The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1864, Page 4

4 ets WeW YoRK “HiRanp, TUESDAY, may 24° \6ei/Awirn “SUPPLEMENT. that netther the United States Senate nor the Presitent NEW YORK HERALD, | sircct wisn we novse tm tne recent declaration reintive JAMES GUKDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIOB N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAUSTS. TERME cash in qdvanca Money sent by mail will be et the rigk of the sender, Nowe bub bank bile curreat ia Rew York takeo, 144 NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Bet Daxonio, WALLACK'S THEATERS. Broadway.—Lova Cuasr. FPaa Diavo.o—Tanics WINTER GARDEN, Broadw Mancino OLYMP .—Paur's Kerors— Basy Sua > THBATRE, Broad’ NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Banwey, tax Bason—Harry .4N—LOs: 5ON—VURL IN THK SNOW. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery—Urrua Tax axp Lowgn TWENTY—SCHOOLMASTER—bOTTLE Lap, BARNUM'S MUSEUM Broadway, Puipe—At Suna ig P.M. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, way.—Kemioray Sonos, Jwenxs THE Port. ‘Two Giaxts, Two Dwases, ALuinos, Wuat Js Ix, Ac. at all hours, Jaswe 472 Broad. Daxcns, Buxiesaves, &0— to the occupation of Mexieo by the French, and oaliing Oo the Presideut © communicate to the House, if not incon sisteut with the public interests, any explanation given by tue government of the United States to Fravce rela- tive to the bearing and seuse of the resolution im refer. ‘ence to Mexico, which uvanimously passed the House on tbe 4tb of April, 1864. The resotution was adopied almost uuenimously, under @ suspension of the rules, Although adopted by such @ strong vote, the resolution will prec- tically amount to nothing, as the President will no doubt withhold the information asked for, on the ground that its publication at present would be injurious to the publi interests. Mr, Stevens reported a joiut explana tory resolution, which was adopted, providing that the ite law for the temporary iucreare on duties and imports shall tuke. effect on the ‘80th instead of the 29th of April. All duties improper- ty paid are to be refunded, A resolution allowing Messrs, Chandler, Segar and Kitchen, contestants for gents from Virginia, pa and mileage, was amended by Striking out the first mentioned gentleman's nome, aud then adopted, A bill in aid of the construction of a rail- road and telegraph live from Lake Superior to Paget Sound, by the worthern route, was reported, ordered to be printed and recommitted to the special committee, A joint resolution Gxing the 6th of June next as the day for the final adjournment of Congress was agreed io. The remainder of the segsion was devoted to the considera tion of the Sevate’s amendments to the Legislative, Ex- ecutive and Judicial Appropriation bill. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Some late and interesting news from Mexico, dated at Tampico, Merida, Acapulco and Matamoros, appears in WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 14 Broadway.—Etmoriax | the Herazp this morning. Bones, Danse de.—FLar Foot dane BROADWAY THEATRE, 485 Broadway.—Bxouse TRackoY AMERICAN THEATRE. No 4 Bi Fantounans, BURLESQUES. AU—{/ ODL dwar, —Baccers, BALON DIABOL/QUE. 835 Broadway.—Rouent drceee, IRVING HALL, Irving piace —Srenxorticox. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Cuniosrixs any Lretouns. from 9 a. M. Wil 10 P.M. HOOLEY'S OFFRA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Eraiorian Boras, Daxons, Bex wavs, 40. WiTH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Tursday, May 24, 1864. THE SITUATION. The news from General Sherman, as conveyed in Mr Stanton’s bulletin, embracing operotions up to eight He reports that he would be ready by yesterday morning wo resume bis Returned vercrans and regimente, be says, o'clock Sunday evening, 18 satisfactory, operations. ‘have more than replaced al! toseer and detachments. No tater cflc:al news of G-neral Grant's movements had reached the War Department, that within cight days after the great battle at Spottey! vania have been forwarded to Genera! Grant, thar whole army bas been amply supplied with foll ra tions of subsistence, and that upwards of twenty thou Band sick and wounded bave been transported from the fields of baitle to Washington bospitale and placed under surgical care, Over eight thousand prisonors, be says, have been ransported from the ficid to prisou depots, and large amounts of artillery and other im “nts of an active campaign brought away Several \!oasaed fresh om valry horses have been fo-warded to the army, aud the grand Army of the Potomac is vow fully as strong in bumbers and better equinped, supplied and furnisbed than when the campaign opered. Large reinforcementa have aleo been forwerded to other armies in the field, and ample sapplice to all, and over thirty thousand yilunteers for @ hundred days have Deen mustered iuto the ac Vice, clothed, armed, © 4 to thei r and trausport uetive positions, Mr, Stanton states Court House many thousand veteran troops the Our correspondent in Briésh Honduras, dating at Belize on the 28th of April, states that the new Governor had votced a bill, passed by the Legislature, for the refund- ‘pg to importers from the United States the excess of duties which they nad paid in “greendacks’’ over the wctual specie rates. Although a large extent of land had ‘been cultivated with cotton, the article would rate at one tollar a pound in Gelize. Sea Island sorts had suffered much this year from be ravages of thecaterpillars, Two Boston cotton planters, who had settled in the colony With free negroes, treated tn the miscegenation equality system, bad become quite disgusted, and one of them had bad all bis bands up in the police court for refusing to work, destroying bis property, aud completing a per- fect “mess” on the plantation. By the schooner Howard, from Bermuda, we learn that the blockade runner Thistle, from Wiimington, ar- rived there on the 10th, The steamers Pevensey and Index bad satied to run the blockade. The new steamers Georgiana McCaw and Lynx, intended for the same busi- ness, bad arrived from Engiand. Arrived at Bermuda, 9h, drigs Cupid and Henrietta, New York. Cleared, 6th, brig Exceleior, New York ; tth H. G. Berry, New York ; 6b, schooner E. W, Evans, New York, We have (ies from British Guiana dated at Demarara opthe 28th of April, The export returns show that curing @ fortnight there were exported thirty bal s of cotton. Simce then a cotton purchaser in Demarara sbip ped two bales, collected from smali farmers. ‘be Ko ,at Gacetle reports imports of all kinds largely in excess of wants, and siocks of everything accumulated; pricos of all kinds of provisions below the currency of the market pre- vious to the great fire. Fiour, $6 a$6 $0 tor extra Obio, Balymore and Philadelpbia. Very heavy stock. Cod- fish, heavy stock, $164 $19 per cask retail Lumber, $24 80 per 1,000, Pork, mess, $20; clear, $21. prime mess and rumps, $16 per bbl; full supply. Sugar, $4900 $250. Kum, d5c a 460. Freights, 28 3d. to 2s. 6d. The Board of Aldermen were unable to muster a quo- rum yesterday, Consequently no busivess was transacted. The Hoard of Councilmen fwiled to have a meet.ug yes- terday, ia consequence of a quorum aut being present at the cal! of the roll, whereupou the President declared tho (ward adjourned till Toursday. The Seventy. oioth Highianders were entertained {last evening by the Caledoni b, at the City Aesembly Rooms, where a splendid bepcuet was provided. Speeches were made by veversl well known gentiemen connected with the regiment, aud the festivities were kept up until hour, trial of Giovanni Logormarceni, which was com. fo the General Sessions on Thursday, was con. 1 yesterday, when (he accused was aequitted, He \ wila stealing a quantity of gold and greeu- he lestimouy wos eircumstential, which was There is rothing olliciai ..om General Butler. We ive by the wi s for the defeuce, aud which, Ong oorrespe:.cent tof ibe action on Saterdey h proven 1 character, resulted io @ ver. Bight, which resulted in the dfs. cf the euemy, and fa werrim en tesla ogred - nsley, was moved oil, on which the outs op the James aud Appomattéx rivers 1. George West, a lately Pp-rtic.pated «nD aliack made by the rebel Fort Pow. . = tulef, was convicted of picking the pocket Nilan Sn thib cidtiijog wae’ Mp chedd nb idle he tab etiowed George Uarijs of a vainabie gold watch as be was woswe. sien ge eu i tebe ip xe | i tbe Bowery a few mornings Since. Re . seut him to tho stare Mi for five to General Wa ker, wae tured on the 19h, have | y fierno dward Hunter, indicted for the Been found on the perton of the latter, They direct an | wife, by k Ling ber with a batcues, in Feb- attack on Nowbern, with the assigtance of the rebel ram | Ary last, was placed mt the bar fur trial. There were Sas # eW Th at the adjournment of the court i @ was yesterday, ja the Uuited sintes Tho Fehrover Hoon, from Vermuda, which srrived | Judge: Nelacu, cosvioted ef barbor bere yesteruay, r rie that e¢ rebel steamer Fiorida | Jord Lo enlist, and Sailed on th rom Ue mada, after landing an o! or | who was sick. She stood t tho uorthward. the re | ae ; Ibe case oi eX Goveraur Price, of 3 aNew York stip trom € about turee | fe heodore Valve, Erasmus 1) 3, aod sent uer cre ecover damuges for the alleged fraaduient sale 6 property iy San Francisco, was com day iu the Supreme Court Circuit, before The plaiii! claus that Mesars, Keyes & 0 ¢ plaints. } menced y mr. song beta etic roor & | Sovit, whe were acting «s his atturne asiired with institute legal pros t ectly | ihe otwer dese fod seid them tie property m ques 5 a ton for one hundred aud sixty-fve thourmud dollars be. low what it waseotualy worth, The defence ret up is military occupa that the property way not undervalued, acd tha: the Mr. Hull, howeve a uo receive a8 to Bix o'cl ck » be sary to sell. Wipe Cause will prob .bly vccupy KS ora mouth, day evening, bu id receive a telegraph tron t noth ihe ne of emigrints who embarked at Havre that a loiter of instructions was on ite way to bin v r nil, Was 1.679, 0f whom 1.624 went to New Ubat sub ect York, 61 to Rio do la Plata, 2 to a dad 2 t san The pews fr m the Southwest records the eseape of al! | Francivco, Accordivg to the City Jnapector’s report, there were $14 dewths in the city durug the week ending May gs—a decrease of 69 os compared with the mo.tailly of the we nd 23 less than occurred the aorresp uding week last year, The re tab e gives 1 1m, 1 of die 8, jolts, ke; SG of the brain and verees, 6 of the ive Organs, 18 of the beart aad blood vessels, 134 ‘our gunboats from their position adove the falls at Alex andria. Admiral Porter in a des Colonel Pa atch to Seer Welles gives great credit to ¥, ofthe Nive previ teouth army corps, who built adam of six hundred ‘cet across the river at the {Kc death of wlouls wor falis, thus enabli boats to Coat over the shoals and obstructions, Boats bad reached the mouth of tue Red river. The augs, throat, kc.; 7 of old age, 27 of disewes of army was 4) Shreveport, op the Atcha’ a. Wegivea | tue skin, Kc , and eruptive fevers; 4 premature births, Shey 6 MooLNE? eotemnd 2 the position of the gun- | 57 of diseases of the #tomach, buwels and wther di tive orgaus; SS «f oncertuin gout and gener. fevers, 16 Boats above the fails and the ioc renee ‘ stron of the dam, We lo bad detached abost ten thousand of dis force of fifteen cD by despatches from Cairo that Genera! Polk { the United Sates, Vnglaud, 2 of bot viuience, &e. of ire! lu ¢ thousand men from Mobile w of t General | lund, and the us orgy n countries. Dien Tbe Dusivess i Guancial circics yesterday was unusually fimited, ‘Ibe stock market was wituowt ouimation, but We givet day ¢o)ious and interesting commente from yp does were very well) a ctaived, srutwent @ecurities the reb Ison the ree Wore inaviive, but Urm, The money murket was quiet at focloding those of Geverals Grant, te ruling rate o interest, and gold was duil mi 18234, as out the medium 9» Sigel Jw every case great advsoiages, € not decisive | “7 petri soe Ths workets ye terday presented no now fectures. victories, are claimed for the rebel armies * were in sugh wconditim that ic was | Busiucwa was limited, especialiy im foreign goods; bat CONGRESS. piices were Domiaully the sume for must articles. Do In the Senate yesterday Mr, Morgan Introduce! a bili | Mmestic produce was quiew except in a few articles, The oan exciteme: jo petroleum was even greater thin o de probibat the release of drarted persone by tbe payinent | ceaey; und another advance was oat ou re of move. * compeliicg arate. men who donot serve | qneg, Bond nnd free cotton were likewme firmer, aod to procure sabstivutes, Then fullowed a loog discussion | prices were bizber tan ever before, Un ‘Change bread wba nes, Hols ond ochers upon tho cop. | stalls geuel ally were rather quiet, aud prices u little olf restive with ¢ vy Depart. | There wero ploaty of ugiish orders in morket for wh ont map ipie up, severat | but the Ligh press demanded, togetver with the eidores emendmerts adepied, amd the bil pas ed by avote of | of freights, prevented their exegutiow for the momen CWerty three ay ie ©. The Serate toen adourned. Pork was ape active and upward, prices of pew mess lu the Houre (f Representatives Mr. Aroold, of tif | ad@ancing fifty cents per barrel. Locf was very firm. Bois, offered & rem iution, which was adopted, instructing the Judiciary vite tw Inquire { any ond what Mag velo $8 wes yt st veh frouds ag the re C001 bogus proclomation. Uy, Pruyy, on bebalf of the Oppesiting w embers ir 1) New, York, afked leave to in- Ueduce ® resolution declaring “tuat the conduct of the asecy' sutboerity foveresoent, ju elusiog the offices and euppressing thE P oLeM ON OF the World and Journal of Commerce vowsyayers \v tue cuyof New Yort, euder the citeame@terces leewe - cad Pefore the puvlio, Wey AB Hct LAWarrante hiseif, dan Porous bo the caure oF the (InioD, In vio‘atin of the con Aiiution, wad euievermve of the priveiploe Of Avi) Whorty and 6 suc ie hereby cenwred by Mit Hove.) oyes Mon wanmace, wtereupon Mr. Pruyn moved asupoaciua 0 he rules, whink to By a toten ony Dour agrinst seventy nine. Afcerwards Yr, Provo oeked permission to print the statement, ua behalf Of thoPv9- was Chom Lard without decided chante, Whickey a tride cheaper and freights quiat Valk Tue Ancvitnes Cask—The copperbead jour nals geem to be trying to make sume capital out of this case to use against the admin‘stration. We advise them to be more discrim‘nating ip their attacks. To condemn the administration for the arbilrary suppression of @ newspaper, or for the arrest of a citizen without due pro- cess of law, is certainly justidable; but in the Argvelies case the administration is morally, if not legally, Tight. Argueiles is clearly com- promised ag a slave trader, and tue adminis tration has, or ought to have, the rigit to aid in securing bis conviction by retucning tlm for etinn mombers from New York, but prompt elwolg@ | telal, The correspondence, which we published ‘wee reed DY Whe repeticans wee of ve Comtoittes w Poreten Relations, Introduced @ Preem dle wd resulotton qvotug ‘rum the Paria Menideur, Mr. Wicvar Davie chair. } yeaterday, shows this fact most oouctusively ‘To amsail the administration upoo such grounds (RO xpoee orteiad orves. \ os .croye etating in effec: | 18 bo Divot the edge of more just sceusations The Grand Camp: The despatches of the Secretary of War, em- bodying the latest authentic advices from our various armies in the field, from Virginia to Louisiana, and especially in reference to the heroic old Army of the Potomac, are emi- neatly satisfactory and encouraging. All the losses from its late battles since the crossing of the Rapidan have been so well repaired that General Grant has now a more powerful force under bis immediate eye than on the first day of that sanguinary struggle in “the Wilder- ness.” With such an army our readers may rest assured that the campaign will not lan- guish in Virginia, and that the good tidings of glorious successes will soon be reported from “the front.” We have heard some apprehensions &x- pressed that General Lee, perbaps, by forced marches, may have undertaken the experiment of a junction with Beauregard on the south side of Richmond, for the par- «pose of crushing the army column of General Butler. No such apprehensions, however, need pe entertained; for the base of General Butler is within a sort of penineula, formed by a bend of the James: river, which, being well protected in front and commanded on all sides by the iron-clads of Admiral Lee, is a stronger position than the city of Richmond itself, with its triple lines of fortifications. General Lee, we conjecture, is too much occupied by Gene- ral Grant to have any time or troops to spare for the relief of Beauregard, while the latter cannot safely abandon the south side of the river to go to the assistance of Lee. The re- maining roads leading soutbward and west- ward from Richmond, through which Lee, Beauregard and tbe city are fed, are too im- portant to the enemy to be for a moment aban- doned to the chances of capture. General Grant’s combinations in Virginia are thus working smoothly and to the sure and de- cisive result of the occupation of the rebel capital and the expulsion of Jeff. Davis, his shattered army and all his works from the State. At the same time General Sherman, in Georgia, after a little rest to his victorious troops, is ready again to push forward “into the bowels of the land,” in pursuit of the routed columns of Joe Jobnston. Against our advances in that quarter Johnston, dislodged and driven from his strongest positions, can do nothing; and Sherman, having penetrated into a country in which even a greatinvading army may be subsisted without much transportation, will not be long delayed in his journey to Atlanta. From Louisiana we have the gratifying news that a skilful army engineer, in extricating the gunboats of Admiral Porter from the Red river, bas prevented what otlerwise might have turned out a serious disaster to the late unfor- tunate Shreveport expedition of General Banks. The valuabje squadron thus rescued by Lieu- tenant Colonel Bailey, of the Nineteenth army corps, is in itself equal to the saving of a power- ful army. East and West all goes well, and with the fairest prospects of a campaign which will be so decisive in its results as to make this, over all the States of the Union, South Carolina in- cluded, “the year of jubilee. The Recent Suppressions and Arrests. The recent suppression of public journals in this city and the arrests of editors and otbers are a species of prophetic facts in the history of our government. They foreshadow the ad- vent into our history of questions whose deci- sion has rent many @ great State to fragments, and of ejements that have always been danger- ous to the Jiberties of the people. The rebellion bas already effected great changes in our condition, and is daily working otiers. It is revolutionizing our social and political fabric with a revolution like those through which #0 many nations have pasted from liberty to despot'sm. We had in the first year of the war arbitrary arrests and other in- yasions of private rights, and there was less expression of the popular cisspproval of such maiters than there would naturally have been, because tiey appeared to the people to be ne- cessary. So great was tie vatioual devotion to the cause of the country that we preferred to submit to an invasion of private rights rather than that the country should sufler through the assertion and mainte- nuance of those rights. Yet disapproval was expressed clearly enough to show that such things were submitted to only for so good areason. It was thought that the government had seen the impropriety o: such measures, and that they wou'd trouble the country no more, But the recent acts snow that there is still a dangerous tendency to encroachments ttpon personal rights—to acts that are icon- sistent with onr existence as a free people. They show that this poisonous error bas fast hold of our national liie, that it is in the veins, and is, if not cast out violently, to become part of us. At the South they wef to a ceutralization of all power at asingie step, anda military des- potism bas been supreme over the rights aod Lives of the Southern people for three years. And if the South should gain its independeace tbat iron rule would continue, and grow more aud more unbearable every year, as sucl a vale always does, until it would end in the total overthrow of ail government and there lapse of the people into a semi-civilized state of degradation worse than tue condition of any barbarous tribe. In the South we see, so far, tue most rapid possible descent in the scale from freedom dowoward. But it was to be boped that the very dferent character of our eople would bave made our liberties more secure and saved us from making even the first step in that bad direction in which the Southern States bave already gone so far. It wus hoped that the greater intelligence aud more ready seli-assertion of the Nortuern peo- ple would bave so guarded all personal righte— the rights of s.eech, and, above all, the freedom of the press—that no government would bave dared to touch any one of the points that the people guarded with such jealous eare. But, as the Inte arrests show, that hope tas proved a delusive one, Yet whether this revolution shall effect euch docided changes in tie North as have been effected ut the South, or whether it shall even be ns successful against our liberties as it haw been in France or was in Rome, will still de- peud entirely upon the intelligence of the peo- ple. And we must say, from what we have hitherto seeu, hat thut will be Dita frail de- pendevce. Mr. Lincotn, is Is quite probable, will be revominated for the Presidency, and if be ie elected the whole question us to whetver or not tbese dangerous encroachments of the central power are to continues will be settled by that one fact. ple age the denser of entrusting power agaia to | coves. Ante from this, the sicms of @ man who dares to use it in the wanton inva- | times show conclusively that the free sofl and sion of private rights? Will they take proper | barnburner element of the democratic party, steps to avoid such a danger? It is the answer | which in 1860 went over to the republicans, that the people will give to these questions | and thus gave to Mr. Lincoln bis majority that is to decide whether or not a nation consti- | which elected bim Chief Magistrate of this tuted as ours is can put down a great rebellion | nation, have become dissatisfied, and are cut- and preserve its own liberties, This is the | ting loose from their alliances of that cam- great double issue that we have to decide this | paign. They are preparing to attend the year om our battle fields at the South and here | Cleveland Convention in a body, and will at our homes fn the North. there unite in a wovement that will complete. POE Se mest y ly swamp the Baltimore Convention. The Ve are glad to learn that Congress now pro- | Prospects are that the gathering in the Forest poses to consider a general bankrupt law. We | City of the lakes next week will, therefore, be hope that the measure will pass. It ought to | the largest and most important of the national have been passed at the very outset of this | Conventions. If, as now seems, the result war, and asawar measure. The subject has | Of the convention shall be the nomination been pressed upon the attention of Congress, | Of General Grant for President, and Fromont, in one form or another, ever since the govern- | Morgan or some other good man for Vice ment was organized. We recommended it as President, it will sweep the country like a tor- one of the most essential features of the system | 240, and force the Baltimore Convention to of finance which Secretary Chase should have | endorse the same ticket or adjourn without ac- adopted. That » bankrupt bill was not en-| Complishing anything. The nomination of acted long ago is surprising. If it be post- Lincoln by the jobbers, contractors and office- poned now the delay will be criminal. holders, after that, will only make the perpetra- The necessity of such a law, which would | tion of the deed the laughing sick of the establish a uniform system throughout all the | People. dons Sth States, which would include all persons,{ Tae Corporation ADVERTISING SiUDDLE.— whether natives or aliens, residing in the | Ever since the ukase of Mayor Gunther in re- States, and which would take cognizance both | gard to the Corporation advertising, we have of voluntary and compulsory bankruptcy, | refused to publish those advertisements in the is too apparent to require argument. | Heraup. The officials continue to send their That an immense mercantile commu- | proceedings and other articles for our advertis- nity like our own should be able | ing columns; but we shall exclude them all to transact business in the absence of a law of | until some satisfactory arrangement is made, this kind really appears remarkable. No | and this muddle arranged as it should be for wonder that countless evils and heavy losses | the interest of the city. Under the law passed result from the present system, under which | by the Legislature of 1863 the Corporation the honest debtor has no escape from his mis- | advertising was to be confined to the four fortunes, and the honest creditor has but small | papers having the largest daily circulation. security, if any, against the rogues who fali in | This law bas been violated by the city officials, order to get rich. and, instead of four papers, the city advertise- In 1841 a bankrupt act was enacted by Con- | ments are published in about every paper in gress. But to those who remember the excite- | the city, daily and weekly, without regard to ment of that,period, itis unnecessary to state | politics, circulation or anything else. It is thus that this law was passed in a burryand repealed | made a system of corruption and an enormous in a hurry, and that its term of authority was | charge against the city. It is proposed too brief to enable us to judge fairly of its bene- | for this score or more papers to publish fits, One of the great objections to that bill | these advertisements and then get judgments was that dishonest debtors were anxiously wait- | against the city. Bills have already accumu- ing for its passage, ao that they might fail and | lated amounting to from one hundred and cheat their creditors. This objection was em- | twenty-five thousand to one bundred and bodied in a letter from many New York mer- | fifty thousand dollars. These bills are all chants, which was read to the Senate | in violation of the law, except those of four by James Buchanan. If we recollect | daily papers, and therefore fraudulent. The correctly, Webster immediately replied that | sooner a stop is put to this mode of adver- people who were waiting for such a law, so | tising-—this useless «nd foolish expenditure of that they might turn scoundrels, would be | the public mouey—tie better for the interests likely to turn scoundrels anyhow, and so need | of the city. The insertion of these advertise- not be taken into consideration. No doubt | ments in the Hexaup will secure a circulation this old objection will come up again during | almost equal to all the other city papers put the debate upon the proposed bill, and so we | together. It is tbe duty of our city authorities have supplied an answer for it in advance. | to overhaul the present expensive and corrupt Another answer is that the bill proposed ought | system, and reguiate this business in a more to protect the creditor a8 well as free the practical, sensible and less expensive manner. debtor, and consequently will not be balf so | Until this is accomplished they need not send available for purposes of roguery as the | any of their advertisements to the Heraty; for present loose aud unsystematic practice. we shall not publish them. Hedis bh it an ed ot rane a ki on- | AyorueR Irox-CLab—THe Moxrror SysreM.— Aner ae Si eppnanere abe” bb Poe The tbirty-fifth Monitor battery, the Maubattan, ures resulting from the secession of the South- ange aa Resa sea wen tat na ma te A far og ere Gtihen: and WOME S005 Have lyn Sen it went, was quite successful. We give in a apother column # very interesting retrospective foundation for the tax, tariff and currency " % ‘ bills, Business, then disorganized by view of our Monitor system, showing what it the sudden withdrawal of nearly half our domestic commerce and the consequent embarrassment of our foreign commerce, would have been at once relieved, and the ma- chinery of trade would bave worked smootily and strongly again. With this view we steadi- ly urged the passage of the bankrupt bill at that time; but Congress refused to consider it, As we are vow situated, we are only prepared and rivers, and untess something is speedily done the control of tue ocesn and its highways will be entirely iu the bands ol the aayies of Europe. Music We regret to Gnd that thore is « prospect of Signor has accomplished and wherein it has failed. | for the defence of our coast, with its barbors ; and at last postponed it when it was reported by a special committeo, Not having succeed- ed ia our efforts to secure;the enactment of tho law as a measure applicable to past failures, we now revive it for the purpose of meeting the contingencies of the future. The inflated paper currency system of finance, of which Secretary Chase claias and deserves the credit or discredit, must end in a dreadfui crash sooner or later; and when that erash cones a bankrupt law will be absolutely indis- pensable to dig out our merchanis from the ruins of Chase’s finances and set tiem upon their feet to begin their work anew. We are very desirous, therefore, that the present Con- gress shall not adjourn without enacting a general, weil digested and comprebensive bankrupt bill. Tne Oran or THE L: TN MovEMENT anp tun Coxrvsioy Iw tue Re CAN Rang: There is a great commotion among the repub- lican politicians in regard to the Presidential nominating conventions which are to take place wothin the next three weeks. The advocates for the renomination of Mr. Lincoln are active, arrogant and dictatorial. Those who are look- ing to the Clevelaud Convention as the power which is to decide the fate of the coming cam. paign are active, confident and jubijant. The former class is composed almost exctusively of the officeholders, contractors, professional lobbyists and the bordes who have been specu- lating and enriching themselves upon the necessities of the government. In this connec tion we publish this morning an exceedingly interesting Jetter from Washington, giving in detail the ovigin of the move vent for the re- nomination of Mr. Lincoln. It appears from this excellent history of the secret movements that the programme for electing Mr. Lincoln for another term originated with the idea that the joke of the Isranp in advocating he re-election was serious. The politi- cians worked themselves into the be- lief that the Heratp was in earnest in trotting out the rail-splitter for another term, and consequently that Mr. Lincoln would be the most available candidate for them to elect, and thus secure another term of the fat pickings, spoils and plunder. We commend this letter to our reuders, and espe- cially those who Lave been deluded into the Mazzoleni returning to Italy, We bave had ve singer here who bes rendered himself more generally accopta vie. Bis peculiar quality of voice his fine dramatic per- ceptions and bis artistic feeling insured him at once a | hearty welcome, sud ne has preserved ihe good opinions thus gained by bis correct couduct and gevtlomauly bearing, We could wot have bad two tenors more eatistactory im every respect, though diferent in their jive, than Siguors Muazolen! and Brignott For several sevsons to come we would have eeu sitisfied Lo see the tenor role filled by them to the exclusion of ail oti Taat the public is of the same opitiion may be inferred from the unprecedeatediy Successful result of the Inst coason’s operations, The thiret for novelty does not Biiad peonie t9 the fuct that ic would be dificult, porbaps imposs)bie, to Ond their equa’s, Wo trust that some arrangemout will be effected by which Signor Mazzolepi will be ivduced to change his purpore. A manager risks a good deal in aliowiny such an artist to leave the country. Shoeld the diiculiiee be. tween him und Maretzek not bo susceptibie of a compro. mise, we trust that Mr, Grau will eoive the opportun, making somo arra sot with t With Mw and Prignoli in its ranks, the Grau troupe might defy eompottion. ENGLISH OPERA, ‘The English opera troupe pave their firet representation since their rotcrn from Philadel) hia at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last eveving. Since tbe company Inst appeared here two very acceptable additions baye been made to It iu the persons of Mr, Edward Seguin, who bas a well cultivaicd, thouyh pot very powerful, buss voice, aud Mr. Walter Pirch, second tonor, The announcement of Fra Diavilo, as was to be expected, drew a very large howe. This ever pop opera may always be relied upon for a few nights’ attraction. With suct a cast as tt bad apon thia occasion, a public must indeed be dificult not to be plensed. Madame Borchard played Zerlima Mies Louisa Myers, Lady Alicasb; Mr, W. Custie, Fra Hie. volo; Mr, S C. Campbell, Beppo; Mr. Edward Seguin, Lord Atlcash, and Mr, Walter Bireb, Lorenzo. There was a very fir orchestra, and the chorus, tuough emill, was {2 tolerabiy good training. Tho pioce, on the whole, was plryed and sung well, ite dramatic features being ontanced by the spirited wcting of Madame Borckard—an artist always home in her part—as well of Mr. Seguin, who improvised a very re- spectadle imitation of Lord Dundreary in the character of Tord Alteash, Madame Porchard and Mr. ¢ away the bonors of the evening, both artists voice and singing with entrain. In the cavatina in the first act,and im theuria in the commencement of the second, Madame Borcbard was expeciaily excelent, her bypliy in the former being a capital pleco of acting Miss Myers deserves a word of praise for the manner tn which sho eaug the role of Lady Alicash, a part exeeeding!y diil- cult tor @ girl 80 young, Ib was to be reyrerted Nhat Mr. Campbell bed not a part that would’ hrve broagbt his Baperb voice more into play than thatef Penpo. On the whole, however, the opera gave great mutsfuction, most of the solos and many of the concerted pieces Yerg en- thusiastically eneored. It will be repeated agaim, fur the inoroase | gates ill the peo | whioh both sides are sanguine last time, this eveving, the troupe play iag in Hartford on Wednesday. support of the Lincoln programme. In the meantime we notice that there i8 | gig vawoexnore KeADiNcR.—Iho series of readings already a grand row in the republican camp, | given during the Inst {two woe ut Dodworth’s Mil, by and the preliminary proceedings transpiring | Mr. aud Mrs Vaedenvol, have boon very succensttr indicate a grand smash up of the party | were attended by large and aypreciative ryclangeen Hn it be b: ht to a close foy the presapt this (Tueeday) -oupraper hen ginal doy peti pari en selections from Hwary the Fourth and feuds between the different wings of the party | gin wellor's Walleatine wii be read. are already exceedingly bitter. The crimina- i ‘ the Priindetphia Sant- tions and recrimiuations are upon the verge of se, tare Fabry. * an open warfare, which can bardly fail to split PRisaveiema, May 23, 1864, the party asunder... Two sets of delegates have | Mr. Oscanyan, tho celebrated Oriental kecturer, is ucto, been elected froin this city to the State Conven- | by tnyitation, to ea (Wn ads hak hl reat to be connected w: tary Fair, tt will ton whlch assembles at Syracite to-horrow | eee en ia movelty aiid a vory succonsful a, forthe purpose of electing delegater to the | igre. Baltimore Convention, There is also every proupedt of a grand tunale and free fyht in re. The Russians at Boston. Bowiox, May 28, 1804. Arrangements are in progress to the First Masea- chusatts regiment @ glorious reoey tion ‘The Russian stent [rigote Vitios paased THighiant Lagtt today, for Weston, Othere of Lue ‘lost aro orpocted ebon U6 \e aravownd to give toe oivers a public rece otiow, NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. Ceiene! and Major White, of Pennsyi- vania. (From the Ricbmoad Examiner, May 18.) \fe stated yesterday that Major White, the Penney! vania State Senator, had eseapoa from the Libby with Colonel Sireight. This was a misappr facts, He is pow in the Salisbury Confederate States penitentiary. He is iniormed that bis brother, Coiunet White, of Pennsyivavi, one of the prisoners taken in the Dattie of the Biull, has been registered at the Liotel de Libby, and is anxious for an iotervi ith him. Farmers Not [From the Richm Itbas been sugested u persons who bring pro. visions to market are under the impression that they may be arrested and employed m the defence of the city, We ‘were tast wight authorized by Governor Smith to Suy thas the authorities will m no manner inirrfere wih any per- sons coming to market, aud they can come and go as usual without the least interruption, wate of a Brookty: rom the }. chmond ‘On the person of one of tae Yan. killed in the fight at the Yellow Tavern was found a bit of paper twisted i the button bole of bis jacket, 18 was @ wreiebed pene Soldier, amine. } scrawl, evidently written after bis full, and while dowth eho ‘was patting tim in his eyes. It comuuenced:—“1, Wilheimer, Second New York cavairy. § am_ sbot dying. Whoever finds me send this to Sarah Wuheimer, Brooklyn Post Olfice, New York. She is my sister, aud only reiative iu the country. Ob, my poor sister! do not break your beart; but 1 am shot through the breast and dying? * * * * * . What followed tn this paragranh {3 obliterated py blood, ‘The next sentence reads:—M Write to Conrad Vitmare, of our company; be owes me fifty doliura, which he wi! pay you, Ob, my dear sister, farewell!’ Tho paper was taken from the body, and has been forwarded North by flag of truce. Florida News via W Virgin [From the Richmond Examiner, May 18 } THE BLOWING UP OF THR CULF TON. Cuarceston, May 17, 1864. General & Coorer:—General Anderson telegraphs me that another of u y fragments yesterday by a to abort distance below Jacksonville, the bad two uns aboard, and was towing a schooner, latter escaped, It is pot known bow many lives were lost. This ix the third steamer that has met this fate in the St. Johns Tiver in the last forty days. SAMUEL JONES, Major General, Goneral Stgel’s Operations. REBEL ACCOUNTS OF THE SHENANDOAH CONTEST— BRECKINRIDGE CLAIMS TO HAVK GAINED A VEBY GREAT VICTORY. {From the Richmond Sentinel, May 10. " STAUNION, May 18, 1864. General Breckinridge’s victory at New Market wag a0 at first announced, and pearly one of the enemy te jo in the St, Jonos, a killed, wounded and prisoners is heavy General Sigel ran thirty miles without stopping, aban- doping his hospitais and destroying His cavalry force mone prevented bridge in bis rear before the rout, and thereby capturing the whole, Our success was chiefly due toaday and night march of over thirty miles, and commencing the attuck before the arrival of one of bis divish which was whi) ped when it did urrive. General Si com. mapded in person. Brigadier General Stabl comm hia cavalry, while Geverala Sullivan and C.uch cominfnded each a division. The enemy encamped Inst night on Cedar creck, the swollen condition of which alone checked thoir flight. Our advance 8 two miles below Strasburg, aud it is thought Gen. Sigel will continue on to Martiosburg. News from Augusta, Georgia, ym tbe Augus a Constitutionalist. | There is a general rejoicing here over Lee’s victories, Provisions are deciluing From Mobile, Macon, Charles- ton, Mouigomery and other cities comes the welcome 10 telligence that prices are tumbling. In Macon ilour is how selling at one bandred apd fifty doliars per barrel, and first quality bams at two doilars and flity cents per pound, aud otber articles of prime necessity have {alien in like proportion, which two weeks since cominiuded the samo prices (wat they are now selling for in this city Avonme New Ciun.—A singular institution bas just been opened in Fifth avenue, under the title of ‘The Bankers’, Brokers’ and Merchants’ Club.” It isto bea sort of Crockford’s, where dining, wining and gambling (siock exchange) are to bo carried on on the most extra- yagant sco'r The institution bas had its origin in that thirst for speculation which, not content with the ordi. pary business hours of Wall street, has found * desirabie to prolong to an advanced period of the night the day’s operations. This supplemental busi- ness bag for some time past becn transscted at the peer was es Fifth Aven Hotel, and is now srematoneee (0. pe, new establishment. The building includes a large “<Bouree,” with dome knd gulleries and adjoining saloons, clegantly Gtied up. Here operations in railway and in- surance stocks, miniog sbares and gold may be entered | \etoat ali hours of the day aod night. Shipbrokers, jnembers of the Corn and Grain Exchange, and tue bro- kers indrugs and chemicals, who are membors of the club, Mave #lso septate ro ms for the transaction of their business. A banking fund is kept inthe club's safe, in order toaiford facilities for casing checks after banking hours; avd all the usual business and pews bal- ietius are kept posied up for the Information of members, A cutsine of Orst clase character, a line cellat of wines, rd rooms and private carriages const. we pana as tute the other agreméns. The annual dues are $100, the admission to the Bourse being extra to those who make ase of it Wat woll the ladies of New York say to all this? dormitories, dilk Honors Corennep on AmMemcans py Kina Victron FMANcRL—In cur notice yesterday of the conferring of the Cross 0 the Order of St. Maurizio and Lazzaro upon Commander Thomas A. Craven, of the Niagara, by the King of itwly, we made an inadversent mistake w saying that “Professor Morse was one of the first this bovored by Victor Emanuel '* We have sinee jearped that Pro- fescor Moree has not yet received the insignia of that Order, although be has been info: mally apprised that the decree for that purpose has been sigued by the Kang, and that the insienia of the Order are on the way for him. This makes the eixth order of kuighthoud conferred upon bim by the vartous sovereigns of Karope, England nlone, ta her national capacity, ot all the great Powers of Hurope, refures any acknowledgment to the American iuventor of the telegraph, while his system Is estab- Hiehed throughout all ber foreiga possessions, as well as extensively at home, having, from ite euperior character supplanted the less efficient systems subsequently tm- vented in Englwnd. France, Rus: ‘Sweden aud Nor- way, Prussia, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Por- tugal, Wartemburz, Italy, the Holy See and Turkey haye each made to the American inventor substantial acknowledgments, while England aloue stands aloof tor reasoos best knows to horse, The Order of st, Maurizio and Lugzzero was not long since couferred upon the Hon. Hiram Barney, the CLector of this po Coroners’ Inguests. ‘Tum Lars Suicipe iw a Ceaeimey,—The man who dlew his brains out last Saturday afternoon, while standing over the grave af a ducoused sister, who died fourwea years ago, and was buried im the Jewish cemetery, Highty-cighth street, between Fourth and Fifth avcoues, has since beeu recogived ag William Newmann. bor X yours pst deceased belonged to the Fourteenth nited States infantry regiment, and, having been hovor ably discharged, had re enlisted for turee years more. He hal been in & melancholy state of mind for some duys, Dut Unnsnally Fo Mince lexruing fhat several of bis {reds Ww General Hutler’s army had been Kilied inone of (ae \ate batt'es, Obtaining permission ‘rom the keeper oi we cometery to enter the grounds, Newmunn proceeded to the grave ol bie stsier. and after ® fow moments’ de tion he placed o emall revolver to tis forewead and dis god i, A bullet was buried fu bis brain,and cent wently ersued. Decer Was iiriy-eeven years of age, wd @native of Germany, Coroagr Naumann held du ingveston the body, and the jury reudered a verdict of “Death by suicide.’ Farat Casvatry at rim Trnp Avewce Raitzoap Devor.— Coroner Nautaana held an inqudst on tbe body of Jona Ruttler, a German, thirty-six yoars of age, who cid from the ¢ fects of injuries recolyed m few days since at the depotot the Third Avenne Railroad Company. be: ceased was wed lu feeding @ bay cutting masinine, when vite wheels broke, plece oF which struck hin in the right side, tnflictug facel internal imurien The jury ren icred a vardict of *\ccidental aeaib.’? De- ceased left # widow aed several ehudres. Suprosep Sticio”.-Corener Collin yesterday beld an Inquest at the Pork police station on the body of @ Gerias, twenty-five years of aye, named Kart Meyer, who wae found drowned under stone beh the Vark pond, wear Seventy veveath civcavered Lhe was standin im a stooping porvare, with bi J under Ube witer, life then be- tng quite en From tho postoon ‘im which de cedor WAS OWNG A Ia sHopesed that he parposedy lower Diwsell Inty the pond, beld tia heat wader the water and Tiras commmitied suicide time provious to ie body jod, deceased Wek Food WIKK FOO men wad dio tuen louked ao though be had beoa drivking j }xowsen Rony Recovers. On Sunday aftertoon Lewis Devers, a lad vine yenss of age, whore parcnts Hive at 2%) Groenoman street, was drowned in the dock foot of Miterisow street, Nucth river, immediate seaseh was made for Me body, but it was Dot recovered Lill yestor- day. Corouer Natimann was notiled to bold aa ihquest, Farat nrkom a Roor,—Coroner Wildey yeserday Weld an inquest On the body of Thomas Gilmartin, a boy six years of age, whose death was the result of @ frae- tured skal and other inyuries received by failing from the rool OF the cia story Huitding 200 Hester street to the rence being accideute, the jury ren. Jered 4 verdict to thal oilect, The parents Of deceased. live at 126 Baxter street. LB OP UGAL FOR The SaNtraRy Comeumon,—The cond which iatoly arrived bore from Englund asa gift to the [ saniat Il be sold at at te Mer. Sant} Fale wi ba eel sina