The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1864, Page 4

4 Of these suffering people, a resommendation wnich Mayor untber endorses. Mr. Webster stated that he knew of @ case whore a whole Now York regimagt re entered the sorvice in Brooklyn, A resolution was adopted re‘errtog the paper to the Committee op National Affaire, with ia structions to report upon ft as soon as posable. The ordinance adopted by the Aidermen, appropriating five hundred thousand dollars tp aid of the families of volum- NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GonpboN BENNETT, EmToR AND PROPRIETOR OFFION N. W, COLNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 6TS. Votume XXIX jourved til Moffaay, Tho body of Brigadier General James 8. Wadsworth arrived in this city about haif-yast seven o'clock Iast evoning, and was placed fo the Governor's Room, City Haf. The funeral prooes:ton will take plage this after. noon at three o’clock,'and the remaing will be taken om to Geneseo, Livingston county, for interment. ‘The veverable Chartes King, LL, D., for so maay years Preaident of Columbia College, bas resigued, and the Rev. Dr. Parnard, formerly ot the Mississippi University, has ‘been chosen to fill the vacancy. Dr. Barnard is an Episoo- paleclorgyman, and was bora in SheMeld, Mass. His eleo- tion wok place yesterfiay, and he has already entered upon the duties of bie new position. Mr. James Gayler bas been appointed special agent at largo of the Post Office Department, as successor to the late Mr. J. Holbrook, Mr. Gaylor had for some years Past been Mr. Holbrook’s official assistant, and will con- tinue the publication of the United States Mail, formerly copdnoted by Mr. Holbrook. ‘The New York Woman's Infirmary Association insugu- rated their new institution yesterday afternoon im the grounds adjacent to the bullding, which have boon secured for the purpose, on Washington Heights. Rey. Mr. Milburn ‘and Judge Kdmonds doltvered brief addresses, and prayer ‘was offered by Rev, Mr. Stoddard. The’ location is well adapted for the purpose, delng situated on an elevated Plateau, commanding a full view of the Hudaon avd Har- Jom rivers. Dr, Mitchell is the attending physician. ‘the strike of the car drivers may be sald to have ter. minated. ‘The drivers have agreed to yield something to the railroad companies, and have resumed work on the basis of eleven and a half hours daily labor. Some of the most violent of the drivers have beep dismissed perma- neatly, the companies considering it incompatible with their proper self-respect to have any dealing whatever with them. The police were! taken off the Sixth and Seventh avenue cars and those of the Cross-Town Railroad yosterday, and the cars wore running as usual last night. ‘The settlement of the trouble will afford geveral satis- faction. ‘The cane of the United Ststes agaiast Solomon Koha stamm was resumed yesterday, before Judge Nelson, in the United States Circuit Oourt. Several witnesses swore that the bills upon which the accused, as alleged, drew large sums from the government, and which purported to bear their signatures, were all gross forgeries. The defence will be opened this morning. In the General Seasions yesterday William Kupher was tried and convicted of stealing a number of hams from the store of Christian F. Raw, No, 637 Third avenue. He was remanded for sentence. George Evana was triedon an indictment myasiaughter in causing the death of John Belt, by Pistol, inflicting © wound which re sulted in his death a méuth after the occurrence. Tho af- fray occurred on the 25th of February last, at a dance house in Water street, among a lot of sailors, who, it appeared, were permitted to go to sea before the papers reached the District Attorney's office. Lockwood, the barkeeper, testified that Bell stated Evans fired the pistol; but it Appeared that Evans was !ncensible at the time, suffering from a severe wound in the head. This iljegal evidence wae ruled out by the Recorder, whereupon Assistant Dis. trict Attorney Stewart abandoned the prosecution, and tho jury promptly rendered a verdict of “not guilty.” The Gragg Jury presented a large batch of indictments, ‘and were discharged from service, with the thanks of the Court, Later in the day the prisoners, on being ar- raignod, pleaded “‘not guilty,” and were remanded for trial. The-trial of Giovanni Lagormarcent, charged with stealing- over four hundred dollars in gold and United States Treasury notes from Michael Longinottie, was com .cuced, and will be ecntinued to-day, ‘The markets were quiet yesterday, as @ general thing, and but little merchandise was placed. Imported goods were particularly quiet, and rcarcely anything was done. Prices were entircly nominal, owing to the variations in the price of gold, Petroleum was quiet, the excitement having entirely subsided, and prices favored the buyer, Cotton was buoyant and. firmer. On Change flour was Se. w 100, dearer on shipping grades, and firm tor all Kinda. Wheat was in some instances slightly higher. Corn wan steady and quiet,and oats, rye and barley dull, Pork fully a doljar per barrel bigber; but at the close a portion of the advance had been lost. Tho business was large, both for immediate .and future delivery, at higher prices, Lard also brought better prices, while beef and other provisions were dull. Whiskey was frm. Freights were quiet bet firm. Tallow in brisk demand at full prices. hep ye oe The Armf oF the Bolomac—signs of Active Work-Sherman in Georgia Going Ahead. The latest authentic intelligence before us from the Army of the Potomac is that on Wednesday morning last there was a close re- connoiseance made of the enemy’s works in force, followed up by a heavy bombardment which lasted several hours, and that at six P. M. “trom the firing It is believed that the enemy are falling back, as the sound becomes fainter.” Whether there was a general engage- ment yesterday, or whether the day was spent in feeling about in the woods for the strong and the weak points of the enemy’s line, or in pushing after his retreating columns, we have yet to learn. General Grant, with the field cleared of the impediments of the late eight days’ struggle, and with the mud sufi ciently hardened for the movement of his artil lery, was ready for the resumption of active work, while the elaborate defences discovered on the other side indicate anything but a purpose to fall back, except at the point of the bayonet. " As General Grant, however, turned the ene- my’s formidable works at Mine run, we have no doubt he hasdione or will do in this case, and compel him to fight outside, and #0 with all the supposed tremendous chain of rebel @efences from Spottsylvania Court House on to Richmond. However extensive they may be, untess they stretch acroge an, impregnable line, from the Chesapeake Bay to the Blue Ridge, a distance of two hundred mites, they can be turned, right or left, or on either side. But Sheridan’s late. raid proves that this supposed chala of sortiied positions between Lee and Richmond does not exist, and doubtless for the simple reason that it would bave been # waste of time and labor to build them. ‘The half dozen rivess between | Lee and Richmond may afford cach some tem: porary protection to a beaten and retroatiag army, but only sufficient at best, against the army, tactics and strategy of General Grant, te escape into the rebel capital. Hard fighting is the only alternative left to Lee. The Richmond Meaminer aptly says of General Grant’s campaign in Vinginia, “if he wins hore, he wins everything. The war might continue, the Confederates might possibly sur- vive (a little while longer); but if Virginia is lost, the present Confederate organization will not probably survive.” In other words, if Lee's army is driven out of Virginia or broken up in its efforts to save Richmond, the confederacy is at an ond. Hence, ax the last energies of the rebellion wil} be gongentraled ia Lgg’s army, EMENTS THIS BIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Bau Daxowio. WALLACK’S THEATER wway.—Tux Wire, —Treasror Leave Man WINTER GARDEN, Br OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Satax ow Pants— Urrnouemp Fexdus. NEW BOWERY Tom axy JERRY BAT RE Rowery.—Taeex Fast Man ove axe MURDER, ROWFRRY 7 RK. “powery—Fawase, Jack Suapr. PARD—Oniaxno Vexvonse—Four Lovens—Borrue Imp. BARNUM'S MUSEUM, RLS Gtawrs, Two Dwanrs, avvinos, Wuat 1s 1, &¢., at all bourse, Berne. Gon—at Sana Ty 1. M. BRYANTS' MINS'RELS, “Mech anos’ Balt, Broad yates Bimiorian Boxan, Danone Mascumnes, 22S Aue You GREFNDACKST WOOD'S MINSTRED HALL, 514 Broadway, —! fores, Dawcus, Ae —liaxpr ANor. area BROADWAY 1! oie HIBATRE, 485 Broadway.—Ewgtsm AMERICAN THBATRE, No at Broadway. Antonius, Bumagerns, &6.—Nicopiiavs, preston BALON DIABOLIQUE. & 185 Broadway. -—~Rosaay Huctzn, ARVING HALL, Irving place. \BSrenEorricox. WEW YORK MUSKUM OF ANA - umosries axd Lucrunes from 9 ke Me Mn nee BOOLEY'S OPER Hovs B - Fons, Dances, Runimsqurs, 2c. ‘a seins tania cota TH % SITUATION. ‘Up to a quarter past ten o'clock last night—tho date of Mr. Stanton’s last bulletin—there was no official news from Goneral Gravt or General Butler. Not so with General ‘sherman, however. A despatch from him, dated at two ro'clock ‘yesterday, announces that he had reached King ton, Ga., belween Kome and Atlanta, the former place being Dow ccoupied by the diviaion of General Davis, of tbe Fourleevih corps, General Sherman advanced upon the enemy yesterday mornivg, and they retreated before ‘im. Hocker’s avd Howard's batteries were playing away upon J. n’s forces. Both armies were in sight of each other at a point two miles east of Kingston, A good de rmisbing and artillery fighting was going o yesterday iv Virgivia, between the Fi‘th corps intrenchments. The Second corps had e the enemy from his firat line of isylyania Court House. It is evident that tho fighting was protty heavy. The rebels are strovgiy sire They bave thrown np additional Lerval of rest. A vigorous attack by ‘ai Grant's forces was ia preparation yesterday. The news of agreat battle may reach us at any moment. ‘The roads ore in good order, and the army and its gene- ralz in fino spirits, Our Joss was considerable, amounting to eight hundred Killed and wounded, or whom one-fourth belonged to Burnside's corps, The Corcoran Irish Legion fought splendidiy, and maintained their groundfirmly for over an bour under a hot fire, ‘Their commander, Colonel Matthow Murphy, and other field officers were wounded, ‘Tho onemy were driven bebind an impregoable abattis, which rendered it necessary for our troops to withdraw, ‘which they did in good order amid a terrific fire of grape shot and shell Guyner’s ‘Station, on the Virginia Railroad, was ocou- pied by our scouts yostorday, and al! telegraph apparatus aed a quantity of stores destroyed. It is reported at Cairo that the rebel General Kirby Amiib ts threatening Pire Bluff, Jefferson county, on the Aricansas river, io strong force; but as the place is well Cortified no fears are entertained of his being able to ‘take it. The Arkansas river is very high. If the enemy @bould succeed in crossing it they would no doubt cause ‘as much annoyance on White river, and attempt to in- Aorcopt Genoral Stecie’s communication up that stream. By an srriva! from Key West wo learn that the town ‘Of Tampa, on tho west coast of Florida, and commanding Tampa Bay, has born captured by the Union forces. We Give @ map of the bay tn another column, The revel pirate Florida was at Bermuda on the ‘12th inst. and the enemy's @skirmieh avd works, noat Sj works during Gen CONGRESS. In the Senate yesierday, the Internal Tax bill was reported by the Finance Committee, with amendments, @nd ordered to be printed. A bill to amend the act ap Proved February 29, 1864, extending the time for the swithdrawal of goods in bond from the warehouses in California, wae ms ed, The Lommittee of Conference on ‘tho Army Appropriation bill made a report recommending Ubat the Senate insist on the amendments thereto, and aek for auother committee of conference, which was agreed to. The bili organizing the Territory of Montana ‘was finally passed by a voto of twenty six to thirteen, the clause giving the right of suffrage to negroes baying ‘boon struck out by a committee of conference on the @ubdjeot. After the transaction of some unimportant Dustness, the Senate adjourned In the House of Representatives the Indian Appropria tion bill was passed, all the amendments of the Commit: too of the Whole haying beon concurred in, excepting one reducing the appropriation for tho Stoux Indians of Minne. Bota, The joint resolusion providing for the appointment of commissionors in order to eflect a more perfect rect Prootty of tad between the United States and the British Provinces was considerod, Mr. Pike, of Maino, advo- eating, and Mr. Arnoid, of IMivots, opposing the abroga- tion of the reciprocity treaty; but no action was taken on Abe subject. The remainder of the session was occupied fm personal explanations by Messrs. Dawes, of Massa. ‘Chusetts, and Loan, of Missouri, and Messrs. Mallory, of Kentucky, and Julmn, of Indiana, The two last men tioned abused each other in a very/lively mainer. MISCELLANEOUS NEWB. The Ost-Devtsche Post, of Vienna, states that a depot for ‘the enlistment of sailors for te Mexican navy is about to be establisbod at Chioggia, in the Gulf of Venice. The Emperor Maximilian has expressed a wish to procure a umber of Vevetian seamen for his flees, ‘The imporial exequatur of France bas bees granted tc. ‘M. Galiotti, Consul for Mexico to Parts. The Parls Presse announoes that the Regency of Mexicc ‘thas sent an agent (0 Paris to procure an opera company and a number of ba'let dancers for the city of Mexico. The Buenos Ayres Standard of the 24th of March Inst Saye that the revolution in the Bands Oriental still oon- Mnues. They bed commenced making the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Ratiway. The Boca road bas also been Commenced. It says that at last accounts the port was crowded with shipping, and comsequently freights bad fallon to a very low figuro, Business was very dultthere, | From the province of Cordova we learn that the Indians foveded the department of San Justo on the 10th of ‘March last. They had ewopt tho whole country before them, murdoritig about thirty persons, and mot even aparing the obiidren in tbo cradio. ‘The Cordovese govern: ment te very fecbic, avd docs not oxert itself in the least towards repslling the Indians. ‘The proceedings ia the Board of Councilmen yesterday ‘qrore iatoresting, although @ number of reutine papors Srore disponed of, A resolution was offered and inid Over providing for the appoipiment of a committee of five members from each board to make arranpements for the celebration of the coming anniversary of our untional Independence, aod appropriating ton thourand dollars {dior efor. His Honor the Mayor subs. ie comtnunlea ‘the Kings County Board of Superyisorr, faliive 0 the condition of the families of volunteers, It ts stated that « gront many familios are notually suffer ing for the common necessaries Of Wife in Brookiyn, fpeonueo the beads of those femilies volunteered in placos whore they did not reside, General Crooks suggosts that 0A EK QpapEcut should bo made to rolieve the wants Davis teers from this city, was conourred tm. The Board ad-) the government should concentrate every man that can be spared from efery otlier quarter in the Army of the Potomac. To strengthen it to the fullest extent the available organized militia of the Central States should be called at once to the defences of Washington, in order to relieve’the vetorans still on duty therein for aetive service in the tront, We expect im thé course of the day good news from General Grant. Meantime the in- telligence from General Sherman is of the most cbeering character. At the rate at which he ig advancing he will coon be absolute master of the situation in Georgia, and im # cond!- tion to detail a heavy column into South or North Carolina, or up the Tennessee Railroad, into the rear of Richmond, and upon the last remaining depots of supplies of General Lee. The Late Spuricus Prociamation—A Rebel Device to Swindle John Bulli. It may be difficult to unravel the mystery which shelters the guilty parties directly con- cerned in uttering the late spurious proclams- tion; but as to the character of its contrivers, and the objects aimed at, there can be no mystery whatever. The formidable military combinations ef General Grant, and the heavy blows whiob he has already given the rebellion, East and West, since the opening of this cam- paign, promise the speedy subjugation of Jeff. Davis, and a ruinous decline at once of the slippery stock of. the so-called “Confederate cotton loan” in London. This aforesaid proclamation was, therefore, designed to be Tun into London ahead'of the authentic news of our late military “operations, to give a momentary lift to said “Confederate loan,” whereby the initiated rebel Jeremy Diddlers would fill their pookets at the expense of credulous John Bull, and leave bim to the consoling reflection that “a fool and his money are soon parted.” That there is an organized gang of rebel emissaries, speculators and Bobemians in Lon- don, in Paris and in New York, all playing into each other’s hands; we have had abun- dant-evidence furnished us in that delectable: rebel correspondence found on board certain blockade runners captured off Wilmington, N. C., last winter, and published in the Hzratp of the 17th of last January. For instance, in @ letter from the facetious C. A. L. Lamar, familiarly known among his fellows as Charlio Lamar, to his father, G. B. Lamar, at Savannah, Ga., this promising chip of the old block, under the date of Paris, September 16, 1863, says:—“I am engaged in a number of speculations—cot- ton, Confederate loan and powder. * * * I have made some $5,000 on cotton; am ar- ranging to purchase $200,000 of gold in New York—Governor Foote, Bowera and self, Guion is to borrow the greenbacks in New York, buy the gold and ship it to England; we then draw sterling, which is sold in New York for greenbacks, pay up what we owe, and the balance will be profit. I¢ will go, I think, to 200. Such speculations help us, and our government, too Celt Davis)s:and helps to break their The disclosures ‘of this correspondence re- sulted in the capture of some of “Charlie’s” specalating confederates in this city; but we have no doubt that their places have since been amply supplied by others. We apprehend, too, that there is now, and “has been for some time past, an industrious clique of copperheads co- operating with “Charlie” and his rebel brethren begp-pad poroee the ia thls business of keeping themscives and Jeff. Davie in thelr ap- pointed work of breaking down the national currency. The copperhead joifrnals of this city, whether they share in the profits or not, are certainly doing all be could desire to for- ward the diabolical speculative schemes of this sprig of Southern chivalry, Lamar. We dare say that no revolutionary troubles of any nation, of any age, on the face of this globe, bas ever turned loose upom the world a more numerous horde of reckless and loafers than this Southern rebellion. The captured rebel correspondence alluded to shows that in England, Paris and New York their name is legion, and that, beggarly vagrants as they are, they talk of their contracts for steamers, iron-clads and gold operations, borrowing all the time, as glibly as if they owned the Bank of England. John Bull, too, the victim of a credulity that is perfectly incomprehensible, is ficeced and swindled by these sbarpers to any extent. His numerous bankrupteies, resulting from his silly ventures with these rebel confidence bave shaken his faith» little; but it will not surprise us if, in due time, we hear that there have been found stockjobbers in London who have taken the bait of this aforesaid proclama- tion, in spite of the conclusive ncoompengyes evidence that it is a swindling It comes, no doubt, from the same ’ mint as the spurious papef lately issued to the world as the official report of the rebel Secretary of the Navy, and the late correspondence purport- ing to be between Earl Russell, Lord Lyons and Jeff. Davie. We may congratulate the country, at all events, that at last we have Dad an experiment which knocks the whole system of these villanons rebel fabrications In the head. Picxrooxers i Watt Srreet.—People who visit Wall strect are apt to imagine thabthe only dangers to be encountered there are from the bulls and bears. This is » mistake, as they will learn to their cost. Wall street is fall. of pickpockets, both of the manipulative and speculative Order. There are street operators to be encountered at every corner who will help themselves not merely to the contents of one’s pocketbook, but to the pocketbook itself. Dally we hear'of losses there which argae but ‘slight watchfulness on the part of the police. It was only yesterday that Mr. Charles Duggia, the architect, was eased of three United Btates five-twenty six per cent bonds for a thousand dollars each, whilst walkiag from William street towards the Post.Ofice. A boy caine up to him crying an extra, and he put the bonds, which he had been carrying in his band, in one of his side pockets, in order to pay for it. On looking for them again he found thf some nimble fingered passet by bad helped himself to them. They will be no good to the thief, as the num- bers are fortunately known, and payment has been stopped. It may be as well to add thet they are numbered suceessively 36,680, 36,681, 36,682. They will of course be restered to the owner; but the fact may serve as a warning to others. No one should enter this dangeroas looality without having all his senses about him. It {8 one of those places in whioh a man would be sure to leave hin rin if there way anwtiing ive Hoy log ot bite, A New Holy Alliance—Napoleon the “ Founder of thé Iotrigue. By the Persia we receive two days later news from Europe. There are important move- | ments on foot there. Tbe Russian government bas concentrated an army of sixty thousand men at the mouth of the Danube; Austria bas maseed an army upon the frontiers of Servia, and Turkey increases her forces in the Rou-. melia to one hundred and fifty thousand. To add to the uneasincss caused throughout Bu- rope by these warlike and the fact that but little is heped from the on- ference in London towards the settlement. of the Danish war, comes an allocution from his Holiness Pius IX,, which must be termed a bit- ter attack upon the.Czar of Russia; in fact, it is an incentive to all Catholics te combine against Alexander. Coming at euch’ time, there can be but little doubt that this allooution was in- spired by the Emperor of the Frenoh, aad that it%s in furtherance of his plans for pitting the Latin race against all others, with the wild idea of its’ ultimate supremacy. The course pursued on this continent by France against Mexico, and that of Spain against Peru, are other developments of the holy alliance. In 1822 @ similar alliance was denounced by England; and gave rise to the now celebrated |' Monroe dectrine. In the English “Parliament Canning made a mosttelling.apeech against the presumptuous idea that the Latin races could rule the world, and the gevernment of this country fully adopted the doctrine that Europe should not rate on this continent. Time has rolled on, and still thisjambitious idea of a pos- aible supremacy of the Latin race is enter- tained.. The Emperor of the French, man of unbounded ambition and unscrupulous policy, sees in the troubles of this country and) of Russia an epportunity to push forward his pet scheme, nd he has done ‘so, as far as.we are concerned, with a show of success. He has in- stigated the Pope’s attack upon the Czar that he might be assured of the alliance and assist- ance of all Catholic Powers when he shall un- dertake to supplant Russia in the East. His plans are well laid, and will be.carried ont boldly. ‘This none can doubt. Under his guidance the new holy alliante in Europe will be powerful. On thia continent Napoleon will find it alto- gether a different matter. Occupied now in suppressing the rebellion, we cannot pay. at-- tentfon to the intrigues of France, who usurps Mexico with apparent impunity. But this is a temporary security. We have now reached that point in the struggle between the North and South which must terminate in the defeat of the latter and a consequent peace. Then, with a powerful army and an immense navy ready for immediate service, we shall be at leisure to devote to this Mexican question an amount of attention which shall soon settle the fate of the Latin race on this continent and vindicate the Monroe doctrine. Napoleon should be warned in time, and not bring upon himself the immense power of the reunited peo- ple of America. His plans may succeed in Eu- rope; in this country they can but fail. The Rebetlion—The Impo: Success—The Effect of the History. ‘The success of the rebellion would be iden- tical with the destruction of the United States as anation. The Southern leaders bave ex- cited #ympathy in Europe, and even ia our own cities, by clamorous misrepresentations of their cause, in which they bave pictured them- onlven ws people Agnocently fae he a, pover- 8 Fnational association that was agreeable, and me ming a government ay 4 themselves ry tous. But it is’ as well known to as it is to our peo- ple that such a t of their cause is false. ‘We know well enongh that such a division of the country as the Sonthern States propose will bring about other divisions. If the South goes, it owns the mouth of the Mississippi, and the ‘West must go with that river. In this way the great territorial fabric that stretches across the continent frem ocean to ocean would crumble away piece by piece. The first division is vital, and the territory oecupied by the Southern States is a geographical necessity to us, Not only can the Southern States not go out of this Union and leave it with- out injury to us, but the downfall of our government might justly be dated from the hour in which we made a peace with the Southern States that acknowledged their de parture. We, therefore, are net fighting» to keep in the Union so many unwilling States, as the European journals and the Southern leaders state it, but we are fighting the great battle for our national existence. Our people understand this clearly, and this is what has made the ultimate success of the rebellion an impossibility from the first. From the commencement there spread over the whole country the intuitive perception that this strug: gle was one of self-defence—a struggle to keep alive, a struggle against elements that sought to destroy the nation—and that therefore we must fight it through till the last. It was this perception that originated those great im- pulses of the people which arrayed such num- bers of men in arms that, after all who have fallen in battle, there are yet a million equipped, and Grilled and ready to fight. It is this perception, now grown into « distinct conviction, that sustains and nerves the country, and that will inevitably carry us onward to the great success, It is this that will render it impossible for us to fail while there is a dollar or « man left. We bave bad our ‘blunders, and will have more. These are a ne- oesuary part of national bistory. They belong more especially to free governments, where am. bitious men can rush readily iato positions of trust, and hold them until itis made painfully apparent that they mast be replaced by better men. We must have as few more blunders ‘as tmmay be, and therefore we must be unmer- cifal to blunderers. Banks has been already removed for what took place {n Louisiana, and Sigel must be removed for what hae been done in the Shonandosh Valley. Grant has no confidence in Sigel; but the politicians insisted ‘that Sigel must be Kept there, on account of “the German ¢lement;” for the Germans can vote magni(- cently. So Grantsent Ord out tosce that Sige! should not blunder too greatly. Sigel, how: ever, managed to send Ord to Wheeling, and went ahead and blundered to his heart's con- tent. But thore mitst be no more of that, and the country now roqniros that no consideration or tenderness toward individuals should be perroitted to stand to the way of our cause. Porhups tho “last Qtent battle that we may have to fight againas the rebellion Is in progress now. Wo have ny fear for the reault. The lifo of rohellion 1% concentrated ia Spolisyivania NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 20. 1864.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT, county, Virginta—-it ts fa Lee's army—even ia Eee. If ever any man was mation, if over Louis XIV. was France, Lee is the rebellion. Both sides in the ‘great struggle are adequately represented south of the Rapidan, and there the “law of natural selection” is in opera- tion on a grand scale. It is os inevitable as fate, as inevitable as any great event in the life of a nation can be, that the people who are best fitted to live and thrive in the world, as it now is, will prevail im that battle; and beyond all question we ere that people. There the rebellion is to fight with its intense strength, end there .we must fight with our utmost strength aleo. If the fight fs to last for an- other eight days, we must keep our army equal to it, There and wherever else it may be mecessary we must marshal now ail our power. For, though the result be certain, yet we may hasten it, and the more freely and the more readily and earnéstly the people support the government now the leas time will it take to put down the rebellion and end the war. Let us have the end at once. The Recent Lincein Mecting—A Gather. img ef the Ghouls. The Lindola meeting at the Cooper Institute ast Fridsy evening was one of the most dis- graceful exhibitions of human depravity ever witnessed im this wicked world. It was a gathering of ghouls, vultares, hyenas and other feeders upon carrion, for the purpose of sur- felting themselves upon the slaughter of the recent battles. We remember nothing like it in the history’ of politics. The great ghoul at ‘Washington, who suthorized the meeting, and the little ghouls and vultures who conducted it, bave succeeded in completely disgusting the people of this country, and have damaged them- selves irretrievably. In the midst of the ‘terrible conflicts of the past three weeks, while thousands of lives were being sacrificed for the national cause, and while every patriotic man was watching with intense and anxious interest the painful pro- gress of events, these ghouls thought only of Lincoln’s renomination, the control of the Baltimore Convention and their own chances for petty offices. At the'sound of the cannon which was to.decide the fate ot the country these ghouls hurried dowa from the mountains, these vultures flocked from tbe. plains, these hyenas sneaked out of their holes, to feast upon the bodies of the slain and gorge themselves with the best blood of the land. They met in horrible ¢onclave in the Cooper Institute; and- proceeded to dig up the graves of our soldiers, to tear open the wounds of the wounded, to riot amid carnage and make themselves fat with gore. There was Clay Smith, the Kentucky ghoul, and Oglesby, the military ghoul, and Arnold. the Congressional ghoul, and Spencer, the legal ghoul. ‘These were the orators of the meeting, and they all devoted themsolves to praising Lincoln, the great Presidential ghoul, and advocating his renomination and re-election. Their arguments were corpses. Their rhetoric was b'ood. Their similes were drawn from death and wounds, Their logic was, that because Lincoln had killed so many men bo ought to be allowed another term to kill agmany more. They cared nothing for the country, for the nation, for the Union; but they rejeiced in carnage, becauso they -hoped it would advance their fortunes, and they gloated over thé red river of blood, beoanse they hoped that it would float them into power again. We repeat that so disgraceful and dis- gusting an exhibition is nowhere chronicled in the history of poses ep before. It is without » parallel ol oF SoiRparlson, and we lack words to stigmatize it as it deserves. If Lincoln’s re-election were not imposst- ble; if the blunders he bas committed and the criminalities for which be iserespensibdle had not placed him out of the Presidential ring; if the people had not long ago decided that General Grant is to be our next President, this ghonl-like meeting wonld alone destroy his chances and render his defeat a foregone con- clusion. The trick of claiming credit for car- nage and trying to make capital out of whole- sale slaughter was foo transparent and too boldly played. In ancient times the ghouls stole slyly to their abominable festivals at midnight, by the pale glimmer of the sickly moon; but these modern ghouls parade them- selves inopen day, advertise their purpose in the daily papers, and gather publicly fn a ball Nit with the blaze of gaslights, as if anxious to be universally abborred and despised. The head ghoul at Washington, had not sense enough to forbid the meeting. The ghouls and vultures here had not sense enough to postpone it. With brazen faces they confronted an au- dience whose friends and relatives they were about to devour, amd begged for a longer lease of power. Conld the force of unblushing de- pravity much {..; ‘her go? We anticipate chat this meeting of political ghouls will alienate from Litcoln every honcet man who has hitherto been deluded into sup- porting him. ‘Through the action of the Cleveland Convention it will completely ex, tinguish the proposed convention at Baltimore. The nominee of the Cleveland Convention hae been already selected, not by politicians, but by events. General Grant, who bas hitherto saved the country, is the only man who can govern it for the next four years, and scttle all the vexed questions which surround the per- manent suppression of the rebeltion. For this work Lincoln has shown himself as incom- petent, during the present administration, as he has shown himeelf destitnte of any senti- ment, any feeling, any judgment, by ind In vulgar jokes at the mozt solemn crisie history, and countenancing a gatpering of po- Hitical vultures while our armies were actually engaged with those of Jeff. Davis ta the most desperate-and decisive battles of the war. We hope to see at Cleveland an immense aseem- blage of the people of all political creeds, ac- tuated by one pattiotie impulse, “Many of the leading republicans in the State will be there. | All the anti-Weed republicans will attend ine body. The demecrate will be reprosented their best and purest leaders, and by of the rank and file. Indeed, there bea strong disposition among to wake Grant their candidate. Now is the time for Tammany Hall to fulfil her pledges. Let Aemoerats and republicans unite upon some such ticket as Grant and Fremont, and Lincoln and his ghouls will be annihilated in advance of an election Catt Oot rae Miitta.— Although the World's report that the President has called for four hundred thousand men is a forgery, yet we hope that he will soon cali owt one hundred thousand of our organised militia to assist ia réinforcing out armies, Such a call will do po harm and do much good. Wo cannot make victory. too sure, nor. have too many soldiers in the Gold. __ Gaestsy amp Govzrwon Seyrwour.—Poor Greeley complains that Governor Beymour has done nothing to reinforce our armies. Let Greeley read the back files of the Hens» for news. He will Gnd that militia regiments are Bow garrisoning the forts io our barbor, thes freeing the regulars, who are now with Grant, end that militia regiments mow garrison our arsenals. Rayuonn’s Ev.oar or Lrscorn.—The modera Abelard bas found his Heloise, She wears trowsers and lives in the White Honse. See the Chevalier Raymond's “History of the Admia- istration.” Tar War Derween Sprain anp Pero—More work for our veterans when this civil war is over.- The Monroe dootrine will thon settle all these difficulties. THE BOGUS PROCLAMATION. Mxcitoment in the City—The Journal of Commerce and World Still Hela by the Military, &c, The announcemont in yesterday’s Heratp that the offices Of the World and Jowrnal of Commerce had been ‘akon pogsession of by the military, in obedience to er- ors from Washington, caused quite am excitement throughout the'etty yesterday. Crowds gathered abeut the buildings of the suppressed journals from am earty our f¢ the morning, and remained pretty stoadily throughout the whole day. Soldiers kept a strict guard, and refused to let poopie pass up or down stairs wi first exacting a full statement of the business, &o., carried them ‘to the place. Even Mr. James T. Brady, -anoonditionally loyal as be is, was challenged by one of the soldiers on. prescnting himself at the door of the building No. $7 Park row, on one of the floors of which Lis office (a located. ‘The office of the Independent Telegraph Line, te Nassas ‘atreot, opposite the Post Office, was bold posseasion of by the military, in the same way as the offices of the World and Journal of Commerce, Wo have received the fotlaw- ing communication from the Sectotary of the line :— TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. » Orriog or THy Inperepext Lore oF TruedRaPa, 26 Nassau Srreer, New Youre, May, 19, 1864. Will you kindly publish the sollowing in your edition? The following tel Just been received. aim 19, 1864 fegram has Wasnrxaron. D. C., May > Myaoif and the o here have been released. I have juat been to aoe the Secretary of War and the Presitemt, and expret the line and-operatora will bs released to-moe- Faw. “I shall have an intorriew with the Prosigemtto-.per- row morning. - WORL, Manager, £o. ‘The President of this es > one of the directors: ‘aroon their-way to Washigton,ond will have an inter- viow with Presfdent Lincoln and the feoretary of War to-morrow. This line has to-day becn under military surveillance, and no business bas beon aliowea to. pase ovor our wires, but we expect that 1o-morrow’s view with thol’resident and Secretary of War wil! fully exonerate this company from all complicity in the bovas proclamation, aod all cevsuro, and that the gorernment ‘will permit us to prompty transact oar Togular, pusingss. Secretary of the Independent Live o! Telegraph. ‘Tho names of the persons arrested on Wednosday night at the office of this telegraph company, ang sont t> Port Lafayette, aro as foll@ws:—Mr. W. Leaning, Manager, Messrs. A.N Apling, J. W. Fish, RoC, Kdwards, BON, Jobnson. ADDITIONAL REWARD OFFERED. ‘The following paper was put in circulation yesterday, and reocived many signatures: — New Yorn, May 19, 1866. In order to induce and* facilitate an exposure to de- Rerved public contempt avd to bring to. proper. Ym 74 ment tho author or authors and the knowing its faisity) of the cragi and infamous rand c the document purporting to be a prociémstion of the Prenident of the United States, dated the'l7th inat., and anpenring in the World and ‘Journal of Commerce Loxt day, we, tho aubzcribers, agroe respectively to pay, on request, into the hands of the United States District Attorney for the Southern distriet.of New Yorks 2 sums set Onposite cur names, as wfund to: be paid mad distributed by him fn his dive tion, accoréing to” indi- vidual See, = rewards for such useful Patel auth evidence and in‘ormation as shall lead to tho ooov and public exposure of the author or fared tay and ba wicked promutgators of the document cotacred Ae, be so paid and distributed in proportionate the judgimont of sald Diatriet Attorney ehalt ve oy It was expected all day yesterday that au order would be recetved from Washington roteasiog the World and Journal of Comm-ree trom military aurveiliance; but up to a very late -hour nothing of tho kind oame over the lines, FIYB HUNDRED BOLLARS RAWARD: OPFERED BY MARSHAL MURRAY, United States Marshal Murray has oifered & reward ot five hundred dollars to the petnon who dehvercd the bogus proclamation to the nowspaper officors, if he will make bimself known:— Usivap Staves Manswat's Orca, Detaicr or New Yore, New York, May 19, 1864. Yam a:thorized to pay the sum of ‘five hundrod £ hepemes who delivercd: the manifold copies of the “bogus prociamation’’ to tbe eget press on the morning of the 18th inst. Iam also authorized to guar- ‘antee him protection from any action at law in the mat- tor against ly yee ie may be loft at the Mar- shal’s oMee, 41 bere street. ” Gone MURRAY, Uotted States Marshal. _ The Massachucetts Republican State Convention. FIRST APPRARANCE OF WENDELL PHILLIPS—aeIs OPPOSITION TO THE PRESIPENT—MR. LINCOLN EN- DORSRD BY THE MERTING, RTO. Posrow, May 19, 1864, Tho Republican State Convention met im Tremont Torm- plo to day, and selected Governor Andrew, Alonaniér H. Bullock, William Ciafin and James T. RoDinson as Gele- gates at large to the National Convention at Baltimore. Wendell Philips made bis Oirst appearavce to-day ie a political Convention, and spoke at lengtts in opposition to the renomination of Abraham Lincoln, The voice of the Convention, however, was emphatically ageinst biug, aod tho (ollowing resolution was adopted by a unanifrous ve Resolved, That the intogrity, Grane, wisdom ang hamanity exhibited by the of the United States during the three years of his sdiministegtion, entitio him to the cordial and eontinued support of the people of the roprblic, and that at the present time no person is #0 fully commented by experience and porsonat character to our consideration ws a candidate for the next Co Abrabam Lincotn. The Metropolitan Fair. TO THR EDITOR OF TUR HERALD, I send you the following statement illustrative of how cortain matters have been managed in the Sanitary each of my publications, Fair — I sent as a donation one cop: sa eicemeeirence Lene Es a great ant; ‘curiosity, e of Monysur the Areopagite, a Grecian phi waa, a hath it, converted to, the Chr Tigion b; faring bis aojura in Vilome was Bound in the most substantial mannor oaken Lmipey akin cover, ip? in black and at inn ital state of together Preservation and printed only about ity five years a‘ter the-invention of Brinting making the volume three hundred and sixty twee riosity,was forwarded to «a cal a to ine acs th har i pst ad boon seoe nor heard:of, WILLIAM Gu May 9; 1864 16 The Prise Steamer Greyhound al Rostoa.. Bosrom,, May 10, 1864, ‘The prize steamer Greyhound, captured off Wilming- ton, arrived here this eMernocs. Tpe-famous rebel apy, Belle Boyd, is @ passenggr. 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