The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. |! 1itit Stench szeet:on the 14th at when boot and shoe store was sacked. He was re- Seemed manded for sentence. An additional number of indictments was brought in by the Grand Jury, and the Court adjourned until this morning at ten o'clock. R A young widow, named Caroline Hiesturburgh, residing with her brother, at the corner of Tenth avenue and Thirty-third street, was brutally mur- dered yesterday morning by a German named Frederick. Munter, to whom she had previously been engaged to be married. Jealousy, caused by the atteritions of a rival, is the only reason assigned for the commission of the crime. Mun- ter intended committing suicide after murdering the woman, but changed his mind and gave him- self up to the police. He made a full confession of his guilt, A full report of the affair will be found in another column. The call for the meeting of the Board of Alder- men for to-day not having been completed, a new requisition is made for Monday at one o'clock P.M. The stock market was not active yesterday, and the course of prices was irregular, A few popular railway shares were better; but most of them were rather lower than on Wednesday. In the afternoon the market was dull and weak. Gold fell to 12734 in the morning, closing atfive P. M. at 126%{. Exchange was 140 a 140%;. Money was 5 a6 per cent on call. The proximity of two hoil- days had a tendency to check business. Cotton was steady, with a moderate inquiry, yester- day. There was tess doing in breadstuffs and provisions, prices of which were declining. The demand was fair for hay and tallow, moderate for leather and tobacco, and limited for groceries and most other kinds of general merchandise, There were only limited freight engage- ments reported, the market closing heavily. Low and medium priced domestic cotton goods bave been in more demand during the week; but there has been no general revival of business, and, though prices have been tending upward, influenced by the rapid rise in the raw material, the market has been unsettled. The inquiry for domes- tic woollens has been mainly for cassimeres, wanted by Western buyers; prices have been without improvement. The principal business in foreign dry goods has been transacted in heavy linens and woollens, at irregular quotations. The week’s imports of dry goods amounted in value to $1,749,275, including $1,208,940 in entries di- Tect for consumption, and $540,335 warehoused. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU @TS. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brondway —Tux Duxx's Morto. pNAMLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tkux 10 THE ast. WINTER GARDEN. 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The sutlers’ trains are now Protected by an armed escort from Washington to the army, in consequence of the guerilla attacks of the enemy. The Richmond papers represent that General Lee's army is in good spirits, and that a general battle on the line of the Rapidan is not impossible, a8 General Lee is reported to be quite ready. We give later news in detail from Charleston to-day, by way of Fortress Monroe. It is said that Fort Wagner might have been taken by General Gillmore before now, only that it would be untenable while Fort Sumter was in the hands of the enemy. To disable Sumter, therefore, is of Paramount importance. It is reported that the batteries being erected by General Gillmore on Morris Island are of such calibre that Fort Sumter cannot stand before them an hour and a half after the fire is opened. The fight is expected to com- mence within a few days. The Ironsides is within five hundred yaids of Sumter. By the arrival of the steamer Washington from New Orleans yesterday, we have dates from that Port to the Ist inst., comprising highly interesting letters from our correspondents. The city is in a Perfectly quiet state. Not much cotton had ar- rived from above since the capture of Port Hud- eon. A strong Union feeling indicative of the anxiety of Louisiana to return to its allegiance is everywhere manifested. It was reported that a French steamer took an English schooner in tow into Vera Cruz on the Sth ult.,the same having been captured in the Rio Grande with $300,000 worth of arms on board, Supposed to be intended for the rebels in Texas, although the schooner cleared from Liverpool for Matamoros. Our news from the South contains much that is interesting and important from the rebel journals; but the most attractive item is an appeal is- ‘ued by Jeff Davis to the officers and soldiers of the confederacy, imploring those of them who ‘are absent from duty to return to their camps ‘and posts, and promising a full pardon to all deserters who return within twenty days. He paints a fearful picture of the designs of the Northern army. Rapine, incendiarism, confisca- tion and extermination are represcnitd fs the ‘leading objects of the invaders. The “men who srule in Washington,” he says, are afraid to make Peace lest they should be hurled from power, and ‘refuse even to confer uppn the subject of conduct- ding the war on civilized terms. ‘Thomas E. Bramlette, who has just been elected to the Executive chair of Kentucky, probably by lewonty-tive thousand majority, is neither an aboii- stienist nor an admirer of the present national ad- ‘@ainistration, as the secession sympathizers and -copperheads exerted themselves before the elec- tion to make the voters believe. He is, however, etrongly opposed to the present rebellion, and @tands upon the same platform with the conserva- tive democrats who favor the prosecution of the ‘war until the Union is restored. He will take the @eat to which Beriah Magoffin was chosen four years ago, by the following vote:— ‘iah Magoffin, democrat. joshua F. Bett, opposition... The Restoration of the Union—The Ad- ministration Adrift, It appears that considerable anxiety exists at Washington touching the policy of the administration for the reconstruction of the Union, There is the radical abolition pro- gramme for reducing the rebellious States to the condition of Territories, or to the alterna- tive of the abolition of slavery respectively, before granting them the rights and privileges of sinners forgiven and restored to the church in full communion; and there is the conserva- tive policy, under which it is contended that a State wherein the armed forces of the rebellion have been put down should be considered in statu quo ante bellum, just aa she was before the war, and requiring no legislation at or proclamation from Washington to enable her to proceed to the election of members to the federal Congress. But between the radicals and the conservatives, to use a homely compa- rison, the administration stands undecided, like the perplexed donkey between the two bun- dles of hay. In the outset of the war the Union restoring policy of the administration was clear and simple, as set forth in the official papers ema- nating from President Lincoln, and in the reso- lution adopted in Congress, and for which every republican member voted, declaring that the object of the war was the subjugation of the armed forces of the rebellion, and nothing more. But as the struggle progressed, and as the radical faction in the Cabinet and in Con- gress began to coerce the administration into their confiscation and emancipation schemes, the simple object of putting down the rebel armies began to recede at Washington into the background, and the war began to assume the form of that of William, the invading Nor- man, against the Saxons of England—a war for their extermination or the complete extinc- tion of their foval Mnaiflutions dnd landmarks, and for the confiscation of their estates. Still President Lincoln has not been wholly subdued by the radicals. Yielding to their emancipation, confiscation and conscription projects, he has held and yet holds fast to his _copservative Secretary of State. “From this circumstance the conservative masses of the country still entertain a degree of faith that Mr. Lincoln will in good season show his hand in favor of the shortest and simplest method of restoring the Union, including the abandonment of his emancipation proclamation asa military measure, or brutum fulmen, of no binding effect beyond the slaves actually liberated by coming within the lines of our armies. It is to be hoped that these expecta- tions will be fulfilled; but we fear that they who believe in them will be disappointed. It is Mr. Chase, and not Mr. Seward, who is the ruling .spirit of the Cabinet. Mr. Chase's “greenbacks,” put in the scales against Mr. Seward’s diplomatic correspondenee, have done the business. Chase is potential; Seward is powerless. The one speaks like # master; the other pleads like a servant of the adminis- tration. Hence we fear that the radical abo- lition policy of the head of the Treasury will prove too strong for the conservative policy of the amiable Secretary of State. Thus the war will probably go oa, in the shape of a guerilla war, after the final defeat and dispersion of the last of the great armies of the rebellion—the army of General Lee. Thus it is probable that Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and every other rebellious State to which the emancipation proclamation was applied will be kept out of the Union until there shall have been a recon- struction of the State constitution of each of said States recognizing and enforcing the abo- lition of slavery. “Emancipation or separa- tion” was, from the beginning, the abolition platform, and to the extent of the power of the radical faction in the government every rebel- lous State will be required, in returning to the Union, to pass in by the side door of eman- cipation. We are not, therefore, very sanguine of the restoration of the Union under Mr. Lincoln's administration. Between the emancipation ul- timatum of the abolition radicals and the South- ern independence or pence-at-any-price move- ments of the copperheads, the task of re-estab- lishing the Union will, in all probability, have to be settled by the people in next year’s Pre- sidential election. Anticipating this event, we also expect that the people, by an overwhelm- ing majority in every loyal State west of Mas- sachuget{s and Vermont, Will declare for a Pre- sident in favor of the full recognition of Ten- nessee, Mississipp!, Louisiana, South Carolina, &e., a6 States restored to the Union with the suppression of the rebel forces and authority therein, and with the submission of said States respectively, and with or without the institution of slavery, as the ose may be, and without auy Democratic majority 8,916 —And it is confidently expected that he will fiithe place with more honor to the State and to himself ‘than did his elected predecessor. Judge Bram- jlette has held the office of Commonwealth At- }torney in the Greensburg Circuit, and shortly af- }terwards became the circuit Judge. After the ‘war broke out he raised a regiment forthe a pfence of the Union and led it to the field, and was promoted to a brigadier generalship. He subse- quently left the army, and was appointed United ‘®tates District Attorney. + The Iegislature of West Virginia adjourned on }the 5th mastant, to meet again on the 2d of Sep- ‘somber. Another new State will soon come rapping at door of the Union and demanding admittance. the 2d of @ptember the people of Nevada ‘erritory will alect delegates to a constitution- convention, when the machinery for a State t will be put in motion. 4, In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, the “yeial of prisoners indicted for taking part in the late riot was continued before Recorder Hoffman. \pistrict Attorney A. Oakey Hall appeared as prosecuting officer. Mark J. Silva, one of the parties indicted for taking part in the murder of ‘the colored maa, Abraham Franklin, was let out $500 bail, the District Attorney expressing a Perens doubt as to whether Silva had been con- jected with the case, Mr. Elias M. Sperling, of 186% William street, became his bendsman. os. Carney pleaded guilty to am indictment for jot, and was sentenced to the Penitentiary for tone year, and to pay a fine of $250, John O'Hara aes guilty to stealing a watch from Morris A. ) Who was stan ding with a crowd in front of the City Hall, on the 13th ult. The jury failed jee agree in the case of James Lee, indicted for jgtand larceny, which charged him with stealing pantaloons and 4 coat from the store of Mr. illiam Lippman, on the Lith ult. The case will ¢ tried again on Monday next. Patrick Sweeney ag tried and convicted on an indictment for riot, having intended to fire a place called the * Arch,” in Thompson street, where a number of fe people lived. He was remanded for sen ce. Theodore Ostenstoek was tried and con- ted on ao similar indictment, for taking part in | effort on the part of the administration to con- trol any State in regard to slavery. If the pre- sent administration is not equal to this simple policy the people will make it good in the election of the next. And this is the exact issue to which we are drifting. Buasraemy is Tae Pu.rrr.—The thankagiv- ing sermons preached on Thursday in this city were of a very commonplace character. There was nothing in them. Very different is the ser- mon of a Rev. Mr. Frothingham on “the morality of the riot.” It is full of the most startling blas- phemy, and so depraved are some of the public journals that they regard it either lightly or actually commend it to their readers. Mr. Frothingham says there was a riot of one week in the ancient city of Jerusalem, instigated by the Pharisees against Jesus Christ, whom Pon- tius Pilate, the Roman governor, would not in- terfere to protect, because the rioters were only playing bis own game and strengthening the Roman power and authority. He surren- dered him into their hands to crucify him. In the same manner Frothingham says “there was a riot of several days in the city of New York, during which the rioters hungere@ for the blood of one man, a man whom some call visionary, but whose visions are all of ‘the re- demption of the people ; whom: some call a fool, but who, if he seems a fool, is foolish that the people may be wise; a man who has lived for the people and suffered for the people, and been laughed at when he suffered and because he suffered. This was the man whose blood was hungered for;” and the preacher caps the climax by announcing that this man was Horace Greeley. The comparison fails in one point. We did not learn that (iree- ley was crucified. Could the audacity of blas- phemy further go? Is it any wonder that nig- gers are declared to be equal to white men by a fanatical clergy, when Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, is placed on a level with Horace Greeley, a man who advocated the doctrine of the amalgamation of blacks and whites, and the free love system proclaimed by Fanny Wright, ignoring the obligations of marriage, and who for years championed in his journal and by lectures the theories of Fourrier and the pha- lanxes established in this country by Owen and others for the purpose of breaking down all social distinctions and the rights of property, thus overthrowing Christianity, and founding on its ruins a new infidel and agrarian system, whose distinguishing priaciple is that “all pro- perty is robbery.” Horace Greeley has been the strenuous advocate of what are called wo- men’s rights and ‘every social and political abomination of the day—a man who has done more than any other in the United States to produce the present civil war which is deso- lating the country. Yet this is the man who {is put in comparison with Christ, and his sufferings placed in the same category with these which redeemed the world. It is the first time we have ever heard of the sufferings of Greeley. We rather think he bas spent his whole life in making other people suffer, taking good care to avoid all suf- fering himself. Why is this Frothingham not called to account at once and expelled from the church for his blasphemy? Have we not in teachings like his the key to the fanaticism which has labored for thirty years to break up this Union, and succeeded at last in involving the nation in the bloodiest war recorded in the book of time? Ranicat Inreiaves.—The radicals now ad- mit that they were foiled by the stand taken by Governor Seymour during the late riots, but are now endeavoring to carry out their pro- gramme of martial law in spite of the Gov- ernor. It is said that they are intriguing with our military officers, and have already carried their point so far in that direction thatYetters of an ungentlemanly nature have been written to the Governor. The copperhead organs, like the Neves, are, on the other hand, endeavoring to place the Governot on the other extreme, by declaring that he has pledged that no man shall leave the State until the constitutionality of the Conscription law is tested in the courts. We believe that several men drafted at Platts- burg have already left. As soon as the Conscription law passed the last Congress Governor Seymour should have opened negotiations with the authorities ot Washington, and offered to fill the full quota of this State by enlistment if the draft would be withheld. It was within the power of the Gov- ernor to hold out such inducements, and for the administration to consider them. If good reasons were held out that the entire force required from this State could be obtained in that manner, and the administration refused to concede to it, then the officials at Washington would have been placed in the position of de- siring 8 conflict bere from which they could not have escaped. How the affair will now end, with the radicals renewing their recent plots in a more dangerous way, it is impossible to tell. Geyeran McCieuian’s R We learn by intelligence from Washington that General McClellan has recently aid before the War De- partment full reports of all his battles and cam- paigns in Virginia and Maryland, constituting a complete history of the operations of the Army of the Potomac during the period he was its commanding general. This narrative is one of deep interest to the whole community. There have been anfavorable reports published against General McClellan. It is the least that is due to him and the nation to know what he has to say on his own side. We trust, therefore, that without further delay his reports will be made public, so that every one may form an intelligent estimate of the merits or demerits of McClellan, and of the merits or demerits of the managers of the War Department. Let the truth come out, and there will be no danger of the people forming an erroneous judgment. A Napougzoy Cavour at Last.—The Cheva- lier Raymond, the hero of Solferino and Bull run, and the author of an ingenious philosophical dissertation upon “the elbows of the Mincio, formed by the sympathies of youth,” has been to Washington and made a discovery. Having investigated all the facts, be decidedly asserts that Secretary Stanton is the Napoleon who captured Vicksburg, and thus insured the fall of Port Hudson and the freedom of the Mississippi. says in bis official despatch that General Grant's plans and generalship captured the rebel strong- hold; but then Porter was on the spot, instead of being at Washington, and consequently knows nothing about it. In fact, nobody knows any- thing about it except Stanton and the Chevalier Raymond, and if they say that Stanton ia s Na- | poleon of course we are bound to believe them It is true that Admiral Porter | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1863. The Kentucky Election. Saratoga when compared with suck s dinner The result of the recent elections in the party as this? State of Kentucky is just now occupying to®| Tho amusements of Sarataga were somewhat great extent the attention of the party press. | different = quarter of a century ago. Then The niggerhead journals are doing their utmost | there was conversation. Now there is tittle to convince their readers that the success of the | tattle. Then there was dancing. Now there is Union ticket in that State iss complete triumph | polkaing. Then the ladies and gentlemen of the administration, with all its isms and radi- | made excursions through the surrounding cal plans. On this, however, they are wide of | country, or perhaps accompanied General the mark. The State of Kentucky tis one of | Morgan Lewis to the Saratoga battle ground, the most positive States in the Union. It never | and listened while he fought his battles o'er was republican and abolition, nor is it seces- again. Now the ladies and gentlemen go to sion. Ite citizens are firm supporters of the | horseraces and bet upon Smith’s filly or Jones’ constitution, and in the recent election they | gray mare. That was the classic age. This is have declared in favor of that bulwark of our | the age of shoddy. Then the destinies of the liberties more strongly and emphatically than | nation were controlled by statesmen. Now a ever before. The result is the repudiation of | pack of Poor, crazy fanatics rule toruin. Then both radical republicanism and copperheadiem. | the Goddess of Liberty was represented as a Those persons classed as copperheads in Ken-| young and jovely woman, fresh, vigorous, im- tucky mean simply rebels. The election of | mortal. Now the representative of Liberty is the ticket run by that faction would therefore | supposed to be a half-witted fellow, who wears be simply a declaration in favor of secession | his trowsers tucked into his boots and his eld and rebellion. The result was that all opposed | white hat on the back of his head, as if the dis- to the rebellion united on the common ticket, | order of his dress were typical of the disorder resulting in glorious triumph for the Union | of his mind. The country was then peaceful, and a renewed pledge on the part of the people | prosperous and powerful. Now the nation is of that State for the suppression of the rebellion. | involved in a terrible civil war. Saratoga was It is & complete repudiation of the copperheads | then in {ts glory. Now its glory has departed and a declaration that Kentucky still stands firm | and it has fallen into the sere and yellow leaf. for the immediate crushing out of the rebellion | We have almost no great men now, and the by force of arms, and nothing more or leas. best men we have do not frequent the watering Nor is there the slightest evidence for the | places. Our women are as fair as ever; but fanatic radicals to claim the least approval, di- | they have apparently suffered from the de- rectly or indirectly, of their schemes. It has generacy of the age, and cannot compare with been admitted by some of their journals that | the belles of former times. Onur politicians Brutus J. Clay, the successor of the lamented | used to be gentlemen; but now the majority of Crittenden, is the only administration man | them are arrant scoundrels. Society, politics, elected to Congress. We publish elsewhere a)! and indeed the whole republic, have lost their remarkable and outspoken letter from Mr. | tone. The foul poison of a hundred detesta- Clay, that gtves in plain, decided and un-| ble isms has eaten into the national heart equivocal language the position that he oc- | and corrupted the national mind. For the pre- cupies on the present issues, which we com- | sent we can only lament the evil days upon mend to the special attention of our readers. | which we have happened, and do our utmost to “Lam,” says Clay, “and always have been, | remedy and improve them. In the future, per- for the preservation of the constitution and the | haps, the reconstruction of the Union will be Union, and for the vigorous prosecution of the | followed by a general regeneration, and then war to subdue the rebellion which threatens | the country, recovering from this temporary their overthrow. At the same time I am op- | interruption caused by fanatical folly, will posed to the policy of the administration as to | again resume its rapid, triumphant and glori- the abolition of slavery and the enlisting of slaves | ous progress. as soldiers.” This is conclusive that Mr. Clay is not in favor of the extreme measures of the radicals, who are now all potent in admin- istration circles at Washington. The views of Clay are unquestionably those of the majority of the people of Kentucky. It was that doc- trine tbat they declared in favor of in voting for the Union ticket. It is therefore clear that, while they repudiated copperheadism, secession and rebellion in all its phases, they spoke in the same decided tones against the heresies of the fanatical radicals. This position of the people of Kentucky is precisely the same as that of a majority of the people in all the loyal States of the North, ex- cept it may be some of the extreme abolition States of New England. It was on just such a platform that the conservative party was carried into power in this State in the fall of 1862. This result is additional evidence of the extreme folly of those men.elected to Congress on ‘the conservative ticket in this city last year taking the position of opposition to the war the moment that they were elected. In doing so they declared in favor of the rebellion. The republicans were successful in the States of New Hampshire and Connecticut last spring simply for the reason that the opposition announced their pro- gramme as being opposed to the crushing out of the rebellion by force of arms, and in favor of an armistice and peace on any terms. A majority of the people are in favor of crushing i 1: wil doe ld dialinier. out the rebellion, and no @odge of the poli- re nus omy ia coa eae irr haa. Jot ticians will prevent them from expressing re * He be ebe wh He ; alle their sentiments at the bailot box. At the propre sore ae aaah ise samextime -they do not: appwove of the, doo- Yet Mr. Owen is of opinion that “the religious trines of the niggerheads. The folly of the sentiment strongly ch ising the African copperheads in claiming that the elections last race may in the case of the colored soldier be fall'were in favor of their secession notions, . successfully appealed to by leaders who share and of the niggerbeads tbat the recent Basie ple ful element of « enthusiasm,” election in Kentucky is an endorsement of (what blaephemy!) and he also sets forth his their incendiary schemes, is therefore silly in belief that the negro is equal to all things—fully the extreme. It is simply a repudiation of the the equal of the white maa, morally, mentally, Febellion and « declaration in favor of restor- socially and politically, if oaly put under proper fag then Union, with the: coustitutlen aniin- training fora while; and: he recommends de- pat ohn ras a partments of labor to be organized under the Saratoga, Past a Presene. Freedmen’s- Association, in imitation of the We remember the classic age of Saratoga. A | Fourrierite phalanxes, whee fate is so well quarter of a century ago that celebrated water- known to all:our readers. What humbug! ing place attracted the beauty and fashion of | We recollect very well when Owen came to all the country during its brilliant seasons, and | this country, about thirty years ago, accompa- the dignitaries and belles of the North, South, | nied by Fauny Wright, who delivered lectures Kast and West assembled there from: almost | in Tammany Hall and ¥arious other public every capital on the continent. We: reeollect | edifices agalnst marriage, in favor of free love, visiting Saratoga when it was at the height of | the amalgamation of the black and white races, its prosperity. Then the society was refined, | ang comm*nity of property. The object of the cultivated and intellectual. No one-had then | mission seemed to be the overthrow of Chris- heard of the shoddy aristocracy, or of the | tianity. Gwen seton footsome Fourrierite free curious transformation of devil's dust inte gold love phalanxes in Illinois ; but, failing in this dust. The period of our visit was the year | enterprise; he retired into obscurity in Indiana, 1839. President Van Buren stopped at Sara- | where he became a small politician. Himself toga for some time during that year, Soon after | and his history were forgotten till poor Pierce the President’s grand entree Henry Clay arrived. brought bim into notoriety again by appointing Scarcely was the excitement about Henry Clay | him to some petty consnlship in Italy. And over when General Scott joined the splendid | inuw the administration takes the visionary up assemblage. That season was most memora- | ang appoints him to report upon a subject on ble in the annals of fashion and of politics. whieh be was always a monomaniac. Ye has In order to appreciate the company atSarato- | the game opinions now as be promalgaty when gaat that time let us take a glance atwdinmer | ne came to this country, from which tact the party at the United States Hotel. The-United | reader can draw bis own conclusion as to the States was the leading hotel tnen, and such & | ohiracter of any report emanating from Robert thing as the disunited States bad never occurred | ne ie Owen. toany one. At the head of the table-sat Presi- oo agen dent Van Buren. On the: right hand of the oun ‘OaRDEN. President was General Scott. On: the left Thiais the last night of the seasoa.at thas theatre, aad hand was Henry Clay. Our seat was-at the foot | the performances are for the benedvof Mr. Mark Smith. of the table, directly opposite the: President. | This aunouncement ought of oo pe "7 ee. On our right band General Morgen Lewis was bergrete ts he “ome (his ummer season be seated, and on our left hand was General fans shown that he cam manage ® theatre as well as please Talmadge. Looking up or down. the table, J an audience, The public are indebted to him for much the interested observer remarke® such gentle- | comfort pefore the curtain and capital managememt upon men as Mr. Forsyth, Secretary of State; Mr. the stage. He bas preduced one-ef the best burtesques Poinsett, Secretary of War; General ©*Donell, perks brags errr ie beteer pAtcporla of Baltimore: Colonel Johnson, of Kentucky; pres: man ‘could have done. This is great but de- Thomas H. Benton. Coionel Alexander Hamil- | eer ved praine. ton, Hon. Drank Waddell, Senator Talmadge, | Tho programme for this erening ; Colonel White, of Florida; Rev. Dr. Bethuge, | st,” and the aew farce called “alitraia Diamonds Philip Hone, “the father of the whig party; | perbecn pe aa which theatre has been Joseph Gales, “Peter Parley” Goodrich, Colo- | fresbiy paimted and upbolorered for them. On Monday nel Thora, Judge Hornblower, Chancellor | text” the Winter aa bel ira vensio pve pa | Walwertb, Hon. Frank Granger, Willis Holl, | maaagomeot of Mr. }s who w .P. Van Rensselaer, the Patroon. and others whom | poetang tbe fd ae eee srauaee te eo water | we cannot just now recall. Armong the ladies the fali season in October, hia first star betug Mr. Etwin were Mra. DeWitt Clinton, tbe Countess of = — Westmoreland and her suite, Miss Gardener, | | S00 Pee oe i eo ines ay, arpa the Livingstons, and the wives, sisters, auch ‘igay sutering from the het, called at No. © Amity tors and friends of all the distinguished gentle- | street, accompanied by « smait boy, aud asked for a glasay men we have mentioned. From Montreal came ot water. It was immediately procured for her; but ba. the Hon. Colonel Grey and his charming wife ; | fore she could drink it she foil dead to the floor, The ~ | Colonel Ellison, of the Grenadier Guards, one | " hes ae as * big ‘ee preeniz rey ns, pers of the heroes of Waterloo ; Major White, of the penser of the Acade: y ut Muste. The Corqper was | Huasars, and a dozen other British officers and duly notifod, and the juts boy cvoveyad ta Ane police | noblemen. What is the present society of . pesagmartes. Rosert Date Owen's Report os THE Capa- BILITIES OF NeGROES.—The radical journals are making a great fuss about Robert Dale Owen’s report on the moral, religious, social and poli- tical capabilities of the negro. It is not worth the paper on which it is written, as we shall presently show. It appears that Robert Dale Owen, James McKaye and Samuel G. Howe were, at the-instance of the Freedmen’s Asso- ciation, appointed a committee by the Secre- tary of War to report upon the negro, just as if everybody who had eyes to see, ears to hear anda mindto understand, did not long since make up his mind about the negro from the evi- dences of his own senses, and from the unerring instincts of nature. The report is written by the chairman, Robert Dale Owen. In giving an account of their religious and moral qualities Mr. Owen says negroes “do not respect the rights of property;” they are “liars” and “incontinent.” “Their religion is emo- tional, and does nat necessarily connect itself with the repression of vicious habits; its effect in checking lying, thieving, incontinence and! similar offences is feeble uncertain.” Such is the commissioner’s moral and religious esti- mate of the negro. As to his intellectual capa- city, Mr. Owen gives us the following speci- men:—“These poor people have an almost super- atitious reverence for the President. Recently at Beaufort some one, in the presence of an aged megro, was speaking of Mr. Lincotn as an is “Leah, the For- | oe re er aee ones ter and of ty-eighth Congressional district to be credited cn the present draft in his district for the excess ef men furnished by it over the former. It is understood: that the Depastment bas granted the allowance claimed, and that the order will apply to other similar cases. ene Wasuincron, August %, 1868. GENERAL M'CLELLAN’'S REPORTS. I learn that the full reports of Genera! McClellem on tke famous peninsula and Marylend campaigns have been re ceived at the War Department. The preliminary reports, which were brief, you have already published. Those now received are very voluminous, apd are a complete history of the memorable campaigus of last year. It supposed that the President will bave thom published immediately, and tnen we shall know ai! about tbe war and what they killed the General for. HOW MEXICO WAS SURRENDERED. It is stated here, and upon the very best authority, that the surrender of the city of Mexico was made by the Roman Catholic clergy of Mexico to the clergy of the game denomination attached to the invading Frenoe army. THE BEPORTED CABINET DISOUSSIONS ON THE aus. JECT OF PEACB. Statements appeared in some of the Northern papers after the fall of Vicksburg and the defeat of Lee to the effect shat the question of peace had been discussed im the federal Cabinet, and that a Cabinet crisis has been caused by @ proposition of Mr. Seward to issue a Presidential proclamation offering an amnesty to the Southern people, withdrawing tho emancipation proclamation, suspending the Confiscation act, and offering protection to the = al property and rights of the Southern people, except the leaders; tha: Attorney General Bates and Mr. Moatgomery Blair favcr the acheme, with.s modification; that Messrs. Stanton and Chase violently oppose it, and Mr. Wollee -aleo oppoaés it, but not so strougly. Hore, where the public is accustomed to assumptions of this kind, these statements were not thought of sufficiont importance to demand attention. It seems now that they went to Eu rope} and were made the foundation there of new castles in che air, built by the European enemies of the United ‘States. Is ts therefore proper to say that these stave ments had no foundation whatever in fact. No such de bates, or propositions, or any debate or proposition os the subject of peace, or of such amnesty, has been made or had in the Cabinet, nor Gave any such differences arisen. WAB WITH GREAT BRITAIN. Articles appearing in the journals of this city and clee- where represent a war with Groat Britain as imminent. ‘The assumption that these articles are authorized by the government, or made upon any knowledge of its views, {a without foundation, COMPLETION OF THE CONSCRIPTION. The anxiety is over, and the draft in this district com- Picted. As announced, the drawing for Georgetown an@ the county took place to-day. Of the number drawn in Georgetown three hundred and ninety were white and sixty-five colored. This part of the district bas never been celebrated for its loyalty, and of the white conseripts many are more than suspected of secession Proclivities, which, of course, makes it the more pleasant for them. Everything passed off quietly and pleasantly. however, and throughout the whole of the drawing no complaints bave been heard of the entire fainness and justnese of the proceedings. The Board of Enrolment will on Monday commence its sessions for the examination of the conscripts, receiv- ing claims for exemption, &c.. Substitutes are said to be Plenty, and the substitute brokers, of whom there are several firms in operation here, are contracting to Cur- ‘nish them for two hundred dollars per man. Several detectives have been stationed at the railroad depots to prevent drafted persons from leaving the city, and thus far about ome hundred have been turned back, and others have been arrested at various points by the military authorities. A portion of tbe colored conscripts dra{ted’ in the First ward on Monday reported themselves ready for duty this morning. They were ordered by Captain Scheots, Provost Marshal, to appear before the Board of Enroimout on Monday. ‘The statement in some of the newspapers that Mr. 8. ‘M. Carpenter, one of the correspondents of the Hurato, had been dratted in this city, is a mistake, arising from the drawing of the name of Mr. S. Carpenter, of this city, on Wednesday last. ‘Tho Secretary of War bas recently stated to an-appli- cant for an office in regiments to be formed of conscriptea that no such regiments would be formed, and that there would bé no office te give on that head. That the deter- minution of Mr. Stanton is praiseworthy is patent to military men who have been cognizant of the mischief to the service which arose at an early period of the war from the designation of commissioned officers who haa not the eapability for command. These were generally the favorites of politicians. ‘TheCollector of Internal Revenue has been appointed by the War Department receiver of the $300 commutatica money. ‘THE CONSCRIPTION IN ROCHESTER. Hoa. Alfred Ely, of New York, has presented to the claims of the corporation of Roohes- MAILS FOB NEW ORLEANS VIA THE MISSISSIPPI. Robert C. Gist, special agent of the Post Office Depart- ment in charge of the Memphis Post Office, writes to the Hon. George W. McLellan, Second Assistant Postmaster General, that steamboats are arriving and doparting ‘almost daily to-aod from New Orleans, without molesta- tion from guertiine. He adds:—"I am now making ‘up @ mail daily. for New Orleans. I bave consulted ‘the Surveyor of the Port, Master of Transportation and other officiaie, all of whom express a decided opinioa that the Eastern aod Northern mails for New Orleans can be sent with more safety and expedition via the-Missis- sippi river than-by the ocoan steamers @0 long as rebel piraticat vesselo-continue to infest our coast and commis depredations. Geo. Grant has established a meunted patrol between Vickaburg and New Orleans, I understand, and | have no besitation in saying that the transportation of the maiis.will be as safe hence to New Orleans as to Cairo. The guerillas who infest some portions of thé river at times have generally po artillery and mus- etry can do no damage to the boats, The prospect ia that they will becleaned out if they make omy further demonstrations. Transports, with coal barges, are being sent below every day destined for Now Orienas. send a mail now at least twice a week, and I hope soon, when the restrictions on trade are remeved or modified, to be able to sond « mail datly.’” THE QUARTERMASTER'S BEPARTWENT. In the department of Quartermester Tompkins, of this. city, there are seventy-two clerks and cight thousand employes. The-transportation (or a regiment can be got up in @ single hour. THE RETURN OF GEN. BANKS’ SINE MOIFHS SOLDIERS. ‘The prophetic promise of General Banks, made to bis nine months.men when organizing his expedition-in New * York, that they should return by amother route than the ocean, is- being fuilllied, they now beieg oa their war home dy. wap of the Mississippi river. THE NAVY. Co der Woodsworth ms been erdered wo the com-- REMOVAL AND APPORYWMENT. ’ ‘Tho Sergeant.at-Arms of the Senate bas romoved J. W. mand of the Narragansett. Jeanings, and appointed Heary 0. Went, of New Mamp- shire, postmaster of that body. Oar Washi Tak CABINET = \OBRENTS IN BATTLE ARKAY—CHASE, STANTON & CO. V8. TUS BmeT OF esuaremieny Wamumaton, sugust 4, 1963. If the Times intended the ‘pull direct, epliatera and by “implication” of Mr. Secretary Stanton which appesred ) in ite editorial columns yesterday as a burlesque, or as & kiting plece of sazcasm, that usually very @ull journal may be congratulated on having made-the success of the wexson. No such uproarious peals of taughter as tollowoc the public reading of that extravagant pamegyric have becn heard ia eur public offices and hotel Balls since the ‘breaking out of the war, The ole maxima, that ‘‘praine undeserved ts satire in dinguise,”” wae Bever more fully illustrated. Many, as they reed i, Syed bee ; prtege nips hin, =v while others—and those, per haps, of the wiser sort-coneluded either tuat Uke writer of the taudation had taken counsel feos in some claim pevding before the ‘War Department, or that Mr Baimoa P. @pase had completed bis lomg talked of intention of ‘ ng the Temes to be the organ of his. political arp vations. This fatter view, bowover, has wot much pre vaited in tnaide circles. Certain, however, it is that oo Cabset oificar could possibly more need public support then does Mr. & M. Stanton at (bis prosoat writing. With Mr, Sew openly against bir, and assiduously working to bave General Hanks made Secretary of War, with Mr Blair ro fusing to bold any intercourse with bim that is aot of strictly character, with Me. Mater almot evory wok Jollytr ug so'9maa toga onstr ym. os kewinet Che uacuy, — wae =