The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1863, Page 4

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WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 5i4 Broadway.—Ermiorias Boxes, Dances, &c.—THx Gu oor. AMERICAN THEAT! TOMIMES, BURLESQUE: NEW IDEA THEATKEB, 4% Broadway.—Tax Cogustrs, 444 Broadway.—Batrers, Pay- NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Cuniositizs ano ux, from 9A. M. tll10 P.M. HOOLEY'S OP¥RA HOUSE Brookiyn.—armerux | fons. Dances, Buitixsouss, dc, . August 10, 1863. THE SITUATION. Rumors from Washington indicate that a revision of the command of the Army of the Potomac is not improbable. The resignation of General Meade, which has been twice presented, is said to have ‘been accepted. General Grant is spoken of as his successor, but it may be all rumor. | Consols closed in London, on the Ist inst., at 92% 2 93 for money. The Liverpool cotton market at the same date was dull and unchanged. The sales of the day were 4,000 bales. The breadstuifs markets were very dull, with no change to notice. Provisions and produce were generally steady. We give in another column the vote for Gover- nor in twenty-one counties of Kentucky, and compare the returns with those of 1859, when Be- riah Magoffin was chosen the Executive of the State. It will be seen that there is a great falling off in the vote, but not more, all things being considered, than might reasonably have been ex- pected, If Gen. Grant had retained the rebel officers who surrendered at Vicksburg, instead of parol- ing them, we would have had now in our hands over four thousand of the enemy's commissioned officers. There are now in the Yazoo river and its tribu- tary streams thirty-two wrecks of Mississippi steamboats and gunboats, which have been de- stroyed by the rebels to prevent them from falling into our hands since the commencement of the year 1862. All the journals in Washington closed their of- fices on the President’s thanksgiving day, except Forney’s Chronicle, Mr. Lincoln's pet organ. The conservative democrats of Ohio are begin- ning to feel thata heavy load was placed upon their shoulders when they permitted the copperheads to elevate Clement L. Vallandigham to the posi- tion of a party leader. The gold coinage at the Philadelphia Mint dur- ing July was $163,104 89, almost all in double eagles. The silver coinage, almost all half dol- lars, was $25,500 72, and of cents $26,000, making a total coinage of 2,558,784 pieces, of the value of $213,605 60. Mackerel of the finest quality are caught in greatnumbers im the Newburyport (Mass.) bay. The stock market opened weak and a fraction lower on Saturday, but closed better, though rather dull. Gold fell to 126%, and exchange to 139. Money was abun- dant; call loans, 5a6 per cent. The notion of activity in the money market is baseless. ‘The cotton market was decidedly lower on Saturday. Prices of middlings have been quoted as high as 680. & 69c., with sales of 1,300 bales. A moderate busi- ness was reported in breadstuffs, which were generally cheaper. Pork, lard, cut meats, sugars and whiskey ‘wero ip better request. Hay and tallow wore in fair de- mand, Other articles were quiot, Froights wore dull. There is “an irrepressible conflict” in the Cabinet on the question of the restoration of the Union. Mr. Seward, representing the con- ; servative wing of the republican party, is in favor of a liberal amnesty to the rebels, and for the rehabilitation of the rebellious States as members of the Uniog, without further cere- mony than the return, on their part. of their representatives to the two houses of Congress. Mr. Chase, on the other hand, goes for a recon- struction of the Union upon the basis of the abolition of slavery in the rebellious States ag the indispensable condition of their restora. tion. The President is said to be halting be- tween these two different plans of action; but from what has already been done in regard to slavery we may guess what is to come. What Henry Clay was to the old whig party Mr. Seward was to the zepublican party down to the meeting of the Chicago Convention of 1860—the founder, apostle and leader of the organization, and the man whose claims as its Presidential candidate were paramount. But Chase, of Ohio; Cameron, of Pennaylvania, and Bates, of Missouri, had each a conside- With the exception of the capture of a number of Mosby's guerillas, there is no active movement of General Meade’s army to be reported. Our latest news from Charleston is by the trans- port George Peabody, which arrived at this port yesterday with dates from Port Royal to the 6th instant. She brings intelligence that our troops are busy building batteries, and it was reported that a grand attack would be made on Sumter, by both land and naval forces, on Saturday last, the 8th instant. It is said that the rebels are receiving immense supplies by way of Wilmington, N.C., in spite of the blockade. “Machinery of all kinds, locomo- tives, railroadiron, guns of the heaviest calibre, blankets, medicines, shoes, &c., are daily brought in’as if no blockade existed. Officers and crews are constantly leaving Wilmington for England to man the rebel privateers which are being built there for the rebel navy. If this be true, it is cu- rious to know what our war vessels are doing. Jovernor Seymour has addressed an important letter to the President relative to the draft, in which he complains of the injustice done to the State by the mode of enroiment, and asks for a sus- pension of the draft until the errors can be cor- rected. He states that a large body of the people believe the Conscription act to be unconstitutional, and claims that its legality should be tested in the courts. Mr. Lincoln replies, in substance, that | the draft must be enforced, but that some of the districts in which any irregularities may have been committed’can be re-enrolled. He implies that the troopa are wanted, and the quickest way to get them is by the draft. The correspondence will *be found in another column, By the arrival of the China off Cape Race at noon Saturday we have news from Europe ‘ toching onr affairs to the 2d inst.; but it is not,of much importance. The London Times has an article on the speech of Archbiship Hughes to the New York rioters, and says the speech defies analysis and rivals in obscurity the “Delphian Oracle." Hatred of England was the key-note of the speech. The Daily News taunts Mr. Laird with ‘insufficiency of,evidence” in support of hia assertion that he was invited to build ships for the United States government and demands the name of his anonymous correspondent. Mr. Laird has preduced;the letters (without the | name), and we give them in our columns to-day. They are worth perusing. We also give an account of the recent opera- tions of the Alabama, and some interesting details of the captare of the ship Talisman and bark Con- Tad, as we before reported. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arrival off Cape Race on Priday and Sat- urday last of the steamships Hibernian, from Greencastle on the 31st ult., and the Chins, from Queenstown on the 24 imst., we have European news four days later. In a late encounter with the Rassian troops the Poles had been successful. The proclamation of the Polish national government rejects all eompro- mises not based on a recognition of the independ. enee of the kingdom. Prince Gortachakoff, in replying to the note of Austria, expreases su rprisa " st the position assumed by that government, and | of the party now in power. Mr. Seward’s po- must) thinks that Rassia, Austria and Prussia should act m accord. rable body of supporters. They were all, however, set aside by the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. Adopted and elected by all the factions concerned as a compromise, it was natural that Mr. Lincoln, on his part, should next try the virtues of a compromise in the selection of his ministerial family. Accordingly Mr. Seward, Mr. Chase, Mr. Cameron and Mr. Bates were all appointed to the Cabinet; but in the general estimation of his party, and of the country, as the Prime Minister and ruling spirit of the administration, Mr. Seward, like King Saul among the Israel- ites, stood a head and shoulders above his fel- lows. But Secretary Chase now rules the roast, quite eclipsing the amiable Premier, who modestly contents himself with a back seat in the Cabinet councils. How are we to account for this? Mr. Chase’s initiatory loan of a bundred and fifty millions of dollars from the New York banks will settle the mystery at once. He thus secured the great financial and com- mercial interests of the country and all their extensive affiliations; and, baving gained this important point,.he next proceeded to show his power in the administration and his hand on the slavery question as a Presidential can- didate. ; What could Mr. Seward do against the head of the Treasury, giving shape, substance and direction to the financial mensure§ of the government, involving expenditures of bun- \ dreds and thousands of millions of dollars? Thus, upon the money question alone, Mr. Chase became the master spirit of the Cabinet; Gnd this influence of his has doubtless given greater strength to the radical abolition faction in Congress and in the country than they have given to their ambitious favorite as a member of the Cabinet. At all events, the radicals, with Mr. Chase as their pilot and standard bearer, have succeeded, so far, in all { their measures on the slavery question, leaving to Mr. Seward only the duty ef acquiescence, pondence of the last two years, we find him at | one time denouncing the abolition scheme of a general emancipation of the slaves of the South, and at another time earnestly defending the President’s liberating proclamation. Frow such historical facts as these, touching the influence of Mr. Seward on the one side and the power of Chase and his radical faction on the other in shaping the policy of the ad- ministration, the intelligent reader will hardly be at a loss in forming his conclusion as te the course which will be adopted by the Cabinet in this matter of the readmission of the rebel- lious States to the Union. We apprehend that Mr. Chase in this, as he has done in other things, will carry the day; and we guess that the venerable Thurlow Weed, in neglecting Mr. Seward’s Presidential business for pro- fitable government jobs, missions and con- tracts, bas been playing a shrewd game of sta- tistics. In conclusion, from this controlling financial and abolition power of Mr. Chase io the present Cabinet, we apprehend that the question of the the Union will be the great issue of the ap- Presidential election, and that the result will be the expulsion from Washington | | ‘ | | licy would save it; but he is powerless agains, | the head of the Treasury and the radicals, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1863. tion Riot—The Germans and Irish Not in Antagonism. “Drowning men catch atestrawa,” and the Richmond papers, in their desperation, seize on the recent riot in New York, and the sentiments and divisions among our people which it is sup- | Posed to have developed, if not generated, as evidence of “the just retribution” that awaits the North, as ‘the inauguration of that terrible condition of anarchy which they bad often pre- dicted.” See an article in another column from the Richmond Whig, entitled “Causes of Conflict at the North.” It is evident that in this case, asin so many others, “the wish is father to the thought.” When the rebellion was planned, anarchy at the North was one of the elements of success on which the leaders calcu- lated. But, like their reliance on foreign aid, it has hitherto failed them, and the avidity with which their organs grasp at the shadow proves how great was the stress they laid upon the substance. The article in the Richmond Whig is one tissue of falsehood and misrepresentation. It asserts thai there is a strong antagonism between the Germans and the Irish; that the Germans were in favor of the draft and the Irish were against it; that between these races there is not only in- congruity of blood, but incompatibility of faith; and, as both races compose a very large proportion of the Northern population, espe- cially ef New York, this city “must be the start- ing point of the internecine war that is sooner or later to make a wide aceldema of the North.” If the writer in good faith “lays this flattering unction to his soul” he never was more deceived in his life. There is no antagon- ism between the Germans and the Irish. Many of them are of the same religion, and, if they were not, thank God, in this country re- ligious differences never can be # cause of social or political strife. The Irish and Ger- mans are both alike useful and industrious citizens, and there is abundant room for all, without any danger of jostling or collision. Indeed, according to the Whig, there is no pos- sibility of rivalry. “The only safeguard,” it says, “against deadly collisions between them in the past has been the separation in their social and industrial spheres, which resulted from dissimilarity of natures. The Dutch al- most invariably engage in some sort of busi- ness, while the Irish resort chiefly to manual labor as a means of support.” If this repre- sentation were trué it would go to show that there can be no antagonism between the Germans and the Irish on the vital point of employment, which is the only one that could ever be of any consequence. But it is not correct, and such a statement proves that the writer knows nothing of the populations of New York city and the occupations in which they are en- gaged, or he wilfully deceives his readers for political purposes. There are more Irishmen in business in New York than there are German, and many of our most successful merchants are Trish. The Germans are descended from an agricultural people. The largest proportion of them in this. country become farmers or farm laborers; but an immense number are me- chanics. The Irish are sprung from a trading and commercial race—the Phonicians—and whenever capital, education and other circum- stances are favorable they always reveal their origin by embarking in business. But owing to the jealous policy of England, which delibe- rately, by act of Parliament, crushed the once flourishing manufactures of Ireland, four-fifths of the population of that country are agricul- turists, and from the oppression they suffer, owing to the tenure of land, they are the poorest and most ignorant class of the country, and constitute the great bulk of the emigrants. They become ‘on their arrival here, for the most part, laborers in cities, laborers on rail- roads and farms, or farmers. But there are other classes of Irish which embark in business, and, speaking the English language, as they do, they possess facilities which are wanting to the German. Besides this class there is a large number of Irish mechanics in New York, and it is here that the chief rivalry exists with the Germans; for both the Irish and Americans sometimes complain that the German work for prices at which a decent white man can hardly live. But there is ample scope for all nation- alities to thrive and prosper, and there can be no ground for serious antagonism. It is the German’s ignorance of the English language, ‘and not his race or religion, which isolates him equally from Americans and from Irishmen. Hence it is that the Germans are more clan- ish than they would otherwise be; but this is no cause of “violently antagonistic elements fn the same political community.” Germans differ in their politics, like Americans, and, though in proportion to their numbers there are not 80 many of them democrats as of the Irish, yet there can be no doubt that a majority of the German population is democratic. The foundation, therefore, on which the Richmond Whig builds is as unsubstantial as “ the base- less fabric of a vision.” But the rebel organ assumes that the aboli- tionists and Puritans, as soon as the present war is over, will unite with the black republican Germans against the Irish and the Catholio reli- gion, and inaugurate another civil war as bloody as that which is now raging. The want after a feeble and timid opposition to this | of success which has hitherto attended every scheme, that scheme and the other. Thus, in | attempt in this couatry to get up a war of Mr. Seward’s extensive diplomatic corres- | white races, or ® war of religion, will always characterize such base efforts. And as for the Puritans and abolitionists, when this war isover they will have to so hide their diminished heads from public view that little apprehension need be entertained of their being able to do any mischief for half a century to come. As regards the conscription riots, the writer in the Whig is equally mistaken. The vast majority of the German population are as much opposed to the draft as the trish and Americans, because they regard it as the inauguration in @ free country of the despotism which they ex- perienced in their native land. Both Germans and Americans were engaged in the riot as well as the Irish, and if there were more Irish engaged in itthan Germans it is because the ward in which the drafting commenced was peculiarly Irish; and the Irish, with all the op- pressions they have suffered in their native land, have never been subjected to conactip- tion, Which is foreign to the genius of the Anglo-Saxon race and its institutions. But had the riot continued, and had the draft been extended to the German wards, the Teutons, all policy to be pursued in the reconstruction of | accustomed to fivearins aa they are, would | have probably been more formidable rioters than the Irish. But riot is not the way to oppose an obnoxious law. An act of Congress obeved ti the courts declare it uncon- 8 vd vold or tit it is repealed. 0 hand. by the terms of the Con- The Richmond Press and the Conserip- | scription law itself, it is left optional with the executive to enforce it or not. A Secretary of War who was a statesman would have advised the President to suspend the operation of law so anti-American. All the evidence pro- duced on the recent trials of the rioters demonstrates that there was no conspiracy, that it was @ purely spontaneous outburst, which wiser counsels would either have avoided provoking, or at least have been prepared to repress on the instant. The city was without ita militia, owing to the blundering and incom- petence of the War Department. Yet the riot, as far as the draft was concerned, subsided so soon as the people learned that no man would be compelled to serve against bis will. The rioters of another description—the thieves, burglars and highway robbers—required other means than moral euasion to bring them under; but they, too, were reduced to subjection, and are now being punished for their crimes, Contrary to the expectation of the Richmond Whig, there will be no more conscription riots in New York; but no thanks to the administra- tion for that, The city will be saved by the resolution of the Common Council, which will vote three hundred dollars for the use of every poor man drafted, as bounty money to serve in the army or to procure a substitute.: The" rebel leaders and their organs will therefore be disappointed. The riots were fomented by the niggerheads and the copperheads of this city both playing into the hands of Jeff. Davis in order to effect a per- manent disunion of the States. But their game is blocked, and plenty of recruits will be ob- tained for the army by the good old mode of volunteer enlistments and bounties, and, when an emergency requires, the organized militia of the States can be called out to repel invasion. There is no need of the draft, and there never was any necessity for it. It is one of those po- litical blunders which are worse than crimes. Breaking Up of the Rebel Comfederacy— What Is the Role for General Lee? Everything indicates the speedy breaking up of the rebel confederacy. The army which garrisoned Vicksburg and Port Hudson is vir- tually disbanded, and all efforts on the part of Jefferson Davis to induce the men to return into the ranks, in flagrant violation of their parole will prove ineffectual. The army which Joe Johnston strove to collect for the relief of Vicksburg, and which was driven out of Jack- son, haa been pretty well thinned out by deser- tions. Bragg’s army fares no better. The peo- ple of the South are heartily sick of the war ead of the horrors and sufferings which it bas entailed upon them. Desertion is carried to such an extent that the President of the con- demned confederacy has had to publish an appeal to the women of the South, urging them to send back their husbands, sons and brothers, and bas even undertaken to disregard the terms of surrender under which Pemberton’s army was paroled. It takes ‘twelve aud a half dollars of Confederate paper money in Richmond to bay one dollar of gold; and even Southern bank notes are classed as from three to four times more valuable than Confederate paper. The South has been drained of its fighting popu- lation so complotely that the price of a substi- tute in Richmond ranges from five to six thou- sand dotlars. And, finally, there are rumors in the Army of the Potomac to the effect tbat General Lee and Davis have quarrelled, and that the former has resigned. We believe there is no truth in the latter part of this report. General Lee is well aware that he can do more service to Virginia, to the South, to the country at large, and to the world, at the head of the rebel Army of the Potemac than in any other capacity. He knows that he now has it in hia power to settle this war, and it is reported that he is disposed to avail himself of the opportunity. Policy, wisdom, humanity, all combine to point out to him the course he should pursue. In- stead of making his brave army actors and vic- tims in any more such bloody tragedies as that of Gettysburg, his duty, and probably his intention, is to march it direct to Rich- mond, place himself at the head of a reactionary movement, arrest Jeff. Davia and the other rebel leaders, reorganize tem- porary State governments throughout the con- federacy, issue proclamations recalling the people of Virginia and the other Southern States to their loyalty and to obedience to the federal constitution and laws, and direct the holding of elections for members of Congress to take their seats in the Capitol at Washing- ton. Tn taking this course General Lee need have no fears of the result. The movement will be heartily supported by his army, and will be hailed throughout the rebel States as one of the greatest wisdom. He willsimply be doing for the United States what General Monk did just two centuries ago for England—putting an end to a sanguinary civil war and restoring his country to the blessings of a regular settled form of government. The better men ot his own section will bless him for it even more than the men of the North. It will relieve them from the terrible military despotism under which they have been ground for the last two years and over, and will give them some chance of retrieving, before it is too late, their ruined fortunes. It will provoke the bostility of only two classes, neither of which, for the present, count for much—the ultra secession fanatics of the South, who still dream of the realization of their wild phantagy, and the ultra anti- slavery men of the North, who hope to see the war continue until slavery is utterly eradicated. No one but a few fanatics of the Praise-God- Barebones class questioned the wisdom of General Monk’s course; and none but fanatics of the same class in the North, and firebrands of the Keitt and Yancey stripe in the South, will have a word of reproach for General Lee for overthrowing the rebel tyranny at Richmond. Aviat, Farragut anp a Graxp Recep- tion.—At any hour we may expect to hear of the arrival of that brave and gallant officer, Admiral Farragut, with his riddled but trusty old flagship, the Hartford. So sure was he that he would arrive bere before the Richmond that he did not send a mail by her. Admiral Farragut returns to us with a most brilliant record. From the moment he entered the Mississippi river until the last of his victo- ries success has ever attended him. By night and by day the broadsides of his battle scarred fleet. have been thundering with destruo- tion to the rebels and with glory to the cause which the Admiral bas fought so hard | to maintain, He has had only one thing in view, and that the good of his country; and that he has faithfully served her no one can question. Is would but be to the honor of this city if we would prepare a suitable reception for the Admiral and those of his officers who have stood by him through the terrible battles of the Mississippi; and it is to be hoped that the country at large will join in showing their ap- preciation of the services of one of the greatest fighters of the age. The Common Council meet to-day. Let them do something for the gallant Admiral and his officers and crew. The European Press the American Que: We devote a large portion of our space to-day to the comments of the European press upon the important crisis which affairs have reached in this country. The opinions of the leading journals of the Old World are ren- dered all the more significant just now because they are called forth by a curious combination of news, calculated, one would suppose, to puzzle and befog the writers, as it has certain- ly bewildered the advocates of disunion and the friends of the Southern confederacy. The invasion of Pennsylvania and tHe stub- born resistance made at Vicksburg laid the foundation of hopes in the enemies of this re- public which were destined to be disappointed. The intelligence of the defeat of Lee, the cap- ture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, the attack on Morris Island, and the fearful tale of the New York riots, happened to arrive about the same time, and upon these subjects the Euro- pean journals are eloquent. It will be observ- ed, however, that the news has worked a wondrous change ‘in their tone. If we read them aright, the chances of recognition for the confederacy of Jeff. Davis have dwindled down to the smallest speck. Even those papers— such as the London Times and others—which were most clamorous for the Southern cause speak dubiously, if not absolutely despondent- ly, of ita prospects, While they are unable to deny the terrible blows recently inflicted on the South, they affect to regard the riots in this city as an organized insurrection against the government and an overwhelming evidence that the North does not want the war to be continued. It is impossibde that, with the light spread before them, these jour- nals can be in ignorance of the fact that, with the exception of the first outburst of the laboring “people against the Conscription law, the New York riots were the work of thieves and rowdies, who took advan- tage of a momentary excitement to ply their avocations with more success, as the records of our courts, where the perpetrators are now daily receiving the reward of their crimes, abun- dantly prove. The less partisan journals take a more ra- tional view of the riots, and invest them with the character which they merit, while, almost without exception, they regard the victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, the retreat of Lee and Bragg, and the attack upon Charleston, as a virtual end of the rebel- lion, and as disposing of all prospects of a re- cognition of the Southern confederacy. The leading journals of France so treat it. So also does the Independance Belge, and in the same light does the Russian organ, Le Nord, re- gard it. The London Times and Post still higgle over the matter, endeavoring to. bolster up the Southern cause by much ingenious special pleading, the weakness of which even their skilful logic cannot conceal. The other English journals, with few exceptions, congra- tulate the British Ministry upon the lucky chance which deterred them from a hasty re- cognition of a govornment “which is no govern- ment,” based upon intelligence favorable to the South and the army of General Lee, and which the interval of one week converted into disaster for the Southern arms in all quarters. Upon the whole the tone of the European journals is most significant, as indicating a con- viction that the would-be confederacy of Jeff. Davis is a falling house, which caution would prompt them to desert. Theatr WALLACK' The ghost continues to draw crowded honscs. The Management of the apparatus might be greatly improved, aud will ke, we hope, with a little practice. The ghosts shou'd move about more, waik more naturally, and ap- Pear and disappoar loas suddonly. Mr. Daly, who assista the ghosts, ought to act with more spirit and cut the phantoms through and through, instead of stabbing behind them. Watkins haa the secret, but does not know how to tuge It to the best advaatage. This week thore will doubt. loss bo & great improvement ia the modus operandi, and everybody will go to be terrified by these apparitions. NIBLO'S GARDEN. «Tho Duke’s Motto”’ etill keeps the stags. It is run- ‘Ding equally well in London, and oeither M. Fochter nor Mr. Wheatley will withdraw it at preseot. The gardens and the splendid ventilation of Niblo's make tt an ad. the Anglo-German tragedian, will produce his sew play, callod “‘Narciase,”” during tho soason. Mr. Whoatley is one of our most popular, enterprising, liberal and sue- cossful managers, and bis next season will be worthy of his reputation. THE BOWERY THEATRES. Managor Lingard, of tho Now Bowery, issues a sort of Proclamation this week, headed] “Kaicterbockors, “A True Story of Old New York.” The occasion is, we believe, the revival of the drama cailed Norman Leatie,”’ ia which Mr. E. Eddy will play the principal part. ‘‘8t, Mary's Eve,” with Mrs. Farron as Madelaine, and “The Joliy Cobbler,” with Mr. Georgo Brookes as Kit Strap, are also included in the programme for thia evening. Not to be outdone, the Old Bowery also announces a very strong bill for to-night. “The Hunchback of Lambythe,” “The Swies Swaina” and “The Minute Gun at Sea” will be performed, Tony De- ier will dance on atilts, and the orchestra will play an entiroly now overture. Both of the Bowery theatres aro Prosperous, and both amply deserve prosperity. very successful. ‘Still Waters Run Deop"’ will be revived to-day, with Mr. Clarko and Mr. Levick in two of thoir best characters, and Mrs. Prior as Mrs, Mildmay. Bry. | ants’ Minstrel Hall will be reopened this evening. The | programme ta excellent, and a burlesque ghoat will be introduced with striking effects. Wood's Minstrels will also bring out a ghost to-night; but whether it will be geauine or burlesque we are not informed. Hooley's | Minstrels wit close their hall in Brooklyn in about two | weeks, for repairs and alterations. The American thea. tre, Broadway, reopens tonight, the company having returned from Boston. It is said that Mr. Raker, formerty of Taura Keone’s, bas leased a new thoatro, just finishing in Brooklyn, and will open it in | Soptomber with « regular dramatic company. Tho Flor. | ences will play at Boston before long, and will exhibit their ghost in & new play, by Jobo Brougham, catied “The Death Fetch.” They will appear at the Winter Garden this autumn, and will produce a wow drama by Tom Taylor, a new burlesque by H. J. Byron, and several new farees. Manager Jackson has arranged to place thoge pieces on the stage in splondid styte, regardicas of | expense. Mr. Frank Rea,a well known actor, has just | arrived here from Jamaica, and has been cagaged by Mra. | Joba Wood for hor fait eoxson at Laura Koone’s, ‘Strate Hovse, Avavera, Mo., August 9, 1963. ‘Tho Maine State loan of $475,000 called out bids fur frome two millions, the premium going #s high aa cine and nine and three fourths per coat in some cases. THE REBEL PRIVATEERS. Operations of the Alabama—The Bark - Conrad, of Philadelphia, Converted Into a Privateer—Ship Talisman, of this Port; Destroyed, &e., &e., ae. On the 27th of July the Bremen bark Prymont, Capt. Von Hagen, arrived at this port from Montevideo, report. ing that on the 22d of June, in latitude 26, longitude 81 11, be spoke the bark Conrad, of Philadelphia, who could not or would not give any satisfactory auswers to bis inquiries. The Captain of the Conrad said they were bound to Buenos Ayres, and would séhda boaton board of che Bremen vessel. She had a brass cannon, and Captain Hagen not liking her appearance, did not wait for the boat. Her subsequent movements showod she was not bound to Buenos Ayres, as she was steering in a northwesterly direction before the wind. At the time there were three sail in company. ‘The Conrad was at Buenos Ayres May 24, loading for New York, and when her movements were reported wo remarked that in all probability se bad been captured and converted into a privateer. Our latest advices from Europe report that the Conrad was captured by the Alabama, and there is no doubt now that she is playing the part of “‘Tacony No. 2.” The Conrad was a bark of three hundred and forty- seven tons, built in 1850 at Philadelphia, and was owned ‘at that port by T. A. Newhall & Co. She was command- 4 by Captain Salisbury, and rated Az. ‘Ship Talisman, Captain Howard, burned by the Ala- bama, sailed from New York op the 2d of May for Shang- hao, with an assorted eargo. She was a fine ship of twelve hundred and thirty-sevon tons register, built at Damariscotta, Me., in 1854, and was owned by Messrs. Crocker & Warron, of this city. THE KENTUCKY ELECTION. Below will be found the returns of the vote cast for Govornor, as far as received, at the recent clection tn Kentucky, compared with the vote given in the same counties in 1859 for the same office:-— ——1883——_, ——1859,__, 627 2193 166 204 “445 186 107 561 31? 2,040 4,378 38,267 367 1,403 ‘998 46 ‘927 390 193 501 1,130 107 922 452 142 118 1.040 236 1,301 49 407 7132 1,062 286 61T ‘187 262 im - 81 178 ma 721 588, 47 3 3. 1,006 168 639 472 18 930 673 Pe om nae 608 565 1,913 164n 7,173 19,972 19,258 Union majority in 1863... Opposition majority in 1859. Total vote in 1859 Total vote in 1863 Falling off....4. Cincinnant, Auguat 9, 1863. Bramlette’s Union majority in fifty eight counties is 32,974. The Liverpool and New Orleans Steame ship Company. The steamship Georgia, which ran ashore on Sable Island on the 4th inst., was a now vessel of 2,635 tons register, having been bullt the present yeir at Hartle- pool, Fngiand, and is owred in Liverpool. She is an irom steamer, three hundred and thirty-two feet in length and forty feet beam, has three decks, and is furnishod with a direct action engine with two cylinders of sixty inch diame'er each. ‘The Georgia was on hor first voyage. The Liverpool Post of the 28th ult. says:— Yesterday the alresdy numerous steam fleet employed in the Liverpool and New York trade bad a very valuable addition by tho arrival trom Nowcastle of the new screw steamor Virginia. She is sister ship to the Georgia and Louisiana, already so favorably known, and. combining several lator improvoments, may justly be put down as Ono Of the finest vorsels in the Mersey. She ia the pro- perty of the Liver:ool and New Ori Steam Naviga- tion Company, and at tho conclusion of the war is in- tended to form one of a line between the two ports; but at it, under the able management of Messrs. Fernio others, they are employed in the Liverpool and New York trade. She has already been entered for loading, and is advertised to start on hor ‘ maiden voyage” oa the 4th proximo, The Heat Yesterday. The heat yeaterday was perfectly scorching. At mid- day the mercury was at the swoltering figure of ninety, and between two and three o'clock in the afternoon one of our thormomoters marked ninety-two degrees iu the shade. This 1 the second time since last Sunday that we have been up io the nineties. On Monday last the mercury was at ninety-five, and, though it did not run so high yesterday, still the heat was of a peculiar'y dead, heavy, sultry character, that made itself felt with a ven- geance in overy part of the city, The heat of Monday was actually not so oppressive as that of yosterday. Everybody who could conveniently do 80 staid indoors, and for the firat time for many Sundays the city railroad cars leading out to the motropolitan suburbs were not crowded to suffocation. This ia a significant fact, showing that the numerous cases of sunstroke which occurred last week bave frightened our excursion-loving people to 20 small degree. THE PARK YESTERDAY. ‘The heat yesterday was intense; but a great many per- fens braved it to reach that chotce spot—the Ramble ia the Park—where the shady bushes made It cool; that is, 4 any place could rently be called cool when the beat pro- vailed everywhere. The recent beavy storms have washed away 0 large quantity of the pewly fixed ground in the ‘upper part of the Park. and even masy of the old pathe have been cut up and undermined by the action of the reshing waters. But what was bad for tho paths was good for the grass and cascades. Among the additions to the Park curiosities are three bitterns and another spot. ted fawn, the survivor of twins, The fawns are all oa- tives of the soll, being to the Park manor born. The Down East Excursion of the West- ern Boards of Trade. Portiaxp, Me., August 9, 1863. ‘The Western Boards of Trade were taken on en excer- sion to the islands yesterday, The weather being foggy and rainy somewhat marred the pleasure of the trip. The steamer sailed about the harbor from ten until two o'clock, affording views of the fort and other objects of interest, and then landed at Little Rog Island, where an excellent banquet was provided, and the visitors were also introduced to a fish chowder and clambake —repaste indigenous to this locity. The whole party returned at seven o'clock in the evening To-day they attend the various churches, and are quests of our merchants. On Monday morning most of them return to their homes by diferent routes, while some remain a fow days longer here. Cie Fasrivats i Jones Wi in Jones Wood during the present week, that of to-day ‘Deng the third annual festival of the Jones’ Wood Shoet- ing Club; to morrow, the aunual pieni¢ of the Gevoral T. ¥. Mea Club; oo Wednesday, « fertival in aid of the widows and or of the Seveoty ninth New York Volunteers, and on Thursday, the »noual picnic of the St. Jobo's Evangelist church schools, Tux Wows anp Onriaxs or THe Saventy-Ninn.—A festival is to be beld on Wednesday next in Jones Wood in behalf of the widows and orphans of the Seventy nivth regiment of New York Volunteers (High. land guard). The efforts of the committee lave met with the cordial co-operation and assistance o pleasure seekers and others, and doubtiess the festival ‘wilt be a grand one. Professor Macphersun wik preside over the dancing. Finn ix Broapway.—Between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning a fire broke out jo the Union Comb Factory of Herring & Brothers, 1,268 Proadway. Damage 000. Cummings’ planing mill is damaged avout friar aoe the bulidiegs which, are owned by Chas. sardaiey, are about $i and jogured for aun "ine stock in M. Pract skirt fretory waa damaged about $500, by water. for $6,500 in tbe Wiliiambarg City, toa, Firemon's, and Liverpool and Londen insurance companion, Tho fire is wo have been the work of an diary. Mas Dmownnn At States Ietann.—A man by the vame of Reardon was drowned at Stapleton, Staten Isiand, yes- terday, while out in a boat . He bad caught a fish Aehing and was im the act of taking it in, when the boat ti and the man foil into the water and sunk iy His litte son, a lad about tow years of tranticaily, plunged into the water to reseue him, the anforty. DaL® MAN Hever rose to the surface again. body has bol yoou Ceoovered