The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1863, Page 4

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Brooklyn.— Burcxsouxs, &c. er ee { ‘There is nothing of importance from the Army of the Potomac to-day. From the Mississippi val- fey no change of affairs is reported. From the Richmond papers of the 27th we learn that gold is worth $11 to the dollar in the rebel capital. The people of Savannah are trembling with fear of an invasion. The Mayor of the city has issued a proclamation requesting all residents to organize for home defence, and all managers of stores, workshops and other places of business to close them at two o’clock on Mondays, Wednes- days and Fridays, for the purpose of drill. He directs that an enrolment be made of every man in the city capable of bearing arms in its defence. Some doubt is thrown upon the regularity of the rebel General Morgan’s surrender. It appears that the officer to whom he surrendered—Captain Burbridge—is reported not be a regular militia Officer, and that Colonel Shackleford conse- quently refases to recognize the terms of the Surrender, and the probability is that General Morgan will be taken care of in the Ohio peni- tentiary of Columbus. KH is thought that the advance ofthe rebel forces into Kentucky, which jwe announced yesterday, was made by Colonel Pegram under the impression that Morgan’s ‘troops were still flourishing in their raid in Ohio, and that he was hastening to assist them. We have nothing later concerning the movement of ‘the rebels on Lexington. Some important communications relative to the Graft in this city have passed between Judge Ad- vocate General Waterbufy, of Governor Seymour's , and the authorities at Washington, inc!uding tho President, Colonel Fry, and Mr. Kennedy, head of the Censns Bureau. It is said that Col. Fry admitted that the enrolment appeared to be ‘excessive in the city of New York, as compared with many of the counties, but partially explained this by showing that in New York city all names hhave been twice enrolled, first at the fac- fories and places of business, and again at the eaidences. Several other explanations were made, which tended to show an anxiety to remove {impressions of unfairness and political trickery which have gained ground here, and which minis- tered #0 much to the creation of the recent riots. From Mr. Kennedy Judge Waterbury has obtained valuable and reliable census statistics, which will greatly aid inthe work of making out a correct conscription should the government persist in en- forcing the measure. | We have further intelligence of the doings of the Rebel privateer Florida by the arrival of the brig ‘John Freeman at this port yesterday from Bermu- ‘Ga, which she left on the 22d inst. The Florids ‘was then there taking in coal. Itis ascertained y the statements of the captain of the Freeman t it was the Florida which chased the United States steamer Ericsson a few weeks @go to within about fifty miles of New NYork, She arrived at Bermuda on the 16th. Bhe anchored at first outside, and on tho following day was permitted to enter the harbor. She se- luted the British flag and the salute was returned. A considerable interchange of civilities has taken Place between the officers of the Florids and the Shore. The papers teem with communications laudatory of the craft, officers and crew. Since the advices of the 17th the Florida has destroyed twelve other vessels, The name of one only is giveo—the brig William B. Nash. ‘ MISCELLANEOUS NEWB, ' A requisition for a special meeting of the Board Of Councilmen, to be held on Monday next, at two o'clock, has already receive’ a number of signa- Bares. The Conscription ordinance, several bille pelating to the Street Department, and other mat- re whic) ould not he postponed until after the mor vacation, will then be acted on. &@ The Emigration Commissioners met yesterday, Put no business of special fterest came up. Gh prmber of emirauts landed here last woek was 4,168, swelling ~ 86,509, or about 1 the corresponding date last year. The emigration fund now reaches the considerable aum of $58,236 19. ‘The stock market contiaued active and buoyant yes rouds appeared to be the chief favorites. Money was easy—call loans 5 a6 percent. Gold was dull between 127 and 127X. Exchange was firm at 140. The demand for cotton was fair yesterday, but at rather easier prices. Tno transactions in breadstuils were limited, at lower rates, and in provisions quite mo- derate, at drooping figures, Whiskey was lightly dealt in and was heavy. The main business in groceries waa in sugars and molasses, which were quoted firm. The in- quiry was good for hay, tallow and Keatucky tobacco— the latter maioly for export. The movements in other branches of trade wero much restricted. The receipts Of produce from the interior were unusually light. ‘The political situation in this State, and in- deed in all the loyal States, is now extremely suggestive. Three years ago the folly of the democratic party culminated at the Charleston Convention, when the Albany Regency opened the door to disunion with one hand, aud with the other assisted the radical abolitionists to the control of the government. At the out- break of our civil war the democratic party, just divided and defeated, was almost com- pletely demoralized and destroyed. Here in New York it had not strength enough left to secure the local offices. Its newspaper organs were either suppressed, like the News and Day Book, or denied the mails, like the Journal of Commerce. As for the democratic leaders, they. were either engaged in bitter intestine feuds and faction fights, or had retired from the po- litical field dispirited and discomfited. It was at this crisis of political affairs that the Heraxp assumed the leadership ot the con- servative masses of the country. Without com- mitting itself to any clique or faction, the Hxra.p formed a national party, composed of the conservative democrats and of those repub- licans who repudiated the insane teachings of the ranting radicals. aboli- tion tendencies and the military blun- ders of the administration soon forced the majority of the people to disap- prove of the proceedings of the President’s advisers, and thus the Herap came to conduct a strong but constitutional opposition to the policy of the government. But, while we found much to blame, we were also able to praise occasionally, and history will bear us witness that we Lave always heartily sustained the Pre- sident, as the representative of the nation, even when we were compelled to denounce and con- demn the foolish and dangerous measures to which the President was induced by political influences to give a tardy and reluctant con- sent. Taking the constitution, fairly and libe- rally interpreted, as our guide and text book, we bave not hesitated to attack men of any section or parfy who violated the constitution, nor to support men of any section or party who were true to the constitution. In this only loyal and legitimate course we were followed by the moderate, sensible, conservative masses of the country, and the result was that we were bitterly and vehemently assailed both by radical abolitionalists and radical democrats, as well as by the radical secessionists of the South, who heartily sympathize with our Northern extremists in a cordial hatred of the New York Herarp. But, undisturbed by the ravings of these frantic fanatica, we steadily developed the plan we had marked out for ourselves, and constant- ly inculeated conservative, constitutional prin- ciples in the minds of the people. At length, in October and November, 1862, we had an opportunity to measure strength with the ad- ministration and {ts radical supporters. No one can have forgotten the glorioys conserva- tive victories of those months. The radicals exerted every effort. They pronounced all conservatives traitors, and threatened to hang the conservative candidates. They used gov- ernment contracts and all kinds of official patronage to buy up voters. They indulged in menaces, denunciations and vituperations snch as had never before disgraced the politi- cal history of this republic. All these tre- mendous efforts did not avail. One after another the great Central States—-the richest, most populous and most intelligent in the Union— decided against the radical candidates and gave the conservatives very heavy majori- tles. In New York the contest at first seemed | triangular; but the refusal of General Dix to accept « nomination left the people no choice but to vote for Seymour or Wadsworth, and, under the leadership of the Hxraxp, the con- servative voters declared for Seymour, and de- feated Wadsworth so utterly that he will never again be s candidate for a politi- cal office. If we could end this chap- ter of political history here we might declare that there was nothing to mar our splendid triumph; but the sequel must be narrated and remembered. Among those carried into office by this conservative deluge were a few radical democrats, now called cop- perheads, who floated with the flood like drift- wood and rubbish. But no sooner were these men in office than they began to claim the credit of the whole movement, and interpreted it as an endorsement of their silly schemes and corrupt records. Filled with these ideas they attempted to lead the party which had swept them out of their holes and into notice. They opposed, not the administration, but the war. They cried, not for reunion, but tor peace at any price. They raved about State rights, and forgot the rights of the United States. In a word, they tried to prostitute the conservative sentiment into sympathy with the rebels, and the people indignantly repudiated and trampled upon them in the New England elections. This brief chapter of political history has a sign'ficant moral, and it must be studied and understood before we can expect to accomplish anything in the important elections to come. The politicians who played into the hands of the republicans in the New Eng- land elections are still before the public. If the conservative democrats affiliate with these men, or make bargains with them, or admit them to positions of trust and honor, the coming elections will be certainly lost. The radical republicans have no better and more faithful allies than the radicals of the democratic party. Just as the extremists of the Albany Regency | placed the abolitionste in power—just as the extreme abolitivuiste have aided and strength- ened the fire-eating secoasioulate of the South— | so the copperhead democrate will throw the coming elections within the grasp of the red re- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1863. number since January! to | Military Governor and a military despotism per cent more than arrived to | but for the firmness and energy of our respecta- ble citizens. The danger is even now not en- tirely over, The passions of the partisans of all parties have beon deeply stirred. In many sections of the country families are divided and friends eeparated by political prejudices. Never did party feeling ran so high and threaten such dangers, not only to life and property, but to the very existence of the government, as at pre- sent. The copperheads and the abolitionists will do their utmost to increase this excitement during the next Presidential campaign. We therefore exhort the conservatives to modera- tion. The liberties of the people will be sac- rificed if their passions are further inflamed. Let tke conservatives refuse to coalesce with the copperheads. Let such conservative organi- zations as Tammany Hall set the example in this policy. If it be persevered in the copperheads will goon be crushed with the abolitionists, and will be glad enough to do the meanest services for the successful party. If, on the other hand, our advice be disregarded and the fanatics of either party again obtain the ascendancy, nothing but a miracle of Providence cau save us from destruction. The Mexicam Empire and the Southern Confeiierncy, We presume that the Richmond and Mobi'e papers, which shout so exultantly over the temporary success of Napoleon’s invasion of Mexico, reflect pretty fairly the sentiments of the rebel leaders. An empire, a monarchy, an aristocracy, has been the favorite dream of thoge ambitious demagogues, and to realize it they plunged the country {nto a most fearful civil war, making the poor whites of the South take up arms in support of a system of govern- ment in which they would be denied all voice and influence. Nevertheless we rather think that the exultation comes all too soon. Much as the Confederates may long to have Frenchmen for their neighbors, we are afraid ‘they must sub- mit to disappointment in that respect; for even though the United States were inclined to let the French hold peaceable possession of Mexico, and to indulge the rebels in their desire for a confederacy, still the wide extent of Texas must intervene between them. The Mississippi river, which our arms have wrenched from rebel control, will never again be allowed to pass into it, nor will the trans-Mississippi region revert to Confederate authority so long as there is any strength left in the arm of the nation. It might be very pleasant for the rebels to have such polite neighbors as the French; but they must forego all idea of that, and, if they will have neighbors at all, they must have such rough ones as the Yankees. In the meantime we hope that Louis Napo- leon, or the Archduke Maximilian, or Prince Napoleon, or Prince Jerome, or General Tom Thumb, or Commodore Nutt, or whatever other high personage is to occupy the imperial ‘throne in the city of the Aztecs, will set diligently to work, clean out the cutthroats and robbers, restore good order and decent society, set all the industrial classes to work, and have every- thing in the best possible trim by the time'we shall have got through our present war, and will be ready to extend a polite invitation to him ‘to return to France or Austria, or Bar- num’s; in fact—not to put too fine a point upon it—to vamose the ranche. Tux Hapras Conpus—Tue Tripune my A Foo.— The Tribune, in commenting on the recent order of General Burnside to the officers and provost marsbals under his command to disre- gard the writs of habeas corpus from State courts where prisoners are arrested and held by the authority of the United States for offences against its laws, strange to say, quotes Judge Taney in support of Burnside. Floundering in the mud and enveloped in a thick fog, the Tribune cannot see any @istinc- tion between cases which widely differ. It is pretty much in the condition of such of Lee's troops as were left behind on the night of his escape across the Potomac. The éase which Judge Taney decided is totally different from that which is raised by the order of General Buroside. The case decided by Judge Taney and the United States Supreme Court was that of a prisoner convicted and sentenced by a United States Court in pursuance of the civil laws of the United States, but which sentence was set aside and deolared to be illegat'and void by a State court. This was an attempt of a State court to revise and annul the proceed- ings of a court of the United States, which was very properly declared to be unconstitutional by the highest tribunal in the land, But. this has nothing to do with the question whether a State court has a right to inquire whether a citizen, under pretence of United States law, is legaily arrested and held in custody, or whether military law outside of a camp is superior to the civil laws of the country. In this State, as well as in other States, a special law has been enacted which draws this distinction in order to avoid collision between the jurisdiction of the State and federal au- thorities. If the prisoner is arrested under the authority of the United States laws and by the federal agents, and has not been committed, he may be brought up on habeas corpus and dis- charged if there be no legal cause of detention against him. But if he has been committed there is an end to the jurisdiction of the State courts. If, therefore, the United States pro- vost marshals and other military officers desire to avoid any unpleasant and dangerous colli- sion between the federal and State authorities, let them have the prisoner committed at once, and then no State Judge will venture to issue writ of habeas corpus. A wise and good man advised, “Let all things be done decently and in order.” The inhabitants of this country abiding people. Let us now, one and all, prove our faith by our works. A Goop xp Beavrirct. Inea.—We perceive that Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, bas hit upon the happy thought of buying some ton or | twenty acres of the great and glorious battle ; feld of Gettysburg as a cemetery for the | heroes who there laid down their lives that the | nation might live. This beautiful idea we hope will be fully carried out, including a special connected with the army of the Union, and a national obelisk on Cemetery Hill, with the names engraved upon it of every regiment, and with a book inside containing the name, State, regiment and company of overy soldier in those | three days battles and in the outside inciden- | tal operations. We are glad to be assured at | the same time that the Union soldiers of this ; have long had the reputation of being a law | | arithmetical blunder. His master, Jeff. Davis, division of the fleld to the soldiers of each State | } Abolition and Copperhead Riects. associates too numerous to mention, during The Tribune and its cohorts of the radical press, which so loudly clamored for martial law during the late disturbances in this ojty, seem to glory in just euch scenes. They have zealously labored for years for mob law. Their whole teachings have been that of violence and revolution. They scattered broadcast their “higher law” doctrines and created in the public mind a disrespect for all law and for the constituted authorities. The files of the radical journals for years past are filled with incendiary articles inflaming the public mind and arguments urging the people to resist the laws of the country. They poured forth their revolutionary doctrines to such an extent that the seed of destruction was so thoroughly planted in a portion of the public mind that nullification laws,in the shape of pretended Personal Liberty billa, were placed on the statute books of many of the non-slavebolding States, Following in the train of this revolu- tionary teaching came the numerous slave rescae riots, the most prominent of which were that at Christiana, Pa., the Burns case at Bos- ton, and the Jerry rescue at Syracuse. There was no ory for martial law then by the agita- tors, nor appeal for the enforcement of the laws by the United States government; but, on the contrary, they clamored for the violation of all law. This gave to the extreme men of the South— those who were anxious for an excuse for a revolution on the part of that section of the Union—a plea and an argument to go before the people of that section and prepare their minds for all the subsequent evils that have befallen the country. The seed thus sown to the wind bas ripened, and the fruit is now being har- vested. How, let the tens and hundreds of thou- sands of lives that have been sacrificed in our fratricidal war answer. The radical journals gloried in their slave riots; but their thirst for blood was not satisfied. When the bombard- ment of Fort Sumter heralded in thunder tones to the world the commencement of civil war in this country this same fanatical radical press labored to stir up a mob spirit in all the North- ern cities. Leading radicals have since stated that men were hired to join in the riotous de- monstration in this city, and that offers of posi- tion in the Custom House and other departments were beld out as inducements for men to swell the ranks of the rioters; newspaper offices were burned and destroyed in different sections of the country; papers were suppressed or refused the mails, like the News, Day Book and Jour- nal of Commerce of this city. For all this Greeley had no word of complaint, but called it a.patriotic uprising of the people. The fran- tic radicals revelled in the mob spirit then and did their utmost to increase it. Another chapter has been recently added to their bloody and revolutionary work. The at- tempt to enforce an oppressive Conscription act, which the radical press have so vehemently lubored to.make as odious as possible to the people, caused an outbreak in this city, For months past the radicals, in connection with the extreme copperheads, have worked, in season and out of season, to create in the public mind a detestation of that law. The moment that the anti-draft demonstration commenced the bloodhounds of the two radical extremes were let loose; military officials were denounced and interfered with on the. one hand, and efforts made en the other to thwart. the civil authorities of the State. Atone time the commencement of another serious revolution seemed imminent; but, with all the incendiary appeals of the extreme partisan press.on both sides, we bave emerged from those trials; but it has left us the proof that one of the greatest dangers that now threaten the country is the dia- tribes of the party press. Their con- stant misstatements of facts, for the pur- pose of benefiting their respective parties and twisting everything to serve their party, is one of the deplorable signs of the times. The effort of the radical organs to convince the administration that the Jate tumult was not a mere’ fiot, but an enormous insurrection, is extremely silly. That these fanatics de- sired to extend it into a revolution for the overthrow of the governoment we readily be- lieve, for it isin perfect accord with their past record. But, thanks to Providence, they were defeated in their hellish designs. Our citizens should now bear in mind that all riots are illegal, . They are, at the best but violent demonstrations against the law. The Conscrip- tion act, we know, was passed by the jugglery of the late incompetent and theoretical Con- gress; but it is nevertheloss a law: Riots will not prevent its enforcement. Even if it is an odious and oppressive measure, there is no reason why the property of this city should be destroyed because Congress has passed a bad Ay The ballot box will better correct the evil. Morcay’s Grand Mistaxe.—The rebel gue- rilla Morgan, in bis late experimental raid in Indiana and Ohio, was no doubt induced to un- dertake it in view of the daring and succesaf«! expeditions of Stoneman, Kilpatrick, Grierson and other Union cavalry leaders in the rebel- lious States. Morgan, for instance, looking at the simple fact that Colonel Grierson, with five hundred horsemen, moved right down from the northern to the southern extremity of Missis- sippi, five hundred miles, and through the heart of the State, concluded that General John Mor- gan, with five thousand men, could do the same thing for Indiana and Ohio. The trial, however, has proved the fallacy of this calculation, and the secret may be readily explained. Colonel Grierson found the interior of Mississippi de- fenceless, all ita able-bodied white men having been drawn off into the rebel armies around the great circle of the rebelfion. Thus he aptly compared the rebellion to an empty shell; for on breaking through the shell, in a military sense, he found nothing inside. Morgan, on the other band, as soon as he touched the soil of Indiana and Ohio, found himeelf in « hornets’ nest. Armed men on every side seemed to spring up out of the ground. Morgan, in fact, before venturing upon ths grand raid, forgot to con. sult the books and figures of the census, and thus he has fallen a victim to a very stupid and his associate leaders are beginning to realize thefact that they have made the same miscaiculations. Tus Services or Our Cavany.—In the late | event{ul aggressive campaign of General Lee, from Leverly’s Ford, on the Rappahannock, to Gettysburg, and thence following his retreating forces back again to the Rappahannock, the ser- publicans. Only two weeks ago the mutual | war who have died on other flolds will not be | vices of the splendid cavalry corps attached to | animosities and rival fatigues of the fanatics of doth factions resulted in a bloody riot, which would have been foliowed by martial law, a | forgotten, but that in some suitable way the | goverumont will preserve their names for the | remetsbiance of a grateful posterity, ~~ ~°> the Army of the Potomac cannot be too highly | praised. Plessaaton, Buford, Kilpatrick, Gregg, the last two months have indeed achieved miracles of valuable labor. All along the eastera side of the Blue Ridge, with the move- ments of Leo’s army towards Pennsylvania, his rear guards and his flanking detachments of horse and foot were fought by these aforesaid cavalry officera from day to day, without re- gard to numbers, and the enemy were in almost every instance badly beaten. And so, with the transfer of the two armies into Maryland and Pennsylvania, the achievements of our cavalry, by night and day, never tiring, though always in motion, would fill a considerable volume with the simple enumeration of their details. The provision trains, prisoners, horses, cattle, guns, amall arms, ammunition, &c., which in all these operations have been captured by our cavalry, if summed up would make a schedule equal to the destruction of a considerable army. It is therefore to be hoped that the cavalry arm of every army we have in the field will be strengthened in every way; for the services of General Meade’s horsemen among the moun- tains have been as valuable to his army as our gunboats on the Mississippi have been to the land operations of Grant and Banks. THE PRIVATEERS. Operations of the Florida—The Brig W. B, Nash Destroyed by the Pirate—The Ohase of the United States Steamer Ericsson by the Fiorida—Her Arrival at Bermude—The Silver Bars Captured by the Pirate Shipped on Board of the Steamer R. BE. Lee—A Half Million Del- lars to be Sent to Wilmington, N. C.— Report of tnim Cofim, of the Brig W. B. Nash, dec. By tho arrival of the brig Jobn Freeman at this port yesterday, six days from Bermuda, we learn that the Florida was in that port on tne 22d fost., caulking and conling, end that she did not intend leaving for three days. ‘We now know that the Florida t the privateer which chased the Ericsson a few works since while she was on a cruise in search of the Tacony and other pri- vateors. ‘ the Florida bas trans‘errea her stealings of a half mil- lon of silver bars from a ship recently captured to the armed blockade runner Robert E. Leo, and it is reported that she will attempt to run into Wilmington. Captain Coffin, of the brig W.B. Nash, destroyed by the Florida, reports that he sailed from New York on the “8d cf July, with a cargo of lard and staves. July 8, lati- tude 40, longitude 70, at three P. M., made a steamer to the eastward, standing to the westward, apparently under full bead of steam. Sbe passed us about five miles of. She had four smokestacks, and was a side-wheel boat. (The Ericsson, chased by the Florida.) Soon after made another steamer to the eastward, which came aleog and parsed us. Soon alter she bore up for us, and came alongside, with the Stars and Stripes flying. Hated us to beave to,as they wisted to send a boat aboard; and ag the boat boarded us they ran up the Confederate flag on the steamer, and the officer of the boat pronounced us a prize to the Confederate flag. Ordered myself and part of my crew to take part of our clothes and my papers, and go on board the steamer, which proved to bethe Florida, My charts and instru- ‘ments were confiscated, the brig sacked and sot on fire; they then stocred for a schooner in- sight, which they found abandoned. She was a whaling schooner, bailed from Provincotowm, and was set on fire. ‘They thet stéerod off the coast as {ast ag possible, upder steam and canvass, and landed myself ard crow in Bermuda on the 16th of July. The Florida’s officers bave beo. lionized by the authorities, and were saluted from the fort in the harbor of St. George. She is armed with six broadside guns and two Pivots; fe not as fast as bas been represented, and her macbinury is out of repair. She does not steam over eight knots anda half. The discipline on board is bad. fhe, together with a number of blockade runners, was fm port, the Florida baving tronsferred a portion of her valuable spoils on board the Robert E. Lee, to be taken to Wilmington, N. C. The cargo of the W. B. Nesh cunsisted of 686 532 pounds lard and 6,867 staves, DESTRUCTION OF TWELVE MORE VECSBLS BY THE PLOMIDA—THE PIRATE WITHIN FIFTY MILES OF MEW YORK, BTC., ETO. Haurax, July 20, 1968. ‘The brig Devonshire, with Bermuda dates to the Zlst of Jaty, arrived to-day. ‘Tho privateer Florida arrived at Bermuda on the 16th to repair damages to ber machinery and take in coal. She anchored at first outside, and on the following day ‘was permitied to enter the harbor. She saluted the Bri. tiah flag and tho salute was returned. A considerable interchange of civilities Bas taken piace between the off eers of the Florids and theshore, Tho papers teem with communieations laudatory of the craft, officers and crew. ‘Binoe the advices of the 17th, the Florida has destroyed twelve other vessels. The name of one only is given— the brig Wil liam B. Nash. ‘Tee Florida tatety ran within fifty miles of New York, it iseaid, in search of the Ericsson, which she chased some time; but the Ericsson escaped in a dense fog. Sho shortly after destroyed the Nash. There had been serious altercations between the mem- bers of the Thirty-ninth regiment and the men of the rebel blockade runners in Bermuda; but the authorities Prompuly interfered and restored quiet. Fxaggerated Southern accounts of Lee's raid were brought by the blockadé runners. The Vepus, from Wil-+ mington, with dates to the 10th, says Harrisburg is in Leo's bands, and other accounts aré quite as correct. The Gasette says there is destitution of fuel ta port, and sappl.es from England are hourly expected. Ap extension of the roguiation period of stay has been granted the Ficrida. ‘The ¢ lowing blockade rnoners arrived at Bermuda on the dates mentioned:—July 9, the R. EK. Lee, from Wil- mington, N. C.;19tb, tho Venus, from do. Broadway Raitroad—The Injanction Against the Harlem Railroad Compa- my Dissolved. COMMON PLEAS—SPRCIAL TERM. Before Judge Brady. Svr1 42.—Joan J. Phelps. al. ve. the New York and Harlem Railroad Company. —The hearing of the motion for a continuance of the injunction granted against the Harlem Railroad Company, restraining them from laying their track in Madson avenue, in pursuance of the reso- lution of the Common Council permitting the extension of the Harlem Railroad through Broadway and Madison avenue, was brought on this morning. The plaintiffs, ‘who aro owners of property on Malison avenue, appeared by their counsel, who conceded to the argument of the defendante’ counsel, that since the granting of tho injenction the Court of Appeals bad decided in the case of the People against Kerr adversely to the right of the owner of to maintain an injunction, 88 i st] 3Bas rig fr 7 atte it i i a granting jnnetion order; and that, therefore, the plaintif have leave, under the circumstances, to discontinue, without costs. Alter hearing counsel for the respective parties, it ie ad- the injunction order herewfore te (the Now York and from laying their tract tn the same is hereby diesolved, ve leave to discontinue thls ao- withont prejudice to any rights of ja the Brie Canal. Ataany, Jaly 20, 1968. Tt ts pot expected that enna! boate will reach tide water, ' Perey Wyndbam, and others of their brave | on scoonnt of the break at Spraker's, before to morrow. . NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Naw Yogx, July 29, 1608. MESTING OF THB MATIONAL OCOMMITTESS OF rng DOUGLAS AND BRECKINRIDGH DEMOCRAOY—a Wap POLICY FORSHADOWED. ‘The national commitioos of the Douglas and Brecatn- ridge democracy are to have meeting, ether at Milwae- kcoo or Detroit, between the 17th and 234 of pext month, to arrange @ programme for the approaching Presidentiat campaign It is already agreed to bury tbe hatchet, aod to place the democratic party thus united upoo a war platform. Copperbeadism is to be denounced, and resola- tions in favor of the integrity of the Uuion to be adopted. ‘Tho responsibility of the receat riots in resistance to the draft is to be placed where it rightfully belongs. The Present administration is to be ignored, and a0 commeat whatever is to be made upon its action. The vegre queation is also to be treated with utter silence. - The leading democrats who will take part is Abia movement are convinced that no suggestion bey may offer will have any weight or influence with the present admin'stration, and they aro agreed, therefore, to oonfive themselves to the marking out of @ programme of their own, by which the two wings of the old democratie party will be completely united and a strong bid made for the support of the conservatives of other parties throughout the loyal States. This move- ment is of great political importance. The moctiag ia ‘not intended to be public, but a pian of operations ia te be agreed upon which shall settle all differences and bring together, wpou a war platform, all the democrata tf the loyal States. er Seteh hdrtenle Coal Pires “4 , Of Governor Reg- mour’s staff, bas been bere in relation to the draft, aa@ has had interviows more or lees satisfactory with Colones Fry, Mr. Kennedy, of the Census Bureau, aad the Prest- deat. Colonel Fry admitted that the carolmest appeared to vo excessive in the city of New York (demooratic), as compared with many of the counties (republican), bes partially explained this by showing that in New Yors city all names bave been twice earolied, Aret. at the fae- tories and places of business, and again at the residences. Otbor explanations followed, all tending to show thes Colonel Fry is anxious to abate as mach as possible ‘any impreasions of unfairness or political trickery ia the business entrusted to his management. From Mr. Kea- nedy Judge Waterbury has obtained valuable and relia- ble consus statistics, which will greatly ald in the work: of making out # correct conscription should the goveru- ment persist in thia measure. The administration deco not seem to sympathize with those republican presses which seem saxtous to bring on @ conflict between the State and geveral goverament; but, on the contrary, bot the Presideat and Mr. Seward seem particalarly anxious that all just c.uss of complaint shalt be removed. {THR ENROLMENT IN WASHINGTON. The total number of citizens of the District of Oolume bia enrolled m the first class is nineteen thousand thres hundred and twenty-seveo, of which fourteon thousand two buodred and forty-two are white, and five thoussa@ ‘apd eighty-five colored. The number to be drafted te three thousand eight bundred and sixty-five, with em addition of fifty per cent to be drawn, making five thou- sand soven hudred and ninety-cight. THE FALSITY OF GEN. LES’S LETTER TO ADJUTANE GENERAL COOPER. ‘The letter of Gen. Lee to the rebel Adjutant General Cooper ia 80 grossly faise in its statements that those whe have known Gen. Lee heretofore doubt its authentiowy. He denies that any fight occurred at the crossing of the Potomac, and yet the Richmond papers admit that Gea. Pettigrew was mortally wounded in a skirmish at Falling Waters while Lee was retirng,and we have tn our hoapl- ‘8 @ number of wounded rebels and prisoners who were captured upen that occasion. Gen. Meade’s despatch te fully sustained by the facts, which show that every line of Gen. Leo's letter of denial is false. DECISION OF THE FIRST COMPTROLLER OF THE TREA- SUBY AGAINST THE PATMENT OF OFFIOES APPODEE- ED AFTER THE ADJOURNMSNT OF THE 68M ‘The First Comptroller of the Treasury affirms a decision of the First Auditor which denies to @ high civil offeial payment of salary, because of his appointed after the adjournment of the Senate to a vecancy which exist- ed when that body was in seasion. This decision ts well founded on the law of the last sessios, which was enacted: matoly to prevent a multiplicity of appolatments of major and brigadier generals. INVLUSNTIAL SOUTHERN CTTISENS TAKING THE OATR OF ALLEGIANCE. - It is a good sign for the Union case that Several of the ‘most wealthy and im‘duentsl citizens of Norfolk and viet nity have lately taken the oath of allegiance to our gev- ernment, and are serving om juries, bo. Other citizens of like character witl take the same course. ‘THB BXCHANGE OF PRISOWESS. ‘The statement gotng the rounds of the press that Gene- ral Pemberton and the rebel officers captered at Vick barg bave already been exchanged is without foundation. ‘While generals in the Geld have, under the terms of the cartel, authority to parole prisoners, the éifficulties ex- isting ta relation to the exchange of prisomers and ctvit~ tans have oot vet been accommodated, and no exchange of prisoners can be made until these difficulties are re moved. TSB OBJROT OF MR. WHITING'S VISIT TO BUROPD UNIMPORTANT. Wr. Whiting, the Solicitor of the War Department, ip generally believed to have gone abroad for the purpose of aiding the govermment agents there in the collection of testimony ia reference to the construction of war versela for the use of the Southern pirates. The real object of bis mission, however, is unimportant, and it will pro *bably turm owt (pat it was merely a pretext to afford bim an opportunity for an agreeable summer tour abroad. DISMISSALS FROM THE ARMY. To the list of dismissals from the military service foe the week ending Saturday last, as efficislly announced, are the following :-— Major Granville O. Ha'ler, Seventh Voited States ta fantry, for disloyal conduct and the utterance of disloyal sentiments. Captein H. P. Murrell, Eleventh New York heavy ar. Ullery, for repeated utterances of treasonable and disloyal sentiments. Ca tito William A. Barke, Nimeteonth Ohio Volunteers, for t-exs vable language and disloyalty. Lioutevaut M. B. De Sitva, Sixteenth Ohio Volunteers, for writing and publishing @ highly disloyal and unbe- coming letter. ARMY AND NAVY PENSIONS. While the Pension Office is overwhelmed with applica- tions for army pensions, not mueh determined action hag been taken with reference to applications for navy pea- sions. A failure to make proper returns from vessels to the Navy Department occasioned delay in the matter. Returns even from officers of the Cumberland and Coa- grees, which were destroyed by the Merrimac, bave not been received. COMMANDER HENRY A. WISE APPOINTED CHIEF OF THK BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. Commander Henry A. Wise has been appointed by the President Chief of the Bureau of Ordoance tn the Navy David Mawrer, 167th Now York. r New York artillery. Hea'e "siote thd Oto.” le their expulsion from the city. ple yyy gina ot Sah Tere eee od bee single beam ship i ina very ® manner, and her both speed. ‘The eighth 4 Tany socved Ores ot then in the First ole of he Army the ‘Socur ser ™ Ue of Gettysburg.