The New York Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1864, Page 4

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HOLMAN'’S ACADEMY OF MUSIC, — ‘Bourmiax Gint—Orp Fors. nanan KEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. @vniositixs and Lycrunss, from 9 A, M. till 10 P. ha BOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiyn.— Force, Daxces, Borin a vai moras New York, Monday, June 13, 1564. THE SITUATION. ‘The news to. day ag furnished by Mr. Secretary Stanton As not very exciting. A despatch from General Grant's hoadquarters, dated Saturday. renarte +s-+ -~ seve! cavairy made a dash toto Wilson's lines near the Lenny House on Friday, and that Wilson sent out a part of Mclotosh’s brigade which came upon Field’s division of {ofantry, near Betbesda church, and having accom- plished the purpose of his reconpoissance, re- tired. He killed apd wounded a number of rebels in bis progress, and brought away four or five prisoners. All the details of the latest operations in the army of Virginia will be found tn oar own correspondents’ des- patebes, which are, as usual, complete and graphic. The pickets kept up an occasional fire, and in some in- stances our officers are selected as targets whenever they show themselves. We have lost many valuable officers in this way within afew days Both armiesare throw. ing up intrenchments, and working vigorously at them. The news of General Hunter's victory at Staunton im Proves as it increases. It appears that he took one thousand five bundred prisoners and three thousand Stand of arms, besides artillery and stores. He has formed a junction with Generals Crook and Averill. General Sherman reports himself, up to yesterday morning, from Big Shaxty, Georgia. No fighting bad taken place, but Sberman"® lives were withio five hun- dred yards of the enemy. There is pothing new from Genoral Butler's army. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. On the 4th instant some adroit thief stole United States ten-forty bonds to the amount of twenty thousand dol- lars from Mr. S. L Hull, of No. 18 Wall street. The pay- ment of the bonds and the coupons atiached has been stopped, and the thief will be unable to negotiate them. A reward of two thousand dollars bas been offered for such information as will lead to the recovery of the stolen property. The funeral of Colonel Orlando Morris, the late commander of the Sixty-sixth New York Volun- teers, the circumstances of whoso death have already been recounted, took place yesterday afternoon rom the Governor's Room, City Hall, and was attended by a large assemblage of citizens, The Twelfth regiment, WN. Y.8.N G.,acted as an escort, and followed the re- tains to their ting place in Greenwood Cemetery, A Broapway Notsance.—The principal pro- mevade of this city is constantly incommoded and disfigured by the array of peripatetic ad- vertisers who perambulate the sidewalks with their huge board placards. These philoso- pbers select the busiest time of day, or when the street is most crowded with ladies enjoying an afternoon promenade, to make their sorties. Spring bonnets and the latest style of castors are nothing to them; for both are punched and damaged as if they cost nothing, and as ifit were the business of these nuisances to destroy as many as they could for the benefit of trade. Mayor Gunther could not institute a more ser- viceable reform than by suppreasing these walking disfigurements of our grand prome- nade; and, while his hand is in, he might re- Jieve the curbstones, the lampposts and all public buildings of the innumerable, and in many cases indecent, placards that are plas- tered all over them. OreninG or TRE Potrricat CasMratay.—The political cauldron begins to boil. The Fremont Club of this city holds a meeting to-night at Hope Chapel, for the purpose of organizing for the campaign, and the Lincolnites bold theirs, for a similar purpose, at Cooper Institute, on Wednesday evening. The politicians are be- ginning to move, and we shail soon be amid Ye whirl of « political excitement scarcely surpassed by the interest felt in the movements of our grand armies. There are, however, other parties yet to enter the field, and as the bum@tor advances the contest will grow warmer and warmer. We shall have stirring times "poop both in the field and in the forum. regarding bis latest intelligence from the power- ful army under the immediate eye of General Grant before Richmond. The inquisitive journals of the rebel capital, however, evidently suspect there is mischief afoot, for they cannot satisfactorily comprehend where General Grant is, how his forees are disposed, what he is doing with them, and where be intends to strike. One rebel report says he is falling back to the White House; another, that ke is moving to join Butler; another, that Butler is moving to join him; but the Richmond editors, with all their whistling to keep their courage up, are only disposed to believe that Grant is preparing for hot work, and that he may strike at any moment, andin the very quarter where least expected. We are strongly inclined to believe that the painful suspense of these poor fellows will be ended with some very impressive in- formation of General Grant’s whereabouts before many days are over. Meantime, as it will be seen from the official report, General Hunter’s late victory in the Shenandoah valley was one of very great im- portance, resulting, as it did, in his occupation of the central town of Staunton, with its stores of army supplies, and resulting, too, in the junction with him of the columns of General Averill and General Crooks, from the country southwest. That these operations, and what will speedily follow under General Hunter, will have an important bearing on the cam- paign in front of Richmond we guess will soon be made manifest to the naked eye of Jeff. Davis. Nothing of any special moment from General Sherman; but it appears that General Andrew Jackson Smith (who so severely punished Dick Tuylor on the Red river as to save the army of General Banks from the threatened ruin of a disastrous defeat) has been ac- tively at work in clearing away Marma- duke and his horde of guerillas from the banks of the Mississippi river between Vicksburg aud Memphis. Marmaduke has been driven off, and what this means may be in- ferred from a Mobile despatch to the Richmond Sentinel of June 6, which says that “the opera- tor at Jackson on the 5th reported, on the authority of Captain Evans, commanding scouts, that Marmaduke is blockading the Mis- sissippi below and above Greenville with ten guns. His force is large. He has destroyed threo transports, securing two cargoes, besides crippling three gunboats and other transports— amoug the latter the Marion and Fairchild, one gunboat, one transport and one hospital boat. Four transports are between the batteries, and cannot go up or down.” This business is now stopped, and Marmaduke is running for his life; but it is doubtful if his legs will save him. Smith on the Mississippi is doing well, and we expect soon to hear that Smith in front of Richmond bas also been adding fresh laurels to the family name. East and West the campaign progresses favorably, although this morning we have no great battles to report. The Only Argument Advanced in Favor of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln has been nominated by the Bal} timore Convention, and the effect which that nomination is likely to produce begins to be apparent. Alrasdy t+ tas niguiouca sue great majority of the republican papers; and the miore earnest these journals are in support of the principles of their party the greater is their fear at the prospect that the success of those principles is to be ventured once more with Mr. Lincoln. So widespread is this besi- tancy and sense of danger that it pervades all that portion of the republican party not directly under the influence of fat offices, and it is not at all improbable that the whole rank and file of the party will yet break into a sud- den panic in spite, of all that the officeholders and contractors can do to keep it in line. Mr. Lincoln’s nomination sent gold up to within a hairsbreadth of one hundred per cent, simply because it tells the people with awful plainness that there is an organized and apparently powerful party which desires to keep the country for four years more in its present condition; is opposed to amendment, or to such a chance for amendment as a change in the Bxecutive might give, and favors the continuance of that series of criminal blunders which has already brought the country to the verge of ruin. And with all this fear, and with the many reasons that are apparent to the country why Mr. Lincoln should give place to a better man, his supporters can advance but one argument in favor of his re-election. Secretary Seward farnisbes this argument. Ina speech delivered at Auburn before the last Presidential election Mr. Seward gave to his party the phrase “ irre- pressible conflict,” which did such yeoman’s service in that campaign. Ina speech delivered at Auburn last fall he furnished also the key note and the argument of the campaign to come. This argument is, that in 1860 Mr. Lin- coln was elected to be President of the whole United States—tbat the rebellion has forcibly prevented that result—and that Mr. Lincoln must remain in the Presidency until he bas been President of this whole United States for four years. And this partisau metapbysician claims that if Mr. Lincoln is not in this way President of the whole United States for four years the objects of tle rebellion will be gained. “It is the object of the war,” he says, “to make Abraham Lincoln President in Georgia and Bouth Carolina, as he is in Massa- chusetts, New York and Obio.” Here we have established a very nice arrange. ment. Mr. Lincoln was elected to be President of the whole United States for four years; and the will of the people is supreme. He must, therefore, stay in bis present position until he has been President of the whole United States for four years. That is, be must occupy the Presidential chair until four years after the rebellion has been put down; and the longer he can nurse the rebellion the longer he stays in office. Such is the metaphysical nonsense that a Secretary of State can seriously attempt to palm upoa the people. The contest of 1860 was over a principle, and not overa man. Abraham Lincoln was of the least possible consequence iu it, He was merely the individual whom the accideots avd mancouvres ofa convention had placed before the people as the representative of au idea. That idea was, shall the majority of the people, ora minority, rule this country? The people decided that a majority should rule, and the triumph was 9 triumph of that popular princi- ple, and nota triumpb, as his friovds seem to suppose, of Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Seward’s ridi- culous idea would compel the relinquishment of dhe principles upon wigh the country etagds. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 13, .1864. Tt would drag the country at the heels of misera- ble men of any or every stamp that natioual misfortunes might bring to the surface. We are not thus fastened to the fortunes of a man; but we stand still by our great principles, and these require now that we should haye a now mar in the place of the one who has go sig- Bally failed in all the duties of his Ligh office. Mr. Lincoln has through four years, more- over, been Presidont of the United States—or such is the theory upon which he .wages war. He docs not admit that the Southern States have ceased to be part of the Union. He claims that they are integral parts of this Union, and the war he carries on is to put down insurrection. But, though President of the United States, he has been a bad ono—an entirely incapable one —a President who has misdirected the operations of every depart ment of the government, and prolonged this war to the inflaite loss of the country, in men and money. The Political and Social Condition of England. England is upon the eve of a recurrence of such events as brought about the downfall and death of Charles the First and the consequent tule of Cromwell. Imbued with ideas which must be styled despotic, Charles governed the people of England as he saw those of France and Spain ruled. The King called no Parlia- ment for eleven years. He was absolute. His lords arrogated to themselves rights which menaced those of the people, and the result was that the Scotch—evor sturdy and obstinate where their prejudices or privileges are con- cerned—rebelled, a war ensued, and the King was forced to call a Parliament. It lasted but a few months, being tyrannically dissolved by order of the King. Six mouths later Charles was forced to call together the Parliament famous in history as the Long Parliament. This body caused the King to admit that it should not be dissolved save by its own con- sent, and then it proceeded to divest Charles of much of his power. The members of this legislative assembly were not all lords; they were landowners, squires—men averse to the grasping and ambitious propensities of the nobility—and they went even beyond the limits of the constitution in order to save it. The teachings of these men resulted in the still more daring act of setting asidea dynasty, in 1688, that the constitution might be saved. These things took place because the people of England were determined that the nobility should not rule absolutely; that all power should not be vested in the few. Cromwell, who was a powerful ruler, made the mistake of going from one extreme to the other. Hence his puritanical government became offensive, and paved the way for the restoration of Charles the Second and the subsequent resumption of power by the aristocracy. Their Jaws of entail in the course of time centred in the possession of a few the landed interest, and the yeomanry, the squires, the men of small properties, were gradually set aside, until, at the present day, some forty-three thousand landowners have In their poseession that which, in 1688, wa’s in the hands of six hundred thousand. Thus we find the same state of affairs recurring—tbe power in the hands of the few, to the detri- ment of the rights and liberties of the masses. «40 vefure, the people are fully alive to this; and as since the days of Cromwell the intelli- gence of the people has vastly increased, it is’a natural result that they should rebel against a state of affairs inimical to their interests, and seek, by force if necessary, to obtain redress. Tn this wise has the reform movement taken its start. For the purpose of redressing the wrongs of the people is a more extended fran- chise demanded by their advocates, Bright, and lastly Gladstone, a member of the Queen’s Cabinet, and one of the most able and influen- t'al men in England. The people of England are now arrayed against a usurping aristocracy, which would keep them down if possible. It is easy to sce, however, that nought save @ despotic govern- ment could accomplish this; and at the present day such a government is not pos- sible in England. The aristocracy may strive and struggle for a while against the increasing power of the people; but they will have to succumb to it at last, and grant those reforms which the masses demand. Led by such men as Gladstone and Bright, the people of England are all powerful, and the government, to preserve a semblance of au- thority, must give way to the pressure of the masses. If not arevolution will take place, and those opposing it be crushed. The fact that in the bands of a few noble families are the lands and the government of England is one patent to the people, whom these aristocrats seek to ignore; and they prove by their agita- tions and reform meetings that such a state of affairs cannot last. Reforms must be granted, the rights of the people secured by an extended franchise, or the destruction of those who stand between the people and their prosperity and ad- vancement must ensue. In that position do we find the kingdom of Great Britain at this day. If Queen Victoria and her lords do not, under similar circumstances, display more intelligence than did Charles tue First and his followers, the parallel may be carried out still further by the irritated people. It is the knowledge of this dangerous state of affairs, doubtless, which has caused England to become so supine in her relations towards Europe. The government should grant reforms, please the people, and become once more powerful. It might then, as of yore, bully the nations which now treat Old England as though her day of rule had gone by. Tak Oroantzation oF Sovta Amentca—One hundred thousand men have already volun- teered to sustain the liberties of Peru against the rotten old monarchy of Spain. Spain can never put anything like this number of men in afield on this side the ocean, and this num- ber is therefore more than sufficient with which to whip ber. But mere men, as we bave tound, do not make an army. Peru and the other South American States that will be banded with ber in this battie want organization, and for this they want officers, especially brave and able men, who have seen service. We have now, in that part of our country lately known as the Southern confederacy, the oflicers for an army of two hundred thousand men. There are officers of every grade, from Ventenants of artillery to lieutenant generals, in abundance, and they will all soon be out of employment, and in want of a place to go to. ‘They are Southerners, and cannot live a slow life after having campaigned for three years past, and the Peruvians are welcome to thom, It is to be hoped that no attempts will be made to provent these gallagt fellows loqving the country, as they will want to so soon. May they have better fortune in the Peruvian cause than they have had in the one in which they bave hitherto fought so well. General Sigel’s Operations in Western Virginia, Tn a letter from our correspondent in Western Virginia, in relation to the recent disaster near New Market, our readers wiil find what appears to be General Sigel’s side of the story. We, of course, have no prejudices against General Sigel, and we give, as the truth of history de- mands, the version of the events of the cam- paign most favorable to his repatation. Doubt- less the account given by our correspondent is the best that can be said on that side of the subject, and it is not necessary to go any further than this account. to entirely condemn General Sigel, and to find plentiful justification for his removal. It is asserted, in extenuation of the loss of the battle, that the orders to march were not com- plied with; that the presence of the cavalry in the road delayed the movement of the infantry more than an hour; that General Sigel could not get his whole force into battle; that his officers did not know their duty, and that the artillery could not be used on account of the rain. These circumstances indicate a badly managed battle, and the want of a right kind of a commander ; but these were not what lost us the battle. We were beaten by having our line of battle formed with the cavalry in the centre. Our line was broken where the cavalry was posted, and that determined the battle. It is explained that the absence from the field of two regiments of infantry made “a gap” in the line, and that this was filled with cavalry and artillery. We cannot understand why the fuilure of two regiments to come up should make a gap, in a line in which they bad never yet taken their places, and still less why such a gap, when made, should be filled with cavalry. It is to be eupposed that a general suddenly en- countering the enemy forms his line of battle with the troops he has at hand, and not witi gaps in view of troops that are to come up; and it is not to be supposed that a general in these days shall put cavalry where Le knows he ought to have infantry. No line of battle so formed ever did or ever can resist a vigorous assault; and ii in the nineteenth century we are to lose a battle by having cavalry posted on or near the-centre of the line it is bard to see what advantag@" the assiduous .study of grand tactics for many hundred years past has been to the art of war. It isabad formation, and when a general loses a battle by a bad for- mation, and by the failure to offer to the ene- my the whole resistance of which the force under his command is capable, he alone is re- sponsible for the loss of that battle; and if re- moved for it the removal is pre-eminently just. Another, therefore, of our prominent gene- rals, kept in place by the power of a party, bas been put out of the way by the hard logic of events. It would not be an agreeable pas- time to estimate the harm that has been done to our canse through the whole war by our having bad inefficient men in the very places that efficient men were very eager to get. Unquestionably that harm bas been very great. Even in this campaign, if we had had a man to go up the valley with Sigel’s force as Stono- wall Jackson has two or threa times come down the valley, our definite success would have been certain ere this. But, now that the whole control of our armies is apparently in the hands of General Grant, it is likely that we shall not have to vex our souls with many more regrets for the short- comings of political generals. Our govern- ment bas seen that it must necessarily leave Grant alone as the supreme commander, and Grant believes in soldiers. Hunter’s, Crook’s and Averill’s recent successes show this clearly enough. Cartas Hat.’s Arctic Exrzpitioy.—In the midst of war and rebellion, while vast armies are marshalled in the field, and the public mind js strained with anxiety as to the result of yet undecided .con- flicts, we have time and inclination to foster scientific enterprise. There is perhaps no more cheerful and pleasant feature in the condition of society in this country at the present moment than the willingness, in fact, the zeal, with which Captain Hall’s projected expedition to the Arctic regions is sustaived by our citizens. Every requirement has been most liberally met as soon as the adventurous explorer has made it known. It will be seen, by the varied list of contributors which we publish in another column, that almost every conceivable thing necessary for Captain Hall’s outfit has been gratuitously furnished upon personal ap- plication to our merchants and manufacturers; so that be will go on bis mission thoroughly provided. Among the articles contributed are nautical and astronomical instruments, chro- nometers, cutlery, drugs, surgical instruments, dessicated meats and vegetables, duck for tents, tobacco, flacs, a Star Spangled Banner to hoist on the North Pole, tea, beads where- with to tempt the primitive people of the frozen regions, and even a Don-freezing Ink, expressly made for him by the American Bank Note Company. Shipowness, express companies and railroad companies have proffer- ed him and his goods free transit on their way. He will bo provided with boats at New Lon- don, and, in short, he will be ready to start some time between the 20th and 25th of this month, fully armed and equipped. There is something as delightful as unprecedented in’ this liberality. :. Aword about Captain Hall’s mission. He goes on his journey alone, save the companion- ship of the Esquimaux family whom he brought back with him on a previous voyage. Captain Hall is not a navigator. He journeys by land, or rather by ice, not incommoded with an immense ship’s crew, the care of whom takes half the explorer’s time and labor. He trusts to his sledges and boats and dogs to carry him into the heart of those frozen districts where the secrets of the polar re- gions and the fate of many of his predecessors are locked up in mystery. He trusts to bis in- telligence and the good will of the Esquimaux for guides in furthering his projects. What- ever fear these people have of large bodies of strangers and great ships break- ing in upon their semisavage solitude will be removed in Captain Hall’s case; while the acquaintance which his companions, the Esquimaux, have acquired with our civiliza- tion during their residence here, and their com- prehension of the objoct of bis visit, will serve to inspire a confidence among heir tribes, when explained to thom, and communications which must prove most valuable. With these | facilitieg it is not improBbaie that Coptain Hall | will be enabled to obtain all the information the fate of Sir John Franklin’s party, as he did of Frobisher’s remains on a pre- vious occasion, which had been undiscovered sinee 1570. With regard to its expected results and the generous fasbion in which it is gotten up, we consider this expedition the most import- ant that has yet been undertaken to the Aretic regions. We shall probably acquire more information from the experience of this solitary traveller than from all the great enterprises by sea which have preceded him. The Truth Spoken at Charlottesville. It will be recollected that General Sey- mour, who was captured by the rebels during the battles of the Wilderness, made a very singular speech to the rebel popu- lation of Charlottesville, Virginia, while he was en roule to the rebel prison, It was not only a very singular speech, but also a very sensible speech. This we can see even through the meagre reports of the Richmond papers. According to those reports General Seymour said:—“General Lee may possibly defeat General Grant aad the federal army; but what of thai? I trust that if be do- feat him he may follow up his success by tak- ing Washington and burning it to the ground. And let him not stop there! Let him capture and burn Baltimore, and then advancc on Philadelphia and burn that. Then, at last, we shall have a united North, and shall begin to show you what war is.”’ This speech of General Seymour is very dif- ferent from the speeches of Seymours in gene- ral. Itseems to have greatly impressed the rebels who heard it, and to bave greatly dis- gusted Jeff. Davis’ organs. The Richmond Ex- aminer, for example, roundly abuses the peo- ple of Charlottesville for listening to the ad- dress, and calls for “the buck and gag.” This proves that the people did listen pretty at- tentively, and that there was something in the oration which the rebel leaders do not want the people to know. What was this? Was it that the Yankees still use “spirited and plucky” language? Was it the plain truth that the capture of Washing- ton, Baltimore and Philadelphia, so long held up by rebel generals as golden prizes, would only begin, instead of ending, the war? Was it the bold and startling assertion that the war. was hardly commenced, and that it would be pressed still more vigorously a3 soon as we could secure a united North? It may have been either or all of these facts. The kingdom of Jeff. Davis, like a balloon, is sustained by an immense quantity of gas. The rebel leaders are always persuading their deluded followers that if Washington can only be taken, if Baltimore can only be captured, if Philadelphia can only be burned, then the North will submit to secession, and the South- ern confederacy..will be firmly established. The burden of their song, like that of Mr. Wil- kins Micawber, is to hold out a little longer and something will certainly turn up. General | Seymour pricked this bubble. He assured the rebel masses that the North had scarcely yet begun to go to war in earnest. He showed thom that the taking of Washington, the cap- ture of Baltimore and the burning of Philadel- phia would arouse the Northern people stilt more thoroughly, even if any rebel army could achieve these martial miracles. He conviaced them that nothing could possibly tura up to end the war except the instant and uncon- ditional submission of rebels.in arms... We wish that more of our orators would pitch their tones upon this key. The rebel papers tell us that their people are led by the nose by rebel leaders, in spite of the hard facts of starvation and penury, because they “have such a diseased appetite for oratory.” General Seymour fed this ap- petite to good account, and gave the people something solid and substantial to digest. It is a great pity that our other orators do not supply them with mental pabalum of the same healthful and invigorating sort. Too many of our copperhead and fanatical speeches serve but to support treason. The “diseased appe- tite” of the rebels may be used to much better purpose. In the large cities of the North a compara- tively few secessionists make a tremendous deal of noise, and thus produce an apparently great d'vision of sentiment. In New York, where the overwhelming majority of the people are intensely loyal, these semi-traitors abound. Our hotels, our clubs, our best society, swarm with Southern sympathizers. Many of them, with too little pluck to fight for the cause they love, have escaped from the South and taken refuge here. They may be found in barrooms, drinking success to the confederacy, and loud- mouthed in their statements that the South will never be conquered and the Union never restored. They may be found in Wall street, engaged in speculating in gold. At every rumor of @ Union defeat they buzz about the streets exaggerating our disaster. At every report of a Union victory they refuse to believe the news, overestjmate our losses and poob-pooh the {dea that any of our generals can tell the truth. They have a regular newspaper organ, called the Daily News, and it very faithfully re- produces their sentiments and opinions. No Southern man with Northern principles would be tolerated at Richmond as Northern men with Southern principles are tolerated in New York. No Southern politicians would be allowed to take a stand against the war in Jeff. Davis’ dominions as Northern politicians are allowed to do throughout the loyal States. No Northern refugees would be permitted to spout treason against the confederacy there as South- ern refugees spout treason against the Union here. This is what General Seymour means when he insists that we have not yet a united North, and states that the events mentioned would weld us together like red hot iron under the hammer. Let us learna lesson from his words, as the rebels did. Let ts unite without waiting fora misfortune. Let all of us bring our personal, social efforts to bear either to reform or orush the secession sympathizers among us. And let us make the rebels under- stan! that there shall be, can be, and will be, only one termination to this war, and that is the res toration of the Union. Catura Names.—Ia a printing age the namo of a party ora principle fs its device, its watchword and its blazon at once. And, just as in the olden times the knightly heroes— friends of the people, of free towns and dis- trossed damsols—endeavored ta make their de- vices typical, to set up sign of themselves that should excite the admiration of friends and the fear of foes, so modern politicians endeavor to do the same bya name. They try to seize and appropriate a word that shall have the sarne agreeable effect upon the papu- las mind that the knightly blason of 4 golden Fa sun or of silver stars bad auvfedtly gem tho eyes of the people, and to give’ an impression in that way of their own excettencies. There are but very few instances in whieh such chosen names have stuck to the parties they were in- tended to signify, and the reason for this is simple. It is because men, in these choices of names, do not want to tell the truth, and do not call their party or their principles by the name that tells what they are, but by some name that tells what they would like them to appear to be. Such names are shams, impudent attempts to impose upon the people by putting a good word to represent a mean or contemptible fact. Such names gene- rally assume that the people cannot see for themselves what a thing is, and therefore what it ought to be called. They are attempts to forestall the public judgment and the popu- lar naming, and the people generally see through these shams, and revenge the attempt to forestall their prerogative by some witty perversion of the solemnly chosen name that continually laughs at it, or by bestowing upon the party or principle some condensed calum- ny of a nickname that adheres forever. And the fact whether or no chosen name adheres is thus to some extent a test of its truth; for this is what the people look at. If the name is real it stands; but if there is ®@ pretence the myriad keen eyes of the people will see through it, and away goes the name. The Cleveland Conven- tion, supposing that they have brought into existence a new party, have called it the “radical democracy.” In this phrase there is an idea; but the people are not fond of the word radical just now. In that word they hate one of the vices of the republican party. Yet, as this is purely a matter with the people, the name may do very well, and the very name may yct be a party. Another little piece of contemporary history in names is disclosed in this notice:— Ustow Leaccer Cros Hover, 26 East Seventeen Srrest, Usion Squart New Yorn, May 16, 1864. StR—An adjourned meeting of the Club will be beid af tho Club House ov Thursday, the 19th day of May, at eight o’ciock P, M.. (or the purpoge of considering the expediency of changing the name of the Club from “Union League Club” to “National Club.’ Members are requested not to introduce strangers into the business meetings of the Club, Here is a disposition to acknowledge toa certain extent a popular verdict. The people have decided that the “Union League Club” was nota “Union League Club” at all, buta “shoddy club,” pure and simple. Therefore, as the shoddy club it hasbeen known, Now it contemplates the relinquishment of its first attempt at a name, and ries a new vein in the word “national.” But this organization may be sure that its real name is “shoddy,” and that that is the name it will be known by. Reset Inov-Cravs.—The rebels have bad and continue to have, bad luck with their iron- clads. The Albemarle, for instance, which lately did them good service in their attack upon Plymouth, N.C., was subsequently driven up the Roanoke river and considerably crip- pled by our wooden gunboats. The last case of these experimental roughly built rebel Payal, vessels {is that of ‘the iron-clad Raleigh, which, “in attempting a sortie from Wilmington, stuck in the mud, and with the fail of the tide was broken in the back and split in two, crosswise. It is, perhaps, the fear -of some such accidents, or something worse, that keeps those terrible iron-clads at Rich- mond and Charleston under cover. But we guess they will be smoked out befofé long, and added to the catalogue of the Merrimsc, the Arkansas or the Atlanta. ———___——- The Park Yesterday, ‘The Park was literally thronged yesterday afternoon, as It well desorved to be. At this senson of the year the grounds are generally very flue; but in consequence Of the extra quantity of rain this spring-the shrubbery and vegetation are more than usually luxuriant. Nature bas certainly done her share thie season, and added her donations to what art hed already bequeathed towards making New York’s great garien a source of delight. ‘The heavy storm of Thursday last appears to have dose some amount of damage tothe upper part of the Park, especially on the bigh ground. The flag staff of tho ob- servatory was destroyed, several boughs broken, the up- per surface of the paths wasbed away, aod plants beaten: down. A few days, however, will restore order. Bince our last list the following donations have beew added to the Park collection: — One English rabbit, from ie oe e New York. mer! ongie. io Is ‘Twrenty- second New York Volunteers. Two fine Syrian broad-tailed sheep, from C. J. and F. W, Cogeitt, of New York: One adian poreupine, from A. J. Huntoon, Req, Fifth Avenue Hotel. One tox, trom Wm. Willlams, Jr , of New York. [This makes the ninth fox already ia the Park ) Porter. ) One pair of riagéoves, from Master Frank W. Fuller, of New York. ‘Ove pair of swan Donor’s name not ascertained. Four young fawns, native Americans, by their mothers. Three cygnets, just hatched, by Dame Nature. The following rare birds and quadrupedas from the Pacific coast have been furnished by a New Yorker ‘who loves the Park but does not wish his same published ia tbe papers.”” ‘hwo pair of curassaws (crax alecta). ‘Two penel (cristata). ‘One kinkajou (mico leon). Two macaws (ora aracauga), very fine. Five whistling ducks (autemalis dendwoy gua). One ‘pisota,” better known as the coatimond! or “aut bear” (nasua narico). ‘Two trumpet cranes, or South American watch dogs. Ono Gne parrot. One brown gallinale, or water hen. One South American opossum. The donor of the above can well afford to be modest, ‘Dut the public ought to koow his namo, On Saturday next it is expected that the famous bed of roses will be im full bloom. This rosary is situated in the Ramble, and any one who desires to see ten thousand fall blown roses in one cluster should not fail to visit the epot. The obliging gray-coated keepers will willingly di- rect strangers to the place where they may be found; while to the regular visitor the simple direction *‘Taxe tho first path on theenst side of the Ramble above the Lake’ will be sufficient. proain eeeeny Coroner’s Inquests. Ton Cataurry om Boanp Tam Steamnoat Benxenins.— Coroner Ranney yesterday hold an inquest at the janc- (iow of Sixty-fourth street and Ninth avenue, on the body of Miss Julia O'Sullivan, who was drowned by in ine, Spica ‘was burned on the Deceased overboard from ibfated steamboat Berk- . th Hudson river on the 8th doard the boat, and fost. Miss ivan wep ae auy-olght yours of age anda ative of Ireland. Farat Rawroap Casvarty.—About seven o'clock om Saturday evening Jobn Tully, who bad been in the em- ploy of tho Sixth Avenue Railroad Company for the last twelve years, was run over by one of the cars of that when it a that sustained Secomineted freon fracture of the fete kneo and ther! The jury rendered a verdict of “Accidentat death.” maar This Da; soraie Cover OunceineePart 1-—-Nos. 1900, 1906, 1907, 1900, 1013, 1018, 1998, 1620, 1061-1085, 2042, 1043, 1948, 1067, 1040, 106i, 1989, 1986, Now, ie Ae Part's, Na