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The Army of the Potomac, so far as we are ac- quainted with its operations, is in a perfectly quiescent stale, Gencral Sibley has been doing some hard fight- ing with the Indians on the Upper Missouri, as we learn by despatch from St. Paul, Minnesota. He had three severe battles, in which he succeed- ed in driving the Indians across the Missouri river with severe loss. We give to-day some very interesting intelligence from New Orleans, showing the state of affairs in that quarter, the despondency of the people at Mobile and their fears of an sttack by the Union The prevailing feeling is that the city would surrender without making any de- fence. The condition of the people, for want of provisions, is reported as positively desperate. Some extracts from the newspapers of Texas show the state of feeling in that quarter, and the absurd ideas npon many questions relative to affairs in the West, which are very amusing. A despatch to St. Louis from Pineville, Mo., dated yesterday, reports a fight between Colonel Catherwood, of the Sixth Missouri artillery, and Colonel Coffee, with his rebel forces, in which the latter were dispersed, thirty killed, all his ammu- nition wagons, stores and a number of prisoners taken, forces. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Ty the arrival of the Hibernian off Cape Race on Friday evening we have European news to the 7th inst., five days later than the advices previously received. The general news is unimportant. A belief that the Polish question would not resu't in war had caused an advance in the fands in London. At Liverpoo! cotton had dcolined one-quarter of a penny, while breadstulfs were steady and provi- sions firm. At the special meeting of the Board of Alder- men yesterday, the ordinance from the Council- men appropriating three millions of dollars for the relief of drafted men was taken up and passed by a unanimous vote. The ordinance referred to may be found in our report of the proceedings of the Board, published tn another column. A mecting of the National Democratic Commit- tee is to be held at the St. Nicholas Hotel, in this city, at noon on the 7th of September next, for the Purpose of fixinz the time and place of holding the next National Democratic Convention for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, and for the con- sideration of such other matters as may be brought before the Convention. Hon. Geo. B. Henderson is an aspirant for one f the Missouri vacant seats in the United States nate. He is opposed to abolitioniam and cop- rheadisin, and in favor of making Missouri a » State by gradual emancipation. yore was quite asevival of speculation to stocks yes. ay. Harlem rose 1445 per cent, and everyibing wos terably higher. Gold fell to 125 and exchange to , 8138, Money was enay: call loans 5 a 6 per cent, ‘ewsrarer = MismManaGeMent.—The London 5 was started by the late John Walter, who for forty years conducted It with intelligence, abiity and energy, and made it the leading Journal of Bngland. After his death it was carried on for a time on the principles to whieh it owed its success; but latterly it has got into the bands of speculators and took jobbers, and, instead of being tho Thunderor, has Weras the Biunderer of the English press. Tt will share the fate of what General James Watson Webb was recently pleased to style “the Jeading jour. nal of America,” the Courier and Enquirer and 6° clean out of existence. i oo { Lin the repnd-| coln’s emancipa | not ouly binds the federal | to the liberation of the slaves of s t pledges the good faith atioa to Europe. Thus Mr. Solicitor of the War Office, in his letter to the Fs cS g @ $ =| 2 z < a = eg +s 4 a | attempt to please certain parties “the solema | pledge of freedom offered to the colored citizens by Congress and by the proclamation must be broken, and the country and« the government covered with unspeakable infamy.” And again, he says:—‘Whateyer disasters may befall our arms, whatever humiliations may be in store for us, it is earnestly hoped that we may be saved the unfathomable infamy of breaking the nation’s faith with Europe and with colored citizens and slaves in the Union.” What faith with Europe? The faith of the emancipation proclamation. But we cannot discover in the proclamation anything involv- ing the conditions of a treaty with, or a pledge to, any European Power. The President, on the ground of a military necessity, issued the proclamation as a military measure, and not as a fixed and permanent Jaw. As far as our armies have gone this proclamation has been carried into effect; but beyond the lines of our armies it has been practieally as much adead letter in Alabama and Gcorgia as in Cuba or the kingdom of Dahomey. The Presi- dent was right in describing it as “the Pope's bull against the comet,” and the abolition radicals are wrong in’ supposing that it is any- thing more than a “brutum fulmen,” Its object was the suppression of the rebellion, and not the abolition of Southern slavery. If the rebels were to Jay down their arms to-day, and de- clare through their master, Jeff. Davis, the submission to the Union of’ the rebellious States, severally and in their confederate ca- pacity, provided they have the consent of the general government to return with their insti- tution of slavery as the war has practically left it, does any one suppose that President Lincoln would reject these overtures, and insist upon the prosecution of the war to the exter- mination of slavery, in order to carry out lite- rally to the end his emancipation proclamation? Unquestionably he would accept the submission of “the rebels on the condition proposed, the objects of the war being limited ¢o the suppres- sion of the rebellion and the restoration of the Union. There is no pledge to Europe in the emanci- pation edict, and the pledge in it to the slaves of the South is dependent upon the continuance of the war and the advance of our armies into the heart of the rebellious States. We hold, however, that in the correspondence of the State Department with the French government our federal government is pledged to Europe upon the important matter of the recomstruc- tion of the Union. The French’ Minister, for Foreign Affaira, it will be remembered, pro- posed a joint convention in some neutral country, of delegates from the United States and delegates from the so-called Confederate States, in view of a treaty of peace, Union or Gissolution, IW willelso be remembered that Mr. Sewarl emphatically declined this propo- sition, and suggested to the French government that the seats in the Senate and House of Representatives of the members of Congress to which the Southern States were entitled wero, to a great extent, still vacant, and that if the delinquent States will only fill those vacant seats they will have peace at once, and the power in the national legislature which cannot fail to secure them against any aggressions in the fature upon their constitutional rights. Mr. Seward thus acted upon the sound idea that the rebellious States are still within the Union, that their acts of secession are illegal, null and void, and do not carry them out of the Union; that the federal armies are sent to those States to put dowa_ the rebellious forces thorein arrayed in arms t the supreme authority of the Union, agg that when this is done said States may, further cere- mony, reassume their pre-existing relations with the federal government. We hold that the despatch of the Secretary of State to the French government upon this subject involves the only pledge given to Europe in reference to the policy of the administration for the ro- turn of the rebellious States to their rightful allegiance. Why should not this policy be pursued? ‘What i# there to be gained by a departure from it?’ Suppose, for instance, the President were now to authorize the people of Louisiana, under their existing State constitution, pro- slavery though it may be, to proceed at once to the election of federal and State officers, as citizens of a State in full communion with the Union, can it for » moment be doubted that this etep would have an ediate and a wonderful effect in reviving the old Union dellion, hreoty says ‘ing to its r from Richmond to Mobile, speedily collapse? On the other hand, if the’ rebellious States must be abolitionized before they can be reinstated in the Union, the war will inevitably be handed eae over a8 @ legacy to tl ipistration. ‘The constitutional fay the My ete a. pledge to the French govériiment for the | testoration of peace in tho restoration of the ffaton. A Moet. Drarr Norice.—The following is | | the notice of drafting issued by the Provost | Marshal for Berks county, Pennsylvania:— ' Notice COMMENC or HR pRARe. Provost — Orne#, Eiaarn Dreracr, ADING, Pa., Augnat 8, 1863. } ‘Tho draft for this distriet (Berks county) will com- | deena win to anh = ag. 183, and the sub- ct u e diatsun wil jn the following Order and at the aed follow No exempt until a ‘Tho draft will take place on a eitorms tg treaty tke Provost Marshal's office. The public are invited to aliend. HENRY 8. KUP! af Captain apd Provost Marshal, Righen alerriet. This i a model notice for the draft, and it is | very evident that Henry 5. Kupp understands his business. So far from wishing to do the thing in a secret manner, he performs his duty on a platform in the street, and invites the public to attend. Wad this plan been adopted in New York city, instead of the foolish secresy , Tesorted to, it would have gone a ereat way to | prevent the flots which everybody de Y We trust that in the future, whe: { Captain Kupp will be followed. It has one | recommendation whieh the profound wiseacres at Washington never dreamed of as essential to | suecess, and that is Common sense—a commo- mode of | ity which seems to be coutraband st the War | rens i , Our Special Mission party all over the South, and that thus the re- | directions. The Sadertion, pediency, economy and safety, is the way | colonics, pointed out in Mr, Seward’s létter and implied ! future misery awaiting the helpless people of | the British isles. ‘Thé boasted H islands is merely 1 ! | but if we ever do we will take thom tn NEW YORK HERALD, the West Indico © Colonial Press. Excttement of We publish. to-day: Kingston (Jamaica) of the severest ¢ ecial the West Indies, because, forsooth, h tobe just and truthful in de ive colonists of the British islands. ‘The tetters of which these sheots are now 40 loudly complaining have been freely repub- lished in their columns; and such ia the im- ng portanc® attached to the statements of our cor- | respondent that one of these journals gravely | says that prompt instructions had been sent off | to all the other islands of the British West In- dies, 80 that owr, agent should be intercepted and the formidable designs of the New York Heraxp frustrated. Another, even more foolish than the first, thinks that our reporter was no more nor less than’ a federal agent sent out to. .examine the forlifications of the island, It is really wonderful to see how far the potent influence of the Hera extends, ‘Wherever one of our in- numerable agents makes his appearance it is 4 warning to evil doers to arouse themselves and be on their guard; and even this distant British province has formed no exception to the gene- ral rule. ‘These British West India islands, imi- tating the dishonest policy of their so-called parént government, have” long’ been carrying ona remunerative trade with the rebels of the South. There was no question of principle in- volved, 60 far as they were concerned. It was a mere question of pounds, shillings and pence, or, a8 we say here, of dollars and cents. The United States had no need of the very good services of these people, and, as a consequence, the hungry colonists could make nothing out of us. They therefore sided with the Sorth—a portion of the United States to which they have |: hitherto been most violently opposed—because this was their only chance of “turning a penny,” even though a dishonest one, and saving them- selves from threatened starvation. Their sca- ports have been opened to every Confederate pirate that swims the sea; captains of notorious cruisers, known to be violent supporters of slavery in. the South, bave been feted and fawned upon by these. wretcbed colonists, for the most part themselves the descendants of quindam slaves; their storehouses, arsena!s and shipyards have been given up to the nso of notorious pirates—and all this with the single view and intention of annoying and injuring the people of the North, whose industry and enter. prise supply them with almost every mouthful of bread they eat, every ounce of pork or beef that flavors their pottage, and neayly every one of. the otber articles of comfort or luxury which they ever taste or see. When Napoleon the First declared that the British were a nation of shopkedpers he made @ very sage and well-merited remark. John Buil’s energy is principally confined to the prosperity of his shops; and after this comes another thing with which no man must trifle— the rotund condition of his capacious stomach. His colonial children, who haye faithfully imitated him, in all things, are eyen ahead of the old man in this respect. Within the past two years the colonists have sold and resold themselves a thousand times over for the small amount of gain which the Confederates have been able to throw in their way; and yet no one despises them more than the Southerners for such detestable conduct, and this they will find to their cost before very long. 4 In ‘the face of all this, the colonial newspapers . published in the various islands visited by our correspondent have been very severe in their reflections on what they are pleased to term “ Yankee meanness.” This assertion means very little; for the truth is that there is nothing like meanness in the United States. Generosity to strangers and warm liberality under every circumstance are the distinguishing traits of our people. But if there be any lingering remains of such objec- tionable characteristics among the Americans they may be very ss bduaene to the source of all mdathoe—the Povernment itself. Meanest of the mean, it has carried its mean tendencies to every corner of its dependen- cies. While America had the misfortune to be under such a dominion she may have imitated some of these fashionable British vices; but we believe that our citizens have long since got rid of them, and now enjoy a truer and purer liberty, united to greater strength and vigor, than we could ever have achieved under the oppressive rule of England. The public are satisfied with the way in which our special agent discharged his duty on his tofir to the West Indies. The coarse abuse-of a few colonial sheets neither affects us nor him. Their rage and violent desperation form the best proof that he has spoken the simple truth. The boasted hospit to whjgh ! alludes he never réceived; for, like all of our correspondents, he paid his ex- penses as he went, as these are invariable towd¥e, batons to ite fall, would, | the meanness of the source from which it comes—another fact in point of degradation through the force of example. From Nassau to Jamaica, from Ja- maica to Barbgdgs, and all the whole belt of Antilles, he « fh eldabtee testi- if of Ghd deMoralization of the British the failure of emancipation the gih of these imagidary with these del people, and, instead of abusing a coshipat correspondent for speaking the truth, these lazy West Indians should do their beat to make their | fortresses as impregnable as they boast they | Weston. We name Fernando Wood. Who is are, Wo do not want these Isla o nds at present; spite of England and al} her brave coloniai soldiers, | In the meantime let the West fadja press ap- | Holmes is dead of delirium tremens. ply itself to the developthent of ooffee, sugar, tobacco, yams, potatoes and other useful arti- | , cles for the support of its people. We can Wen take care of the rebellion and the niggers at the same time. A Nowance Toat Ovont ro we Apaiena- In the Washington papers, ii “the case of the hames of persons exempted from the draft being published, the reason is assigned “phy- | sical disability,” but the particular disability, disease, defect, or deformity is not stated. This is right ande proper, the o: to state specifically each disability, dleease, defect and deformity. This coasary, . is wholly ‘anne- and seems to be a wanton and ortel wounding the feelings of mady clti- who may 6avo the misfortune to be ; ! SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1863. ever that moymeany and other diseases with queer names, to say nothing of that class of diseases whose publicagion cannot fail to bring iba blush to the check of repentant sufferers. Such publicity cannot do any good, aud cer- | tainly will do avast amount of harm. Itisa | nuisance that ought to be abated. Taw Coyrepyrare Loay.—The European | news brought by the Hibernian, although five | days later, possesses but little political interest. |The deeline of the Confederate loan’ had | reached thirty-five per cent, but had rallied again to twenty-five per cent discount. This partial recovery was, however, looked upon as temporary, and was duc to the desperate efforts made to sustain the stock by Spence and other Confederate. agents and sympathizers, These men will try and bolster it up until ‘they can get safely out’ of it, leaving the’ unfortunate dupes whom they persuaded to invest their money in it to bear the brunt of the loss. But few of the rogular operators in the market have ever touched this stock, It was put forward under conditions that prevented it being looked upon favorably by business men. The $15,- 000,000-issued was put upon the market at a premium of one and a half per cent, and it-was only kept above par for a while by the misrep- resentations of the London organs of the rebels. If it had not been for the false assurances and confident predictions of the London Times it would have been long since kicked out of the market. As it is, it is mow depreciated beyond all hope of recovery. The recent decisive vic- tories of the North have opened the eyes of all connected with it, and if it survives at all it will only be fn the catalogue of bubbles by which the English public have from time to time been humbugged. New Yore a Svssrirure Market ror New EnoGLany.—The Board of Councilmen in their session of Friday evening adopted unanimous- ly a resolution requesting the Governor of this State to issue a proclamation prohibiting the further withdrawal of young men from this city to be used as substitutes in other States. This is a move which should have been made more than a year ago. The city of New York has served too long asa mart in which New Eng- land procured men to fill up her quotas, in the army. Even Governor Andrew, of Massachu- setts, through his agents, scoured the city and State for colored men to form the two negro regiments which he has sent@§ the war in the place of white regiments. That was submitted to on our part without a word of remonstrance or complaint; but now that the draft is going to bear so hard upon our own citizens the evil should be tolerated no longer. The effect of the practice is not only to diminish the number of able bodied men liable to be conscripted here, thus making the draft fall ona larger number of the resident population, but, also to augment the rates for which substitutes can be procured. Governor Seymour should therefore adopt the moat stringent measures ‘to shut up the substitute agencies here and prevent the further carrying on of this inler-State slave trade. New England has had much to do in originating the war. Let her now do her full share in conquering a peace. Tae Kenrocny Pratroru.—Hon. Brutus J. Clay, the successor of John J. Crittenden in Congress, in becoming a candidate for the place, isaued “a card” to the people of his dis- trict, in which he says:— Sema, Aten, ess er, the war to ‘subdue tho overthrow. If 4 ~_s * is the Kentucky platform. It is neither copperhead nor niggerhead, but that sound Union platform which, if not triamphant under the present administration, will surely rule in the next. Tue Chats ror DAMAGES ARISING PROM THE Ruwrts.—The claims for damages to property in this city arising from the -late riots already amount to $1,500,000. As some of these claims are perhaps greatly exagger- ated, it is the duty of citizens who know the claimants and are acquainted with the facts to come forward and give evidence, so as to save the city from being unjustly mulcted on one side and to render fair play to the claim- ants on the other. To this end notice is issued by the Commission in two newspapers of the lication of claimants two days in advance, and they must be ready with their witnesses at the appointed time. For instance, the claims of rties advertised on Saturday will be heard Coasaow, By this arrangement justice will be done to all if persons who know the facts touching any perticular case will do their duty. fat Naa Qgyoree— Tas, Srasxananr — The Albany Jour... after fuding to a recent article of the Huratp on agg Congress, *. “he Fak ats Gil Galle: Wi nc ovata | ha wil ofc vigorous prosecution of tas wun pet fase prtion ea renters anugris'ba hand entce heed be fin cht devices ter heen “ Bxtroms radical measures” are not the ete The radicals on that perc calle fied. Who is to be the Speaker? Taat is the | ass . Detween BroadwaP | the candidate of the Journal? i ‘ | Is Ir Axowmier Warskey Iysvanection!—tt | has already been stated that the rebel General | ir According | to reliable accounts several other rebel generals are rapidly assuming the same form of disease. ; The rebellion may yet turn out to be only | another whiskey insurrection, but ona larger | } | Measure than the first one. If Lincoln was a | | at Dodworth Hail, | Ri) ~ HEWS FROM WARRINETON, z . _asuxorow, August 15, 1863, TRIALS BY THE MILITARY Count MaNTiaL. ‘Tho courf martial, of which Brigadier General Slough is President, was to-day engaged in the trial of isaac F. MeCarper, on the charge of robbing Paymaster McFar- land, United States Volunteers. The prisoner confessed bis guilt, avd exonerated otners from complicity in thé robbery, He plead that he stole the money while he was under the influence of liquor, and that he intended to return it, but was prevented from so doing by his arrest. The cake of detective White will be resumed on Mon- day m rning, _ THB CASE OF GENERAL MILROY. The court of ingniry to investigate the facts and cir- cumstances of the evacuation of Winchester and Martins- burg was organized to-day. The court consists of Briga- dicr General Barry, Prosident, and Brigadier Generals Abercrombie and De Russey, members, and Captain R. N. Scott, Judge Advocate. The court will commence to bear evidence on Monday morning. DECISIONS OP THE SECOND COMPTROLLER OF THE. TREASURY. - Tho Second Comptroller of the Treasury has decided (hat when a non commissioned officer or private is dis- charged, after two years service, on account of promo- tion, his one hundred dollars of bounty is payable at the time of such discharge. It ig algo insisted that biennial exemptions of invalid pensioners must be by two surgeons or physicians. Officers who may be relieved under the act of Congrees of 1861 and 1862, and who were on duty at the dato of the retirement, are entitled to a continuation of their Cull } pay util relieved from duty, THE CONSCRIPTION, The Forotment Board to-day examined 105 conscripts, of whom sixty-three whites were exempted, threo ac cepted and twenty furnished substitutes, and seven colored were exempted, two accepted and ten furnished substitutes. During the past week the Board of Fnroliment have had before them fouf hundred and seventy-six cases, and of this number two hundred and ninety six have been ‘exempted; one hundred and sixty-one offered substitutes | wortny of it, to the rank of the position they ar which were accepted; of the original dra‘ted men thirteen were accepted, and six paid the three hundred dollars commutation. Thus out of four hundred and soventy-six drafted men one hundred and cighty soldiers have been obtained. COMMITTED TO THE OLD CAPITOL. The following named persons, arrested by Captain Edwards, Provost Marshal of General King’s division, at Centreville, and sent to this city from Alcxandria by Lieutenant Winship, wero committed to the ld Capitol to-day by order of Provost Marshal Todd:—Flisha Corneil, | Seminary was once a fatious edueatioual institution; but of Mosby's battallion; John Robertson, charged with giving information to the enemy; John Clark and Willium L. Leo, charged with disioyalty, and Redmond Devans, guide for Mosby's cavalry. THE RECENT RIOTS. The Claims Againat the City. The following additional claims for camages were filed with Comptrolier Breonan yesterday’ — ey ~, MEADE’S ARMY, Me. Thedal*® © Wilson's Despatch. Headguanc*®) Exavewnr Army Corrs, m, ne _feeust LU, 1863, “ PAYING OFF, “> It will probably be grati‘ying to tho f oMocers and “inen t.’ know that enough and funds ave arrives’ © give the Elevonth due.” This will be, and 13 being, done as speedily as p atdie. } pasgnrang , 7 MOgRY. Information has been officiah, ¥ 425m !ttod to divisio commander by Lieutenant Colon, *! Myrenburg, Adjutant General, that certain Unie,” S°!diers attacl Acommand stationed near this one Mave deserted th ‘Union ranks, with a view of joining kb °5PY'6 guerillas and for the particutar purpose of aiding im“! plundertn operations. The circular containing thy %, information gives important facts concerning spies, these fwets| will be apt to lead to the fimmediato wrrest 0.” avy per sons now within our Hines pretending to be amply cit! zens. MEALIH OF THE CORP. From information derived through médical sources ti appesrs that the health of this vorps continues to ee paratively good. The present inactive coidi'ton of the ‘command is tending to greatly improve the phys.cal ay pearance of both rank and file. SUTIERS. Notwithstanding the risks. to be run large numbers of sutlers pass witbin our lines every day. ‘ome have @ cavalry escort with them, and others are without. CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. Owing to the absence of the Southern males it is difficulty we ean prcure anything in the v line ty eat. Where it is to bo hed there much m to be paid for the desired articles. It is pot un! fo find parties scouring the country formary ro les around in Order to pick up afew vegetables to gerve the dinner table, Why do not the authorities at Washington avd Alexandria, instead of allowing sutiors to lood’ their wagens with many cases of ‘Hight winos, com- pel them to make a portion of their stock to consist of Dew potatces and other vegetables? How much better this would be for the cnlistet man, who not untrequently spends his money for misnamed luxaries, bec: be must bave something to him ‘‘new,’? andybecau © he can-,) Dot procure anything better than tho thousand and one miserable things the sutlers bring along ot which to make handsome profits. PROMCTION. If it is the intention of government to fav zation of this army, would it not be well for this opportunity to promote oflicers, wher 8 roorgani- to embrace really jw ack wisely and without bettor discipline y of our army. ing in? Such a-eourse, i pted, political favoritism), would tend to tl and add much to the ef: Bir. William Young’s Deapatch. Wavarizy, Va,, August 11, 1863. 18 WAVERLEY? ‘That ia a question Which ‘may be asked by those who read these fow feeble pencl.lings, and it may be answered by stating that it is. near Argyle, In Guipepper county, ‘not many miles from thé Salphur Springs Hotel. Waverley it isnow im ruias, like other buildiugs, public and private, in the Old Dominion, and shows tho marks of shot and shell, Argyle ig an estate occupied by ita pypprictor, who was.a manutacturer of woollen.cloth: before the waryand bag continued it ton limited extent ‘sitiée, until bis ma chinery and mills were deatecyed by.our army. ALL QUIET ON PH, LANTB.: All quiet‘on the picket lines expresses nearly all that can, be said relating 40 military matters within the sphere of this corrempondence. The quiet isve! course, varied by the usial fueidente of «ccasional captures of indi. Margaret Sarveut, 349 West Twenty-sixth street... $175 | yigin! soldiers om each elds, and by both Union and rebel Eliza Austin, 147 Kast Twenty-cighth street........ 115 | scouting partion, Once n'a great whe thronzhont the Pen. Dewitt, 557 Second avonue. ¥. Heldtelter, Feventh avenuc Harrict States, 617 Bro:ino street, Jane Drumins, 65 Leonard stroot . Kebecca Ross, 96 West Thirty-seco J.P, Anderson, 22 Rector streot.. Officer Jeremiah Graham, Fighteenth pr &. W. Thompson. 15 James sitp,. M, L. Manheim, 954 Fuurth aveni Corn". Courksright , 2 Hammond Schumake. 21 Rector street. Susan I. cuson, 317 Thiri aveaue.. Sabine Sk-nline. 147 East Twenty Rachel Burton, 104 Weat Thictieth str Sarah Watson........ a G. Ry yackson. 201 Centr Wm. Pavis,75 Thompson street Christina Jerking, 95 West Thir Annie Karnes, 132 Weat Twenty Vinerty, First avenue aud Twouty socond Robert C. Hutchings, Tate sion. regard to these claims is solicited by tho committee. The Attack Upon Supcrintendent Ken- nedy During the Riots. The examination in tho case of Francis Cusick, an ex- |] Union with policeman, who was arrosted some days ago on a charze of being concerned in the July riots, aod with haying Deen implicated in tho attack upon Superintendent Ken. | constitution of the United pedy, camo up-ycsterdayfnt the Exsox Market Police Court, in the presence of a large number of spectators. ‘William H. Kimabali teatified that on the 12th of July, ns he was in Lexington avenue, between Forty-Gfih | V! and Forty-sixth streets, bo saw the prisoner in a dy UF acib Of violence, BS at the bead of &@ gang, and was heard to say, “Let and strike together, and we can up the prisoner said, ‘‘Here comes the son of a ——~— Kennedy, let us finish him,” proached Superiateadent Kennedy and struck him with a large club across the breast and shoulders; Mr. Konnedy fell on the sidewalk from the force of the biows; Cusick bens alps r Ft Murphy, and after teariug his iS a feet ts ecko ls <M sect Gusick tor grand larceny, accusi him or baving stolen two breedh-loadin; cleennd, eeloed at thirty “dollars, the (eco De gas aoe ‘Ibe property was found | bas had the effect of tomporartly thawing from the hearts intent to take lite. jarphy made a complaint against the accused ebarges Cusick with years, acda driver by occu) 's the sum of five hundred each 4 i from custody. Another Victim of the Riots. Henry Aibohn, a native of Germany, died at his resi- Gonce, 497 Tenth avenue, , from the effects wound verciyed “dertag Cob Sty roth, Cues. will hold. uquest upoa the body to-day Religt Intelligence, CHUROH SBRVICES TO-DaY. Io 8+. Ann's church, Righteenth street, near Fifth avenue, services at haM-past ten A. M-, half-past tl | id 6M oodeak PM the aaron Doig te oy ‘ Tn St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, gyenue, corner of Twenty-second strect, preaching baif.,:*#t ten o'clock, by the pastor, Rev. H. B. Ridgeway. Rev, ln” J: W. Wiley will preach tn the Trinity Metho- ist Episcopa.| Church, York stret, Jersey City, this morniog and evening. >. a Rey. Dr. Beil will yom fm the church in Fiftieth 74 Eighth avenue, at balf- the afternoon—'11,° » In the Mariver’s Temp"*+ Olver skin’: nag ed past ten o'clock A. M., ander © Quartor pact ‘Bree and a quarter before eight o'clock P.M. Rey. Josapn Steck: bridge, Chaplain ip the United States Ne¥Y, Will préten in the afternoon. ite past ton ovik A. M, and poapation, at hall No, 054 Broadway, corner of Twenty. third street, at balf-past ton o’clock A. M. and three and half-past seven o’ciock P.M. Afternoon conference held | seeoad Washington it would soon be squelehed ! t ont. Marine Disasters. BoeroN, August 15, 1863, The #iQp Electric Spark, Gatidage, trom London, Pic Hagen ttatton the foot ag Feport:— ry On July 25 foli jo with tho North American bark His watha, deal rouded. She was to.any diemasted, and had: {he appearance ot bldg stripped o al er valuables. She on the water, with no appearagee z 6) tm latitude 43 north, longitede €) went, fell ta, with thé Bt, John built ship Gloucestershire, from M. Johm bound to London. She was Raving berm aabore on the Sea Isiends three eaye . Letter Foe MF. Hopere wate Ow * TO THR EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Tam willing to be abused than a jeader in this rican feirer pr wpa gae if, in return, aa fair an abstract of what really are my principles is presented ey have give’: 1 Observe but *, ja Bi aberact. ft was stated ia the worst evfis of slavery is toartiage tte among slaves there was recommended that ‘rete, at ts the leregatded. 1 wan 42 | others in tho 809 | demoralized, 250 90 20 member of the Legislature, has been appointed Secretary of the Rict Claims Commis- It is propcsed to issue an olaborate re;ort com- prising the claims, evidenoe and awards.’ Tho claimants whose namvs are advertised under tbe head of “Corpera- | jarration—that is, not tion Notice” to-day, haye been notified to appear with | new tHBir witnesses on Monday at two o'clock. Information in us go in boys toner of lick all the | that distinguished oliizen of damned police:"” when Superintendent Kennedy drove | Tebeldom. the defendent then ap. lange before loug. inet police, a pn ag sequently I have nothiug of a moving character to report. having irde'® be How could it be expeeted, when at midday street< are }, valued in all at | oop de soliel? The records of “the oldest inhaujsent” baving taken the | praye yoaterday to have boon the hottest day vince 1486. ope important omission |® war our soldiers have ventured ontmide of the picket lines, and anffered the penaity of ass iesinaton or im: ri- sonment for the'r rastinegs. “Some instances of this na- ‘ture havo occurred fately. © DRERITERS DRAWN IN NY A'LATIAT. into hospital quarters. having been drawn as river by a Tarjat fastened coe his waist. He wanted to desert, but couldn't swim, and so, fn the manner de- scribed, was drawn aerces the river © Ho agrees wi'b representa'iin that the rebel army is much its mon disheartened atid deserting. A RESTORATION OF THK UNION. To day aConversation with an influential and inteltt. gent citizen about the ‘war and the restorativn of the Union elicited the sentiments of that eltfzen in refe-ence ‘to both thes: points. He was’ 6° Uston man, a constita ent of Hoo. Robert F. Scott, a member of the Convention ‘and. like him, wae can be no sottlement of our national of the Union until there is #change of admin- until aftor the frinuguration of # President in 1865, Until that time, he thinks, the South will pot forth all its ect fth the view of Tonging the ‘war'to such ® Serore the first hostile not profens te he would be Virginia to the emancipation evoked. For such as Everett—there could be me that under the old Union an@ CoLoxmr, ones. Ped Lioutecant el Green, of the Sixth Virginia cavalry, ‘whose. resitecce is between Amissrilie and Newby's Cross Roads, was one of the Pell and rett men of rginia who clung to the Union ontii bis owe alty to the South was doubted, but when the oranance ere or Lo nog ee ee call to arms made en tered the r c . a Habe yom. altel opinion ta, gat sla, who rebels againes tros witling Fin—a ve Col, Green. or A MILITARY watt. ‘Thore are rumors of a miliary ball to take place in the x It will come off, per- FMTERETING. FROM. NORFOLK. Mr. Bdwin F. De Nyse’s Correspon:tonce, Nonrosx, Va., August 12, 1863. ‘THR NOT WRATHER of our military men all thetr singuivary intentions. con- deserted and devoid of all their usual bustic, and a simple walk of one block ts sufficient to bring sboute TUM CAMPS AND THR CITY, ‘The camps of our forces in this vicintty are admirably situated, and sickness is not generally prevalent, although Surgeon Richardson, of the Thirteeath Hampshire, foforms me thata chronic diptheria ia tent ce Eeveral, I believe, have died Toe elty te apagnally Doaltny. Thora are vo, igns of epidemic, although the state of the weather iwigtt well ‘be considered a good foundation for such a mis‘ortune. (GENERAL KACIER still holds the reine bere, notwithstanding all the com trary rumors which heve been By iog about since the General Pock and his staT at Fortress are now 3 temporarily ; and that ip the chances of war we = of hoped Governur cou: semances radiant with ‘werent FEii Rat Hitt 4 ¢ i \o @ New Yorker ac tar A metropolis, undergo the penance o1 a resi: fernal heat of day and the eyuall of mosquitcer at night. Retween the Present, thonyh weve W sound morality @ill ventare to asso ¢ a “Growler a consequently they