The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETER SDITOR AND PROPRIKTOR OFFICE N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. Velume XXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Bet Dawonto. WALLACK’S TREATRE, Broadway.Americans 1x Pants—Ronat. Peucitr. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Faa Dravolo—Tanice Maxam. Lua OLYMPIC THBATR! roadway. ALADDIN. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Poucs Srr— Kine and Ruxnnooren—Youna Ammutca, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Camery axp Fam Stan—GoLo Fisao—Sent to Fort Laravurta—Beavants Leoacr. BROADWAY THEATRE, 485 Broadway.—Ovr Ament- can Cousix at Home. BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadway.—Two Giaxrs, Two Dwaxrs, Asinos, Waat Is lt, &.. at all hours, Max mats av ANY PRICE\SECRETS OF BTaTR—At 5 and 74 ERYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad » Krmiorian Songs, Dances, Busiesques, 40.— Tokse StRiRERS. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ermiortas Fores, Dances, &¢.—UTHLLLO. AMERICAN THBATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batusts, Tantonines, BURLESQUES, £0.—Suitas & BROWNS. SALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Rosgrt Herter CLINTON HALL.—Mystzgious Parxomena. HOLMAN'S ACADEMY OF MUSIC, away. 1 SOMNANBULAT MEA EAmvencroe * Dreedway. NSW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Cuniosimes axp Lycronys, from 9 a. M, inl 10 P.M. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brook)yn.—Eraioriax foxes, Dances, BuRLmSQUES, £0, 10, 1864. THE SITUATION. No active operations in the Army of the Potomac are officially announced since the affairs of Sunday. Our cor- rospondents in the Geld, however, furnish our readers by bolegraph—with their accustomed vigilance—with all the ilotails transpiring in the different army corps. Although ho general «ction has taken place, heavy skirmishing is going on all the time, and earthworks are being thrown up on both sides on the line of the Chickahominy. The two lines of the armies, near White House, are within cpe bundrod yards of each other, carefuliy shel- tered by their respective breastworks. On Tuesday twd ivisions of the Firth corps attempted to get possession of a bridge on the Chickahominy, but found the enemy posted thore in great strength, They succeeded in driv ing them across the bridge, but were not able to hold Posseesion of it. Genera? Grant is putting heavy guns and mortars into position to commence siege operations upon the enemy’s works, ‘There is no news from General Butler's army indicating any hostile movement for a week or more. The de. fe: erected by our engineers on the James river are ‘bed as finished specimens of impregnable earth- works, rendering Botler’s position perfectly safe from Attacks either by Lee or Beauregard. The rebel guerillas, uuder John Morgan, appear to be running riot in Kentucky. They now hold undisputed possession of Paris, Georgetown, Cynthiana (where they bufned a warehouse) aod Willianetown—the latter place ou (be Lexington pike, within thirty miles of Cincinnati A force of cavalry, seven hundred strong, entered Paris on Wednesday without resistance, The rebels oceupy the railroad near Lexington. They are also reported to be between Crab Orchard and Stamfora. desc: The gunboat Water Witch was captured by a fleet of four rebe! gunboats from Fort McAllister, on the Ossibaw Sound, Ga., on the 3 inst, The officers aud crew made a bold resigtance, but in vai, They were overpowered by pumbers, CONGRESS. nate yesterday a bill was'reported from the nmerce granting the right of way across quarter section of land to every d, to aid Mr. P. McD. Collins hing telegraphic communication ring Straits and Siberia. The certain military and post roads irope via to establich a Michigan was passed. Mr. Davis made an effort to introduce some peace ri jons, objections to which being made, the Chair decided they were not in c cision, bu not entert fo! The former gentleman appealed from the de it was sustained, and the revolutions were A meesd@e was received from the House ence on the Diplo- which was acceded x Appropriation to, and the committee was, cppointed, The bill to reguiate commercial iutercourse belween be loyal ates aod the States in rebellion was con- kivered for some time; but no vote on it was reached. Ii fe intended to to regulate mentary to acts already parsed ad provides for the collection abandoved property, and the prevention im connection therewith, in States deciared in iogurreetion, The Dill amendatory of the Enrolment act war then taken up, acd its consideration occupied the remainder of the session. Amendments were adopted wwe (ho drafting ef men for one year’s service, and carrying over to subsequent drafts credits for any excess of men furnished by a district; but'a vote ou the sudmoent repealing the three hundred dollars commu {attem clause was not rexched, and the Senate adjourned witheat completing ection on tho bill. In tho House of Representatives a bill providing for tho construction of @ railroad between New York aud ‘Washington, and to constitute the same a military and postal road, was reportea by the select committee to whom the subject hed been referro¢. The Bankrupt bill was taken up, and upon coming to a yote it was re. ected—sixty-four against sixty-ive. A motion was to reconsider the vote, and the subject may, nerefore, be called up at any time, and pos the bill may yet pass The Senate Dill pg tho foreign and costing trade on the D, wortheastern and portnwestern frontier, find the bill to tusure the more certain enforcement of the jaw regulating the carrying of passengers by the Califor nia Gleamships, were passed; also the bill providing that Goode, trunks, carpetuags, baggage, &o., intended for transportation beyond the limits of the country, be sealed, &c., the same ns in Eorope, and for the in- crease of revenue Inspectors to sixty in number, tobe Stationed maioly on the Canada frontier. The House, after some debate, adopted the Senate joint resolution cliof of E. F, amd Samuel A. Wood, for damage by them in the loss of Oregon war debt bouds to nowat Of some seven thousand by the de- struct ion of the steamship Golden The resolution authorires the Secretary of the Treasury to iseue dupli- cate boods, The House then adjourned MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. her torrible steamboat disaster occured on Wed ton the Hudsoa river. The new steamboat : ws burned to the water's edge, and it is seared that thirty or iorty lives wore lost by drowning or burn: ing ars will be found in another part of the paper The committee appo vootion to inform Pr Full partie ed by the National Union Con- dent |. jo of his revomination waited upon him at the White House yesterday. Ex Governor Lennison, of Obio, President of the Convention and chairman of the committee, announced the object of their visit fa @ brief speech, to Which Mr, Lincoln replied, ying, “1 kKoow BO reason to doubt that 1 ehail accept the nor n tendered, and yet perhops 1 should not declare definitely before reading and cons.dering what is Galiod the rm.’ Tbe Bon Education held @ special meeting yester ay of iaverest aod importance, ‘The committee appointed to jnvestigate the ebarges of corruption against the board of the Fourth ward reported the result of Jabors. From this it appeared that there was a Ring ward which taxed ali tea ars for their appointments among the officers of t from fifty to six bund ore | snd, Rewddor, kept | congiantly tu terror of losing telr witvalions. The report iso showed a g sys tome of eorruption tp ai! cduostions| matters of the baecet | Kind The report recommended the removal from ofice of Commiesioner Felix Murphy, revorn! of the local @floor: of the ward and others. After sume opposition fem Me. Murphy, the report @as uuanimously adopted Tee Berd of Counciimen beid no meeting yesterday fa consequence of a quorum not beteg present. President Hayes adjourned the Board till Menday. ‘The Central Union Ciub of Brooklya held « pubilo meeting last evening, at their headquarters, to rasity the nominations of Lincoln and Jobneon. Spesches were made by Mr. 8 M. Griswold, Judge Vettis, of Pennay!- vania, and General Caray, of Obto, A meoting was held outside, which was addressed by W. H. Burleigh and General Cole The great billiard match for the obampionship and $1,000, Detwoen Dudley Kavanagh and William Gold- thwait, came off last evening at the Hippotbeatron, and resulted in favor of Kavanagh. The gamo was an oxcel- lent one throughout, and afforded the spectators the greatest treat in the way of billiards that was ever wit- nessed perhaps, The score at the close stood—Kavauagh, 1,600; Goldthwatt, 1,425. A meeting ia aid of the Union refagees and white people of the South within the Union lines was held yesterday evening at the Cooper Institute—Mr. Wm. A, Boothe presiding. Eloquent addresses were delivered to & pretty numerous audience by the Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, and Mr. Wm. W. Buddingtom. The proceed- ing were opened and closed with prayer. In the case of ex-Governor Price, of New Jersey, against 8. P. Dewey, Erasmus D. Keyes aod Edward Scott, which has been on trial in the Supreme Cour t, be- fore Judge Foster, for the laat sixteen days, the jury yes. terday brought in a verdict of $129,000 damages against Messrs. Keyes and Scott, anda verdict for tho defead- ant in the case of Mr. Dewey. William H. Plummer received a verdict yesterday in the Superior Court against Emanuel Engle, of 116 Chambers street, in consequence of injuries received on the 31 of Ootobor last by falling through dofendant’'s hoistway, which had been carelessly left open. The plaintiff broke bis foot, and was compelled to go on cratches for two weeks after receiving the injury. The damages were laid at $5,000; but the jury thought $500 would fully compensate the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at that amount accordingly. In the cage of Cooper against Anderson, where the plain- tiff seeks to obtain an injunction against tne defendant, re- straining him from boiler makiog, on the ground that his shop isa nuisance on account of the loud hammering going on, Judge Cardozo yesterday decided to postpone the further hearing of the matter until the appeal ona previous suit in the Marine Court was determined. The verdict ia this case was looked forward to with a good deal of interest by machinists and boiler makers iu this city and Brooklyn, whose business will be influenced in ‘a greater or leas degree by the result of the trial. It was supposed that Recorder Hoffman would sentence Edward Huuter, who was convicted of murder in the se- cond degree in the General Sessions, some time this week; but as Mr. Clinton, counsel for the prisonerais preparing 8 bill of exceptions, tho final disposition of the case was postponed till next Monday. ‘The stock market was quite strong yesterday, and a general advance in prices took place; but the transac: tions were small. Gold opened at 195, and was manipu lated up to 19834, but closed at 197. Government secu- ities were firm, and in demand, at better quotations. There was no change in the money market. The commercial situation remained without marked change yesterday, though the rise in gold had the eect to render the market firmer. The business was small in most articles; but in some commodities a fair trade was consummated, generally on the basis of some advance in Prices. Petroleum was firmer, in sympathy with gold; but prices were irregular, Cotton was excited and higher on ’Change. Flour and wheat were activ id prices of the former advanced 100. a 20c., and the latter 2c. a 8c, in sympathy with the improvement in gold. Corn and oats wore without decided change, though prices of the former favored the buyer. Provisions were mode- rately active and firm, except pork, which was dull and Prices drooping. Whiskey was asbade firmer. Freights were dull and depressed. Groceries were rather quiet, and values somewhat unsettled by the rise in gold. 4, Lincola Be The Great Q: on—! Re-elected ? The question of the re-election of President Lincoln is the most important issue presented to a democratic people during the present cen- tury. It is an issue which is to decide whether or not the people have sufficient intelligence to preserve their own rights and liberties from the encroachments of ignorant and despotic rulers. This issue bas been determined in the negative by the history of past republics. Now itis to be reargued, aud a final decision ren- dered by the citizens of this country, the last and the greatest of democratic governments. We do not object to Mr. Lincoln because he was once a railsplitter, nor because his associ- ate nominee was oncea tailor, as one of our ridiculous and silly contemporaries did yester- day. We know that some of the greatest men in the world have risen from a low origin, and | in a nation like this a man’s occupation, pro- vided it be honest, is no bar to bis future ad- vancement. But we object to Mr. Lin- coln because he has been tried and found wanting, and because his re-election would in all probability seal the fate of republican institutions. We condede everything that is true in regard to his personal character, his good intentions and his honesty, so far as pecu- niary matters are concerned. But a man’s personal character does not excuse bis official misdeeds; a man’s good intentions do not re- move the effects of his blunders and his follies, and a man’s hoyesty in regard to money matters is no offset to his dishonesty in regard to nearly everything else. Such weak palliations of Mr. Lincoln’s conduct, therefore, do not weigh with us, and ought not to weigh with the people. President Lincoln bas protracted this war for four years, wben he could have ended ft in one. He has committed the criminal error of allow- ing qnestions of political expediency to inter- fere with bis management of military affaire- He has removed generals, for party reasons, when such removals gave great advantages to the rebels. He bas issued proclamations with the same motives, when his better judgment, as expressed in private con- versutions, disapproved of his official acte. He bas surrounded himself with a Cabi- net notorious for incapacity and containing some of the most imbecile men in the country, as an example of whom we may instance Gideon Welles. He has retained this Cabinet in defiance of the universal remonstrance of the people, and in spite of the criminal blunders his Secretaries have committed. He has per- mitted political squabbles to so disorganize end distract bis Cabinet that no Cabinet coun- cils have been held for weeks at a time during thie great, crisis of tbe country, thus leaving bimeelf, practically, dictator, and each Secre- tory at liberty to blunder unhchecked in his own department. He has outraged the liberty of the citizen and of the press. Ie has arrested thousands of loyal Americans, and incarcerated them in dungeons, without warrant, judicial procedure or reasonable cause for so doing. He bas instituted the forme of martial law in loyal cities of the North, without proclaiming it and without the slightest pretoxt for enforc- ing it. He has truckled to England and to France, thus soiling the national honor almost irretrievably. Upon these grounds we shall op- pose bis re-election. By the acts which we have just enumerated, and by many more of the same odious stamp, President Lincoln bas unnecessarily prolonged the war and slrengthened the rebel cause at home and abroad. He has allowed thousands of brave men to be slaughtered in vain. He has squandered millions of the public money uselessly, diverting it from its proper channels to enrich corrupt satellites and favorites.. He has disastrously disarranged the finances of the country, through his Seeretary of the Treasury. He bas seen our commerce swept from the seas by two or three pirates, and qur proud flag NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1864, thus terribly dishonored, without: ean effort to prevent it. He has robbed our people of the protection hitherto afforded by that grand formula, “I am an American citizen.” In a word, he has combined imbecility with dea- potism, afflicting us with almost all the evils of an unlimited monarchy without giving us any of the compensating advantages. Io all this his intentions may have been good; but we must judge the tree by its fruits. Besides this, the fact that he has accepted the renomi- nation of a convention of officebolders and contractors, carefully packed at his instance to secure this very end, argues but fittle for the purity of his motives. Setting aside motives, however, we only ask a candid con- sideration of Mr. Lincoln's acta. If the people approve these acts they will have the oppor- tunity of endorsing them in November. If not, they cannot conscientiously vote for Lincoln. Whether they have the intelligence to decide rightly, and the independence to register that decision at the polls, is the issue of the day; and upon that depends the fature of this great country. From Washington down to Jackson our Presidents were men who had been taught statesmanship and the most devoted patriotism in the school of the Revolution. With Van Buren—a politician from this State—came into power a class of mere political Presidents. Through Tyler, Polk, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan, these political Presidents have been growing small by degrees and—not beaati- fully, but—disgracefully less, until Abraham Lincoln, who is the smallest and most incapa- ble of them all, now occupies the place of Washington. But, while the administrations of such Presidents as Pierce and Buchanan were distinguished only by imbecility and in- capacity, Lincoln has added despotic tenden- cies to these bad characteristics. As no smaller candidate than Lincoln could be dis- covered, the politicians have again chosen this Presidential pigmy as their nominee. Now it remains to be seen whether the people will ratify that choice, or whether they will declare that our government has sunk quite far enough and must be again elevated to its former gran- deur. It is a sad thing fora republic when its highest representative office degenerates to the level of its most petty politicians; but it is asadder thing to find a people so degenerate as to again select an official who has proven himself grossly incompetent. We do not hesi- tate to assert, therefore, that the approaching election will be a critical test of the capacity of our citizens to govern themselves. If they unite upon some pure, honorable and able can- didate—and especially upon some of those generals, like Grant, McClellan, Sherman, Hancock, Thomas and others, shown signal ability, true patriotism and practical statesmanship upon the battle field—they will vindicate their title to the freedom bequeathed them by their fathers, and prove to the world that Americans can rise superior to the prejudices of party when politicians seek to use party ties and partisan power to enslave their constituents. Tue Errect Propvcep w Evrorr py Grant’s Camraicy.—The French and English journair are sadly bothered by Gencral Grant's splendié campaign in Virginia. The London papers un dertake to prove that even should Richmond be captured by the Union forces the result would be trivia), and that as far as conquering the South is concerned it would be null. The journals in question, however, dwell too much upon the matter, lay too much stress upon it, not to convince the unprejudiced that they fear exactly the reverse, and fully understand that should Richmond fall and Lee be defeated the rebellion would be crushed and the cause of the Union be triumphant. One thing isnotice- able: from very shame these London journals are forced to render homage to the unflinch- ing determination of General Grant and the bravery of the troops under his command. The French official organ, the Monifeur, has evidently received orders from the Em- peror Napoleon to make lees of the cause of Davis and his misguided followers, and hence we find that journal, contrary to the course it has pursued since the first breaking out of the rebellion, taking an impartial view of the bat- tles in Virginia, and avowing that the cause of the North seems likely to triumph. There can be no doubt that Napoleon will entirely discard the rebels should Richmond fall into our hands and Lee be defeated. Add the capture of At- lanta by Sherman, and the cause of the con- federacy would be lost forever in the estima- tion of the French government. The English government, although boping for the success of Davis, bas never believed in it. Their actions prove this; and should the traitor’s forces be once more defeated John Bull will ignore the rebel confederacy, A Daxorrovs QvaRREL.—A very serious quarrel has occurred between the Commission- ers of Emigration on the one part and the Com- missioners of Charity on the other. It is in refe- rence to the poor emigrants arriving here afflicted with the smallpox and other infectious diseases. If this quarrel continue between these two commissions—the head of one being Gulian C. Verplanck, and the head of the other Simeon Draper—it will lead to great danger to the health of the city. Why does not the Board of Health act in its corporate capacity, with the aid of the Police Commissioners, and take charge of this matter? Why docs not the Board take charge sof these poer and diseased emigrants, and place them where they will be harmless to the health of the city and of benefit to them- selves? And, by the way, talking of the health of the city, what is the Board of Health doing about the fat boiling establishments in Eleventh avenue? From these pest places pestilence is bred, and the Board will not bave performed its duty if it do not have these dangerous nuisances promptly abated. Asrovxpina Newsraren Lyiya.—Aminadab Sleek, of the Journal of Commerce, who is the greatest saint of the nineteenth century, tells the following terrible falsehood in bis paper yesterday :— ‘The Journal of Commerce ia the largost daily newspaper in America, and ite issues for the year cover more white paper by m great many acre® in méasuroment than the is- sues of aby thor newspaper oflice on this continent. Let us give the facts. The daily circulation of Aminadab Sleek’s paper is five or six thou- sand. The daily circulation of the New York Heraip, aceording to a sworn statement handed to Mayor Gunther the other day, is over one huadred thousand. We pay for paper four hundred thousand dollars a year. On these facts alone the mousurement of the issues of the Journal of Commerce is only abont one- twentieth of that of the New Youk Henan. We defy contradiction. who have | The News from the Armics. General Meade has been compelled to make an example, in the Army of the Potomac, of one of those unfortunately constituted correspond- ents who cannot appreciate the position that a correspondent necessarily holds in an army, and who have an ambition to regulate otber peo- ple’s business to the neglect of their own. The correspondent was Mr. Cropsey,of the Phil- adelpbia Inquirer. We commend General Meade’s act in this respect as one worthy of imitation by other generals. If generals would punish the correspondents whom they catch in any delinquencies, and not treasure up such dolinquencies to give them expression in general orders, aimed at all members of the press, they would act more justly. Even General Meade’s act would have been more just if he had placarded, with the delinquent, the name of his paper, and not accredited him to “the press,” which reprobates all such acts as made this punishment necessary. We have no news of active operations of any importance from the Army of the Potomac or from Sherman’s army; nor have we yet re- ceived from General Hunter’s department the news of his victory at Mount Crawford. The news of General Hunter's victory came to us through rebel sources. Doubtless our own accounts of the fight will show the victory to have been @ much more important one than it bas hitherto appeared to be. General Hunter was able to move forward to Stauntoi and thence towards Charlottesville imme- diately after it; and fn all probability the rebels reported as holding the mountains near Waynesboro did not hold them long. We an- ticipate the most cheering news from General Hunter's department. Lincoln Up for Re-Etcction. Mr. Lincoln is now fairly presented to the country for its decision. He stands as the nomi- nee of the Baltimore Convention, on the plat- form of that Convention, and commended to the people by the windy harangues of the Convention’s very empty orators. But neither the ten times falsified platform of the Conven- tion nor the speeches of its members are what the people have to notice and reflect upon in regard to this nomination. What they have to notice are the three terrible years that the country has already gone through under the Presidency of Mr. Lincoln—three years of war, in which the country has endured every misery that the President’s incapacity, in a military, naval and financial point of view, could plunge it into. This is what the people have to con- sider; and what they have to decide is simply | whether or not they wish to repeat those years. | Mr. Lincoln is responsible for every blunder committed in every department of the govera ment since the commencement of the wat He assumed the absolute control of our ar mies, with a flourish of deflance to the enem: and a Chinese announcement that our armie: should move on a certain day. Under hit direct guidance we experienced a series o! reverses without parallel. Our grandly organ. ized Peninsnlar campaign was made to end disastrously by his interference, and Stonewell Jackson’s triumphs in the Shenandoah valley were due, not to Jackson’s genius, but to Lin- coln’s intellectual opacity. He organized the Pope campaign, which was merely a daily suc- cession of frightful reverses to our arms. He conducted from Washington Burnside’s dread- ful Fredericksburg slaughter, and he is equally responsible for the butchery at Chan- } cellorsville. Our great victories at Gettysburg and Antietam and Grant's victories in the West were won in spite of his policy. By keeping such a man as Welles at the head of the Navy Department he has become responsi- ble for the blunders that have well nigh made our heroic navy contemptible, and has a fellow- ship in the incapacity that has driven our commerce from the seas. Every intelligent person in the country can see that if Mr, Lincoln had been a man of any ability be could have ended the war by the complete destruction of the rebel armies eighteen months‘ago. But, in his incapacity, he has not only failed to put the re- bellion down, but he has fostered it and minis- tered to ite growth, and to the development of its whole possible power. That Mr. Lincoln would not, and could not, end the war became clear to the country seve- ral months since, and then the pressure of pub- lic opinion compelled him to put our armies and the whole conduct of the war in the hands of General Grant. Under that great soldier the nation felt some security that its military operations would be carried on properly. Yet Mr. Lincoln has managed to interfere very dangerously with the present campaign, and has even seriously compromised its success. Who knows how long he will respect that pub- lic opinion which compelled him to put Gene- ral Grant where he is? If Lincoln be re-elected the country has no safety that Grant will still command our armies—no security against his removal at any moment, and no hope for such definite success against the rebellion as will end the war. . There is a wonderfully distinct issue before the people in this nomination of Mr. Lincoln. That issue has no reference to the nonsense of this or that political platform. It is the clear question whether or not the people of the United States will elect for another term of four years a man who has proved over and over that he does net possess the ability to administer the government; a man who is either ignorant of the constitution or, ready to trample it under bis feet at any moment; a man under whom this bloody and expensive war can never be brought to an honorable close. Poor Greevey Urrerty Extiocisnep.—The Tribune yosterday was out ina most pretentious and elaborate article in favor of the re-election of Lincoln. Poor Greeley and his candidate, Chase, have been entirely extinguished under the shoddy influences that controlled the Balti- more Convention. Pecxsntrr Purring Coavpann.—Peckeniff, of the Journal of Commerce, puffs Chadband, of the World, in most tremendous style. Peck- sniff says:—‘‘The World is the recognized and the able leader of the democratic party press.”’ Well, if the World is the leader of the demo- cratic party press it is a very queer leader. It is principally owned by Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court. It is partly owned and managed by Alphabet Barlow, of nowhere in particular. It is conducted by parcel of penny-a-liners who try to get up sensations about small matters and shape into new forms facts proviously presented by other journals. It is the organ of shoddy literature, and of nothing else. Its conductors have often de- viated into miserable and contemptible im- pértiaences ia regard to respectable persone, oven ladies being mentioned in » most impu- dent manner. If this matter be not attended to Alphabet Barlow and Judge Barnard will be held personally responsible. ; THt PRESIDENCY. Visit of the Republican Convention Committee te the Presid Address of Governor Dennison and Mr. Lincoln's Response. ‘Fhe Nomination for the Presidency Accepted. The Loyal Leaguers at the White House. Another Address and Reply of the President, HE WILL HAVE HIS LITTLE JOKE. RATIFICATION MEETING IN BROOKLYN, Ben Ben te Wasurwaron, June 9, 1864. Washington was taken possession of today by the delegates to the Baltimore Convention. They swarmed about the hotels, and formed processions to the White House, where, from eleven o'clock until late to night, their candidate for the Presidency has been busily en- gaged in receiving their congratulations, It seemed that every man who was in the Convention was anxious to convey the idea that he was particularly instrumental in procuring the nomination at Baltimore, and especially glad that Lincoln was nominated. ‘The rush at the White House was go great that thore was ‘Bo time for anecdotizing, and hardly enough for the usual formula of speech making. Delegation after delegation was presented—sometimes singly, sometimes em masse, Everybody had something pleasant to say, and Mr. Lin- coln endeavored to say something pleasant to everybody, 80 that everybody should go home ontirely satisfied that Buch an impression had been made on the President tuat is to be that at least a frat class mission, if not the vacant in the Cabinet, under the sixth resolution of the platform, had been secured. In the meantime the grave prosecting of a formal an- nyveiation by the Committee of the Convention that Abraham Lincola had been nominated for the Presidency was made. Discarding the usual redtapeism of written communications, the annoancemenut was made verbally. by Governor Dennison, of Ohio, chairmam of the com mitice, ag follows — ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR DENNISON. Mr. Prastpent—Tho National Uniou Convent hich clored its sittings at Baltimore yesterday inted a committee, consisting of one {rom eaca State, bh my- eelf as chairman, to inform you of your unanimous nomi- uation by that Convention for election to the ollice of President of the United States. ‘That committee, I have the hovor of now informing you, ts present On its be- halt 1 bave also the honor of presenting you with a copy of tho regolutions, or platform, adopted by that Conven- tion as expressive of its sense, and of the sense of the loyal people of the conntry which it representa, of the principles and policy that should characterize the administration of the government in the present condi- tion of the country. I meed not say to you, sir, that | convention, in thug unanimously nomisating you for re- | election, but gave utterance to the almost universal voice of the loyal people of the conntry. ‘To doubt of your triumphant election would be little short of abandoning the hope of a final suppression of the rebeliion and the | restoration of the government of the insurgent | i Neitner the Convention nor those represented by bady entertained any doubt as to ffe final recult under your adininistration, enstained by that loyal people and by our roble army ‘and gailant navy. Neither did the Convention, nor do this committee, doubt the speedy suppression of this most wicked and unprovoked rebel Hon. [A copy of the resolutions was here handed to the | President.) 1 woul « Presivent, that tt would be | the pleasure of the committes to communicate to you, within a few days, through oue of its mst accomplishe members, Mr. Curtia, of New York, by letter, length the circumstances under which you Placed {a nomination for the Presidency. ! RESPONSE OF MR. LINCOLN. | Mr. Liveoln did not appear to be much tiken by eur- prise, {He was posted om the platform adopted, and | readily endorsed it, ivoluding the recommencation of the constitutional ameadment probibiting slavery, af follown:— Mr. Cuaimax AND GENTLEMEN OF THR ComMorreR—T | will neither conceal my gratification, nor restrain (ue ox | pression of my gratitnde, chat the Uvion people, through | their Convention, in the continue effort to Save and | advance the ni , have deemed me not unworthy to re- | main in my preseut position, I know no reason to doubt that I soall accept the nomination tendered. and yet, per: haps, 1 should not dec.are deiluite!y before reading and ring what is called the piatiorm. I willeay now, T,that Lapprove the declaration in favor of so amending the constitution as to prohibit slavery through. ont the nation, When the people in revolt, with the hundred days explicit notice that they could withia those days resume their nilegiance without the over throw of their institutions, and that they could Bot resume it afterwards, elected to stand out, fuch an amendment of the constitution as is now proposed became a fitting and necessary cone Clusion to the final success of the Union cause. Such alone can meet and cover all cavils, I now per ceive its importance and embrace it. In the joint names oi Liberty and Union tet us labor to give it legal form and practic&l effect. Si At the conclusion of the President's speech ail of the committee shook him cordially by the hand and offered their personal congratulations, Visit of the Loyal Le President. er Wasmixcton, June 9, 1864. The membere of the tional Union League adjourned yesterday from Baltimore to this city, and called upon the President this afternoon, by whom they were cor- Gintly received in tho Fast Room of the White House, ‘Tho chairman of the deputation spoke to the President ag follows: — ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT, Me, Presivr I have the honor of introducing to you he tatives of the Union Leagues of the joyat Jate you upon your renomination we will not far! at the poils to give ‘ou the support that your services in the past so tguly deserve. We feel honored in doing this; for we are assured that we are aiding {0 re electing to the proud position of President of the United States one so highly worthy of it—one among not the least of whose pened is, that be was the emancipator of four millions of bondmen. TH PRBSIDENT’S REPLY. ‘The President replied as follows:— Genriewms—I can only say, 10 response to the remarks of your chairman, { suppose ‘that { am very grateful for the reuewod confidence which has been accorded to me voth by the Convention and by the National League. I am not insevsible at al} to the personal complimest there is in this; yet [ do not allow myself to believe that any but # email portion of it is to be appropriated a9 8 personal compli e Convention aud the nation,! am as- sured alike animated by a bigber view of the in. torests of; the country for the present and the great tu- ture; and that part I am entitled to appropriste as n compliment is only that part which I may lay bold of as being the opinion the Convention and of the Teague: that T not unworthy to be entrusted with the place I occupied for the last three y ’ T have not permitted mvself, gentlemen, to conclude that 1am the best man fo the country, but 1 am reminded tn ‘this connection of a story.of an old Duteh farmer, who remarked ton companion once that “it was not best to ewap horses when crossing streams. ’’ The prolonged laughter whicy follo wed thie character. istic remark should bave beom heard, It was turmultu- RESOLUTIONS OF THR LOYAL LBAGUE. ‘The following resolutions wore passed on Thursday night by the Grand Council of the Union Lenguo, in ses- sion at Baltimore, a copy of which was to-day presented to the President by the committee appointed for the Purpose :— Kesolved, That the National Council of the Union if ie of America hereby heartily approvos and on- dorsee the nominations made by the ‘Unlen National Con- vention at Baltimore on the 8th of June, 1864, of Abra- ham Lincoln for President aly we ng od oe ales ioe United eet jar power to elect true and wor jona to —— in ar Prod aa the nominees of ida Mces, the ay ‘candidates that can hope to men we ‘it as the imperative duty of the members of the Union League to do all that ann tO Dom A cuneltaleoearceatiy approves and pe is ‘the platform of principles adopted by the sald Convention. ‘That we will, as individuals an bers of the Javon Longuo, do all la our power to elect said candi. datos. reliable Union met said Convention be olected, as loys Wasurmaton, June 0, 1944, dologation this evening, accom. Montor's Wracs band, waited and = tendered m8 Tho Ohio panied by Professor { upon =the President T propose gaying og hans rousing cheers for the officers and soldiers under his command. Three hearty cheers were then given as proposed, the President leading off and waving his hat with as much enruestaess ag the most enthusiastic individual present. ‘Three rousing cheers were then given for the nominee of the Convention, after which the band played an air from the opera of the ‘Bohomian Girl,” “Happy Mo- ments,” from Maritana, and an American overture. The assemblage then proceeded to the residence of . Secretary Chase, where several national airs were per- formed, The Secretary being absent from the city the sorenaders called upon James C. Whitmore, the State Ageit of Obto, and performed several choice pieces. Lincoin Ratification Mecting ta Brook- lyn. The Presidential campaign may be said to have beow inaugurated jast evening by the Central Union club, of Brooklyn, who called a ‘grand mass meeting” to ratify the nominatioas of Lincoln and Johnson, just made by the Baltimore Convention, The headquarters of tho club ig at the corner of Fulton and Pineapple streets, and at eight o’clock the room was well filled, a few ladies ocea- pying reserved seats, A band was in attendance, and performed several national airs, while a glee club sag & patriotic piece before the epoaking. The outside of the hall was tlluminated,and at intervals rockets and other pyrotechnics. Steenen M. Grisworp, President of the Union Club, called the meeting to order, and in doing so announced ‘that the Baltimore Convention had just nominated Abra- ham Lincoln for President, and Governor Johnson for Vico President of the United States, an announcement which was received with deatening cheers. The people of this couptry (said he) have for a long time past had their minds made up that {t would be unsafe to change rulers at the present time. We believe it would bring confu- sion and be dangerous to our glorious Union, especially when conventions meet and nominate men who declare that they will ron, if for no other reason than to defeat Mr. Lincolo; making It purely a mat of revenge. I teld you the people will not submit any sach policy, and the Convention which has just adjourned at Balti- more, has only curried out’ the wishes of the great loyal heart of the people of the country. When I stood yesterday in Front strect theatre, Balti- more, and saw that outbarst of applause which greeted the nomination of those men, I said this is only au echo of the feeling throughout this great pation, and when the people are called upon to cast their votes it will only be to approve that nomination, an roll up & great victory for Abrabam Lincoln and Aodrew Jcanson. (Loud ap- plause sree N. Patns, of Pennsylvania, was introduced, and, after a few introductory observations, said he bad some- times been a partisan, but now he spoke to them as @ patriot and ay Americxn citizen, Ho was glad to be present with thom when they met to ratify the nomma- tion of two of the best men, in his judgment, iu the United States for the highest offices in tne gift of the nation, and to renew with them his devotion to the country, the government and its pricciples. A new volume of American history was opoued when Fort Sumter was bombarded. The speaker went on at length to speak of the gloricus traditions of the fisg of the Union, the momentous issues at stake and the atrocities of the Southern rebols, whose conduct was only equalled by thatof tho men’ who parted Christ's raiment. That citizen whose sytopathies aod energies were not with his government and couatry was & traitor, The sentiment of the people now was that freedom, not oppression, must and shail and wil! be perpetuated, (Loud cheers.) Judge Pettis dwelt at length upon the doctrine of secession, and referred to tho inflammatory articles of the Charleston .ifercury in 1832, soon after Andr Jnckson proclaimed that “the Union must and shall be preserved" He bolieved thet wero i not for the eloquent appeals of Henry Clay President Jackson would bave bung Calnoun. If he had done so there would bare boen bo {reason and no rebellion to-day. ‘The speaker alluded to the ex- iareuce of the democratic ¥ previous to the election of Linc.Jn and Hamlia, and remarked that the opposition to the Baltimore nomioees was peculiar and insincere. The opposition to Mr. Zincolu’s polley in using the neg on the part of the opposition, looked like sympathy wil the Southern tra:tors. In conclusion, the speaker said that the enthusiasm which be saw manifested by the audience arcund him, that thoy meant to do their full ebare 4a the re election of Mr. Lincoln, (lovd chvers), that they wore in (favor of @ continuation of his poliey. In ite consummation there would be vo fanaticiem, no love for treason nor affeetion (or traitors, bat harmony, peace and prosperity at home, and an jocreassd respect abroad. He closed with a bigh-(alutin picture of the future of Americ». 5 Mr. Scoower read a series of resolutions endorsing the nomivation of Lincoln and Johnson, “tho most signal beacons of loyalty,” and favoring the amen of the constitution, terminating forever the existence of slavery jo the United States. These resolutions were euthusizs- tically udo ted. Gen. § ‘Anry, of Cincinnati, on betng introduced, was received with loud applause. _ He said that the popue Jar sentiment throughout the North was that Abrabam T.ocoin must prosecute the war to the bitter oud. Ae thon drew a bumorous portrait of the candidates. Mr. Lincoln was bora in a hut, raised almost without either father or mother upon corn bread and possum fare, Johnsen wes a poor orphan boy, bired out to a tailor at ten years of age, married a girl at nineieen evenings, taught him to road and write, was a wondersul man, He admitted thit if wonld eat a raw woil be n more efficient, but ne nad gone as far and ple would let bim. If he had done a fo z it was owing to the stu- Pidity of the people. platform made at Baltimore wes broad ond strong ecough to hold every loyal mun. There was not a kot holo or a rotten plank in the whole of it. IL Was sound because it was based upon the oterual principles of trutb, justice and liberty. Goneral Carey made one ot bis characteristic stump speeches, inter. spersed with humorous anecdotes, which kept the au- dience in a roar, OUTSIDE MRETING. ence of the crowded state of the hall organized by Dr. Beanott rks, speeches were mai but the jroce satioa by boys who commenced poeeded in arresting them, but so ied that the audience dispersed. PAORGAN’S RAID INTO KENTUCKY. brought to a suddi to fight, The pot much con‘usion py Cixcrsxati, June 9, 1804. The rebels are no’ Falmouth, on the Kentucky Cen- tral Raj'road, and at Williamstown on the pike, thirty miles from Civeinpati. Alarge rebel force is reported twelve miles east of Lexington, and another i# spproaching from Richmond. The rebeis are also icporied between Crab Orchard and Stamford. They borned the large warebouse and water station at Cynthiana yesterday. Tbe rebels now have posression of Paris, Georgetown, Cynthiana aod Wiliamstown. Lovistitre, Ky., Jane 0, 1966. About seven hundred rebel cavalry, supposed to bes part of John Morgan’s force, entered Paris, Kentucky, last evoning, without resistance. CoxTRistrions 7o TAR New Arciio Exrrprrioy,—We are glad to inform the readers of the Hsraco that our citizens aro responding cheerfully and abundantly to the notice issued a few Gays since by Messrs. Brovoort, Beek- man, Grinoel!, the Blunts and Mr; Stevens, of the Chamber of Commerce, in bebalf of C, F. Hall, the Arctic explorer, who soon takes bie departure for the far north, a¢oom- panied by his Esquimaux friends. To-morrow we will givea list of some of the contributions of articles ‘a kind, and at the departure of the expedition we will give @ completo list of the whole. However, am an example of the readiness with which our people ronponded to that call, wo will give place to tho following fact:—Mr. Augustus H, Ward, of Washington place, whe was one of the main supporters of Mr. Hall on his voyage of 1860, 1861 and 1862, 4 fow days since gave to Mr. Hall an order on Tiffany & Co, for ono of their first clam pocket chronometers. Whon wo take tuto consideration that firet class timepieces of the kind referred to are worth from $700 to $1,000 we begin to feel that the poor, buffeted Arctic explorers shall yot moct with some kindly reward. The citizens of New London, Conm., are about moving in the matter of furnishing Mr. Hall with a most sub- atansial and well fitted expedition boat, which is being constructed by G. W. Rogers, of First piace, who made the boats for the firat and second Grinnell expeditions nd for Mr. Hall’s previous expedition. annnns? Beonens’ AND Mancarta’ Crv.—Gallagher’s one Exohange bas been transferred to the bourse connected with this clad, and sales will be commenced ‘there on Monday evening next. ‘A Conont.—On Wednesday, the 16th, ® grand conoert will be given at Niblo’s Saloon for the widow of Lieut, Frank Boudinot, on which occasion the following popular artiste Bave volunteered thotr services:—Mnie, do Luseam, Aignorita Morensi, Bignor Morelli and ér. Heller, G. Fr Bristow will conduct this entertaiament, which ‘promieet to bo moat brilliant, .