The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1864, Page 4

ta ‘ a NEW YORK HERALD. @AMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR ©FFIOR N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be ‘at the risk of the sender, None but bank bills current in New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Four ¢@ents por copy. Annual Gubscription price $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents per copy. Annual subscription prico:— Postage five cents per copy for three months. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspoadence. We ‘do not retarn rejected communications. ..No. 229 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. ast Lynne. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Couzen Eawn, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Bvz! m — Pray apa ray RYBODY'S FRIEND. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tne M ; Ditcu—UNLUCLY Gooss—Fip: nao? SRO BARNUM'S MUSEUM. Broadway.—Two Quarts, Tw. Dwanrs, ALBINOZ, SakreNTs, &0. at wd Macc Gavemat li A.M. Sand 7% Pm, | DOU Tue WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broad Songs, Danes, &0—Minire AND His Mee ee CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 B _ anp kxcising MELance or Etuiorian Opprniee eee? AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Bai ANTOMIMES, BUBLUSQUKS, &C.—OiD @haany Onvury KEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. a8 - Cow'oamms and Lucrones, trom ae Me LM Eee BHOOLFY’S OPERA 5 Bona: OUSE, Brookiyn.—B DANces, Buntesaues, &c. Tee w York, Thursday, August 18, 1864. THE SITUATION, By despatches from Martinsburg last night we bave the important and somewhat siguificant information ‘that the rebels have again advanced up the Shenandoah valley, and that they have been considerably rein- forced by a division of Longstreet’s corps and two divisions of cavalry. Great activity prevails in Moctinsburg, and the excitement throughout the valley is intense. Indeed, rumors—still unconfirmed— ‘were circulated that Geueral Lee, with his whole army, ‘was moving in that direction, An engagement was said to be going on at Front Royal yesterday. A variety of Fumors would seem to verify the statement that the enemy are in the valley in large numbers. Everything {s quiet in Grant’s army. The rebels re- main still in position, and our forces are in front of their works, We give still fuller details to-day of the attack of Sunday at Deep Bottom, ‘Tho court of inquiry appointed to inveetigute the facts and circumstances concerning the unsuccessful assault on Petor=burg on the 30th of July bas temporarily sus- pended ite sittings in consequence of the absence of G versus Hancock and Miles, two members of the court ¢-cverai Bancock being President), who are north of the Jane er, engaged in important military operations. The rebel accounts of the affair at Mobue ith. They announce the bombardmont of Fort Morgan the by Farragut’s vessels and the appesreuce of two o: ovr sbips off Dog river bar, whic! they dichre tos a lide bearer to the city thaa it i: com'rtaile te bave the **Yankees.”’ The pirate Tallaberte: Las Jes: eo) & considerable aumber of vessole oi! ih» Ne bl @49 Nova Scotia coasts since jast —tweuiy five off Martinicus Rock and six ois nnd two or ihree off Port. tand. From Georgia we bev that the re’ 1 Cevera! Wheeler ad demanded the surrender of Dettoa of (he Union com. mandant, Coloasl Ji bot th eight bundred mem. / st-irmi 2 going Lieboldt bad been ar The rebels have beet “ep 1'se We give eome interestic tisnce rts of Mr. J. %. Gilinur sth Jef. Davis, in boo ink reu from part ek state: frter, iew mission to Nich. mone wiia Colonel fugues. We 4 Ne &eotion of our fend ora to the courert id ty beve oecusred. It eay Lave son beedny epee present views tnd prospects ¢ MISCELLAN1 OUS The National Fterm Navir. 09 Co whic t Liv y he 24 vi Quse we. rEWws, )") aew eteamer ifive o 2 on the a of A reache | {Lis port ye day ang. The news Uy the Avia, ot Hiaiifax, } ays the advices by tho Erin, and her nee +for have Teun antic pated by the arrival of th» Maven i A telegram was rece ved yooterday > emanating from the War Department, jnstructions to have all the en-olment Mets ready oy the | Ist of September, as it is the intention of the govern. | tment to carry out the drafton the Sth. Notification of ! letter of Gen. Sherman on negro enlistments will completion of the enrolment will be transmitted to Washington, in order that the proper quotas may be set down. It ts stated that a large number of troops will bo sent to the city to enforce the draft, At the boat race at Poughkeepsie yerterday the New York boat George J. Brown beat the Pittsburg boat Twi- light by thee hundred yarde. A decision was rendered yesterday by the Board of Police Commissioners in the case of officers Lightmire avd Webb, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, charged with kidnapping negroes, as reported in the Henaxn of Sunday Jost, avd taking them to Boston to enlist them. The charge was not fully sustained by the evidence; but as the oMcere. by their own ehowing, had been absent w bout leave at the time, they were fined six days each. E\gnor Briguoli, the popular tenor, has commenced a avit ugainst Manager Grau to recover $15,000 for pro- nal services. As the Signor is about to depart for a motion was made before Judge Barnard yes- vhat tbe testimony of the plaiutiT be taken de ic. THE motion was granted, and the testimony will probably be concluded to-day, The defendant deviea the indebtedness, and claims that Brigneli broke bis contract and refused to sing on numerous occasions, thereby damaging Lis employer to the amount of at Joagt $12,000, - ae ae Commerc matters were very quict yesterday, and i tho absence of merked changes in gold most articles of merchandise remainod quiet at Tuesday's prices. For- cigh merchandise was in liruited demand, and the sales were confined to etal! parcels to ill argont orders. Cot. ton was firmer. Petroleum was dull rod nominal, On *Chango the flour market opened steady, but closed dull ic. lower, Wheat was also 2c. a 2e. lower, while corn wan le, lower and oats steady. Pork was lower. Tard and beef wore steady aod firm, Whiskoy wae Grmer ; but freights were duli and lowor, Boaus Newsrarer Acuxta.—A mewn calling himself A. Joyce, of 62 West Thirty-si. rth street, New York, announces, through the co lumns of the Pittsburg Hvening Chronicle, that * he for- Wards the Heratp, and alot of other papers; to people in the country at “reduced r, 48” — namely, seven do'lars a year! This i ‘allow Joy or Joyce, his nothing to do with our; ‘@P¢r, and his pretended agency is all humbug. go the people be on their guard against hin \ °F they will lose their money; and as for the pol Woe, tho sooner they hunt up such a rascal asJoy. who is almost worse than @ bounty jumper, ar shove him into (he ombe, the better for thei. enterprise wad cbuiy ‘«:. ' NEW YORK HERALD THURSDAY, AUGUST I8; 1364; The Peace Question—Mr. Seward the Marp)ot of the Administration. Our agitation of an armistice, in view of nego- tiations fer peace through a convention of all the States, has reached the ears of the Cabinet. A voice from the Cabinet responds; but it is not the voice of the administration. The hand presented is that of Esau; but the voice is the voice of a treacherous Jaceb. In other words, through a public journal professedly a mouth- piece of the administration, the Secretary of State has entered his protest and his argument against an armistice. He says that an armistice is “the last hope of the rebels;” that “next to peace they desire of all things—the very thing for which Northern copperheads are constantly clamoring—an ar- mistice and time to talk;” that “an armistice means delay, and delay is the very thing for which Lee is now fighting;” that an armistice would serve a better purpose to Lee than a formidable line of intrenchments; “for it would entail no fatigue on his men;” that it “would keep General Sherman inac- tive, with the expenses of the war, on which the Richmond press relies to ruin us, still running on, with half a million of men still withheld from productive labor;” that the talking would be just as costly to us as fighting, while to the South the time spent in it would be so much saved;” that we “can have no armistice but to arrange details, and that the main question must be settled before hostilities are suspended even for a day.” This is the voice of Mr. Seward—it is not the veice of Mr. Lincoln. We are satisfied that his inclinations are in favor of an armistice, and of negotiations which will either end in peace or put an end to all discords and divisions in the loyal States on resuming the prosecution of the war. Mr. Seward, a stumbling block from the beginning, has, since ‘the retirement of Mr, Chase, become the ruling Mephistopheles of the administration. The new Secretary of the Treasury, coming in against his own will, evi- dently cares very little what may become of the Treasury or the Cabinet. That drowsy old man Welles is a mere cipher in it. Stanton, in the absence of Ohase, as Cabinet makeweight, is of little ac- count, and the Postmaster General, Blair, is too busy in the kitchen, looking after the in- terests of the numerous Blair family, brotbers, and cousins and nephews, and uncles and aunts, to trouble himself much about mere abstractions and questions of government policy in which there is no shoddy. Mr. Seward, in fact, is now the master spirit of the Cabinet, and, having in this position thrust him- self forward with his protest, we must look to a reconstruction of the Cabinet as the first es- sential step towards an armistice. To this end we would admonish President Lincoln that a decided majority of the republi- cans of both houses of the present Congress are opposed to Mr. Seward’s retention in the Cabinet; that the significant resolution of the late Baltimore Convention in reference to the harmony of the Cabinet pointed at a recon- struction, beginning with the Secretary of State; that his course on the stavery question, and the Mexican question, and various otber important questions, has rendered him particu- larly obnoxious to consistent and honest men of all parties; and that while Mr. Seward re- mains in the Cabinet there will be neither pub- lic confidence in the administration nor har- mony in the republican camp. The proper course, from these facts, plainly suggested to Mr. Lincoln is a reconstruction of his Cabinet, beginning with the State Depart- ment and ending with that fifth wheel to the coach, Attorney General Bates—a passive in- strument of Old Blair and the young Blairs,. and nothing more. A new and harmonious Cabinet of living, earnest, capable, patriotic men (and they can still be found) will at once enable the President to respond to the general wish of the people of all parties of the Yoyal States ia bebalf of an armistice. We can tellin that, considering the enormous sacrifices andbeavy burdens of the people resulting from this war, and considering our depreciated paper currency, still depreciating in value, and the consequent embarrassment and sufferings te all classes, with the prospect of harder times still before them, nothing but a bona fde ex- periment in behalf of peace can save this od- ministration from shipwreck in November next. Already we hear that aetive and influential re- publicans, despairing of any relief from our existing troubles under Mr. Lincoln and bis present Cabinet and do nothing policy, are be- ginning to move for an independent national convention in September, and the powerful in- dependent ticket of Gen. Sherman and Admiral Farragut. The late sensilie and statesmanlike render him, in connection with his merits end successes as a soldier, an acceptable candidate against the field to an immense majority of the people, as matters now stand, leaving General Grant out of the question. As for Admiral Farragut, we know that bis name,even to the ticket of Sherman, would be a tower of strength. We therefore arvo>\ to President Lincoln, not as @ poi.iiiui adversary, but asa friend, desiring the success not only of the national cause, but success to Dis administration, to try the experiment, first, of a new Cabinet, and, next, of an embassy to Richmond, with over- tures foran armistice, if nothing more, as the entering wedge to negotiations for peace. Thus, in the worst event that can possibly hap- pen, the government will be placed in the right, the rebellion in the wrong, before the world; the North will be reunited and the South will be divided, and the speedy triumph of the Union cause will be positively secured, together with another term toa successful ad- ntinistration. Far asp Boxe Bortina ann Oraern Posric Notsaxcns.—-The Sanitary police have been re- peatedly required to abate these nuisances; but it seems they are still allowed to exist. The bone and fat boiling concerns are yet at work, Olling! the atmosphere with their noxious and pesthfer: ous vapors. It is true the operations of some of them are suspended during the day; but on the approach of evening they are agein in full blast, and during the entire night c ntinue the manuvacture of pestilential gases. ‘ur citizens cannot be aware of’ the number J extent of these and otber nuisanges preju’ ial to health that are allowed to exist within the city’s limits. An intelligent correspondent has fur- nished us with atummary of afew that have recently come, ‘under his observation. We enu- merate & portion for the benefit of the city officials, WBo are especially concerned m the abatement of such nuisan es:— At the foot of Thirty-eighth street was ® pile of carcases on the offal contractor's ¥ dock, awaiting tide end wind to be re- | ought to investigate this matter, and lock up | in which the great Central and Western States boiling establishments. Some of these car- cases—dead horses, &c.—lie on the wharf or in the boats all day before being removed. And, further, when blood and the offal from all parts of the city, boats to be carried awa; intolerable, Newtown creek, Long Island, and the principal operation, the odor from which is most offen- sive, gaged in the manufacture of “gausage casings.” end night, when it is in ful! operation, it fills the air with a stench absolutely stifling. The entrails at one cent and a half hog. The in- testines that have not undergone Jecomposition are cleaned and prepared for the European as well as our own market for sausage casings; and the lard is packed in barrels and tierces and sent down town forsale. The slip here has been so filled up by the refuse thrown into it that it is with difficulty schooners can get to the dock at low water. The above are a few of the nuisances the au- thorities are called upon to abate. The hot weather now prevailing renders every hour’s delay that octurs in their removal detrimental to the public health, and we trust this appeal to vigorous «ction will not be allowed to pass unheeded by the officials concerned. Tho Operations of the Taliahassee—Tho Navy Department. About the Ist of August an English steamer, with a crew of one hundred men, and an arma- ment, so far as appears, of three guna, ran out of Wilmington—a port “blockaded” by an “Atlantic squadron” under Admiral Lee. She made her appearance at the entrance of New York harbor on the 11th instant—seven days ago. We have partial accounts of her opera- tions to the night of the 16th. In those six days she is known to have destroyed fifty-four vessels, How many more she may have de- stroyed it would be disagreeable to conjecture. Within twenty-four successive hours she de- stroyed thirty sail. All this is done by one ebip, with one hundred men and three guns, right in the line of trade between two of the principal ports of one of the “great naval Powers.” In an age of steam a great naval Power is defied, almnst in its metropolitan port, by three guns. Isit not time tbat we had done with such a farce as this? Is it not time for us to acknowledge that we are not a naval Power at all? Did China, under any one of its absurd governments, ever exhibit amore la- mentable picture of national decrepitude and heiplessness than this? Though our ebips are very good and our guns very large; though our sailors are hardy and brave, and our offi- cers as skilful and gallant fellows as ever looked at the sun, yet such is the administration of our Navy Department that our true naval level is that of the Chinese empire. We stand on the same level with the pig-tailed Celestials, for the same reason—because our Navy Depart- ment is managed, as all tho Chinese depart- ments are, with the utmost absurdity, igno- Trance, corruption and self-sufficient pretence. Gideon Welles bas been Secretary of the United States Navy for three years. It is to be assumed that under our system all men are ignorant of the duties of office when they enter it. But three years is a suilicient period for a man of ordinary eapacity to acquire a respecta- ble amount of knowledge onany subject. Yet at this day, after bis three years of office, Secretary Welles has not so clear an idea of the duties of his position as a Chinese mandarin would have gotten in six months. He is the most helpless and useless functionary that ever bad the im- pudence to draw pay. He relinqniehes the business of bis department to his fictotum Fox—a choice worthy of Welles’ intel’ect; and our navy is thus kept at its disgraceful Chinese level by @ man whom no decent merchant would have in his establishment, Will there ever be any end to this horrible condition of our government? We were told that when the Pirates drove our commerce from foreign seas but few ships could be sent in pursnit; for al) were necessary for the blockade. Dut how is it now? Blockade runners no longer attempt any other port than Wilmington. We have ab- solutely but one port to blockade. We donot blockade that; and yet, with our whole navy, a rebel steamer can cruise and destroy for eight days between New York and Boston. How much longer will the President insult the coun- try with the pretence that Welles is the best man in it for Secretary of the Navy? It might almost be demonstrated that under an efficient head the navy alone could have ended this war over a year ago. Had the vast sums that Welles and Fox bave absurdly squan- dered been spent as even common sense would dictate that they should be, our armies might have held a defensive attitude on the Potomac and the Ohio, and the rebellion been put down with half the expense it has already been to us. With the money that has been uselessly spent Farragut or Dupent wonld have given us, in less than three years, a navy so great and effective that s rebels cruiser conld never have gotten ten miles from @ British port. They would bave made the blockade air tight. They would bave taken Charleston and Wil- mington in the first year of the war, and the rebels conld never have equipped any but their first army. But the eonfederacy has “grown up through the incompetency of Welles. Our opportunities have been so lost that weare yet at the mercy of a single cruiser, and only the gallantry of @ few such heroic men as Far- ragut bas saved us from the last depth of dis- grace. When will it end? who are trying to break up this country. Now, to the Chicago Convention? The government moved in sailing vessels some twenty | Ben Wood in Fort Lafayette if he be an agent miles up the Hudsom to ene of the bone | of the rebels. The Yankee Tyranny—The Central and Weaterr States Mere ‘‘Hewers ef Woed” to New Evgi Previous to the present civil war the agita- slaughter houses are brought to this dock from | tors of New England were eternally denouncing instead of being putin | the alleged ascendancy of the seven cotton , the stuff is cast into | States in shaping and controlling the policy of .the river by the contractor’s men—a great} our national government. saving, no doubt, to them, but not at all bene- shaped to benefit the cotton States,” was the ficial to the city. The stench from this dock is | cry of the New England fanatics. “The whole “Everything is government is in the hands of the South, and In Thirty-ninth street, from Eleventh avenue | every measnre of legislation is held subordi- to the river, ts a brick row called Abattoir | nate to Southern interests.” That there was a place, numbering from one to forty. This row | mall basis of fact for these assertions is not to was formerly used for fat boiling and melting | he denied, and that basis had this extent, no purposes; but the proprictors have removed to | more:—The seven cotton States demanded that the constitution of the United States should be business now carried on in the row during the | upheld, and that no legislation hostile to their day is the conversion of animal stomachs into property interests in the institution of slavery an epicurean dish called “tripe.” At night | should be undertaken by Congress. They slso two or three tallow molting factories are in | further demanded, in one single instance—the Fugitive Slave law—that Congress should make some legislative provision to enforce one of the In Fortieth street fs an establishment en- | rights guaranteed to them by the constitution agsinst the treasonable and unconstitutional Itis shut up during the day; but in the evening | opposition thereto of these same New England fanatics, This was about all the “peculiar legis- lation” the South demanded, and, in return for pork élaughter houses supply this concern with | receiving it, they—a wholly agricultural and producing people—acquiesced without murmur in all the legislation demanded by the complex commercial, agricultural and manufacturing interests of the remainder of the Union. Well, the Union was at “last broken up, the South being no longer able to bear peacefully the constant irritation and dangers resulting from the aggressive character of New Eng- land’s anti-slavery fanaticism. The fourteen Senators from the seven cotton States not only lost their ascendancy in our national affairs, but stepped out of the Union altogether. And now what do we find to be the result? Just this:—That the twelve Senators of the six New England States have adopted the role which they so vehemently denounced in what they were pleased to call the “Black Gulf Squad- ron,” and that our whole national policy is to- day subservient to the interests aud dictates, the bigotries and narrow, puritanical prejudices, of the twelve Senators who, forming the “Black Republican Squadron,” are sent from the New England States to Washington. Our present actual masters are more sordid, grasping and crue! than were the alleged Southern managers of the past. They legislate with a view exclu- sively to New England interests, and their ob- ject would seem to be to throw all ibe burdens ef taxation and revenue upon the other portions of the loyal States, while compelling us all, by high protective and prohibitory im) rtation duties, to purchase New England manufactures, however inferior to those we could obiaiu much cheaper abroad, at just such prices as may suit the pockets—we will not say consciences, for they appear to have none—of New England’s manufacturing aristocracy. The main burdens of our internal revenue were thrown by the legislation of last winter upon two articles—whiskey and tobacco—in which'the New England States have but the slightest interest, while our custom house du- ties were advanced to figures making regular importation all but certainly unprofitable, and of necessity driving the trade, heretofore cen- tredat New York, to be, mainly transacted thereafter by active parties of smugglers along the Canadian border. So much is tuis the cake that the Secretary of the Treasury is now dévis- ing means to check ,this very smuggling, which has reached, even while yet in its infancy, enormous proportions—Secretary Fessenden apparently forgetting Sir Robert Peel’s maxim, as the result of English experience, that “it is utterly impossible to check any smuggling which, if successful, will pay a profit of over thirty per cent.” In our case, however, the profits of running certain articles into the United States from Canada will be many bun- dred per cent; nor can this be stopped in any manner, unless we Ouild along the Canadian frontier such a wall as divides the Chinese from the old Tartar empire. Even this would hardly suffice; for, with such a profit as New England greed has left open to the smugglers, it would be a remunerative speculation to start a hun- dred large balloons in this species of traffic. In the last session of the Senate, let it not be forgotten, the chairman of every important committee was a New Englander, the presid- ng officer was a New Englander. and all the legislation ground ont was either to benefit’ New England interests, or to supply food to New England bigotries and hates. The trade of New York city was to be destroyed byYm- | posing duties which would force foreign mer- chandise up to Canada, and thence, by smug- gting, into the Un‘sed States; while New Eng- land was to avoid the heavy burden of taxation, in great measure, by placing the heaviest excise duties of oar internal revenue upop two articles in ~Lich her interests are insignificant. Her six States, with an aggregate population of three million one hundred and thirty-five thousand three hundred and one, according to the census of 1860, are represented by twelve Senators, holding the chairmanships of all toe most im- | portant committees of the Senate of the Union; while New York, with a population of three million eight hundred and eighty-seven thou- sand fire hundred and forty-two, according to the same census, has but two members in the Senate; and these two, upon every occasion in which they attempted to defend the interests of New York and the Central States, were roughly overridden and voted down by the “Black Republican Squadron” frou New Eng- and. Thus it is that history repents itself. The Puritans fled to this country under pretence of a desire to secure religious liberty; but no sooner had they obtained it for themselvas than they commenced burning Quakers, non- conformists, witches and all others whose teneta were not identical with their own, or whose practices they could not understand. They protested against the ascendancy of the “Black Gulf Squadrn” in our national af- fairs, even provoking a civil war rather than submit to it; but no sooner are they given a chance of power than we find the “ Black Re- pub'ican Squadron” in full sweep, with the black flag hoisted against the rights, interests A Contors Ciecx.—One of the Wall street | and opinioas of every section of the Union. banks cashed a check yesterday for $25,000, | Our whole governmont to-day is one of Yan- drawn at Montreal in favor of Ben Wood. | kee ideas and the most miserable sort of ‘Yan- Montreal is a nest of rebel and British agents, | kee philanthropic notions. The sceptre thrown down by the extreme South as it rushed did this check come from a rebel emissary or a | out of the Union is now wielded more fiercely British emissary? 4 it to be used in support- | and remorselessly by the extrome Northeastern ing the News or in buying up peace delegates | section of our people. wilt assert their matural supremacy, and crush out the extremists, or corner-men of the continent, as we may call them—one faction of these residiag in the southeast, and the other in the northeast eoruer of the At- lantic seaboard? When will the day come that we of the Centre and West shall be “Americans,” and not “Yankees,” in the eyes of Europe, and indeed of all the world? We are called “Yankees” now—even by our Southern foes, who know better, geographi- cally—merely because it is seen that we are the helots of a Yankee oligarchy, patiently subinitting to Yankee rule, and fighting out a wer which had its origin in Yankee intolerance and bigotry. With seven hundred and fifty thousand more population than the six New England iates put together, we have but two representatives in the Senate of the United States, while New England has twelve; and, not content with foisting on us the greater part of the burdens of the war, while at the same time ruining the trade and marine of our great- est city—the greatest city on the continent— New England has now capped the climax of her oppressions by so arranging it that, while but twelve anda half per cent of her popula- tion has been enrolled for the coming draft, no less than twenty-six per cent of our population in the first ten districts of New York have been enrolled for the same purpose! Does this really mean that the lives of two and a fraction citi- zens of New York are but worth the life of one Massachusetts man? Or will the Bay State as- sert that one of her lanky sons is able to whip two and something over of our New York athletes? The question is a pertinent one; for, as things are now progressing, no one can tell how soon these questions may be brought to a very practical test. The onty remedy for these evils is for the Central and Northern States to make a strong alliance, offensive and defensive, during the prog:essof the Chicago Convention, and to place upon a platform, opposed alike to Southeastern and Northeastern extremists, some conservative soldier or statesman who shall be the vigorous exponent of a national, anti-oorner policy. Personal Intelligence. Captain John J. Bowen, New York Volcnteers, for twenty-one months quartermaster at Beaufort, N.C., lag teriy with the Elgbteenth army corps, under Major Gene- ral Butler, bes returned North on a brief {urlough for the recruitment of his health, which has been ™ ich impaired by bis arduous duties in the service for over two yoars past. Captain Bowen was chiefly instrumental in rescu- ing the Monitor Movtauk from a dangerous position on Shackleford Shoals during his term of office at Boau‘ort, General Casey and lady ; General N. J. Jackson, of Hart Island; General G. W. Buck, Senator I, M. Morrill, of Maino; R. P. Lincoln, of Washington; George F. Btcad- man, of Ciucitaati; Dr. 0. ¥. Swan anc lady, ands. Q Brown, of Vil City, are stopping at the Astor House, General Thomas H. Ford, of Onio; J. W. Schaffor, of Illinois; J. K. Herbert, of Ohio; Albert Denny, of Boston; 8. H, Lathe, of St. Louis, and & B. Wynn, of Now York, are among the arrivals at (he Metropolitan Hotol. Lieutenant Wiliam H. R. Neol, signal officer on Gen- eral Bancock’s ataif, has been promoted to a captaincy. Lieutenant Neel has already won laurels in battle, Daving been connected with the Army of the Patomac from the commencement of the rebellion, Acting Rear Admiral T. Batley, Fastern Gulf Plockading Squadroa; C. ©. es, U. SN. J. Royars, Fi and —— Breen, N., are stopping at iho A The following is a list of American: American Agency, 17 Charlotte stros London, Engivii’, for the weck opdir Tight Kersi ishop Mcllvaine, Cine. vatnam, Augastus Lowel and wite, Robert B. Williams, Robert B ams, Jr. Charles F. Dennett, Robert P. Thompson, George F; Boston; Jonathan T Lauman, J. Neorton Sears and nd.Mrs, Plerrepont, Mr. and Mrs J. P: Hewitt New York; T L. M. McPherson, Shippensburg, Pitt Grosvgnor, Cortland, N. Y.; C. Sargeaot, Robert M Hooper and family, Wm. Poiladeiphia; D. Gaven, Californin: . Benort, G, L. Sharpateen, Riepard Murray, ©. D. Rankin, St. Louis Huging, San Francisco: A. G. Norton, Ohio, Coroners’ inquests, PATAL RESULT OF A STABBING AFFRAY. Jobn Collins, the man who was stabbed last Sundey night, a8 previously reported, subsequently died of his injuries in Bellevue Hospital. It appeared thas de- ceased and rome friends had been attendinga weddir at 92 Henry street, and when a short distance fro: the house; on their way home, a disturbance areve betwosa them, which resulted in one of the party, namet John MeGrath, drawing a spring dirk knife and staybing i abdomen, The evidence failed to show bad suilicient provocation for using the the jury rendered a verdict “That Joba Col- lins came te his death by astab wound, inflicted with a dirk kaifo in toe hands of John Motirath, on the morning of Ancust 14, 1864, I» Heory etreet, near Birmingher and Market.”? Deceused was twoaty seven veare of acc and a uative of ireiand = He lived in Forty -sivto streot near Eleventh avenue Molirsth. who vas rretteia the time of the occurence, is in the iom\s u 2g bs trial. ANOTHER DFATH PROM eT TA. Coracer Nauinann yester iar veld ov faquent at foo | New York Hospital on the boty of a voung men camut | Michael Lyons, who died fru ‘09 effe (sofa sao wound Deceased is the man who «3 previously reportet as | having been stabbed o2 th. ooruer of Morris and ‘Font atrests, iste on Sanday mir i! . Timetay | Daly, being mach under (' Ling on the steps of bis re decoused, who was also and eithor by acre te him. A to 99 mortal. ceanty seventh precinet, Daly seen as anited. by decensod, and Woe after bearing all the tes- ta “ollowing vordict:—“That coata by @atab wound at the the corner of Mortis and Weat oC August, 1864." On the ren- 10 prisoner was committed to the He is forty-sevem years of uge, and a Deceased was bora ia Ireland, avd He lived with bis mother at 112 Tomos for trial, basive of Ireland. only twenty years oid, Greenwich street. Police Yatelligense, Two Men Danornovsty Stannzo.—On Mondey evening 4 devermined and desperate offort was made to take the lives of two men employed on board the Coney Isiand steamboat Naushon, iying at the foot of Christophor street. It appears that Join Abert, recently employed as deck baud on board the boat, bad been discharged for cause, This circumstance roused his anger to a bigh Piteh, and at the time stated above Abert went on board tho boat, and nearing George B. Sealey, the pilot, drew a knife aud stabbed im thr: the left cheek, severing ‘an artery, from which the blood fowed copiously. Abert bot yet Aatisfled, continued the assault, and stabbed Seeley in cioven different places about the ond arms, The desperado tmmediately afterwards attacked Henry P. Signer, aod with she knife inflicted a vory danger- ous gash across the back of his neck. Several persons, fearing that Seeley and Signer would lose their lives, cried for holp, when roundsman Lewis, of the Ninth pre cinct, hastened on board the steamer and arrested Abort. After being locked up in the station house all night the accused was taken pefore Justice Ledwith and locked up for triel, in default of $1,000. Surgical aid was rendered the wounded men on board the boat. Abert is eighteen years of age and a native of Caaada, A Paysiciax Crarcep wit Fauosiousiy Assagumina « Fewace.—Emanuei Hersborg. physician, fitty-ooe years having an office at o. 1 Amity street, was ar. rested on Tuesday by officer Croker, of the Lower Police Conrt, on a warrant swssued by Justice Hogi. Dr. Herz. by Mise Mena Baddendick, a girl sixtoon prt regi A ‘at 489 Wasbington street, with hay- ing, by force and violence and against her will, commit. ted’ ad indecent and felonious assault upon her, The complainant called at the Doctor’s office to consult him in regard to her health, when he sent ber to an uppor room of the ises, where he appeared roon after. warda and com fnitted th ®. The Poctor was bailed by acnest Buermey er, corner of Pearl and Broad ARREST OF AN ALLEGED Frvont 008 SuRSTITUTE BROKER. Officers Ferguson and Wildey, of the Secoad procinet, Jast night arrested #rank Doherty, alias King, who hag doen, it is alloged, for sore time past taking recruits from this State to Philadelphia. He was captured on board the Jersey City ferry boat as he was about leaving with @ recruit, and conveyed to Second ward station house, where he is awaiting further proceedings in bis case. Wrestii A wrestling match, said to be for one thousund dollars, between Uzile Prickett and Harry Hill came off yesterday afternoon at the Cremorne Gardon, Seventy socond street and Third awonue. Some preliminary was given to those who attendgd before the wrestling came off, Prickett was favorite odds, At the first clinch Prickett throw vory mA bat on the second hold they foll togetuer. The inet fall Hill was under, Prickett won, The who! wr may be set down a When will the day como, it may be asked, |r tt, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, Wasarrcron, August 17, 2664 FINANCIAL MATTERS, THE NATIONAL DEBT, m ‘The official statement of the public debt on the 1 inst. shows the amount of outstanding ¢o $1,849,714,555, and the iuterest im both com and lay money $76,038,000, The unpaid requisitions $83,500,000, and the amount in the Treasury o $11,500,000, As contrasted with the officiai statement the 19th of July the increase in the public debt uy yesterday is $53,600,000. The sabscriptions to the seyen-thirty loan reported the Treasury Department for to-day amozut to $2, 226,0 Several millions of Treasury notes to meet these soriptions baye just been sent to Now York and 6) where, and in the course ef next weok it is expected t! supplies will be forwarded to the Assistant Treasurt and National Banks io the principal cities, se that s scribers will not be subject to delay, In other wor the supply of Treasury notes will keep pace with the | mand. Much trouble is experienced at the Treasury Depr ‘ment in the conversion of seven-thirties into six per ¢ bonds of 1881, owing to parties frequently endorsing others and not sb wing legal authority for go doing, a: imperatively required by a rule of the Department in ¢ and other similar transa.'ions. PAYMENT OF THE TROOPS. ‘Tho sum of five anda half millions of dollars was terday supplied to paymasters for the armies under Gri and Sherman, in addition to the amounts recently { nished by the Treasury Department for troops in ot localities. THE ENGAGEMENT BEIWSEN THE MEARSARGE 4 ALABAMA, Captain Winslow, at the requestof the Navy Dep: ment, has furnished & full statement of tho tight of Kearsarge with the Alabama, His letter, dated in English Channel, July 80, mentions the fact that just 7 vious to the encounter he bad an interview with French Admiral at Cherbourg, and assured him that the event of an action the position of the ships should 80 far from the shore that no question could be advan about the line of jurisdiction. The night before be were moving between the Alabama and Cherbourg, in the morning strange men were seen statioued a3 ¢ tains of the guns, among them Lieut. Sinclair, ¥ joined ber at Cherbourg. The police prevented oth from going ov board, Captain Winslow repeats that the yacht Deerhou under tbe garb of (rieudship, was affording assistance the Alabama. THY PIRATE TALLATASSES. ¥ Captain Fengar, of the revenue cutter Miami, in a lo: to the Treasury Dep>rtment, dated New York, August repeats many of the particulars already known cone. ing the Tallahassee, and states he ras on the eve of a starting on a cruise after the pirate, which, he adds, built for speed, and has a crew of one hundred and {« moa—ragged, a perfect set of cut throats, and notur the control of the officers, From what he could har some of the victims of the Tallahassee she intenc§ to, low tho track of European vessels, and destroy ev thing American that comes in her way. SIX HUNDRED REBEL OFFICERS TO BE PLA’ UNDER FIRE BEFORE OMARLESTON. Six bundred rebel officers, prisoners of war, are t sent to Charleston harbor in a few days. It will be membered that the redel authorities, after exchan; the fifty officers first placed under fire at Charleston, i six hundred more there for the same purpose Those hundred rebel prisovers will no doubt receive the s treatment as may be appiied to Union prisoners at place. , ARRIVAL OF GENERAL INGALLS. Quartermaster General Ingalis arrivedin town from City Point. ESCAPK OF PRISOMERS FROM THE OLD CAPITO™ Two rebel prisoners escaped from the Old Capito! Monday night, by means of ropes made trom their t kets and cloth'ng. THE NUMBER OF SICK IN HOSPITALS. The number of paicnts in our hospitals bpre does exceed at the present time ten thousand. The mort averages about fifteen per week. OHIO HUNDRED DAYS MEN GOING HOME. Tho term of earvice of the Fiitieth Ohio regiment Pired yesterday. Tuo Ti ty first retures home to-i row. These were hundrod days mon, and-will be lowad by tha remaador of taat cliss about the 1: September. ¥ IEE SIX NNW YORK ARTILLERY. New \ ork neavy artillery, fifteen ban rence yesterday from Po 'o'¢ duty for several week: AcPOUTMANTS. Neloa Loke bis deon ap eiced United States Dis oy for the Northern district of California, ‘aca di. Soaep, )amoved, and —— Weed, of Illi ‘ © the Couci of Claims, vice —— Tha Siath PROMOTION, ' Crean, Chief Quartermast haa heen appointe: vat, vith the rank of br igned to the sapervision of tbe Cumberland, vice Co Sword) sri Ho eo Lowe eof the forwar Of supphios s° Ge) ara! Sherman is appotutment i garded in mi \ory circles -2 & moet deserved recogn of ability api leworior tothe sevice, The remark ad expe ted success of the Freedn Colony tt Aviiogten 's attethutuble solely to bis dis: coat, ond hae %B> government to establish : las ( lonies elsewhere, Capteta John Blittson, prom the Looe rtmen start aurvormocte Di. gacior covers Dopirtiwont of heutensnt coonet -\0c6e0s Cotonel Greene as quacers “ver bere ©)! el Ellison came here two ) ago aS ic atenas cn¢ eoting essiatact quarterma and ties orwen ‘9 Lie omyiable position only upor mente os ap offic or. vert 0% PRISONERS OF WAR. The following ¢ cular bas been jasued:— RO AR ro, 4 O cro ENKRAL OF PRISONERS ome Coeatises 7 D. , Auwust 10, 1864 seoretary of War re sup! on of any kind wi furnishe? to prisoners of war by their relatity! friends, oxcept In cases of ‘ness, Whe: near rela will be pormitted to send them such orti.iee of foc may be approved by the surgeon ip course of the pital, to whose care they will in all cases ba addre Necestary clothing may also be furnished by near tives to destitute prisoners, subject to the approval e commanding officer of the post where (uoy are con! Outer garments must be of gray or dark mixed color of inferior quacity. Only ove suit of outer clothing + change of under clothing wil! b» allowed, Second—¥% \s further ordered thot eutlers at mil prisons shali be permitted ty sail to prisoners oni following articios, vizi—Writimg materials, ji stamps, tweacco, scigars, pipes, matches, combs, tooth brushes, bair brushes, eiethes brushes, scit thread aud needles, handkerchiefs, towels and p looking glasses, Tiisd--This order will not be understood as pro! ing prisoners of war from receiving clothing or articles, not contraband, from their relatives or (r residing beyond our linesgwhen forwarded by fit trace boat or rd any other authorized channel, ¢9 lo the prisoners of war beid at Richmond and other * orn poisous ate permitted to receive the sare artic @ Kame manuer from their relatives and friends loyal States. #. HOF EMAS Colonel Third United States infantry, Commanding eral of Prisonérs. THR SUBSTITUTE AGENTS. ‘The prompt action of the military authorities wi ard to substitute agents from abroad has well checked their operations in this city. A numbe undertook to run off substitutes are im clone 0° ment on bread and water, COMPLAINTS FROM LOYAL VIRGINIANS. ‘The loyal people of Fairfax and Loudon countios havo occasion for much complatnt in the refu officers in command along the linos to permit th come into the city for family supplies upom passer | may have expirod only a few bours prorious, M* there citizens are gronted by the misery auth, montbly passes, but when they attemy” to come get their posses renewed are detained at the picko sometimes a number of days. No reason excey tape is assigned for these inexcusable detentio particulars of which seldom or never reach thy the aathorities here, OVERLAND POSTAL B2RVICR. The Postmacter Geaeral is on the eve of ccacla | contraet for the overland mail service from tae Mi rivor to California, for four years, from Octover 1, rate of $750,000 per Tom Vore om CONSTITUTIONAL AMENOMANTA OW Tot.and,—The vote upon the proposed amendments constitution of the State yesterday was very Tiers was bo particular interest manifested at ih either for of against the proposition, ant aged and votera who came out to vote did 0 bai ‘Wo have not the full retures of the Sta the figures that have come to band from various indicate that the amendment to allow soldiers to vi | been approved by the constitutional majority. , amendments to extend sufirage to naturalized ¢ who have a by psd and to abolish the r | tax are in doubt, Our imyression ix that they : rovod The city of Providence gave more | : ‘he vote for all the amendmonta afro, Augish 16, ' duw