The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1864, Page 4

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ITH SUPPLEMENT. aoe | mferred te above to @ very Kreat extent. ‘The Austrian b ought to Dave turved up tm time to sive hips which wore beaten by the Danes, off Horiglaud, passed outside the Goodwin, Eagland, on the 15th of May, eteoring eastward. The Danish ships which defeated the German squadron arrivol at Copenbagen * jn an undam gedetate."’ They woro visited by King Christian It was ordered that the Emperor Maximilian should bo received by the French army tm Mexico with the honors due to Napoleon, A recruiting office for the entistment of military volunteers for the Mexioan army bad ben opened in Belgium The French army will leave Mextco whea the new government is ‘ constituted,” acourding to Frepoh reports. : Pius the Ninth was agsin seriously ill. A numper of oifici.ls, two of them jn high positions, had been summarily dismissed trom the Koglish War Office, by order of Lord De Gray, for gamoling with dice during office bh wes. Consols closed In London on May 19 at 91% a D1X for money, Cotton was quiet in Liverpool op the 191h of May. Breadstuffs were dull and provisions inactive, CONGRESS. cesses. In another thing he is alsoggntitied to @ special mark of merit. We reier towis duiy bulletins of the progress of the war. We are satisfied from these bulletins that he would make oo excelleat war correspondent of the Hexatv, and so, “when this cruel war is over,” if be is not otherwise engaged, he way expect us to cull upon him vo serve as one of the ectps we shall require to write up for tbe Herarp the campaigns of our armies in Mexico, which will inevitabiy be the next thing in order in tbe settlement of our American affairs. The Campaign—Oar Suecessim Virginia and Georgis. From the two great theatres on wit.cn the attention of the country is now concentrated we have to-duy the news of great successes General Greut announces the safe passage 0 j) the Pamunkey river by his whole army, and In the Senate the bi! to expedite the settlement of tf.ice General Sherman tells us of a victory gained ‘to land claims iu Calttorata was digeussed during the mora- ing bour. The consideration of the Tax ii! was then re Bumed,. The tax on bullion in lump, ingot, bar or other- Avise was reducod from five toe half of one per cent ‘The remainder of the session was occupied tn debate upon'the clauise regarding the tax on bank circulation fn the House of Representatives the select committee on thé subject of admitting members’ of the Cabinet to s@uis on the floor of the House waz continued during the present Congress, The CommAitee on the District of Columbia was directed to Ingalre tuto the affairs of the Washington National Monument Society, ‘The resolutions of Mr. Roliins, of’ sfissouri, being very much in principlo like the Crittenden rekolutions, were brought up, and after gome discussion by General MoPherson in Georgia, with a loss tothe enemy of two thousand five bundred left on the field of battle and ‘three hundred prisoners. General Grant’s march down tne le‘t bank of the North Anns to ‘the Famunkey, with his flank entirely covered. by the former river, though it was doubtless the safest of all the Manceuvring marches that f& has made in this most original campaign, etows, in its effects, referred tothe Committee on the Rebellious States, by a | More briiltantly than any of those that’ preceded ‘yore of sixty-ono to twenty-seven. A bill appropriating $350, Md for the Tepatr and Berrie of pu lig works bn the Takes dnd sen coast was passed. 1 motfen to aus pend the rules, in orderto consider a bill providing for the summary punishment of guorilas, was nogatived A bill extending the time for commanoiog the coustruc- tion of the Marqueté and Gmtonavon Iailroad, in Michigan, was passed, Tho resolution declaring Mr, Yeamonentt tle? to retain bts seat as a representative from Kentucky was adopted. The Military Com mittes wis instracted to inquire concerning the admission to and t.eatment of rebel soldiers in the Ucion hospitals, the wmpioyment of rebels the employment of disicyal persons ag clerks in the de- partments at Washington, with power to send for per- sons and papors, &c, Mr. Lazear, of Pennsylvania, offered aiong preamble concluding with reselution that the President be required to adopt measures for the sus- Pension of hostilities between the North and South, aud an armistice, 1a order that fa the meantime @ convention SALON UIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway,—Rovarr Here IRVING HALL, Irving piace. Ste Rrorticox. NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Ccnostnes axp Lecroams. from 9 A.M. WLIO. M. HOOLET'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.— forgs, Dances, Borumsquas, &c. a enor WITH SUPPLEMENT. s New York, Tue jay, May al, 1664. __ ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the WrakEy Henarp must be band. <i before ton o'clock every Wedueaiay eyening. Ite Circulation arnong the enterprising mechanies, farmers, merchants, mannfacturers and geatiemen throughout the country is iverersing very rapidly. Advertisements in- Serted in the Wankix Henato will thus be scon by a large Portien of the active and energetic peopie of the United Btates, THE SITUATION, Tho entire army of Goneral Grant ts still in motion “© the direction of Richmond. His whole force was across the Pamankey on Sanday, and cccupie! a front three miles Youth of that river. Om Saturday, ‘says General Grant, ‘n his despatch from Hamovertown, “two divisions of our savairy had & sevore engagement with tho enomy ‘outh of Haine’s store, driving him about a mile upon what appears to bo -his now tina Our loss to the cavalry engagement was three hundred and Ofy Killed and wounded, of whom but forty-four are Ucertaiued to bave Boeu killed. We Lave driven the cvemy Most of their killed and many of their wounded to\l into our hands. General Graot has by this time been reinforced by the Eizhtwonth aod a portion of the Tenth corps, under General W, F. Smith, those troojis being 20 ‘ongor required by General Butler to carry on his de en Hivo operations, A regiment of Ohio troops left Washing ton yesterday also to join General Grant. _ Mr Sfanton announces the receipt of a telegram from Seneral Sherman, near Hallas, on Saturday, which reports (hat am engagement took place between the enemy an! U>Pherson’s corps, ia which the rebels were driven back, with a loss to them of twenty-Gve huncred killed and wounded left in our heeds and about tnree bundred pr! ‘overs, General McPherson's less not being over three buudred im all, Desvatches from Cairo bring us news {rom the Miss's Uppi, at Mempht:, to the 27th ing. The ganboat Carew was attacked by arebel battery at Gainer Landing on be 25th; but after peyurping the fire for an hour anda all the Tandoat drove the rebels off. Rebel batteries pp the Re@ river are giving much annoyance to our ste mers It ls reported.thas the rebel Geaoral Forrest bas fifteen bundred men at Tupelo, and is engaged in ioving ‘orage to Corin'h. Scattering bands of rebels are hovering abont the | wlcinity of Union City and Paducah, Kentucky, creating much alarm, Goneral Byford was expected to make his Appearance at the latter place oo Sunday, and tho m{il- tary guthorities were prepared to receive bin. ‘Phe extracts from the rebel journals which we glvo to day represent the condition of affairs in Richmond as most dismal. the wrongs inflicted upon them for thé past few weeks, and are treasuring them up for future vengernce. Vicks burg, ia its worst trials, presented no euch sopuichral pictdre as Richmond, ways the Bramincr, A fight be- tween Fitz Lee's cavalry troops and our infantey, near Taytornville, is reported to bave takem place on the 24th; ‘butthe result does not appear to be of much importance. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamships City of Baltimore aud Keder reached this port yesterday from Queenstown, with European nows to the 10th of ay, four days later. Advices from Paris etstethet it has been made appa- ont from the tne 0: the Imperial officials in the French Legisiatore thas adaire of the Unlte’ states unless Kogland should take the initiative by cogntzing the rebels, The people are said to have grown sick of A echouver laden with cotton Bad arrived in the Mer- | wheat were bigher—the former eey direct from Charleston, ©. C, The Liverpoo! shipowners wore beginning to exhibit may be called of ali the States, with a view to the resto- Tation of the Unioa with their constitutional rights. Ob- jection was made to the regointion, when Mr. Lazear moved a suspension of the rules, pending which the House adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS Ry tho arrival of the Havawa at this port yesterday, we have news from Havana and St. Domingo. The ‘Spanish aggressions tn Peru excited considersble com- Teent, and the official documents are printed in full They contain, however, vo later news than has been already received bere on the subject. The subscriptions to Cubs for the reliet of the sufferers by the great carth quake sf Maufia Lave aniouited to gs3,712. Inteltigence from St. Domingo announces further Spank shE8, Tao city of San Cristdbal has been taken from (be reveis, aud two birks, laden with materia!s of war {for the insurrectionists, have veen captured by ‘Spani-b veseels. The rebel privateer Florida was at St. Plarre, Mar- tnique, on the dith ult, She was under the command of Captain Morris, and wontd romain in port severn! days. The Florida landed at Martiniquo, May 4, the crew oi a Vark from Sombrero, guano laden, which she had cap." tured and burned. The bark is supposed to have been. tho David Lapa’ey, Brown, of and for Philadelpuis. ‘The Cleveland Gonyention for the nomination of candi. dates for President and Vice President of the United States meets today. The leaders of the Fremout section had @ preliminary canezs yesterday, and nominated General Fremont for Provident and Geueral Johu Coch. rave, of New York, for Vico President. The Roard of Alderman met yesterday afternoon, President Henry In the ehalr. A cerics of resottitions were passed in relation to the doath of Geueral Wads- worth, Ismenting the lors of deceared aud cord ding with Diz relative’. hs Committos on Public Health reported thit there was no law by which the Common Co: it conid abolish the fas boiling ouisances, but suggested the propriety of the Board of Heaith taking the matter imto jommetiate consiferation. A communication from the Police Commissioners asking for an ordinance for the erection of station bousss iu the Eighteenth, Twenty third and Twenty-seventh precincts, was Teferred to the Committes os Repairs and Sapplics, Tho Board adjourned uot! Wednesday at two o’ciock. Tho Board of Counci!men held @ short session yester- day afternoon, and, after adopting @ few rontiae papers, adjourned til! Thureday. In the United States Oirouit Court yosterdoy, Judges Nelson avd Gipman presiding, Sotomon Kobnstanmm, convicted ef defrauding the government by means of forged and fabricated bills for rations for the subsistence ©” troops, was sentence: te ten years’ imprisonment with hard labor in the State Prison at Sing’Sing. ‘The triat of Liaward Hunter, chargei with the murder of bis wife, was continned yesterday in the General Ses- sions, before Recorder Hoffman. One of the witnesses examined by the proseentiog’ officer was George Hunter, the youngest son of the prisoner, who was present wien | bis fathor struck his mother with something which he did not sea, The case for the prosecution was clozed in the aflernoon, efter which the janiorcounse! for the defence made an opouing address to the jury, in which be jati-, mated that their theory would bee species of tusanit \ The Schutven Corps, & well heowa German mi organization, celeNtated for eoclal rewmlone, a bled yesterday afternoon at Jones’ Wond, to reesive from their female friends a bonutifal fag, bearing the em- Diems of their native and adopted countries, The oarly part of the dey ed serored to Lyte of marksmanch ip Dy the members of Lue corps, anda nymber of valaable prizes. were distributed among tho lucky competitors. At half-past three o'clock Miss Ada Kirssiegar, 00 behalf of the committee, presented the jing to Capt. Busch in a very neat and appropriate speech, which was responded to by the gallant eaptata in a most e!ojueat manner. ‘The presentatton over, the party proceeded to Mr. So- mers’ hotel and partonk of a most sumptuous dinner, provided for them by the members of the corps. Several prominent German citizens delivered rddresres, which were (ull of p: : sentiment and the joviality due fo the eecasion ‘The gold market was ip a bigh siate of excitement agaip yesterday, and the price was run up from 189 to 19424, but It afterwards declined and closed at W134. The stock market was dull and the quotations, especially for railroad shares, tanged lower than on Saturday, Cov- ‘ernment securities not as atropg as usual, and fell off @ fraction, Money continucd easy, and borrowers wore necommodated ka most tostances at five per cent. ‘The rise 10 gold yeeterday unsettied the market for nearly af! kinds of merchandise, and, (hough some kinds were io good demand, transactions were rostricted by the difference between the views of buyers aud gollera, ‘Tot was particularly (he case with imported merchan poten will wot penly interfere im the | dize. Petrolonm was in good demand, but the prices | columna, Its only use is that of a warning ex: agked wore too bigh to admit of a very large business. Cotton was excited and higher. On 'Change flour and Sc. @ 10c., and the latter 20. Corn was aleo 2c. # 8c. dearer. Rye and cate weroe shade firmer. Beef steady, Lard decidedly higher. goat alarm at the prospect of reveliation for the rebel | Whiskey 20. dearer. Frotghte dull, feet by means 'f American privateers preying on Faglish commerce ebould Grpat Britain be engaged ia s war with any coustderable Power. A number of sbippiag Girma (n (hat town united (9. @ memorial to the House of | campaign of General Grant Secrotary cone netting footh the danger to which British ship: | bas risen very rapidly in the public estimation porter paper—all of whose editors were straw “ping may be exposed onder estate of attire which per: | aa 9 faithful and fivaluable assistant of our | bate and linea pantalooss—and then into & m ite belligerent to constrict and send to rea vessels.of. war from neutral ports, as the Alabama and Georgia, and praying tha! measares be adopted by the gov ernmeot, {0 conjunction with that @f the Uniiga ‘and other Powers, wo prevout such a state of ‘The Pano-German Conference had anol ta Lotdon, but there is no report of progress toward ® posce sottionent, On the contrary, it seemed as if the Srhice wig-Holatoin affair was becoming more eomplicated, owing to the wily diplomacy of Russia, the peculiar policy Of Napoleon, tbe obstinacy of Prussia, and the sory feeble povition aasumed and maintained by Rugiand 1. was prot fngiand would oo this very subject be irreged navat wir, and this convict it was @eid indvenced the action of the Livernn! eh A Goop Worp ven Tus Sroretany or War.— Since the beginning of the splendid Virginia Btanton invinctble leader in the field. Three years of rough experionee as a momber of the ‘under- ‘ing Washington Military Directory have taught some valuable leseons of wisdom to the Secre- tary of War. He has Jearaed that the Com- manding General in the fleld is the right man to direct the movements of the army or armigr entrusted to his care, and that it is the daty of the War Office to-assist him with alacrity and perfect confidence. In pursuing this course, as an ass#lant of Genoral Grant, Seoretary ! Stanton sbarog jn the glory of our areat suc) breeches \| back in the times of poor Pierce, when Jeff. it He has forced his Opponent, step by step, to the very gates of that city from which the rebel leaders wore so desirous to keep the war away, and he has suddenly placed our ‘military ‘prospects in the same bright light that they wére in when, in 1862, the Army of the Potomac first established a base on’ the waters: of) the Pamunkey. And this in pinces of trust and profit at Giesboro Point, Md.,and | comparison is a perfectly safe one, since many disasters have taught the government how dangerous it is to withhold co-operation and assistance from @ general in Spob a position. Grant will get all that he needs in stores or men, and so supplies cannot fail. McPherson’s victory was evidently won by a bard and decisive fight, for the enemy’s.com- plete abandonment of his killed and. wounded indicates a very great hurry to get out of the way. Sherman is determined to go on fighting as he began, and to keep up the morale of his army at all risks. He is very brusque to the enemy, and he does not even hesitate to Jet out 9 little brusquerie against the Ste ee - Christian Commission: He Won't have those philanthropic clvilians in bis army. He says that he has chsplains to take care of the spiritual. welfare of his men, and that if the people want to do his army any good they must “send oats and guupowder.” If he wants those articles they certainly ought to be sent. For more than twenty days we have now been in abmost constant receipt of news from the two theatres of active operations undor Grant and Sherman, and in that time we have had to chronicle no defeat or failure. In other departments, during this time, we have had disasters; but in the departments under these chosen leaders we have had only an almost un: puralleled series of successes The World and the Nows Twenty Years Fm: age. The majarity of the people are continually pushing shead ‘The minority ate always lagging behind. The majority trave? in rail- road cars. The minority travel in slow eonches. As itis of the people so it is of the papers. The independent press keeps up with the spirit of the sge, and» constantly endeavors te get abead of it, in order to lead it in the right di- rection. The partisan press. drags behind the age, like a stubborn mule bitched fast to = loco- motive, and only moves onward when it is im-/ pessible to stand still any Jonger without being choked. Weare sorryto say that atleast a’ couple of thése mulish papers are permitted to linger out their miserable existence in this busy, bustling, enterprising metropolis of New York. ‘There is the Daily Neves, which is published under the infinence of a wild: ballucination. Its editors evidently imagine that we are away Davis ruled the roast, wound the flexible Presi- dent around his fingers and opened the source of all our woes by the repeal of the Mistourt compromise. Laboring under this dreadful delusion, they puff Jeff. Davis with unremitting energy but slight skill, and: still prate about Southern chivalry, and still deliver tearful | tirades: upon the blpssings of peace, They seem to know nothing of the im- passable gulf which history las fixed betweehy that time and this. They forget that Southern chivalry has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. They are ignorant of the fact that Jeff. Davis is now a rebel chief, cooped up in his oapital by our victorious armies, and al- ready rehearsing his last dying speech and con- feseton, In view of a certain alerming con? tingency not altogether unconnected with the gallows, Their eyes are shut so tightly as they sing songs of peace through thoir moses that they can see none of the blessings of war and leas of the inevitable glories of the future, The News is twenty years behind the age. Its effice of publication should be transferred from New York to Richmond. Its name is a great mis- take, since no news {s to be found in its ample to show us what an American news- paper should not be and should not say, a6 she Spartans hired intoxicated Helots to teaeh children not to get drank. if Tho World ie another tardy and tambledown concern. Started as a Christian paper, it gradu ally degenerated into « shoddy paper, (hem ia- to an india rubber paper, then into an ale-and- ttock-jobbing paper, until now it has advanced s0'fer backwards, like the rebel gonorale, that we have no single adjective which Will adequately capreas its strange end auf quated characteristics. In sentiment it is| almost as devoted an admirer of Joff. Davis as the News. Ass nowapaper the News ls rather its superior, if one kind of nothingness can be called superior to anothot kind of opment It is the organ of olf, foole, old fogles, old women in breechar and ald women without Grant has left the country between him and seizing the opportunity for his threatened Northern invasion, has hurried himeelf to save his communications with Richmond. And why? For the simple reason that a Northern diver- sion on bis part would not only involve the abandonment of Richmond to its fate, but tlie destruction or @issolution of his army from sheer starvation. The country between Rich- mond and ihe Potomac river, includiag the Shenandoa’ valleyyis.caten out. Three years of wasting war have reduced its inhabitants to the verge of famine. Lee’s stores of supplies at Richmond and his lines of communication with Georgia save thus become Indispensable to the subsistence of his troops; and all this was well understood by General Grant before he put bts army in motion. lodgment of Lee from Richmond. Are the forces immediately under General Grant equal ' to this undertaking?’ We have no doubt they are; but we dave say tbat, to provide against ; all the possible contingencies of a siege, be will pause until his outlying detachments are gathered in, till his siege gains are brought for- ward, and overything is in readigeas for a regular Vicksburg investment, orto storm the enemy's works, as at I’ort Donelson or Chatta noogs: Meantime the-conotry will rely upon the Secretary of War, aud every department of the administration, to push forward reinforce-, ments and snpplies, dnd facitities of all kinds; to enable General Grant, in moving upon Rich- mond, not only to capture the city, but to de- molish or disperse the army of Lee, and thus, ‘liberations of simflar bodies have scarcely ever lis (dam ava owed withont being, goaed to Ldnooln, and i substantial, like a worm-eaten copy of a silly book, a ricketty shanty in MackereWile, or some of the city nuisances which Inspector Boole has reso!utely determined to abate. Its favorite topio is the administration's tyrannigal interference with the freedom of the press, and it confutes its own arguments by continuing te be published daily. It tries to make political and pecuniary cazital out of its recent suspen- sion for a day or two, when the record proves that both it and the News might have been sup- preased long ago, under existing regulations, on the charge of giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and their editors sent to Fort Warren, to , keep company with Pollard, of the Richmond Tvaminer, whose rebel’ utterances they have always eagerly emulated, and often surpassed. Its st ale opinions are rehashed in a sort of Bo- bemfan style, not very different from that of the author of the forged proclamation, who was at ona time a contributor to itscolumns,. Al- though ube latest and the most graceless pro- fossed convert to domocrati¢ principles, it aspires to instruct the democratic masses, and talks loudly about the democratic party and the bearings of this party upon the coming Presidential contest... The democratic party died some. time since, and ia buried beneath the heaps of rubbish thrown out by such jour- nals as the World and the News. Allof the old parties are dénd; and ‘those who argue about thom are moribund. As for the Presidential election; thatis to be determined “by the ques- tion whether or not the American people are blind to thelr own interests, careless of their own rights, and bettor fieased with amutty jokes than with sotiad statesmanship. If they are, then Lincoln will be re-elected: If they are not, then Grant; MeOlellan, or ‘Fremont— men with brains, sagneity, oultare: and enter. prise—will go the: White House in 1865, Upon this question, of which they know absolutely nothing, such. old fogy papera ag the World) and News should ‘not venture’ to intrude their opinions. . ‘ General Grant Before mOnd—Ths Game tn His Fi \. The magaificent generalship which, has car- ried the Army of, the Potomac from the Rapi- dan river to the suburbs of Richmond shows conclusively that Gen. Grant is eqaal to’ all emergencies, and that the game is in bis hands. In the fighting qualities of his-splendid army, in the capabilities of his subordinate generals. and officers of every grade, in his tactics on the field, and {1 his masterly strategical movements, hé has completely eclipsed the boasted chawpton of the rebellion, and thrown all his achievements into the sbade. The Army of the Potomac, uader Gen. Grant, is now in a position in which it may defy all the rebel forces that can possibly be brought Sonoge ae nig MU be isn upon fhe enemy's works,” and, when rent to miove;'all ‘the forces that Jeff. Davis Gu muster. for the maintenance of his capital will be scattered to the winds. = We bave heard much for months past from the organs of Davis, in the South and in the North, of a deep design on the part of Lee to lure General Grant beyond the Rapidan, and / even beyond’ the Pamunkey. in order to whip around behind him, and, pushing again down the Shenandoah valley, to try once more the enterprise of a bold dash upon Washington through the,back door of Maryland. We see,’ however, that in every instance, from “the Wil- derneas” to the Pamunkey river, in which Washington open to Lee, the Intter, insted of ‘What now remaing to be done? The dis in a single biow, to bring the reign of Joff. Davin and his Southern confederacy to an end. Tae Prestoritar, Questios—Tur OnkvetaNy Coxvestion.~—The Cleveland Convention meets to-day, and will exercise an influence on the ensuing Presidential election which the de- before. exercised jn a national canvass. The war has broken up all the old parties, and: the people are drifting about to catch some great man or some great movement to lead them in this crisis, The candidates are fow in number, and consist of Lincoln, Grant, McClellan and Fremont. The othere—including Butler and Banks—have disposed of themselves by their fallurea ia the field. As for Lincoln, we do not concelve it possible that he can be re- elected aftor his remarkable blunders the past three or more years, All this is proven b Chevalier Raymond’s book giving history of Lincoln’s administration—a work which fir- nishes the history of a most wonderful tisane af executive inconsistencies and ebsurditics from beginaing to end, and is in itself morea litical nevel than a plain and unvarnished Sethty of the times of the gravest consequence to the republic and to the whole world. The Cleveland Convention will be composed of various interests. It started as a Fre mont movement; bul, the shoddy Lin- colnites, by the ald of their groat piles of wealth, accuinulated through the agency of public plunder, have so interwoven thelr infti- once with the original movement as to deprive it of some hf ite Grat features, and have suc- ceeded ‘a imparting to it a tinge of thelr own selicaness, eham patriotism, wnd corruption. Tao war democrats in the Gonvention are op- the rebellion, The peace faction ts only « @mall potato concern, kept in a state of doubt- fal vitality by euch papers as the News, the World aod other jourouls of small circulation and iess influence. What may be the result of the deliberations of the Convention cannot at this moment be foretold. It may nominate Linoolo, or Grant, or Fremont, or some one not yet om the carpet, or it may break up in a THE PRESIDENCY. Convention To-day. General Frement and General Joha Moeoting of the Cleveland Kass. viz to “movg ‘ | { ples of art, admirabis, We find ‘te outline, no biaering or indistinetness on the wors.telsute general rew or a grand split, rendering the prevailing confusion in ‘political parties more confounded. At all events, its influence will be fets; and if it shall appear that Grant bas so far compromised himeelf with Linceln as to ren- der his own nomination impracticable, then the decided opponents of Lincoln in the body may, by a sudden and sharp flank movement, throw the weight.of their, forces into, the support of General McCloltan, and thus contribute to the success of “Little Mac” in the grand Presiden- tink contest in November: A’ tew days, how- ‘ever, will .settle the question so far as the Cleveland Coaventien is ogncerned; and in the meantime’ we advise’ the fragnients of, all the old parties to keep as ‘cool and as patient as possible, Brivis Viorations or Irernarionay. Law— )Tus Evu-Doxrs Aranmap.-The shipowners ‘of Liverpool lave presented. a potition to the House of Commons calling upon it’ to make such amendmonts in the Foreign Enlistment actias will etable the government to prevent ‘/the‘construction in British ports of ships des- tined for the use of belligerents, and urging, in Addition, the «importance: of: endeavoring to, sectire thé assent of the’ goverauients, of the. United States and of other foreign couatries’ to, the adoption” of ‘Similar’ regutations, ‘These recomniendations come” too late. Parliament cardo: but little good by acting upon them. Now that the memorialists have grown rich on privateering aid biockadé running, now that, our commerclal: marine has been driven from the ocean and its freights transferred to British bottoms, the ‘time bas pussed for preventive! measures. We owe the Liverpool shipowners no thanks for their tardy sympathy. It is in- spired less by their sense of justice than by their fears. As long as the result of the con: test in which we are engaged was doubtful weheard but little remonstrance from them against the violation of the provistons-of the Foroign Enlistment act—for violated shamefflly they were, whatever partisan judges may:have ruled to the contrary. Since, however, it has become apparent to them that the rebellion is writhing in its death agony they are getting scared at the prospective bearing upon their interests of the new principles of interna- tional law which they have set up. They see and admit that if the American covernment an pddple choose tg retaliate fipon them the piratical acts of the present war it will be in their power to inflict upor English ggmmerge infinitely greater damage than they have wrought upon ours, Of this we warned them long since, but they would not heed us, Do they suppose that now, when the time is close at hand when we shall be in a po- sition to. vindicate our injuries, their tardy Tegreia and ex post fucto legislation can have any influence with us? Stil! less must they expect that our government wih commit. itself to any declaration or pledge by which we shall be debarred from carrying out to their rigorous’ extent the innovations in maritiae law of which they have get the example. If the persons whose names are signed to this memorial—and they are very inflaential— | would avert the conseq of the acts which inspire them with such well founded apprehen- sie, they should call.wpon Parliament to-vote compousatien te our shipowners fer the losses inflicted upon them, amounting now to upwards. of $30,000,000... It will bave to do it sooner or later, and it may'as well do it spontaneonsty and at once. That ig the only way im which the memories of past injuries can be blotted ont and immunity from ‘retaltation be secured; Of its effect upon British interests, should we: be forced to resort to it, we will say nothing at” present. The Liverpeol shipowners have so lively an appreciation of {t that it is unneces-' | sary for us to intensify their feare. Wine Arte. BRADY'S KAW PHOTOGRAPHS. It ie worth whtie for those wie are intevesi.a méhe 9; Procese of photography ve step ince Brady’e gallery. 2a the pictures now om exhibition there they-will fad the: evitences of an-extraordimary advancement in the aft. ‘Thore is just ag mach di At present executed in thin estatlishment as there is be- tween the chefed'euvres of the modern and pre-Raphaelite Bchools of painting, The frequent biurs,tRe feeble or exaggerated torge, thé stiff positions, and the imperfect knowledge of effects: generally, which marked the earlier productions of the camera, have all giveo Place to (he conditions demanded: bythe bigher princi-! wre Untibthe photograph coaid be readerodin | comporirion, disiectmess aud evenness of tone equal to the worke «f tho--postrait and lindseape painter, it must Always have failed to-satiefy persons of cultivated tente, | We own that we-had' despaired of seeing thie point, of excellence reached ty a process on witieh so mucte de- pends on mechanical results, lt seemed¢o, 9 impoani.bio for the photographer: to. infyre into his preductions the qualities that impart value toevery other class ef pict ure. ‘That Mr. Brady bavsuoceéded fn conquering the diffe ulty. is dne entirely, we believe, to the fact that he isa man of» artistic aspirati jos, who lvoks upon the mechanical fea tnres of his art as subsidiary to the bigher sims ‘whiek, should guide those professing to strive for exeellena a in it. erence between the photographs ‘The most extraordinary picture-that hae as ye. been produced by photography {8 that Ortho Exécatiny Com! mites of (he Sanitary Fair, gow tobe seen et Uyis gal: lory. Bach figure—and there are upwarts of fifty, of thom —(s a study in itself. In groups.oftihia kind? he great diMcuity in photography has hitherto been to ay old stiff. nees and tho repetition of Hoes Tm the compecition of An off painting’ of this charncter (herd are ee tensial re. quirements, aud. where so many figures ace introduced there are but few avtists whd can srolgeirorply with them, Jo photographic plotures, where thé, position of the sitter requires to be @xedifor the camerate do ite work, ft would seem next to imposelbleyt attain thom. And yet io this picture Mr, Brady has bt oplp.euaceeted In divesting his geouping of all photogra ple etfoess, but of throwieg-his figures {oto the most varied and natore) altitudes possidia, There Is.not ome of themrthat itself. And ia its other deta th® plotare ie % no “1 « features, Rverything (6 clear, well @vfinem.amd. sattefac- tory to.the oye, Rapeerrs sf agri dl ee | Gnother of ite great merit, ‘it teen exsowted bandit would have been, impessitiie to produce & solver effect, There y of wo have just bottied, wy, juterest, arising fom | omineace of the persone intro duced io it, Anetheg carlousand Gifheult. serieg of photographa’ fepresemtations Of the works in the Art Gallery Fair, The details of cachare a cloar an they erqin +a roault wut seldom ob. tained ta plovaree of Mowat, To the ‘visitor, Who may nok be vorsed inart mottors, the greatest attraction of thadgaliery will be the them were taken by Mr. Brady just previews to tuoir do parture for.Wee, Bold. Grant, Aanoock, Warren, Thomas, fooker, JAF HEAIEM, and thd Jamontod Sergwiok, Walle worth od, Hayos, aro all to U4 found ‘there, Waewould advise those who have ao hour or bwo to apare to vigil Brady's galtery, Wo know no otnos plage whore @ favor of putting down $4 thin teivuee gan bo oa qPTi nant ” portredga of the heroes of the presoms Gampatgn, Moss of |. Cochrane Nominated in Caucus fer Président and Vice President. THE FREMONT-COCHRANE. PLATFORM, &o., &., &e Our Special Report ym Cleveland. ‘CemveLanp, Obio, May 3), 1864. Kyery train today bas brought to tho ciiy an addi tional mumber of delegates, and tt 19 siid that more are coroing from every. direction. The main idoa that goveras thom all 1s the defeat of Lincoln, which they consider the ‘oply way 0 gave the nation. ‘The feeling ugainst the Lincoln would-clear-out his prosent Cabinet ho might ave piore btrength With tit party; but! ail deplore four ars. more ef such wiipshod, avd drifting policy ag we have had during the last three year, ‘Vhe warldemocracy are bat elimly represotited as BuCh, MoStof this cta'¥’ are In {ho Fremont movement. The obly exceptions to thia rule are tho delegation trom New. York anda partof the Pennsylvania delegation. Delega tlons fron’ thé war democracy are expected in the mors {0g fvom ophes Statos, who. will:insist upon Grant's nomt- nation, 5 . 7 . Cochrang “and ex-Senator Colvin, of Now York; General, Mckinstry ond Colonel Moss, of Mis-oori; ¢.-Governor Johnsen, of Pennsylvania, end a large numbor of the most n-ted Germans of the Wost. Ki Tie Gormatis roally ‘ropreseat’ the most positive strength, beyond all contingoney, of any party here. ‘They. a sideration. . ‘The loaders of the Fromont patty held a preliminary cauots Ubis afternoon ,/and’ marked out tholr course ef action, including, candidates and regolutions, They de- cided to present to the Convention cnoral Fromont for Presidest, and Genera! John Cochrane fer Vico President. Governor Jobngon urges George W. Cass, 0° Pittabnrg, for Vice Prosident. Gen. McKinstry urges Genoral Rosecrans for the game position, General Loan, Governor Andrew and B, Gratz. Brown are also po on f. ‘The resolutions dectare thotr disapprobation of the de- mestic policy of the a‘ministration of President Lincoln; favor a vigorous, consiatont, concentrated pro.ccotion the war; the right of suffrage to be regulated by legista~ tive bodies, and-not by the Executive; a rigid main- tenance of the Monroe doctrine and the vindication of fepublican. integrity on this continen:: a reformed and thorough American policy, and for the one term priu- ciple, They ere, im fact,in tho main points simliac te to the resointions of the Germans. They will ve sully mitted to the Convention by the Fremont side for that body to act upan, Tt looks now very much as though Fremout would Be nominated without any vory strong opposition, 4, Another Report from Clevetana, Er Chaverayy, Ohio, May 80—11 P, 25 Sudgifig from thé prander of delegates already in and. those reported on the way, (he Convention to-morrom! will becomposed of severai bundred.dolegates, Thore are many Missourians in attendance, bus the delegations from, Titiots, lowe, Arkansas, Obio and Popnsylvanta are alsd large. Michigan, Wisconsja, Minnesota, Kansas, New York, New Jorsey and Mnseachuseite are also represent~ ol, but not largoly. The Germans have delegations from twolve: Stateby some of whom held an informal meeting oa Sunday, whea, aftorae interchange of views, resolitious were adv-pted’ againat Lincoln, and in tavor of Bremont; against» seppretaicn of the progs, and in favor of the right of rod by jury, and protesting against avy (afringemont weom this right ax destructive of American Tdorty; also {aver of amending the constitution to prcaibit slavery, and for the Musroe doctrine and the one tern’ Principle a absolutely to check corruption. y Apparent t the delegation of war democrate from New York favor the norsivation of Grant, with ea th went a mar wi dsined and kno (the aunty, ted waa ns ace ates Le clal lor ir C8 5 {eae t delievo he vas likety to be endorsed at Citcage as is General Gravt, The tions arc that General Grant's name wit} be withdrawn, and that Fremont wh! bo nominated withows oot are named for VicePresident, Genera! Jewh Cochrane, Gt Can rate Bows General I OGorerei"Abdraw ted ‘Genera!’ oa versity of leat inson, of New Fee erie. a let ‘Comptrolinc Rob’ * gly (avoring the nomination Gevera! Grant. Parker i ‘him a'letter from Wenderk Satay serot as, a iaauitcy to atteod tor that the administration is @ Pniliips, Conventi He would sweep the one hondred thousand soidter vote from Peaneylyenia clean.” placid aaa CELL Neila Con Noncit Osea, it oF fast wrneg tom Pike county, Iilimein, saye:— Bet let te you that our first choice io the nobbe statesman and patriot, Hon. Daniel Wy Voorhees, of In- Of linois would be invincible,” Missourt Democratic State vriegh i tne 9 ‘The Democratic State Central Committes for Rave recommende:! that the democrats of bagel ip convention, mt the city of St. Louis, on W: > the 15th day of Jame next, for the purpaee of organising the democratic party of the State forthe appronebing vational and State elections, a old in Ly oF From ti ton Traveller (repu! nduwhtbtending thé great Pixie stasm. icoln in the ibiican State 1 Biondin. patie 'The arcana ro * desert jAnoola’n pelivical as - fon romans ; I can bave moar Pree ‘ne Draft in Poughkeepsie. " Pocomaiaesn, Hay 8, 186d ‘any on. atten A.M, The dofioleney in thisctty Sova ta Dutohess county 260. ‘The quote of Volum. iy ts full, “ . Christy Minstrels. A Nw cHRIUTY, Son and heir of Rdwin P Guriatz, dacenne Naw Yong May 9, 1404. Seward antt Mair’ potiticturig: 19. 6xcoedingly bitter. If . Among tthise presedty, ave Parker Pilebury, Genorat thoroughly united from she Atlafiic to the” ’ Rooky Mouotains, and will not.go (or Linoola,...any oom~ 5 i & # :