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A despatch from Mr. Stanton to General Dix at ten O'clock last night announces the recetpt of a despatch from General Grant, dated at eleven o'clock yesterday Moraing, which gives details of the capture of the outer works and redoubts of Peteraburg by the Ninth, Eigh- teenth and Seeond corps, General Grant states that the @oemy in endeavoring to reinforce Potersburg left the intrenchments at Bermuda Hundred exposed, Qo incident which was taken sdvantage of by General Butler to take possession of the roads between Richmond Bnd Petersburg. Is appears, however, from Mr. Stanton’s despatch, that wo were not in possession of Petersburg up to eight o'clock yesterday morning; the enemy being at that tims in occapation of the place, While the outer works, several cannon and four hundred and fifty prisovers were in the hands of the Usion troops. ‘There is nothing new to-day from General Sherman's army. Our latest intelligence from New Orleans is to the 12th. Nothing of any importance was transpiring there. The Yebel General Dick Taylor was making manifestations of ‘@o attack upon our lines. The navigation of the Missis- sippi is pow perfectly open, the rebel blockade force having been compelled to evacuate their batteries. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the House resolution eontinu- ing for one year the present contract of the government ‘with the Overland Mail Company was adopted, after re. Solving amendments providing that for eight months of We yorr the trips shail not exceed sixteen days, and for the other four months twenty days, and that the com- pensstion shall not exceed the amount paid for carrying Privted matter by grater more than $620,000. The bill to Paoilitate telegraphic communication between the Fastero ‘and Western hemispheres was then called up. This bill ‘exibodies the project of Mr. Perry Mc. D. Collins for a tele ‘Sreph from St. Petersburg, via Siberia, the Amoor river ‘fegion, Behring Straits, Russian America and California, to Wish ington and all the Atlantic citios of this country. Ris discussion occupied the remainder of the session, and bhe Senate adjourned without coming to a vote on It. In the House of Representatives the Speaker presented the petition of Hons. Cuaries King, President, aod Mamii- oo Fish, Chairman of the Truatees of Colambia College, for ternational system of coinage, weights and mes Sores. Bills were passed establishing a large number of Bow post routes; instituting boards of commissioners to @djudicate of claims for property destroyed by the Union @rmice during the present rebellion; providing that no Moor of the wavy who has been in the service forty five Years after arriving at the age of sixteon, shall bere Stred before be reaches the age of sixty-two; including temporarily in the lit of corps commanders in the navy 0 the active list ail appointed to that grade prior to the @ommencement of the present session of Congress, regu. Mating the rank and order of promotion of warrant officors @f the navy; regelating prize proceedings and the distri. Patio of prize money, and authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to make arrangements for the education of Pupils in naval construction and engineering. The House Bdopted the conference committee's report on the bill tm Groasing the pay of private soldiers to sixteen dollars Per month’and ron-commissioned officers fo proportion, ‘Tho jolut resolution for the release of Captain John Ericsson from certain portions of his contracts with the @ovornmen| for iron-ctad vessels of war was brought up, and, after & long debste, was adopted by righty five to Wirty six votes, It turns over to the government for @ompiction, at ber present valuation, the trouciad Dictator, but weaves the Puritan iil in the fhands of Captain Ertoason, to be Soishod aecord! to the | “Letters from Madrid inform es that the Spanish govera- mont has disapproved the conduct of Admiral Pinzon io bis seizure of the Chiocha Islands, At the eame time the Freoch government conours fully im the conciliatory moasures adopted by M. de Lesseps in Lima. Every- ody im Kurope believes that the Spanish Peruvian troubles will havewo unpleasant consequences.” ‘The argument in favor of removing the indictments against Marshal Murray and others from the General Sessions to the United States Circutt Court, was to have been made yesterday before Judge Russel; but, in conse- quence of Mr. James T. Brady's absence from the city, it was postyoned till next Friday. Mr. District Attorney ‘Hal: stated that eminent counsel would assist bic ip the argument. “ ‘The Supreme Court, general term, affirmed the decision of Judge Barnard yesterday, legalizing the appointment of the new Tax Commissioners, so that the old board may now be set down as fairly defunct. There is no resort now for Mesars. Brown and Williamson short of the Court of Appeals; but it is pot at all likely that the master will ever reach Albany. The question may be considered as finaly disposed of. McCaaliffe ve, Fighth Avenue Railroad Company was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover dam- ages against the company for not permitting him to ride on the car after he had went on board end was willing 0 pay his fare, When the plaintiff went on the car he took & position beside the driver on the front platform, and ss the car was about to move the driver ordored bim to get off, When he was in the act of getting off, in obedience to the demand of the driver, he came tn collision with @ Sixth avenue car, which was moving in an opposite di- rection, and sustained permanent injuries. While be lay Prostrate, and after the driver was made aware of his eondition, the car was driven recklessly away without paying any attention to plaintiff, who was finally picked up by Messrs, House and Chamberiain, and furnished with such attentions as his case domanded. The jury, after matare deliberation, returned a verdiot in favor of the plaintiff for $2,265 63, The markets were irregular yesterday, and general merchandise took a wide range, owing to the agitation of the Tax and Tariff bills and the deeline in gold. Grant's movements in Virginia occupied the first place in the minds of business men and all things else. Business was of course light, but still there was full as much reported as te usual on Saturdays. Petroleum was ex- cited and prices were stil higher. Cotton was steady. At the Produce Exchange there was a general break down in prices of wheat and flour; but im other Dreadstuifs there was no essential change. Provisions generally were dull. Pork opened decidedly lower, but afterwards rallied a little and closed about 25c. below Friday's prices. Lard was 3c. @ 3<c. lowor, while butter and beef ruled firm. Whiskey was in good demand at advancing prices. Tallow was a trifle lower. Freights a shade firmer. Ashos steady. The grocery market, ag usual on Saturdays, was quiet. The Political Factions in this City— Another Richmond in the Field. Ever since the master minds who for a long time guided the councils of Tammany Hall— giving her her strength, power and glory—re- tired from the active direction of her move- ments, new parties and factions haye been con- stantly springing into existence in this city, many of them having only a mushroom exist- ence, wilting under the first seorching rays of the midday sun, whilst others managed to work themselves into a tolerable existence. The cause of all this is obvious to the most careless observer of events. The withdrawal of the men who had made Tammany a great power among the political organizations of her day gave place toa new set of men. The seats which they occupied in the councils of the Old Wigwam were seized upon by a set of*ward Politicians who neither could see nor compre- bend the duties of the position. The only ideas that they had of a political organization were that it was simply s piece of machinery “to carry out their seifish schemes and to ac- complish their own aggrandisement From that moment to the present time the council chamber of Tammany has been simply a place for small brained, selfish, designing and schem- ing politicians to conduct their personal quar- rels over the spoils of the party, the city gov- ernment and the different wards. They have been unable to comprehend « wider field. } Their political horizon only extended over Manhattan Island, and only that portion which presented indications of rich placers. The contesting cliques all arrayed themselves on the question of who should share the spoils, and as soon as one set was defeat- ed they immediately seceded and started a new party for reform, but controlled by the same motive and with the same selfish ends in view, and fully as corrupt as the cliques that they left behind. Thus it was that Fernando Wood, upon being foiled in his schemes m Tammany, withdrew and organized Mozart Hall. Instead of reform- ing the democratic party he added a new fea- ture to its corrupting influences. He has man- aged to work the organization into a position which enables him to bargain with Tammany, and the two sell out the offices and share the plunder between them, until the people have become disgusted with the boldness of their operations, We have had since Mozart was started several organizations, under the title of Citizens’ and Taxpayers’ associations, Jeffer- sonian and half a dozen other factions, of which neither existed long enough to make a name or hardly a ripple on the political waves, and will only be remembered by those whose pocketbooks grew lighter by the raid of the schemers who controlled these mushroom con- cerns, The same idea gave rise to the McKeon party, which managed to ride into position on the wave of disgust which existed in the public mind against both Tammany and Mozart. The re- sult is that we have now on the democratic side the Tammany, the Mozart, the McKeon aad the anti-Tammany ward associations—the latter run mostly by rejected contestant delegates to Tam- many Hall. All are in active exsistence, pull- ing and hauling and quarrelling over the spoils of office. On the republican side are the Cen- tral Committee, or the Seward organization, and half a dozen other sessociations and organizations run in the anti-Seward interest— one set claiming to be leyal, the other Union. Like the struggle on the democratic side, the only principles inv are the spoils and the individual aggrandisement of the leaders. The great principles that involve the government of a nation never enter into the discussions of any of these factions, further than as they are used as clap-trap to deceive the unsuspecting. But these factions, as numerous as they have become, are not to be left alone im their perso- nal fights. Another Richmond bas entered the ferms agreed upon with the government. Tho bill os. | ‘vid, unler the title of the “Oitizens’ Reform As- Qedlishing » nary yard for tbe construction and cinds as New London, Conntcticat, wor reported by {ts consideration was pest large majority. The mioority ‘@f the committee favor League Island, in the Delaware of the proposed navy yard, The took up aud adopted the joint reselution reperted > Meval Commitioe authorising the President to rive no- Woe t tbe government of Great Britain that \t is the Wish and Intention of the government of bbe United Mrates to torminate, at the ond of six months, the trovty Brrangoments Of 1817 relative to # naval farce on the Pikes. A joint resolution was reported from the Naval Gom mittee for the entablithment of « navy yard on the Wostero waters, after discussing which for some time Whe House adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The Courrier des Blais Unis, in ita tasue of the 17th woontalow the following imjortamt intelligence Fe | to tae Spacish foruviao imbrogiio. It eayam vairot | sociation.” The only event that has marked the | rise of this orgsnization thus far is its great parade of feed lawyers, played out politicians | and divappotnted officeseekers before the com- mittees of the Legislature, under the pretence of reducing the taxes. The only results that they have accompiished have been the increase of our taxes at least one and a half million of dollars, eiabarrassing the ¢ity government and furnishing large fees to » few briefless law- yers, and giving thom an opportunity to talk at random until they convinced everybody that they either did not desire a reform or else knew nothing about the subject they wore talking upon. Many of these dy and NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1864, at their flagrant corruption, whilst others have engineered through some of the largest ewin- dies that have ever disgraced the records of our city. With this record aad this result they returned te this city, and are now busy drum- ming up reeruits. At the bottom of all this are a few designing men who hepe to work them- selves into office, and who in the meantime manage to get their bread and butter out of the movement by deluding a few rich men to pay expenses. Every now and then they spread before the public with great flourish « list of the names of men of wealth who, no doubt, foot the bills for the honor of seeing their names paraded as important personages im the daily papers, or on large posters which disfigure the piles of bricks about the streets, curbstones and walls of build- ings being torn down. Thus they keep up the farce of reform, and will es long as it fusnishes paying situations to a few indi- viduals who are managing it. We notice that the organs of the shoddy party have recently come to the rescue of these pretended reform- ers, with the evident intention of trying to make a party which will secure a length of lease to the reign of shoddy in our midst. Thus it will be seen that, whatever form or name the political factions of this city rally: under, the same motives govern all thelr move- ments and prompt all their actions. We are living in the day of political humbuggery and political jugglery. The party that plays the boldest confidence game and humbugs the peo- ple the most appears to meet with the best success. The Heraid and Its Contemporaries. It is very well known wherever newspapers are taken that the Herarn is the best newspaper published in this country. It is also a better newspaper than any published in Europe. We entirely surpass our contemporaries in enter- prise, and @s the natural consequence we have a larger circulation than any other paper in the world. We accumulate through our countless correspondents everywhere the staple of news that the larger part of the papers in this coun- try live on. The evening papers in our own city fill one-tenth part of their columns with abuse of us, and the other nine-tenths with news taken at large from our paper. The worst of these is the Express, which is always boast- ing of its enterprise. It has enterprise; for it steals more extensively than all the others. We are so constantly ahead of all our contem- poraries with war news that we have ceased to notice the fact, save when some piece of im- pudent atrocity calls our attention to it more strongly fhan usual. Such an occasion has just been furnished by the sheet of a dirty aboli- tlon vagabond published in Wheeling, Va., whose malicious lies against us are copied into the congenfel columns of the New York Tribune, Our readers may remember that on the 12th of June we gave from our correspondent in Western Virginia aa account of General Hun. ter’s recent victory. Our account was accom- panied by am accurate map of the country, showing the locality of the fight and the posi- tions held by the enemy. Though an account of a battle fought fm a wild mountain region, remote even from telegraphic communication, it was published in onr paper in seven days after the battle was fought. We were not only abead of all other newspapers with this news, but we were even ahead of Secretary Stanton. ‘The Secretary gave General Hunter's report to the public en the day after we had published a particular account of the march to Piedmont and the battle. It was a distinct triumph in the matter of news over all other papers. As usual, it was republished by papers-in other cities and by the country papers—among the rest by the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. Some few days after its republication of our account the Wheeling paper gave place to an arficle in which it denounced our account as bogus: called it “a flagrant abuse of public confidence,” in which there was “perhaps not = word of truth:” and said of our account:—“You find the probabilities, and even the possibilities, of the result of the action of the 5th inst. represented here as actual occur- rences witnessed by this same Mr. Wilson. He even enters into a few details connected with the m&gnitudo of the victory and the important results attending it, the capture of a number of pieces of cannon, &c. He also asserts that Colonel Thoburn’s brigade lost the heavicst in. killed and wounded.” Here it is asserted by an ignorant boor that our correspondent had invented an account of the battle, though his account was known and proven to be trae by the official despatches at the time this boor wrote. We are denounced for an assertion of, the heavy loas of Thoburn’s brigade, when that was the very brigade which made the decisive movement across the field that decided the fight in our favor. But the most remarkable part of the matter isto come. Our account was published on the 12th inst. On the 18th fost., six days later, the Tribune published an account of the same battle. This is about the period that the 7ri- bune is usually behind us with news; but, though lamentably late, we may pay the 7ri- bune aecount the compliment to say that in all essential points it agrees with the account of our correspondent. And yet the Tribune, in the same paper, republishes the villanous ut- terances of the Wheeling paper. It publishes a etatement that we,bed invented aews in the newspaper in which it publishes the same news—but six days later than we bad pub- lished it. es Tue Paxswent axp His Castret.—A very eminent artist of thie city fe now at Washing- ton painting a picture of the President and his Cabinet. His only difficulty is about the sit- tings. He cannot get the Secretaries to come to his studio together. Chase leaves as soon as Seward shows his Roman tose. Seward will noteome if Stanton is there. Welles will not allow a hair of his long beard to be painted if Biair is about. Blair refuses to sit if Chase is in the room. None of them will appear in company with Old Abe, on the ground that bis stories are too stale. So the painter hase hard time of ft. The other day, while the artist was working away atthe group, putting in plenty of black paint for the background, laying the vermilion thickly upon the noses, touching up Chase’s watchchain with a little gilt, or trying to make Old Abe look as handsome as possible, the door of the studio opened softly, and Mrs. Lincoln—or the Empress, as we must soon call her—walked in and looked around. “I’m come,” said sho, “to see bow you are getting slong with your Happy Family.” The painter emiled—a ghastly smile—end,in « frame of mind which osm be better imagined than rowdy lawyers are men who have been turned | dexpribed, arose and showed her the Happy out of vosition by the indianation of the peovle Family pioture The Appresching Death of Pope Pius 1X.—Napoleeom Insugurating the MMil- lonaium. Our latest advices from Europe inform us that the rumors current iu Paris and London of the death of Pope Pius IX. are premature. His Holiness has been extremely ill, so ill that the prayers of all good Catholics have been asked for him; but our more recent accounts announce that he has at least partially recov- ered. Illness 60 long seated and working upon « constitution already enfeebled by age cannot be entirely removed, however, and we should not be surprised to learn at any moment that Pope Pius is no more. In that case the plans which Napoleon has been maturing for several years past will be put in operation, aad the next Pope will probably be only « spiritual sovereign, divested of all the troublesome re- sponsibilities of temporal power. Tho Emperor Napolcon has the election of & new Pope almost entirely in his own hands. The withdrawal of the French troops from Rome would throw open the door to a general European war. The Italians have not relin- quished their idea of unity or their affection for Garibaldi. Should they begin a war for this unity, as they would surely do if Napoleon gave the signal by taking away his troops, Austria would be drawn into the struggle through her hold upon Venetia; Spain and Portugal would take sides in the contest, and war would be de- clared throughout Europe. Thus holding the key of the temple of Janus, Napoleon proposes to use it or not, according to the disposition which may be made of the key of St. Peter. If the College of Cardinals elect a stubborn and ignorant bigot, blind to the spirit of the age and the teachings of history, then the death of Pope Pius will lead to war. But, om the other hand, should they select Monseigneur De la Tour, the Archbishop of Bourges, or the new Abbe Bonaparte, or whatever candidate Napo- leon may favor, then the death of Pope Pius will result in a splendid reform in the Roman Catholic Church, by which the Pope will re- main a spiritual monarch, and bis temporal kingdom will be peaceably returned to the nationality to which it belongs. Let Nupoleon but accomplish this, and he will inaugurate the millennium. . During the first three centuries of the Chris- tian era the Church of Christ, subjected to the cruel persecutions of all pagan nations, was kept pure and spotless. In accordance with the Divine command to “render unto Cesar the things that are Cesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s,” the early Christians did not interfere with politics, or seek to gain any earthly power, but simply and unselfishly devoted themselves to the work of teaching moraKty here and saving souls ‘for heaven. In spite of bitter persecutions, their converts rapidly multiplied, until at last the great Constantine bent his knee to the new religion and united the Church and the State. Then came several centuries of gradual degene- racy, during which the churches of Rome, Con- stantinople and Alexandria quarrelled with each other for supre: , and the leaven of temporal ambition lea the whole spiritual loaf. In the eighth century Charlemagne gave the Roman Church, then separated from the Greek Church, the patrimony which it still holds, and the Pope became aleo a temporal kifig. Without geing inte those details which will at once recur to every student of history, we condense the record of the Roman Church for the next thousand years into a series of po- litical intrigues; religious persecutions, grow- ing out of political plots; schisms and divi- sioms, caused by the same struggles for tempg- ral power, and a slow but steady decrease in the strength and the extent of the Pontifical sway. The more any unpre- judiced person studies this record the deeper will be his conviction that when Constantine united Church and State, and Charlemagne gave the Chureh an earthly king- dom, they innocently sowed the seeds of divi- sion and destruction in the bosom of Christianity. The whole religious world now protests against any further continuance in this error. ‘The schisms fromthe Roman Church are now almost as great as the Church itself, These schisms lave originated in efforts to use spiritual anthority for temporal aggrandizement. Thus the Pope drove all England into Protestantisin. Thus France was once lost to the spiritual head of the Church. Thus Italy has been upon the point of not only seceding from, but of fighting against, the Holy See. No church can withstand these repeated shocks for the sake of a little temporal authority, It must either relinquish its earthly treasures and bold fast its spiritual power, or it must become all corrupted, and fall whenever its earthly pos- sessions are wrested from its grasp. Napoleon comprehends this logical deduction from the lessons of the past. He sees that if the Roman Church cliogs stubbornly to ber temporalities she must be torn to pieces in the struggle of nationalities. But he also understands that if the new Pope will restore Rome to Italy and shake from his robes all the dust of earth, the Roman Church wil have a future more glori- ous than ber antecedents are. Sitting upon a spiritual throne, protected by the great Catho- tio Powers and blessed with the favor of Provi- dence, the Pope can sway the Christian world. Those who ure new most prejudiced against him will be totally disarmed. Christians will meet each other upon a common level, disre- garding mere doctrinal differences and unim- peded by temporal restrictions. This state of affairs will be a millennium. If Napoleon can bring it about his fame will be greater then that of Constantine and Charlemagne; for he will have reformed the errors they committed; and then we can almost forgive him for his folly and fiasco in Mexico. At present he seems in ® fair way to accomplish his pur- pose, and the death of Pius IX. will be the signal for the begianing of this sublime religious reformation. Tae Conrerence on Tire Dantsa Question.— Although the latest advices from Burope give no account of any definite action of the Lon- don Conferenos, we are assured from reliable and private sources that peace will be restored. It is evident if this is accomplished that poor ‘Denmark will be the sufferer, as the Allies (Prussia and Avetria) are too arrogant to make concessions while flushed by success. Napo- leon, who it seoms is using the Danish imbrog- Ilo to carry out bis own purposes, does not favor peace; but England doubtless intends to force upon Denmark such a polloy. Urged into this war by the encouragement of the British Cabinot and press, Denmark will be made to accept a peace, because England cannot or dare not assist her, and the Danes must understand the folly of a struggle between two millions of people and thirty millions. The Denmark must fall apon England, and will ia itself prove how greatly her power has de- creased. She urged Denmark into a war, and must now foree a peace upon her, and make her submit to epoliation, all because John Bull's vaunting is ever ahead of his courage. The Danes might have made better terms with Ger- many than they will finally be forced to accept had they not been misled by false promises. The result, though painful to Denmark, must settle the fact that England has now ceased to be one of the great European Powers. Tam Passenr ConormssionaL DELEGATION vrom THe Crrr—Necessirr yor 4 Rapicat Caancx.—The period for the nomination of candidates to represent the metropolitan dis- tricts in Congress is approaching, and it becomes the duty of oltizens to see that proper men are selected. The present delegation was elected two years since, and for all the prao- tical good they have done they might have been elected forty years ago. They were chosen on a war platform, and were tacitly pledged to exert their influence in suppress- ing the rebellion; and while they didso they were expected to expose the folly, extrava- ganoe and imbecility of the administration. They were expected to prove the champions of & vigorous prosecution of the war and the rigid censors of the mode in which it was conducted. ‘They have failed in all these points, and instead of holding up im their proper light the cor- ruptions that exist in nearly every department of the government, and showing the impotency that has characterized the efforts of the Exeou- tive to carry on the war to a speedy and suc- cessful termination, they have frittered away their strength and paralyzed their influence in paltry partisan squabbles and intrigues, and lent covert and pernicious aid and assistance to the enemy. Thus has the potential power of this great city been lost, or worse than lost, in the work of restor- Ing peace and national prosperity. Besides, these men do not represent the ideas of the present age. They are wedied to the ex- ploded theories that prevailed half a century ago, and are as incompetent to judge and legia- iate upon the great measures. suited to this era of progress as they have proved themselves un- faithful to their constituents in the vital matter of the nation’s salvation. Hence a thorough and radical change in the character and men- tal calibre of our Congressional delegation is imperatively demanded. We want men who will not lose sight of the prominent interests of the city to subserve personal and party ends; and as the times demand a high order of intel- lect, inflexible integrity and unfaltering patri- otiam as the material out of which Congression- al representatives should be wrought, it be- comes the duty of our citizens to see that these qualifications are found in the next delegation sent from this city to the National Legislature. The time for werk in this good cause is now upon us, and all true men are urged to enter into it with that earnestness and vigor which shall insure success, Spars Backine Our From Perv.—The French journals state that the Spanish government has disavowed the course pursued by Admiral, Pinzon in seizing the Chincha Islands, and that no fear of a war need exist. We are sorry to hear of this, as we had hoped that Spain might have the courage to attempt to carry out her nefarious scheme of supplanting the government in Pern by an empire ala Maximilian, and that she might, as a result, receive the whipping which Peru is evidently able and willing to inflict upon the old filibustero. ‘Bhe affair of the Chincba Istands was just such a precedent as we needed in regard to our future seizure of Cuba, and we regret to find the Spanish at- tempt likely to turn out a fizzle. Had the Peruvians not flared up so suddenly Spain would not, in all probability, have backed out, and then she would have received the lesson she so richly deserves. As itis, we do not doubt the truth of the rumor that she has dis- avowed the action of her admiral, and that he will be reprimanded and Peru receive an apolo- gy. Still, now that Spain has shown the clo- ven foot, it were well that the republics of Central and South America form an offen- sive and defensive alliance, and that they make such preparations as will insure a successful termination to any war they may undertake against Spain or France, or both these Powers combined. There must be some one of sense in the Cabinet of her Catholic Majesty Isabella Becundo who advised that Spain should be- ware how she entered the lists against Peru. General Prim may have been the individual in question, as he possesses a quick and ready judgment, and doubtless has the welfare of his country at heart. Movements of Ge jcClellan, SaRaTooa, June 18, 1864p Goneral MeCietian, lady, servant and child, arrived by the half-past six o’ciock train this evening, and engaged rooms at the French, English and Germat trying thetr bands at portraits and statneties of the im- mortal Engliab dramatist, with constantly varying offects, Shakspere’s face must have been as changeable as the color.of the chameléon’s skin, if half the receat “por. traite’’ contain any elements of truth within them. Another fresco, or rather picture in water.glass medi. um, “Ihe Landing of Charles WU. at Dover,” has been finished by Mr. Ward for the Houses of Parliament at Westminster. M. Allard, & Gistinguished painter, of Lyons, who, at the commencement of the winter, went to Rome with bis mother, wife and four ebtidrea, to study the great mas- ters, was recently been murdered in his studio. When found be was in adying state, having received no lees “than sixteen wounds on the head with a beavy instru. ment. The murderer is believed to be a man who rat to him as a mode! for a picture, representing ‘‘Jadas giving the kies to oar Saviour.”” The model was sitting for the figure of the detrayer. The mau bas since been arrested In Clyite Wechte. The London art critica speak in terms of the highest eulogy of Bir KE, Landseer's last great picture, ‘Man pro- poses, but God disposes," now on exhibition at the Royal Academy. The subject was suggested by the finding of the relics of tho Franklin Expedition in tbe Arctic regions. ‘The scene 1s given upon the surtace of @ plece of rugged joo, the coast line of that remote Northern land; this connt line la cut into by inlete of darie water, Over all ia the greenish light of aa Arctic moon; a purple veil of mist is drawn aside—as if a secret were displayed. The Voil gone, rose tints of sunl fall on the nearest and the highest points of rook-like'loe, while light Iteelf pene trates the ea green blocks, and lucid sha- dows appear among the masses that strew the hore, Right across the, front of the pioture New aapar of wood, the mast of @ boat it may be, covered with brine as hard as a .stone, and with #hoary Ranging fringe of jololes, A rag of tarpaulia—that may, at one time, have been the roof of a sort of hut formed amongst the angular biooks—Wos across this spar, Heneath the spar ares fow planks, biesohed in the long frost; and, from benonth them peer a few bones—the rib bones of « tno; over these lies @ coat of Davy biue, A huge white bear, her head oa high, holds between cruel jaws @ whitened Done, At the other side of the picture, and as ft were a4 the back of the so-called hut, sprawls the fiemiors balk of a atill larger bear, whose finttened head {a laid along the 108, Dotween ita jaws and from beneath the apar the ragged joagth of & piqoe of bunting, shame aad dingraco of tho diamemborment of | wart of « Uaion snot. “brigade or two of our cavairy will f BANKS. ARRIVAL OF THE EVENING STAR. TWO DAYS LATER INTELLIGENCE. EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION. Raising of the Blockade on the Mississippi. Another Blockade Runner Captured. Hevements of the Rebel General Dick Tayler. SCAROIZY OF COTTON, ee. ae, os ‘The United States mail steamship Evening Star, Cap- tain Wimpenney, from New Orleans, wheace she sailed on the 12th inst., arrived at this port yesterday. We are indebted to the purser for favors. Mr. Heury Thompson's Despatch. New Onrzans, La., June 11, 1866 Drating the Emancipation Ordioance, which your readers will remember aved by the Constitational Cenvea- tion on the th of May last, It deciere@ that hereafter all slaves wore free, and that slavery should pe mor fot in the Btate.of Louisiana = The 11th of June was decided om for the fal though the sun Diazed overhead, rendering the heet most tosupportable, the nogroes assembled thousands, and were exposed to its rays throughout the entire day without serious inconvenience, Indeed, the seorching weather appeared to please them; for when 3 visited Congo square, about noon, I saw several shake hands and bow very solcmuly to each other, but opem their mouths with a grin and eay “Berry warm day.” ‘Tho sirects were crowded with colored people the whole day. Some wore wreaths, others ribbon, and nearly all the males had distinguishing marks {commemoration of the day, by either insignias of office or clubs, while the fomales and children carriea s emai American flag, OF wore parti-colored ribbons of red, white and biue, au were dressed in their best. ‘The place of mecting—es agreed upon previous te the forming of the processien—was at Congo or fe ‘were assem! Eziphihostre for ine“sccommogation of the scbools aad jlatform for the speakers had been erected = al Banks and stat, Governor Hahn, Mayer ded very appropriately. aeees and iron pean by the eolored end, while hundreds of the assembled thousands in with ‘sweet accord,” hundreds oe acted as hel ~ And Massa and I must part— ‘So fare you well poor massa; May God Almighty help you, Tl! never feet your tesh again, For i'reedom's got thestartt Our ransomed race is bound to trke, Our ransomed race is bound to take, Our ransomed race is bound to take ‘Bhe road that leads to light. ‘So fare you well, poor massa; May God Almighty help you; It never fee! your lash again, For Gea is with the right, Louisiana’s star ia shining bright, General Banka is giving light, Our convention ig doing right, And now we all are free. ‘So fare you well, poor massa; May God Almighty help you; Til never feel your lasn again, For now we all are free, When the ceremonies were concluded the procession ‘was formed by the marshals, who were mounted on some of the Ginest horses that Louisiana bas produced. Throe regiments of colored soldiers headed the proces sion. They really presented a fine appearance. These were followed by the various clubs and societies which have been organized in this city, the sebools, the vete- rans of 1814-16, city and State authorities, froo State committes, &c. Banners, music, and carriages ip abundance also formed part of the procession. There wore probably twenty thousand negroes in the procession and in the streets of New Orleans to-day, Asalute of one hundred guna was fired at nooa by Capt Pearson's battery. Printed in large capitals, on paper about a foot square, wan the foliowing:— POOP RPOLODED DED TEPEDD CODE Qeerererenee ot oR SDRNT LINCOLN, We have responded to your call 600,000 more,stand ready, Mason @xwerat Bavns, L The hero and friend of human liberty. OPO OO RAE DA RLIOL POL ODE ODE Penneneeee rere nenere rent ae ee. HUN, MICHARL HAHN, ‘The first free State Governor, ‘And our true frieud. Louisiana shall be free, AON AORO RE HOLE OOH ‘There was no disturbance whatever. THR VLOCKADE OF THR MISSISSIPPI RATRED. Asletated in my isst, the enemy bave hastily left their position above Greenville. A large force was seat everland to attack them; but the rebels wisely concluded vo “evacuate,” Navigation is again Mr. William Young’s Despatch. Neg Onvaawe, Jane, 13, 1964, PAYMASTER GOING NORTH, Major R. P. 1. Baber, Paymaster of the United Staten army, satis by the Eveniag Star this moroing, and is on. dered, at the request of the President, to report at Cineta- uatl. Major Baber eommonced as a paymaster in the Army of the Potomac, and has served ja that capacity im ‘every department of the Unica. The Major, then a cities of Ohio, and a law partoer of Judge Swayne, now of the United States Supreme Court, was active in suggesting the nomination of Mr. Lincoin as carly as June, 1660. hg Preatdential elector ja 1860, and was Srnent ote sump te Columbus detit Banom 6 OF DICK PAYLOR, = ‘There are more indications.of an ofeasive movement by a portion of Dick Taylor's cavalry Ptremen mane St 4 CORE MANTA. Gonerst he 1, 10 bas lately Deen up to Morganzia, to le at a court martial! for the trial of Colonel Charles Tevis, of the Third Maryland cavairy, for'sertein ee ae Dp. M. D8 AT THR WORTH, ‘Though New may be the central point of the D.M. D,’a, yer organizations exist, it ie said. in New York, Boston, Phiiadelphia ned Baltimore, which the goveroment will take measuren ‘0 control, (001 08RD she Srneresy, versed with lum upon the rixht of wifrage. for their asnociates. Ale eatiatiod them fully by remark. ing that they would seoure (ho right to vote sooner than ‘they expected, post snk ARS News by the way of Cairo. Camo, Jane 17, 1864, ‘The steamer Olive Branob, from Now Orleans 12th inst, has arrived. ‘The nows te aatmportant, Gne was fired into at Columbia, Miss,, by ‘musketry, without injury. ‘The steamer Columbia, fram New York, had arrived ‘Among the passengers by tho steam transport Themag A. Bott, for Now York, wos General Franklin, stilt suffering from bis wound received im the Red river campaign. General MeClornand was atill at New Orleans. Cotton wan buoyant, with fate inquiry ead very Iitte on wale. Ordinary , 040. 056. ; low middling, $2 01 a 61 middling, $1 00.29108, Vary little auger of molaseee offoring pic Fo youd auger, 19/0. , prime molgeneng Ome » TT EEE