The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1864, Page 4

4 , NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETEH, SOMOR AXD PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W, COKNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash f advance Mosey seat by mail will be et (he rigk of the sender. None but bank bills current in Kew York taken. 54 TRE DAILY HERALD, Twraw conts per copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents Yercopy, Anpual subscription price:— Sex Copies. . 15 Postage five cents per oopy for three months, Any larger number, addresse 0 names of subscribers, 81 GOesch. Av extra copy will be sent to every club of ten. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $25, and Sy larger bumber at eame price. An extra copy will be fent to clubs of twenty. There rales make the WERKLY Bena the cheapest publicacion in Oe couniry. Volame XXIX No. 206 “ AMUSENENTS THIS EVENING. RIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Sea or Ion. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae fuse Ext: G@kaxt—lMaypy Anpr. OLYMPIC THBATB: Boneuian G re. 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Advertisements for the WerKiy Herarp must be hand. «Cin before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening Its Circulation among the enterprising mechauics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentiemen throughout the @ountry is increasing very rapidly. advertisements in- Berted in the Weexty HERALD will thus be seen by a large Portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. LHE SITUATION. Oficin! news from Atlanta yesterday evening reports that thers end that Gen have beon mo reverses to our arms, Sherman holds bis position, and is wigor- General Rousseau bas fuldited bis mis- Bion successfully, with a trifing lose. With respect to the battle of Friday, goveroment has received reports, from ously advancing whic we gather hat our loss was lose thas two theusand, while the enemy tost fully seveu thousand, There is still bo official information Inthe hands of the government All the Oghting e defences tn the pteenth corpe, chat our forces have entered Atlanta, deems to bave deen dove about the outs Suburbs In the Gghtof Friday the © ded by Gen. Logan, went into battle with the cry ot: mber McPhersou!” Geo M a wha shot by a rebel sharpshooter while recounoitring the position Of the enemy apart from his erat doubtedls Doth sides proves. The fg! aod terrible. ae the Tho duds of Gen Ste at Nashville yerterday, acd, after being received with tol ‘With the exception of a trifing skirmish now and then the Fifth and N isville, military honors, were forw fn front b army eo been nothing done by the Army of the DP Yetersburg, 4 rumor reached Point of Rocks and is commupiested by our corr tbat place, that General Lee wounded in the scalp w gg an cbzervation of ar to of the | Our nes 0: it does not ap have prevented bim f and army in person and directing ail its mo 16. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steomsbip Peizian, from Londonderry on the 15th y 1 Father Point veeverday on her voyage to | + Ber new 0 days later, advance in tho rebel cotton loan to 74 is eaid by pion Time: to be caused by ad om America received by English spo The Locdon News sare that the bonds of the toan are being absorbed by J an ongare iy, and bad pat on ¥ was false, so far as the Kearsarge is ¢ T over on the 13th instant it wae said that the Sacramento mey bave ; but the different reports need © ment for debt had been issued ng vy the Boulogne Chamber of © f the vessel at Calais prevented it: A verbal process was then delivered to the officers Capinin Semmes was rusticating in Treiand incognito. 1 ie confirmed that the King of Deumark has proposed fo armistice, with a view to peace negotiations, to the Germans. It was generally believed that pence would goon be conciuded. In the meantime the P’russian troops wera advancing in Jutland. It is alleged that the Ring of Deomark offered to surrender his fleet tothe Germans provided his crown was protected by the German Con- federation. The vew Danish Micistry had sent a non- committal message to tbe Parliemeot, saying, in fact, that they bad pot yet decided on any fixed line of policy. The Independence Brige says that the King of Denmark bi ‘obtained and invoked’ the intervention of tae &m- peror Napoleon, Additional advices from New Zealand show that the British Uroops were surprised by the Maories and tag - almost all the officers being killed or wounded in Dut vain attemsts to rally (bem. Tbe Liverpool cotton market closed buoyant on the 16th of July, with prices unchanged from the advance experienced during the week Breadstutis were quiet ‘and easy. Provisions frm, with an upward tevdency. Coneo!s closed ip London, on the 15th of July, at 90%; @ 90% for money. The bullioa In the Bauk of Dngiand de creased £250,000 in the week. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Mr. Moses Taylor has been appointed to svccee’d Mr. Cisco us Assistant United Staies Treasurer in th | ‘The long drought was brought to a terminetion in this wictoity yesterday by a heavy shower of rain, which poured down at ‘ntervule in rerular torrents, Tue rain was followed by & severe storm of wind, which de- airoyed a Yaat Quantity of vegetation in this vicinity, svapping of branches of trees prooting plant ip many of our parks and private gardens ‘Yere have been rumors recent!y in our foreign news ot ao engagement, on the 12tb justant, off the teland of Jer- , io the Pinglish Channel, betwoen the Koorsarge and the reve privateor Florida, In which, of course, there was no truth, as the Florida was off the Delaware capes 00 the 11th instant. A meeting of the Committee of Arrangements for the MoCielian masa meeting , to be beld at Union equare onthe Ow of August, was hold at the Sinclair Honse lust evening. Prelimin Appointment of #ub.committees, who were instructed to Feport at the pext meeting ¢ held on Wednesday even* fog, July 27. Letters were read trom prominent men from the Weatern and Border States, giving most encouraging accounts of the rapid cbange tok ing place in favor of the nomination of Major General George # MeCiolien to the Presidency by the Chicago Convention. Among them wore many who have heretofore Leon a:iye supporters of the adm! ation, res ain ioThs fara of Couliélimen rei yesterday, whon two Pmmupioations were received from Mayor Guathor ‘Vite Honor retarned without approval @ resolution per ailing 0 rat Polng busieess in Beekman eireet to vice on y the civil S ith rravgemonte were made by the { a siga upon & lamp poston she cornerof Broadway and Ann Sireet. The Mayor aTirms that the Common Council has n© power to grant such a privilege, that the practice eis not only iudeensidle in principle; but will inevitably vead t confusion and il! feellug;” that the streets are held by the Corporation for public uses alope, and that to gract to ‘udividuals any franchise would be unjust and inexpe, dient. Mayor Gunther recommended an amendment to the twenty-first ection of the ortinauce regulating pub- Ke cartmen in the revised ordinance of 1852 so as to make provision for the sale of property carried by cabmen or perters to the office of the Superiatendent of Police if not claimed by owners after the lapse of six months. A petition of the clerks of the various mar- kets in the city for an increase in their salaries was re- ferred to the Committee on Finance. The Comptroller re- Ported that he paid to the families of volunteers dur- ing the two weeks ending July 9 the sum of $57,966, and that the balnuce unexpended up to that date was $183,754 52. An ordinance authorizing the City Inspeo- tor to appoint assistant street tuspectors, at the rate of $3 per day, was referred, The report of the Committee ‘op the Fire Departmont, with a draft of an ordinance for ‘working the fire telegraph, was Iaid over. The bill of Messrs, Ege & Co,, for furnishing flrewor'ss on the oo- easion of the celebration of the 4th of Jniy, amounting tothe comfortable sum of $9,974, was roferred to the shecial committee on that subject, After the presente tion of routine reports and resolutions the Board ed- fourned till Thursday next. Jodge Barcard disposed of an interesting divorce case yesterday. The plamtifl, Hyacinth Cordier, was married to Mary Jane Huson in December, 1849, and soon alter- wards went to California, whore ho remained until with- in a few moaths, when ho retarned to find bis wife marriod to a man named Price, by whom ehe has quite a large family. The defendant explained matters by say- fog that she believed Cordior to be dead, and did not enter loto the second matrimonial alliance until she had re- Peatedly hoard of his demise, ‘The Court granted the ap. pl cation for a divorce on the ground that the defendant had not made sutticient inquiries as te (ke rumored death of ber husband. ‘The court ial organized for the trial of Brigadier Goneral Francis B. Spinola met yestergay, at eloven o'clock, at No, 17 State atrect, in pursuance of adjourn. ment, under the presidency of Brigadier General Hart- suT—Coionel N. J. Hall, Judge Advocate. Tho proceed: ings of the court are not to be published, and, undor this ruling, the members of the press left the room. ‘The new building lately erected on the battery for the use of the County Volunteer Recruiting Committee was formally opened by appropriate ceremonies at eleven o'clock yesterday morning. A salute of one hundred guns was fired, and, amid the cheers of the assemblage, the national flag was raised on the now buildings Sa- pervisor blunt, the chairman of the committee, conducted the inaugural ceremonice, and, notwithstanding the se- vere rain storm which prevailed at the time, a large num ber of perrovs wero present to greet tho new enterprise and encourage by their presence the committec in their efforts to fll the quote and avoid the draft. A complaint of larceny was yesterday made before Justice Dowiing against Theodore Kerner, 278 Kast Sev. enty fourth street, in whose house the miasing books be- longing to the city Tax Commissioners’ office were found, as noticed in tho Hearn of Monday. Mr. Kerner was held on bail Of one thousand dollars to appear for exam|- pation to-morrow. A man named John Jackson was yesterday committed to the Tombs for trial on the charge of attempting to burn down the large tenement Louse 241 Water etree, in which attempt, however, be war arrested before tho fire bad made much headway, His design appears to bave been to revenge bimseif on bis wife, of whem he was jealcus, and the other inmates of the building, who, itscems, bad become ebjects of his enmity. The fire in the villogo of Jamaica on Sunday last in.° volved the destruction of property to the umonut of be. tween $20,000 ap 000, as near ag can be estimated at prevert. The lors is partizlly covered by insurance. ‘The fire ig supposed to bave been tbe work of an incoas diary. The City Inspector reports the number of deaths in this city during the week ending yesterdsy,the 25th inst, at 546, being wixty-four lees than occurred Inet week, 138 leas than those for the corresponding week of last year, ‘The share market war strony again yesterday, and @ ta the diferent descriptions , which is attrivuted to the jp monetary affairs The bane statement turday shows @ cecreasa in ioave during the week of upwards of eicbt millions of dollars, snd a decra deposits of nearly four milhons, This appear to fedieate a but the seening contraction o, the b n of tue government dette The rise in gold y ors NEW) YORK HERALD; TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1864:) ' ston, Johnston’s admirers assail Davis bit] Te New ely Alliance=The Last Tax Horsors oy ras “No Quarrer” Sys terly, though they see in the removal a certain benefit to the rebel cause. Now, they say, the government wil! support the commander of the Southern army. Give him all that is ne- cessary, and all will be well again. Davis, it is declared, would not help Jolnston. On the other hand, the Davis organ—the Richmond Sentinel—declares that Johnston was removed because he would have gone to the Gulf of Mexico rather than fight. It declares tbat “all the while that Johnston has been retreating before Sherman he has had an army approach- ing nearer in numbers to that of his adversary than Lee ever had when he has won his great victories,” It appears that the position In front of Sher- man is not considered desirable by the officers of the rebel armies. It goes begging on such @ Jamentably low scale that it has even been refused by Hardee. It is curious to note how tha rcbel government Indicates its wishes in regard to the warin the Southwest by the choice of generals. It kept Bragg in so long as it wanted a general who could keep out of harm’s way tolerably well—but who would fight on emergency. Bragg carried out this policy very well down to Chickamanga. But Chattanooga caused a change of policy. Then the rebel povernment saw that it was necessary to have a general who would not fight at all, and of course appointed John- ston. Now it sees the State of Georgia slipping throngh its fingers, and thinks it must fight at once, and setids Hood, whose instinct is to fight, though he ‘has not brains enough to know ex- actly wheh to do it. We are apparently pretty well done with the late raid into Maryland. Now that this raid is well over, is it not worth while for the govern- ment to consider how probable it is that we may have a repetition and aggravation of it. Such movements are a necessary result of the present position. A general in the situation that Lee is now in has not avery extended choice of operations. If he cannot afford a straightforward assault to drive his enemy from the position that cuts his communica tions, he must endeavor to lure or frighten that enemy away by such advances as the one lately made against our capital. He bas jast tried such an operation, ineffectively in one way, but quite effectively in another. That is, his movement was ineffective as regards Grant—it did not draw him from his position. But the enemy gathered a great deal of plun- der, and barely missed the capture of Washing- ton. In this way the operation was eneouraz- ingly effective. The causes in whieh this movement originated are still in operation. General Lee dare not assault Grant’s lines, and such advances are hisonly game. He may yet play this game too skilfully for the wise men at Washington, for his late attempt with Early’s (formerly Evwvell’s) corps, has doubt- less shown him how he could carry forwnrd such a movement with a much greater chance of success. Tue Trove.e Berweex tar Usirep Stan Governwent ann Governor Seymour oN THE Muur1a_ Questioy.—Our preparations for the organization of hundred day regiments for im- mediate serv'ce have been suddenly stopped by the direction of Governor Seymour, and no more men are to be mustered in or sent to Was! ton “until further orders.” Thus, co far as there is any danger to Washington city or Maryland from an early repetition of the bel raid, and so far as such danger might be prevented by well organized militia regiments, New York State is out of the fight for the present. General Sandford has gone to Wash- i to consult with the War Department on t,and no moreewill be done tili bis this po born fergign an aud nearly every'bing sold et bighersprices than were current on Sprnrday. Values were irregulor, however, tho goid Petroleum gold at a ‘Mtiom im the Galt ihe Maryland inids that there has been a and tbat the rebele the new commander } It is at severe fict been beate the common fe vancement to the go not fight on all oc ng stratecy of Johnston sever: | he said shovid | Compelled to | of b's appointment, e retre and was appointed to 4 have been done by fight by the cirea he has been another exa »ow much easier it is to argue out victories in one’s own qnarters than to win them on the field of baitle. General Hood's tirst battie was as much forced upon bim by Geveral Sherman as it was by the circumstances of his own advancement. Our army was thrown directly across the ouly line of retreat that could keep General Hood’s e, bas met with | His career furnishes | return, If a man consistently opposes the government of biuadering Old Abe fer any reas length of time. he is snre to bein the n of Governor men for one hundred days : mt was eager to got and this is the no! now. He called f service when t them on any ter on gover ¥ be ex pt from the draft. But the emergency the government thinks is over. It don’t be- i in a repetition of the raid. It is notin la barry to get men as it was, and so oul Provost Marshal with an order con- ning one of his peculiar decisions that are nnouneed, apparently DCS certainly wonderful models of arbitrary sta- pidity. plainly that the hundred days 1 not be exempt from the draft, a: Governor Seymour is constrained to admit that the Provost Marshal’s decision must be taken a3 law, for he simple reason that the hundred days men will be within the Marsbal’s power when the draft is made. For a provost marshal, it seems to require a | man who is mind always made up; who cau at a mom notice render a distinct decision on the most knotty questions, and who can, whether army in communication with his capital. If Sberman could stay there Hood must re- treat on Macon or Montgomery, coneent to hopeless isolation from his government, and see the confederacy once more aad very effectually cut in two. He fought to attempt to prevent this by driving Sherman out of his path. He failed, and now has to recoucile him- eelf to a defeat in addition to the other disa- greeables of his position. His defeat deter- mines the fall of Atlanta, and with the fall of Atlauta the power of the confederacy in the Gulf States will probably go to pieces. It was the common centre of organization for the whole country south of the Savannah river, and what it represented morally and physically cannot be suddenly centralized at any other point. Itis an irreparavle loss. General Hood’s di ficulties have only begun with the loss of this place. Should he attempt to bold Macon, it would only retard the evil day a very little longer, and then his destruction would be more signall y decisive than it can be now. He will, perheps, move towards Montgomery. In that case he will have a bard road to travel. General Rousseau has just reached: Marictta from a magnificent raid on the railroad between Atlanta and Montgomery, in which he bas de- stroyed all the bridges, aid done fiuch other damage. This will embarrass Hood's retreat in that direction very greatly, and will cost him either his whole equipage and supplies or part of his army. THe will lose all his wagons, or must fight to save them; and it he fights he will suffer a defeat that will be better to us than all the wagons in the world. We have wondered what new victory the Southern papers would claim apropos to the fall of Atlant, But they do not even continue the cry that Sherman is just where they want him. They are filled with crimination and re- crimination over the removal of Genaral John- the decision be right or wrong, stick to them stubbornly. It seems to us to be a piece of su- perlative impudence for the Congress of the United States to make a law on the subject of conscription, when there isa provost marsbal. Yet Congress did make such a law, and that law provides what persons are exempt from the draft; and, in the enumeration of those who are exempt, it very’clearly includes “all persons actually in the military or naval service of the United States at the time of the draft.” Now, when 4 man is sworn in for a hundred days he is in the service as much ag he could be-if sworn in for ten years. Even this brilliant Provost Marshal has already decided in favor of his department on a question like this. He says that a man isaman whether in for one year or three, and that one three years man is not to be counted as three one year men. In the same way a man is a man, and bis oath puts him in the service whether for a hundred days or for three bundred days, and when be is “in the service” he is not liable to draft. Bat of course this matter is to be just as the Provost Marshal pleases. A Seniovs Misraxe.—The Tribune, in o review of General Grant’s Virginia campaign, consoles the military authorities at Washing- ton with the idea that tbere is no donger of another rebel foray from Richmond on any grand cale against Washington, because, among other things, the country “from Rich- mond to the Potomac ia a desert, which no army can traverse except on condition of sup- plying its owm food.” This is a serious mis- take for a military critic. The late bountiful wheat harvest of the great and fruitfal Shenan- doah valley bas just been gathered in, and Lee, from ite abundant supplies, could feed a bun- dred thousand men en route as easily as Ewell provided for his command of thirty thousend from Staupton down to the Mervland border. Eoropean Sensation. The great excitewent in Europe at the latest dates was the publication by the Morning Post, of London, Palmerston’s official organ and also the English organ of Napoleon, of a secret correspondence between the Courts of Russia, Austria and Prussia, for the purpose of effect- ing anew Holy Alliance between these great Powers, such an ene as before defeated and rained Napoleon the Great. These despatches were published by the London journal before the accomplishment of the alliance, and asa result have stayed this intrigue for the moment, if not altogether defeated it. The German and Russian journals, official and semi-official, deny the authenticity of the despatches published, and state that there is no truth in the rumor of au alliance; but the French and English journals evidently judge differently, and con- clndé that the premature exposure has saved England and France from great danger. As regards the despatches, they were most likely correct in substance if not inform. We have knowledge of a precisely similar event which doubtless explains this exposure. We refer to the publication in 1860 of a plan to form an offensive and defensive alliance between Russia and Austria, which was defeated in the following manner:—The Em- peror Napoleon, at vast expense, obtains from all the courts of Europe copies of all import- ant despatches. Parties high in the employ of the different governments furnish these in some instances; in others subordinates entrusted with important documents transmit copies of them to Napoteon. This is very expensive, as we stated before, but very convenient, and 80 the system is kept up. In 1860 Napoleon obtained copies of despatches passing between St. Petersburg and Vienna, proving that an al- liance was sought between the governments of Russia and Austria. At that time the London Morning Chronicle was the Emperor Napoleon’s organ. In this journal he bad the despatches in question published, altered sufficiently to save from detection the parties betraying them, but still giving the substance of the plot. This untimely, or rather, as regards France, timely disclosure, put an end to the projected alliance. Russia denied officially all such intention; Aus- tria did the same, and the affair ended thus. We do not doubt that the same course has been pursued in this instance, and that once again - Napoleon kas for the moment cheekmated his enemies. He doubtless finds in these results a fitting return for the vast sums he spends in ob- taining information. As it is well known that the sovereigns of Russia, Austria and Prussia met lately ia con- ference at Kissingen, it must be deemed proba- ble that this affair of the Holy Alliance was being arranged, and that even if deferred now, it may at any moment be consummated, and Europe be divided into two great bostile camps. England will bave an important role to play in that case. She will have to choose between the two parties—France, representing “young Europe,” end the Allies, the despots and absolute monarchs, who are at enmity with their subjects and opposed to progress aod reform. France would have Italy on her side, and she eeuld count upon Hungary and Poland. With England in this latter alliance, the balance of power would be in favor of young Europe. The reverse would certainly be the e, however, were England, from haired and fear of Napoleon, io side with the AY Be that us it may, Earope is evidently on the eve of great and important events, which will ceriainly occupy the attention of our friends on that side of the Atlantic, to the exclusion of our afla The probabilities are that as soon as we once more find ourselves aunited people, prepared to enjoy the bloes- ce, we shall see Europe undergoing nities and horrors of a general war. ings of p all the ca Toe Financia. MENT IN THE NtaGana PRAcK nitaTions.—It was not altogether for political or party advantages that Master George Sanders bas been coquetting with Mr. Ambastador Greeley at Niagara Falls. There wea money lo be made out of the movement, supremely ridiculons and absurd as the whole thing must appear; and behind that there was the motive of bolstering up the rebel finances and depr ting our own. This is evident from the proposition enid to have been sketched out by the rebel negotiniors—viz., that the United States should aseume the rebel war debt. The very suggestion of that idea would be sufficient to give value to the now wortbless scrip with which the Southern States are inundated, and to rnn down, in an exactly corresponding ratio, the Union securities. And here, besides the blow aimed at the national credit, was the opportunity of realizing untold treasures by Sanders, Tucker and others in the secret. The other phase given to the same proposi- tion by that profound philosopher and pbilan- thropist from Colorado, who got so strangely mixed up with this strange affair, is that both sections should repudiate their mutual war debts and introduce the free trade system. This idea was conceived in the same general view—to create @ financial panic by causing distrust of the national currency and securi- ties, thus bavkrupting the government and opening up a splendid opportunity for opera- tions in Wall street. Of course no sensible men would entertain for a moment the possi- bility of either proposition being seriously dis- cussed; but there are enough of people in the community who might be humbugged or fright- ened icto a belief in repudiation, and among whom the alarm would spread. In that aspect the negotiation was a cunningly devised scheme to ruin our finances, improve those of the rebels, and allow Sanders & Co. to pocket a few millions of dollars. We dare say that that was the uppermost motive in the minds of the Southern envoys extraordinary, and can only wonder that philosopher Greeley could not see through it. A Larriz Too Late.—Since the departure of the rebels from Maryland, General Augur, in command at Washington, has had a careful re- connoissance made of the camps occupied by the enemy while they lay within striking dis- tance of the city’s northern defences, the ob- ject being to ascertain the numbers of the bold invaders. This is the way they do things at Washington. A reconnoissance after the ene my’s forces have entirely disappeared may be a wise military proceeding; but we incline to the opinion that it would have been qiser to have been prepared to make this reconnois sance while the enemy were on the ground. A Voice rrom tHE Drap---Ex-Prosldent Buchanan writing letters urging the nomina. tion of Judge Samuel Nelson {er President, and Mr. Voorhees, of Indyana, for Vice ‘President, at the Chicago Convention, “rem ov Wanraks.—Every day something n° and startling is added to the horrors of ow" civil war; and humanity shudders at the con- templation of the bloody and atrocious deeds committed on both sides by way of retaliation and under the “no quarter” principle estab- lighed in some of the remote districts. By a sort of mutual understanding between the bush- whackers and Union troops in those places, whenever they engage in a conflict no mercy is shown by either party. It is death or nothing; and the report, “no wounded, no prisoners,” tells a fearful tale of blood and massacre. This infernal business has been recently recom- menced in Kentucky and Missouri with more than its original fury and desperation. The most inhuman barbarities are committed with fiend like cruelty and malignity. The wounded are despatched wherever found; and then comes the work of retaliation. The halter, the knife and the revolver are the three great arti- cles of faith at this time in Northern Missouri and Kentucky, and there seems to be no limit to the extent of the practice of this hellish creed. The policy of General Rosecrans in supplying the people of Northern Missouri with ammunition and firearms, seems, under the cir- cumstances, to be a mistaken and an unfortu- nate one. It seems that on a recent expedition against the guerillas, Colonel Ford, the Union commander, was obliged to destroy a consider- able amount of this ammunition to prevent its be- ing used by the disaffected inhabitants against our own troops. All such treachery is, of course, promptly punished, and the ‘work of devastation goes on until the heart sickens with the recital of sanguinary deeds. Surely there must be some way of putting a stop to these atrocities. Ram, Rar at Last—A Day oF Srontanrovs THANKsGIVING.—-The bountiful and blessed rains of yesterday made the day one of spon- taneous thanksgiving over a wide extent of country. The same glad tidings of the pouring down of the welcome rain have reached us from Petersburg in the South, from the West, the North and from away Down East. The plentiful showers of yesterday were worth millions upon millions of dollars to the country, and their coming was received by high and low, rich and poor, by producers and consumers of bread, with a joy which could hardly be surpassed by the capture of Rich- mond. From the long succession of these late murky, smoky, lurid ané@ supernatural July days, the fear began widely to prevail that many days of such dreadful smokiness and drought were still before us; and that a gloomy prospect, blighted crops of corn, potatoes, Xc., would probably be revealed to us before visited by a reviving rain. For many days, as the “ancient mariner” describes an imaginary sky on an imaginary voyage, we have had this strange reality, . Allin ® bot ard copper sky, ‘The bloody gun at nen, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. Now this fearful phenomenon and all appre- hensions orising from it are at anend. The fires in the woods far and near which had filled the skies with smoke are extinguished. Our autumal crops are saved. These glorious out- pourings from the clouds are in time. Let the people give thanks to the bountiful Giver of all good and rejoice. x Cowmrrrge at Sarnatoas.—The National Repubiican Committee appointed at Baltimore, and the State Central Republican Committee of this State are to meet at Sara- toga Springs to-morrow, the 27th. They go there to pull the wires for Old Abe, settle the little and big fights in the party of this State, drink bad whiskey and gulp down Congress water to clear the bile out of their stomachs, If they expect ihat the water at Saratoga Springs will cleanse their party of its impuri- and revive its hopes and invigorate it, they will find themselves most grandly disap- pointed. It will take something stronger than Congress water to do that. There is not enough salis and calomel combined on this side of the Atlantic to cleanse the party. Guxvrat McPurrson.— When McPherson fell the country sustained a greater loss than most persons are aware. McPherson was a brilliant soldier. Those who knew him best expected great things of him. Had he lived he would have ranked with Grant, McClellan and Sher- man—among the greatest generals of the age. He was to Sherman's army what Sedgwick was to Meade’s. The record he leaves behind him is as bright as that of any general in our ranks. Presipentiat, Prosrecrs.—Mr. Lincoln ad- dressed his communication to Sanders & Co., “To whom it may concern.” Well, it concerns everybody, and has sealed Lincoln’s fate in the coming Presidential campaign. The people have never before been officially informed that the abolition of slavery will be insisted upon asa ne plus ultra in the terms of peace, and they are by n0 means pleased with the idea. Hiocawarm We call the attention of the police to the condition of Roosevelt, Cherry and other such streets, which are regularly infested by gangs of footpads. Men are knocked down and robbed there avery night. Shall we revive that antiquated query— Where are the police? Greevey on THe Nragara Farts Teceorara Rerorts.—Grecley stated in yesterday’s Tri- bune that all the reports, telegraphic and other- wise, to the effect that he said anything to Sanders reflecting upen the President are false. Does Mr. Greeley deny that be stated to Sanders, as he (Greeley) was about leaving the Clifton House for the American side, on Wednesday last, “This is not the end of this affair, You must not think that all the repub- lican party are blackguards?” Estimate or Lossy wy rae Late Reser Rarp.—The excitement attending the late rebel raid into Maryland aving been entirely allay- ed, and the confusion into which matters in that region visited were thrown having been smoothed down by the lapse of time and the withdrawal of the marauders, we can look around and estimate the extent of damage com- mitted by the invaders. From carefully prepared statements from our correspondents, which ap- pears in another columa, it will be seen that it is estimated that the entire loss will not much exceed two milfions of dollars. Of this amount the PhiladeYphia, Wilmington and Bal- timore Railroad srffered to the extent of some- thing over one undred thousand dollars; the Northern Cenjral to about the same amouut; the Baltimove and Obio bad seven bridges and four miloa/of track end several station houses destroyed; telegraph companies were damaged to the amount of three or four thousand dollara; the Chesapeake and Obio canal bad the aque- duet at Antietam destroyed, and all the locks ybetween Antietam and Williamsport demolish- ed,. with between twenty and thirty boats. The county losses are estimated as follows:— Harfo.td county, $15,000; Baltimore county, $42,000'; Carroll county, $10,000; Frederick county, $372,000, including $200,000 ran- som money; Washington county, $85,000, and the balance was lost by farmers, storekeepers and others, in damage to farms, the pillaging of shops, running off cattle, horses, &c. It is but right and proper that the sufferers by this raid should be indemnified for their losses; and the best, surest and most speedy way of getting the funds therefor is te assess the rebel sympathizers in Maryland for "the amount required. These domestic traitors: should consider themselves fortunate if they get off so easily, for their complicity with the rebel invaders merits a much severer puaish— ment. Lincorn Atone.—Neither the Tribune nor Times go with Mr. Linco'n in jnsisting upem the abolition of slavery as one of the terms of reunion, The Tribune is silent, and the Times rebukes Lincoln as bitterly as it dares. Mr. Lincoln has gone just a little too far in his ultimatum and has disgusted everybody. One would suppose that he had entered into aa agreement with Vallandigham to build up the peace party; for certainly he has never before issued a manifesto so calculated to accomplish that result. Tus Rain.—Parsons have been praying for rain; farmers have been swoatiny for raing despondent people have been predicting » famine on account of the want of rain, and now we have had rain and plenty of it. The rain is very welcome on more accounts than one. It revives the army and revives the crops that are to feed the army. It will bring down the prices of garden truck and vegetables, we hope. It will put up the prices’ of umbrellas beyond a doubt. Let it keep on raining, Any amount of rain will be popular except a reign of terror. Jerr. Davis’ Uurimatum.—In his interview with Edmund Kirke Gilmore the rebel chief is said to have deciared that the independence of the South was his ultimatum. In this Jeff. Davis represents the wishes of the majority ot the Southern people about as_ truly as Lincolm represents the wishes of the Northern people when he makes the abolition of slavery one of the terms of his ultimatum. Spite of the poll- ticians on both sides the people of both sec tions will yet get together in the Union. Musical. ITALIAN OPERA. ‘The coming operatic season wil! deubtless be unuenalty brilliant. Mr. Maretzek has engaged new artisis, and will produce several new 0} as wellas some favorite works not given here for many years, He will hove am upusual'y large and effective chorus a8 well ag orchestra, and will be evou more liberal thin bitherto 1m the rick. ness of the mise en scene. If consideration of the above facts the prices of ents at the Acidemy of Basic must be increased to meet the vastly augmented expenses of an operatic season. It must be borae in mind, however, that even with the contemplated tncrease of prico, our public will have the enicyment of opera at half the oss of this entertainment in Furope, woere enterprize of this kind are subsidized by the governt The fall GERMAN OPrRa, Mr, Leonard Grover, the outerprising Washington nam ager, his taken this enterts the present time most succers‘uily. German opera trouse will consmercs a seuse York at the Acudemy of Music ‘The troupe bar beem thened and has a ve sndorcheetra, We understand that * German opera througoout the West ai New York ENGLISH OPERA. The season of Fnglivb opera at the Of, fully progressing. ‘To morrow nigl opera, The Rose of Cactile, wil! be given fo in this country. This opera ts bighly spok London critica, Mme, Comie-Morehard. Mies Ta sa Myers and Mesers, Castle snd ¢ pbell, the leading artiste ia this troupe, have become crest favorites with the publte, ard will doubtless increase thetr popularity by thetr per formance of this new opera. Cawrorit’s Mixern’ The propricter of this trowpe writen to the effect that he did Lot attend the Congross of theatrical manazers, and does not intend to raise bis prices, The proprietor is a sensible man. Mis minatres ball in the Rowery {= crowded every night. and he gives an excelient entertninment. ax be coatinuas im this way, and av: ide all manvcerini combinestions agains. the public, ho will deserve aud eecure succoss. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Fortress Moveor, July 23, 1856. The fiag of truce hoat C. W. Thomas, Capt. Downe, ar rived here from Aiken's Landing last evoning, iu chacge of Major Mulford. Sho brought neither news nor passencers. Hon, Secretary Seward left here last evening for City Point and Bermuda Hundred, on the stoamet City of Fedson. ‘The steamer Cumbria, Capt. Blanchard, arrived to-day, from New Orleans 16th in with most of the Tatr teenth Connecticut regiment, whose time has expired ‘They are going home on furlough, having re-enlisted tor the war. ‘ Fortaess Mownos, July 24, 1866, ‘The United States transport steamer Cumbria, Captata A. Blanchard, arrived hore yesterday afternoon from New Orleans, having on board betwees four and five hundred meo of the Thirteenth Connecticut Volunteers who re-enlisted for another term. Captain Blanchard loft the Crescent city on the 15th inst., and reports the. health of the troops and place as firet rate, Nothing: new had transpired, The Cumbria loft last night for New York. j Raim at Boston. Bostrom, July 26, 1806 Awelcome rain commenced at noon, end contiaus® falling steadily this evening. from Cape Race. Br. Jounn, N. F., July 25, 1008 Afopcame in just as the steamship Asia, from Bow Lom for Liverpool, wan due off Cape Race, and ste wae pop ween. ‘The steamehip United Kingdom, from Glasgow A p Que. bec, passed Cape Race atone o’clook Sunday wW orming, but was not boarded. At ten o'clock this morning the weather @ the Cape was (hick, Thermometer seventy. Foar Persone Drowne ty , Provinexem, R. 1, Je y 28, 1966, Four persons were drowged in Newyort ® arbor yeater Colonel J, W. to Major Geuorad Ratler, and Major John F Mulford, ® aictant Ament for Exchange, wore ranrengers ob the sranmer Louisiana, from Fortress Monioe to Baltimore, oo the 24th inet General Sboriey aud staff arriy ed in thie city Ieeb evening from No: . Va oral y RoeR to Maine on twenty faye’ Je vieit bie A abson family—the fires Joxve he bas bar | wince 1861. Lioutenant P, Conners, of th® One Hundred nnd Sixty. pioth Now York volunteers, Ne ¢ resigned on account of his hoalth, which hae broke / jown oder the severities of the service, with which bf has been connected for a period of two years. Goveral J, W. Denver, 4of Kansan, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel alas Aldin, ‘of the One Hondred and 8i; ninth New York, and ( olones Thomas D. Johna, of Seveuth Maszachurety , Volunteors, are ajopping at tbe Astor House. M. Barbous, Brax)’ ian Minister to the United @iates. ta sopplog tt the CU condo Hotels * o™