The New York Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1864, Page 4

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Our army was withdrawn to the north side of the North Anna on Thursday night, and moved towards Aanovertown, the place designated for crossing the Pamunkey. At nine o'clock Friday morning, Sheriaan, with the First and Second divisions of cavalry, took ‘possession of Hanover ferry and Hanovertown, finding ‘there only a rebel vidette. The First division of the ‘Sixth corps arrived at ten A. M., and now hold the place, ‘with sufficient force of cavairy and infantry and artillery to resist any attack likely to be made upon bim. The remainder of the corps ‘was pressing forward” with rapidity, and would all be over the Pamunkey before noon. The army ‘was io great spirits,and the weather ine. After seizing Hanover ferry, General Torbert captured seventy-five cavalry, including six officers, The rebel cavalry is ex- ceedingly demoralized, and fiees before ours on every ‘occasion. Brockiaridge is.at Hanover Court House, with « force ‘variously reportedj from three thousand to ten thousand. Wickbam’s and Lomaz’s brigades of cavalry are also there. Mr. Stanton also announces the receipt of a despatch from Sherman on Friday evening, which roports that the enemy, discovering bie move to turn Altoona, moved to meet our forces @t Dallas, Our columns met the enemy about one mile east of the Pumpkin Vine creek, and we pushed them back about three mi'es, to the point where the road forks to Atianta and Marietta. Here Jobnston has chosen a strong Ine, aod made hasty but strong parapets of timber and earth. General Sherman’s right te at Dallas, the centre about (bree miles north. No decisive action bad taken place there. ‘There is no official news from any other quarter rela- tive to the movements of our armies. Tne rebel army are busily engaged in intrenchiog on he north side of the Bouth Anna river. It ie believed that Lae ts being largely reinforced (rom ‘Beauregerd's and other armies. Guoerilias are stil] Reverting arowod Fredericksburg and along the banks of the Rappabannock. On Thursday they made a dash upos the town, but finding it in possession of the Un on troops they retired burriedly. We learn from Cairo that the rebels are active on the ‘Danks of the Mississippi. The steamer Hillman was fired upon at Island No. 10. The steamer St, Louis, on ber way to New Orieans, was also fired tato, at Tunica Bend. The rebel sbells struck ber and exploded near er boiler, but Bo one was injured. The rebels are said to have twenty-five steamors up the Red river, above the fartbest point reached by our army. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the joint resolution to amend he charter of the city of Washington was taken up, and the amendment allowing persons to be registered’as vo- dors whe have herotufore borne arms, without distinetion Of color, wae rejected by twonty against eighteen, The Joint resolution was then adopted,and returned to the House. Mr. Doolittie introduced a joint resolution voting the thanks of Congress to Colonel Bailey, of tne Nine- teonth army corps, amd directing that « goid medal be Prepared for presentation to him, under the direction of the President of the United States, as a recognition of the Invaluable engioeering ability displayed by bim in devising and constructing works which enabied aa.‘ miral Porter's fleet to pasa over the falls of Red river, The consideration of the Internal Revenue bili Was resumed, and the clause taxing domestic spirits on bend disoussed. Finally the clause was stricken out by @ vote of thirty five against fifteen. Am executive session waa tha Beld, in which, among olber appointments re ceived from the President, was that of Colonel Joseph Wasez, Red river easinsarine (emo, for brevet tries, ‘iar general On the opening of the cers the Bese adjourned. ‘The House was Dot in session yesterday. MISCELLANEOUS WEWS. Captain Grey, of the schooner Fiash, which arrived at this port yesterday from ®t Martins and Barraces, makes the following report:—April 96, at forty.five minutes past seven P. M., while on the passage from &t. ‘Martins to Barracoa, off Isabella Bay, a vessel moved in sight astern and fired two guns, blank, whea we imme. diately hove to, ‘The sbip came up, and ode @ Spanish man-of wer. While nearing us com. menced shortening sail, and never hailed us. @ney thea fired four musket shots at us, The ball of one whutled close to Captain Grey’s ears, and went through the main- sail near the deck. We were thea boarded from the steamer by an officer and six marines, who examined the papers, whea they were sent on board the man-of-war to be examined by her commander. They were thea sent Dack, and the vessel allowed to proceed. ‘The case of Kobnstamm, convicted some days ago on an indictment charging him with defrauding the govern- ment by presenting at the disbursing office tn this city false certificates and vouchers, oa which be drew con- siderable sums of money, was again up yesterday ona motion for arrest of judgment and anew trial. Counsel for and against the motion were heard, the Court (Judges Nelson and Shipmaa on the bench) reserving their dc- cision until to-morrow morping at eleven o'clock. ‘The business of the City Inspector’s Department bas ensumed its wonted activity, and the streets are begin- fing 0 wear an appearance of cleanliness much more- Gratifying than they wore a week ogo. In regard to the streets, as under present direction, apprehensions may cease. The bone-boiling and similar nuisances receiving the attention their character demands, we may bope for such a purification of the atmosphere of the city as will (ogure us comparative safety through the summer “heated term." Owing to the continued advance iu gold and erchange there was more Grmuess in prices for both foreign and domestic merchandise yesterday than is usually the case, and an upward tendency was noticeable in pearly all articles, while in some there was a decided advance. There was continued activity in petroleum; but business was again restricted by the firmness of holders. Cotton was Ormer. On ‘Change flour was moderately active, and five cents bette, Whoat was steady,and prime advanced one cent, while inferior was dull and drooping. Pork was tess active, bat firmer. Corn was scarce and firm, Oats wore dull and declining. Beef and lard were firm, and a good demand prevailed. Whiskey was Grmer, Freights were inactive. The Rela tions of the Northern and Southern Armies in Virginia. General Grant made another important flank movement on Thuraday, which briogs him still nearer to Richmond. He withdrew his army across the North Anna, and pushed his left down to Hanovertown and across the Pamun- key river at that point, which General Sheridan occupies with his cavalry. Breckiaridge, Wick- bam and Lomax are at Hanover Court House, our forces being thus between them and Rich- mond. These facts are contained in Mr. Stanton’s bulletins of last night, which contain despatches from General Grant at Magahick church, dated on Friday evening and yesterday morning. All that the latest news from the South pre- sents worthy of special notice is the great effort that the Southern press is making to bolster up the actions of their armies. In the face of euch articles as the one we yesterday copied from the Richmond Examiner of May 24, it seems almost necessary to state facts ta relation to our military position in Virginia that eught to be as obvious as the fact that twice two makes four. Lee was put in the valley of Virginia with an army simply to prevent any Northern army from going to Richmond by that route. He might stop such aa army by the occupation of an im- pregoable position and threatening its com- munications if possible; but in the fallure of such a plan his only other course is to fight it and stop’it in that way. He must compela halt or a battle. Grant is sent to Rioh- mond with an army, and it is bis busi- ness not to waste his time and his men against Lee’s chosen places, but to nullify those places ff he can by flanking them. If be cannot nullify them in that or some other way, he must carry them by storm. But this is a last resort, and for the simple reason that he does not want those places; he only “wants to get to Richmond. He has to defeat the object of Lee’s army, which is to prevent hie march on that city. If he can defeat that object without firing a shot, so much the better. And the point in which Graot’s operations have been a series of victories is just this:—He bas absolutely nullified Lee’s impregnable po- sitions one after the other. Positions on the Rapidan and at Spottsylvania, that bave cost the enemy years of labor, are rendered valueless by this man’s simple show- ing that it is not necessary to storm them. He stops in front of them only long enough tosee clearly where they are, and then he marches on towards Richmond, and Lee jumps up and hobbles on after him, suddenly remembering that he is put there for no other purpose but to prevent the advance of Grant’s army. And the fact that Grant always moves first and keeps Lee dreadfully busy in the mere endeavor to keep up, though it proves Grant’s movements all to be successes, is used by the Richmond papers to persuade their readers that Grant is in retreat. The naked impudence with which the Rich- mond Examiner in particular piles up for its readers a Pelion on Ossa of deception, and attempts to galvanize Lee’s operations into victories, is almost beyond credence. In its isene of the 24th instant that journal says:— “If either party bas retreated, it is certainly Grant. Lee followed him from the Wildernese, and is now the last to move, and is’pursuer, not pursued, from Spottsylvania.” Ever sinee our army oroseed the Rapidan, according to this authority, it has been continually in retreat. The fact that every march has brought us nearer to our goal, which is the rebel capi- tal, seems to the Examiner to be a very unim- portant one, since it sees that Lee is always , behind us. But if this retreat of ours con- tinues a very little longer, the Hraminer will see that our army will be in the same position In which an advance by way of the Peninsula would have put it, and Lee will not be in a position to perform his great and favorite part of threatening our capital. Nor are all the Noi people much better instructed on these points than the readers of the Beaminer are. In ite issue of Thursday last the New York Tribune showed how Lee had outmanmuvred Grant by a successful retreat from Spottsylvania Court House. “It is not necessary to General Grant’s fame,” it said, “to conceal the fact that Lee got away from Grant’s front rather unexpectedly, and so adroitly that it was not known that he was gone until his escape beyond the South Anna.” But the news from the Southern army shows that Grant had been gone from the neighbor- hood of vania Court House two days before Lee kuew of i Lee only suspected tat Grant was gone on Saturday. On Satur- day afteradon he reconnoltred with a division, and found our intrenchments empty, and then had to march all night Setarday aod all day Bandar to catoh us. fhe ony o MAY 29, 1564. The Great Necting fer Grant. AG@vortising—Ignerance , Moyer Gunther tm Regara to the | The mass mesting at Union square next Law. If there be but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, the Chief Magistrate of the city of New York knows sbundantly well how to take it. He is continually attempting the sublime; but he inevitably tumbles into the ridiculous. He was elected by an independent and popular movement of citizens, under the conviction that reforms, which might almost be designated eublime, in view of the then manifold corruptions existing in the city gov- ernment, would be promptly instituted under his administration; but he seems to have lacked the brains to grasp great evils, and contented himself with attempting to correct lesser ones, which were but as warts to (ssa when compared with those he was expected to remedy. Our readers are familiar with his failures as a reform Mayor; but they will hardly be prepared to believe that he is so ig- norant of a law applying to a certain city matter as is developed in the following communica- tion which we have just received from the office of his Honor:— TO THB BDITOR OF THE HERALD. this city to state that, in Feuance of the ‘vested ta them by soction 2 Scetgente frur papers having the largess daly circu, avi i} ircu- lation in this city fete advertising of the Corporation of saz the foreman or manager of the paper, showing the num- ber of copies issued on the 80th day of May inst., for daily circulation to the yond its limits). enclosed -*Sworn statement of the daily circulation of ———,"' and addressed to the Mayor or ptrolier, will be recoived HA them up to and until June 1, 1664, at twelve o'clock j., when the game will be opeced at Mayor's office, by the Mayor and O:mptroller, who will then procoed to designate the papers entitled to the city advertising. Very respectfully, J. B. AULD, Clerk. There are two points in this communication which stamp itas unbefitting the head of the city government. The first is ite ignorance of the intent of the law respecting Corporation advertising and its native silliness. The law never designed that a single designated day’s circulation of @ puper applying for the Corporation advertising should be taken as de- cisive evidence of its absolate general circu- Jation, and it is contrary to ite spirit to put any such construction upon it. It has long since been decided—in the matter of Post Office ad- vertising—that such an interpretation upon a law of the kind would simply be an attempt to give a legal invitation to and cover for fraudu- lent returns of the amount of circulation, a legal excuse for corrupt and irresponsible per- sons imthe newspaper business to perjure them- selves by printing on tho day designated a batch of bandbills, with a newspaper heading, and swearing the number to represent the true circulation of some paper that had barely a reader outside the limits of some corrupt and profligate crew of jobbers or small politicians. It may be possible that Mayor Gun- ther has a personal object of this kind in view in his present action; but we would be sorry to believe that his ignorance of the intent of the law, which such # conclusion would imply, is allied to kaavery. The only true and pro- per and legal way of proving the actual clrcn- lation of a newspaper is to take the average cireulation of a month or three months; and es- tablishing it by that process. This is the only fair test, the only proper method. It is the one always adopted by the New Yoru Heratp; and the proprietors of any newspaper pretending to respectability who favor any other plan of arriving at a fair estimate of their absolute circulation should be regarded as irresponsible persons, and unworthy to enter into any con- tract with the city involving an expenditure of money. Whatever excuse Mayor Gunther may offer for his ignorance in this matter, there might, perbaps, not improperly, be an inquiry instituted into bis motive; for, as the taxpayers are concerned in this as well as in all other drafts upon the public treasury, it were as. well for them to see how their rulers act in comparatively minor financial affairs, in order that they may be prepared to judge how they conduct themselves in matters of greater mag- nitude. . In regard to the silly portion of this busi- ness, involving @ chidlike simplicity on the part of his Honor, is his excluding, in the amount of circulation, the number of copies supplied to suburban places, Mr. Gunther might as well limit the circulation to the single ward in which the paper is printed as to ignore the existence of places where a large propor- tion of the people doing business in the city make their homes and residences. There is, pro- bably, a population of four hundred thousand within a few miles circuit of New York, and in nearly every housebold lives a person who is perbaps .as much interested in the Corporation advertising as any resident in the city proper. In these households the city papers are furnished as regularly and as early, frequently earlier, than to the city reader; and it is these suburban readers who have the most time, during their transit in the railway cars, in ferryboats, in stages, &c., from their residences to their places of business, to read the long Corporation advertisements, and to devote the time frequently required to render clear some obscurity in language and meaning. Briefly, Mayor Gunther has, either through bad advice or imperfect knowledge, committed in this last ter of Corporation advertising blunders which would be regarded with much seriousness did they not appear so silly and ridiculous as to provoke, instead of a feeling of resentment, a sentiment of mortification that the city has 80 incompetent a chief ruter. A Proven May ror a Speci, Vorm or Tuaxks FRom Concress—Lieutenant Colonel Bailey, of the Nineteeoth army corps, who, by his rare engineering abititios, brought safely down over the rapids of the Red river the in- valuable squadron, gunboats and transports of Admiral Porter. That achievement, in its substantial value to the Union cause, is equal to the winning of & cai ign. Senator Sumner Makes a Hrr at O1p Ase’s Pian ov Recoxsrrection.--Mr. Sumner has introduced @ resolution into the Senate, which lies over, declaring, substantially, that a rebellious State is subject to military: tion, and is without representation In C until it has been readmitted by a vote of both houses. This resolution is intended to apply especially to the case of Mr. Fishback, a would- be Senator from Arkansas, elected in pursuance of President Lincoln’s tinkering plan of reeon- struction. We gress that this plan will be knocked in the head by a vote of the Senate, (ending back Mr. Fishback to Arkansas to try some other plan. Aad what then? Why then Old Abe, from Fishback, will probably fall back upon his original plan for the abolition of slavery in the year 1900 It will bee good ‘ake, you know. Saturday, to express the people’s gratitude to General Grant, will undoubtedly be the largest, the most unanimous and the most en- thusiastic ever held in this city. Citizens of all parties are invited to be present, and will be there. General Grant’s name and fame belong to all the people, not to any clique, party or faction. Thisis no time to be talking about party lines and party principles and party leaders. The war has annihilated them all. Strictly speaking, there should be only two parties in the coniing Presidential election; and these are the great patriotic party, that goes for Grant, and the shoddy party, that goes against him. President Lincoln will probably be the nomi- nee of the representatives of the latter party. They will nominate him because it pays. He bas given them rich contracts, and he will give them more. He has allowed them to empty the national Treasury of all its gold and most of its greenbacks, and he offers them the same privileges for four more years, These are very high bribes. No wonder that the shoddy poll- ticians cannot resist them. This is the real, positive explanation of Lincolo’s renomination. His political course bas not satisfied anybody. His course in regard to the slavery question equally disgusts the. conservatives and the radicals, His interference with military mat- ters has arrayed against him those who were once warmest in his support. His arbitrary stretches of power and disregard of the consti- tution have made him obnoxious to all right- minded men even in the republican ranks. Only upon the shoddy question is his record sound and satisfactory, and enly the shoddy fellows will support him. Now, the people understand fully that the renomination of Lincoln is simply an attempt to perpetuate the petty despotisms, the gross corruptions and the unparalleled abuses of the past four years. They are not so blind to their own interests as not to see that, if Lincetm were re-elected, he would construe this Into a full and emphatic approval of his past conduct, and would therefore persist in it for another term. Consequently the slight- est prebability of Lincoln’s success will in- teneely infuriate the majority of the masses. They are willing to endure everything im order to preserve the Union; but they are not willing to be ferced into a position where they appear to endorse the very acts from which they suffer. But it is clear that the politicians cam place them in just that position by simply nominating two or three weak candidates for the opposi- tion and allowing Lincoln to slip in between them. This is an old game, frequently played, and generally successful. But if it be attempted while the people are in their present temper we will not answer for the consequences. Riots, burnings, assassinations, barricades and a revolution will probably ensue. Ail that the people want is a fair chance to defeat Lincoln. Give them that by nominating such a man as Grant, and all will be well. Attempt to cheat them out of it by nominating half a dozen weak men, in order to divide the opposition vote, and Lineoln’s re-election will be the signal for such an upheaval of the North as bes never before been witnessed. * These are by no moans pleasant truths to state; but they are truths, nevestheless. We do not put these prophecies upon record be- cause we desire them to be fulfilled, but be- cause they certainly will be fulfilled, unless something be done to prevent. In this case, as in our predictions of the results of the aboli- tion agitation, we simply watch the eurreat of events, and form our epinions from the facts before us. It is an old trick to cherge-those who predict revolutions with some complicity in them; but we fear neither this charge por those who are bold and vile enough to make it. We foretell future dangers im order that they may be averted or avoided. Our fanatical contemporaries shut their eyes, shout “all’s well,” and try to lead us onward to destruc- tion. Uninfluenced by their example, we ex- plicitly repeat that the renomination of Lin- coln is a movement upon the part of corrupt shoddy politicians to keep control of the Trea- sury and build up an administration aristoc- tacy; that his re-election will be a mere ques- tion of money, not of politics or patriotism, if it can be effected at all; that the peace men have conspired with the shoddy clique to se- cure Lincoln’s success by putting up sham can- didates against him, if possible; that the masses understand these ewindles, and are de- termined to defeat them, no matter at what cost, and that the only wise things to do under the circumstances are to nominate Grant and Morgan or Fremont at the Cleveland Conven- tion, renominate them at the mass meeting next Saturday, compel General Grant to ac- cept the nomination on the score of his duty to his country, and so elect him unanimously in November, in spite of the Baltimore Conven- tion and its shoddy candidate. This is the only way to save the nation. Tux Psace Question in THe Reset Cox- Gress.—The debate in the rebel Congress at Richmond, the other day, on the peace proposi- tion of Mr. Leach, of North Carolina, was teeated with much more respect than anything of the kind ever submitted In any rebel Con- gress before. Those rebel Bombastes Furiosos ® year ago would have choked down Mr. Leach and his peace proposition on the spot. Now they are disposed to listen to him, and twenty- two of them arsange themselves on his side. We predict that the number of his backers will be considerably increased before the end of another weck. Now is the time for the Hon. Fernando Wood to go on @ peace mission to Richmond. Now or never. Tas E:oura Avenurs Ratnoap—A Goon Move.—The meeting of the citizens of Car- Maperille the other evening, for the purpose of adopting measures to Sesel ihe gnah Ave- nue Railroad Company to carry up their road and their cars with the grading of the street— involving the simple proposition of holding the company to their obligations te the commu- nity—was a good move, and we hope it will be followed up till this monopoly is brought to ‘terms. If the company will shut their eyes to ‘their own interests, they ought to be made to open thém to the interests of the public, whose ‘servants they are. That is all. A Ricamonn Yirw ov Len’s Movements.—Ac- cording te the Richmond Deaminer Gen. Lee bas ‘been pursuing Gen. Grant all the way from the Ropidan to the border of the Richmond Penin. oul. If this be so, then Lee’s object is mani- festly te Grtve Grant into Richmond; and we faink it may be accomplished, and, if such is we incline to the opinion thet General Grant hes not been fighting all thie time to get away from Richmond. Ove Past Poor Towarne Enoisnp axp Franocz.—We have, since this war begas, shown s desire to avoid quarrels with our friends John Bull and Napo- leon. In more instances than one we have, it might trathbfally be said, allowed ourselves to be rather eavalierly treated. With the determination ef attending to one thing at a time, we bave not resented groes in- sults, and have even been bullied without show- ing resentment, . By the adoption of this course we have, to all appearances, avoided unpleasant comp] ications and been enabled to attend with- out interference to our intestine troubles. Was the course pursued a wise one, or should we have nobly stood up for the dignity of the American nation, and dared our evil wishers to lay a straw in our path? Should we have kept those traitors, Mason and Slidell, and warned Napoleon that we would brook no in- trusion on this continent? Such might have been the wiser course to pursue. It certainly would bave been bolder, more manly, than the expostulatery, deprecat- ing tone assumed by our government when brought into direct contact with European Powers, It would bave been’ a mere striking instance of the power and determination of this great republic had we defied England when she menaced war because we seized those traitors. Had we aleo boldly forbidden the occupation of Mexico by the French the same result would have doubtless been obtained—that is, England and France would bave stormed and raved, but wowld not have dared to go to war—and to-day the Ameri- can people would rank higher in the esteem of the world. In her days of adversity France battled alone against the combined power of Europe, until, under the rule of the great Napeleon, she mastered the Old World. What the French republic could accomplish surely the people of this great country might at least have at- tempted. We should have given defiance for defiance, insult for insult. To have witnessed ourenemies uniting to crush us would have caused us as with one voice to shout, “Uphold the dignity of the Union to the last dollar and the last drop of blood!” We should then have seen no divisions, have heard of no parties; all would have been for the Union. We have the resources and the power to defy all our ene- mies, and should neve, for the sake of avoiding their malice, lay aside our dignity. Weseck no quarrels; we should not tamely avoid them. The policy of this government should be as bold as its power is great. Frvaxciat Prosrzcrs oy tae New Mexican Ewrrs.—We published a day or two since an interesting speech of M. Berryer, in the Frenoh Legislative Assembly; showing up the jugglery by which it is sought to induce European capitalists to embask their money im the Mexican I I¢ appears that the proposed loan was divided into two sections—one of twelve million francs, for the wants of the new government, and the other of six millions six bundred thousand francs, on aceount ef the {ademnity due to Prance—the negotiaters of the loan informing the public that they were going to issue eighteen millions six huodred thousand francs of rente. It turns out that the ‘announcement made by them that the Messrs. Glyn, of London, would negotiate the whole eighteen millions is untounded, or, at least, that they had backed out of the offer, if they had ever made it. This shows the small amount of confidence entertained by European Gnanciers in the stability of the new order of things. Of the bed of roses crented for the new Emperor by his imperial spensor some idea may be formed from the pithy summing up of his financial conditien by M. Berryer. According to the he has entered into, he will, before he establishes his govern- ment, have to pay a sum of one bundred and twenty-five millions of francs out of the loan of one hundred and twenty millions of francs. A pleasant prospest this for a prince, whose only reason for going to Mexico is to relieve himself from a load of debt at home. The Draft. It ie plainly for the interest of each town, ward, &e., to have stricken from the lists all names improperly en- rolled, because an excess of names increases the quota called for from such towns, wards, ko, It is equally for the Interest of each person enrolled in a given town or ward to place upon the list all persons ia his town or ward liable to do military duty, because the greater the number to be drawn from the less chance that any par- ticular individual will be drawn. As it ts the personal interest of every eorolled man that the qhota if which be is concerned should'not be made too large. aod that his own chance for draft shall not be unjustly increased, and as both these objects may de attained by striking out the wrong names and putting in the right ones, there can bo nd serious difficulty in se- curing the co-operation of citizens for the purpose of making @ correct earcliment. PROVISION FOR THR DRAPT IN NEWARK, Newana, N. J., May 23, 1864. A movement io the Common Council last evening to re- peal the three hundred doitars exemption resolution woe unsuccess‘ul. An additional resolution, however, was adopted appropriating one hundred dollars additional, making three hundred dollars to each man drafted, and four hundred to each man serving in the ranks or pro- curing a substitute. The Councl authorised a special committee to m: wile eke ees of the Secend Now Jersey ‘Volual |, who are oxpected home next week, haviog served out their time of three years of war. The Omaibus Co bution to the Fair. 10 THE EDITOR OF TAB HERALD, During the Sanilary Fair several lines of omnibuses, with characteristic generosity, agreed to donate ten per cont of their gross receipts for one week for this worthy undertaking. As | have seen no acknowledgment of the it received from (bése soarces, per! hten us. bi cyt Bovercautt’s New Comeny.—There was an unueual scene at the St, James theatre, May 13, after the close of Mr. Boucicauit’s new comedy, the Fox Chase, Mr. Webster had Ineerted in the piles he effect that, this comedy pele A, ty Mate te, Racer at inet and original,” it hed deen §© amoounced, but that the author Bad sind 0 noknowledge that the iden of the piece wae taken from M. Melesviile’s play of Sulll- van, an adaptation of which is now being performed ab the Haymarket, under the title of David Garrick. The apnowncement seemed (0. have given offence in cer- tain quarters; for, whee ¢be curtain dropped aod there waa Wie weaal call for ‘the euthor,” bis noa- appearance was the signal for vehement hissing, Girected rather against the management, as it seemed, then the avthor, tad for foud cries that the management had deve all it could to damage the chanoes of the play. The clamor yoked counterelamor— partof the house evidently that the row was got up by parties peot in for the purpose—and the storm had waxed load, aud séemed to threaten to grow louder, when Mr. CBaeleg Mattbews réstored good humor by de- G@aring that the author wae not ia the house, but that no doutt be 008 would be, for they had telegraphed for him to Liverpool, Omnert's Mrneramg.—A troape craiming to be the gea- aloe, bone Ade, woqueatinable and ladiepatable original Cartaty’s Minstrvts perform ay Newark and Brookiya Read week, Mr. dW, Bavnsa is the magacer. ~ Religious iigemes, ~~ ited Sone" : At St. Ano’s charch, Eightocnth street, near PUWave Que, divine services at ® quarter te eight, half-past q half past three and s quarter to eight e’eleck, the «| Boon being for deaf mutes, The ReviK, Denjamia reach in the morning and the Rev. H. W. Spaulding Om the evening. ‘The Rev. Samuel Bookstaver Bell, D. D., will preach tm the Fiftieth street Presbyterian church, Bros@way and Eighth avenue, at bel{-past ten and ‘The Rev. Mr. Free Will — eburch, Twenty: Broadway, at balf past ten'end e quarter it . : is 4 A Ht t} i { i E i Hd HS il gE fi | Ai i g : i i E f ste i i i nit | 5 £ i i i ii : Th He Gt Ae Rev. T. poy seme ee io chu wrper of Greene street, this morn! ton ores. oe At the Memorial charoh, Hammond street, corer Waverley pince, the Rev. Joho Werrag Bertes, dD, sociate rector of St, Luke’ church, will preach this evea- ing. Services at balf-past ten, four and @ quarter te eight o'clock. At the Bleecker strect Universalist chureb the Rev. ‘Moses Baliou preaches morning and evening. Ia the even- ing be will consider the story of ‘‘Avratam’s Savrifice Of Isaac'’—Genesis, 224 chapter. At the Central Presbyterian church, Broome strcet, twe blocks eastof Broadway, preaching by the pastor, re James B. Buon. at bailf-past tea and bait. seven o’clook, Sunday echool at nine and:wo o'clock. A camp meeting will be beld to-day in Lefferts’ Tompkins and Gates aveoues, Brooks; Love [east The Rev. Dr. Smythe, from Loadon, will preach at three o’clock. ‘How Can the Country be Saved?” will be the subject of | I 8 Ha discourse by J. W. Fraser, A. M., at the: ball 96 Sixt Avenue; services to commence at eight o’clook. At the Twentieth street Universalist ohurok,.near Sev- enth avenue, the Rey. T. S, Lathrop, of Bridgeport, Coas., will preach at half-past tep and haif-past tbree o’clook. At All Sainte’ Protestant Episcopal churott,. corner ef Heory and Soammel strects, the rector, Rev, 8, J- Core neilie, will preach at ball-pest ten and balf-pest seven orl At Alanson Methodist churon, Norfolts street, sear Grand, the Kev. Wm. P. wit past ten and half past seven o'clock. the afternoon. ject at the people's mestiog, 6k Nov 161 Bowe, ‘se a Oo, v’otook. From two to three o’elock , u At Union Hall, corner of Broadway.and: — subjects—“Truth wm Circles, . ert the Kartbr” at tnres ovcook, | experience horit the Kart?” i 5 testity. war Sareea eenmartas Sh . seven, church. es panus ces taousla by hasvemtan ton Samuel H. Cox, LL. P., the Rev. Dr. the: Bev, - Dr. W. W. Newell, Rev. Dr. Burchard,asd the Rev. RB. Booth. Heveral other clergymen took seats among the a vorse:—'+And daily im the t and ‘ie Noe ag ceased not to and Jesus io be Bethe mee ee Ta thee Ao ame of their preaching only “Christ and erected” a the Hons of faith bed Besos 40 all of which prcamnotak a tions were then put to the still adhered to En to Oi i Pi City Intelligence. Tue Suon Deatans’ Earty C1osivd = ASS00ATION. =A mosting of thie association was beld on Friday evening lagt, when the committee appointed (o canvass the city reported that they had received oue hundred and five signatures 1B favor of closing at seven o'clock, seventy. four bine a Lonethe? With cerenty-tere , fosolution was adopted that on and after [aaa TI Mage Bape ps stores will close at seven o'clock, with the exception of Saturdays and days preceding bolidays. Tas Atvwm oF Sr. Joux’s Covecs—Bisnor Ros» ChARG,—Bisbop Kosecrans, brother of Major General Rosecrans, bas consented to deliver the annual eddress defore the alumni of Bt. John’s College, at the approseb- ing commencement, which takes place on the 7th of July ‘The Bishop ) first juate of St, Joba's College, and Rs fo alsp 80 beve the of delivering he firet address before Alama}. Barration Dan. ov tam Suvanty-rinet Reoucews.—The mombers of the Seventy-frst regiment, New York State National Guard, are to, pave agrand battalion aril a@ Bhat New York ee a past seven 0" ‘Broome street, Cartam Wun Saeaea.—Information bas been re ceived at the New York State Soldiers’ Depot, Nos. 60 ana 62 Howard strest, of the death of Captain William Now York, at the Sherer, B, eocon » oe we me (nd Panerinteodom. : +