The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1864, Page 4

TERME cosh in advanca Money sent by mail will be ot the righ ef the sender. Dione but bank bills curroat la ‘ew York taken ‘THE DAILY HERALD, Tunes cents per copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five coats (NO NOTICE taken of anonymous cerrespondence. We ¢o not return rejected communications. » 107 Volume XXIX.. ———- AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. MIBLO'S GARDEN, Broatway.—Sua ov Ion. WALLACK’S THKATKS, Mroadway.~Rowso ano Some OLYMPIC THBATRS, Broadway.—Ewousa Orers— wEMAN GIRL. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Prexca Srr— Devitisn Goon Jone NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Manoie Haant— Blia KoowMokaG—1OuNG AMAR.ca. RARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadway,—Two Giants, Two Dwakrs, ALBINO: SARPEyTS, &C., @t all hours, Ma- xUlae AL MAM, Sanda, Pw WOOD'S MINSTREL BALL, 814 Broadway.— Boras, Dances, Ac.—Lar hind Go. mein CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Rowery.— axp Exciting Mxtasau or Krmuorum Ovprase n=? NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.— Cvmosinas anD Lrortss, free? & MO HOOLRYS OPRRA foxes, Dancxs. Bu HOUSE, wes Brooklyn. —Erarortas » New York, Sundny, Juty 17, 1864. THE BITUATION,. The pursuit of the rebel invaders by General Grant’s forces does not promise to be very successful. It appears Chat the movement +bas been delayed too long to Warrant the expectation that the cuomy and their mmenso plunder can be intercepted. They ar- rived at Edwards’ ferry on Friday night, Our ‘cavalry bed « slight skirmish with the reaf guard, which resulted in the capture of four or five prisovers, Some alarm was felt in Wash- fogton on Friday by the roport that the rebels were rupning the railroad up to Manassas; but it is Bot ascertained to be true A force of the cnemy, from three hundred to five hundred strong, Passed through Little Washington, Sperry ville and Creign- ersville Thoraday night, on their way towards Madison Court House and Gordonsville, They had one hundred ‘nd fifty horses with them and twenty-five wounded pris‘ners. We give some very interesting accounts of the affairs in front of Petersburg from the rebel journals, and also their comments on the recent raid into Maryland. Despatches from General Butler’s headquarters, dated on Thursday, sbow that everything is comparatively quiet there. The rebels contiaue to fre from a moving rifle battery on our transports. Our gunboats follow the battery and reepond to their fire with shells. There is no news received at Fortress Monroe of the vessels sent out in search of the pirate Florida. The news from Mississippi is exciting. A severe fight mear Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, took place on the Sth instant, which resulted the defeat of the enemy. It appears that our forces moved from Black river on the morning of the 3d instant, under commacd of General Dennis, General Slocum Joined the expedition at Champion Hiljs, The whole force numbered less than three thousand. The ecemy ‘were pot encountered in any considerable force until the Sth instant, when they were found strongly posted on the east bank of a creek throe miles this side of Jackson. A flanking foreo under Colone! Coates, of the Eleventh Dlivois, compelied tbe rebels to abandon their position, ‘od our forces occupied Jackson that night, The enemy attacked our advance in strong force; but they were driven back the next morning. Oar rear guard was again essaultod near Clinton, but the rebels were again repulsed aod the ground strewn with their dead and wounded. ‘Our total loss was jess than one hundred killed and fiity wounded. We captured thirty or forty prisoners General Rosecrans bas taken the precacntion to guard against tbe incendiary fires in St. Louis, by which a umber of boats have recently been destroyed, Re has ordered two tugs to be kept under full bead of eteam, day gnd night, to tow out burning boats into the river, and has adopted otber stringent measures, euch as pro- Dibising small beate from plying in the harbor without authority. The militia at St. Josep Mo , have re. cently gone over to the rebels in considerable numbers. Our news from New Orleans to the Oth inst. is not very important, beyond the departure of a force of Banks’ army northwards, the destination of which is now known bere. The Picayune newspaper, which had been sup- pressed for some time past, resumed publication as @ Union jourpal on the 9tb inst. An expedition sent out from Portsmouth, Va., on Sat urday last, under command of Colonel Diamond, of the First United States Volunteers, succeeded in driving all the rebel guerillas from the Nansemoud eouvtry across the Biackwater. We give to-day the full official reports of the fight ‘between the Kearsarge and Alabama from Captain Wins. low, the Lieutenant Commander Thornton, the Chief Ea- Gineor, the boatewain and the chief gunner. They will, no doubt, be read with inierest. MISCELLANEOUS REWs. Edward H. Ow-n bas been appointed by Judge Bette, of the United States District Court, as an additional Prize Commissioner for the district, under the amendec prize act passed at the session of Congress just closed. William Taylor, late steward om board the ship Reso- lute, brought am action in tbe Marine Cour: captain, Beory MoGilvey, for asrauli and b: mitted by the defendant on the voyage from Whampoa, China, to this city, The plaintiff charged the defendant sith throwing Rot coffee and ten in bis face, acd putting him in irons, The defendant admitied beving thrown cold toa in bis face, but said that {1 wae in the exercise of @ legitimate authority, the defendact being unruly him im irons till the arrival of the vessel in Ni ‘The Judge gave the plaintiff five dollars damag On application of Mr. William F. Howe, Judge Barnara yesterday granted a writ of certiorari, commanding Jus tice Dowling to return the proceedings relative to the commitment of Hoary Page, who was committed for hav. ing procured @ sabstitute fo this city for s conscripted resident of New Jersey. The writ was made revarnabie ou Monday. Tue court martial appointed to investigate the charges @gninst Genera) Spinola comvened yesterday at No. 62 Bleecker strest, Major General Peck presiding. After @onsultation the court adjourmed over to next week. The @harges aguinet “eneral Spinola appear to pe for alleged Creade while in charge of the recruiting headquarters at Lalayette Hall, io this city. ‘The rive in gold started prices of merchandise upward om Saterday, and domestic produce in particular was de CAdedly higher, though everything was eailed nominal. Foreign goods were held altogether firmer, and the fow qnlen reported were at better prices, Cotton wae lower. wes active and Se to Se. 0 dc higher. On wit Loc. bight. Whial Lo. \oc. beller, and corm also lo. 0 20. higher. Oates were duil aad heavy. Pork was more active, and $8.0 $3 per bb. higher. Beef Geli and uschanged. Lard was more active and frm. Whsesey re appropriated or destroyed by them, and the plunder carried off; the lines of their retreat, and the movements of our pursuing columns, &c., leave very little of mystery connected with the subject. We have narrowly escaped the terrible disas- ter of the surprise and sacking of Wash- ington. The city, we are inclined to believe, was saved from a surprise by General Wallace and his handful of men in that henoeforth memorable fight of Saturday, the 9th inst., on the Monocecy river. In that opportune and well delivered battle the strength and great design of the enemy’s advancing columns were discovered, the needful warning was given to the War Office, and the incalculablo advantages of # day were gained at Wash- ington, to prepare to meet the enemy at the exact point for which he was moving. In this view, the battle made, though a defeat of General Wallace, of 1864, towards the mouth of the Monocacy river, will take rank in its immense advantages to the Union cause with the great victory of General Meade of 1863, at the head of the same siream. We hope that the administration, restored to cool reflection, will yet endorse this viow of the subject, and do justice toa trusty and sagacious soldier, faitiifally discharging his duty at the right time and in the right place to render the great enterprise of the enemy a compleie failure. But still the question recurs, why waa it that, in order to open their eyes, our military au- thorities at Washington required the warning of a battle and a defeat of our troops almost at the very gates of the city? Gen. Grant a fort- night before had informed Mr. Stauton of this movement of the enemy. General Sigel, in his flight from Martinsburg, had reported the ad- vancing rebel column down the Shenandoab valley to be twenty-five thousand strong; and from the desperate situation of General Lee at Richmond, and the whole cause of the rebel- lion, the War Office should have known that this rebel force advancing into Maryland was moving for Washington, and by forced marches. How, then, are we to explain the lamentable fact that, at the eleventh hour, the clerks of the executive departments had to be called to the rescue of the national capilal, when the War Office might have had, and should have had, troops enough at the front to “gobble up” the exhausted columns of Early and Breckin- ridge on their approach to the city. The incompetency, incredulity and indo- lence of the War Office make the only answer we have to give. In a word, a saga- cious, experienced, cool and capable gene- ral is needed at Washington; and next we want at Washington a mobile army of one bundred thousand men, in order to clear the country of the enemy between the Potomac and Ricbmond, while General Grant is closing around that last stronghold of the rebellion from the south side. We would therefore ap- peal again to President Lincoln to appoint General McClellan to the Department of Wash- ington, comprising the country indicated, and to call for a force of one hundred thousand three months volunteers and militia to serve under him. In this way we fecl assured that country saved. Tue Camparcy Ix Geoncta—At1ANTA.—Hav- ing successively abandoned the mountain re- gion near Chattanooga, having been driven or flanked out of Rocky Face Ridge, Buzzard Roost, Dalton, Ressacca, Kingston, Cassville and Rome, across the Etowab river, out of | Allatoona Mountains, and away from Marietta, | Johnston has at length been pushed from the | south bank of the Chattahoochee river, which is the last obstacle of importance between our forces and Atlanta. The Chattahoochee rises in the extreme northeastern part of Georgia, in aspur of the Blue Ridge chain of mountains | called Mount Yonah. The stream ranges south- westerly, is about five hundred miles long, forms the boundary between Georgia and Alabama from West Point, and, joining with the Flint at the Florida line, forms the Apala- chicola. The lower portion of the river is navigable. Having left this line, Johnston will probably show no fight, or at all events very little, at Atlanta. That place is not of any natural strength, and he will never hazard bis army for its protection. The campaign ending in the capture of the railroads will force Johnston into another field of operations. But what that will be no one can yet determine. From Atlanta, with his powerful army, Gen. Sherman will be strong enough if the open, lower country which he has gained to continue driving Joe Johnston till his weakened and stili diminish- ing army is destroyed, whether he may elect to move southward for Macon, or to the east for Augusta and Charleston, er southwestwardly for Alabama and Mobile. We think it very probable that General Sherman, after gathering up supplies at Atlanta sufficient for a new departure im any direction, will be governed now in his movements to a great extent by the events of the campaign in Virginia. Holding the whole northern rail- road system of Georgia in his hands, he may move east, west or south, as the occasion may “invite or require. Bram ox tae Batttwore Coxvexttos.—The illimitable enarl of political complications is more wonderful than Bully Bottom’s dream. Now that the Baltimore Convention bas nomi- nated Old Abe, and quietly gone out of exist- ence, it is likely to appear that there were affiliations between that convention and the Cleveland Convention, owned and run by Gen. Fremont. Gen. Frank Blair, in # letter given in another column, felicitates his friend Capt. Able, of St. Louis, on the nomination of Old Ave at the Baltimore Convention; but he says that the convention is not entitled to any credit for the nomination, since it had to make it anyhow. Just what we have said several times. But Blair says that the convention bad to nominate Lincoln because the people, done so, while the truth is that it had to nomi- nate him because matters had been so arranged by the shoddy centractora Blair then informs Able, fer the public benefit, that this Baltimore Convention was composed in part of the origi- nators—the real prime moyera-rof the Cleve- land Fremont € And this fact leads Blalr to expreth in @ general way at the corraption of the Baltimore Convention. Bat be likes its candidate. These likes and eommunicating a number of additional facts confirmatory of bis previous statements, From all these it is evident that the constitutional authorities of Mexico have under their juris- diction a much greater extent of country than Maximilian can control, and that the people aro organizing for serious defence against the intruder, even In those regions which are gar- risoned by the French, General Urage,.who it ‘was asserted by the agents of Maximilian had joined the cause of the new empire, is, on the contrary, active ia his efforts to arouse the people of Mexico to a determined resistance against the subversion of their government, He presided over a war meeting at which resolutions tending to that effect were unanimoue!y adopted. We publish the proceedings of this meeting in another part of this journal, and would call attention to the document in question as of great importance, contradicting, as it does most emphatically, those Franco-Mexican journals which ad- vocate the case of Maximilian, and en- deavor by the dissemination of these false reports to benefit his government, Promi- nent among these journals ie the French organ published in this city, It takes groat pains to contradict the statemeuts of our correspondent; but, unfortunately for it, such documents as those we publish to-day prove that his assertions are quite correct. The French journal published here has in the suite of Maximilian an editor who receives from the French government a Richmond will speedily be captured, the rebel- | Proved a failure. lion crushed, the Treasury relieved, aud the | difficulties overcome, the whole country re- salary to write up the new empire, while at the eame time he is an bonorary member of the Imperial Council of Mexico. From these facts it may readily be deduced that the editor in question will praise, quand meme, the actions of the new Emperor; that he will to the extent of his ability and the limited influence of bis journal, published here, sustain the imperial regime in Mexieo, and that, as a natural result, his reports must be accepted with due reserva- tion. That the public in th's country might be well informed as regards the proceedings of the new Mexican empire, we have despatched to its capital a reliable and intelligent correspondent, whose truthful reports the Franco-Mexican journals will vainly endeavor to contradict or subvert. c There can be no doubt that Maximilian and his imperial backer, Napoleon, have a most dificult task before them ere they can accomplish the entire subjugation of Mexico. The people are far from des- pairing of their ability to resist the invaders, and under the command of determined generals will still give the French great trouble. Having as yet so small. portion of the country under their control, the French cannot carry out Napoleon’s pet scheme of working the rich gold and silver mines; so that millions of francs must be borrowed yet to keep the new Mexican empire afioat; and we are aware that getting loans for Maximilian in Europe has But suppose all these duced to submission, and the long covcted mines reached, the two imperial filibustess would still have their most serious, most | dreaded danger to encounter—the opposition ofthis government. We shall soon sce the rebellion ended and peace restored, and then of course our first move will be the vindication of the Monroe doctrine. We shall at once order off this continent all intrnders, and both French and Austrian will have to pack up and retire. We can brook no monarchies at the | threshold of our great republic, and shall have « million of men and five hundred vessels- of-war to carry out our intentions in this matter. Taking all. these things into con- | sideration, we conclude, spite of the falsehoods | of the Franco-Mexican journals, that uneasy | will lie the head that wears the Mextcan crown. Sreccrattons is Printixc Paver, Provistons, | &c., axp THE Natioxat. Baxks.—The publish- ers of newspapers have been obliged for a long time to pay enormous prices for printing | paper, and various substitutes have been intro- daced to supply the place of its chief original material—rags—in order to reduce the cost of manufacture. Straw, various grasses, the bark of trees, and, lastly, corn husks, or shucks, have been introduced to meet the deficiency in the supply of rags. But with all these substitutes the prices continue to ad¥ance: ‘and now no better cause than speculation by the manufac- twrers and others can be assigned as the reason. How is it that these printing paper ‘speculators obtain accommodations to enable them to speculate so extensively in the article? An answer is found in the course pursued by the new national banks in furnishing loans to these speculators. : Ever since the organization of these national banks they have been aiding the unscrupalous speculator to carry on his busi- ness; and, om account of the great evils arising from this cause, Congress, in its wisdom, passed @ Dill designed to prevent specula- tion in gold. These banks then turned their attention particularly to speculations In print- ing paper, and in pork, beef, flour, grain and other necessaries of life. It is to them that the ‘present bigh prices are owing. and it is to them that the public must look‘as one of the causes formany of the grievous burthens they bear. Now, if these national banks are not careful and watobfal, and do not cease their free and easy accommodations to speculators in printing paper and other necessaries of life, and do not halt in their operations tendiog to impose upon the government double necessary expense of supplying the great Unicn armies with pro- visions, they will all go down—they will all break to pieces together, and entail ruin apon all concerned. The finances of the country are in a rickety condition. The late Secretary of the Treasury left them eo, and it remains for the new Secretary, Mr. Fessenden. to amend thetr condition by adopting wise rules for the regulation of his dealings with banke, where apeculative tendency is to impose and main heavy burihens, both upon the people and the gevernment. Mepicat, Apvios ro Exouann.—The Eaglish Gre cutting their ordnance teeth. We would recommend that they use a little more of Cap- tain Winslow's soothing syrup and a few more of Admiral Dablgron’s eleven-inoh iron pills. [We have a few more Koaruprge, gillboxes IASgH RHOY Wi which we could a syrup ead pills upon applying to him ia per- son. Orders received in the British Channel or anywhere at sea. ROOK od Priestly Prosertption. { In another column we give the declaration of certain dignitaries of the American Episco- pal Cburoh, to the effect that they believe in the Bible, and in all that it tells as to Heaven and Hell—going the whole Sgure as to par- ticulars in the latter place—brimstone and fire, horns, tail, and soon, Why do these men deem it necessary to declare their belief In this way? Some three or four years ago there was published a brave and honest book, entitled “Essays. and Reviews.” It was made up of several papers on theological subjects, written by distinguished churchmen in England, in which they brought into question certain of the church doctrines and dogmas. .. They ventured to show that many of these dogmas, originating in the intellectual darkness of the early Chris- tian centuries, were unwortby the enlighten- ment of the present age, and ought not to be taught by truthful men. It was their theory that, as growth and progress are permitted”?in every other branch of study, they ought to be permitted in theology also, and that the Church ought no longer to insist upon holding tenets that were acceptable in the times when men believed that the world rested on the back of a turtle. This carried with it the dangerous fact that there were distinguished churchmen who believed that the Church was of human origin, since its ideas partook of haman ignoraite; for if it were instituted by God His prescience must have made it such that time and the growth of human knowledge should not belittle it. Consequently the book excited great alarm in the minds of the English ecctesiastical hierarchy—all those Little, round, (at, oily men of God who enjoy comfortable bishoprics. So ecclesiastical machinery’ was brought up out of the dark ages, and the authors of this book were at once denounced as heretics. Two of them— the Rev. Dr. Williams and Mr. Wilson—were tried before an ecclesiastical court on the charge of heresy, They were relieved from the charge; but there was great dissatisfaction with the de- cision. Hence there was a schism, and the Church in England was divided upon the ques- tion whether or no it belicved ia the inspira tion of the canonical Scriptures; and a test declaration on this subject was sent round for the signatures of the “unco good and owe: righteous”’ of the magnates. This idea has been imported in order to give the American bishops a chance to show how good they also are; and so far only one has de- clined to sign the declaration. This is Bishop Whittingham. He does not refuse to sign be- cause he believes in the inspiration of the Scrip- tures any less than the others do, but merely because he does not like this particular plan of proscription. the Carrats Winstow’s Orrtcrat. Rrrorts.—We give in another column the very interesting reports of Captain Winslow and the officers of the Kearsarge to the Navy Department. From these statements we are assured that the utmost coolness, zeal and courage were dis- played in every department of the ship, and tbat, from the gallant commander down to the powder boys, each one strove to maintain the honor and glory of the flag. The marines opened the engagement with a rifled guo, and throughout the action maintained a rapid and effective fire. The gunner’s report will be read with much interest. In sixty-five minutes one hundred and seventy-three projectiles were hurled at the pirate, the two eleven-inch guns throwing fifty-five shells, or at the rate of one nearly every thirty-five seconds to each gun. This is fice practice, and our transatlantic ene- mies may rest assured that we have plenty of other vessels that can do as well if they only have the opportunity. Navy Acenr Henpenson.—Commissioner Osborn, upon the preliminary examination | of Mr. Henderson, late Navy Agent, has cons eluded to hold him over for trial. This is well; for, if innocent, the accused will have the means and the opportunity to make it plain; if guilty, the ends of justice will be attained and a wholesome example to evil doers in their dealings with the Treasury will be made. Let even-handed justice be done. Tue Exorish Ongay.—Among the various organs that represent foreign interests and ideas in our midst there is an English organ, conducted on the true English theory that all that is good and admirable is England and the English, and that all that is not English, and especially all that is American, is contemptible and vile. Itis the ostensible purpose of this journal to flatter the national vanity of its sub- ecribers—Englishmen who have come here to make money—and it does this principally by decrying this country in a very English spirit—that is, in a spirit of bullying, ignorant, arrogant self-sufficiency. English sentiments are at any time sufMfciently unpalatable to the American people; but this war bas made them doubly so now. England is against us openly, and with the rebels d the English organ, true to its mission at an exponemte! of English opinion here, is thus more than usually offensive. It is a secession organ, giv- ing aid and comfort to the enemy; and since it seems to fancy that, as a consistent English paper, it must oppose the war and favor the South, it ought to have the decency to suspend publication, and so save trouble. Overrections on TRE Sipe waLKs.—Complaints are constantly being made in regard to the ob- structions that are allowed to remain on the sidewalks in many of the business streets of this city, The sidewalke, which our citizens have a sort of an idea were made for pedes- trians, are, in many ef the business streets, so encambered with boxes, barrels, hogeheads and crates that it is impossible for a person to walk through the street without either climb- ing ever the boxes, barrels and other encum- brances, or dodging around. among the carts, wagons end numerous other vehicles in the middie of the sireet, It is next thing to im- peasible for ladies to walk through those streets. There must be some gross neglect of duty somewhere, or this state of affairs would not be allowed to exist. There is a law on our statute books regulating all such matters, and it is the Guty of the Corporation Attorney to see that this law is engeroed. Why des he not attend to his duty? What, we ark, is the use of hav- ing laws, and paying of.cers to execute them, on the etatate boakat ‘back of the envelope. This iso novel method of “‘ciroulating’ party documents;” but we think the. Sanitary Commission, as “no Party’ institution, would do well to keep out of the business, Intelligence. SERVICES TO-DAY. » The Rev, M. J..Gonzalves, ohapiain in the United States ‘Army, will preach in the Fiftieth street Presbyterian church (Rev. Dr, Bell's), between Broadway and Fighth Avenue, at balf.past tén A. M. and quarter vo eight P. M, Subject of discourse—‘'Expertonces in the Army." Prifessor Schmidt, from the Norwegian University, State of Towa, will preaoh’at half-past two P. M,, at the Evangelical Littheran church, corner of Ninth street and avenue B. All Swedes, Norwogians and Danes are res pectfully invited to attend, At the Churoh of the Resurrection, Thirty-firth atroet, Bear Sixth avonue, the Rev, BE. O. Flagg, rector, will preach morning andevening, Morning service at baif- past ten A, M.; evening service at quarter to eight P.M. The congregation of the Canal street Presbyterian church will moot for Divine worship in the City Assembly Rooms, No, 446 Broadway, at balf-past ten A. M. and half-past three P, M, ‘The Rey, Alex. R. Thompson will preach at the rooma of the New England Solfliers’ Relief Association, No. 194 Broadway, at half-pugt three o'clock P. M. The public gre invited to attend, Divine service willbe held by the Church of the Holy ‘Trinity, in Rutgers Tvstitate, Fifth avenue, between Forty first and Forty-seoond streots, at haif-past ten A. M. and five o'clock P. M. The Rey. Joba A, Aspinwall will preac. in tue afternoon, The Rov. F. ©, Ewer will repoat, by request, in Christ church, this evening, tho sermon delivered on Sunday morning last, Subject—“The Uncertainty of the Futuro Means of Grace to the Nation,” Service to commence | aipiehs otter: i At tho Christian Spieitoal churoh, 95 Sicth 2. 1 thore witl be ingpirntion:! preaching at tea A. Bt. and throe and eitht o'olock P.M. | _ ©The Destiny of the World” will be the subject of « | discourse by 'S. S, Snow, “the Messenger,” at three P. | | M., in Hope Chapel, 720 Broadway. At Union Halt. corner of Twenty third street and Broadway, Elizaboth, the teat, trance and clairvoyant medium, wil! discourse at balf past ten A. M., threo and hal’-past seven ?. M In St. Ann's ch Fighteonth street, near Fifth avenue, tho Rev. 1%, Benjamin will preach at the throa- quarlers past govon and half past ton A, M. aod batf-pass two P.M. services (the latter boing for the deaf mutes) and the Rey. A. Bloomer Hart will proach. at. the three- quivtera past soven P. M. service, Boats (ree, THE “‘ES8AY3 AND REVIEWS’! DISCUSSION—IMPORT- ANT ACTION OF THE AMERIOAN EPISCOPAL ONURUH. The judgment of an ecclesiastical court of the English cially ‘whose term of service has expired. The rate o,.compes- sation wil! be the came as ‘the pay and emolun als of church, awarded in Fobruary last, relieved Rev. Dr. Wil- liams and Mr, Wilson, two of the writers of the famous “Essays and Reviews” of the charge of heresy; but the decision was not agreed toby many of the Fogiish clergy. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and Rev. Dr. Pusey and others, have published a declaration drawn up at Oxford, and expressing theindissent with the decision and their firm bette in the entire inspiration of the Scriptures, and the declaration hag received eleven thousand signatures. | Instead when they are allowe/ to romain a dead letter A similar one hes been drawn up to this country, and has bevn'signed by twenty-one of the Episcopal bishops of this country. it is as follows:— Dect.axation.—Wo, the nndersigned, bishops and _cler- gyizon of tho Protestant Kpiscopal church in the United States cf America, hold it to be our bounden duty ¢o the Charcb of Engiand and Ireland, aod to the souls of men, to declare our firm belief that tho said church, ia common with our own and the whole Catholic church, maintains, without reserve or qualification, the inspiration and Divice authority of the whole canonical Scriptures as not only containing, but being, tha word of God; and further teaches, ia the words of our blessed Lord, that the “punishment” of the “cursed,” eqgally with the ‘ite’ of the ‘‘righteons,”’ is everiasting. aes C. Brownell, Bishop of Connecticut and presiding abop. John H. Hopkins, Bishop of Vermont. BB, Smith, Bishop of the church in the diocese of Kentucky. Charles P. McIivaine, Bishop 0° Ohio. Jacks a Kemper, Bishop of Wi Samuel A. McCoekry, Bishop of Michi un tchigag. a of Western New York, Man Cariton Chase, Bishop of New Hampshire. George Be oan, Bishop of Hocese of Maing Reorge Burgesa, ne 4 ai George Upfola, Bishop of Indiana, J. Williams, Assistant Bishop of Connecticut. Neary J: Whitehouse, Rishop of Illinois, Henry W. Lee, Bishop of tbe diocese of Iowa. H, Potter, Bishop of New York. W. H. Odenheimer. Bisho> of New Jersey. G. T, Bedell, Assiatant Risbop of tho diocese of Ohio, Honry jamin Whipple, Bishop, of Re Tose;'h C, Talbot, Misslonary Bishop of the Northwest, Bishop Whittingham, of Maryland, declines to sign the declaration, avd in a letter to Rev. J. H. Hopkias, Jr., erate White scat cordially and entirely concurring i irst—' '@ mos' a eal ia overy word following the word «-dosiare’” in the. privied paragraph seot me, | do not ‘hold it to be our bounden duty to tho Church of England, Ireland, and to the souls of men” to declaro, viz: at the time and in the manner, or any otherwiso than in regular and lawful and synodi- cal action, duly and regularly instituted, to affirm and purbiish dogmatic decrces, Scoondiy—I regard the mode of procedure in thie ia- stance ag & precedent of exceedingly dangerous conse. jusnce, against which, as ® member of the American Spisconate, it is my bounden duty to make solemn pro- test. No part of doctrine or ‘ipline would be safe should the collective voice of the church be thus disin- and by private canvassing nd iso- pressure of the apprehen- sion of being exposed ty the odiam of making factious opposition to an assumed general mind and will. The Christian Times of last week says that a commit- tee, inciudiag Rev. Mr. Hopkins, Rev. Morgan Dix and Rev. 8, H. Tyng, Jr., has to receive the mame: of the Episcopal clergy throughout the country and append them to this deciaration. MISCELLANEOUS. At au ordination held in All Hallow's College, Dramon- dra, Ireland, on Sanday, June 26, the Most Rev. Dr. Whelan conferred the order of priesthood upon the following Ame- rican geutlemen:—Rey. Andrew Broderick, Chicago; Rev. Peter Hamill, Boston; Rev. Thomas fudsoo, Monterey, Mexico; Rev. Patrick Scanian, San Francisco, id Rev. MoGauran , Dubuque. Miss Olympia Frown bas been installed as pastor of the Unicersallat church at Weymouth, Mass. The Rev Charles Cleveland has for many yeare been the oldest clergyman in Loston in active service. His ninety- second birthday was appropriately observed in the ‘Spriogfeld street chapel, in that cit: Music Day In the Park, THE MUSIC—NEW ATTRACTIONS—FLOWERS, FOUN- TAINS AND FLAGS—THE SEASON ADVANCING, ETC. The Saturday concert was yesterday attended by about sixty thousand persons, ond the carriages were estimated a¢ abont three thousand. The lake boats were flied during the afternoon and evening, the voyagera being | abie to hear the musi¢ while on the water. The fowers are proving to be a great attraction, The roses and magoolii ive disappeared; but othere take thelr place immedia A truly enjoyable and pleasing at present afforded by « group of garden hydrangea Hortensia) in the eastern portion . Single speeimens of the Hortensia, a deservedly we!i known plant, are frequently met with tn | pols, and are often cultivated about dwelliage: But | in the case above neted their effect ie 80 much enhanced by the judicious arrangement of neighboring groups that the attention of. every admirer of the beauties of nature should be invoked. In the background, in cont with @ group o° large leaved trees and shrubs (magnoliar, sassafras, by(rangeaarborescens, kc.), j¢ a rock partially covered with ivy and other climbers, and at “the foot of this, io charming repose ard beauty, is seen the ap- parently carelessly distributed group of Hortensias, bay foreground gently ewells a meadow land with & creamer plan te ecaicered aor ite surface. Tne effect | che 5 ‘ihe Terrace fountain was yesterday greatly Improved | Dy a plan which distributes the water icto # hundred jets of ove large stream. The spray thos formed Cools the aurrounding atmosphere, and ibe sun sbiniog ‘on the falliog drops prodoces « briliiant rainbow or prism. The foot of the Te: wae yesterday ornadented by one on the westere orien al fagtiat, a'the ety arme were m the agsiaf. . plainly set forth upon it by elavorate needlework. Ibe ‘Btate banner will soow be ready. ‘The Second Aveave iv day placed a num. der of new special cars on their to accommodate the Brooklyn visitors to the Park, taking them up at Fulton ‘and Peck stip ferries end lnmiing them at Seventy-fret | wtreet. ‘Tas New Yorn Yacet Cich—Ive third genera) mest- ing of the New York Yacht Olab war helt ‘at the Elysian | Fields, Hoboken, on the 24th inst, Tt was resolved that | the yeeht aquaaron render vous ‘at Whitestome on Satur. a be ‘at four o'clock P. M., to proceed WAR GAZETTE. oo © OFWTOLAL, 9 ot a ke = s — @RNWEAL onpens--H0. 323. Doranrmmsr, Asvrarr Gerenst's Orv, en Wasammarom'; July 4, 1864. } ‘Medical Directors of armies in the fed are aathorined to employ, under contract, as Acting Stal.’ Sergeoos, reg by their medical dirctors, ead fegimental surgeons, with use of one public bors¥ an eqeipments and forage for the same. By order of the SECRETARY OF WAR . E. D. Townsanp, Asstatent Adjutant Gereral GENERAL NEWS, . Wasauraton, July 16, 1886 ABREST OF DETHCTIVE OFFICRR TAPLEY. Captain Tapley, chief detective officer under Generas Slough at Alexandria, bas been arrested aud confined tm the Old Capitel prison, charged with complicity in tthe. rating convicted bounty jumpers. PUNISHMENT OF COWARDS. Captain H. A DeLand and Lieutenant Moses A, Powell, First Michigan sharpshootera, arrived hero last night, undor guard from General Grant’s army, under sentence of court martial for cowardice to the face of the enemy. ‘The sentence cashiered both, with the lossof all pay and allowances due them, and ordered their shoulder straps and buttons to be cut off in the presence of the troops. Captain De Land goes to the Dry Tortugas. A PATMASTBR EN ROUTE POR THY PENITENTIARY, Mvor Thomas,a defaulting paymaster, leaves Wasn- ington to-night for the Albany penitentiary. To addition to bis imprisonment of six yoars he isto pry a fine of thirty-five thousand dollars. Should he fail to pay the fino bis imprisopment will be continued for a period net + excceding twely yours, RELEASE OF JOHN W. MAURY. Joho W. Maury,& prominoat banker of Washingtos, ‘who was sent to the Ola Capitol afew days sinos for ex pressing disloyal sentiments, was yeatorday released. Appropriations for Fortifications. ‘The President. having approved the act of Congress making appropriations for fortidoations tn different parte of the country, tho following apportionments for the year ending June 30, 1365, are officig!:— Fort Montgomery, at outlet of Lake Champlaia, New ba aa nl at narrows of Penobscot river, Maine, ayy entrance of Kennebec river (Fort Popham), Mirork on ‘Toy Téland todge (Fort Georges), Portian® bee “Portland harbor, Matne, $150,000. Fort Scammel, Portiand harbor, Maine, $105,000. New Fort Constitution, Portsmouth harbor, New Hampe shire, $100,000. Fort MoCiary, Portsmouth harbor, New Hampshire, 550, 000. ¥ Fort whites © Governor's Island, Boston harbor, Mas» sachusetts, ps . For Warren, Roston harbor, Massachusetts, $20,000. Permanent forts at New Bedford harbor, Massachusetts, $100,000. Fort Schuyler, East river, New York, $25,000. ort at Wintett’s Polat, opposite Fore Schuyler, Now York, $150,000. Ropaire of Fort Columbus, Castle William, South Bat tery, Fort Wood, and Fort’ Gibson, New York harbery i aan near Fort Hamiitoa, at the Narrows, New ‘ork, » Fort Richmond, Staten Island, New York, $20,000. ete, aite of Fort Tompkios, Staten Island, New Caroennted pattery on Staten Island, N. ¥., $18,000. Fort at Sandy Hook, N. J., $125,000. Fort Mifflin, near Philadelphia, Pa., $20, Fort Carroti, Baltimore harbor, ton Roads, Va. $50, }, Va. 000. Fort Cumberiaad Sound, Fis., $100,000. Fort at Shtp Is!and, const of Miss., $100,000. Fort at Fort Point, San Francisco bay, Cal., os Fort at Aleatraz Island, San Francisco '» Onl, 000, bat tr defences at San Francisco, $:7T 000: proviaed case ‘nO portion of the same shall be expended on other * ah oy hi Torritory, ab ep Defences in Oregon ai ‘ashing noat the mouth of Colurabie river, $100,000. It will be seon that the appropriations for forts ia New York barbor amount in the aggregate to $545,000. "Obituary. THE LATE LIEUTENANT COLONRL JOHN G. OHAMBERS, Lieutenant Colone! John G. Chambers, of the Twenty- third Massachusetts, died at Fortress Monroe on tne 00D inet. , of wounds received In battle before Petersburg. Ook Chambers was a native of Massachusetts, about thirty five years of age, and before the war held @ position i the Boston Journalofice, At the beginning of the rebel: lion be accepte’ a commission in the Twenty-third Mas» sachusetts. fie accompanied thet regiment in the attacta ‘upon Roanoke Istand and Newbern, N. C., and was wit {it wken @ portion of the Eighteenth corps, under Majer General J. G. Foster, was despatched from North Care Tins to South Carolina preparatory to an expected aa ‘vance upon Charleston, 8. C. Returning with bis regimens, of which he wasfrequently in command, to New! ho participated in most of the advances into the eountry. and about a year since was severel} in the shoulder by the explosion of a shell. kept him from active service, much against bis will, an@ be was finally obliged to repair North on a brief to recover beaith and strength. Pefore the expiration his furlough he repatred again to the scene of action, occupied several responsible positions in North Carotiam while the dopartmont was under rommand of Majer General Peck. Again in the ficlt with bie reriment, he entered with bis usual onerey and spirit ia opera. tions before Petersburg, under Major General Butier, an@ received the wounds which bave resulted in his deatt while in the discharge of bis duty, Ag a military, man, Tientenant Colonel Chambers was highly esteemed by bib saperior officers, while among his equats avd inferiors tm military rank’ he was deeply beloved equally for manliness, his inflexible integrity, his for the comfort of his men, in de Sevaneaerey ioe and & srikrevor bo was nown, all of whom will feelingly oher- ish bis memory to the last. THE LATE LIEUT. ABRAHAM T. PERING. Lieut. Abraham T. Perine, of the Sixty-second regt- ment (Anderson Zouaves), who so highly distinguished himself at the battle of Williamsburg, by entering oneef the forts while under a terrific Ore, accompanied by @ Sunday last. while aitting is tent. The partic to his widow, who has two beautiful and joteresting iris to mourn a father’s lors. Provisions are being y the Dodson Brothers, of this city, to have the brought on bere and interred in Greenwood Cemetery. nit porta: e for many 3 connected with nt enterprises in Rnode Ieiand, was @ prominent whig tician, and wae first a member of the upper Congress in 1840. ‘ETER ALMY, lored man, who fought under Comme. dove Ferter, Ta the old Fesex, died oo (he 18th Inst., tm New Bedford, xt the age of niuety years, The Light Dra: Moniters. THE CONTRACTORS AND THE NAVY DEPARTMENT MONE TROUBLE BREWING, ETC., ETO. ‘tractors of the so-calied light dranght rs’ Moniters met yesterday at the Metre Ppolttam Hotel, to take measures to protest themecivem agrinet what they consider the injustice of the Navy Department. Now that {t te found (hat these vessels & woree than miserable failure, the Navy hae ordered the contractors to stop work om them, ‘will pot pay them the gums due them, although have been built strictly im accordance with drawii plane furniched the them superimtending engineer. The sureties of the comtracters are withdrawing thay 5 bonds, and the builders desire the Navy Department/te finish the veeseis om their own account. Mr. Ericeags t mixed up im the affair, and the contractom are sald/te be. desirous to have nothing to do with Dim. We eanmot at thin time give the proceedings of the mesting; but the pubhe may expect. some startling doveiopmenteria a few days, if the matter ie not compromised. The affair wae kept so quiet thet Mr. Leland did net know the mestng was being im hie hotel. Movinenvie ov Secent sky Feesanpan.—Me. Fessonéea B stil) stopping at tq Astor House, and has 0 far arg eveded in keeping bis movements secret, He has ?,egm in daily comeasiation all the week with the leading ‘oaay. ere acd tnanotere of Wall and William etreete, br. whee prised of the fect by circelars. suceese be has mot with le not definitely known, It ie — ald aad the principal diMeulty {# la relation ‘.o the plag ‘A Poutgs Orricun AssatiTm AND Bn07.—About Balt. | upon whieh tbe new loam te to be Based; and ag diffrent peat six O'clore last evening omen named Bernard Mc- | views are entertained by the moneyed ysen whose em Carty, sad Vo be a thief, was arrested by officer Charles | operation is indispensable te carry Ov, guecessfaily ang ‘McDonnell, of the Sixth precast, on the corner of Canal | sing which may be adopted, Mr. Fessenden will be Senta ea = —ee irene le cee ‘The resem mA fat im the price of tod by many to the one he ae ares ads aiane ane, OO Oar | ecctal aansloring of Ube , more then ty tale on 2 dee geroas | ve withérawal ot ihe rebey, trom Maryland; bet eomee daye will probably clapes efor the fatere Gneneta) —— Sane. WhO we | citar of the goverement wii be fully Cayeleeeh,