The New York Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD.| JAMKS GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIE!OR OFPIOR BW. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NaSSAU BTS. Velume XXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS KVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, Lroadway.—Tax Duxe's Morro. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tlevx To tHe st. KEW BOWERY THEATSS, Bowery.—Favsros—8r. Maui's Eva~B etsy Bank BOWERY THEATRE, Bower WYTLK—SWISS BW ANS MINOT INUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway. —Liv: ATS=URKANG OUIANG—AUTONATON WritER, &¢. Stu Waters Run . Dixr—Afternoon —Huxcnsack or Lam. UN aT Ska nd ‘3 MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- BEYANT way. vetay Sonos, Dances, BuRuxsques, 4¢.—Tax WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 516 Broadway.—Ermiorian Fonas, Dan xs, Ac.—Pite Gs oor ANERICAN THEATRE, 444 Broadway.—Bauixrs, Pax: | J, TOMIMES, BURLKSQUES, &o. et had IDEA THEATKE, 485 Broadway.—Tas Gaost's URI KE, N! W YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Cursosrties anv Lecrores. from 9 A. M,"till 1) P.M. HOOLEY'S OPERA ou! Breokijn.—Ermeriun Boncs, Dances, Buncesovas, me sa Advertisements for the Wexxiy Haratp must be band- 0 ws before ten o’clock every Wednesday evening. ite circulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted in the WexKLY Hmratp will thus be seen by a large ‘Portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. THE SITUATION. The advices from the front of the Potomac army yesterday do not indicate any operations at pre- sent. Our lines extend as far as Stafford Court House and Aguia creek. The enemy's pickets atill extend along the south side of the Rappahan- nock. The rebel General Mosby's guerillas were overtaken on Saturday by General Caster, with a brigade of General Pleasanton’s cavalry. They fled, leaving twelve prisoners in our hands. General Mosby came very near being cap- tured, but escaped into a dense wood. A por- tion of General Longstreet’s army is undoubtedly in Fredericksburg. The railroad between that point and Aquia creek has been torn up to a con- siderable extent, and the whole country between the Rappahannock and the Potomac has been desolated. ‘ Desexicrs from the rebel army ate coming into our lines in large numbers, and it is said that. the mountains are filled with men in open rebellion agains: the conscription of Jeff. Davis. The correspondence between President Lincola and Governor Seymour relative to the draft con- tinues, The Governor replies in our columns to- flay to the late communication of the President. He regrets that Mr. Lincoln expressed determina- tion to enforce the draft upon an enrolment which he (Gov. Seymour) regards fraudulent. He shows that in nine Congressional districts in Manhattan ‘Island, Long Island and Staten Island, the number of conscripts called for is thirty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine; while in nineteen other districts the number of conscripts called for is only thirty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-six. Each of the nine districts gave a democratic majority at the last election, and each of the nineteen districts republican majority. Governor Scymour further alleges, upon the offi- cial report of Advocate General Waterbury, that by the census of 1860, in the first nine Congres- Flow icts, there were 164,797 males between < thirty-five. ‘They are called upon for In the other nineteen dis- population of males between twenty and y-five of 270,786, only 39,626 are denwmnnied. And he goes on to prove that in the first nine Congressional districts (democratic) the total vote of 1860 was 151,243; the number of con- scripts now demanded is 33,729. In the nineteen other districts (republican) the total vote was 4 yet these districts are called upon to furnish only 39,026 drafted men. Under these circumstances Governor Seymour expresses the opinion that Mr. Lincoln cannot and will not fail to right euch gross wrongs. Our correspondent with the James river fleet Teports an importont reconnoisance by General Foster on the 4th inst. up the James river, for the purpose of ascertaining the position of the rebels in that quarter. The feet went within six miles of Fort Darling. The boats were fired upon from the banks at different points where the enemy had batteries plunted. The Commodore Barney eve futo collision with a (orpedo, which lifted her ¢ ue water and started her guards ten inches, but did little permanent damage. The Barney, it must be said, is an old ferry boat fitted up for war purposes. The news from the Southwest from Memphis on 7th ways twait 33 trict nseript with a a dred strong—s UY remains at Meridian and Enter- prise, ready lo go to Mobile or the Mast, as cire cumstances may that Bragg in still at ttancoga und # portion of his forces at Rome, Tae Mobile iuat an atniy—-two thousand five hon- require: G the of patriotism in the people of Alabama end M sppi. ers and rectoant Conlederates: says that they have eres complains dismally of It calls ther bastard Southern. gone stark mad, aud that many reports of their conduct are too horrible to be pabliched. The United States steam frigate Hartfor? from New Orleans, with the gallant Admiro! Parragut én commant, arrived at this port » day after. Boon shout four o'clock. The honors due to the voteran commander who has secomplished #p much for his country duriyg the rebellion were paid by all the forts in the harbor and the British, French and Spanish vessels-of-war, as ‘well as our own frigate Sabine, which thundered Forth » salute as she passed op to her anchorage Yn tue North river. The Hartford gracefully re- furned the alutes as she steamed along. We give fu another column a list of the valiant actions of Whe Av. ccan Viling, Parragat, on board the Hartior), y hich kmve won for him a name uot in- forior to the naval commanders of any nation of the preeer L «sienes from Port Blunt, Indian Territory, Po Angus. 2, repert s great battle immineat at that NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1863. ser PUTET CRT Tameae-a-avenseene ae PUMETCE ie’ 5 aor PE e oe ene mea, Besse. the rebels being largely reinforeed since | President Lincolm and Geversor Sey- | fore it be too late. His arguments, which we | Credit of the profession he disgraces, the 7r-| Hroury Iuromrawr—Tun* Orrosrrion 10 Tam poin, the late battle at Holly Springs. Troops are also marebing to sustain Gen. Blunt, who appeared to be resolved to make the attack on Sunday next, as hia reinforcements from Fort Scott were expected to arrive on Thursday next. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Saxonia, Captain Trautman, from Hamburg via Southampton 29th ult., arrived at this port last night. Her advices have been anti- cipated, = * By the arrival of the schooner Cartor, Captain Sechusen, from Sisal, we learn that the State of Yucatan had, on the 9th of July, surrendered to the revolutionists, and when Captain Seehusen sailed everything was quiet. The political majority in the next United States House of Representatives, under the most favora- ble republican view that can be placed upon it, | will be adverse to the present national administra- tion. We give the figures of the members elected, politically classed, and add therete the members yet to be chosen:— MBMBERS ELECTED, inistrati : California Delaware Maryland. Vermont... al ml comes Sl ol Bl Re Seol Hl lol on i There are three members elected to the federal Congress to represent the First, Second and Se- venth districts of Eastern Virginia, about whose real sentiments very little is known; but as they were chosen under military protection we must class them for the presenton the side of the ad- ministration. The relative strength will thus stand, with the liberal admissions in the States yet to elect; in favor of the administration, 91; op- posed, 94. From these figures, however, no com- fort can be gleaned by the copperheads. On all questions relating to the war there will be found an overwhelming majority in favor of its vigorous prosecution for the suppression of the rebellion and the re-establishment of the Union. The trial of prisoners indicted for participating in the late riots was continued .yesterday in the Court of General Sessions, before Recorder Hoff- man. William Patten pleaded guilty of, partici- pating in the riotin Tenth avenue, on the 14th of July, and was remanded for sentence. Patrick Sheren was tried and convicted on an indictment for robbery in the first degree, which charged him" with having assaulted Mr. Hepry E. Searles on the night of the 13th of July last, and then robbed him of a watch and otfier ‘articles. “He was re- manded for sentenc8. Several prisoners pleaded guilty to indictments charging them with taking an active part in the riots. They were all remand- ed for sentence. Dennis Carey, one of the parties indicted for the murder of the negro Abraham Franklin, was ordered to be tried in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in October next. John Wilson was tried and convicted on an indictmento fr rob- bery in the first degree, which charged him with having assanlted and robbed Mr. Michael Lynch, on the 29th of July last. He was sentenced to the State Prison for ten years. John Hagan, jointly indicted with Patrick Sheron for assaulting and robbing Mr. Henry E. Searles, onthe 13th ult., was placed on trial for robbery in the first degree. The evidence for the prosecution was closed yes- terday, and testimony for the defence will be offered at ten o'clock this morning, to which hour the Court stands adjourned. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday and trans- acted considerable routine business. A communi- cation was received from Comptroller Brennan in answer to a resolution offered by Alderman Hardy ata former meeting respecting the sale of bonds for the volunteer fund and other city responsibili- ties. He states that the volunteer aid bonds sold ator about par, and that*the Park bonds were sold at from four to eight per cent premium. The Board adjourned till Monday, when the ques tion of appropriating million and a half of dollars for drafted persons will probably be taken up for action. A passenger of one of the Philadelphia city railroad cars sued the company for one cent, which the conductor had detained in default of making change. The plaintiff gained a verdict and the company paid the costs. The late rains have improved the corn prospects in Southern and Southeastern Ohio. Some por- tions of Ohio are represented as being a perfect wilderness of corn. John G. Scott, the conservative candidate for Congress in the Third districtof Missouri, is no doubt elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of John W. Nocll. The Journal du Havre of the 23d July states that the frigates Ceres and Darien have been despatched to Brest, there to await the arrival of the Mexican officers taken prisoners at Puebla, and who were on their way to France. There is not a journal, daily or weekly, in the whole State of Kentucky that supports the policy of the present national administration. The City Inspector's report states that there wore 970 deaths in the city during the past week— an increase ef 248 as compared with the mortali- ty of the week previous, and 402 more than oc- eurred during the corresponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives 4 deaths of alcoholism, 1 of diseases of the bones, joints, &o.; 181 of diseases of the brain and nerves, 8 of the gencrative organs, 17 of the heart and blood vessels, 122 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 9 of old age, 31 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 3 premature births, 382 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 46 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 4 from éauses unknown, 9 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 153 from violent causes. There were 626 natives of the United States, 15 of England, 231 of Ireland, 11 of Scotland, 67 of Germany, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘Tho stock market was considerably bettor yeaterday morning, but fell off ia the afternoon. Money was very easy; call loans 6 0 6 per cont. Gold was at 126}, at the close; exchange, 138 0 130jj, The bank statement shows @ docreare of $5,806,080 im @eponits, and $590,153 in specie, the loans have inoreased $351,223. ‘The busines in cottem yesterday was moderate, with- out any remarkable change to prices. There was low doing in four and grain, at reduced figures: and more in pork and whiskey, which closed higher. The demand was fair for bay, and lows active for sugars, noe, mo- lasses and tobacco, Very light transactions were re- ported in other articles. The freight engagements were limited. No More Boastixa.—Durine the canvass in Kentucky,the radical republican papers were jubilant over the prospect of a great accession to their strength in the next United States House of Representatives; but since the election | dient, unnecessary and unpopuler, With it the sentiments of most of the new members of Congress in that State have been promulgated, and the Fourrierite and abolition pbilesophers heave ovssed their rejoicings. mour on the Draft. In a recent speech Wendell Phillips declared that the administration “had formed itself into a’committee to regulate the vext Presidential election.” As Wendell Phillips is the direct agent between Satan and tie satanic party at Washington, he is likely to be very well in- formed in regard to this matter, and his state- ment is doubtless quite true, Indeed, we find & new proof of its accuracy in the important correspondence which we published yesterday in regard to the enforcement of the draft. We hope that none of our readers have omitted to carefully peruse Governor Seymour's letter to the President and the President's reply. The facta with which Governor Seymour eupports his request that the draft shall be postponed until some of the objections to it are removed —_—_———__ ‘have often refuted as they have appeared in | bune editor will dress himself with some at- | Apmmusrrarion my 4 Masom TY 1 Conganss.— | the Tribune, we here refute again. We now | tempt at neatness, and pull his trowsers out of | We publish to-day in our su. Mary of news s¢ appeal to his patriotism, bis reason, his com- | bis boottops, upon this occasion. The lawyers | tabular statement of the result «'f the elections, mon sense, Will he be wise enough to listen | in the case should supply themselves with files | showing that in the next House a” Representa- and be warned? of the Tribune for the past few weeks, 80 a8 to | tives the administration will be in ® minority observe how far Greeley’s evidence in court | by six votes. The consequence wif be that nd the Slavery Question— | arroes with what he has already said in his | the opposition will elect the Speaker, a4, the wee + Belicitor Whiting, of the | 51/151 Greeley should also try to familiarize | Speaker having the power of appointing’ the : himself a little with the criminal dock while | committees, these committees will investiga te ee Ee er ee rn giving his testimony; for it is more than likely | the entire conduct of the administration since ment touching the institution of slavery in the that he will be called upon to occupy that | their accession to office. The course of the rebellious States is becoming a practical and portion of the court room before very long. War Department and of the Treasury Depart- < ment will be subjected to a rigid scrutiny, foul jenn ysl ee oe Hearra or tax Crry.—The City Inspector | corruption and egregious blundering will be AEMANSOR OE GE RORATHE, WO! reports nine hundred and seventy deaths for laid bare, and those Secretaries who have ing a letter from Mr. Solicitor Whiting, of the ‘ in 2 War Office, to the Union League of Philadel. | *® week ending on Saturday Iast—an increase | hitherto paid no respect to the voice of the over the preceding week of two hundred and | sovereign people, as expressed at the ballot phia, which doubtless, upon the momentous forty-eight, and over the corresponding week | box, and have laughed public opinion to scorn, The Unio: subject discussed, reflects the views of Mr. Secretary Stanton, Mr. Chase, and the whole ra- dical abolition faction, in the Cabinet, in Con- gress and throughout the country. Mr. Solicitor Whiting pleads that, in the resto- ration of the rebellious States to the Union, our only way of safety depends upon the condition precedent in the caseof each State of the abo- lition of elavery within its boundaries, He says that unless we do this. said States. “will havo the power. to pass such local laws as will effectually excludg all Northern men, all sol- digrs, y ¢ blacks and all persons and things which abalf be inconsistent with the theory of making slavery the corner stone of their local governments; and they make slavery perpetual, in violation of the laws of the United States ‘and the proclamation of the President.” The Supreme Court of the United States having declared, in March last, in the case of the Hiawatha, that “since July 13, 1861, there has existed between the United States and the so- are certainly startling. Mr. Lincoln’s reply to these facts is, we regret to say, exceedingly curt and discourteous, as well as alto- gether weak and illogical. If President Lincoln has permitted himself to be de- luded by the radical ravings about Governor Seymour's “treason” and Governor: Seymour's “complicity with the riots,” we strongly advise him to.rid himself of all such foul stuff ‘before again addressing the Executive of this great State. Such folly may do for the editorials of the Tribune; but it is most sadly out of place in a letter from the President. By his celebrated and accurate remark that the emancipation proclamation was a “Pope’s bull against the comet,” Mr. Lincoln establish- ed a reputation for definitions equal to that of Johnson or Webster. Io his present letter tho President sustains that reputation by saying that the Conscription act ig Jike a “butcher driving bullocks into a RP pen.” It is true that the President speaks of Jeff. Davis’ of last year four hundred and two. Of these | will be brought to a strict account by the three hundred and eighty-six were adults and representatives of the people, and be made to five hundred and eighty-four children. Of the | laugh with the other side of their mouths, But latter three hundred and six were under one perhaps they will defy the House of Represen- year and two bundred and sixty-six between | tatives, and bring on prematurely the crisis of one and fifteen years, There were thirty-six | their fate. We shall sec. Meantime radicalism children of native parents, aed four hundred | and copperheadisi are equally knocked in the and seventy-five foreign born and of foreign | head by the elections, and the platform of the parents. The excess. in the mortality, as will be seen, is chiefly confined to our foreign popu- opposition in Congress will be the restoration of the Union upon the principles of the con- lation. There are eighty-eight cases from sun- | stitution. stroke reported, and sixty-eight from conges- tion of the brain, a third of which, at least, should have been set dowr as mainly euperin- duced, if not indeed wholly brought about, by exposure to the sun. It is of the first import- ance to sanitary science that the true cause of disease should be carefully investigated and stated by our physicians in their returns of deaths to the City Inspector’s Department. A too frequent neglect in following out this rule must prevent that accuracy of es- A Leiter or vax Ciry Comrrroiusr Dis- PoseD oF.—In a small weekly paper, Mr. Bren- nan, the City Comptroller, has been attacked recently in successive numbers, on the ground that he disposed of certain bonds of the city privately and without advertisement, thus fa- voring his own friends and shutting out publio competition. ‘The attention of the Common Council was directed to the subject by one of its members offering a resolution calling for an conscription; but the definition will appiy quite as well to our own. The only difference between the two systems is that Jeff. Davis takes all his “bullocks” and we choose our “bul- locks” by lottery. This brings us to one of the arguments urged by Mr. Lincoln for the imme- diate enforcement of the draft—viz: that because Jeff. Davis has conscripted we must conscript. This new golden rule of the radicals, that “what- soever the rebels do we must do also,” is almost too absurd for comment, although it has often heen put in practice by them in regard to negro explanation. The resolution was adopted. The Comptroller's reply isa remarkable illustration of a very plain tale, putting « malicious libeller down. Instead of the bonds in question not being advertised, it is shown that they were advertised in tweuty-three papers, from June 12 to the 29th, the day fixed for the opening of proposals, and that they were awarded to the highest bidders, except to those whose bide were below par, and that the remainder of the bonds were negotiated at par with various insti- tutions of the city. Now, what was the motive of the libeller in calied Confederate States a civil, territorial war,” Mr. Whiting, in looking up the law on the subject, declares that such a war “tormi- nates all obligations in the nature of compacts or contracts at the option of the party obligated thereby,” and that, “so far as this government is concerned, civil war obliterates all lines of States or countries, aa the only lines recognized by the war are the lines which separate us from the public enemy.” Having thus, to his own satisfaction, estab- lished the legal power of the general govern | The mortality of the city, although much ment to treat the rebellious States, when | &reater thia season than it bas been for timate of diseases so iniportaat to the eanitarian in his investigations and con- clusions, and prove a serious injury to the cause of medical science. These remarks are introduced for the purpose of calling the atten- tion of our physicians to the subject, are having been informed from an official source that the abuses referred to are becoming too general among certain of the medical profession of the city. enlistments, confiscation acts, retaliatory mea- sures and other very doubtful proceedings. But, if Jeff. Davis’ recent conscription requires our draft to meet it, why did not his former conscriptions require drafts at the North to meet them? Or, to put the same idea in another form, if volunteering was sufficient to enable us subdued, as provinces foreibly wrested from | ™@y previous years, is no cause for alarm, the hands of one despot by another,. Mr. and no apprehensions are felt for the safety of Whiting proceeds to sag that “it is for us to the city from epidemics or contagious diseases dictate to them, and not tor them to dictate to From the house physician of the New York us, what privileges they shall enjoy.” Nothing, Dispensary which is situated in the Sixth ward, he maintains, will meet the case of said States | * quarter of the city which is the first to be making this foul attack? It was because he wanted to have a finger in the spoils, and wae not permitted fo do so by the Comptroller, that gentleman, judging from his antecedents, aot having sufficient confidence in his character Some years ago he was clected Alderman by to ‘meet Jeff. Davis’ two other consoriptious, why is.not voluateering sufficient to meet this? ‘This point President Lincoln does not explain, but emancipation; and, whatever else may affected by the visitation of epidemics, we | accident, and for some act which he committed happen, be hopes that “we may be eayed the | have the following sesults:—Total number of | when he was Alderman he was indicted, not by unfathomuble infamy of breaking the nation’s | Patients in the month of July, 1862, three thou-} scsident; but, the jury disagreeing by accident, faith with Europe, and with. colored -citizens J #and two hundred and eighty-nine; attended at4 te thus eseaped tae State Prison by. accident and cannot explain. Tho facts and the figures fire all decidedly against him. j But, at “the beginning of bis letter, Mr. Lin: | coln anys thathe cannot resortte volunteering | ‘dnstead of drafting because “time is too import-’ ant.” It is a great “pity that this consideration did not occur to him six months ago. The Conscription act was passed in March last. If “time” was so important why was not the draft enforced immediately? Or, if “time” was not so important then, but was to be important in August, why was not volunteering encouraged during the interval? At that period two hundred men per day were volunteering in this olty alone. The tinkering and diddling about the draft stopped these enlistments. Had they been allowed to go on allof our quota would now be in the field. The President has never oalled upon us for volunteers and been refused. On the contrary, the satanio advisers of the President refused volunteers last year, upon Wilson’s statement that our army was too large, and the satanic advisers of the President bave been stopping enlistments since March last by their attempt to rival Jeff. Davis in “driving bullocks into the slaughter pen.” Lot President Lincoln explain, if he can, this mismanagement in the past. Let him explain how it is that we need men so sorely now, when the captures of Vicksburg and Port Hudson have just given us the use of one hundred anf fifty thousand veterans, while we did not need men three months ago, when Grant’s army was actively employed on the Mississippi. We can tell the President that, even now, volunteering will fill up our armies quicker and with better men than any conscrip- tion act, and he has only to compare the re- sults of the draft in other States up to this time with the results of the volunteering in New Jersey and in this city during the past week to see the proofs of our assertion, Having thus shown the fallacy of the Pre- sident’s logic in regard to Jeff. Davis’ example, in regard to the failure of volunteering and in regard to the question of time, we do not pro- pose to waste words in commenting upon the gross irregularities of the enrolment and of the proportion of the draft to the population in the districts of this State. The facts are too plain to require comment. Figures, which cannot lie, speak louder than mere words. It is clear that the republican districts are favored and the democratic districts forced to bear a double share of the burden. President Lincoln does not deny this, but attempts to dodge it ingeniously, but vainly. If euch infamous favoritisms were intentional, and a part of the and slaves in the Union,” and so on to the end of the chapter. . Now, withont wasting words in a legal dis- cussion with the Solicitor of the War Office as to the war powers of the government against # State or a league of States in armed rebellion, we think his abolition propositions may be dis- posed of on the simpie ground that they are inexpedient, and would, if adopted, prove to be utterly useless. Suppose, for example, we take up the State of Louisiana and proceed to aboli- tionize her preparatory to her readmission to the privileges and reserved rights of the federal constitution. A State convention is called, which so amends the State constitution as to declare slavery abolished within the State. With these credentials the State is admitted as the local authorities may at once proceed to call another State convention. They do s0; the convention amends the State constitution so as to re-establish slavery and the old slave code, and it provides, further, that if the free blacks of the State do not leave within a limited time they shall be seized and sold as slaves to the highest bidder. Such, in more cases than one, will probably be the consequences of the abolitionizing of the rebellious States as the condition of their resto- ration to the Union. Within the Union each State for itself, under “the constitution as it is,” may establish or abolish slavery. It fs a local affair. Mr. Whiting’s plan of operations can be rendered effective only by abandoning the federal consti- tution or by amending it. Otherwise, in 1863, Louisiana may be manipulated into a free State and restored to the benefits of the Union only to be transformed again into a slave State in 1864. But there may be something in the hint of Mr. Whiting that “civil war obliterates all State lines.” Mr. Senator Sumner’s plan of reconstruction has this idea for its foundation. What course will the administration take? This question remains to be decided; and we repeat that, unless President Lincoln shall de- termine upon the reclamation of the rebellious States as soon as practicable, and with as little ceremony as possible, the conservative popular majorities of the loyal States will, in the Presi- dential election of 1864, decide the question for themselves, and against the administration, and with a force which will sweep this aboli- tion war faction, with the copperhead peace faction, into the same grave with all our dead and buried political cliques and factions of the last fifty years. & free State. But what then? Unquestionably+ dwellings (severe cases), five hundred and eighty-nine; number of deaths, twenty-two. For the same month of the present year we bave total number of three thousand three hundred and one; at dwellings, six hundred and forty one; deaths, twenty-one—being one death less than in July, 1862. The excessive humidity of the atmosphere, coupled with a high temperature and an almost constantly covered sky, during July, sufficiently explains the greatly increased mortality during the first week of August. According to obser- vation and theoretical views, the mortality from phthisis and diseases of the digestive organs has been larger during the period of activity of the above mentioned cause than in any previous summer. We would suggest to City Inspector Boole a comparison of the mortclity of the corresponding periods of the last few years in reference to the chief individual causes of death, and also the meteorological condition of the city atmosphere during the weeks preced- ing the largest number of deaths from such causes. We have no doubt that an investigation of this character will show the City Inspector's Department less culpable than that of the clerk of the weather. Tax Kentucky Exxcrion.—As the details of the election in Kentucky gradually come to band, the evidence accumulates in regard to the great conservative triumph in that State. It further reveals a remarkable discrimination of the American people at the ballot box. The election was carried in that State precisely on the same platform that the elections were car- ried in the Central States in the fall of 1862. We doubt, however, if an election in any State was ever held under such peculiar ciroum- stances as that in Kentucky, or with a result more emphatic. In the first place, the radicals find very few, if any, sympathizers in tbat State for their peculiar schemes. The policy of the nigger- heads is repudiated by ninety-nine hundredths of the people. The election, therefore, came around with an administration in power whose policy, under*the control of Chase and the radicals, the people condemn; but they were called upon to choose be tween Union and secession, and the result is such as every true lover of the Union can woll feel proud of. The returns show that they not only repudiated secession, rebellion, disunion, copperheadism and the revolutionary doctrines of the South in every form, but that they also decided to furnish the administra- Recently he was elected member of Congress by accident, and we baye no doubt that by, some accident he will go to Washingtor, for what purpose it és ai proseit unnecessary to tell. Rarw Increase or Forstan Emigration, — Owing to the excitement produced by the Southern rebellion, public attention has not been much occupicd with the pbases of foreign emigration to these shores. Nevertho- less the tide has been and still is steadily rolling on, with vast benefit to our popuiation. The namber of emigrants arrived, and who after arriva! bave left this city, during the period between March 1 and August 1, is 85,046, against 43,410 for the same period in the year 1862. The emigration this year, then, for the period named, is just donble what it was last year. There is nothing to restrain a tide like this to the Western World. Exoavations 1 THe ComrrroLier’s Orrice AND THE Poxtricians.—Several reporters have been busying themeclves of late in making ex- cavations in the Comptroller's office. They have brought to light several affidavits in re- gard to fees demanded and paid for positions. On some of iese a‘lidavits the name of i'er- nando Wood urns up as having @ band in the business or af least in a suspicious form. {t is! well known that the election of Comptroller] Brennan was secured last fall by a union be- tween Mozart and Tammany balls. The offices! were all arranged beforehand between Pcter B, Sweeny, Chairman of the Tammany Hall Con- ference Committee, and Fernando Wood, Chsir- man of the Mozart Hall Conference Comui. ve. All that Couptrolier Brennan had to do alter his election was to ses te wen at work as tuey were sent to him. These developments bring to light some of the perquisites. Now, that they have commenced, we trust the Comptroller will call up every cierk in his department. The result, no doubt, will be curious aad in- teresting, and furnish the world proof bow many New York politicians live, which Lere- tofore has been one of the mysteries. But transactions like these are no new things. They are old tricks, just unearthed, heretotore known only to those in the ring. We have no doubt, if an opportunity was afforded to see the inside workings of the republican ring, a simi- lar state of affairs would be found to exist. How much patronage, for instance, hus Mayor Opdyke obtained for his radical pariy in the City Inspector’s office by the appoiniment of Boole? Here is an instauce of one of the plan of the administration ‘to regulate the next elections,” the scheme has miserably failed. If unintentional, and the result of mere accident, such errors ought to be all corrected before a draft is even talked about. But during the time necessary to correct these errors our quota might all be raised by volunteering if the State and federal authorities would work together heartily and cordially. We greatly blame Governor Seymour for not employing the past six months in this best method of avoiding the draft. We greatly blame President Lincoln, also, for allowing such terrible blundering and mismanagement in the War Department. Every day the confidence and sympathy of the people Poor Gnerier anv Tar Riots.—We continue | tion at Washington, which they detested, with extreme radicals appointing e strong demoorat to-day our reports of the trials of the rioters, | all the aid within their power to prosecute the | °° ® lucrative SBee—even eae of Sess Geme- Some of the London papers, following the lead | war for the destruction of the rebellion and the crate whom the radicals last fall calied a traitor. of our radical journals, represent that the riots | restoration of the Union, simply because that | 4! boy Say big hoary a we a were asort of revolution. Our reports show | administration is the only legal power to look porte of drbbshegeriones «0 Aaa the utter falsehood of such assertions. No | to for the accomplishment of that result. But | "¢* Pe ‘ Anlabine vedlbves leading politician, no representative man, bas | in doing this they were careful not to elect orgy y would find that at jeast one- yet been found connected with the affair. The | any man who sympathized with the radical ‘Td contracts and other pattoran: & whole thing was & spontaneous outbreak | policy which now seems tobe the platform hapecne smecng Be sation. The may well agninst the draft on ti first day, and an or- | of the administration. On the other hand, they | P° Consldeted Dy all who obtain their salaries ganized outbreak of thieves on the other days. | elected only such men-as repudiated in the Md Pia yay © very quote se We also give thie morning the indictment | strongest possible terms all such heresies. ing. It appears irregular to such; but to the found against one of the rioters on the evidence politician it is perfectly regular. of Horace Greeley. This evidence is very | that is going on in the public mind against the New Maste. curious and quite characteristic of the Thitune two extremes, or the radicals, ef both parties. Wo have vecsived the two following pieces of new. music — are more and more alienated from the adminis- tration. This draft, the first ever enforced upon a free Anglo-Saxon people, will transform thie Alienation into hostility. It is popular with no party in the country. The republicans are as opposed to it as the democrats, Americans will not willingly be “driven like bullocks into a slaughter pen.” In some sections the poeple sneak out of it, in others they buy out of it, in others they try to fight out of it. The feeling is everywhere the same, no matter in what way manifested. We do not say that the draft is unconstitutional, but that it is inexpe- philosopher. I will be remembered that in | Thove who imagine the people can be ted ; i i ; i i § : fom and despise its heresies. This only shadows the revolution that will develop The trial of one of those persons accused of | when the day arrives to elect the successor Ha t | Wendell Phillips & Co. are teying to ride the ' administration, the moriband republicas party | and the whole nation te the Devil. We there- ‘tore urve Presidomt Lincele to interfere be-; will do well to attend. We bape tint, for che | wore allowed to remain in pow or so lous. f “Ave Maria,’ a hyms compased by W. R. Jotaen, Orgenat of Bt. Paul's Meth det Kpwevpal church, New York. It 43 dedicated to C. H. Whiting, Ksq., and pub- lished by W. A, Pond, of shite city. ‘«MoCitian end the Union,” @ grand raliying song words are taken from « Boston paper, aod the music supplied by Albert Fleming. The words aro vigorvus music scoms to partake Of & simiar spirit, The TAT t = Hi ERs |