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NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BEANETT. EDITOR AND PKOPRIETOR CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU TS. ‘TERMS cash in advance yonoy sent vy mali will be etthe risk Of the sender. Nove bus bank bills current to New York taken THE DAILY HERALD, Txxax coats er copy. Velume XXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway.-Tava 10 THe WINTER GARDEN, Broad DAMILiB. KEW BOWERY THE. Burrakps—Oart.e Deal ee ancipecats hae BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Gaost ov Auransung— Youna Ause1ca—Brack Eyep Susan, BARNUM’S AMERICAN, y 1USEUM, Broadway — Primo — wpias Cuiaes Ri Rs amp Kauaws Ao. Ql bourse | HaunTee Cuamacu—Quirx at Howe, noon and Bening. BRYANT'S MINSTRELS Mechanica? Hall Broad. yar Bruorsan Bowcs, Dances Bumursauas, ke tu WOOD'S MINSTREL BALL. Gl Broadwar.<Ermuort foncs, Dances se tue Gate " ae AMERICAN THEATRE. No. 444 Brosdway.—Batexrs, {umm boarzsooms, 46.—Mx. po rag oo IRVING HALL, Irvin; ‘Tux Sracorricoy, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Comtosrriny amp Lxcturxs. from 9 A, ‘die 5nd jew York, Thursday, August 27, 1863. THE SITUATION. We publish to-day still later news from Charles- ton, by the way of Richmond, giving an account of Proceedings up to and including the 24th inst. General Gillmore has been able to throw shells from his batteries into Charleston, a distance of ve miles. General Beauregard “has protested against euch proceedings on the ground of human ity." The Richmond papers wisely reply:—‘His Protests will be of little use indeed if he cannot disable those batteries which fired the shells.” Our news from the Potomac army is confined to the doings of Mosby's rebel cavalry and our forces fn pursuit of them. General Mosby is reported to have been fatally wounded near Annandale on Monday. It is certain that an officer of his party was very seriously hurt, and was conveyed in a dying condition to Leesburg. The guerillas under both Mosby and White have been very trouble- vome of late, and the forces of the latter still threaten a succession of harassing attacks on our Vines. The story of two Union sutlers, while. in the hands of the rebels, which we give to-day, throws ome light upon the operations of these gueriila bands. ‘The doath of General Pemberton, who command: ed at Vicksburg, at Selma, Ala., is reported by a despatch from Cairo, Over one hundred thonsand bales of Confederate Btates cotton haye been captured near Natchez. It is sold that there are eight thousand rebel troops at.Monroe, sixty-five miles west of Vicks- burg. Generale Walker and Heber are in com- mand. Affairs in Kansas and on the Missouri border are assuming & serious aspect. It is reported that Jim Lane has returned to Lawrence, where he is Organizing a force to make a raid into Missouri. Gen, Ewing has given notice to the inhabitants of the border counties of Missouri that they must dopart within fifteen days, and at last accounts several buildings in Cass county were in flames, and upwards of a hundred people were reported killed. Martial law had been proclaimed in Lea- venworth. The burial of the dead in Lawrence showed that one hundred and eighty-three had fallen victims to the rebel masacre. The mer- chants end others of neighboring towns were con- tributing sums of money to rebuild Lawrence, and the work is now progressing. By the arrival of the Persia yesterday from Liverpool, with dates to the 16th inst., we have Gome later news touching the American question in Europe. The construction of some seagoing Monitors by the United States government is creating some excitement in England. It appears by a Plymouth paper that three British war vessels have been recently sold to a London company, nominally for the Mediterranean trade, but really for the rebel service in this country. The acceptance by the Archduke Maximilian of the crown of Mexico appears to be still uncertain. The Paris correspondent of the London Times looks upon it as decided; but in other quarters itis doubted that the matter is yet settled. The al- Hance between France and the confederacy of Jef. Davis through the medium of the new empire of Mexico forms a constant subject of discussion in Earope. The French policy in Mexico, however, is severely canvassed, and, a6 far as it now ap- pears, does notexactly coincide with public opin- fon in France. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship.Persia arrived at this port yester- day morning, from Liverpool on the 15th and Queenstown on the 16th inst., her European ad- vices being three days later than those previously received. ‘The news by this arrival is very interesting. An pppeal of Russian patriots to the Poles had been circulated throughout Poland, advising the insur- gents to give up & uscless struggle, and to unite their interests with those of Russia, promising them, in such event, a recognition of their inde- pendence. No additional conflicts between the Russians and Poles are reported. The replies of England, France and Austria to Prince Gortscha- koff, it was said, were to be presented to him on the 17th inst., and would immediately thereafter be made public. Since the identification and arrest of hy hib itissaid that a plot for a general ri of the Sepoys has been discovered and frustrat™, Field Marshal Lord Clyde died on the Lith inst. In the Liverpool cotton market there had been large transactions, with a slight advance. The tales for the week ending on the 15th inst. were 59,470 bales. Breadstuffs were dull. The pro- visions and produce markets were generally firm, with small advances in the prices of some particu lar articles, though nothing very material. Con- sols closed in,London on the 15th inat, at 93 a 9334 for money. + The imperial programme in Mexico bids fair to Joed to endless L Buropean Powers. feral fas Be rarorene to it, ae being @ movement in favor of the church aad against enlightenment, and also ly to lead to 6 war with America. monsbon to be alarmed phout it. leat the United States, cut | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, A | off from extension southward, may wish to make amends by extending ita power northward, over the two Canadas. Spain is mortified because Bourbon prince was not chosen, and expresses 4ypreliensions for her West India istands, lest they may become the prey of Franoo-Southern filibus- ters; and the Austrian preas condemns it, as tend- ing to bring their government under the tutelage of France. Altogether it appears to be a most knotty problem. Let the European Powers contain their souls in patience. It will not be long before we are prepared to solve it—with the sword. We give to-day extracts from the French, Spanish and Austrian papers on the subject, andalso details of the latest news from Mexico, The inquest in the case of Joseph T. Donnelly, who was shot by Major Bassford, of Colonel Mott's cavalry regiment, in Yorkville, on the night of the 20th instant, was resumed yesterday by Coroner Ranney. Three witnesses were ex- amined, among the number Dr. John W. Greene, whose testimony waa rather favorable to the ao- cused and Colonel Mott. The witness seemed to think that there was considerable provocation for the shooting, and stated that just before the shot was fired he heard deceased say he would take Major Bassford’s heart's blood, or words to that effect. Assistant District Attorney Stewart waa present during the examination, and conducted the case on behalf of the people. Colonel Mott and Major Baasford were also represented by counsel, and seemed quite cheerful under the cir- cumstances. The investigation will be resumed to-day in the Superior Court room, Chambers street. i The noted revel chieftain Major J. R. McCann, commonly called Dick, whose. depredations were nearly, if not quite, equal to those of the guerilla Morgan, is snugly lodged in the Tennessee Peni- tentiary, at Nashville, He, with his brother and thirteen of his band, were captured on the 19th inst., after a deaperate struggle. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, will com- mence the canvass in earnest in eight cr ten days. He will open in Krie county, and ge down towards the Southwest. * Fire Marshal Baker presented his semi-annual report for the last six months, ending on the 3lst of May, to the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, and the document was ordered on file. The report contains, as usual, many valuable suggestions for the prevention of fire, and recommends an ordi- mance to regulate the atorage of petroleum oils, The aggregate number of fires for the half year ending the Slst of May was 170, being adiminution of thirteen as compared with the corresponding six months of the previous year. The alleged loasea amount to $? 10; the insurances to $3,119,196; and the amount paid by the underwrit- ers to $264,605. This ia $73,264 leas than the amount paid by the insurance companies during the cor- responding six months of the previous year, The statistical part of these reports has become al- most invaluable to the Insurance companies. Since the 1st of July one thousand Canadian horses have crossed from Windsor, opposite De- troit, for the United States service. Thé potato crop in the Rgatern States will unusually large this season. ; The town of Chattanooga, Tennessee, against which General Rosecrans has trained his guns, jas flourishing post village of Hamilton county, on the. ‘Tennessee river, two hundred and fifty miles by water below Knoxville. It.is the termination of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, and of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which-con- nects it with the chief towns of Georgia. The Tennessee river is navigable by steam about eight months in the year, and by flatboats at all times. The stock market yesterday showed « continuance of the decline which began on Tuesday, Gold was firmer, rising to 1224, and 123. Money was abundant, and rates from 6 per cent upwards oncall, Sterling exchange 185}. Cotton was neglected yesterday, and altogether nom!- nal in price. There was less doing in flour and wheat, which were cheaper. The corn market opened buoyant- ly, but closed with a downward tendency. Uats were firmer, with a better inquiry. Pork sold moro freely; new mess was a sbade higher. Transactions in other kinds of provisions were limited, though buyers had any existing advantage. In the grocery line the main inquiry ‘was for sugars, molasses, Rio coffee and East India rice. Whiskey was in fair demand, Hay was felling freely. Hops were more active, Petroleum was quite brisk and Duoyant. Hides were rather quiet. Sole leather attract ed considerable attention, The tali trade in dry goods was opening vigorously, particalarly in the auction rooms, where, within a day or two, several catalogues of cotton goods, hosiery, ribbons, broche shawis, carpets, &c., have been disposed of, at, in tho main, fair prices, though there was somewhat less competition for domes- tie cottons than for other goods. The auction sale of boots and shoes yesterday was a decided success. Higher average prices were obtained for the Scranton coal sold @tauction. Freights were dull. be Co: a Gre Fall Season. The prospect of an early fall season and the extraordinary increase of advertisements which it has brought compel us to resume the publi- cation of our triple sheet at an earlier period than usual. From this and other indications there is every reason to conclude that the next four months will be the most commercially ac- tive ever known in this city. This is, however, but a feature of the general prosperity of the coun- try, which is without parallel for the last forty years. The fact is due to many causes, the principal of which are the large government expenditures for the war, the expansion of the currency and the immense impetus which has been given to mapufacturing industry of every kind. Although this state of things will pro- bably endure only for another year or two, and may be followed by disas- ter if care be not taken to prepare for the changes which will follow the suppres- sion of the rebellion, itis mot the less certain that every interest is prospering to an extra- ordinary degree, and that now is the time for people to make money. As is natural for a journal closely identified with the welfare of the commercial classes, we are among the first to benefit by this fortunate state of things. Our advertis- ing columns constitute a sort of barometer by which the prosperity of the community is to be guaged. When, therefore, at this early period of the season, the necessities of an overflowing business patronage compel us to triplicate our sheet, it can be taken as an unfatling indica tion that the business prospects of the eeason are of amore than usually satisfactory char- acter, It is a proud thing for a journal thus to serve not only asa guide to the political, but to the commercial, interests of the country. It is no- thing more, however, than is due to our post- tion, The circulation of the Heratp is double that of any other newspaper in either hemlaphere, gpd. je equal to that of i The Maryland Elect ministration and three to the opposition. Government than the entire remsinder of the Now York press. It does not owe this position to the support of any particular party or inter- est. It ia dao simply to its independence of all uch ties. It supports the administration when right; it opposes it when wrong; but its Opposition never degenerates into factiousness orviolonce. Its political platform, in short, is that of the democrats of Kentpcky and Iowa. It believes it to be the duty of all good citizens to uphold the government in putting down the rebellion, without reference to slavery or other issues. Its loyalty is unconditional, its sense of ita obligations to the country unqualified. It knows no political leaders, and recognizes no distinction of interests in the great work that lies before us. Whoever can best promote it cordially commands its aid. It fs this freedom from party obligations and fidelity to the constitution and the laws that have placed the Hwrarn in the enviable posi- tion which i¢ occupies as the leading newspaper of the country. The people have been prompt to recognize the value of suo a journal, and have magnificently rewarded its aspirations to nationality of character and influence. Let those of our ¢ontemporaries who envy us our good fortune take the same easy means to at- tain it. Thore is no more generous service than that of the people—none certainly which affords 0 much satisfaction and contentment. — the Next Congeess—The Comtest for the Speaker- ship. We publish to-day a corrected tabular atate- ment, brought down to the latest dates, of the resulta of elections for members of Congress already held, and the probable results of those which are yet to be held. Of the latter, the most important are those to be held in Maryland, that State, according to the new apportionment founded on the census of 1860, electing ive members. In our esti- mate we have given two of these to the ad- The Tribune of Tuesday concedes that it is likely Maryland will elect four in opposition to the administration, which would have the effeet of increasing the majority from six to eight. if by any possibility the radicals of the ad- ministration could get into theie clutches the whole ofthe Maryland delegation, there would be no majority for the opposition. The vote would then be a tie, and it would be an easy matter for Chase and Stanton: to purchase ono vote, which would throw 9 majority of two on their side. There is one opposition vote wait- ing to be bought cheap.in the New York dele- gation, and that, no doubt, will be. made available if it, should be sufficient-to elect the Speaker. But The anxiety of the radicals about the Mary- jand election is therefore intense. Stanton and Chase are working like beavers, through their agents, to have the whole five members elect- ed a8 radical republicans and in favor of making Territories of the reclaimed Southern States, with a view of forcing emancipation upon them, and as a consequence the amalga- mation of the races, or the extermina- tion of the whites of the South, accord- ing to the approved programme of Wen- dell Phillips. Intrigues of every kin@ are being carried on to accomplish this purpose. What corrupt influences and fraud and intimi- dation can do is done and will be done to achieve it. But fortunately a majority of the Cabinet— the conservatives, numbering four to three—are not idle on the other side. Bates and Usher are opposed to the scheme of the radical minority, and they are quietly using their best efforts to defeat it through the Mary- land elections, and there can be little doubt that they will be entirely successful. The Kentucky election was so decisive that it will have a powerful effect upon Maryland. Its platform is a vigorous prosecution of the war for the Union, combined with the most determined opposition to the policy of the radi- cal portion of the Cabinet; and that, we are confident, will be the conservative shibboleth in the ensuing elections in Maryland. Seward, Blair, Certain it is, it will be impossible for the radicals to elect to the Speakership Washburne, of Illinois, or any other man of his stamp. In no event can a radical republican be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. republicans, strong tide of publie opinion which is set- ting in, aud which will sweep before it all set of his school. They will deem it more prudent, perhaps, to propose a conservative republican, like Schuyler Colfax, of Indians. But, no mat- ter who may be their candidate, the signs of the times cloarly indicate that they cannot elect The probably admonished by the venture to candidate fanatical ideas, will not up Washburne or any their man, and that the opposition will have the control of the Speakership, and possess all the important advantages arising therefrom. We have said that the example of Kentucky will have an tmportant effect upon the elections in Maryland. But not only will it influence public opinion in that State and the other bor- der States, but throughout the Central and Western States, as it has already done In the case of the Iowa election, compelling the demo- crats to withdraw their copperhead candi- date and put forward a sound conservative Union man. Moreover, the Kentucky platform will probably become the rallying point for the conservatives of every hue in the coming Pre- sidential election. If the peace democrats throw aside their copperhead nonsense, and unite with the great mass of the democracy on the Kentucky platform, and the basis on which the State elections were fought and won last summer, the conservative republicans will desert in thousands from the radical camp, and there can be no doubt whatever as to the re- sult of the great Presidential contest of 1864. The whole North will be swept with the excep- tion of two or three New England States, which will be left alone in their glory, Tux Maron's Vero Mussace.—The following Bot . We notice thove dxafted on Tucsday last in the Eighth district the name of “W. 8. Opdyke, Fifth avenue.” This gpagleman is the Mayor’s son. ‘The Breaking Down of Southern Com- federacy. Within the present narrow limits of the Southern confederacy there are one hundred thousand men who “ want to get ou” Like the starling in the atory, they have just now no other ambition but that. They have made ap- plication to the authorities at Richmond for their passes, and say that they are “ foreign- ers”—subjects of the “Emperor of China,” Perhaps, Now, the men who make up this hun- dred thousand may never fiave formed the most respectable portion of Southern society. Many of them are of a class that the Southern papers least delight to honor—merchants, so called; speculators, sharpers who have made fortunes out of the miseries of the Southern people, and fellows of that class generally. Others of them may be better men; but we may class them all together as the rats who have lived down in the hold of the Southern confederacy, aud their present desire to get away shows what their opinion of the’ ship’ condition is. Sometimes the rats know more about the ship than the sailors do, and very often the sailors follow the rats. Some of the Southern ‘sailors'can trim their courses well, and are possessed of the great wisdom to know “what's what.” Toombs went out of the fight long ago. He saw ultimate failure from a great distance, and left the army as soon as he could find a pretéxt.. Cot- ton, which has served so many other purposes, served his. Sterling Price has resigned—and the chivairy takes it aa the re- cognition that trans-Mississippi Seceasia ia lost to the Southern cause—~all those “pretty chick- ens and their dam at one fell swoop.” The second Garnett, brother to the one killed at Car- riok’s Ford, and son-in-law of the irrepressible- Henry A. Wise, has taken the oath of allegiance, and settled down toa quiet life. And Roger A. Pryor, brigadier general and the very pink of roysterers, full to the lips of swagger and gen- tility, has left the Southern army—resigned— gone home—desires in future to be “counted out.” Alas! for young Secessia! In what divec- tion shall it look for a leader now? Where shall it find another so able to assert ita rights as Roger was? So well acquainted with what becomes # gentleman and 80 averse to all un- comfortable carnage! Toombs, Price, Pryor, aad the hundred thousand rats, are but 6o many instances ofa defection that is universal through- out the South, and under which the confederacy even now crumbles away hour-by hour, North Carolina, agreeably with her history, is bolder than the reat, and. we -hear more from her than we do.from otber States, but only on that account. Elsewhere’ ‘as well the convic- tion grows every day stronger that the confede- tacy is done for. Every soldier who deserts from Lee’s army carries to his hut in the woods audto his amali circle the Orst news of the Gettysburg defoat, aud a most contagious dis- gust for the war and for life in the army. It is the same with those paroled from Vicksburg, with those who were under Jobnaton, and with those in retreat before Rosecrans. Southern soldiers at present not only desert to such an extent that it is hardly possible to keep an army together, but they tell at their homes such stories about the war as will effectually open the eyes of that fraction of the Southern people that is left with eyes to open. And, with all this behind it, the confederacy has atill got Uncle Sam in front—bigger and better for the poundings be has had and the exercise he has been compelled to take.. Gill- more’s guns sicken the hearts of the Charleston people as we write, and the fall of that birth- place of the dogma of secession will have an effect toward the final and complete demorali- zation of the Southern people that no other event could equal. Rosecrans is on a maxch that threatens another division ¢ the Southern territory. Grant is loose somewhere in the open country, and will be kicking around frightfully in the Confederate China shop be- fore they know it. Between conscripts and volunteers—more of the latter than of the former—the Army of the Potomac will be filled up in time for active operations ia the fall, and will finish its ancient enemy in one last battle, and with it the war. Active operations begun in our various armies next month will close up the war by November, and by that time the fifty thousand veteran soldiers now in this city will be ready to land at Vera Cruz and look after Johnny Crapeau. Horrors ov Parvisan Wanrrarx.—The mas- sacre at Lawrence has naturally excited a deep feeling of horror and indignation throughout our community. The idea of such a needless and unprovoked slaughter occurring to embit- ter the contest, just as it seems to be approach- ing its close, is deeply to be deplored. But at the same time it should not be forgotten that in the partisan operations encouraged on each side it is impossible to entirely prevent such incidents. All history teems with them, aud there is not a country which has been the theatre of civil strife which does not offer one or more examples of them. The wars of the Fronde, the religious contests in Germany, the civil wars in England, the rebellions in Scot- land and Ireland, the last war in India, and the struggle which is at present being carried on in Poland, all bear evidence to the impossibility of restraining sanguinary and evil minded men from committing these atrocities. We are persuaded that nowhere will the acts of the wretch Quantrell be more regretted than in Richmond. They do more injury to the cause of the rebellion than can possibly be compen- sated for by the success of the objects aimed at. But, whilst expressing our detestation of such acts of cold-blooded barbarity, let us be just, and ask ourselves whether we have furnished no provocation for them. Itis not long since we had occasion to call attention to the un- necessary cruelties perpetrated by Colonel Montgomery, himself an old Kansas Jayhawker, at Bluffton and other places in South Carolina. If the story of the outrages committed by this man on @ defenceless population were fairly told, we question whether they could be found to differ much in ch: from those laid at the door of Quantrell. “The republican organs over Montgornery’s excesses almost UGUSF 27, 1863—TRIPLE BHERT, great future benefit will arise. To give up ‘Venetia and Poland, both of which are thorns sources of this government; but Fraace—that We leave our contemporariés to reconcile Shove inconsistemalés, and in thé implore the government to punish Mgorously all departures from the usages of olvilived war- fare by its officers which are ¢aloulated to afford a protext for these acts of savagery™, The Mexican Question in Eurepe- By the advices from Europe received yesterday, we learn that the Mexican question is attsacting universal attention there. The Firench eemi-official organs an- nounce that the Archduke Maximilian’ is to visit the Emperor’ Napoleon and confer with him upon the acceptance of the Mexican throne, One of the leading journals of Paris (Ia France) goes eo far as to assert that the Austrian prince bas already accepted the throne; but as the article is rather contradic- tory in its tendency we may conolude that as yet the event has not taken place. The Aus- trian journals all view the proposition of Na- poleon with favor, and pronounce its accept- ance as likely to cause a very close alliance between Austria and France. The young Archduke has written to the Pope that should he become the Emperor of Mexico one of his chief concord shall be the prosperity of the Catholic religion. Of course auch a programme meets with the unqualified approval of the Holy Father. The organe of the Vienna Cabi- net allow that as.a consequence of the change of government in Mexico the enmity of the United States is to be apprehended; but the said journals are sanguine as to the inability of the North to subdue the revolted States, and hence they conclude that there is no danger to ap- prehend. In Spain a foeling of annoyance prevails at the choice made by the Emperor Napoleon of an Austrian prince to rule the Mexicans. Phe Madrid journals age of the opinion that aa in- fant of Spain should have been selected, and they one and all repine at the loss of Spanish influence in Mexico. In England the prospect of a new rule in that hitherto troubled and un- certain republic gives rise to conjectures and plans as regards the commercial advantages to result; and the working of the mines is com- mented upon by the London journals in a apirit of envy. It is evident that England does not like to see her rival obtaining so great an influ- ence on this continent. The English writers assert that Austria will give up Venetia should the Archduke obtain the Mexican throne, and that hence Napoleon will be enabled to settle the troubled state of the Italian question. It may readily be inferred that Austria will like- wise give up ber share of Poland, and thas this accounts for her attitude towards Russia in that affair. The Austrian government must, of course, imagine that when Prince Maximilian rules in Mexico, evén though he be: there as the protege of France, the: commercial resources of the country will have to be opened: to--Austris “in a measure, and “that in the side of the Hapsburg. for the prospective benefits in Mexico, will doubtless prove very tempting to the Emperor Francis Joseph. The imperial family of Austria were in family ooun- cil at the date of our last despatches, to decide upon the final settlement of Prince Maximilian’s movements. In all, this but little seema to trouble the minds of the European governments as regards the course to be pursued by the peopfe of this country. Napoleon had evidently come to the conclusion that the United States were irre- trievably rent asunder, and that he might in safety prosecute his great filibustering scheme against Mexico. It is-true that Spain and England backed out of the enterprise when they first learned its true nature. They were better informed as to the real power and: re- is, Napoleon—made the same blunder apropos of this government that the great Emperor made as to Russia. Both the uncle and the nephew miscalculated the energy, the resources and the will of the people they were attacking; and, whereas the great Napoleon met bis ruin thereby, we shall see utter ruin overtake the present Emperor and his dynasty from the same mistake. The attention we bestowed upon the princes of the Orleans House angered Napo- leon the Third; but he should have reflected that to the Prince of Wales and Prince Napo- leon we were equally warm in our greet- ing. The fact is, we like to have im- perial and royal princes visit pur great country, and when they do we treat them with marked courtesy. Napoleon should have paid more attention to the resources and characteristics of the loyal States, and should. have understood that we were bound to con- quer the rebellion. With the wish father to the thought, he concluded we were unable to settle our affairs, and that he might safely at- tempt his invasion of Mexico. He will leara, and that very soon, that the scheme will cost him bis throne and will utterly rain his dynasty. Ere six months,are over we shall have ended the rebellion, and shall then have seven or eight hundred thousand veteran troops, five hundred ships-of-war and shal! be enabled to throw this immense force irresistibly against those audacious invaders of our continent who stole upon it in our hour of trouble. When the news of tho fall of Charleston shall have reached Europe we do not doubt that Napo- leon and his ally, Austria, will understand that the settlement of the Mexican question is ill fraught with difficulty, and the man of destiny will doubtless quake when from the force of circumstances he makes the parallel ‘Mrs, Lincotn and a large party left town on Monday for Manchester, Vt., where she proposes to pass a couple of weeks prior to her return to Washington for the season, Count de Glorg}, the Austrian Minister, is stopping at Clat . Wilson G. Hunt, Goorge Harrington and wife, of Wash. ington; J. B. Lesicare and family, of Paris; James Howard and Miss Nicholson, of England, so among the guests at the Clarendon. Onsaqeies of Commanper Rocens.—Tho body of the late Commander Geo, W. Rodgers, who was killed on board of taken to New London last night, where 4 rita!’ serviees wilt be held. ‘ N frem California. San Fraxcmoo, August $5, 1868. failed, sup N. B. Palmer, for Hong Kong, carrying 14,000 sacks of wheat, other California produce, and $73,000 in treasure. Chartered, ship Conquest, to load breadstufl: for Eng = flan Fraxceco, August, 96, 1969, Balled, ship Mary 1. Sutton, for New Yi carrying 610 barrels and 6,000 sacks capper ore, 23,000 hides, 10,000 horns, 880 cases turpentine, 19 pipes wine, 1,450 3 the other New York dailies cotibined. Tis advertisements are more numerous than those of the three leading papers of the other princ!- pel olties put together, and in internal taxes it contributes more to the support of the MEWS FROW WASH, NOTOR. Ann ANN Wassrsorox, sag, wt 2, 1008 IN NEW OBLEANS. There ts some trouble in Now Orleans, Secrm “7 Gonigns to regulate that State and tts Custom \“1use ult his views, poflgically and otnerwiso. 1t is eatt, ‘nat wishes to have Mr. Collector Bullitt, who is a very ®& ble man, removed, bas that the President refused 80, Then Mr. Chase sent eeveral revenue officers dow" there, and got thom fixed in the Internal Revenue Depart ment, as the next best place, Some of these days there | ‘will bo a chapter to write on this subject. ‘THE PROSPECT AT CHARLESTON. At should be atated that while the authorities here are gratified by tho excellent progreas of our arms at Chartes- ton they'delteve that the capture of that city cannot be immediately offected unless the rebels forego aonse of their means for defence. EPVICIRNCY OF THE PARROTT GUNF, Gentlenten attached to the public service say that ix the shelling of Charieaton at a distance of Ave miles @ Greater success has been saltained with (he Parrott gua than bas heretofore eutered into shapir calculations. Even the rebel accounts of the recent movements ngaineb Charloaton are regarded bere as afforgiing & cheering pras- pect of complete Union success. The Navy Department bas received no offictal advices within the tast two dayw from that quarter, ‘ ARRIVAL OP CAPTAIN PDX. - Captain G.¥. Fox, Ansiatant feoretny of the Navy, arrived “here to day from Portsmouth, MW. H./where he has beon pajoying.« brief respite trom thedutes of his office. ARRIVAL OF POLITICIANS, * ‘There is quite an influx hore of poN@elans, some ef whom wors memberaof the lite Congress and soma | Of the present one. It nema to be’ a.comserted move. meent to operate wpou: the President to’ prevent tie Feadmiasjon of late reise! States upon amy terms. The Provincial condition is bold to be beat for speculative ‘THE INTEREST OW THR PUBLIC DEBT. At the prosent rate of roceipta of gold for imports—five or six millions doflars | month—it t9 comsiderod at the ‘Treagury that there will be nolaok of gold to pay the in- terest om the public debs. PRESENTATION TO GEN. SEDGWIOK. To day Major Genera! Sedgwick, commanding the Sixth army corps, was presented with a magnificent awerd, sash and belt, by the ofcers of his command. Genera Meade ts to be made the recipicat of a similar tontime ial in a fow days. NEWS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. tof ort Fisher, below Wit. + O—The Guods Landed from the steamcr Hebe Destroyed. Wammoron, N. C., August 24, 1868. Yesterday morning the frigate Minnesota and six. gua- boats bombarded Fort Hishor, whore the steamer Hobe ran aground some days ago. She being protested by twe amall guns and Afty men, the enemy attemptod to land, but were repulsed, with ono killed. Being reinforced, the enemy finally succected in destroying the goods Innde@ from the steamer and s6t her on fire, Wo lost one kilted, throe wounded, a Whitworth and another email gua. Our Corcea wore in possession of the wreak laut eventag. Arrival of the North Americas. Mowrrgan, August 26, 1863, ‘Tho #teanvahip North Ameoricaa, from Liverpest 18t, passed Farther Point at Rall past eevon o’cteck P.M, i SNe in * . New. Military Book. bet of Military Bridgon in use by. the United itatep remy: by a ke ee eeemee cee Preserv: Nentruotion and’ ‘ Gn, A Staff to the General-in-Ohief of the armies of | Mtates, Kc., 4c, Now ork: D, Vamy Nostrand, 108 Broadway. 1866." Of all th anxious provioms in the great game of war, requiring courage, science, steadiness and:mechanical oxi®) for thoir solution, none are of more interest or delicacy than the passage of water barriers in the presence of a bold and enterprising enemy. To cross in face of the enemy and le spite of avy resistance be may offer, is but one aad Porbans not the greatest of the dificu'ties. Tho means of retreat must be held open; and above all, the machinery for pane:ng rivore and creeks must be compressed into nize and weight admitting transportation while still re-- taining the necessary strength. In our present war, the art of the pontonier bas played a conspicuous part in de- ciding the fate of attacking and retreating armies. The blunders of Burnside and Hooker, at Fiederick»burg and Chanceiloraville; and the defeat of Lee, at Gettysburg, wore only redeemed from utter disaster by the art and promptness of the pontoniers, who had: constructed an@ held opea without obstruction the water causeways for @ gafe retreat. Throughout our Western and Southweavera campaigns, where, from the nature of the country, pume- Tous rivers and creexs have had to be crossed by our ad- vancing armies, the subject of “military bridges” hes long since been recognized as of the firstfimportance; and yet, inthe volume now before us from tho pen of that careful and yet prolific military writer, General Cal- lum, we have the first practical Code of Instruction for creation, preservation and (1ot less important; for the destruction and re-establishment of all descriptions of water causeways Certainly po officer in our service is entitled Lo be heard with more deference ov the subject matter of this volume than General Cullum, who, #0 far back as on the out of our war with Mexico, was specially charged by the Engineer Department at Washington with the planning, ‘building and preparation for service of all the pontess: trains and most of the engineer materia) sent noross the Rio Grande for the use of our armies. It was while in the discharge of this duty, and under the stimulus of the all but insuperable difficulties presented in the transportation of the ordinary heavy pontoon trains over distances: 80 vast aa wore embraced in the Mexicaa war, that Gene- ral Cullam invented and out into stocessful operation the light, easily compressible, portable and yot powertal India rubber pontoons which bave ever since beco re- tained in the armies of the United States, besides reoetv- ing the compliment of almost universal European adop. tion. Pontoons: of this desorption, with their framee and equipage, require minimum of trans; ion while in their compressed state. at the same giving the maximum of buoyancy when inflated for immediate use, , therefore, be regarded as the perfection of thie kind of structure. But it is not every army or fraction of an army that. carries with it or noeds @ Terilar pontoon train, al ‘every commanding officer iu the feld should bave prompt resources within bimself for the construction of # means necessary © cross any river or creek which check his advance or obstacies to bia retreat, For the construction of all kinds of bridges, trestle, boat, raft, pile and. iron, and for the y dismantiing of += all these, —_including bridges of masonry, the work of General Cullum gives ample and extremely clear instruetions, acoompanied by oumerous charts and illustrations. From the large store of his miitt reading, practical examules of each operation with mhitary bridges ‘are freely and concisely cited—those triumphe. being pointed out whieh owed their origin to this art, and those great disasters. Deing sot forth and expmined which were due to the ina Dility or pegiect of various comman-lers, world, to secure the means vi of ads, M Robt’ Watson, Mr Kennedy, Mr and M Gohen, BB Hughes, Mr Kutter, Mr Lore ? Mr and Mra Guppo and child, and Mrs vie, Wine O% ‘and servant, Mr and MrwW Mu pana Mra AD White, Mrs W: ite Gaton, ston jel cs Mra Chevaler, Mrs Bowen, Misa Sparks, Mi Robertson, A Kickiaud DX Nackiot: Mead Mrs, W Moatine two ‘ehiidren and nurse; English, Vogel, Mr ‘and Mre Kyra,