The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETY, EDITOR AND PHOPRIELOR OFFICE H.W. COBNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash In advance Money sent vy maii will be ptthe risk of the sender. Nove but bank bills curreut in | New York takeu BE DAILY HERALD, Tanks coats por copy mE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five ceat per copy. Anaual subsoription price:-— Postage five conts per copy for three montha. Any larger number, addressed to aames of subscribers, $1 SO cach Av extra copy will be sent to every club of ten. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $35, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will bo went to clubs of twenty. These rates make the WEEKLY HimRALD the cheapest publication in the country. sented aa being in great distress. That is just the amount that was “ subscribed" for the benefit of | the widow Jackson, whose husband was killed in | Alexandria after he had shot Col. Elsworth; and | | yet necessity forced that unfortunate woman to | leave Richmond, and she came within our lines, | begging bread. | There is a circular going around this city and | be held at Rochester some time during the pre- sent month, for the purpose of giving expression to most extreme copperhead sentiments, and evi- dently to test the tone of the people, to sce how far a peace policy would be acceptable or advisa- ble at the present time. The circular announces that the leading men from theborder States will be present. The circular is signed by Mr. E. A. Stevens as secretary. The special committee of the Board of Super- visors on examination and adjustment of claims for damages during the week of the late riots met at the City Hall yesterday afternoon. The com- mittee decided to meet daily in the chamber of the Board of Supervisors, No. 17 City Hall. Claims of $500 and under will be first considered; afterwards all other claims in rotation as sent in. The committee, upon the recommendation of the ‘The Komorzam Epmon, every Wednesday, at Fivx ecnts per copy; $4 per anvam to any part of Great Britain, er 66 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage ‘The Caurorms Eprrion, on the 34, 18th and 284 of each month, at Six cents per copy, or $3 per annum. ADvERTIskuanTs. to a limited number, will be inserted intone Weee.r Hemaip, and im the European and Calilor- nia Editiens, Counsel to the Corporation, made the following rule, viz:—‘‘ That no person be admitted to its sessions except the Mayor, Comptroller, legal adviser of the Board, a stenographer, the person whose claim may be at the time under considera- tion and his counsel, and the witness under exa- mination.” Claimants will be notified of the time and place to appear before the committee. Asuit in which Mr. Secretary Seward is de- fendant will in all probability be brought before ‘The Quar tf Govermor Seymour. the State of New York, as developed in the ‘el Between President tancoin | Incenpiary Journats—More Srmmuna or Bap | Buoop.—When the comments of the European The quarrel between the Chief Magistrate of | journals on the " ached this the United States and the Chief Magistrate of ; ‘ ior Sark slate 10 country @ good deal of annoyance was mani- fested at the revolutionary character ascribed,to correspondence between them, which we have | them. The radicale set down the view thus published for the last two or three days, is of | taxen to and alarm to every patriot in the land. It seems to he the quarrel of Marius and 'Sytla, of Cesar and Pompey—a quarrel precedent to riots in Rome and civil war in the provinces. The two highest officials in the republic, the one the President and the other the Governor of “the Empire State,” instead of showing an accommodating disposition for the sake of the common cause which both profess to have at heart, are doing their utmost to drive matters to extremes—to bring about a collision be- tween the federal and State authorities, and to involve the loyal States of the North in the horrors of anarchy and civil war. The bone of contention is the Conscrip- tion act. Governor Seymour holds that it is unconstitutional. It is, however, con- stitutional enough to come within the strict letter of the fundamental law; but it is one of the most odious enactments that ever was passed in any country—free or despotic—a law that could not to-day be pass- edin England, whence we have borrowed our laws and institutions—which could not have been passed ia that country for the last one hun- dred and fifty years. Not since the days of the VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing import: | the Supreme Court on Monday next. It is strange | Tudors and Plantagenets could such an intole- ant news, solicited from any quarter of the world; if used, will be liberally paid for. sge Our Forxcn Cor- to see a Cabinet Minister in a court of justice as defendant or plaintiff; but it will be still more rable law have been carried in Parliament. The attempt to impose similar laws upor the RUBPONDENTS ARE PARTIOULABLY REQUESTED TO SEAL atu Let | strange to see William H. Seward defended by | English people resulted in the overthrow of ‘{THRS AND PACKAGES SENT UB, NO NOTICE teken of anonymous correspondence. We do not return rejected communications Velume XXVIII... seeececceseeeN@s BBS NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taa Duxe's Morro. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Trux 10 THE EW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowory.—Last Days oF Poarxu—Lo. mera boucia—ARtruL DopgER. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hoxcunace or Lax- urrax—Luxporus—Jack Roninson aNd Wis MONKEY. BARNUM’S AMEBIOAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Iavima Tiokn | aTH—-ORANG OUTANG—AUTOMATON Writkn, 40.. a6 2 hours Sita Watexs Kun , bexr—Afternoon and ven ing. RYANI'S MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Brinuorian Sones, Dances, Burtxsquxs, &c.—Tax Guost. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL. 614 Broadway.—Ermrortan fone», Danas, kc. —Tux G. AMERICAN THEATRE, 444 Broadway.—Batiers, Pay- ‘TOMIMES, BURLESQUKS, ae. NEW IDEA THEATKE, 68 Broadway.—Tar Guost's SURILER. + NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Comiosrnies anv Lecturxs, from 9 A. M. till 10 P. M. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSB, Brooklyn.—Brmvorun fons, Dances, BuRLESGUKS, dc, New York, Thu: y. August 13, 1863. THE SITUATION. There are no new movements in the Army of the Potomac. General Meade has sent an official report, which we publish in another column, correcting the re- port sent by General Lee to his government con- ecrning the cavalry fight at Falling Waters some James T. Brady, his ancient political foe. The tide of emigration from Europe increases. The number of arrivals last week was 4,806, mak- ing the total since January 1, 96,984, against 46,646 to the corresponding date last year. The commutation balance amounts to $35,633 87. The Board had no meeting ygsterday, for want of a quorum. Mr. Casserly announced the death of Mr. Ryan, one of the most efficient clerks in their employment, who was in their service sixteen years. : The new Canadian Parliament will meet to-day in the city of Quebec. The session, though it will probably be a brief one, will be of more than ordinary interest. A Speaker is to be appointed, anew government policy is to be laid before the House and the public, and the ways and means of the province considered. From the immigration returns, as made up to the 3d of August, it appears that the gross num- ber of arrivals at Quebec, as compared with the corresponding period of 1862, shows a falling off of 1,244 persons. The Canadian papers notice the arrivals of large numbers of young men from the United States, who have skedaddled to avoid the conscription. They meet with no sympathy among the Canadian people. On the 5th instant Mr. Bridges, President of the Grand Trunk Railway Company, and several other prominent English and Canadian gentlemen, gave a complimentary dinner te Mr. Vallandigham, at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls. Stocks were lower yesterday, and at one time quite panicky, the decline on the leading shares being equal to Sa4per cent, At the close the market was dull, but steady. Gold was dull at 126%{ 6 126%. Exchange 139 for bankers’ bills, Money was very easy indeed; call loans every where 6 per cent. Cotton was dull and nominal yesterday. Flour and wheat were lower and less inquired for. Corn was in far demand, as likewise were hay, pork, bacon apd the Stuarts, and a series of terrible civil wars, which lasted for fifty years, resulting at last in the triumph of liberty and the overthrow of despotism. So foreign is the idea of a compul- sory service in war to the genius of the Anglo- Saxon race, and the institutions which it has adopted, that there is no word in the English language which signifies conscription, this term being an importation of recent date. Like a pettifogging lawyer, Governor Sey- mour, not content with the odiousness of the law adopted by Congress, which would have given him pol{tical capital enough, insists on its unconstitutionality, which is like ‘straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel,” or grasping at ashadow and letting go the substance. The President, on the other hand, well aware of the injustice, odiousness and unpopularity of the law, insists upon carrying it out, though the act itself leaves it discretionary with him to do so, and though it must be evident to him, as it is to all, that more men and better troops can be raised, and raised faster, by volunteer enlist- ments and proper bounties than by a compul- sory draft. What is the cause of this reckless obstinacy on the part of two men with such heavy responsibilities weighing upon them—men who ought to set an example to all others of cordial unity and a self-sacrificing spirit in this hour of national peril? It is the near approach of the Presidential campaign, which distorts the vision of politicians and blinds them to every consideration but that which will contribute to their party triumph at any cost. "President Lincoln and Governor Seymour are both seek- ing to make party capital out of the Conscrip- tien law, with a view to employ it in the great time ago. The novelty of the communication, | tard, at steady prices, and leather and petroleunr$t | contest which is to come off inthe next year, coming a8 it does from the commanding general | bucyantrates. There was less doing in groceries and of one army in reply to an official report to his own government from the general of the opposing forces, will undoubtedly commend it to the notice of our readers. The document of Judge Advocate Waterbury, referred to 12 Governor Seymour's late letter to the President, is given in full in our columns to- day, together with the communication from Pro- vost Marshal General Fry to Mr. Waterbury. They will be found of the highest interest in view of the present excited feeling which exists with regard to the Conscription act. The time fixed for the grand attack on Charles- ton by General Gillmore’s forces on Morris Island was Saturday, the 8th inst. We have news to eleven o'clock Friday night, of the 7th, by the United States transport Flora, which ved at Fortress Monroe on Tuesday. While passing Charleston harbor on Friday night the bombard- ment was going on, and the air was luminous with shells. It is not improbable, then, that the antici- pated conflict had commenced. The official report of General Grant, which we give in another column, presents a fine account of the operations of the Army of the Tennessee, from the day that he assumed immediate command of the expedition against Vicksburg to the surrender of that place. General Grant says that it is a strik- ing feature, so far as his observation goes, of the Present volunteer army of the United States that ‘there is nothing which men are called upon to do, mechanical or professional, ttt accomplished adepts cannot be found for the duty required in almost every regiment. In closing his report he utters an expression of thankfulness for his good fortane in being placed in co-operation with an officer of the navy who accorded to every move “that seemed for the interest and success of our arms his hearty aud energetic support. Admiral Porter, he adds, and the efficient officers under him, have ever shown fthe greatest readiness in their co-operation—no matter what was to be done or what risk to be taken, either by their men or their vessels. A despatch from San Francisco, dated the 11th inst., says that serious apprehensions of an up- rising of secessionists in the northera counties of California are entertained. A conflict had occurred already between the secessionists and the soldiers at Visalia, in Tillare county, in which two of the latter were killed. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. In the Court of General Se fore Recorder Hoffinan, Ja ions yesterday, be H. Whitter or Whitten, was tried on an indictment for riot charging him with having led the attack on the ‘Tribune office, on Monday, the 13th of July. The case occupied the attention of the court during the whole day, and was watched with great inte- fest by a large number of spectators, among whom was Mr. Horace Greeley. At nine o'clock last evening, after being out for three hours, the jury brought in a verdict of “Guilty,” and the prisoner was remanded for sentoace natil ten o’elock this morning, to which hour the court stands adjourned. As far as heard from, the Legislature of Ken- tucky stands as follows: — Conservative. Copperheada. ‘ aL _ Senate It is stated in the Southern papers that ten thousand dollars have been subscribed for the benefit of the family of the late Gen. Albert sya. ney Johnston, the members of which are rovre. whirkey. The wool sale went off less spiritedly than anticipated. Other articles were inactive. The freight market was heavy and declining. Presidential Movements—General mont in the Field. In the present calm after the late storm of battles, sieges, capitulations and great Union victories, East and West, the politicians of all parties are beginning to renew their soundings, ; pipelaying experiments, plots and counter- { plots, mines and countermines, for the next Presidency. Let us therefore dip a little into this subject while the opportunity invites us, and while the war train is waiting for wood and water. o Between the war party and the copperheads the Northern democracy are in a terrible state of fusion, division and confusion. We will therefore let the mass ferment, like a barrel of beer, for the present, while we look after the republican party. Here we find that, if our ’ view is limited to the Cabinet, Secretary Chase has it all his own way. In the beginning of President Lincoln’s administration there were four Presidential candidatés in his Cabinet—Messrs. Seward, Chase, Cameron and Bates. But Chase has been too much for them all. He has quietly laid Bates upon the shelf among the old fossils j,of the past. Cameron has been ejected, and ever since he has had such a run of bad luck that we may safely say his political and mili- | tany career, like that of Napoleon after the bat- tle of Waterido, has eome to aclose. As for Mr. Seward, his case reminds us of that Scrip- tural prophecy, “The last shall be first, and ! the first shall be last.” He has been so much occupied with his diplomatic correspondence that be has had no time to attend to his Pre- | sidential business, and his good man Friday, the Rev. Thurlow Weed, has been so taken up with his own fat jobs, fat contracts, fat missions to Europe, and all sorts of fat pickings and per- quisites, that he bas had neither the time nor the inclination to look after anything for any- body else. Thus Chase is master of the situation in the Cabinet, and all his colleagues are distanced, Seward the worst of all. But let it not be sap- posed that Chase is going to walk over the | republican course. By ne means. Outside of the | Cabinet, and independently of Cabinet dictation, the friends of General Fremont are ia motion. We speak not at random, but are fully advised upon the subject, and from the most reliable sources. We are thus informed that General Fromont has @ tremendous party at his back of the genuine, original Simon Pure republicans, including en masse the German element, and that before long, upon the platform of a vigor- ous prosecution of the war, including a vigorous onslaught upon the blunders of Stanton and | Halleck, and in favor of African emancipation on General Fremont’s Missouri proclamation, and in hostility to arbitrary arrests and the conscription, the Pathfinder will be brought | out again on the war path to the Presidency. | Where are the friends of General Banks, and General Butler, and General Grant, and General Meade, and all the other generals? The time is approaching when they must also begin to make their plans and lay their pipe, or they will be left out in the cold. Asthe matter stands, the friends of } Chase must be exceedingly active, or he will be | ousted by the powerful movement afoot in be- | half of General Fremont. They have not, bya | long shot, killed him off at Washington. | and they are forcing on the loyal States a fear. ful issue, which may deluge them in blood and legve us Yithout any republic to elect a Pre- lent over, long before November, 1864. If bloody riots, anarchy and confusion should arise out of this quarrel, God and the country will hold to a rigid reckoning the two actors who are playing political roles so full of peril to our domestic peace and the very existence of the nation. eres pssent* Sreaxer or Next Concress—Nomination or Frrvanpo Woov.—It is now a settled fact that there e will be a majority in the next Congress opposed to the policy of the administration. This, rightly organized, will serve as a balance wheel, and prevent the radical advisers from carrying Out their extreme programme in re- gard to the retur gf the Southern States to the Union, and secure the defeat of the plan of treating the rebellions States the same as Ter- ritories. This is an important point gained, not only for the present immediate effect that it will have upon the South, but for the future d welfare ef the country. Its a guar- the first place, to the people of the rebellious States that, if ¢hey will lay down their arms and elect men to represent them in Congress, they will be admitted in spite of the opposition of the abolitionists, and their per- sonal and State rights protected. One ef the first and most important ques- tions will be the election ef Speaker on the part of the opposition. The efficiency and power of the opposition depends to a great extent upon the character of the organization and who is elected Speaker. He should be a bold and fearless man, who can be neither frightened nor cajoled by the blustering radicals. This State being one of the first to repudiate the revolutionary plans of the frantic radicals, she is entitled to the honor of the Speaker. There is but one person in the opposition dele- gation suited tor that position, and that is Fer- nando Wood. Washburne, it is said, is pushing his claims among the radicals; but if the oppo- sition will take hold of the matter in earnest Mr. Wood can be elected without any trouble. There are at least six majority against the radi- cals, The administration will no doubt en- deavor to buy up some of the opposition mem. bers by fat contracts and jobs; and they will no doubt find one among those elected from this city, when the time comes up, for sale. His antecedents would indicate that; but his vote can be spared and have plenty left. Wood, above all others, wonld be the man to handle this opposition material as Speaker in the way that would be effective against the radicals. In the appointment of investigation committees on the corruption and mismanage- ment of this war he would be especially the man to so arrange them that no stone would be unturned in their endeavors to lay the corrup- details before the public. This nomination may not be agreeable to all the opposition members from this State; but great public du- ties require that all personal feeling should be laid one side, and the welfare of their country the only question considered. Let, then,.the hatchet be buried, and for the good of the country secure the election of Mr. Wood as Speaker. Some may say that he is too extreme; but in taking his seat in Congress and oath of office he is no lenger that electioncering politi- cian, but is called upon to look at matters in a far diffrent lighe | a character to cause the deepest mortification | | through the States, calling for a convention, to | seme { | tion and malfeasance in office in all their awful | o the disposition that prevails in England and France to make use of all euch occurrences to the prejudice of the North. Giving to thia consideration its due weight, it is not the less probable that the European press was sincere in the conclusions at which i¢ arrived in regard to these riots, For these misconceptions we have to thank the radical portion of our own press. Never since the days of the first French Revolution, when L’Ami du Peuple and a host of other incendiary publications lashed the po- pular passions into frenzy, has there been wit- nessed such a fiendish determination on the part of public journalists to provoke party col- lisions and to drench the streets of a great city with blood. Instead of endeavoring to allay the popular excitement for the four days during which these lamentable occurrences lasted, the organs of the extremists on both sides labored zealously and unrelentingly at their devilish task. How, then, in view of such facts, can we find fault with the erroneous impressions ar- rived at abroad in regard to them. Nor has the subsequent course of these fire- brand party organs been calculated to weaken these convictions. On the one side the Tribune and 7'imes are insisting upon the prosecution of the draft in thie State, regardless of any question of its constitutionality, of its general unpopularity, or of the possibility of the quota being completed by voluntary means. No- thing will satisfy them but that the conscription should be carried out in the offensive and odious form prescribed by its republican framers, even though hundreds of additional lives are to be lost in the attempt. On the other hand, the World and the Daily News, the organs of the opposite extreme, are pressing Governor Seymour to take such a position in regard to it as must inevitably bring about a collision between the federal and State authori- ties. This is a condition of things that must be put anend to. If we were once to reach the issue aimed at by the radical journals on both sides, we should find ourselves hopelessly com- mitted to that revolutionary struggle in the North in which the European press conceives us to be already engaged. What gives to the firebrand party organs that are laboring to drive us into this conflict the mischievous influence which they possess? The support, moderate though it is, of the very classes who are most interested in maintaining the public peace. If the bankers, the mer- chants, the professional men and the mechanics, who, for some political crotchet or other, have been in the habit of taking these journals, were to express their disapproval of their course, they would alter it or cease to exist. It is time that the conservative men of all parties should take steps to neutralize the element of danger thus inconsiderately fostered. Let all those, therefore, who have an interest in averting anarchy and bloodshed at once assemble to- gether and declare their determination not to support any journal which signalizes itself by these sanguinary and revolutionary tendencies. Such a movement will not be regarded as an interference with the rights or liberty of the press. It will be simply an exercise of that wholesome check over licentious journalism which, in all well ordered communities, is an tidispetsable condition of their safety. The Case of © 1 De Forest, of th Cavalry, udp 10 THE EDITOR OF THE RALD, “"" No. 93 Franxiin, StReer, Naw Yorn, August 863. On my return to the city a wook boon shown sn editorial in you in rites sion 1s 1806 to me, and the following sentencd cours: AEN ¢ + 8 ee It seems strange that, with all his picking about among the military operators, Febrero nd ge Oleate should not have ed the acts of this last Junta. Can ke plain why this is 80; or, if not so, Lt it_ has aot been Properly brought to the notice of the War Department? Tho matters in question are the alleged swindling ope rations of a certain cavalry colonel, in imposing upon government worthless horses and arms, and the commis- sion of other acts of @ still more nefarious character. From the revelations which you make! presume that goa have cage of Colonel 0. De Forest, of the Fifth New York gavalry, in view. 1 can only say that the acts of this officer have beea known to the War Department for some time Past, and that prior to the publication of your article be was ar- rested and put uuder close confinement to await Lis trial. ‘The caso will come up in the conrts of law, and the public wiil have un opportunity of judging for themselves how true the allegations made by your reporters are. Yon need nave no fear but that the Department will, to the bess of its ability, ioflict condign punishment upon officers who have disgraced the service. Already three have been sent to the pouitentiary for « term of years, and masy more will follow. In the enormous pressure of business which this war has oroated it bas been noxt to imporsible to give this class of persons the attention which their outrageous conduct has merited. In future, however, there wilt be nocause for compiaint on this score. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, BR. 8. OLCOTT. City Intelsigence. Patina Orr tax Sweerens avy Dinr Cantuax —City Inspector Boole bas adopted a new method of paying oT tho men engaged in stroet cleaning and in carting off the dirt. Instead of the old plan of requiring the men to leave their work and repair to the Comptrolier’s office or one of the city banks, Mr. Beole hag substituted a movo. | able treasury, which goes to the mea where they are working, and thus pays them off without unnecessary delay. This plan is foumd t+ work admirably, and ix another of the new City Inspector's practical turn of mind. Wivows axp Onrmans’ Fuxn or tae Sevenry mixta Recent —A grand festival was held yesterday in Jones’ Wood, in bobalf of the above object, and realized a very neat pecuniary addition to the funds of the sonic, The entertainments were conducted in the neat style with which all the Scotch festivals are gotton up—the piper being present, and in addition to the dances seme vory fine Scottish ballads were sung by members of the society and their lady friends. The whole affair passed of very pleasantly under the immediate personal superintendence of Captain Brace, the President, Lieutenant Sandersor, Treasurer, and James Nieholson, Secretary of the fund. City and Defences of New York. GENERAL CANBY'S STAPF. GHNRMAT. ORDERS— NO. 7. Heeapgcanrins, stTRD Stats Troops, New Yous Crry axp Hannon, New Your, Angust 5, 186: The following staff officers, having been assigned to duty at these hesdquorters, are hereby announced to tho command, and will be obeyed and respected accord. ingly — Major (. T. Christensen and Captein A. P. Fiske, Asaiat- ant Adyitant Generals _ Major Lawrence Kip, Aid de-Camp and Acting Inspector in De Witt Clinton, Aid-de-Camp and Acting Judge Advoe: Captain John F. 8. Gray, Aide Camp. First Lieutenant Charles ©, Wood. Ninth United States infantry, Chie? of Ordnance and Artillery. First Lieutenant Hev ward Cutting, Tenth United States tomatey Acting Aid-de Camp, The headquarters of the command are established at No, 44 Bleecker street, ‘The orderiy hours for officers haw business at these headquarters will be from ten to twelve A. M.; but im- {ay or aight upon Feporting to toe orderly aficar ou duty, or night upon report! on duty. By ¥} ad General CANBY. order of ssintant At it General. ‘TO THE KDITOR OF LD. Naw Yorn, August 12, 1963. The steamer Commodore. waa ashore on Point Judith, came off on witout ‘ arrived in Now York om Toenday sfiernaoe. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1863, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wastincrow, Aagust 13, 1863. | THE PUBLICATION OF GENKRAL GRAN?’S OFFICIAL ‘BBrPORT. The official report of General Grant’s operations at Vicksburg wag published to-day in the official Gasclie. ‘This interesting document has thus been kept from the Public for three weeks, in order that jis publication might be made a source of profit to the official Gazette. A copy of it was made for the press at tho herdquarters of the army immediately after its reception. Various cor- respondents have importuned the aathorities for permis. sion to lay it before the public, but by an order from the War Department it was suppressed untit it should be convenient for the official Gazet/e to bring it forth. SUTLERS’ WAGONS CAPTURED BY GUERILLAS. Last night Mosby’s guerillas made a descent upon a train of sutiers’ wagons, about ten miles from Alexan- Gris, capturing fourteen beavily loaded vehicles, together with a number of prisovers. Our cavalry i# in pursuit of the gang. EMPLOYMENT OF NEGRORS IN THY REBEL ARMIES. It is stated by those who profess to know much of the Programme of the rebel loxders that the organization of Bogroes in the rebel armies has beon determined upon. ‘The negroes thus employed are to be compensated by donations of land and emancipation at the end of the war. ‘They are also to be allowed five dollars for each United States musket, twonty-fivo dollars for each United States horse, fifty dollars for each United States negro soldier captured by them, and fifty dollars for each scalp of & United States white officer commanding negro soldiers. THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER RUTH ON THE MIS- SISSIPPI. Suspicions of foul piay in the recent burning of the steamer Ruth on the Mississippi river are entertained. It is alleged that the large amount of money presumed to be en board for the payment of the soldiers itf General Grant's army could not have been burned, and it is gus. pected that the money was not there, and tho boat was destroyed to conceal an enormous robbery, The matter is to be subjected to a rigid investigation. THE CONSORIPTION. ‘The commissioners of the draft to-day exempted fifty whites and two blacks, Three white and one biack appli- oant fer exemption were reiused. One black and thirty- three white substitutes were offered and accepted. After one of the white substitutes hud been carried to the con script camp near the Circle it was ascertained that he wag adesertor. He had been au invalid in the Lincoln Hospital, and escaped about two weeks ago. The money ho had reoeived was recovered. THE INTERNAL BEVENUR RECEIPTS. It bas already been stated that the internal revenue re- ceipts have for six months reached six millions of dollars, which is but half the sum originally estimated. Subordinate officials at one time predicted tho receipts would exceed twelve millions a month. Mr. Chase is anxious to pro- vide for the deficit. Either the excises must be doubled or the staples of the South must be heavily taxed. Tho latter course will aid Mr. Chase's policy of holding the South under military subjection. PENNSYLVANIA POLITHIOS. Letters have been received here from leading republi- cans of Pennsylvania who opposed Governor Curtin’s renomination for Governer, stating that ho cannot be elected. Cameron is willing to let him down to destroy the conservative influence he will have, as Governor, at the next Presidential election. ‘Cameron 1s not one of the sort that falis heartily into the support of a nominee that ts not his preference. He pur- sues exactly an opposite course. GEN. LER’S QUAWREL, WITH THE REDEL GOVERNMENT. At is not believed here that tbe rebel authorities will persist in the execution of Captains Sawyer and Flynn, at Richmond, knowing that such oxecution will be promptiy tollowed by that of Gen. W. H. Lee and Captain Winder. The reported remonstrance of Geserel R. E. Tee, and his threat to throw up his commission and retire from the confederacy if the execution is car- ried out, comes from such widely different sources that that it is believed to be entivted to full credit. REMOVAL OF PRISONERS OF WAR PROM BALTIMORE. All the prisoners of war now in custody at Baltimore are being removed to Point Lookout as rapidly as possble. EXOHANGE OF PAROLED PRISONERS. Lists of paroled rebel prisoners bave been forwarded to General Meredith, and it is expected that within » few days an exchange of the enlisted men who have beon paroled and roleased will be effected, and thus save eighteen thousand soldiers to be returned to service in the army. ARRIVAL OF CAPTURED DESERTERS. Twenty more deserters, handcuffed and chained, ar- rived here to-day from tbe North, under charge of a de. tachment of the Invalid cerps. A. = HHICIDE OF A SOLDIER. Private Be cigecre, committed su: oy , “1 ing under @ temporary aberration of mind. * Hm NAVY. fom Murray thas been detached from special duty at the Navy Department, and has been ordered to the *‘Wateree.'’ ae GENERAL SCOTT'S MEMOIRS OW WHS LIFE AND THM! It is understood among General Scott’s personal friends here that he is now ongaged at West Point in compieting mowoirs of his life and times. THE CASE OF GENBRAL FITZ JOHN PORTER. Reverdy Johnson Publigh in a day of two his reply to Hon, Joseph Holt’s «x parle or ‘stab in the dark” as- Gault upon Genera Fitz Jon Porter. * THE PRISONERS IN THK OLD CAPITOL. ~~ *. A strong desire is expressed by those familiar with the subject for a reparation of State and military prisoners at the Old Capitol. It is said that as many as gine hundred prigoners were confined in that small structuro at one time. It is not too large for State prisoners alone. THH SOLDIERS’ CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG. Governor Morton, of Indiana, has written to Colonel Dennis, of the Patent Office, stating that he desires to purchase ground in the Gettysburg battle fleld for the burial of Indiana soldiers. CONTRABAND VILLAGE ON ARLINGTON HEIGHTS. Col, Green, Chief Quartermaster of the Department of Washington, has prepared an admirable pian for the erection of a permanent contraband village on Arlington Hoights, and the work is to be commenced at once. REMOVAL OF THE KANSAS INDIANA Commissioner Dale has gone to Kansas to make pre. Mminary arrangements for the removal of tho Indians from that State. The Mi of New Me: GOLD AND SILVER BNOUOH TO PAY THE NATIONAL DEBT. (From the Washington Republican, August 10.) Wo were plossed to meet our old triend, Governor W. F. M. Arny, of New Mexico, who is in this city, and has with him An interesting cabinet of Hlustrating ‘the mi: riches of New ). ring the past year he has visited every cognty ‘Territory, and ob- | | tained specimens of the gold, silver, Spree. and | coal from every locality yet discovered, which he inteuds to place with the Commissioner of the General |and Interior | epartment. bas several ust, very rich, washed out from the sur- the Placer Miner."’ which are owned z company , several of the members of which reside in city. Also a specimen from new discoveries made near Fort Stanton; anther specimen of fine gold from the Rio Prieto, whieh be vbtained Martin, of the California Volunteers, been stationed on that river. Also some spect: mens he obtained from Captain sosepn Walker, ‘the Old Mountaineer ,’’ who bas for somejtime beeo en; on the Gila river, and who reports the discoveries of rich gold deposits, and who says that thousands of miners could be employed on this river in gold wasbing if the Indians were removed. In the collection there are specimens of rich gold quarts (rom various Icalities in New Mexico, also specimens of silver ore from the Mountain, which will yield from one hundred abd fifty totwo hundred ounces of silver to the ton of ore, tagetber with rich specimens of silver from the Cerrelios mines, near Sante Fe aieo specimens Fre Pisce Aloe: from large deposits lately ver or, Sturgeon, the United Sitter Army , on the Gila and Rio Prieto rivers, Several kpectinens of ore, some of which is almost pure, foand near Pinos Altos in inexhaustfble quantities. ‘Thess mines were worked profitably wocil the Texan invasion and the breaking out of the Indian troubles. from Lieutenant The Governor bas also several pieces of ancient tery, specimens of which werg exhumed by Be. ‘eorgeon on the site of Fort Vest; and the pot from which the fragments were broken contained the ‘bones of a homan being. one tne ‘no specimens ‘of agricultural products and Indian manufactures, ameng which are sugar, tobacco acd wines from the grap abundang; a willow Indian basket; a Navajo Indian binn- ket, similar to those brought back from that country b} | Colonel Doniphan in 1847 other blankets, whiel bi the jwality of | country. Gorton" ond cag cane can be raised on the | Gita river a uality and Tad pana ib pay inexbaustibie mine- who has | ye of the country, which are ' ' THE TRIBUNE RIOT. TRIAL OF ONE OF THE RIOTERS, The Attack on the Tribune Buildings. CONVICTION OF THE PRISONER, Ren ee ae Court of General Sessions. Before Recorder Hoffman. Avaust 12.—The trial of parties indicted for taking Part in the,late riots was continued in the Court of Geuoral Sessions this morning before Recorder Hoffman, Assistant District Attorney S. B, Garvim- appeared as presecuting efficer. About fifty prisoners were brought dewo , among whom ‘were a number of females. The prisoners were arraigned at the bar to plead te indictments which had been found againss them. They all Pleaded not guilty and were remandod back for trial. THM ATTAOK ON THE TRIBUNE OFFICE. ‘The only case eet on the catendar for to-day was tbat of James H. Whitter, or Whitten, who was indicted for leading a mob to attack the Tribune omlee. Mr. Ba- mond,Blank and R. 8, Tharin, @ Uniom refugee from Alabama and formerly a law partner of William. ‘Yancey, appeared as prigoner’s counsel. APPEARANCE OF THE PRISONSR. James H. Whitter is apparently about thirty-five years a of age, is a stout, fresh complexioned man, with thick, ) | light hair, and a good tempered, jolly looking face, He is a barber by trade, and for the last fow yoars has been emjfoyed in Cristadoro's hairdressing saloon, under the Aster House. During the trial he was perfectly cool and. unconcerned, and helped his counsel on several occasions with suggostions as 40 the questioning of witnesses, MR. GREELEY IN COURT. Shortly after ten o'clock Mr. Greeley came into court, in company with two friends, After gazing around fer a few minutes aad bringing his spectacies to bear on the prisoners in the dock, he took » back seat, and, sproad. jog three or four newspapers on hia lap, commenced te look over their contenis. When the trial commenced however, he found the proceedings rather more intercst- ing than bis newspapers. ‘hey were accordingly folde up, and for about four bours Mr. Gresley listened to th testimony with ay apparent relish, judging from th merriment indulged in by himself and friends. RMPANNELING A JURY. Fach juror, on being sworn, wus challenged by Mr Blavkman. first juror catled was Mr. Wm. H. Mount ford. In anawer to Mr. Blankman's questions be said h was a photographic chemist, doing business at 149 Cnaz bers street, and knew Horace Greeley by sight. Ha read about the riots, but did mot believe that the Tribur office hud been burned down. Mr. Biankmaa informed him that the charge in tt indictment was putting one Horace Greeley in terror ax great fright. The juror said he had not read anyi Bir) about that circumstance, having been engaged as a sp) cial policeman in the upper part of the city, and that! did not read the 7ribune; always roud the Henan im tt morning. Counsel decided be was competent to act ag a juror withdrew his challenge. Wm, Iverson, a printer, doing business in Fi street, was similarly questioned, and had the names the ¢ribune Association read over to him and was ask’ | whether he was connected with them in any way. answering in the negative and informing Mr. Bank that he had no impression on bis mind ubeut the riot the Tribune office, the chal'e: ge was withdrawn. Mr, Alfred Decker, Casbior of the Camden and Am! Railrcad Company , was next culled and challenged peret torily. He bad served on other juries during the term. He did not read the Trilune, but believed that was the duty of ali goed citizens to see that rioters wi punished, He had net formed or expressed any opin in _reierence to the present ease. Mr. Goorge Ackerman had not formed any opin either one way or the other. Challenge withdrawn. Mr. Ackerman was chalienged peremptor) ¢ dhe. Walter A. Yates wae cbalieazed peremytorily. had read an account of it inthe World, of the 14th u which had left an impression on his mind, which it wo juire evidence to remove. . Christian Brod did not read the Tribune, Challe ithdrawa. Mr, Jacob Vasch was ily. He! challenged peremptorily. read an account of the affair in the Zribwne, bat it did Weave any im; jon on his mind. Mr, Orion wn had no impression of it either | way or the other. ‘ihe was jr. Henry Obendorfer was thon called and asked w' paper he read, Ou answortag the Herat, Mr. Blank said “You'll de, I withdraw the ” ‘Mr. Joseph L. Treadwell had not formed any opiate: the case, und the challenge against him was withdray Mr. Joba True, » German, was peremptorily challer on aocount of not being abie to understand what cou said to him. Mr. Clarkson Dyo and othoraewere then called and paonelled on stating formed ge opin tho matter. Dav! o TUR CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION. q' Mr. Garvin then opened the case for the people, sa it was an indictment against James H. Whitter, or V ten, charging that about half-past twelve o'clock , 0 epee July last, be was engaged in a riot which jon of what had been commenced in the m fing, to the astonishment of all in New York, whea were but twelve hundred military in the city. { broke out simultaneously in all parts of ttie city, an tween bey Be i ‘and the following Th been committed than at any other was safe while walkin & Man in the metro). unable to preveDt it, au: “7 gly able to raise bis voice against it. He (the spe on the corner of Forty second street, and for long Kogrs saw murder, arson, rapine and other en ties pnitted without having the power to pr them. ww the sad sight of five hundred litte of how to open his case 5 Garvin went of to say that the case merely happened on Mr. about to they | snob, exceedingly violent j thent: be ditermated Kis appeal |. Objected Gi ! sooundeel a | would come down | out: he called for hundred persons with him; saw some of ther und Hj | clubs and stones im their hands: time in front of the building some twenty minute gathered again in the afternoon several times, prinuner was not present during the afternoun; in dress to the mob be called upon them to give che) the Caucasian, a pewspaper printed two or thre from the Tribune office; after the cheers were ¢ again called for groans for the Tribune, which wer and he then called upon them to cheer for General B. MeClelian and to groan for the New York Jin ing that time be did not think that any arteck tended by the mob on the Tribune at that time. ‘Objection was again made that witness was ny upon to give his ubjection sustained Court. ‘Witness continued—During the afternoon the cy sembled several times and grew more humerous night, wae there during the latter part day when the BIg Tar MI 7 enred between Hf Potore eight o'clock, when the mob commenced 1 stones and bricks; with their clubs they first de maghte. to & there were a dozen men entering t and crying at the tine were sog witness could pot tell what was said, be was con: