The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1863, Page 6

6 “abe a LS NEW YORK HERALD. “Re Bem An vaskS GORDON BeNNers.” EDITOR AND PKOPRIE‘OR OFFI0R WM. W.COBNER OF BYLTON AND NASSAU OTB. TEKS cas advance Money veut Dy m2! wil! be eitbe ris of the @eoder None but bauk bills current bo ow York sakom TGE DAILY HERALD, Tanme cents er copy. TAB WEEKLY UNPALD, every Saturday ,at Five cent Apuus! ubror.ptton price per copy $2 T copy for three months. Any lar cor Lumby °, nddveaged to names of subscribers, ‘ EUROPEAN NEWS. | Phe Esse Inthe Comins Mlectiour. ‘The steamship Africz, from Queenstown onthe | Never was thers a Hime when it was more 23d of August, arrived at Halifax yesterday on | Pees er to Motertand he wreat political | her voyage to Boston. Her mows is three days | "0 of the dav, It isimnortant to every man | fo Know whot fe an iione and what is not en mnvere is nothing additional relative to the move: | 2" A nunber of nusetionk are ect afloat | “Yich ave not ond cannot be tenes, It is not mens 0" the rebel privateer Plor'ta, off Duskar. | oy te tiethee!tha eats (tet ested on to Ttgvas thoug,tt thai oh: was about to tuke Mr, Ma- | the piete suppression of tte pebellion. 7" son,sthe rebel eo, WMissioner in Engtend, on boord, | yaet major’ yo? the peapto are go un: rs with ghe view of ca.Tying him to the Sonth. Mr. | ally in favar of suprortine ihe administration Mason tras in Doblin atthe latest date. T) 6 eilver | with men eed meney t) put down the rebels by bars taken.from the ship My Sie will he restored to | force tH subm't to Ae. ,fotiiral’ gutho a . = the owners, who are Kagtivhcnea, by the com. | M4 erm hack to the co mander at the Ficitte not he a onestion for dec torida. - 3 contest. Thistrne that tn th Some of the Anglo-rebeal journals in fndon ave revolt tha padicals, thro their orgar Very despondiaye aa to the prospects of the Wouth- | (celer%s ‘Tribune and Garciton’s @Adrator later. €2 GOcach An extra sony will be cont to every club of ‘Iwraty copies, 0 one addross, one year, $25, and any is*¢er Dmber &t came priee. An extra copy will ve sont to clubs of These rates make the Wier LgKALD |e cheapest jruilioation in the country. ‘The Furorgas Fomon. every Wednesday, at Five conts per copy; $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, er @6 to avy part of tho Continent, both to include poster Tee Cavrornia Eprmiox, on the 34, 13th and 234 of ech Monit, at Six cents por copy, or BB per annoum. ADVERTIEMENTS, to a \!mited number, will be Inserted Yorne Weensy HARALD, ond im the European and Califor fa Feditions. VOLUNTARY COMRESPONDENCE, containing tmport- fant nows, solicited from any quarter of the world; if used, wilt be liberally paid for, gg Orr Forwcw Cor- RSQLONDENTS ARR VARTICULARLY REQUESTMD TO SEAL AJ, LAT THNG.AND PACKAGES HRIT US. NO NOTICE tren ot anonymous correspondence. We @o not return rejected communications Velume XXVIIE AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING NIBLO'S GARUAN, Broadway. —Ricueniey. WALLACK'S TUBATRE, Broniway.—Teoe to TRE WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Lapr Auptrr’s Srcrer FEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Srecre:—Mun- peu Wits Gut—Lore in Livexr, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Guosr or AutENBURG— Brvore Bripxguco'—Baspit Host. AMFRIOAN MUSEUM. Broadway —Tor tu. es WARRIORS anp Rquaws. &o.. at vNtv 4 Penwy—Afternoon and Ev "REELS, Mechanics’ Hall. 472 Broad. as Ganas, Dances, BURLxSQUES, &c.—WHo low, WOOD'S MINSTREL BALL. 5d Broadwar.—Etaiormax #ONGS, Dan es Ae — he GHOST AMERICAN THEATRE. No. 44 Broadway.—Bararis, Pamtommes, BuriEscves, &e.—)oun Worrs. IRVING HALL, Irving place —Taw Srzreorticon. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— CortomTs ary Lrovores. from 2A, M. till 10 P.M, 1863 New York, Weducsday, Septembe “ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the Wxexuy Hera:n must be bavd- edin before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its circulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, nuwnofacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasivg very rapidly. Advertisements in- sorted in the Waxxtr Hxratp will thns be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. NyRYere eats + THE SITUATION. None of the departments in Washington have received any intelligence of recent proceedings at ‘Charleston. General Gillmore and Admiral Dah!- ‘ren, however, report everything going on favor: ably. An expedition of General Wistar’s cavalry from Yorktown to Bottom’s Bridge has just retarned. It left Williamsburg on the 26th ult. and pnshed through New Kent Court Honse directly to Bottom’s Rridge, at which place one rebel regiment of in- fantry, in rifle pits, were found, who were sup- ported by a squadron of cavalry. A charge was immediately made, and the rebel rifle pits were carried and the rebels driven across the bridge, which they took up behind them. Our troops lost one killed and one wounded, and cap- tured five prigoners from the enemy, who left dead onthe ground one officer, one sergeant aud two wen, The Army of the Potomac presents no features Rebel deserters are coming into our lines in large numbers. Upwards of two thousand of change. ave come over since the army left Maryland, Bickness is said to be increasing in the army, prin- cipally from want of water. It is reported from Memphis that the rebels namber forty thousand at Little Rock. Arkansas, under Kirby Smith and Price. They are poorly armed and only half clothed. The rebels are throwing up fortifications on the opposite side of the river, thirteen miles below Little Rock. The People of Arkansas appear to be tired of the war, and are anxious to return to their allegiance Despatches from Leavenworth to the Ist instant #tate that General Blunt had crossed the Arkansas river on the 234 alt., but that the rebels dectined to meet him in battle. It wae reported, however at Fort Scott on the 28th nlt. that Blunt had fought a battle and was defeated with a very heavy loss, it was said, amountiag to three thou sind men. The United States steamer De Soto captured the blockade runner Alice Vivian on the 16th ult cone night out from Mobile, with a cargo of five hundred and seventy-five bales of cotton and a quantity of turpentine, She was bound for Havana On the following day she captured the Nita, also carrying @ valuable cargo of military stores, bound from Havana to Mobile. Forty-five rebel prisoners were taken from these two vessels, and were Drooght to this port yesterday by the Hendrik Hudson, and placed fn the bands of the United Buates Marshal. Among them is a son of the late Benator Borland, anda brother of Adelina and Carlotta Patti and Mme. Stakosch. ‘The draft in the Pourth, Fifth, Seventh, Tenth, Trelfth and Fourteenth wards in Brooklyn, aud in Buffoik county, in the First district, was com- pleted yesterday. Several important communica: tions from Comptroller Brennan, Provost Marshal Gonsenl Segent, end the ExemptionsFund Com. + of the Board of Bupervitors, relative'to the fouad a another culamimy ern cause. On the other hand, many of (lia | enemraved the rebels by decloping that they maintain the ultimate triumph of the@ nf derates.«] hada righ! to secede. The eepnerheads, too, A correspondence between Far! Russo! and | erinpat’ with them. Bat toth faction Lord Lyons is publiatied, in which theater is ai- | Ob'y constituted torether a ayntt r and rected toremonstrate with the Capine! in Wash. | &¥¢ Rot Mr confidence of the pen ington-on the gubject of federal interferdance with |/*nly nad evidonsly in favor af resto Beilidhtendn a? and Seow the Releases | Union By foree.of arms and: fy accordance The United States Consul in Frenkforshad dis | Wt the constitution. There is no is ae. there- played the Mexican flar. In explanation it was | fore. on that point. said that President Lincoln had permitted the | Union consuls abroad to represent Mexico smce the overthrow of tLe republic, Napoleon's operations in Mexico afforded joy in Rome: but Marshal Forey’s advanve towards erfect religious freedom was not 60 agreeable te the Holy ln There was a canviey as to who Emanotpation set, the Convention ac should be the Nuncio to the new empire: demnity act and the Conscription « The Freneh government had severely condemned |) measures any one of which would be rffigient the action of tie bishops and archbishops during | to ruin any party that adopted thom. ‘Tey are the late elections. all calculated to impede tho ancerssfel progress M. Dronyn de Lhays was about of the war forthe Union. The Emancipation London, act is equally ailly and unconstitutional. Tt is The German priners were in Congress at Prank: | .. greater blunder thanthe Pone’s bull against fort. They had invited the King of Prussia to at- #tie comet: for it’has dove immense gatechiof by tend, but he absolutely refused. a + . Ten thousand additional Russian troopa had been. Satie fie Febely bi bac anger pnete seeiat thrown into Polnd. ‘The reply of the Czar to the | *7e: while it has effected nothing whatever last notes of the Allied Powers had not beem made | towards the accomplish:nent o professed public, if it lind indeed heen given. object. It is null-end void by the provieions of Our special correspondent in St. Petersburg | the constitution and by the nature of things. furnishes an important letter which we pnblish to- | The Confiscation act isequalty 2 lexal mullity day. The writer says that the idea of an alfiance, | and equally absurd. These measures leave the offensive and defensive, between Russia, Prassia | rebels no motive that can influence the human ~ the _— States was very popular im the | hoart to lay down their arms; on the contrary, anions Protea thoy make it the interest of the Confederates to German ankers had tendered # loan of v8 | aora-out till they are-exterminated. And this, millions of reals to Spain, esate The King of the Greeks would arrive in Athens | "° doubt, was the satanic object with which after the annexation of the Ionian Istoads in | they were’ passed: The: Indemnity act om its October. very face ig a nullity; for it wndertakes to in- Lord Clyde was buried in Weatminster Abbey. | demnify the Executive and the administration There was no display at the funeral. and.all their subordinates for unconstitutional Consols closed in London on the 22d of August | acts, Congress itself having ne power to- vio- at 93%{ for money and 9534 for account. After | tate the constitution, much less to official hours the rates were 938% for money. The | sathorize others te violate Confederate Yoan experienced a slight advance. ® vain attempt to protect from their The Liverpoot market was buoyant on the 22d of the arbi is Angust, and all descriptions slightly higher. died Wg trary acrests made a by order of the .administration. As for. the Breadstaffa were dull and looking downward. inti ~ 7 itutionsl Provisions were quiet and firm. Conacript ion ‘net, whether it is constitutional or The steamship New York, from Southampton, | 20t, it- is a most- detestable Inw, and wholty arrived at New York, and. the Jura, from London- | wanecessary. It is now nidmitted by tie more Gerry, passed Farther Point, on her voyage to | enlightened republican patty journals that it The igsme will be the yy wer-—its Congressional and ex ment. Ard never was anyiling mm atroci bad in the history of lecislation as. diovacti fhetanteCcnareas in connect gorrant of the cutive manare- visit it is [EN " relief of drafted men and their familie, wil be Quebec, during yesterday. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Board of Aldermen did not moet yesterday, aevording to adjournment, for want of a quorom. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday. The business transacted was unimportant. ‘The opening of the Mississippi to public travel, from New Orleans to St. Louis, with all the ad- vantages it is capable of conferring, is already Deginning to be felt and acknowledged on every | reveal of these obnoxious acts will be de- hand. By the arrival of the steamboat Champion, Captain Molloy, we are in receipt of five days later news than could possibly reach us by the ou side or sen route, to which we had been so long restricted. The great boon of river traffic, again secured to the country, will, day by day, increase in importance, till once more the Father of Wa- ters, from the Gulf to its source, shall be the me- dium of the friendly commercial rivalry of North and South. Daniel 8. Dickinson declines to be a candidate for re-election to the office of Attorney General of this State, Additional returns from three counties in the ‘Third Congressional district of Missouri have been | received, which render the election of J. G. Scott, conservative democrat, almost certain. The fol- lowing are the returns:— Scott, Lindsay, Opp. — Rep» New Madrid..... «aR Tron county. St. Francois. . 1 Martin Fitzgerald and James Singleton were taken into custody yesterday, on charge of steal Total. ing during the July riots. In their possession was found a quantity of clothing belonging to Morris Levi, of No, 877 Third avenue, which had been purloined by the rioters. ‘The acoused were com- mitted for trial. ‘The stock market was feverish And yarjgble yester, day-—weak at the opening, Strong at the muddled! the day,and weik and lowor again xt the close, Money wax ive at 5 a percent. Gold was rather dul! ¢ Fxcbange 199); a 140. There was more doing in cotton, prices of which ware decidedly higher yesterday. ‘The demand for flour and whoat was loss active, though prices were essentially un- Altered. Corn and oats were loss plenty, and were in request at firmer rates. The provision trade was spiritiees, and pork was declining, in view of the hoary faiely aw Brooklyn, The demand for sugars, whiskey, tallow, bay, hops and Kentucky tobacco war fair, and the general tendency of prices was apward. Wo H freely, ‘The activity in freights was checked by the high views of shipowners was good and the market buoyant, There were on re markable alterations in other commodities. The exports of domestic produce and general merchandise from this port for the week ending yesterday amounted to $ tng the same woek hiet year. ‘There was a very large supply of beef cattle in market this week; but with the retarn of cool weather the de mand has been active, and full prices have bean realized | The range was from Te, © Ho a Me, the | latter an extreme rate The average price was 9X6 | And the generat eelling prices 9. a 100, all toid Mileh cows were in demand at $260 $50 a $85. Vents wore steady at lambs wore active at ife.aS\e.a6e. for the former, | and Tige. for the latter, Prices ranged from $2 60 to | 6 25 per bead, Swine were fearce and very active at | amadgance of nearly Ic. per pound, cora fed brought Oe. & fo,, and still fed BOA SKC. The receipts were | 5.820 Deever, 119 cows, A29 vente 10.864 sheep and’ | Invade, and 6,643 awine, Exeurtioy yrom tie Coxscrirnos,-We re- ceive a score of letters every day asking us all serts of questions about the draft and the terms of exemption. Of course we cannot re- ply to all these questions. Judge Advocate Holt, Solicitor Whiting, Provost Marshal Fry or any other lawyer would be puzzled by some of them. If we were to attempt to answer them we might decide wrongly and mislead the anxious inqhirers who send we letters. The oaly way for a conscript to ascertain whether Knrolliag, Bos¥d “and stibmit. his case. The Board will either docide tpon it or procure the decision of nome competent official. Thie is the best, and, so far as we know, the only satie factory, mode of obtaining “an qpinigp as is wo opialon.” ———————_ | stocks reported in the packing yards of this city and | ‘The inquiry for boots and shoor | 16.164, or over $400,000 in excess of the exports dur- | or not he is legally exempt ts to go before the | has. proved a faitwre—that it will not: pro- duce at the very wtmost: seventy-five thousand men—-one-fourth the number called for—and that the meaey expended in carrying out its provisions woutd have produced at least an. equal number of volunteers, who marht be far better depended upon than moat of the substi- tutes obtained by the exemption money. The mandea by the people, and that wilt briag up an isse which eannot be evaded. Such is the legislative record. The executive is eqnally black. In the early part of its career the administration arrested in the most wanton and arbitrary manner every man i¢ thought proper, whether with or without cause, or even pretence of cause, which made peeple almost helieve they were living under the despotism of Russia or Franee, instead of in a tree republic. While these cruelties were inflicted on many innocent and loyal persons at the North, the organs of this radical administration directly encouraged the rebels to persevere in their secession, because they had a right to secede according to the principles of the Declaration of Independence; and afterwards they fired them with a fanatical zeal to resist as long as a regiment was left them in the field, by urging against them measures of confiscation, and spo- Viation, and ruin, which were worse than death itself. Every motive for submission was taken away, and every motive for resistance was sup- plied. By this political mismanagement the war has been protracted. It has been prolonged still further by military and naval mismanagement. Rebel privateers baye boon permitted to swarm thé d¢ean, and Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina, have been per- mitted fo become almost impregnable, when they could have been secured in the begin- | ning almost without an effort. The utter mis- management of the Virginia campaigns is mat- ter of history, and is {60 well known for detail. Tn the history of no othor administration since | the foundation of the government has so largé an amount of public corruption heen develop- ed. The Secretary of War und other radical | members of the Cabinet are too busy planying nd arranging the Presidential campaign of next year to attend to the great and vital exi- | goncies of the present. | These are the questions which will make up | the issue for the coming elections this fall, and for the Presidential election of 1864. In one short phrase, it will be the management of the | war, in « political, military and nayal point ' of view. There are two conyentionn now | on hand in this State—one which is béing held | at Syracuse, and the other about to bt beld at | Albany. Let both these conventions take notice of the true nature’of the issue, and aot accord- ingly. Whichever of them adopts the Kentucky | platform shall have our support, and, what is | better atill, will be sure to have the support of | the people. Ovr News rrow Ivou.-We furnigh in an- other column information fowarded us from India by the editor of Ovr Paper—nv fourishing | journal published at Kurrachee, the principal | | seaport of Scinde, situated on an inet of the } Indian Ocean. A few years sincé the place | | consisted moatty of straggling huts; but lately | ft has been tebuilt and greatly imp-oved, and | Dids fair to become of great importance, The | town was captured by the British fn 1899, and | has since been retained by them 9s a military | post. The information we reier to is likely to | be of service to American merchants, It is a desetiption of the Kurrachee harbor, | liahed by the editor of Our Paper) on the | a of daly lest, because American vessels have lately arrived more frequently at that port. * Giue rebellion, apon the principle that It ls an ill wind that blows no one good, has caused a tapid increnge of the resources of india, The NEW YORK HERALD, WieDNESDAY, SE: PEM3ER 2, 1863--TRIPL , Britieh bere made determined efforts to en- | courage the growth of cotton in thet country, and bave built canals and railwaya with great | rapidity. Ube reeulé of all this activity is. of course, vastly favorable to the commereial prosper.ty of India, and her seaports wittmn- donbicdly, a4 in the case of Kurrachee. im prove steadily, Our Paper is an evidence that the veople of Kurracbee are entorprising. The advertisements are numerous and tempt- ing, while we seg in the columns of (his jatirnal | that Ureatr'cals ond Lomicidea take oiace.even at that great distance, to say nothing of m’T- y accidents, which are algo detailed, as wel! ports given of grand billiard matches-and cratic pigeon shooting.” The noticck of the arrivals of steamers and the ingoimrand outgoing of rsilway trains prove thet MKurrd- chee is a lively place. The hietropolts of the Union—The Jeul- Ousies of the Third Rate Citir ‘The Philadelphians have shown great de because, forsooth, tle city of New York was the seene of a plot. The good peapte of the City of Brotuerty Love were inolingl to suppose that the eva riots would serignaly lujure New York. and they have carped apon the event to their hearts’ content. They felt sere that at Iast a term to the prosperily of the great emporium of the Union bad arswed, and'to their eager gave they saw Philedrtiphia swelling in provortion as New York contewcted. Yes, decidedly, the unbeard of prosperity of the firat’ city world now be damaged, and fo the small beer politicians of Philadelphiag:cowed andcackled and inwardly. rejoiced, while they ontwardly affected to weep over the «coming downfall of Gotham. All this barking and snarting, however, is quite useless, a8 the Philadeiphinne will surely find. Tp pros- perity of New York will ride over al! impedt- menta a8 surely as the inovming ocean tide +washes over the sanda, New York, by ther geo raphical pesition and the overwhelming wealth f her commercial classes, must and will ever the-commercial metropotts of the Unien, the spetty and whining jealousies of the, Quaker Wity to the contrary notwitbatanding. Any bdainege which may occur to New York wilt (never; as a result, benefit Philadelmbhia, and bso the: sooner the politicians of teat third rate city leave off pitying the | miseries pand distresses of the metropolis, aad go to- Washington for some more. pap wherewith ito feed their sickly bantling journals gbe better Pit will be for all parties, bat more especially Yor themselves, At the-commencement of this unfortunate re- 'belfion the people of the South prophapiod that jow York would surely be ruined, gand that 7@tase-woukl soon grow in her strects., Inspec- tor Boole can answer for it that gries grows | nowhere: in. the streets or-avennes of: ‘this great city, whiok was never se prosperous as now. Why, as to the grass, we do not even let it’ now grow in our public «quarce: } the-horses.of the militany eat it up and trample it out: The prognostications of the Southerners were as silly a8 are thoseof the Philadelphians, wiioco.nrdenily desire tie downfall of New York, which, as they most foolishly suppose, would insure the prosperity ef their city. Tu Boston the same. feeling of peity jealousy and onvy existed some years since, although weare happy to staie- that at the present tine the ilbusion has vaaishe’. The Bogon people had made n great deal of money during the Revolution, and they wa'ked down the crooked, narrow, ineonvenient etroets of the modern Athens with their hands under their coattails and their noses in the ar. They fett persunded that Boston was the turning point, in fact the “hub of the universe.” The truth is that the said hub is not so great as the Bostonians foadly imagine. Ht needs New York oil too often. It was only a few weeks since that a Boston merchant came to New York to attend to the landing of a cargo whieh one of his ships had just brought from the Bast Indies. He had the manifest in bis possession. He went on ‘Change, and ere the day was over be bad sold his cargo. The next day he got the notes he had received cashed, and went back to Boston, where he safely deposited them in the Suffolk Bank, and thus attained a Bostonian’s idea of Mecca—that is, having » balance in that particular institution. This merchant frankly acknowledged to a friend with whom he dined in New York that he had transucted here in three days more business than be could have accomplished in Boston in three months. At one time Boston indulged in golden dreams abont the Cunard steamers. She soon relinquished them, however, and we advise Philgdelphia to follow her example. Her jealousies aud envy will have uo effect upon the prosperity of New York, and the sooner sho refrains from the indulgence of such feelings the better it will be for her own peace of mind. The English are justly proud of their great metropolis, London; but even they are as | tonished and envions of ty astounding pro- gress of out city. We do not doubt that, were they to deputize a nirmber of their prominent men to transact busindss here, they wonld come to the same conclusion as that arrived at by the fortunate Boston merchant. All the efforts made to turn away the course of trade from New York huve ever sirnatly failed. When the steamer Great Eastern was being construet- ed in England, it was supposed that there was not sufficient depth of water in New York harbor to admit the monster ship, and Port- land, Maine, was chosen as her landing place. The citizens were in great, glee at this, They evidently thought they ha@ New York on the hip. They built a huge wharf, a grand hotel and made other extensive preparations. When the Prince of Wales passed throngh Portland, he wan taken out one cald, bleak day to visit | the new pier which thé agthorities of the place were so proud of. All in vain. The tide of com- merce sete towards New York, and it was found & matter of necestity to bring the levia. than steamer bere. In all commercial matters New York must take the lead, The fact is, New Yark is irrepreasibly the metropolis of the Unioa, and ere many years have rolled slong she will rank with the wealthiest and most commercial cities iu the world, We hope the stall fry of Philadelphia will appreciate this, and wt once act according: ly. Let them lay aside their petty jealousy and their inordinate dreane of future | ment, and instead male a sturdy effort to bang onto New York and advance as she per New York. ‘There is coom bebind ber for emaler craft. ‘The Close of the Summer Season. ‘tie cool weather of ‘the past few daya be- cing (o bring our fashionables home from the watering places. As we predicted, the eum- mer eeuson has been wery brilliant and profit- able. Before thebattle of Gettysburg the popu- Jar euxely in réeard to Lee's invasion kept everybody at Lome; but after that battle was fought and won, and the Army of the Potomac once more rested in perce upon its laurels, the watering places filled up rapidly, and an im- mense amount of money was expended by our shoddy aristocracy, § oge was very crowd- ed with a new set of peor horae vacing were the order of the day. Newnor! the old ari y sojonrned 8 athed, danc while aristocracy spent money like water, and drank chapagne like wa‘ et the hotels. Long Branch, Niogara Fats, and other second cless places, did a laree business, and the numerous villaves along the heantiful Hudson were thronged with livers. Vresident Linco n wes exnectad to honer the season by a tour through the principal water- ing places this wthe has been ¢ d to stay at Washington ta watch Chase and Stan- fon and to nrepare bis forthcoming fetter to the Mlinois and New York politicians, which poor Greeley ¢0 eageriy expeets. In his stead Mrs, Lincoln, accompanied by her eldest son and a suile of distinguished personages, visited the White Mountains, is now visiting the Green Mountains, and will probably visit the Blue Mountains on her way back to the capital. The most important event of the season, how- ever, was the diplomatic tour of Secretary Seward and the foreign ambassadors at Wash- ington through New York State to Niagara Valls. It may interest D’Arey McGee to know that the motive of this visit was to show the representatives of foreign Powers how narrow is the dividing line between this country and Canada, and that Secretary Seward took occa- sion to remark that the British possessions would slide into the Union, as 600n as we were ready to receive thom, es easily as the waters glided over the Falls. To the significant reply of Lord Lyons was, “Let 'em slide.” The erratic and inconsisteat McGee may wake this a text for another censation leiter in favor of a Canadian monarchy, if he likes, and may thank us for saving him the trouble of again listening at keyholes or dovetailing hearsay scraps private conversations, Our fashionables do not find this city emoty upon their return to town. The country folkx are here ia strong force, and the managers of amusements are doing their utthost to provide for the crowd. Bandmaun, anew tragetian, who speaks English with q foreign accent and makes Shylock a German Jew, is at Niblo's. That inevitable old stager, Rdwin Forrest, the big Indian of the Blackhawk school, appenns for the tast but twenticth season at the same theatre. At most of the other houses the Ghost terrifies and delights the masses. and hes ere- ated as great an excitement in the town as the news of the Manassas massacre did in the Tri- bune office, or as Gillmore’s Greek fire in Beau- vegard’s rear did in Charleston. Nixon has picked up a dozen agile, light complexioned contrabands, whom he calla Bedouin Arabs, and exhibits through the streets, in the Park (in spite of the Commissioners), and at an estab- lishment which he has set up in opposition to the Academy of Music. Not to be onidone at his own tricks, the indefatigable Barnum has equipped a few wild Irishmen as Win- nebago Indians, and displays them in the “green corn” or hot corn dance, and in the “fire water” dance, commonly known ‘as the Donnybrook jig. Besides all these entertain- ments, many more are in preparation, and when the regular winter season begins. and our ope- ratic singers again exchange their silvery notes for greenbacks at a high premium, there will be over twenty places of public amnsement opea in New York, without counting any of the political meetings or Loyal League gather- ings. There is plenty of money in the city, and there are plenty of chances to make more in Wall street speculations and government contracts, and there will be plenty of ways provided to spend this surplus cash. We can therefore conidently predict that the coming winter will be one of the gayest and most bril- linnt on record, and that the countryowill wit- ness the collapse of the rebellion and the vesto- ration of the Union in a perfect blaze of glory. lo, and gambling. and At Way Evanaxp Backep Down on we Potisu Quesriox.—The conduct of the Kng- lish government in backing down from the warlike position which it had origi- nally assumed, in conjunction with France and Austria, as a Russia, has pro- duced in Europe a mingled sensation of disgust and astonisimeni. We aré 48 Poasexslon of hie formation which ought to tend to remove all feeling of astonishment as to England's with- drawal from a position which threatened to in- volve her in war. In doing so she was only affording another illustration of the truth that Congeienge doth make cowards of us a She feared the retributive justice w she knew her piratical partnership with the South. ern confederacy would be sure to bring upon and this kept her from getting into a war with Russia about the Polisi question, The Caar, therefore, owes his safety in the present critical conjuncture of his affairs to the United States. : pered dire forebodings in ber ear assumed the shape of a fleet of swift, heavily armed steam ers, built and manned in the United States of America, and Gommissioned ax Russian war vessels, to be let loose against the commercial — paso at foreten views, w Halifax, will clove at ‘The spectee that hauaied England and whis- “9 wate, rite am ped ; aod would hove boca may have some effect in correcting Brifish ideas oft theeubject of honest neutrality. It haa frightened"her from her war attitude against Russia. It ought, also, to frighten ber against her corsair attitude againat the United States., . MEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasrncton, Sevt. 1, 1883, SENSATION RFVORTH REGARDING LEE'R AT3(Y. One of the evening papers of thts city tried to get 4D excitement thie afternoon by givmg prominence to & report that Lee had crossed the Rappahangock at ort Conway, with fifty thousand troops, for the purpose of flanking General Monde. Gf course, there is no reason to beheve suck a report, and it ts mot credited by any- body bere, Parties who have arrived from the front today kaew pothing of avy such movement of the evemy having taken place, and its im>robability is shown by the crossing having been located ata point of the river accesible to our gunboats, which would have sertousty interfered with avy such Quixotic move- ment. TUF OPERATWNS BEFORE CHARLESTON. ‘The departinents are without any later or additional information, either oficial or otherwise, than hae alrendy been published, in regard to thie operations at Charleston. Genoral Gilimore and Admiral Dahigren report everything As progressing favorably, The requisitions for men and materiais are promptly filled, and the conduct of the seiga is felt, cotirety to thou discretion, with every confidences that thoy will Suntiy moet with complete success. TUR GAVTURE OF THE SATYVIATE AND RELIANCE, ‘The capture of the gunboats Reliance and Satellite by the rebels still continues to attract attention, ‘The cir cumstances of the capture will no doubt bo made the sub- ject of a searching investigation whenever the officers of the boats are iibe-ated and returned within our linos, and if it shall prove, as represonted, that they wore lost through carelessness or tho cowardice of @ portion of their officers, the pacties in fault wil! be adequately poniahed CONSCRIPTS FOR THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Yesterday six t:ains went out to the front bexvily {aden with conscripts. The army has no little didiouity with some of the substitutes, who require almost aa equal number of mon to guard them; but the stringent orders, together with the recent executions, seem to Bove had « bevefictal effect, and causes for complaint are now loas frequent. ‘TRIAL OF CAPT, HARLAND. At the General Court Martial, of which Gen. S'ough is President, the care of Capt. Joseph Harland, formerty @ quartermster of a Massachusetts regiment, was om trinl to-day, and @ member of offlcers were ex- amined as witnesses. The charges were for deser. tion, defalcation, &. Their evidence was strongly against the prisoner, and ghowed that he wae ordered to Washington en public duty, having in his possession at the time about sixtoen thousand dollars of government funds. On bis way to the city he became intoxicated, and instead of reporting bere, as ordered, be continued on to Baltimore, getting stit! more intoxicated on the way. At Baltimore ho draok largely of cham. Pagne, and freely exhibited the money in bis possession, aod continaed his journcy to his home fa Massachusetts. He distributed the mney around among his acquains- ances, and paid up some old debts, He then fled to Moa- (real. where be was found by the detectives, and brought ‘back in castody. An excellent chareotor is given him by his neighbors and nequaintaaces in Mac>acbuectts for hia Previous honesty and reliability. The case has not yet ‘vecm completed, ARREST OF GAPTAIN. LEVY. Captain C. M. Levy, Assistant Quartermaster, wan arrested yesterday anc consigned to the Old Capitd prison, charged with being @defsuiter. He bas for some time been assigned to the defences nort» of the Potomas, and has always enjoyed the confideoce of his brother officers. Tho case wil be investizated in a few days. ASSAULT ON Mt. M'GIUL. Mr, MoGitt, clerk ip the Treasury Department, was as- saulted by a party in Georgetown last night, and slighty wounded by @ pistol shot in the back of the head. ‘Tha diMoulty arose from an old sisundersianding, and it ie feported that the tnitiatory etepsare being taken fore eett'ement of the affair eccor!ing to the code. PROMOTION OF CAPTAIN JOTINSON, Captaia Jobason, one of the persctiai aide of Majer Genersi Heintvetman, has bean promoted te the rank © major, He will remain upoa the staff of Geucral Heim veiman. APPOINTMENTS TO THE MILITARY ACADEMY. Within the past two days General Halleck has secured the appointment of twenty-tour young soldiers, from our armies now in the Qeld, to cadet hips at West Point, The cadetshipe due to the Virginia Congressional ditricts are gives to young lads who bave distinguished thomsolves, and are other- wise qualified in the Ariny of the Potomac. The cadet- sbing due to Westera Teunessec, Arkansas and Missiesipgt are to be conferred on (General Graut/s recommendation. So ia the other departments. And General Halleck fur- ther takes the ground, that next year all appointments to West Point shall be made from young soldiers in the field, or the sons of officers who Lave rendered importema services in this war; not that the appointments are to be taken from (be various Congressmen in the Northern aad other States, bur that the Coogressmen in their recom- mendations are to be restricted to these classes of nominees. GEN, M'CLELLAN’S REPORTS. Weil informed parties alloge that General MoCielian’s Feport was only received at tho Adjutant Goneral’s De- Partmout three weeks ago, and that it will take one man many months to read it and its accompanying doce- ments with the attention it deserves. It will oceapy when printed three large quarto volumes, with diagrams, &c. For its pnblication a Jorge ressional appropriation wili be requisite. The Se. cretary of War has not yet had time to read it, but ie About instituting a committco of offlcers, to be provided over by Major General David Huuter, who will be charged with the duty of roading it snd reporting as to whether or net it shall be published as an official document. THE BIDS FOR FLOUR OONTRACTA. ‘The bids opened yesterday for eappiymg the govers meut with flour ranged trom $6 10 to $706 fur No, 2, an@ from $6 to $6 30 for No. 8 ‘There were only two bids for furnishing No. 1—from $6 9% to $7.26. Two hundred and bw ine thourand barrels were offered, It was de- cided Lo take al! four offered at $6 3i.and under, amount 1 2's 10 SU0U8 Se ue Darrele ‘THR SrenvortiCo™, Invt¥G Hati.—This most inatractive as well ns attractive exhibition is nightly drawiug large audiences to Irving Hall We expecially recommend the stereopticon to those who wish to pase an bour ox two picasantly and profitably. ‘The scaucs reproduced by thie w ‘ul instrament are many of them most beaistrl ete mort interesting. “Tne tamiliar views oy fo correct and exact (0 nature, are & guatnutes for those instrnet and amuse the younger portion of the audience, ‘The deseriptions given of the different places shown are genorally of interest, although dat noma no yea ss . or. Se bo way mars the plearant efloct of a . Bostox, Sept: 1, 1963, ‘The mails per the steamsiip Asia, for Liverpool via o'clock to-morrow (Wednes- bat she will not leave her dock untit about eleven o'clock. Decision im Regard to Public Lands im Tiinots, Ohto and Indians. Waemnetom, Sept. 1, 1969. Nlinois recently preferred » claim for about $470,c00 marine of England. She knows where the iden | #™0* the government, for two per centom of the pro- came from, and she was afraid that the villany | | ceede of the rales of all (he public t leg. pul ands in that State for Y Otto hus decited againee she taught us we might execute, and might, as | %.° aud (his is also applicabie to Ohio and Indiame Shylock boasted, “better the instraction.” And therefore she paused and made np her mind that, all things considered, she wonld not find it to her advantage just now to go to war, We cannot bat commend her prudence. Had she become involved in war wiih Russia we would probably have remained neutrals ; hut we would have practised against England the same sort of neutrality exactly which she has practised against us. That is, we would have armed, eqnipped and sent to sea, fot half a doren Floridas and Alabamas and Georgias, but half a huadred of such vessels, which would | have gone cruising all seas and sweeping from every British merchant vessel; ‘and all, under the pretence of their being Russian ; just an the English sels pretend to be Confederate vessels-of-war. Fochapy thie piciare of what might bare been, amounted to $750,050. Deliveries of daly 27, so Rumiar cases. = ‘The Government Loan. The sales of ee oF ae are made we Aertvals and Departares. Breern—Stramad Meee el wife, Men i Bising x Nabe