The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1864, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETR EDITOR AND PROPRILTOR OFFICE X. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. No. 215 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING RIBLO'B GARDEN, Broadwar.—Sea or low. WALLACK'S THEATRS, Broadway.—Sivuss.xa Cor- PALMER. NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Gronce Bar- MINGTON—NeW TORK FLARMAN—F KKDEKIOK THE GURAT, BROADWAY THPATRE, Broadway.—Frexcu Srr— Per or tHe Prricoats BARNUY’S MUSEUM. Brosdway.—Two Guarts, Two Dwarrs, Avvinog, SauPents, &c., at ail houra dla Buim—At ii AM. Sand 7% P.M. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ermorius Bongs, Dances, &£0.—BoMbaRDaunt ov PRIERSBUEG. CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery.—Vanrep anv Exciting Me.aner oy Brmorian Oppitigs, KRW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.< (ontonres asp Lacuunas, from $a. Me wl Ra OOLEY'S OPERA UOUSS, Brooklya.—Brmortax foxes, Dances, Burtesguzs, &c. New York, Thursday, August 4, 1864. THE SITUATION. ‘The raid of the rebels iuto Peunsylyania and Mary- land egaio claims attention and awakens uneasiness, It is undoubtedly true that General Early bas a force of thirty-five thousand men in the Shonandoah vattey, dnd keeps his headquarters near Martinsburg, A body of robel cavalry visited Hagerstown on Friday. They crossed at Williamsport, and despatches last night state they were crossing there then in very large force. It Ferry on Tues day evening under MoCausiaad, had been overtaken at Cumberland and defeated by Generals Averill and Kelley, upon whom they mado an was stated from Harper's that the revels, attack. Several wagons, eaissons and one gun were re- Ported to be captured by Averill. Itis geverally believed ix Washington that General Lee contemplates an exten- Bive raid on the Up, er Potomac, in order to force General Grant to withdraw from Petorsburg. We hope thit eome Detter preparatious than hereto/ore will be adopted to moet Lim The time for burying the dead under the flag of truce having expired at Petersburg at haif-past ten o'clock Monday, tho rebels again opened fre within ten minutes. Generals Bishrod Johuson, A. P. Hill, Sanders and Mahono were in the field. Tho rebels state their loss inthe fight of Saturday at eight hundred, while they claim twelve hundred prisoners, but this fs not credited. It ts said that military inquiry ts to be made into tho Causes of our defeat. Rumors prevail iu Washington that Joe Hooker will get the command of the Army of the Potomac in General Moade’s place. Our intelligence from Atianta up to yesterday ig to the eect that the Macon Railroad had been destroyed by Gen 1 Stoneman, General McCook's division of caval- ry—tbreo thousand two hundred strony—whilo returning by way of Newman, bad just captured a number of ‘wagons Oiled with valuable private property, when thoy were sot upon Gercely by a large body of rebels under Gen, Ransom, and Gen, MoCook’s command was routed and the greater part captured, sMcCeok himself is reported to have been killed, Five hundred of his forces returned to Marietta, bringing a sad tale of losses. The appointment of Generai Howard to the late Gene- ral McPherson's command has offended General Joo © Hooker, and he has consequently resigned. It bas been officially aecertaiued, and admitted by the rebels, that their losses in the battle of the 224 ult. were tnree thou sand killed, one thousand prisonors, seventeen battle flags and six thousand stand of arms The news from ‘he Southwest stows that the enomy continue active and dangerous in various quarters. A party of guerillas attacked a plantation Ove miles from Vicksburg on the 28h ult. aad destroyed everythiag. Auother band, with a battery of four guns, iret into the Steamer Faireniid, at Aston Landing, avd struck ber Seventeen times, killing one map. A party of Tex: infantry, over sixteen bundred stromg, made a raid op a plantation near Natchez, killed a Union ofcer and car- ried off the negroes and other property. Our dates from New Orleans are to the 27h ult. A body of revels were beaten wear Baton Rouge by a party of the Pighteenth cavalry. Nice hundred Union prison. ore returned from Texas in a miserab’e plight, without hats, shoes or ebirts. They were vory badly treated While in redo! hands, as will be soon by the graphic ac- count of their condition in another column, EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamship Bremen, from Southampton on the 20th of July, reached this port yesterday, bringing our Eu- Fopean files dated to her day of sailing, The steamship St David, from Londonderry on the 924 of July, passed Father Pulat yesterday on ber voyage to Quebec, Her news is two days later than the report of the Bremen. The news by the Bremen has been anticipated to some ‘extent by ber telegrapbic despatches (rom Cape Race, Published tn the Hxnarp last Sunday and Monday. The Gotalis of the advices given in our columns to-day will be found very interesting. The reports of tbe Liverpool cotton and breadatufts markets, which did not come to bend by telegraph from Newt undiapd, are also giveu v. The London Times prints m letter from Ireland tm which the writer asserts that two Amerieansteamere had bad a aval engegement off Bantry Bay, and that at its Ciose one vessel seemed’ to be on fire, They then sepa- ratod end Btecrod in opposite directions. The report seems to nced confirmation. ‘The alleged privateer steamer Alexandra, which caused #0 much litigation ta the Court of Queen's Bench, Lon don, bad sailed {rom England for Nassau, N. P., as the Mary Two British vessels report the privateer Florida, To ove of them the rebel cruiser transferred the four men takeo from the American veesel George Latimer, who have just arrived in New York. The London Timet reviews the offcial careor of ex- Secretary Chase, condemning bis financial plans—so far as the writer acknowledges that be hod a plan or p fo very sorcastic term>, The London Fimes has }ittic ope that Mr. Pesmentien will be able to redeem the coun. try from the elfects of Mr. Chase's monetary manego- ment A Richmond (Vs.) corr spondent of the London Times Says that General Grant surtained eorlous defeats at the bands of the rebels io tho two battles fought at Coal Bar bor im the carly doyaof salty. Frave Muller, & Germen tailor and shirt cutter tely residing ja Looden, bas beon y aod, after due foveatigation, of having comm’ the recent extraor- dioary murder on the person of Prigge, the banker, fn # carriage on the North London Railway. A simple link, found by @ child, brought forth a most curious chain of circumstantial evidence which counecte! Muller with the erime, The accused left London for New York in the packet ship Victoria, on the 14h of July, five daye before the facts were discovered. Un the night of the 10th of July, at nine o'clock, Mr. Inspector Tanner, of the London poe; Mr. Death, and & cabman, a8 witnese: for the identification of Muller, started from Euston Square for Liverpool, en route for New York by a steamer on the 20th ult, The iaspector was furnishod with o Warrant for the apprehension of Muller on the chargo of Murder, aod he also carried with bim letters from Mr. Adams, the American Minister, to the Executive of New York, Mr. Adams wa present during the whole of the @xamination, and at bis request a copy of the depositions ‘was prepared to be forwarded to the Secretary of State 04 Washington, Mt was officially stated in the English Parliament that © plan was being matured to federate the Canadian prev- feoee an al! the North American colonies, away to the Far Weas, under ove goverument. ass Be Liyorpoot cotton marnet was quiet, but em, o8 rec the 21st of July, at an advance of one-cighth to one-fourth of penoy for American descriptions, ‘The sales of the week footed ap 85,000 bales, The stock to port was | 185,000 bales. Breadstuis were quiet, but steady, in the Liverpoo! market, and provisions were firm. The prices of goods and yarns in the Mavchester market were leas fim. In London, om the 2ist ult , console, for money, were quoted at 004 a 9035. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS The vational fast ordained by President Lincoln will be observed in this city to-day, in obedience to the pro- clermations of Governor Seymour and Mayor Gunther. To many of the churches services will be held and suit adic prayers offered up, Tho Rev. Dr, Sunderland, late chaplain of Congreas, is to proach iu the Tuirteeuth streot Presbyterian church. There will be public services to-fay ta St. Ann’s free church, in Eightecath street, near Filth avenue, com mencing at a quarter to cight and half.past ten o'clock iu the morning, and at four o'elock in the afternoon, The former and latter service will be interpreted, as read orally, for doaf mutes. By the arrival of tho steamship Reanoke, Captain Drew, from Havana on the 29th ultimo, we have late and interosting advices from thot city, Mexico, Venezuela and St. Domingo. Her Britanaic Majosty’s Consul General, Joseph T, Crawford, died at Havana ou the 27(h ultimo, From St. Domingo we learn that a groat doal of sickuess is prevalting among the Spanish army, From Venezuela we have daies to the Tth ult, General Falcoa had doen obliged to rotire for a while from the hod of affsirs, fn order to rocruit bis health, The amendod constitution is sald to bave been well received by all the States of tho republic. It is said that this summer is one of the hottest experieaced im Havana. There is a great deal of sickness, but pot so much as io Matanzas, whore the fever has been so fatal as to attack many natives. From Mexico wo have dates to tho 18th uit , and Vera Cruz to the 23d ult. im Mexico, with the exception of a few skirmishes of the coutending forces, matters continue as before the arrival of the Emperor. The city of Durango was occupied by the imperialists on tho 3d ult. Uraga is said to havo left hia camp, accompa nied by only & small escort. It is said by the Freach that twelve hundred imperialists had lately loft Guadalajara to make a demonstration against Uraga or Rojas and Ar teaga, Palacio Rivas,,Juarist, attacked the town of Mi- choacan, but was repulsed with severe loss, Juarez is still at Monterey, The imporialists cay thrt his troops gre deserting, 4&0. It is assured that Dobiado has loft the country, apd gone either to Texas or New Oricans. The Emperor has addressed a ictter to his Minister of State, directing him to inquire into the zancial state of the country. Ie has also ordered the releage of ali pris- ouers confined for political offences, avd that on his birthday five thousand dollars be distributed among some poor pé La Sociedad of the 18th ult. announces the doath of the Belgian ex-Muvoy, Baron Aloxander de Grox, end thato Don Igvacto Mejia, a son of the Juarist geucral of that name, ’ Tue new Italian steam frigate wont down the bay yes. terdsy on atrial trip. She returned at four P. M. Tne Board of Aldermef met yesio day afternoon, Pre- sideut Houry ia the chair, A resoiution was adopted calling upon the Counsel to the Corporation to report by what authority the Croton Aqueduct Department was advertising for contracts for street paving. An ordi. Banco appropriating $500,000 for the relief of the famiiies of volunteers was adopted by @ unanimous vote, and the salaries of the treasurers and otber officers under tho ordivance were raised about thirty per cent. A number of papers from the Board of Councilmen were concurred in, after which the Board adiourned until Monday next, ‘at two o'clock, A meeting of the trustees and Advisory Poard of the Masonic Mission was held yesterday in Clinton Hall. The object of this mission is to procure and educate women for purses in the army, under the protection of the Ma- sonic fraternity, From the almost unaided efforts of two women cighteea young women bave beep educated and Sent into the field, and sixty more are in preparation for tbeir duties, Five hundred and seventy stx dollars have ‘been collected for that purpose, and the movement ia meeting with success aud favor wherever it has been put in operation. A meeting of segar manufacturers was held yesterday at the Astor House, The objectof the meeting was the protection ef segar manntacturers under the Internal Ke- venue law, Tue proceedings of the meeling were merely routine, aud for the purpoae of perfecting their orgauizs- tion. The Grand Jury brought another batch of indict. ments yesterday into te General Segsions, and, with the Prompt assistance of the attaches of tne ollice, were enabled to dispose of all tha papers presented for thoir action, Among the bills found were two iadictments for misdemesvor in violating a law passed by the Logisla- ture last winter prohibiting parties from taking mea cut of this State to enlist therm in other Tf it is poesi- ble to try these men on Friday the District Attorey will put the cases on the calendar, as it is bis {ntention to vigorously second the eflurts of the Legistature ia putting a stop to this olfouce. Donnis Iaggorty, indicted for the murder of bis wife, by shooting her in the head on the 6th of August, 1543, at No. 90 Catharine street, pleated guilty to mansianghter im the fourth degree. The unfor- tunate woman died a fow moments after the fatal wound was inflicted. On his examivation the prisoner said that be did not ehoot her jotentionally; that be got the piso! down to clean it, and while sitting on the bed it broke own aud tho pistol went of One of the wit- nesses, however, stated that che heard quarreling in Haggerty’s room, and fifteen minutes after heard the re- portof a pistel. Mr, John H. Anthon, who was assigned to defeod the prisoner, made an elequcnt appeal to the court, stating some mitigating circumstances, among them ‘the fact that soon aficr the homicide Haggtrty became insave and was kept in the asyium uutil be had recovered The Recorder stated that he had given the case a tho rough examination, and coucluded to senteuce the prisoner to imprisonment in the Penitestiary for one year, EHza Madden, jointly indicted with Ann Rannif for petty lar- ceny, pleaded gutity and was sent to the enitentiary for four months. She stole a portemonnaie from Mr. Kings. ley, while riding in a Grand street stage, on the 27th of Jane, Job Gordon, a colored man, waa tried ou acharge of grand larceny, to stealing a watch and forty-nine dol. Jare from Ji Allen a wornan with whom he lived at No, 18 Thowas sireet. The testimony was unreliabl was acquitted, Bridget Laugblio was acquitted of acharge of stealing forty-seven dollars Margaret Gillegg. A number of crses were put of ull term, The court adjourned till Friday at ten o'clock, In the United States District Court yesterday, before Judge Petts, the case of the prisoners coofved under miil- tary authority in Fort Lafayette eame up, when it was, concluded, counsel for the defendants acquiescing, that no further proceedings would be had im the matter for the present We are supposed to have an ordiaance prohibiting the driving of animals-within certain limits through the city of New York; but if there be such an ordinance it is never observed. Every day droves of pigs aud cows and bulls aud sheep are to be seen rushing through our | streets within the prohibited districts, and our authori ties seem to take no notice of the fact. Yesterday an ex- cited cow got loose in the Park snd rushed through Proad- way, catting up very extraordinary pravks. Fortusately she was secured before any damage wes dove to the people filling the crowded thoroughfare. Blasias Cheesbrough, better known as “Count’ Chees- brough, was mulcted in the sum of $250 yosterdey by Judge McCarthy, of the Marine Court, for assaulting one of bis colored domestics, named jane Tate, without just cause or provocation. This is the seeond suit of the kind that has been brought against the ‘‘Count’? withio the last six mouths. © An application wea made yesterday before Judge Joseph Rarpard to revive the eaft entitled ‘Solomon Kebostawm ve. Charles W. Foster,’ which bad been bated in consequence of the plaintiff having been sent to the State Prigon for defrauding the governmont, The ap- piiestion was made by Josoph Stuart and Edward Van Wivkile, who were appoiated trastees of Kobostamm's estate by Recorder Hoflwan. Judge Barnard granted the application. A disastrous fire occurred in London, Canada, on Sun- Gay morning. The Crystal block, comprising eight brick Stores, in the beart of the town, was totally consumed. Loas $60 000, ‘There was a very destructive confiagration in the vil- lage of Brampton, Canada West, on Thursday night last. There was but littie activity in commercial circles yes- terday, and the markets for both foreign and native pro- duce were generally dull. There were increasing indica tions of @ decline in many articles at no distant period. Cotton was scarcely so firm. Petroleum was steady, with a fair export demand for refined, The orders for crude are below the asking prices of holders. On ‘Change business was quiet, as usual on the ove of a day, Bresdstufls generally were a litte off. Pork about $2 per bbi. Lard was scarce and firmer. / eon zg ‘NEW YORK TERALD, The Petersburg ‘atlure—Barnaside— Mende—The Nigger. Tn times of great public trial and danger like the present it is a crime for men to hold in our armies places that they are not fi for. In- competent mea are more likely to get high places than competent men are. First, be- cause they are in an immense majority, and, next, because they make more use of those courtly graces that recommend them to the ap- pointing power. They talk better, and are al- ways more ready to set forth and explain their own abilities. Through the empty-headed eagerness of incapables the-right men are kept icomparative obscurity, while the others are pushed up to shine in gold lace and enjoy the popular applause. But in the hour of great trial it is seen that the eagerness by which in- capable men get high places, and which ap- peared to be either a harmless vanity or an ex- cusable ambition, is in reality a crime against the State. It is certain that one former com- mander of the Army of the Potomac attained the command of that army by persistent dis paragement of a popular general, coupled with the most continua! and shameless praise of his own achievements and abilities. He proved, of course, to be unfit for his position, and his presence at the head of that army in an hour of supreme trial caused it a most dis- graceful defeat and the loss of over twenty thousand men, Under the French Revolution men were, in similar circumstances, held re- sponsible for their unfitness; and there was a natural justice in the law by which incompe- tency ina man who had pushed himself into high places was punished with death. That law made any fools modest. Under an indictment framed from the above views, and against vaingtorious and place-seek- ing incompetency, we believe that General Burnside would not be found guilty. It is on record to his credit that if he had been per- mitted to do what he thought he ought to do he would not have been at Petersburg on Sat- urday last to contribute his share of incompe- tency toward the failure of a great attempt; for he desired to resign and leave the service two yeans ago. He, therefore, did not force bin self into a place in which he was so powerful for evil. It must be very distinetly tn the popu lar recollection how earnestly he protested against his appointment to command the Army of the Potomac, and how he desired to resign the command after be bad taken it. He was virtu- ally forced into the place, and therefore can- not be held entirely responsible for the Fred- ericksburg slaughter. We must remember, too, that he desired to resign even his corps command subsequently, and if permitted would, by his retirement, probably have averted the disaster at Chickamauga. But the country has a clear case against the President for the criminal blunder of not permitting General Burnside to resign, when he so often wanted to, and for thus keeping an incompetent man in an import- ant place against bis will. But for that error what regrets might have been spared us. We dare not permit ourselves even to name the many places where we might have had success; for disaster has followed ‘the footsteps of this man across a continent—from the Rappahan. nock to the Tennessee, and thence eastward again to the James—like some awful and blood- thirsty shadow. With General Meade the case is different, though we bave heard that he also once de- sired to resign. But he never gave any particu- lar emphasis ta the expression of tuat desire. He is therefore guilty, since there have been many periods in his career when every conside- ration of honesty and justice toward his coun- try called upon bim to retire from the pos tion he still holds. He ought tp have resigned as soon as he caughi up with the army at Getiys- burg, and thought it necessary to “manmuvre and not to fight.” His occasion came again t. Lee, will the zed remnant of a shattered army, on the banks of the Potomac, and le, withia a mile of him, “manceuvred” to bis heart’s content. It is the distinct implica- tion of one of the nervous utterances of Napo- leon Bonaparte that the general who permits his enemy to get away under such circum- stances is an idiot. Yet Lee got away, and therefore General Meade onght to have re- signed then; for no patriot ought to be satisfied whilea man who had so nearly proven his idiocy was in command of bis country’s finest army, His achievements at Mine run ought to have made still more apparent to him the pro- priety of his retirement. And if only half that is printed of the late failure at Petersburg be true, he most certainly ought to resign now. He never saw the day on which he was fit to lead a great and brave army, and he certainly never will see it. He has lost what little he had of the confidence of the army and the coun- try, and itis out of his power to please the country in any other way than by resigning. But it is not only the Incompetency of two generals that we are to blame for the failure of the attempt that ought to have given us pos- session of the rebel city. We must blame also the President and his whole Cabinet, with its nigger worshipping policy. They who have insisted against all opposition that the niggers should enter the army are even more to blame than all others. Niggers are not fit for sol- diers. They can dig, and drive mules; they cannot and will not fight. All the sensation stories in the nigger papers to the contrary are mere moonshine. They never have fought well in any battle. To insist that the niggers should be in the army was to insist that there should be a weak point in every line of battle with which we faced the enemy, and the enemy found that weak point on Saturday last. Abo- litionism is, therefore, the real difficulty now; and unlese the President soon finds out how to do away with this difficulty he may be sure that the people will find out how to do away with him. His Cabinet is the trouble, end un- less he changes it he must go with it in dis- grace. He cannot possibly have any hope to end the war with that Cabinet as it now stands, with ite “to whom it may concern” policy, its niggers, its apathy and its shoddy corruptions.. But let him form @ new one, with Charles Francis Adams, John A. Dix, General McClellan and Admiral Dupont in the chief places, and he may once more rally the country to his support. Save tae Croton Water.—Woe call the atten- tion of the public to the notice of the Croton Water Commissioners, published in onr adver- tising columns this morning, in regard to the condition of the water in our reservoirs. It appears that the severe drought has had Ja effect upon the supply of water for this city to such an extent that it ie essentially necessary that our citizens fer Practise the greatest economy in its use. all real tha notice and gove ra peronelyon actordinaly. ouly a few cays later than tt dem¢ « URS The New Presidential Movement i= Ohio—Just the Thing for the Crisis. A namber of intelligent and patriotic citi- gens of Butler county, Ohio, “formerly at- tached to the various old political parties,” Dut who, “since the rebelMon, ignoring old party issues, bave cordially supported Presi- dent Lincoln in his prosecution of the war for the Union,” bave broken ground in favor of & new Presidential movement, which we heartily endorse as just the thing which the present crisis of the country demands. These patriotic citizens of Ohio, “ignoring old party issues,” say that they are paiofully impressed with the belief that no candidate has yet been presented for the Presidential succes- sion ‘who can sufficiently eoncentrate the loyal vote to secure that success upon which the best destinies of the republic depend,” and, there- fore, in view of a more “vigorous prosecution of the war to put down the rebellion, and to maintain the supremacy of the constitution and the laws and an unbroken nationality,” they propose— 1. That Abraham Lincoln and Jobn ©. Fre- mont be severally respectfully Invited to with- draw their names as candidates for the next Presidency. 2. A national convention at Buffalo, on the 22d day of September next, for the nomination of a new Presidential ticket. 4 This first proposition we may Bere dismiss as a mere formality; but the second squarely hits the nail upon_the head. Thé men initiating this movement are from “the various old political parties” of the country, and sup- porters of the administration in the pro- secution of the war. They proclaim their platform to be the suppression of the rebellion, en unbroken nationality, the maintenance of the Union and the supremacy of the constitution and the laws, These are the men, therefore, to lead off in this new de- parture, and this is the very platform which tho great body of the people of all parties in the loyal States do most earnestly desire as tha policy of the next administration. We share, too, in the opinion of these independent men of Ohio, that it is not yet too late, upon this strong and substantial war and Union platform, to supersede in November al! other tickets, plat- forms and parties with a new and indepen- dent ticket and organization. Why not? The* republican, or rather the administration, party is falling to pieces. The apparent harmony of the late Ballimore Convention was a trick and a delusion. A decided majority of Abraham Lincoln’s original supporters have become wearied and disgusted with the imbe- cilities, klunders, corruptions and buffooneries that have thus far marked and continue to mark bis administration. He is by common corsent pronounced a failure, and every intel- ligent man, even of his own camp, has ceased to entertain any confideace in his capacity to extricate the country from its present troubles. In the next place, the impracticable radical abolition anti-Lincoln Fremont movement is a humbug, and amounts to nothing. But the democratic party and the Chicago Convention of the 29th of August must not be overlooked. What are we to do with them? From all the indications of the day, between the honest war and Union democrats and the reckless, revolutionary Jeff. David peace faction, the Chicago Convention of 1864 will result as disestrously to the unity of the party as the Charleston Convention of 1360. In. other words, the Chicago shent-per-shent Convention will culminate iu a rupture and in the division of the democracy into two or three clashing factions. We have yet to see the in- quiring deurocratic philosopher who expects auy other result. The proposed independent National Union Convention at Bu‘falo on the 22d of September, then, will be in good time to meet this demo- cratic difficulty, as well as the diseontent of the republicaus with Abrabam Lincoln, and the indifference of the radical abolitionists in refer- ence to Fremont. We call, therefore, upon the independent war and Union men of all these parties to fall in with this Obio move- ment, and to prepare for a_ full representation of the loyal States in the pro- posed Buffalo Convention. Either Grant, Mo- Clellan, Sherman, Hancock, Thomas, “fighting Joe Hooker,” or any other approved, reliable and popular soldier, will dofor the people's independent candidate upon the war platform we have indicated. In view of the weaicness of President Lin- coln, the work of discontent, desertion and dis- solution that is going on among the rank and file of his party; in view of the Fremont abortion and the demoralized condition of the forlorn democracy, we regard the next Presidenéy as clearly within the grasp of this proposed inde- pendent Union Convention at Buffalo. It is, indeed, just the thing for the crisis, and there is yet plenty of time to work out through this movement in November the most glorious po- litical revolution in the history of the United States. JuxkeTIxa ConcresstoxaL Committee Down East.—We have received an invitation to at- tend an excursion gotten up by the Congres- sional Committee on the Defence of the North eastern Frontier, starting from Portland on the llth of August. It is stated that members of the Cabinet, Senators and Representatives, and other distinguished persons, will accompany the party. Among the number will probably be the Secretary of the Treasury, who scems to have hurried down East for the purpose. Mr. Fessenden had better be looking after the de- fences of his Treasury froutier, instead of jun- keting with a party of convivial patriots look- ing up the defences of the Northeastern fronticr. Tee Gexenat Groom—Its Cavses—Anvice To Op Asx.—The stoppage in the calls for gov- ernment loans, the reduction in all sorts of government securities, the apatby in regard to enlistments, and the gloom prevailing in finan- ¢lal and military circles generally at the pre- sent moment, are to be attributed to the blun- dering before Petersburg. This again was caused by the stup'd policy of the ad- ministration in making gencrals out of boot- blacks and trying to make heroes of them. The (gar at ite commencement was greatly succews. ful for the Union armics, and defeats since y,r¢ owing to the adoption of the nigger polity by Old Abe. As the republicans killed of, Mo. Clellan at the beginning of the war forsaot en- tortaining the idea of nigger equality, so will they try to kill off Old Abe and de troy the whole country because Old Abe did adopt it— now that they see McClellan wae “right, What is demanded now is « radical in the Cabinet, There must be « thoy ough overhaul- ing of all the inoompetents. My Clelian is wanted ta the Wer Deneciment ip alage ¢f the spall: lanimous Stanton. Fessenden, it seems, pre- fers a Down East chowder party to attending to the financial affairs of the country, and he is no man for the exigency. He has proved a failure, and some such man as Gen. Dix should be immediately put in his place. Old Welles’ unfitness for the Navy Department has become @ man-of-war’s proverb, and @ naval genius like Dupont should supersede him at once. Some such changes are absolutely required. Nowlet Old Abe go to work, let the nigger slide, aud labor for the balance of his term for the coun- try’a good. The Rebels Still in Force on the Mary- Jand Lorder—An Urgeat Demand for Genoral McClellan. Our latest advices from the Maryland border show that the whole command of General Early, ostimated at thirty-five thousand men of all arms, is still hovering along the banks of the Upper Potomac, from which his recon- noitring and raiding parties are detailed into Maryland or Pennsylvania as the occasion may offer. Now, although it bas been suggested from military authority that General Early re- mains near the Potomac to protect the gather- ing of the abundant harvest of wheat, rye and oats of the Shenandoah valley for Lee’s army at Richmond, we apprehend that Early is charged with a much more important mission than this, We suspect that he is covering the accumulation of supplies at various points in the Shenandoah valley for the subsistence of a heavy supporting column from Richmond for still another and more formidable and desper- ate effort for the capture of Washington than any that has yet been attempted. Such is the critical situation of the rebellion, from the tightening of General Grant’s combinations at Richmond and Atlanta, that some such daring enterprise as this has become a necessity to Jeff. Davis. It may be, however, that General Grant will give such-active employment to Lee at Peters- burg and Richmond as to disable him from sending any reinforcements to General Early. But oven in this event a rebel column of thirty thousand veteran soldiers may do an immense amount of mischief in Maryland and Pennsyl- vania if permitted to linger near the conye- nient fords of the Upper Potomac, Nor will it answer to push these rebel marauders a few days’ marches up the Shenandoah valley and then to abandon them. Early must be pushed completely out of the Shenandoah valley or his forces must be routed aud dispersed in a decisive battle. To this end, and in order to protect the Maryland and Pennsylvania border from rebels andguerillas at the same time, Gen. McClellan is wanted at Washington, and as the commander of a department cover- ing all these contingencies. In this connection we are glad to hear that, independently of Old Blair, who is av old hum- bug, an earnest appeal was made on Tuesday last by leading republicans to the President, to give Genera! McClellan the command sug- gested, and for strong political as well as mili- tary considerations. Whether Mr. Lincoln, for the sake of the country and bis own sake, will act like a statesman and a patriot in this mat- ter, or otherwise, remains to be seon. We have only to say that be will strengthen his enemies on every side by persisting in still declining the services of McClellan, when they are so urgently demanded by friends and foes. Fast Day.—This is the President’s Fast Day. The inmates of the White House may possibly indulg@ in a starvation diet; but we doubt that they will have many imitators. The people are not in the mood for fasting and praying just now. They are much more inclined to anathe- matize the administration. The Tribune dis- played its appreciation of the spirit of the day by slandering Governor Seymour in its yester- day’s issue. It seems that the Governor's talk about sectionalism and fanaticism in his Fast Tay proclamation does not please the Tribune. But Seymour is perfectly right, and if any proof be needed of the existence of the fanati- cism he rebukes it may be found in the Zri- bune’s Fast Day article. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasuxctow, August 3, 1364, THE NATIONAL DEBT. The weekly statement of the public debt his been Issued. It shows the aggregate of debt bearing interest in com to bo $834,127,192, aggregate interest $53,134,865. Yhe aggregate of debt bearing interest in lawfu! money is 2411.413,192, agerogato tnlerest $23,283,170, Tho ag gregate of debt on which interest has ceased is $367,170, aggregate of debt not bearing interest $551,684,027. Tho recapitulation shows the total amount outstanding to be $1,827 402,170; terest $76,419,035. THE DEFEAT AT PPTERSBCRG—HIGHLY IMPORTANT MILITARY INQUIRY. It loreported here that a rutlitary inquiry isto be held In this city, to ioveswgate tne causes of the defeat of Goneral Grant's late plans before Petersburg. It is fur- thor stated that Gevorai Burnside’s conduct will undergo investigation. HOOKER’S NEW COMMAND—GENERAL MEADE TO BE RELIEVED. Much speculation is rife in re‘erence to the new com- mand to which General Hooker Is to be assigned on his arrival hereto report to the Adjutant Geveral It has been confidently aszerted that be was to Be restored to the command of the Army of the Potemac in place of General Meade, who it is w yor is to be relieved at ancarly day. The more g impression, and the one which socms to bare the best foundation, is that he is to have command of the army operating in Slaryland and ia the Cumberland and Shenandoah valleys, against invad- ing or raiding forces, APPREMBNDED GRAND REOBL CAMPAIGN ON THR Urren rorosac. ‘There is a very goneral impreesion here that Geaerat Lae is about to inaugurate a grand campaign on the Upper Potomac, in order, if possib'e, to compel General Gri to withdraw his forces from the siege of Petersburg and Richmond. Ampie preparations bave been made to meet tueenemy, whether united in one body fm .defende of their belosgured capital, or divided in am attempt to transfer the war to Northern oil. In any evant the seige will Bot be raiged. General Grant has no intention of rel eas. ing his hold until the object of the campaiga is fully ac-. complished. A REPENTANT REBEL OFFICER. Lum Cooper Edelin, @ notorious. Washington larap- lighter, reappeared to-day in the city, alter ao absence of Ahree yoars, as a captain in the rebel army. He professes to be sick of the confederacy, and petitions to be siiowed toftaxe the oath of allegiance. ‘ THE DISMISSAL OF COLONEL TERCY WYNDHAM. Tho dismniesal of Colonel Percy Wyndham from the seavalry service, in whieh he bas proved nis gallantry on ‘many occasions for over a your past, is regarded as an- other emong the many arbitrary acts of the War Depart ment. Tho Colonel was mustered out of service withous intimating any charge against b Now that this dash- ing and capable officer is depri unwarrantably of a command, would it not bo well for Goveraor Seymour to commission him to a New York regiment? ODSERVANCE OF FAST DAY. Arrangements have been made throughout the eity for an appropriate observance of fast day tomorrow. The publication of the city papers will be suspended, places of business closed, and services beld in the sevoral ; churches. CARTER, THE CONDEMNED BLOCKADE RUNNER, Carter, condemned to be hung on Friday, for blocrade running, bed on board hie wessel, when intercep‘4d, mil- lions of gun caps for the rebel army. He ‘also the dearer of a letter to the rebel suthorities taformsiog (pom peta Konkee ay, Maing ‘him, wee In SUBSCRIPTIONS 70 THE GOVSBYMEMF LOAM. The amount of subscriptions to whe seven-thirty leap reported at the Treasury Department to-jay was $1,059,000. THE SEVENTEANTH VERMONT REGIMENT. The Eeventeenth Vermont Volunteers, which joined tea army on the Ist of May, with full ravks, bas now beg, sixty men Git for duty. NEWS FROM MEXICO. Advance of the Imperialists Northward. THE CITY OF DURANGO OCCUPIED. JUAREZ STILL AT MONTERBY. Death of the Belgian Envoy, Barow De Grox, &., & a Correspondence, Havawma, July 29, 1866. Occupation of Durango—Reports Concerning Uraga—— Juarist Defeat in AMichoacan—Juarce at Mon!-rey—Re- ported Departure of Doblado for Foreign Parls—The Imperial Ircasury and Imperial Charity—Death of the Baron de Grow—Suicide of General Mejia’s Son—Re ports from Maiamoros and Brownsville, fc. janish mail steamer from Vera Cruz has arrived Just io time to enable mo to send her aews by the Roan. oke, which lenvos for New York this evening. Dates from the capital aro to the 18th, and from Vera Cruz te the 23d fast.; but nothing positively startling 1s to be found in the newspapers, Matters Gontinue precisely ae they df before the arrival of the Emperor Maximilian, with the usual number of guerilla skirmishes and pigmy battles, just as in the good old days of republicanism. ‘The star of empire, however, moves westward, of course, and the progress of Fronch arms is marked, although slow. For instance, the city of Durango was occupied on the Sd inet., the Juartst garrison, under Genoral Pa. toni, retiring to the State of Chihuahua, accompanied by General Gonzales Ortega. General I'Heritler, in com- mand of the imperialists, describes hia march to Durange city as a continual Gyation, the people flocking p crowds to welcome him, 1t is also reported tbat Pajoni’s troops: are deserting him, though it does not appear that thay aro joining the imperiatiste, X Concerning Uraga, it is aeserted that he bas left bis camp, accompanied by only a small escort; for what pur- pose is unknown, though tho imperialist newspapers naturally say for the purpose of going to the headquar- tera of some French general and submitting to the new order of things. The report {gs doubtful, for the reasom that Uraga could bave reached the hoadquarters of Gea- eraf Douai at Guadalajara in a very short time, which he certainly did not do; for according to news tranamit- ted to the Xs:afette a column of twelve bundred Frevom had lately left that city to make a demonstration either against Uraga or Rojas and Arteaga. The imperialists appear to bo well satisfied with afhirs in the State of Zacatecas, There has been some fighting fa Michoacan. Palacio Kiva (Juarist) aliacked the town of Zitacuaro with fif- teen bundred men, but was repulsed with severe prob.bly some three buodred in killed, wounded a prisoners Juarez continues at Monterey, a part of his forces tid occupying Saiti!io, under Quesada, whilo Negrete cou- mands at the former place. The imperialist papers de- Scribe the situation of the ex-President as desperate—his troops deserting, the people anxious for the new GC ipee 9 &c. These statements are & mutter of course, and may be exaggerated. We are assured that Doblado has left the country, an@ gone olther to Texas or New Orleans. On the 6th inst. the Emperor addressed a letter to bie Minister of State, directing him to assemble a committes in the capital, for the purpose of taking the financial con- ition of the country {nto. consideration; “to ascertaim the cauges whereby the public revenue bag been insuffe Client to cover the outlays of the treasury; to revise the tax projects submitted to bis Majesty for approbation; to examine those at present existing; to arrange bome an@ foreign debts; to look in‘o the public expense, practising economy wherever possible, and finally, to draw up © gevoral roport of receipts aod expenvtitures, in order thad atairs may be placed upon iutelligeat footing. Fur thermore, the committee are to propos? such publie works as they may tnink necessary, and take into consid- eration other matiers relating to the Imperial treasury’? The Sociedad informe us that his Majesty bas ordered the rel@ase of ail prisoners contived for political offences, and Mitigation of the sentences of those confined for other acts. His Majesty bas also determine! that on his bi ay ho will give §»,000 from his private puree to be Applied to redeeming from pawnbrokers tho effects of poor people whe have bean compelled through necessity to patronize the “spout.” The above items constitute the nows just received, and, ag you perceive, it is meagre enough, ‘I have omitted t @ccounts of two or three lia tights, becanse they ai unimportant ia overy t, and occurred in plac called by sich abominably unpronouncabie names thas {t would be absolutely harassing to your readers even to look nt them fu print. The accounts in question being derived through imperialist sources, it is quite Deodiéss to say which side me the victory. You ki enough of buman nature to be aware that ‘our side,” alk the world over, is always right and invincible, or at leas® 43 nearly 80.3 circumstances will permit. In the Sociedad of the 18th, latest date, there are only two items of any interest, ye of ti 13 the death of the Belgian ox envoy, Baron Alexander de Grox, from typhoid fever; aud the otber the suicide of Don Ignacie ejia, son of the Juarist general of that name, who must bot be confounded with the imperialist Mejia, a white sheep of a very opposite color. An Appeal to the Friends of Mexico. THE MEXICAN (DEMOORATIO) GESERAL DON J08B DOMINGO CORTEZ. We understand that the above named Mexican officer, who served fn the army of President Juarez, undor the immediate orders of General Zaragoza, who defeated the Fronch troops at Puebla on the Sth of May, 1862, bag arrived in this city, having failed, in consequence of the terrible divisions and many treasons: which afliict his native country, to effect a junction with. General Porfirie Diag at Saltillo, and detiver to bim a letter entrusted te’ Goveral Cortez by Juarez, Genera) Cortez is forced to await a better opportunity of aiding bis country, In the meantime the General Suds himseif in straitened circum stances and unable to move in behalr of the repubiic for want of funds. It i to be hoped that the many true Irionds of Mexico in this city, the country geveraliy, wiilaid the foreign patriot in his emergevoy, Goneral Cortex 1s staying at Nolson piace, Ne York, and the written attestations of his services in t cange of Mexican independence will sati ‘are core tain, the lovers of liberty who may choose to assist him, Letters addrecsed to our care at the Heratp office will be - handed to (everal Cortez, Washington Medallton Pen Company ve. Eberhard Faber Others. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘The article in your papor of August 2, headed “The- Steel Pen Controversy,’ in reference to the above sult, tm. 80 worded as to leave an impression on the mind of the public that there bas been a Mnal bearing and trial therein. This is mot-so, The jajanction refused was merely a tem. porary ono, asked for pending the litigation, and its ree fusal bas no effect whatever upon the merits of the case. The.judge.who granted the motion gave po opinion what. ‘over, and his decision is embraced |) bis endorsement om papers, ‘‘Motion granted, injunction dissolved.” He. badly. deemed the defendant's denial of ali thaequie ‘es of plaiotifi’s bili sufficient reagon for the dissolution, of the ex parie injunction, ‘The caso will be tried in thes fall, and the result of that trial will alone determi! whether the plaivtifl is or is not entitled to use the w “Washington Med: \jion’’ as its trade mark. ABBETT & FULLER, Pisdntifi’s Attorsoye. é The Turf, SARATOGA RACES—-SECOND DAY ‘The races announecd to come off yesterday at Sar stoga wore poatpoved on acoount af tho rain. ‘tne Re Dow Lees pm Portocaso ~The Tiallan tr en claq frigate Re Don lang! de Portogalo, built. by Mer. Wom Wedd, left the fcot of Sixth stroet, Mast river, ° pastonnay morning, and proceeded to the lower bay and b sok to try her engines. The ship and machinery perforn red Ipqnott folly. She returned to Ford’s wh: Broolatyn ywhore she will coal for the purpose of a@ trial trip ttyaonsat deop draught, G26 will leave for Italy during ‘thee prosont month. The Pannaylvania Soiiter's Vote Elec tion. PaiLaomria, August 3, 1964 ee gi im this olty for amending the % onstitutiog of the. 10 80 a8 WO w soldiers to » be 16,94 Eve rd vored for the amendment excy jt the Four and. Seventeenth. The Mecti: Se om D ax AhatSapt fostay tr tbe purpose 7: PCs the heey a pny and fod 88 sooretal torte commer pt Se Tn may be required to aot in 1”, revision of the Fire im Y/, o wilestorechoy, oe