The New York Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1864, Page 4

eT 4 NEW YORK HERALD. @AMES GORDON BENNETR BOITOR AND PROPRIETOR eee OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. No, 207 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. HIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Saa or fom WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Inise Emt- GRant—Haxpy ANDY. OLYMPIO THBATRS, Broadway.—Excusa Orrna— Bose or Oastine NEW BOWKRY THEATRE. Bowery.—Groncs Bas- BINGiON—Uu. Lan OF Faki—1OUNG AMERICA. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Satan iw Pants FARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadway.<Two Giawm, Two Dwakrs, ALEINOE, “BaRPusts, Ac, at all hours Ma BUM ALA Aly Sand oy P.M WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 516 Broadway. —Eraiorar Songs, Danors, &0.—(uk 04D 10 KicHuonD. 8, 199 and 201 Bowerr.—Vaniap THIOPIAN ODDITIES CAMPBELL MINSTR axp Excirivg Metayan NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. @vuosiries ano Luctunss, from 9 a M. tll P.M FOOLRY'S OPERA ose Brooklyo.—Ermoriaz gence Dances, Buataca' New York, Wedne ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertizements for the Wraxty Henatp must be hand. e¢in before ten o'clock every Wednestay evening. Its circulation among the eoterprising mechanics, farmers, Merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the ‘country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- werted in the Werkty Heratp will thus bescen by a large Portion of the active and energetic people of the United Etatos. Jaly 27, 1864. THE SITUATION. The enemy has ma nother invasion into Maryland. ‘The forces of Early and Breckinridge, after seeing the Plunder of the late raid safely disposed of, appoar to have turned back and commenced another raid. They drove General Averill back to Harper's Ferry after a severe fight tm the vicinity of Winchester on Sat- ‘urday and Sunday. He appears to have been pursued as far as Martinsborg, which be wes ‘©ompelied to evacuate. Rumors of the death of ‘Gene als Averill and Kelly and Col. Mulligan were circa- ‘Tated; but there is no truth in them as far as known, ex- cept that Mulligan is wounded. That the enemy are threatening Pennsylvania and Maryland is undoubted. ‘Considerable excitement prevailed in Baltimore yester- day consequent upon these facts, The intelligence of this Fetuvaston is scattered and unsatisfactory, but it is sufli- cient to cause much uncasiness in the national capital. Nothing of importance from Atlanta was officially pro- Yuulgatea trom Washington yesterday, We give, how- over, some interesting details of the recent movements there. There ts no news from General Grant's army. | Our St. Louis correspondence contains a very tnterest- ‘tng account of the conspiracy to form @ Northwestern ‘confederacy. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Borussis, from Southampton on the 118th, and the Scotia, from Queenstown on the 17th of July, rewched this port yesterday. The nows by the Sootia is two days later than the advices of the Belgian, Published in the Heratp yesterday morning. ‘There is no confirmution of the report of an engagement Detwoon the Kearsarge and a rebel privateer, ‘The Kearsarge and Sacramento bad joined in a cruise off Dover. Is was rumored in Cherbourg that the Union and rebel aval oMcers had arranged for a fight, to take place ‘within ten days, between the Sacramento and Niagara on Bho one side, and the rebel steamer General Lee and a webel corvette, which was lately in the Straits of Gibral Bar, on the other—the battle to be fought on the ovast of France. A deputation of influential British rebel sympathizers ad an interview with Lord Palmerston on the 15th of Fuly, seeking to advise the government to lead in an offer bf European medietion in the American war. The Anglo- rebel party argued the matter with considerable tact and Point. The position of the English Cabinet on the subject mnay be collected from the very witty, poetical, yet pro found sentence in which Lord Palmerston copveyed the tesence of his reply, reminding bis audience that ‘ They who in quarrels internose Will often wipe @ bloody nose Bt ts tntimatea by the London Heraid that Mr. Lindsay ‘Dod, previous to this, withdrawn his recognition motton from the books of the House of Commons in consequence Of an implied assurance, given by Lord Palmerston to Mr. ‘Mason and bimseif, that theJPremierfwould support recog- pition at a more opportune moment. There was a very large demand for United States stocks An Frankfort, prices having falien io consequence of the Beport of a great rise in the exchanges at New York. | The rebel loan bad again advanced in London. | Peace negotiations were in progress between Deumark Bod the allied Germans. A truce to the Sist of July bad ‘been concluded. The German blockade is to be raised in ‘the meantime and the basis of @ peace laid dows. The Rew Prime Minister of Denmark bad seut a peace mes- Bage to Berlin and Vienna. ‘The Leadon Post reiterates tte assertion that Pfuesia Jha proposed the reorganization of the Holy Alliance, but eMcislly denied the project througn foar of a war with Wranee—Napoleon having found out the plan—which pent would just now be “ disastrous" to Prussia, Jt was proposed in the Italian Benate to break off diplo- Gustic relations with Spain, the Queen not baving recog. ‘BDized the new kingdom. The Foreign Minister replica Bhat, ax Italy had been recognized by the *‘ great Powers,” if d Dot need the acknowledgment of Spain, An ite Bai ator urged the government te seize the Spanish B llege at Bologna. Consols closed in London, on the 16th of Julv, at 90% a Bi for money. The market for Uniied States five twenty Bonds was firm and advancing the same day. The Liver po! cotton market was firm, with prices unchanged (rom ‘Bbe rates reported by the Belgiac Breadstufls were frm. Provisions frm and upward, MISCELLANEOUS NEWB ‘The Democratic Union Association inaugurated the Presidential campaign last evening by holding « public Enceting in their ball, corner of Twenty-recond atreet and Phoadway. Hon. Mr, Singleton, of 'linols, was the prin- Sipsl speaker, who delivered an address strongly in favor & speedy peace, ignoring the war democrats, and de Mmunding of the Chicago Convention @ man pledged in favor of perce principles. Hon. James Brooks made a few remarks, after which the moeting adjouroee. The seventh annual shooting festival of the Schuteen Corps commenced at Jones’ Wood yesterday, and wil! be etirved to-day and to-morrow, The entertainment Jevterdiay was, and to-day wil! be, shooting at the double Headed Aus.rian eagle, dancing, &c., and to-morrow wil! ‘be (he crowning of the Schutzem King. Of course the foner mao is daily sustained by the plentiful viends furnished to the company and their friends, whose » are legion. It i supposed by the police and those who have to do ‘with the administration of criminal justice in the city Shot most of the thieves, gamblers and burglars are either @: Svratoga, Coney Island or some other fashionable sum- Tuer resort; for the attention of the authorities has been Cirocted lately more to complainta against bounty Wrokers and bounty Jumpers thas to any other @icse of canea Almost every day charges are seat fe tho District Attorney's office against these Gwiclers for defrauding recruite of their bounty Bo od for violating the Enlistment act by Inducing ‘GL. co08 OF Chie State to cofiet to other States, It would frustrate the ovds of justice to publish the names of these , although our taints; but it Bia'|, even daring the dog days, keeps the machinery of bis mice (Go motion, od thet he intends to send all such Bomplainte to the Grand Jury for thelr action, No doubt Bhove gentiomen will be summarily dispoved of at the @ugurt Corm of the General Sessions, which opens next Werk before Recorder Hofman. If the wholesale system Bf plundering voluntoers which bas beon practised go Bong by tho scoundrels who are to be seen inventing Bvery reoruit! yg offices in this city is broken up by the Prarietion as oungusmons of bbe pariieg Wo be indicted. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1864. ft may result im the eradication of this great evil, where- “by thousands of dollars are stolen weekly (rom the moa who volanteer to fight ta the Union armies. Charles Havens was yesterday committed for trial by United States Commissioner Osborne oa @ charge of counterfeiting and passing currency stamps of the denommmation of Afty conte, When arrested the accused bad pearly $20 worth of bogus ourrency in bis posses- sion, which be accounted fer by saying that they were given him in change by a person whom he did not know. In the Hardenbrook divorce case yesterday, where a motion was made to attach the nusbind for refusing to allow the children to see their mother, in compliance with an order of the Suprome Court, the defendant pro- duced affidavits denying any interference on bis part, but Claimed that the children themselves were oppased to the visits of the mother. Judge Barnard examined the ebildren privately, and, feeling satisfied of the estrange- ment which existed between them and their mother, de- cided to deny the motion, About three o'clock yesterday afternoon 4 fire ocourred fe the printing office of Clary & Riley, Nes. 12.and 14 Sprace street. The fre was extinguished by the work- men. Damage estimated at about $250; covered by in- surance. Captain Street, of the British bark Delaware, from Demarara, reports that ancther disastrous fire occurred ‘ab that place on the 4th instant, which destroyed a large portion of the town saved from the preytous fre. The toss ‘s several millions of dollars. A destructive fire ocoarred at Napanee, Cenada West, a few days ago. A large cabinot factory, a plaster mill, a sawmill and a large new foundry, with two dwelling houses, were totally destroyed. Loss about $50,000. ‘The deautiful little village of Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y., was the scene of a terrible conflagration on Wed- pesday ast. Five horses were burned and twenty-five Dulidings destroyed. The total loss was about $35,000, only a third of which is covered by {uaurance. This is the second time within a few weeks that the village has suffered severely by fire. One of the workshops attached to the Western House of Refuge, ab Rochester, N. Y., was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. The sparks from this fire wero carried by the wind to the Lake avenue ‘church, a quarter otatwile distant, which was also burned. Total loss ‘about $60,000. ‘The fire at Springfield, Mass., on Saturday night, was the most disastrous that has ever occurred in that city. The entire loss is estimated at $122,000, on which there was an insurance of about $80,000. ‘The ups and downs of gold again interfered greatly with oommeroial transactions yesterday, and business, except in a few of the specalative commodities, was ona limited scale, The money market was relaxing from its great stringenoy, however, and the operators accordingly experienced less difficulty in obtaining funds wherewith to operate. Still merchandise was mostly nominal. Cotton was without decided change. Petroleum was rather better, On 'Change business was & little alack. Breadatuffs were without decided change, while pork and led were rather stifer. Whiskey was lewor and freights firmer. The market for prime beef cattle this week was buoy- ant, ander an active inquiry, and, alimough receipte were large, full prices were realized. Poor cattle pre- dominated this week, however, and prices (or this de- scription ruled considerably lower. The whole range was from 910. to 19. & 19%¢c.; but the bulk of the offerings sold from 1430, te 18c. The bulk of the offer- ings old on Monday; but a fair business was dono yes- terday. Milch cows were stesdy. Veals wore in fair de- mand at prices varying from 7c. to 100. a 1lc., aceord- ing to quality. The receipts of sheep and lambs for the week were enormous, and, though the demand has been fair, prices have declined 1c. a 13sec. per pound. Sales varied from $3 50 to $8. Swine sold at from 100. a 11%c. Tho total receipts were 5,202 beeves, 146 cows, 2,312 veals, 19,720 sheep and lambe, and 8,894 hogs. Re-Invasien of ryland—Washington Again in Danger. The tadk of forewarning men who appear in- capable of receiving advice or profiting by ex- periehce is a thankless one, of which we begin to weary. The great noodles who-mismanage our military and all other matters at Washing- ton would seein to be of this class. They are so absorbed in the political campaign, so busy wirepulling to secure Mr. Lincoln's re-election, that no other campaign can claim attention until news is carried into the White House by breathless couriers that the rebels are again north of the Potomac and that “Washington is in danger!” Then follows an immense stam- pede—a panic that is like a whirlpool, sucking downward the last remnants of courage, dignity and public eonfidence. The telegraph on all sides is set in operation, asking, begging and imploring help from Governors who but yester- day were denounced by admialstration presses as “(raitors ouly deserving a halter.” Every cdmmander in the field, no matter how great may be his need, finds himself suddenly stripped of troops “in order to save the capital.” Our city militia regiments are ealled to the frout. Hundreds of millions are frantically lavished in efforts to enroll some few thousand farm laborers of Pennsylvania and Maryland into an army competent to grapple with and beat back Lee’s veteran cohorts of invasion. There is wild terror at Washington, a esrnival amongst the gold speculators of Wall and William streets, and the honest, loyal heart of the country grows sick under the ever deepening convic- tion that our government ia in the hands of men without foresight to guard against distant dan- ger, and without either ability or courage to face those immediate perils which their follies have provoked. We are again threatened with an invasion of Maryland and an attaok on the national capital. That this would be the case—that Gencrals Early and Breckinridge only recrossed the Po- tomac to wait for reinforcements and see the spoils of their last raid into Maryland beyond reach of pursuit-we warned the goverament more than a week ago; but our warnings, like many others we have given, wore allowed to pass unnoticed. As the result, we find another stampede in Washington, and all reports go to confirm that the enemy are this time ia much beavier force than on the occasion of their Jast unwelcome visit. Generals Hunter, Crook and Averill are not officers of the class who retire before imaginary dangers. Thoy are vete- rans whe have slowly won their spurs by herd fighting, and the fact that they have fallen back may be taken as good evidence that they have suffered severely, and find the attacking columns much heavier than their own. What may yet be done by General Wright to retrieve our disasters in the Shenan- doahb valley, a few days, perhaps @ few hours, will determine. He ie in chief command of all the troops assigned to protect the line ef the Potomac west ef Washji , and, with his veterans of the Army of the Potomac, reinforced by the remains of General Hunter’s command, it is possible, and we hope probable, that be may be enabled to repel this second attempt upon the security of our national capital and the peace of a loyal State, But how often is this thing to be repeated before the government will arouse itself suffi- ciently from the drugged dream of political intrigue to take the requisite precautions against @ recurrence of these damaging and disgraceful invasions? Is it justice to General Grant to allow him to be distracted In this manner from the great operations he is engaged upos, and which are now approaching a trinmpbant solution? Can we hope for success at Petersburg and Richmond if the grand army assigned to the reduction of those last strong- holds of the rebellion is to be constantly weak- ened by the withdrawal of troops whose presence north of the Potomac is alone made vequisiio by the blunders of LL the Washington Directory? The plain duty which the admtalatration owea to the country is at once to issue a call for one hundred and fifty or two hundred thousand men to defend the loyal States from invasion; and, if General McClellan be recalled to duty and assigned to their command, every child knows there will be no trouble in raising within a very few days all the men and all the material that may be asked for. With MoClellan holding his broad wgis over Washington, the north bank of the Potomac and the whole border of the loyal States, public confidence would revive, gold would rapldly find {ts true level, and General Grant would no longer be harassed by those incessant stampedes in his rear and those incessant demands upon him for the veteran troops on whom he has counted for the execution of bis gigantic plans. Let Mc- Clellan be recalled, and all will go well. Let his ostracism be continued by the Washington Directory, and the Directory may soon find itself obliged to date its political and other re- scripts from some place not south of the Sus- quehanna, The Late Ponce Comference—Lincoin and Davis—Significant Developments. The late peace conference at Niagara Falls was a very curious affair. Since the publica- tion of Colorado Jewett’s cirenmstantial report of its proceedings the whole concern has been generally regarded as a ridiculous farce, in which the performers were desperate adven- turers, noisy charlatans and polftical donkeys. This, however, is but a superficial view of the subject. If we look only a little below the surface of these funny peace proceedings at Niagara, in connection with the contem- poraneous peace mission of Kirke and Jaques to Richmond, we shall discover in them mat- ters of the greatest import and challenging the most serious consideration. Granted, for the sake of the argument, that George Sanders contrived this Niagara confer- ence as a mere speculation from which he might replenish his empty pockets; that Colo- rado Jewett, in joining in this initial peace movement, believed that it would enable him to bead off Dean Richmond, Fernando Wood, and even Vallandigham, as a candidate for the Chicago nomination; conceding, too, that Gree- ley was taken in. and done for by Sanders and Jowett; that Old Abe, in the outset, was bumbugged by Greeley. and that Kirke’s peace mission to Richmond was a newspaper edven- ture, we contend that these volunteer peace- makers at Niagara and Richmond have ren- dered very important service to the country in worming out the peace ultimatum of President Lincoln and the ultimatum of Jeff. Davis. What is the sine qua non demanded by Mr. Lincoln of the rebellious States as a condition precedent to the re-establishment of peace and the Union? Nothing Yess than the abolition of slavery. The rebellious States must make good his emancipation proclamations before Abraham Lincoln can agree to any peace with them. Why has he now taken this extreme abolition ground, when he has ‘always hereto- fore, down to the Jate Baltimore Convention, insisted that the Union Is the paramount, while slavery is but # socondary, question? We can only conclude that, without requiring the aboli- tion of slavery therein as an essential condition, Mr. Lincoln is afraid: that peace and reunion may come too soon to suit his ambitious pur- poses and the grasping designs of his party. What would become of this party, and its one idea of abolition, should the revolted States be restored to the Unton to-day, slavery and all, as practically unaffected or untouched by the war? The republican party, with its one idea of abolition, would speedily be superseded and cast under a cloud of disgrace by an all powerful new party, made up of the conserva- tive masses of both sections. Henee it follows that, as any peace movements, however promis- ing, which do not involve the abolition of slave- ry, threaten to cut short the reign of the re- publican party, they cannot be supported by the administration. Greeiey, from the outset, has comprehended the advantages to his party of the exclusion of the Southern States from the affairs of the gene- ral government. In 1861 he advocated the State right of secession, and, if we mistake not, ‘the policy of permitting the seceding States then represented in the rebel provisional gov- ernment at Montgomery, Alabama, to go in peace. At prosent he appe; fo be very anxious for peace and reunion, and ready for all reasonable measures of conciliation, except upon the slavery question. Here he fully en- dorses Lincoln’s ultimatum, and for the same reasons. Greeley, we dare say, however, fears that peace under anything like the dld Union would net only be the end of his party, but that the country, from a fierce reaction of pub- lic opinion, might become too hot for the safety within its borders of any of the sbofftion lead- em concerned ia agitating the S uth into this bloody rebellion. Jeff. Davis and his ruling Southern confeder- ates are in the same predicament. There is no Tefuge, no escape for them if they fail in esteb- lishing « Southern confederacy. A sweeping amnesty would not save them with the return of the “so-called Confederate States” to the Union; for the outraged people of those States would not longer telerate the Presence ‘among them of the treach- erous, reckless and blood-stained leaders responsible for this horrible and ruinous war. Accordingly, Jeff. Davis tells Mr. Kirke thet his ultimatum is Southern independence or exter- mination. And what else, as he is situated, contd he dot But he no more represents the feelings and wishes of the suffering and sorely tried people of the revolted States than does Abraham represent the masees of the people of the loyal States in his abolition ultimatum. The extreme demands of both these misguided men must be discarded. We repeat, however, that the country has gained an important advantage with the discovery that neither Lincoln nor Jeff. Davis is prepared for peace upon the basis of the Union and the constitution; and for this dis- covery the country is indebted to this peaco convention of political adventurers at Niagara Falls. Moses Tayion a8 Assistawr Treasurer.— The appointment of Moses Taylor to the post of Assistant United States Treasurer iss good one. Mr. Taylor is & competent and honest map. He belongs to o class of merchants who have earned the respect of their fellow citizens, a8 well as personal distinction and opulence, by lives of probity and honesty. But this ap- polntment, as good as ft is, murt not be re garded as the commencement of the reform movement about to be inaugurated by Mr. Fee senden, That movement must be commenced fo the onstom houses, navy agencies, she inter- gal revoaue officer, aod other revenue deposite- ries throughout the country. The New York Cus- tom House is the first place that should be sweptout Mr. Barney, although a clever and amiable old gentleman, is unfit for ‘the import- ant office of Collector of this port. What is re- quired there is a man of vigor and brains, one of varied business knowledge and sound com- mon sense. Just such a man fs Mr. Postmaster Wakeman, and we know that President Lincoln favors his appointment. Ivronrant DeveLorments IN THE REPUBLICAN Parry.—Events and circumstances bave trans- pired since the visit of ex-Secretary Chase to this city which throw considerable light upon the inner workings of the republican party. It is reported that Mr. Chase asserted that, had he known before be left the Treasury Depart- ment what he now knows, he would not have resigned, but forced Lincoln to turn him out, or secured bis defeat through the machinery of the Treasury Department. It now appears that there is a formidable movement in the republican party, inaugurated and pushed for- ward by the Chase men, to secure the defeat of Old Abe at the polls next November. This movement is likely to prove as effective as any that could have been carried out through the Treasury office. The Chase men will {insist upon Mr. Lincoln carrying out the resolution adopted at the Balti- more Convention for the remodeling of the Cabinet. The demand that this plank in the Baltimore platform shall be put in force may be urged in personal interviews, insisted upon by letters and other communications, and perhaps demanded by a general convention. In the event of Mr. Lincoln resisting all of these influences and hanging on to the present set of imbeciles and incompetents, another Presidential candidate will be neminated, who will be backed by the influence of one of the strongest departments of the government, with {ts agents scattered all through the North {n « position to do effec- tive work. The public may look for dissensions and wrangles wherever there isa gathering of republican politicians, and we imagine, from the secret operations now going on in the re- publican ranks, that Old Abe will very soon realize that it is one thing to get a nomination and quite another to be eleoted.: Taking the intrigues in his own party and the bungling mismanagement by himself and Cabinet of this war, President Lincoln may as well make up his mind that he has got a hard road to travel. When prominent men of the republican party are heard to openly express the hope that the rebels will enter Washington and capture Old Abe, and this disaffection extending to the rank and file of the party, it is time for him to con- sider that his case is hopeless, unless be changes his Cabinet and does something for his country besides telling smutty stories. A Reset Consrmacy mw THE Norts.--It is a well known fact that hundreds of rebel agents and sympathizers are in the North at present, congrogating at hotels, speculating in the money market, inflating the price of and by all means in their power giving ald and encouragement to the cause of Davis. There are also foreign agents here who consort with these rebels, and by their correspondence for European journals injure the cause of the North and uphold that of the rebellion. In addition to these foes to our constitution and country there are foreign journals published bere which advocate the cause of the South unceasingly. If these journals do not do so openly, they at- |" tain the same object by constant misrepresenta- tions, their purpose being to detract from all our successes and increase those of our enemies. The journals in question are French and Eng- lish. We are pleased to state that the German and Irish papers remain loyal to the govern- ment which shelters them. In no other country on, the face of the earth would the enemfes of a government be permit- ted, thus unrestrained, unchecked, to work out their malignant purposes. These rebels and their sympathizers plot against the administra- tion with the view of causing an outbreak in the North, making, as was seen at Niagara late- ly, buncombe peace propositions through the philosopher Greeley and the great philanthro- pist Colorado Jewett, for the purpose of work- ing upon the copperheads and the ultra peace men to the detriment of our government and in favor of Davis. These rebels, their sympa- thizers and foreign journals should ail be sup- pressed. Tue Nusaxce Marorn—Mayor Gunther seems to be in love with nuisances. Bad odors are agreeable to him. Dirt pleases him. He likes filth and garbage. He has no objections whatever to a pestilence, Whenever the City Inspector tries to clean and purify the city Mayor Gunther attempts to prevent him. His Honor is the champion of bone boiling estab- lishments. When the atmosphere is filled with putrid particles the Mayor snuffs it in and en- joys it. Instead of being called the reform Mayor, he ought to be known and immortalized as the nuisance Mayor. In thia state of affairs we oall upon the City Inspector to urge the Common Council to re- solve itself into a Board of Health without de- laying any longer for Mayor Guntber’s con- sent. The Mayor will never abate any nui- sanee. He bas made himself a nulsaace to our people, and a fellow feeling makes him won- drous-kind towards bone boilers and knackers. We doubt if the Common Council bas the same sympathies for dirt and disease, and we think that another effort on the part of the City In- spector will be successful. Let him send in a communication at the meeting ef the Board to- morrow, and tet the Common Council oblige the long suffering people by taking action upon the matter at once, the nuisance Mayor te the contrary notwithstanding. Junox Barxarp ror Goverxon.—The Leader, the late John Clancy's paper, suggests Judge Barnard as the democratie candidate for Gov- ernor, and the News adopts the suggestion. The nomination is by no means a good one. Judge Barnard bas already received quite as much as be deserves from the democratic party, and ought to be contented. There is no reason why he should undertake to run the party be- cause he bas engaged In a newspaper specula- tion. Tue ALieoxp Consrinact yor a Nortn- western Conreprnact.—We publish to-day a letter from @ St. Louis correspondent in which some very singular revelations are made re- apecting the conspiracy alleged to exist in thé Northwest, having for its object the establish- ment of a Northwestern contoderacy. The late outbreak in Missour! is supposed to be part of this alleged grand conspiracy, full details of which may be given to the public im afew days. Avorazr Ram—MoCraiiay 70 Prevent [r.— We are apparently to have anv ther raid, and Stanton will know the particuls.6 in about thirty days from now, which will be after’ the raid is all over. In the meantime let #2 Presl- dent cut loose from the abolition train for « little while, and prevent this second advance {nto our territory by sppointing General McClellan to the same command under which he fought Antietam—the command of “all the troops for the defence of the capital.” He will quiet tue country at once in that way, and General McClellan will organize a force and prevent the invasion. Moreover, if General McClellan pursues the enemy and catches up to him he will not come away without a battle. He will not stop because he cannot get across the Shenandoah river in the presence of the enemy. Letthe appointment be made now, before Stanton hears anything about the raid. Krrowen Tasie Tacx at Tax Ware Hovsr.— Old Abe is a genial, easy, garrulous old fellow, posseased of an immense amount of a certain kind of intellectual activity. Repressed and kept in order fora certain time every day by State labors, his brain afterwards bubbles over in little jokes, and he even relieves himself by mere talk—no matter on what subject. He talks in the garden and in the garret, upstairs and downstairs and in the lady’s chamber; but he talks more than all when he goes into the kitchen and epends an hour with the plump and good natured girls, which he often does; for Mr. Lincoln, like Louls XV., loves to make his own coffee; and, like George II., he is particu- larly fond of frying his own fish—when he has no other fish to fry. Day before yesterday he laughed very much over Seward’s trip to the army, which bothers the papers so much, and which he said was merely @ trip to see Ben Butler, and to see what guarantees Ben would give for good be- havior in case they gave him the War Depart- ment. Old Abe is amused immensely at the muddle that Stanton has gotten into, and no joke can give sufficient expression to his merriment. He almost turns a summersault whenever he thinks of it. Stanton was brought into the Cabinet, he says, by Seward, and not by Chase, and Chase acquiesced in the appointment; but now that Stanton is-going on so dreadfully Seward is as anxious to get him ouf'as any one else. Old Abe believes that Stanton will sup- port the nominee of the Chicago Convention if that Convention nominates any one else but McClellan. Stanton’s row with Grant is getting worse and worse, because Stanton will not do anything that Grant requires, but insists that Grant is responsible when his resistance to Grant brings trouble. He wants to make Grant responsible for the raid into Maryland, and Old Abe is certain that Grant will not stand it. Grant will make a row onall the points at which Stanton has played cross purposes—as in keeping Banks in command of the department to defeat his su- persedure; in preventing Ord from having the command at the Monocacy, and in still keeping Sigel in his command after all his recent failures. id Old Abe, finally, seems to be satisfied that | Meade, as he expresses it, “won’t do;” that Grant must have more men, and that Hunter’s West Virginia expedition failed through diso- bedience of orders. WEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Waskcarter, Jaly 26, 1864 GENBRAL 5. HOBART WARD MUSTERED OUT OF SER- * VIOB. General J. Hobart Ward was, by order of the Presi- dent, mustered out of the service of the United States on Sunday Iast, Ho bas asked for a court of inquiry upoo the charges preferred against him. THE N&W YORK ON# HUNDRED DAYS MRN. It is understood that the negotiations of General Sand- ford with the War Departmentare concluded without the accomplishment of the Geueral’s mission. The decision of Judge Whiting is adhered to, and hundred days mean are still Hable to the draft, their present term of service to be deducted from their three years, if drafted. ARRIVAL OF GENERAL RAWLINGS. General Rawlings, Chief of Genoral Grant’s assaf, ar- rived in town to-day, from army headquarters. Colonel Bowers, of the game stu!, is also briefly sojourning in the cit) 7k STEAMER KINGSTON DESTROYED BY REBELS. The steamer Kingsion, of the Georgetown and New York tine, ran ashore near the month of the Rappaban. nock on Friday iast, and was destroyed by the rebels, who fired into her with two field pices and afterwards boarded her ,in small boats, The captain’ and erew escaped, The pilot, a Baltimore map, is suspected of complicity with the encmy, aud steps. have been taken for an tnvestigation. COMMOTATION OF PUNISHMENT. Philip Trammell and Jack Barnes, two notorious gue- riltas, of Fairfax county, Va., sentenced by court martial te be shot, have hed thoir punishment commuted to tm. prisonment for ten years in tho. Albany Penitentiary, | Mhe latter is the vitest of his class. He had been in our hands several times previous to bia last capture, was treated with great leniency, and upon taking the oath allowed the freedom of the city. It is only regretted among loyal refugees from Virginia that the original sen- tence was not executed, WOUNDED REBRLA BROUGHT Me. Day before yesterday @ rebel ltentonant and corporal ‘Were found wounded and secreted at a house a few miles Ontside the defences, A large number of arms, equip. ments, &c., and sevoral good tonts, were also discovered and brought in. VOLUNTEERING GOING OM BRISELY. Volunteering 19 progressing so favorably to the District that the necessity of a draft, it is volieved, will be averted. Enlistments in the navy are particularly brisk, over @ bundred recruits presenting themselves every ‘week. This is in addition to enlistments tnto the army, which are also quite numerous: DESERTERS TAKING THR OAT OF ALLNGTANCE. Fourteen out of seventeon robe desorters who arrived here to-day have taken the oatb of allegiance. RETURN OF SECRETARY SEWARD. ‘The Seoretary of State and his Assistant Secretary have returned from a visit to Fortress Monroe and the Army of the Potomac. , DECISION OF THE INTERNAL REVENTR BUREAU. In response to an inquiry the Internal Rovenue Buresa has replied that wines made of berries and sugar, with. out the infusion of distilled spirits, are eubject to tax as manufactures, vis.—five per centum ad valorem. When pei ma gmc tins is fifty conte per gallon, THE NATIONAL DENT. ‘The official atatemont of the public debt, as appears by the records to-day, shows that the a ing interest in coin is $983 ,887,842, the amount stated on the 19 terest being $62,623,281. The «i foterest in lawful mousy te $406 ,53,620, or nearly a mil. Non and @ half more than (n the previous statement, with: an aggregate lawful money interest of $24,027,000, The debt bearing no interest ta $616,732,092, The debt on whioh interest has coasod is $270,190. The recapitulation shows the aggrogate amount outstanding to be $1,806,- 623,565, with interest ia both gold and lawful money to the amount of $73,650,630. The principal ie $9,520,000 more than last month’s stntoment. The unpaid requisi- ttons amount to about $77,000,000, and (he amount tn the ‘Treasury is nearly $16,000 000. Peres Intelligence. Lieutenant Colonel alpine, Adjutant General of Woat ta, ie in yes LA a fow days. be ng summoned ana Witkeee before @ court martial now 1 scssion in this bt sal Pann Kvswna 2 Conoanes.— As the m2000 4o6e not rise t0- Hight til after midnight, thore will ba no munio on the Lake os de Pare nn MILITARY AFFAIRS. ‘NotDing of importance transpired ta military otretes Yesterday; but the createst excitement prevailed among the members of milii# regiments in relation to the re Bult of General Sandford’s mission to Wasbingtos. & deepatch was received by Colovel Hamilton, Division Im Spector and Chief of Gener! Sandfora’s staff, stating thet the General would return to this city to-day. No allusion was mado in the despatch to the result of the conferences between the War Department aod General Sandford; bed it ts that the Washington autbort. ties Sil ou Jit from the position they have taken, an@ the (rien: Governor Seymour assert that unless tne one peor days men are exem| from the operatian of the coming he will deciine sending any more regiments out of the State, as the action of the War De partment is in direct conflict with the clearly expressed Qonmrems, visions of the iaw Maryland, and ~ on perhaps togton, with tovasion, this oonalet ot fsathor result riously to the national cause, iy aad - The Park Barracks to he Removed, ‘The old building in the Park, which has been used fer the last two years, is shortly to be removed to the Bate tery, where anew building fs im course of constructions A space of three acres on the Battery oulargemcnt nes been eet apart for the new birracks, and is already ea- closed by a new fence, As soon as the new bulidings are completed the old ones will be demolished and the restored to ita former pristine glory, This change give goneral satisfaction, as she ‘Das boca « terrible syesore for some time pust, Returm Of the Th 2% Regim: m ‘The Thirteenth Connecticut Velunteors arrived in this city yesterday morning, in the steamer Cumbria, from New Orloans, The roziment numbers between ave and six hunared men, who ‘seem to be enjoy! Pot | health. They were furnished with ruttons Aimy, the Bta‘e agent, previous to their departure fer Nest homes ia Connecticut, At the expiration of their furloughs they re-enter the service, The Quota of New York. Atuany, July 26, 1806 ‘The total quota of the State under the lest cal! for half ® million men is stated at cighty-nine thousand three hundred and eighteca. Another Decision of th Connections Provost Marchal re Laney iyi 1 L Gexarat'a Orrion, asin gy. 1... July 28, 1864, + May: Poughkeepsie, N. Y. == answor to your telegram of the should have read:—Volunteors underithe pre sent call will be credited man for man, whether they en list for one, two or three years. where they onlist tar the shorter term more men may be required at the ration of their torma te equalize the amount of mi service among the irene npn parts of tea am, sir, ver} tfully, your obedient servant, PMN VEY SRURS B. FRY, Provest Marshal Generale Direetions Respecting Gevernment Me chantoes who heave been Drafted. ‘The following has been promulgated:— CIRCULAR NO. 29, Paovosr Maxeual. Guwmnat's Waraixaton, July 26, 184. Skilled mechanios and operatives employed in ied Bata mories, erseuals and Cay yards of the United who shall be drafted, and on examination held te ese vice, will not be required to report for duty under emo& draft so loug as they rem im the aforesaid provided the officer ia cher shall certify that saber as Ses es operatives is necessary for or ary service. in: sas. B. FRY, Provost Marshal General, Brooklyn Military Affairs, At a special meeting of the Kings county Board of fy pervisors, held yesterday afternoon, & resolu om wis offered to the following eflect:— ‘That in case the Treasarer of Kings county shail be wm able to raige the sum of $500,000, as authorised by resolution of the Board, passed June 22, 1861, as spee@iy ‘as the Bourity Committee may have use for t! ts hereby authorized to issue certificates of ii for one hundred dollars each, with Incerest, at soven per cent, payable, at the option of the county, to any volum teor or any person who may faruish a substitute to the credit of the county on the order of the Bounty ei mittee. ~ In the debate which ensued it appeared that there eae, great difficulty in procuring money at a less rave them seven per cont, and it was therdtore desmed advisable te adopt this course ta order to obtain sufiicient (uads to pay the bounties. The resolution wes referred to a committee of consisting Of Messrs. Studwell, Herman and Coosh! with instractions (o report at tho next meeting—ow day aiterooon next—the best course to be taken in rate ing the quota of this county and the money necessary therefor. A resolution was also offered requesting the Goversor Of the State to appoint an aront to recruit negro 8 idiers tn the Southern States, to be adred to the quota of this county. In connection therewith it was stated thes Governor Seymour bad been apptied to im regard to the matter, but that he declined to appoint an agont unless roquoated to do #0 by the Boyd of Sunervisors. The sed- ject was referred to the same committee as above, te be ‘Acted upon at the next meting. The Kings county Bounty Committee have decided 00 and after Mooday next, the lst of August, they pay only §100 bounty to volunteers or substitutes, It Of $300, ag at present, This course was resolved upee ta consequence of the decision of the Provost Marshal Gene ral, a8 explained io the {.llowing correspondence:— Brooxtyn, bead ¥., July 20, eee General Fry, Provost Mars ai Gene ak Sin—My Gisuict has enlisted some hundreds Fecentiy for three yoars ur tue war, The coma orities have paid and are now pa ng Goer inst ca e for said term of service, le for one year. How will im ee ~ wil th ed ant one. a three az. Sect. creda on on ini calt ‘at three meat sa surly anewor will muck oblige, Yours, truly. | 4 a Wan Daranrrnt, Paovory Mansnat's Orricm, Was 22, Loss, f MP. Onmtt, Brot , lalla _P, Onmrt, Broo! Fave m nowledge the rectipt ot rwar at” to D intoras you that Iw whether they enlist te ay anes or deficiencies of m for man. W he men ie cgualize the aromas oh roy ee rovedient Ey B. PRY, Provoat ‘Marana! General. shorter terms ‘expiration of thove terme, miiltary service among Btatcs, Lam, air, ver; SAME! tonal di to saticipation Hh nd rg ie the number of ace care yo the Third Congressional distriet, from which the Literary Intetiigenee. NAOME TORRENTS: THE HISTOXY OF A WOMAN. Under this title Gertrude F. de Viogut bee gives te the public a work far above the every day range of sevely in conception, plet and style, The book bas been broughe out by Bradburn, ef this city, ia a neat octivo well printed on fine paper, end ia a richiy gilt om! Dinding. “Naomi Torrente’? gives the story of the tite ofan American girl, brought up in Wasbingtoo, whe baving a natural taste for music, cultivates it witm pas sionate devotion, and, tursing every obstacle aside by the force of her native geatus, achieves a brilliaat repe- tation as a singer om the stage. Naomi’s mother was the oldest daughter of a wealthy and eristocratic geatioman Of Virginia; ber father « poor, but bighly educated ead oulti vated Cuban—e political exile from bis cative isan Mabel Torrente, Naomi’s mother, married the Cuban against the will of ber Virginien father, and thes jicted a wound on the inherited pride of one of the loading families of that State, by an act which, being trremediable, ie rarely forgiven by them. Neomie grandfather never forgave her fully, aed hence the family difficulties of her widowed mother—uher faimer having died.after @ lengthened fines in Cuba Bom of such parents, Noom!, we need scarcely inform our readers, was besuti(ul, impetuous, and endowed with taleat whict, although (t may be classed as belonging to the highest order of the nervous, was always directed and controlled by a strong will, Naomi loved at am carly age, and her love was doomed to disappointment. &be married a Mr. Mayence, separated from him, and commenced her cares? ag a singor, achieving drilliant triumphe tn the Kurepess capitals under the name of La Castedini. Io thie trytag career the hiph.souled Maomi te severely tested, Both imtellectually and morally, and witimetely diese of @ broken heart. “Naomi Torrente” te written im @ very philosophieat ‘Yotn, as will be seen from the following quotation from Plato, which the authoress has affixed to the title pege:— Every dream of love argues e realty fa the world of supreme beauty. Bollove all that thy heart prompta; fo for creeyteieg that it ‘The history of hoy ‘ys geo into two partay but the volume contains gome clover misocstia- neous productions of the writer, in prose and versa In prose wo have “Our Unity as a Nation,” “Sootel Standards of Virtue,” “Physicians,” &o.; while ta the attractive garb of postry we are given ‘‘Aspiretion,” “(The Altar Fite,” ‘Gentle Bpirita, Are You Near Wef* “Tenmortality,’” and five other poeme. These. misosl- Janeous papors are, in sentiment, language aad general style, worthy of the pen of the evidentiy- ified avtgoreng « Naom