assembly of Notables has, with only two dissentient votes, declared that the imperial form of government is that which the country re- quires, and has proclaimed as Emperor the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, the French Emperor being requested, in case of Maxi- mitian declining the honor, to choose a prince to rule over them. The proclamation of the empire took place on the 10th instant, and the reception of the news at Vera Cruz wis saluted with a salvo of a hundred and one guns. The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, on whom the Mexican Assembly of Notables has conferred this questionable distinotion, is the next. eldest brother of the ‘Emperor of Austria. He is thirty-one years of age, and now holds the office of vige-agmiral and com- mander-in-chief of the peter: navy, besides having the proprietorship of several cavalry re- giments, thus realizing the Indicrous idea of a horse fiarine. His wife, Marie Charlotte, is daughter of the King of the Belgians. It is not very probable that Maximilian, mindful of the tragic fate of Iturbide—the first and only Emperor of Mexico—and with the experiences of Santa Anna, who had aspired to the imperial purple, fresh in his recollec- tion, will be in any hurry to accept an offer of such doubtful advantages and proceeding from such a source. His refusal of it has possibly been calculated on in advance; for when his name was coupled with the new Mexican monarchy months ago he was understood to repudiate the idea. Napoleon, however, may have deemed it a piece of policy to have the offer made in due form, so that when it is de- clined he may have the better excuse for hand- ing over the Mexicans to the imperial care of his cousin, Prince Napoleon. That is most pro- bably part of the programme. In connection with his military and govern- mental operations, a French civil expedition has also been organized and is now on its way to Mexico. This commission is composed of literary men, political students, lawyers and savants, and its mission is to evangelize Mexico, in the Napoleon senee, and teach its benighted population the glory and advantages of an imperial system of government. The whole thing is very Frenchy, very the- atrical and very ludicrous. By and by, when the more serious occupations of the present moment will permit us to bestow a little attention on this political comedy now being rehearsed in Mexico, we will probably resolve to forbid its further performance. In the mean- time the Franco-Mexican imperial farce may be enacted in the city of Mexico and the Indian- Mexican republican farce in the city of San Luis Potosi. But these fooleries cannot be tolerated very long. {f the Mexican people themselves cannot put a stop to them, we, as their next neighbors, will have to step in, re- store order, put our foot down upon mediawval absurdities, and establish a form of govern ment in consonance with the idea of the age and promotive of the interests of the people. Mexican Bonps CaxceLteo—L’Eyrine c'xsr ta Parx.—When Louis Napoleon assumed the imperial power in France, the only consolation vouchsafed to Frenchmen was the assurance thatthe empire was peace. His expedition to Mexico was got up on the pretext of forcing a payment of the bonds of the Mexican govern- ment held by French citizens. Then the em- pire represented, not peace, but pay. Now teat be hes set up © Mexicar Smitation « his RPC NN aL aPRIELN Cal YEE own government the bonds may be regarded as | | duty cancelie@, on the principle of bis own famous expression, a little altered, Vempire | cest la paye. Another Diary by the Count de Gu- rowski. The celebrated Count de Gurowski is pro- paring another diary for immediate publication. It will be remembered that the last production of this sombre and sarcastic. chevalier embraced the time between March, 1861, and November, 1862, and concluded with these remarkable words :—‘Dictatorship with McClellan seems to dawn upon thehorizon. The smallest disaster— Burnside, ah !—will precipitate the catastrophe, I pray to God (und for the first. time) that I may be mistaken.” This first, wild prayer of the noble Count was heard and answered. The catastrophe of a dictatorship, which the patri- otic Gurowski dreaded, was mercifully averted. Wo still live under a strictly republican form of government, and are still permitted to read all the spicy and instructive volumes which the genius and the leisure of the Count de Gurow- ski may allow him to compile for our delecta- tion. In the new diary soon to be issued the Count will take up the story of the secret history of the war at November last, and will continue it down to the lat of August, we hope. To stop in June or July would be to omit the recent riots and the radi- cal conspiracy disclosed through them. Whether ag a mere gossipper or an impartial historian— and we prefer to regard him in the latter cha- racter—the genial and talented Count cannot afford to lose such excellent and piquant mate- rials as the disturbances in this city and the ex- posure by General Wool of the radical plot against our State and the country. To omit these events were to miss the climax and the moral of the story of the last two years, and to wilfully neglect the finest opportunity for satire and invective ever yet vouchsafed to a man of the Count’s genius. We cannot persuade our- selves, therefore, that the erudite and polished Gurowski will refuse to add a few hasty but effective pages to his work, and thus make it entirely perfect. We know that Gurowski is a modern Tacitus; but Honest Old Abe is really not a Tiberius. Greeley, not Lincoln, is the cruel, bloodthirsty, but cowardly and treacherous, fellow (who would be a Nero if he could) whom Gu- rowski ought to-paint; and never, since the ex- citement after the Manassas massacre, has Greeley placed himself in a more picturesque and characteristic attitude than during the late tumults, when he penned incendiary articles upon the backs of greasy bills of fare, and plotted against the country in an office guarded by soldiers and packed with hand grenades. There is but little doubt, however, that the itustrious Count will pay proper attention to Greeley and the other radical conspirators in his review of the past year. But what words will he find bitter enough to express his su- preme contempt for the intrigues of Chase, the petty tyrannies and official misrepresentations of Stanton, the blunderings of Halleck, the ex- ploits of Burnside at Fredericksburg and Cincinnati, and the marvelously unsuccess- ful strategy of Hooker at Chancel- slorsville? What will he say of the diplomacy of Seward, who robbed the State Bepartment of its brightést ornament by dismissing Gurowski on account of his plain speaking in his former book? What damning truths will he tell of Wade, Wilson, Chandler, Sumner, and the rest of the radical fanatics, who are perpetually interfering with military affairs, whose personal and political influence over Chase and Stanton was the means of removing McClellan, and who now go about abusing General Meade with the same venomous ardor that they once displayed against Little Mac? What view will Gurowski now take of McClellan himself, whose military genius all the world at last admires, whose generalehip ove! ies praise, and_ without whom we weal teal the Army of t ‘ages tomac will never do anything decisive? How will the Count’s book speak of Welles, who never troubles himself about rebel privateers, but combs his long beard and trusts to. luck with a stolidity which would be very amusing did not the rebel depredations upon our com- merce make the joke altogether too serious? The best answer to these questions will be the book itself; and if it prove to be as caustic, shrewd, truthful, amusing, interesting, vindic- tive, instructive and abusive as the other diary of the famous Count de Gurowski, we have no doubt that it will be more than equally suc- cessful. * Tacrics or Tar INcenpiary Press.—It is not very long since the New York Times, with ita usual incendiary motives, declared that after the government should have “finished up” the rebellion its next attention would be directed to the crushing out of Popery from among our people. Every one who reads the newspapers will remember this outrageous proposition. Nothing more diabolical can possibly be con- eeived. Failing in all their efforts to get up a political war of blood and extermination, these restless agitators bave now turned their attention to the initiation of a partisan religious war. We protest, in the earliest stage of the proceedings, against this diabolical plan of the black. republicans. We have had enough of civil war and its terrible devastations without any attempt to increase the catalogue of victims by the institution of a réligious war whose end canno! be foreseen. The idea of the Times on this question may be reduced into very few words: war upon slavery and upon Popery. To overthrow the latter the sapiens philosophers of this sedi- tious journal suppose that it is: essential to extinguish the former altogether, It is evident that the desire is to initiate a bloody war be- tween men of different religious ideas who for more than a century past have lived together in peace and harmony. Such a contest—between Jew and Christian, Catholic and Protestant, Baptist and Methodist—once begun, who cao say where it will end? And yet this is the teaching of the infidel black republican preas, Jed by such men as Greeley, Raymond and others, who, having no faith in anything them- selves, desire ‘to lower the world to their own level, if by so doing they can spread their per- nicious doctrines through all the avenues of society.’ There is no other theory on which we can account for the savage spirit manifested by the Tribune and Times whenever these papers have occasion to refer to the recent ex- citement in this city. ‘y) e Catholics of New York—and the Irish portion especially—will bear in mind the re peated, insults which these radical enthusiasts ve attempted to heap upon them. ff these men had the seney as ype have the wiff, the Catholics—and especially the Irish portign of them in New York—would have « very small chance indeed if they came within their grasp. For our own part we are deadly epposed to the ideas of these revolutionary papers. Politi- cally, socially and religiously, every man is entitled to the most perfect freedom. The law is,strong enough to decide where any one transcends his duty dr goes beyond his sphere. But when Greeley and Raymond come to offer themselves as judges in the matter we reject them at once, and hand them over to the autho- rities, who ought to deal with them in the most summary manner for -baselyattempting to ex cite, not only a war of races, but a contest among religious bodies, which can only lead t¢ slaughter and extermination, over which none but the beasily radicals of the black republi- can press could possibly rejoice. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, Waser, July 27, 1863. MOVBMENTS OF CABINET MEMBERS. Secretary Usher returned to tho city yesterday, and Attorney Gonera! Bates is daily expected, It is under stood that Secretary Seward has gone Wo Vortress Manroe. GUNERAL MEREDITH APPOINYED COMMISSIONER FOR . THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. Brigadier General 3. A. Meredith relieves Colonel Lud- low as commissioner for the exchange of prisoners at Fortress Monroe. GENERAL SUUPLEY. General Shepley, Military Governor of Touysiana, is much feted by the politicians here, and his views aro said to be in entire harmony with those of the President, RESIGNATION OF GEN. BEINTZELMAN’S JUDGE ADYO- CATR. Major Leavitt Hunt, to the regret of his friends, haa re- signed his position as Judge advocate of Gen. Heintzel- man’s staff. THE ANTICIPATED MARRIAGE OF SENATOR SPRAGUS 70 MISS CHASE, As matrimonial alliances form an important part in Euro- pean politics, 30 the proposed one between Senator Spragve and the daughter of Secretary Chase will prove to be highly advantageous to the Presidential aspirations of the latter, The Secretary himself, like Mr. Seward, but un- like «most official dignitaries here, has been prodigal of hospitalities,and hence has an element of strength in the social or fashionable life of the metropolis. When reinforced next winter by the millionaire and the repre- sentative of millionaires, Sprague, Mr. Chase will be ablo to open the political campaign with decided advan- arene FOR A GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. A atrong effort {s making to get the ostablishment of a governmont hospital in New Hampsbire, in the same manner as they have them in hisanata Rhode Island ant Massachusetts. AWARD OF THE NEW SLOOY-OF-WAR CONTRAOT. Tho Navy Dopartment has awarded the coutract for building the fifteen knot sloop-of-war to shipbutlders Cramp & Sen, of Philadelphia, for the sum of $940,000, to ‘bo completed in twelve months. The machinery ts to be made by Merrick & Son, of Philudelphia, who have exe- cuted for the Navy Department a large amount of work of this character. THE NAVY DEPARTMENT STATIONRRY CONTRACT. The Navy Department has awarded to Philip & Solomon, Of this city, the contract for supplying the Washingto® Navy Yard with blank books and stationery for the cur- rent fincal year. Personal Intelligence. * Master Richardson Clover, son of the Rey, Dr: Clover, of Springield, Iil., has received the appointment of mid- shipman in the United States Naval School at Newport. ‘Tae Ricet War To p> Busrvmss —A few days ago the foreign nows bag of tho Associated Press, which was sent from this city to Boston, to gooutinoneof the Cunard steamers, was, through a blunder committed ia the office of the Association at Boeton, placed on the train for Now York, instead of the steamer, The biun- dor was not discovered until the bag bad reachod Wor- cester, about an hour beforethe timo of tbe departure of the steamer. Here wasa dilemma; for there was no down train leaving for several hours, while the bag con- tained most important exclusive intelligence for the European Associated Press, besides several hundred pri- vate commercial despatches for ali parts of Europe. The telegraph, however, was resorted to, through which the superintendent of the railroad, at Worcester, was in- formed of the dificuity. The result was that a special locomotive was despatched to Boston with the unlucky bag, which was delivered in Boston within fifty minutes: after its arrival in Worcester, and io ample time to be placed on board of the steamer. The incident is worth noting, a8 an evidence of the promptness of movement ‘an well ag the accommodating disposition of the siperin- tendent alluded to. Woop’s Mivarkers.—Wood’s Minatre! Hall 1s sti!l crowd- gd nightly, the panorama of the Hudson and the songs, conundrums and jokes proving to be aitractions of suilie cient weixht to overcome the heat, We should add that the hall is coe of the coolest in the city. It is well venti- lated. This week the Wikbage? oF this popular estaviush ment announces novelties. FREE NAVIGATION OF THE SISSIP TI. Meeting of erchants te Petit (From the St. Louts Repnblicas A meeting of the merchants took yesterday. The Presidevt,- Mr. George F that some time ago the association had ticn and presented it to the Secretary of relation to trace with the Southern States, to which’ M Chase gave a very courteous and eneovregiog nce that time, however, great basse had and the object of the call of the hold a meeting for the purpore of ory Liocotn the expediency of removing ali restricti¢ the commerce of the Mississippi valley ing wos now ready to hear anv ventiem had anything to say or resolution to offer in relutitn to this subject. Mr. Thos hat addressed the macting in « few and patriotic remarks, He 4 to tir themselves: he bad every confidence—facilities for commere: course: aod he felt assured that the combined w the St, Louis merchants as to the opening of the Mus sippi river, when fully and {airly represented to h: would have the desired effect He therefore begged te to offer the following resolutions, which wove unani mously adopted — Whereas, the loyal people of the Valley of the Mieein- sippi have’ patiently and cheerfully sabmitted to many restrictions upon their commerce which were deemed Vital to the safety of the nation in the time of its great pertl,; and have freely borne their share of the taxes for the support of the government; and whereas the galiant sons of the West have cleared the Mississippi river of rebels from this city to the Gulf, and in the-opinion of longer necessary or expedient; therelore, be it Hesolved. ‘That A. W. reer, Albert Pearcs, Samuel R. Filley, Joba J Samuel Gaty Alexander B. Morean 5-H. dalesby and are hereby appointed a committee to proceed to Washington and urge i’resident Lincoin to henge ail reatrictions from the commerce of 80 far as the same can be dove i ieee Cr here- by instructed to during the tri as of th tame oft Resolved, That said committee to dnaK} vascuey Cand tony cccer in the came this meeting the restrictions “eel commerce are Do Shipments for Fae Orleans—Sickuess at "2 tekebui A Chiro despatch, dune to the ‘Chicago Tribune am —_ ‘The first shipment hence for New Orleans since the sus- pension of river navigation took the towboats Shingess and Lat veg in accordance with orders received from Captain A. ©. Woolfolk, — iter, started for New Orleans with one red and twenty eight thousand bushels of coal in tow. The Dunieith, United States sanitary boat, came from im Vicksborg this morning. Her ottieers report. 8 ae in- crease of sickness among the soldiers at Vicksburg. The surgeons fear an attack of yellow fever. The water ia bad, and there is little or ‘noice, The woausor is in- tensely hot and dry. The Evening Express in Lawes COMMON PLEAS—-CHAMBERS. Before Hon. Judge Brady. Jury 21.—Stephen 7. Clarke vt. James and Erasius Brooke —The Judge made an order in this case to day to the effect that tho plaintiff, owning but one-sixth of > copartnershiy fom and the devendsats being sol. boy mem from natare of the firm's property » a bon 30. 000, erin the provision In. the onder tt they carte ‘on (he basivess as usval until the coming im of the report of the referee, may be appoi wo ‘ascertain and settle the accounts between the parties, or tuntil the further order of the Court. “The Dolphin Clab. New Loxpon, Jnly 27, 1863. ‘The pilot boat Edna C., Captain Albert Nason, of New ‘York, with the Dolphin Clad. last from Montaak Point, dan arrived here