The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES QURDON BENNETTS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR anifctapinares anil OFVICE XN. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NAS6AU STS. TERMS cash madvanca Mowo7 seat by mail will be tt the risk ef the sender, Nowe but bank bills current ia New York token. 12h DAILY BXRALD, Taxes conts per copy. tuk WFSKLY BERALD, every Saturday, at Five conts Appual subseription price:— per copy. Gre Cory Three Five Copies Tend for ° uree montus. © names of eubsoribers, An Oxia Copy will be sent to every club of Tw nty copies, tv one address, one year, $25, and umber at eae price, An exira copy will be gout ty clubs of twonly. These rales make ae Wane Siraain ihe cheapes divcation im the o ¥ the Evsorray Epmow, every Wednesdoy, at Frvx conts rercory, $4 per annum to any part of Grent Britain, or §6 Ww the Continent, bott to include postag ca | eny part of Votume XX No, 223 | <== eee AMUSKMENTS THIS EVENING, RIDLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Bast Lyon, WALLACK'S THBATAE, Broaiway.—Kony O'Mone. tiAs—Tax Sra. WAL—Tue fi ivoadway. —Two 0° at all sand 7% P.M Giaxts, Two | kik 514 Broadway, —Erurorcay Boxes, Dances, N ro RicwNon p, CAMPRE L MINSTRELS, 199 axp éxcrnne } MELANGE OF kK KEW YORK CbMosiiEs aNd Lec OF ANATOMY, 018 Broadway.< fromy A. M. bil U2 at @ BOOLKY'’S OPER fones, Danczs, Buns New Yorks Priday, anne ap 1864, ' THE SITUATION, Deserters from Mobile report the capture of that city. The inteiligence is not oMcially confirmed. The lotest hows from (hat quarter comes through revel papers, and | Although the capture of tbe city may hot alroady have been accomplished, there is no doubi Far. Fagot is in @ position to commaud it P@Ml before this it is probably at bis mercy, A despatch from the Secretary of War states that Gen. Sheriden had not been board from yesterday. Des- Patches from Hseatp correspondents aver that’ fight- ing was golng on at Winchester oa Wednesday, 10th inst. Sheridan muzt, therefore, have engaged tbe enemy At that point. is very meagre, OMeiat intelligence is received that no movement was | yesterday made by our forces befora, Petersburg Na Oar correspondent at City Point, Va., furnisbes some interesting Particulars coucerniag the expiosion of an ammunition vessel of that place on the Oth instant. ‘The casualties number ceariy two huodred, killed and ‘wounded. The loss of propert® was large. Part of a heavy chain was thrown directly over the tent of General Grant, fortunately, at the time absent. The cause of the explosion has not been officially ascertained. Perhaps it may prove another of Beaure. gard’s conntermines, By rebel accounts from Petersburg to August 5 we are iuformed that nothing of interest bad occurred before who was, | until after the Presidential e! and free negroe: population of three hundred thousand less than that of Penu- | Stinies must soon be destroyed. =| pot yet recognized the governwont of Maximilian im Mexico. The empire must be “established” before she | does so, The reports of the English and French now: papers from Mexico clty are favorable to Maxunitian’s rule. Mra Yelvertow mee Longworth) says tnat the deotsioa of the House of Lords in her marriage case is not dual against ber, as ebe will bring a now suit ia Seotiand Vonsols closed in London, oa the 26th of July. at 90.290. The rebel cotton ionn again aavanoed, The tall im American stocks eontinued, The Liverpool cotton market remained unebanged from the quotations reported by the Bivernian, Breadstuifs were quiet, snd pro- Visions without change in price, on the S0th of July. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The heat seater continued a8 oppressive 48 éver, and the thermometer ranged as follows:—At ten 4. M, eishty-cight; at cleyen A, M., ninety; at twelve M., ninety two, and st three P.M. niveiy-three, ‘The Board of Conneiimen fusled to htve a meeting yes terday, only one member being present at roll call, ‘The Ciork adjourned the Board till Monday, August 15, at two erclock, . The Italians of New York held a meoting at the Cosper Jast nd adopted the form of an address to the Enelish people, returning thenks for the enthusiagti@recention awarded by them to Garimaldl on the oceasion cf bis recent visit to Kaginud. The pper {3 vory flattering to the Beglish p ud expresses the hip of Italians for them, but makes no allusio to the English government, Masterly inactivity still continues to be the ruling | spirit in Wall street, ond very littic change is anticipated ction, The share market was dull yesterday, without avy material ebonge in quo- tations, Governments were corayarativcly firm at about the previous day's prices, Gold w active at 24 a 255, Money is easy; but leuders continue to demand seven per cout, Con ned eubstantinily the seme yesterday day. Bnsinoss was limited end was restr tho gold fluctuations. Cotten was m wae one cent bigner, and e delivery. On Change things Were quiet, With perbapsa !!ttle more tone for some of the leading staples, jacin pork, whist prime wheat, corn, &e, Freights were quiet apd 8! Question of an Armistien and & Convention of all the States, Consider the desperate straits to which the rebellion now reduced, time kas arrived when the administration, in behulf of peace and reunion, may advantave- ously open the door to an armistice and a Phe. we think the i | convention of all the States. Jeff. De and his ruling confederates must } now be convinced that their “Southern con- federacy” is e hopeless enterprise. In a military view their forces and resources for the further prosecution of the war are limited to the States, or rather parts of States, which they stilt hold east of the Mississippi river; for, completely iso lated, their confederates on the west side of that river may be counted as a dead loss to their general cause. Their confederacy, shorn of iwo-thirds of its original area, is practically razeed toa population of some five milli one-balf of whichis made up of Afr.can slaves From the remaining white two millions and a half, whicb is 18, vania, the late, present and future losses of ae armies of D vis must be repaired, or those But Ss Vir- fa around the seaboard tier of Sta ‘0 the Sissies ppitiver, the whole stain ae sne- ce sive remorseless conscriptions, bas already been dra ned of its able bodied white men, and its black population cannot be trusted as sol- diers to fight for a confederacy the corner stone of which is negro slavery. The present campaign, therefore, as it has been repeatedly admitted by leading rebel journals, must, substantially, decide the con- test. In other words, sbould Davis fail in overlbrowing the armies of the Union in tbis campaiga his cause is lost; for, in being utierly powerless to repair his losses in men, the best that be can do in a new campaign will be to fall back upon a guerilla system of warfure, which will only aggravate the suffer- that city up to that date since the mine explosion, The negro troops captured on the 30th of July, numbering about eleven hundred, were regarded mostly as stolen or runaway slaves, and their masters were pubiicly called upon to reclaim them. Through the same channel we have reports of | ings and all the borrors of war among the @ Oght at Brandy Branch, Florida, about the Ist people of the States still adhering to his for- {ust The Cuion troops burned a bridge over St. Marys | tunes, Grant holds bim as in a blacksmith’s river, six milos above Baldwio, The result of the | vice at Richmond and@ Petersburg. Sherman Ogut was not koown. The rebel General Patton Ander fon has been relievod of his command in Plorida and goes to Tennessee. General Joho K. Jackson commands the Tebel (roops ip Florida, aud the papers state that ‘bis forces are euffictent to repel any attack the Union troops may make. OMcial accounts from Genera! Sherman subsequect to August 4 report all well, and that he was knocking Atlanta with four ard a half inch shells, is steadily progressing in his work of detach- ing Virginia from Georgia; while stout old Admiral Farragut is resistlessly pushing up to Mobile. He cannot be kept out, and, with tbe occupation of the city, he will bold the keys which will unlock the richest cotton depois and magazines of Indian corn, to say notbing of “contrabands,” in all the South. Better still, in gaining Mobile we shall, by our West- ern gunboats, be enabled to connect with Vicksburg by way of the Tombigbee river and Jackson Railroad, and, with Sherman in Rebel papers of a iate date give the most encouraging Teports to-thelr read.rs about tha situation in Georgia. ‘The hopes of the army are sald to be reviving. Reinforce ments are being continually seat to Atlanta, Generals Joe Johnston, Braxton Bragg, Anderson, Wayne and Hindman were ju Macon on tho dist ult, An intoresting narrative of tho escape of Union officers from Macon, Ga., together with a partial list of officers confined at Macon and Charleston, is furalshed ta another Montgomery and Atlanta road. Taking all these congiderations into the estimate, we may confidently assume .thut, absurd as was this late amateur peace con- ference at Niagara Falls, there was something in it. Indeed, in support of this idea, we have omame. what may be considered semi-official evidence Memphis advices to Auguat 9¢tate tbat Genera A. J. | ¢.0 Richmond in a late significent editori Boiib's expedition is well ont—destication unknowae | o¢ the Sentinel of that city (the confiler Geveral Slocum has been relieved at Vicksburg, and re favor of organ of Davis), hinting brosd.y fa negotiations for peace, though beating about the b somewhat too pretentiously to di ports to General Shermau, Goneral Wasbburme now commands the Mississippi from Cairo, The Indians in the Northwest are again becoming | guise an incurable weakness in the back troublesome, Some marauding parties have committed | hone. Outrageson (he line from Fort Kearny to South Pass, In a word, we have the revo tte and destroyed some trains; buta report that they Rave hip; and the administration can Obstrucieg travel on the ovoriand routs f# contradicted. | afford to try the magnanimous exporl- ‘Troops are being distributed so as to prevent a conttaa-] ment of opening the do to negotiations Goce of the outrages. for peace. Suppose, for mp Preeklent Mr. Mowminger, tho late rebel Secrotery of the Treas. | Lincola were to appoint three com: ury, ip aletter to Jef. Davie, assigns as the cause for | to Richmond h authori to cor Bis resignation the faction expressed at bis m armistice for s 3 tb: EURO EWws. ‘ and t The ste town on the Stet of | ¢ ta a ding ¢ July, re e r Teo | mint t vee ay . t ‘ “ \ f tes Gor special corre acd’ Petiomae e F y, would they not gain every 1 : tbe aiteat ily resuiting from these proceading ‘ j t or in gresumhtion o n Vioto: war adfwire of th Pogation of Parliamer tion o the beilizei W ito belleve t. 8 rent partis H @ The report that two 1 ra at Ovend is f y contradi ‘Ube rebel oottub loan cunt to 6 | a wd Amorican atocks to de f ; late robe advaneo toward | The evip Vieworta, with Sram oged ing } ( feilway murderer op bonrd, ten | * t opened 6 the ry ; puckin Sa vieiitteah § , f re would. be no ~sherhprrembntbsictrmn: sre levgtny | great difenity tn con ting a treaty of tee co npon the broad basis of the restoration There was nething positively known astothe progress | * “i b 7 no Of the Ieno-e conference { Vienna; but (he Parte | Of the Union to its territorial and constitutional Presse anpouaces tuat peace tive boon concysted, Lord | integrily. Palmerston nckoowedged jo Parliament that Engl took vo part in the negotiations, but that Napoleoo Counselied moderavion to Auriria ona Wrussia, A tele r Gram from Copenhagen gives a contradiction to the staie- | wisdom as a statesman and asa politician in ‘ment that an armisticn of nine months’ duration bad | Deen comoluded betwee D.mark and the Cerman Powers, ‘The news is stated to be at least premature, So that if a gums were Gxt made in 0 week-—woen a Prost wrt with the overtures suggested. If they fail, this Pired the war might be renewed. turbulent and demoralifing peace faction of ‘Lord Palgerston aapured Pariiameny ibe Soaiand had | the North will be disarmed and silenced; if a ad ident Lincoln, therefore, in our opinion, will establish » claim to great sagacity and taking the fnitiative in behalf of pence by despatghing three commissioners to Richmond r Georgia, by way of thé” Alnbamia river and | g NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1864, | they succeed in an armistice we may safely |Tme Queem and Lord Pal hail it as the end of the war, and of the reign of Jeff. Davis, and the end of his Soutbera con- tederacy. The Great McClellan Moet Gemerais, the Peopie ana t Uctans. The McClellan meeting at Union square on Wednesday evening was an overwhelming popular demonstration, In enthusiasm it equalled, and in numbers i¢ surpassed, any previous political gathering since the outbreak {| of the’'war. Sach @ proot of MeClel!an’s popa- larity with the masses is a personal comp!) ment which cannot be too higbly e ved. But those who see no deeper signifieunc g-our’ Poll- im followed by groans for Lincoln, Old Abe had not @ friend among the thousands present. The most cnsu® mentien of his name prov: the most unanimous manifestations of d slik and di But while the people were at the meet and our generals were cheered by th what bad beeo was the immen: ved fires, the than a personal compliment in \ assemblnge take - very — shallow of public affuirs. The meeting developed the almost universal hostility of the peop'e to te | administration. It showed alo that the peo | ple desire one of our great generats for thet | j next Prestdent, Every cheer for a general was | | i roekirg, foregts of lanterns, the clubs march 1 the crowds ehearing, th LL the othe the rockets flashing, and pherna ia of a grand political s were the actors? bills we read their names in glar scarcely one of them was to be see: formance. Refer | where leading at the ing to the long list of spe annouscet, we looked in y for John V. | Buren; for A. Ovkey Hail; for Cha P. Daly; | for Thomus Trancig- Meagher; for Wiison | G, Hunt; for Gilbert Dean; for Governor Par- | ker, of New Jersey; for ex-Governor Price, of the same State; for the Mon. Edgar Cowan; for | Reverdy Johnson; for Emerson Ether for for Rohert C. Winthrop; for for Sunset Cox. Ail these | jans, more or less, sd a'l of them were announced to speak, Why did they not appear? Sunset Cox was the only one of them who even sent an apology, and his apology was the meagre excuse, not of import- ant bus ness or a previous engazement, but of “recreation.” Jobn B. Haskin and the two Ketchuina—father and son—were the only per- sons of any note who addressed the meeting. Caieb Cushing George S. I gentlemen are pol The people came to listen; but the polit cal | ordtors stayed away. The offair was more re- markable for the speeches which were ‘not made than for those actually delivered. The fact is that the politicians are afraid of the people. They are afraid to meet the masses, and afraid to tel to them. Perhaps they read the advance slips of the resoiutions udopted at the great gathering, and declined to commit themselves to the recommendation of the nomination of a popular general “by the approaching convention, or by the peo- ple.” They do not like that phrase, “or by the people.’ They want to run the machine for themselves, leaving the people the mere privilege of voting. They have no idea of allowing the people to nominate as well as to elect. Accustomed as they have been to making their little bargains with candidates, to dictating policies and to securing pledges in regard to certain offices, they are alarmed to find the masses taking matters into their own hands and forestalling these usual preliminary arrangements. To us this feature of the McClel- lan meeting is the most cheerful and encourag- ing of all. The meeting proved that the masses are opposed to the administration; but we knew this before. It proved that McClellan is an exceedingly popular man; but we kuew this before. It proved that the people’s hearts are true, and that they love and honor those who have won victories for the Union; but we knew this before. Grateful as it was in the light ofa new evidence of facts which we have often stated, and which have been frequently disputed, the meeting was still more grateful as an indication that the breach between the people and the politicians is widening, and that there is no longer the slightest sympathy between the two classes. That result secured, and there is some chance of the regeneration of the couutry. We do not hesitate to say that the marked and inexcusable absence of all the most prominent of the speakers announced at the McUlellan meeting was an insult to the people there as- sembled. As such it will undoubtedly be regarded, and the people will probably resent it by staying away from the meetings called by the politicians when the machine candidates are placed in the field. But there is a wide breach not only between the people and the politicians, but a'so between te politicians aud our generals. If the speak- ers advertised for Weduesday evening dared not commit themselves to McClellan, they Hight atleast Lave paid their humble orato- rical tribute to all our great generals, express- ing no preference for any. But it is a self evident truth that they are afraid of all our great military men, They do not waat men in office; they want toole, to be used’for certain poses. Terrified as they are at the ing popularity of our generals, they are still more terrific " at the prospect of having a man like .J at sad of the ma- tion, who bo entirely independent of their cliques, Who will not carry out r bargains, and who will act for the good o try, regardless of (he intoresta repniter, With all their fool they ave shrewd enough to eee that a militery P t will be likely to t » them, j 1 of being monaged by them Toeir boau ! of o President je poor ‘levee or Bue! or McClellan. tura up to sity of a popu- sanan—not Grant ing would itary nece obviale this stern m everal for President, they postponed the go tion, But az tho ‘or that on appt saches they discover, to their sortow, tha tary tlatvsmen are more popt- lar than ever. It is thie tha at makes them attack General Grant as “a failure,” and stay away Clettan meetings, But in this, again, they dilter with the people, between whom and onr genera!s there is the most hearty and cor- dial “understending. From these suggestive fucts, then, we deduce this gratifying conclu- sion: that the politicians will have to yield to the vor papuki and nominate one of our groat from Mo generals at Chicago, or else submit to see him nominated and elecied by a spontaneous popu- lar movement. In either event we shall have reason to rejoice. And this is the lesson of the wreat McClellan meeting, Ti sa well known fact that bat a very small | portion of the Mexican territery is v rthe jcortrol of te French; that a large majority of | the people are opposed to the ruler Napo'eon | is ondeavoring to force upon them, aud that | | should not be allowed even a hope that Ene: ‘ston Recognition. . Wesee by our latest advices from Eu that Lord Palmerston asserted in the of Commons that Englaod was all willing to acknowledge established gove. "ments. Maximilian, before his departure | from Burope, bad demanded the recogni- tion of her Britannic Mujesty’s government for the empire he was to found in Mexico, but had met with a refusal, upon the score that as yet the people of that counlry had not accepted bio as-their fuinre raler. If it tarns out that the authority of the new Emperor is acknow- dge by the people, then England, who wishes to see a stable government in Mexico, will | recognize ibe empire. But if the war between the invad and the Mexican people is kept up, England will decide, says Lord Palmerston, tuat the Archduke cannot be acknowledged as Weperor. Atl this would be very well were it not that the Premier takes the ocession to as- things favo: sert ma tas'o? tl in this case. the church party now side with the people ast the eration, it is ag new empire, evident that government wou dba ce—one which we think | itate to do, as it can | tut ‘ hostile step aga ust } our gov. hoy 8 the sound rule anon tes eontre When the cai people desist row an armed re- | sistance against Maxin'lina and announce their | willing fo accept the empire, , aad not ; il then, will there be a shallow of an excuse for the recognitioy of YY, exst ing as yet but at the point of the b:you In ber address to her Parliament the Qneen of England annoneces that her government, while regretting the war now going on in this country, sees no oceas'on tor interference or re- cognition. This is as should be, The febeis this new dy land wilt countenanee their rebellious conduct or recognize the governm: they hive en- deavored to establish. Were the subjects of ber Majes'y to carry out her declared poley with i of our operations are wort These things taken 14 j and larger armies than « an honest regard for the fame of England and what is due to this government, Davis and bis compeers would lose what littie cgnfidence they have left, and peace, w th the consequent re- construction of the Union, wonid all the sconer take place. Thearguiuents which we use may’ serve the Mexicans against all recognition. Like us they hayé a usurped government erect- ed pa a small portion of their territory, ewbich goverament they are endeavoring to deicat. Because that usurpation is powerful in foreign support is mo reason that it should be recognized by const tutional countries. This government and the Mexican republic cerlainly have a right to expect from Eng- land and all other European. Powers a strict neutrality. As far as we are concerned we anticipate no overt act of hostility against us. Our power is so great that it imposes upon those nations which a covertly our enemies; but Mexico is feeble, and must expect to find her oppressors meeting with encourage- ment in Europe until the day shal! arrive when, freed from our embarrassments, we may lend her a helping hand. Tae Boarp of Supervisors—Waat Ir Is anv Wuy. Ir Suocnp be Asotisuep.—The Board of Supervisors is a useless appendage to the city governmént. I¢ is more corrupt than the Cor- poration itself. Being composed of politicians, half of one kind and half-of another, with here and there an honest man, like Blunt, it is ap- proachable by all sorts of plunder seekers. Thurlow Weed in former years started his plundering system by his influenee on the whig branch of the Legislature. A groat hue andcry ensued about “party schemes,” and Weed’s projects sometimes failed. He then adgpted another policy—getting leading men on both sides, whigs and democrats. By this means he succeeded in making his private speculations bear the appearance of popularity, and was successful. This policy is now ope- rative respecting the Bourd of Supervisors. It is only necessary toselect prominent parties of different political affinities to secure the adop- tion of the most atrocious schemes to swin-. dle the public. The Harlem bridge swindle, by which the taxpayers of New York were mulcted in some fiye bundred thousand do!- lars damages, and the new Court House swin- dte, by which the same taxpayers are obliged to pay half a million in addition to the original estimate, are a couple of instances of the cor- rupt influences bearing upon the Board of Su- pervisors. The Board should bo abolished by the next Legislature. It is useless, expensive, corrupt, and its tendencies pernicious to the welfare of the city. In its stead, the Corpora- tion of the city, resolving iiself into committee of the whole on the state of the city, could do all the business and answer all the purposes for which the Board of Supervisors was estab. lished. Let the taxpayers of New York pon- der over these suggestions, Broapwar IN A Bap Conpreron.—We call the attention of the Street Inspector to the dusty and diriy condition of Broadway. The clouds of dust frequently obscure the line of visloa side of the street to the other, whil the iahalation of the filthy particles is abso- lutely dangerous to the public health. The prohibition against using the Croton water is no excuse for this stato of things. There is plenty of water to be had in the East and North rivers. ‘Tun Catcaco Cavsave Agatsst Unvorroyud Frnsirs.—We have given accounts of cases of suicide committed by unfortunate females in icago, the result of an attempt on the part of tho authorities to expel them from the c¢lly The tnt nee of government in such mat ters very rarely produces good, and not wofces | quently is pregnant with evil to the cause intended to be eubserved—that of public mo- rality. What should be done to attain the object desired is for the clergymen in our cities and villages to talk less about the negro and bostow mora attention upon the moral condi- tion of their flocks. By this means the seeds of a high moral sentiment would bo implanted In the breasts of the youth of our eountry, the fruits of which would be seen in a roduction in the number of poor abandoned women, and in loftier regard for the endoarments aad4influences of a virtoous end happy home, | wos for longtime at the beat of theo wo) Ovg Cavse aD tas Carsm op 2a! pom mx Evnors—One of the points of the late rebel advance to Wi is little thought upon by the maases the effect it, bas had upon United’ tates securities in Europe. These went down,” of corse; for bow can money have faith ina government that is in the hands of men so no- toriously incompetent as that advance proved Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet to be? It is bad enough to know tbat the imbecility of these men bas well nigh ruined the country, and caused us the loss of so iwany battles that eventual victory seems almost hopeless; but itiseven more bitler to know that thjs same imbecility bas made zeasonable the contempt with whicha certain part of the European people regard tke war. Europe sneers at our conduct of great operations, and the only auswer we can make js (o admit that many y of no other com- thot many of our j failures hove been direct!y caused by the fa- competonuy of our generals the jon of Cabinet ministers, Surepe answers, readily eocugh, those are troubles that all govern- meet with; bui under all good govern- suts such treubles are only temporary; for bed men ave made to ¢ to better ones. How can we answer wbis ie » whole Oabi- net, whose corruption and imbecility were made ment butasneer, If we ag palpable as sunlight two years ego, in power, und while generals whose udere have the bloody record of seorcs of thousands of noble lives uselessly wasted still hold high places in our i wer af all we comfort the hy in Europe by the use of condemn our st admit that the Cabinet imbeciles who have mage us bank- rupt, who have made contemptible a navy filed with the pst gallant rits the world ever saw, and who hive ned for us more Carthage ever sent'to the field, stitl hoid their places only bec it is through corrupt alliances with them and ‘their adheren t Mr. Lingola hopes to sceure a ree And thus it is that: the biunders and incompeteney of tho President furnish indirectly tue best of all arguments for that class o' Huropean politicians wuose delight it is to de: uce the corraption of a!! free governments; aod thus Mr. Lincola, in his bigh place as President of the United States, is doing more to-day to prevent the spread and growth of popular freedom than Haynau conid do pitt half a million Austrian soldiers. How Boston Osrains Rucrurrs.—-It is stated on good authority that some eight hundred emigrants have been landed at Deer Island, in Boston harbor, within afew days, and immé- distely enlisted in tho army, receiving the bounty, thua rel/eving that number of Loston- ians from the drafi. Most of the men came from Trelaud, although a sbipload has also arrived from Antwerp and Hamburg. Here again has Massachusetts gone abroad to secure men to fill her quota, and New York might as well do the same. It is reported that in Germany the movement in favor of emigrating to America, with the design of enlisting in the Union army, is exceedingly popular, and no difficulty is met in obtaining recruits. “Don’r pe Cxoxed Orr.”—Peace crushed to earth will rise again as well as truth. It is very likely to appear tbat there are a great many men in the couutry besides Horace Greeley who disapprove of the President’s let- ter “to whom ii may concern.” Many of these men fancy that the country would be very well satisfied with less than the President is disposed to require from the South, and some go 80 far as to request that the Presidemt should make an attempt to secure sucha peace as would be consistent with the constitution, which might be very different from the peace contemplated in the leiter ‘to whom it may concero.” An- nexed is a petition that is now iu circulation in Ohio, and that appears to exprefs one of the convictions of the popular ming of the country at the present tim TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. The undersigned, citizens of the State of Ohio, without regard to party, and in sentient devoted to the con- stitution and the Union, respettiully petition and re- quest that the draft for haifa million more men ordered to take place on tho Sth day of September next may be postponed unt!! an attempt bas been made by vezotia- tion to secure peace, based ou the coustitiition aad ‘union, Tae Marrtage. or Ex-Presmpest Triun's Davouter.--Justice to a correspondent gene- rally careful in his statements compels us to ask whether the card of Mrs. Tyler, which we published yesterday, was not slightiy disingenuous? We are iniormed that the lady who showed her good sense by marrying the Union-soldicr whom she had nursed in Virginia was @ relative of the ex-President,a member of his family and an adopted daughter, who was left in charge of the estate while the rest of the family took refuge bere. Now. if this be the true state of the case, the statements both of Mrs. Tyler and our correspondent were correct, and the published card was altogether uunecessary. Obitaary. CAPTAIN S. Ry REYNOLDS, ASSISTANT ADJUTANT GENERAL. Captain Stephen R. Reynolds, who djed on the 30th wit., at the residence of bis father, Philip Reynolds, fsq., was born in this city daring the year 1808. Me gradu- ated at Columbia Colloge in isha, and pext entered upon He volu a into the Uniou service ad the Ninety miath New Voluntecrs, under Colone} Wardrop, rising to the ra second lientonant by the following Janunry. He part pated In the movements whieh tin the c tion olk, Abd aesisted ta agnd Tebol forces York 2 ot net Longstreet I tod for ald to Geaoral Keyes on the Potiiny: Aitor jointug regiment he was fromoted to aitjutan!, aud in July, wis an nied assistant adjutant general, with the ae , #td e@tjeched to the sta ibe igh eonth corps was miih, General ont Urigade of the Reynolde participated In the operat avd on thedd of June received a 2 arm dating the battle at Coal Harbor hig death, after several dgys’ severe aun g { Twaas Varian, Moyer of thie city } his residence iu Pookek ber of Aszémbly in 1600, 189 and 1852 ” in the in the State Senate for four yeors altor hie retironeit from the Mayoralty. | Mr, Jastes MoOats, @ well known New Yor rebort, died yostorday, in the seventy thiet y Smith, and waa sabsequentiy for many years the tend ng not of the house of Poter Remsen & ( He we for mary v years President of tho Metropolitan linck:, ef this city. Bx-Goverxon Jor Brown Frawor, of on. Tuesday last fle was born jo 1761, and grad in ity (of which eolloyo wo was after ¢ for thirteen ygnrs) in 1808. Tn 1903 he was bY ted for Governor hode Island by tho anti+ Lane Me aad eatt-Jeckeon men, and was elocie He waa Se eee ane until by In tee Tt 44, the Hoa, Voted States ner France ‘Was elected to Ml the yas } sponsible for ite una NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. ——~—~er Wasarncton, August 11, 1354 WON PETXRABURG COURT OF INQUIRY. From persons arriyieg from City Point wo learn that the Court of Inquiry, of wie? Genera! Raacock ts rest. dovt, appointed to investigate the ele and oirounstances atiending the recent unsuccessful essa%tb ou the enomy'# position in front of Petersburg, convened 4b the hewds quarters of the Secoud corps on Monday, Bajos Gonersé Mende, commanding the Army of the Potomac, being thé firet witness called, gave his testimony, presenting the Preliminary correspondence between hitself dod the Lieutenant General, and all the orders issued from the headquarters of the army, concerning the assault, The cooumentary evidence was accompanied by verbal ex planations—and ail designed to show that in 80 far 28 soaking arrangements for carrying out tie views of the Licutenant General, anticipating the obsiacies to be ea- countered and giving instructions bow to overcome them, together with promulgating all orders necessary to ti sure the entire success of the undertaking are concerved) ho, a8 Major General commanding the army, did all thas could be dono by him, and that he cannot be hold re termination, Tho Court again convened the next day. A considerable Portion of tho session was devoted to reading and ar: tho volumioua documentary evidence and verbai movy presented on the previous day, ‘Touching a queae tion which arose aa to'whether the inveslfgation shoutt exterd to matters which (ransyired after two P. M., July 30, when our troops were withdrawn from the crater ta the domotisbed fort, the Court decided thut tn the order of the President they were instructed to inquire into alt vhe facts and circumstances attending the unsnecesstat assault on the exemy’s position on the 20th.” The Court was to meot agata on Wednesday. PAURAGUT'S OPERATIONS AGAINST M° Much anxiety 1s felt, both by the government aud the people, to learn the dotatis of tho operations of Admiral Farragut’a flect at Mobile, It is believed that our own accounts will prove even moro satisfactory than thoss received through rebel sources, glorious u# those are. TRE €RPORTED CAPINET DIFFIOULTIES. Governmont officials deny the correctness of the re- ported difleutiics inthe Cab-not. It is understood that the President is disposed to sustain the Licutonant General tn the exercise of bis legitimate powers, but whether he will do eo to the extent of dispensing with ir, Stenton’s services remains to be seen, The latter lias said that {t required much solicitation to induce bim to accept the office in ihe first place, but that ho will not voluntarily relingnish the place after haying assumed ite duties. THE M'OMELLAN NERTING IN NEW YORK. Not much importance is attrched in official circles te the fmmenco MoClollan meeting in New York, as afect- ing that gentleman; but it is regarded with cons uneasiness, as indicating a widespread di with the present administration, which may be concea- trated ov some candidate who saay combine the oppost. tion vote, should there not be obtained important mitt. tary successes before the day of election. THE TAX ON TUBASURY NOTES. The decision of Acting Commissioner Rollins, that sevem- thirty Treacury notes are lieble to taxution, applies only to banks that hold thom asa part of their capital stook. Tho first section of the last loan act expressly exempts alf United States Treasury notes as well as vonds irom ‘State and municipal taxation. SUBSORIPTION TO THR GOVERNMENT LOAN, Tho amount of subscriptions to the seven-thirty loas reported at the Treasury Department to-day arfount te nearly half a million dollars, THE POSTAL MONEY ORDER QUESTION. Tho instructions to postmasters and the blanks, &¢., required io the operations of the money order system authorized under the act of Congress of the 17th of May last havo been mainly prepared by the Post Office De- partment and are now In the bands of the public printer. Tho prepartion of the instructions was found to bee work of exceeding intricacy, tho principal ‘embarrass- ments being the want of a central metropolitan bank with local brancbes to facilitate the prompt returns of the funds accumalating in the hands of postmasters, oF to supply funds in cage of necessity, In England and i= Canada, where a money order eyster is in successful operation, they have these bank advantages; but in this country it bas been found neceseary to adopt substam- tially the Post Office Department system of drafts and doposits, using post offices in liew of banks, 1t is cou- fidently expected that this arrangemont will meet all the requirements, Certainly it ts the only oue which can be made under the existing law. The design of the Depart- ment js that operations shal! commence on the Istof October, and no efforts will be spared to accomplish the commencement of the system at that date, THR BAXTER ZOUAVES GOING HOMR. * ‘The Seventy sccoud Pennsylvania regiment (Baxter's 7ouaves) passed through the city today enroute for home, its term of'service baving expired. This regiment ‘was originally fifteen bundred strong, and returns home with but one hundred and eighty muskets. RESTORED TO THE SERVICE. " Colonel 0. H. Moore, Sixth Michigan regiment, and cag- tain in the regular army, who was some time since sud- denly cismisaed the serviee, has been reinstated to his former rank in both branches of the service. In sddition to this recognition of the injustice of the dismissal, the order of the department relative to the pay of dismisse@ officers wis passed over, and full pay and emoluments allowed for the perfod during whieh he was out of eervice. Colonel Moore has distim guished bimseif in a number of engagemente, particularly at Groen river, on tho 4th of July, 1963, where be de feated Morgan's cavalry division of five thousand with less than three bundred men. ACTIVITY OF THE GORRILLAS. Cueritias swfrm between the Potomac and our ad vanes, materially interforiug with communication, PRISONERS SENT TO ELMIRA, + One huudyed and etghty rebol prisoners left the Old Capitol to-day, from Fort Delaware, to Elmira, THE NEW REGISTER OF THE TREASURY. Tho new Register of tho Treasury, Mr. Colby, of Ver- mont, whose appointment was anvounced in the Hera some days since, and subsequently denied, was sworn tm to-day. TORE COUNTRRIBITRRS BENT TO PRISON. ‘Three more of the Western counterfeiters have arrived “here aud been committed to the Old Capitol Prison. COMMUTATION OF SENTENCH. Soven decerters from the army, found guilty of deser- tion and sonfenced to heshot, bave had their sentences commuted to confinement on the Dry Tortugas, and three others, for similar offences, have been sentenced to bard labor elsewhere, - FACILITIES TO EXPRESS COMPANIES. A apeciai order, iesued from the War Department, dt recta aii oficers in the military service of the United States to render every facility to such express companies as may be charged by the government of New York with the delivory of the necoseary forms and banks required to secure the votes of soldiers of that State in the feild, with a view to the blanks being delivered with the least | practicable delay. THE WEATHER, ‘The thermometer at noon today tndicated 96 dogrees in the shade aud 120 degrees in the sun. A Leavy thua- der showor occurred at beif-past seven (his evooiug, Cur Saratoga Cor Sanatona, Aug Clow of the Racw—The Grand Ball spondence. st 10, 1394 Lincoln—an a Trowpem Cayety of the Season, Ce, Ce. ement attendant om the races of tnet week anew chided, od With it@ large propor. | temsining und of gayety, vou from their “great jit crowd we aMadute sookers rot. ee “a aD bo ob of tha sowron—-nnd ono which for brile ti bas probably never boon su ain cocoate CF at the Union Holl last Friday evens it was ur ered at thie oubtedly the finest assombiy ever vata. rated Hotel, And the wpleadid music of t.cl's Vand was folly horiored until a tate hour, Major Leland ts now antertainiig at the Uiion some | * bundred quests, Among (he More notable} rave | ueerved Daniel. Drew, of Now Work; B. ibijitay, Mr. \idou, Prezident of the Exchange Bank of Ajvany, and many others. Myre, Prasifent Livcoin has engaged @ suite of apart- and is daily expected jor Tx has cagaged an opera trenpe of fret clase artits, who will appear in bis grand dining bali on Mon jay unt Wednerday of next weok, Ov Friiy ovening Or this week will be gtvon wwether grand ball We are now at the Hoivht of a moat prowperous Benson, and plowsuré reigns sopreme. With the continual course ‘of amusements it ts impossible for ‘ang to drag heavily on the hands of the voriest diepeptio. fo addition to the grand balls once or twice a wee! the banda ate {p attendance at the litge asxembiy roo of the Union every evening, = ea free ine U fs ite @ wee pass eve ma el Ball, neers, who can enjoy tone Toe ise Aecalagiton, a"