The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1864, Page 4

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CAMPBELL MINSTRELS. 199 and 201 Bowerv.—Varinp amp xcimng MeLanex or Exuorian Oppitii AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batcars, Partomixers, BuRLESQUES, &C.—KosenT AND BEeRIRAND, BREW YORK MUSEU CoRosmins axp Lec: OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— trom 9a. M. wll l0P. M, HOOLEYS OPERA HOUSS, Brookiyn.—z; Boras. Dances, BuprEsues, & 6 ot ——— New York, Thursd: = August 25, 1864, ©L£AE SITUATION. ‘The latest accounts from General Grant's army rep- Tesent the rebels retreating from the Weldon Railrond® upon which they made so desperate an attack on Bunday. The Union forces now hold the road, and ft Is not improbable {hat General Warren will make an attack on the Danville road without delay, if the rebels Sheuld not make another dash on the Weldon road, as it ‘was thought they would. Our troops, however, are con- ident that they can hold it, The rews from General Sheridan does not indicate an important advance of the enemy, Averil!’s cavairy held Martinsburg on Tuesday evening. Rumors that the enemy bad crossed the Potomac were rife yesterday, but they have not been confirmed. We have news from Atlanta by way of Nashville ap to yesterday, Matters there were unchanged. Major General Dodge, who was wounded while looking after the picket lines on the 19th, is reported ta have died. Our troops were erecting parapets and strengthen- ing the works generally, General Kilpatrick re turned on Monday to Generai Sherman’s lines from his expedition to break the Macon Rail- road, which he succeeded in doing near Jonosboro, de- stroying three miles of the track and two trains and locomotives. He encountered the enemy and had a sharp conflict, dispersing their eavalry and capturing a battery and many prisoners, as we have before reported. It is denied that either General Steedman or Colonel Streight was wounded at the Dalton fight. Our news from the Mississippi is highly interesting. A despatch from Memphis yesterday states that the rebel General Forrest captured that city on Sunday morning at three o'clock, but was not able to hold it for more than two bours. In the in- tervaly bis forces,j who numbered three thou sand, cleared out a good deal of plunder from the principal hotels and boarding houses, but they falied in what appeared to be the main object of the at tack—the capture of Gen. Washburne, They succeeded, however, in taking a portion of bis staff and that of Gen. Hurlbut, together with some two hundred and fifty men. Both of these generals, as well as Gen. Buckland, escaped parrowly. The United States steam frigate Susquehanna, Com- mander 8. W. Gordon, returned to this port yesterday from a cruise around the Island of Bermuda in search of the pirate Tallabaseee. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arrival of the United States transport steamer Hage from North Carolina, we learn that the new pirate Steamer Coquette, which is one of the number now in ‘Wilmington receiving their armament, is considered the most formidable of them all. She will be the first to leave that port, if she is not already out. The ship Victoria, Captain Champion, from London, arrived at this port last evening. She brought to this country the man Maller, who, it is alleged, murdered a Mr. Briggs in a London ratiway carriage about two months ago, and for whose arrest the London authorities sent out several detectives. One of the London officers and officer an, of the New York, detective force, boarded her at Quarantine, and will probably bring Mul- Jer to the city this morning. ‘The baggage of Signor Brigneli, the tenor, wes seized on Tuesday by the Sheriff, on a warrant of attachment, fesued at the inetance of a lawyer named Jobo A. Godfrey, to whom It Is alleged the Signor is indebted in the sum of $1,600 for legal services. Brignol! was about to depart for Europe at the time, and the attachment was got out for the purpose of protecting his relentless creditor. ‘The case of the United States against Mr. John Mailaly, editor of the Metropolitan Record, for the publication of certain articles described in the aM@idavit of the United States District Attorney as calculated to incite “one Sey- four and others to resist the draft,’’ came up yesterday before United States Commissioner Osborn, The Dis- trict Attorney opened the case for the government, and ‘was fotlowed by Mr. Charles O’Conor for the defence. Mr. Osborn reserved bis decieion till to-morrow at twelve o'clock. In the Third District Court yesterday a euit was brought against ® well known Broadway hatter for damaging a valuable Panama hat |n cleaning. The plaint#? claimed Chat the bat, which cost bim $60 in gold, was ruined dur. (ug the cleaning process, a hole appearing in the crown of the article unnecessarily large for ventilation, The defence set up was that the bat was an old, greasy thing, fod tbat the crown was so rotten tat it broke through, notwithstanding” every care was used to preserve it {otsot. Judgment for the defendant, yaa ot 2,088, making @ since a neu, ‘The numbdér landed fp the correspondipg of Jaes year was 102971, The commutation Bow ia bank amounts to $73,066 68 ‘The fail in gold yesterday rendered the genera) markets guckgend Ee Ot wat ering | thelr wonted firmnesr. Berebandibe, b&Férineleee, at about the same prices, except loa fow instances, one rn (wae dull, and lowor for crudey On "Change flour opened ie, ht ry Pian omen bin cloned duil and drooping. Wier, a aman | oon braver, pt onte were Grmer, Pork was lower. Beet oo Girm. Lard lees active, ae wee yor frown tall ond eae Repulsed terribly in their attempt of Sundey to drive the Fifth corps from the Weldon road, the rebels are still determined not to give the business up. So vitally important is it to the rebels that Grant should be driven from this position that they cannot relinquish the at- tempt,to drive him away while they baye o man left to make it. Rumor has already at- tributed to General Lee the expression that Beauregard must drive us from that position if it took every man he had; and though this phrase may be a mere invention, and may never have originated with General Lee, it still might very well have done 60; for it is the simple expression of what must have been in his mind when be heard where Grant was. He is giving practical expression to the same idea with the spade. He has fallen back from Warren’s immediate front, and is intrenching, and his intrenchments mean that the hard battle of Sunday is not to be the last of the attempt to drive us from our new position. Into those intrenchments that Lee is ma! will file every man that he can } gather in Virginia before the struggle is done witb, Great preparations are to be made under the cover of those lines, and from them many a heavy column will yet be hurled against War- ren’s important position. Grant’s strategy has forced this immense campaign in Virginia to a focus. That focus, that*eentral definite point at which the final issue of the campaign is in all probability to be decided, is Warren’s posilion on the Weldon road. All the danger of the confederacy in the East Grant has concentrated in that posi- tion, and all the strength that the confederacy can gather for a final attempt forsalvation, and that it would not utterly waste, it must gather there, It must win a Lgreat baitie at that point or it dies. Tt bas been said that for Grant to be south of Richmond and an Lee’s great lines of supply was for him to be on the carotid artery of the rebellion. But the figure is hardly strong enough; for a feeble circulation will go on through other channels, though that through the carotid cease. Grant’s position is more analogous in its effects to the pressure of a for- eign body against (be epinal marrow. To re- lieve from that pressure is the only chance for life, and if the surgeons cannot get rid of te foreign body the case is hopeless. Lee’s des- perate surgery has failed thus far, and is likely to fail. All other struggles and interests in Virginia are inconsiderable by comparison with this struggle; for all will merge into it. Lee must not only burl Beauregard against those lines: he must alsoetmpty.Richmond. to burl Long- strest and Hill"to the sgme purpose; and if these fail Early must hurry from the Shenan- doah valley, and lend such assistance as he may to drive us from the place. Every man that Lee can gather must go into that fight, as every drop of water in the Norway Sea must go within a given time to the centre of the maelstrom. Warren’s fight on Sunday did more to empty the Shenandoah valley than did Sheridan’s fight on the same day, though Sheridan’s fight was a good one. But Grant will thus once more have concentrated on his front the whole of Lee’s army, and will have it launched against him, urged by a more than commonly desperate necessity. Can he stand it? That is a question for the administration and the country to consider and act upon soon. If he is driven, it is another great chance lost. Ifthe is maintained and holds his position as it has been held hitherto, we have put down the rebel- lion. He must have more men, and have them soon. He must imperatively be reinforced for the great struggle that is in preparation. It is child’s play for us to leave him in such a posi- tion that the result of the struggle may be doubtful when we have the means to render absolute triumph certain at a single blow. The Peaee Question at Washington— Why So Much Mystery? Notwithstanding the denial of Senator Wil- son, pointed and positive as it is,we are as- sured from an inielligent source that peace ne- gotiations have been going on for some time at Washington, and that in this connection Major '+Hay’s return to Niagara Falls is not without significance. Weare further assured that in Washington, among the knowing ones, Senator Wilson’s late card is laughed at, which we can readily believe; for his memory is so ,bad that he will positively and flatly deny to-day, as an injured innocent, his public declarations of yes- terday, as heretofore we have had [occasion to show. Setting aside, then, the protestations of Sena- tor Wilson as of ‘no account, we accept these more reliable assurances ‘that the Cabinet has very recently been, and probably still is, engaged in the consideration “of some peace movement, and that the President’s confidential secretary, Major Hay, in hisreturn to Niagara Falls, has gone there, in a quiet way, to glean some further information upon the subject, if possible, from other men’s conversations with Holcombe, Clay, Thompson and Sanders, the rebel peace emissaries in that quarter. But it appears that the administration has been, par- ticularly anxious to keep this business in the dark, so that if the peace movement in ques- tion shall turn out another failure, like that of Greeley and Colorado Jewett, it may be hushed up without exciting any public sensation or troublesome curiosity. But why all this mystery? Can it be that President Lincoln is seeking for the ways and means of peace in the highways and byways of rebel emissaries, and through secret chan- nels of which he is half ashamed? Can it be that Horace Greeley, an advocate of the right of secession and a preacher of the folly of oo ercion before the war began, has succeeded in persuading the administration that Holcombe, Clay, Sanders and Company are peace agents with whom it would be well to renew diplo- matic relations? We do not know; but if Honest Old Abe, or simple Old Abe, or cunning Old Abe, as the case may be, is not aware of the faet, we can tell him that the sooner he dispenses with Greeley as bis confidential peace ambassador, and with those rebel emissarics in Canada as the accredited peace agents of the so-called “Confederate States,” the better it will be for the peace*of bis etpiaivestie and his party, There is o very shert method by ‘whioh all these Northern peace agitatd?s and disor- ganizers may be effectually and ren- dered pow for any mischief, A peace comm! % Richmogg fo- telligertt. experienced opg public men, with overt!t@e for an armistice and a Convention of all“the sisted, fu view of the | T restoration of the Union upon the Deals of the federal eoustitution and @ magnanlino.* will settle the business, We} nc#b ood tonetel grin know that Jeff. Davis, only the other day, politely dismissed Messrs. Kirke and Jaques with the declaration that he should always be happy to welcdme thom or acy other doves of peace, but that they need not come unless they cane with the olive branch of a Southern confederacy. We are aware of all this; but we know, too, that these men were peace ambassadors upon their own responsibility, witLout official authority, and that, therefore, thelr talk with Jeff. Davis has only the value of a private conversation, which usually binds neither despots, diplomats nor politiciang, An official commission to Rich- mond-from Washington will bring Davis to the mark; for, assuming that he will meet it with bis ultimatum of Southern independence, the result will still be a decisive victory for the Union cause aud the administration. It will reunite the North and divide the South, and then tke implacable despot of the rebellious States will inevitably soon find his confederacy and his oceupation gone, This is the peace movement, and this is the great object in view that we would still urge upon the favorable attention of President Lin- cola. : The Last Operatic Imbroglio—The Trou- ofa Tenor, We publish in another column a letter from Signor Brignoli, the famous tenor, in regard to his legal controversy with the Mynheer Grau. We know how deeply Brignoli’s epistle will barrow up. the tender souls of the sweetest young ladies of New York; but still a stern sense of justice compels us to print it. Tenors, like birds of paradise, are popularly supposed to feast on flowers and sleep on beds of roses, undisturbed by mortal cares, unvexed by mortal annoyances, their only labor being to look handsome, and sing charm- ingly, and die gracefully on opera nights. Bué here we bave the sad reverse of the picture. We see the delicious singer coming into court to collect his salary. How surprised the young ladies will be to learn that he has a salary. We are officially informed of the exact amount of that stipend. Oh, horrible and practical realism! We behold the Mynheer Grau, in a state of mind, refusing to pay the money and defending the agfion. We perceive a gnat of a lawyer buzzing about with a counter claim and asking impertinent questions of the unhap- py Signor. The bird of paradise has his plumage ruffled, and his tail feathers erect, and shows his beak and talons, and strikes out manfully at bis Irritating enemies. The illusion is logt.. The tenor has become a mortal, like the rest of us. The grievous spectacle wounds us to the heart. Signor Brignoli tells his story so clearly in his card, and his statements are so well authenti- cated by the records of Judge Barnard’s court, that we need only hint at the niain features of the case, About ten years ago Brignoli came to these shores, and here he has issued his most melodious and barmonious notes. Many managers have had the honor of engaging him, and among these the Mynheer Grau now figures conspicuously. It seems that, in tho spring of, 1863, Grau engaged Brignoli for eight months, at a salary of sixteen hundred dollars per month. Taking into consideration the deprecia- tion of the currency, that was not a high price for such a favorite singer as Signor Brignoli; but Grau went off to Europe, and did not fulfil bis contract. Upon Grau’s return from the scenes of his childhood and the ruined castles of his ancestors he offered the Signor eight hundred dollars to compromise the matter; but, as eight bundred dollars can scarcely be considered an equivalent for eight times sixteen hundred do!- lars, the compromise was very naturally de- clined. The Mynheer Grau’s position, if we un- derstand it, is that Brignoli did not slog for him, and thgt he is rather generous and nilinia cent than otherwise to offer thé Signor eigbt bun- dred dollars for doing nothing. To this Signor Brignoli replies that he was ready to sing for Grau; that he refused many more advantageous offers in order to sing for Grau, and tbat if he did not sing for Grau it was Grau’s own fault. In other words, the Signor falls back upon his contract and demands his money; and if he can prove the contract to the satisfaction of the court we really cannot see how the Mynheer Grau can avoid paying him. At this stage of the proceedings Mr.'Godfrey, @ lawyer, steps forward and attempts a flank movement. He brings a suit against Signor Brignoli for fifteen hundred dollars’ worth of professional services, and attempts to levy upon the Signor’s diamonds, jewelry and souvenirs. Of this person Brignoli’s card dis- poses in a couple of lines. But we can tell the popular tenor how to dispose of him more effectually. Let the Signor bring a counter suit against Godfrey. Let him charge Godfrey with the dihners he has eaten and the wines he has imbibed at Brignoli’s house and expense, takifig Delmonico’s charges as a basis. Let him debit Godfrey with all the drives he has taken in the Park behind Brignoli’s mares, at the regular livery stable price. Let him figure up the cost of,alf the free opera tickets with which he has suppli the ungrate- fal Godfrey. Let the segars which he bas given Godfrey be put in the acc: Let not a pair of gleeve buttons apd o' presents which he has bestowed upon Godfrey be omitted. If the Signor has ever sung for God- frey in private let Godfrey be brought in debt therefor at the current rates. Let the pro- fessional opinions which oll has expressed to Godfrey in regard to be an ftom of the bill. Surely, if Godfrey’s professional services are valued at fifteen hundred dollars, the opinions of Signor Brignoli, who knows much more about music than Godfrey knows |ebout law, would be cheap at twice that amount. If Brignoli has ever given Godfrey good advice, artistic or convivial—and we do not doubt that Godfrey needed it—let it be put in the bill. If Godfrey has ever begged the loan of Brignoli’s watchchain, to make a show witb, or of Brignoll’s kid gloves, to wear at the opera, let be made to pay roundly for this privilege. What amateur would not gladly offer one hundred dollars to heer Brignoli re- hearse in private? If Godfrey has ever ea- Joyed that mysieal treat let hith be fotced to remunerate the tenog accordingly. mia tovty a debt could a pri overwhelm Laie doubt not thas a) would be of brass, to an et letter he road, apd hide ts @ soft ane Ring on th ay ot Poris ae 8 vice wisi him Ro one Ys Foicg Eig eaet ‘pre torea nihil, and Barope hae sent Brignoli’s ‘Tis ever thus. Onur public has had its favorite tenor for ten or more years. It has fondled and petted him, bumored his every whim, and submitted to his delightful caprices. Truth to say, be has served us very faithfully. Notenor has taken better care of his precious health, presented the pub- lio with fewer apologies, or been less troubled by the inevitable operatic indispositions. A favorite in all parte of the country, his depar- ture will be everywhere regretted. If our belles do not go into mourning next season om account of bis loss it will be because black is not fasblonable, It were selfish in us to detain him here when the Old World is all ready to be conquered by him; and so his many friends refrain from ex- pressing the depth of their grief and the poign- ancy of their pain at parting with him. But the thought that his last moments with us should be embittered by lawsuits, and that he should go worried by Godfrey and unpaid by Grau, cannot but intensify that grief and trans- form it into terrible indignation against his persecutors. For this reason we return to our suggestion, which will enable him to crush his enemies with their own weapons, and depart from us in serene triumph. Lethim sue God- frey for the sundries we have indicated above, and Godfrey will be heard from no more. Then let him turn upon Grau and add to his present bill charges for extra notes, grace notes, notes of fricndly advice, words of kindly counsel and little suppers after the opera, and the Mynbeer Grau will soon be willing to pay his salary promptly. If Brignoli bas a sensible lawyer on bis side he will take our advice, fight fire with fire, whip Grau and Godfrey round the stump; and give his client the victory. Our Commerelal Transactions — The Yankeo Tyranny tn a New Phase. Our article in last Thursday's issue, show- ing how completely the twelve Senators from the’ six New England States, forming the “plack republican,” or “Black Bay State Squadron,” have usurped the role tormerly filled by the fourteen Senators from the seven cotton States, known to history as the “Black Gulf Squadron,”’ has attracted, and yet con- tinues to attract, very widespread and deep attention. This only illustrates that “truth is mighty and will prevail.’’ We have merely to call public attention to some great but neg- lected fact, and the fact will assert its own importance. Hundreds of thousands of men in the Central and Western States, who never thonght of the matter before, have now their eyes opened to the system of chicanery and organized fraud by Which the twelve New England Senators have imposed the whims and interests, the passions and bigotries of their section, in the form of laws, upon the entire remainder of the Union. It only needs a voice in'the theatre to cry “fire’’ when the fire is at its devastating work, and all will perceive the burning odor; while, without such warning, some such scone may be re-cn- acted as recently made a Golgotha of that Hispano-American cathedral in St. Jago, Chile. Our twelve New England Senators, not content with imposing a very heavy portion of the revenue burthens of the country upon our whiskey and tobacco, in which the New Eng- land States have but the slightest interest, and not content with creating importation duties so heavy as to drive the trade hereto- fore transacted legitimately in New York to be hereafter carried on by smugglers along the Canadian frontier, have also had the adroitness to impose the main balance of the weight of our taxation upon the commercial transactions which have their chief centre in this city. All checks, bills, bonds, gold and stock operations, invoices and other articles oaséntlal to coiiinerce have fo pay heavily to the national government—these items, in Wall street alone, amounting to more in a single week than throughout the whole balance of the loyal States in any average mouth. The candle is to be burned at both ends, the people of the centre and West having chiefly to bear the costs of this war for the ascendan- ey of Yankee ideas; while their commerce is ruined by the imposition of prohibitory duties in favor of New England manufac- tures, and their commorcial marine is swept from the seas, solely owing to the imbecility and supineness of the New England Secretary who is meihtained—a gross laughing stock to the world—at the head of our national navy. Our country is under the domination of Yankee ideas and bigotries. All the interests of the Central and Western States are sacri- ficed to swell the profits of the Yankee manu- facturing aristocracy. We are condemned to bear the chiet burtliens of taxation produced by the war, while also submitting to the pro- hibitory duties devised by Yankee greed. Gur Senate is pregided over by a Yankee, and has all its most important committees con- trolled by members of the “Black Bay State Squadron.” Our navy is deplorably misman- aged by a Rip Van Winkle Yankee, who only grants and snorts while the greatest harbors of our country are being blockaded by one or two contemptible privateers. We are in a war, of extent uriparalleled, for the supremacy of a “Yankee notion.” We have had two Yankees at work in the task of depreciating our public credit by their mismanagement of our Treas- tury; and, as if to cap the climax of all our other sufferings and ignominies, we find that our able-bodied population is assessed at twenty-six per cent, under the draft, while a quota of but twelve and a half per cont is de- manded from the more favored sons of Massa- chusetts and the remainder of the Yankee empire. “How long, O Lord! how long shall thy servants sufter?” Tar Drart—How ro Raise a Honprep Taov- saxD Fionttxa Mex.—We bave not much faith in the statement that the draft will net be en- forged in New York because of the excess of seqmon enlisted here in the naval service, Seme of these men may be olaimed by other counties, and other measures may be taken, to deprive the city and county of New York of the benefit of the patriotism of our citizens in encouraging naval enlistments. The best way to secure the city against a draft is toa a offer a bounty of one dollars éach to man who shall ba eae vibe Ponce tobe | Seaea to ae, rl ma colons @ enug little will afford him a competency eee oe is over. By this means one hundred thousand men can be put’ frat hs ha bid 7 ticed Lee from his works at Petersburg to pro- tect his raflway commvnicatiqns, he has gow a got the rebs! general yrhere he wants him—| the open field, where Grant .' is sure to conquer, Let the government, we rep offer this bounty of one thousand dollars to each man, and one hundred thousand fighting me” will briskly respond to the munificent appeal,aud New York get honorably out of the draft. Fine Arts. We bave received from Mr. Joseph Laiog, of 117 Fulton street, two fine mezzotint engravings of Landseer's** Time of Peace’ end “Time of War.” They are etched by Mr, A. R. Dick and engraved by Mr. Posselwhito, of this city, and reflect the highest credit on the skill of both artists, An admirable lithograph portrait of Dr, McCloskey, the new Archbishop of New York, has just been published by Mr, Fd. Valois, 12 Veroy streets Mr. Schaus, of Broadway, bas published a colored litho graph of the fight between the Kearsarge and Alabame, It is spiritedly drawn and beautifully tinted. Lebreton, the French marine painter, ts tne artist. Eight statues have been placed on the front of the Royal Palace, Berlin, These reprerent—“Magaanimity”” and “Bravery,” by Professor Schievelbety ; ‘‘Gentieness” and ‘Liberality,’ by M. Heidel; “Commerce” and ‘*Art,’” by ht Fischer, and “Industry” and “Navigation,” by M. Strumor, ‘Tar Vicroria Reaia.—Toie beautiful and truly wouder- fal aquatic plant, on exhibition at the junction of Fifty- ninth street aud Kighth avenue, ta gradually attracting the attention of visitors to the Park, which isin the immediate vicinity. Such a rare floral curiosity has not been scen in this city up to the present time, ag woknow. In the Kew Gardens, in London, years since, the flower attracted immense curiosity, the exhibitors reaped a large reward, The plant now on exhibition here Is of the same species, but of much greater beauty, and no one who admires the magnificence of nature as exhibited in the floral world should fail to feo it. Indeed, we ehould speak in a plural sense, as there aro many young plavte which, if not 80 woll do- voloped as the parent one, are equally as attractive in their wonderful construction. The house of exhibition ts open all day, TuMaTRIOAL Lapeer. A theatrical critics of New York generaily troat alP debutants very nicely and fairly; out tho dramatic critic of the Express is a marked exception to this rulo. A fow days ago a young lady mado her debut in hor own play atone of our leading theatres. - The Express referred to this lady very meanly and impadently, in advance of her ap- pearance, on the ground that sho is the wife of one of the gentlemen connected with the Hearp, Now we ask Mr. Brooks whit thas bad to do with the lady’s acting? What had it to do with her new play? What had it to do with theatrical criticism? It bad no more to do witl thom than it had with——Mr, Brooks’ butcher bill. Musica. Dr, James Peck, of Montreal, and who was for some time musical director and conductor of the Eng- lish Opera, Theatre Royal, Drury lano, is, we learn, now hore for the purpose of organizing a company for the pro- duction of knglish opera at Montreal, The Metropolitan Record Case. UNITED STATES OOMMISSIONER’S OFFICE. Before United States Commissioner Osborn. Avaust 24,—The case of the United States against Mr. Jobn Mullaly, editor of tho Metropolitan Record, came up to-day for examination before United States Commis sioner Osborn, As previously reported, the charge aguinst tho defen‘ant yikior inciting ‘tore Seymour and Others to resist the draft.” ‘Tbe United States District Attorney appeared for the government, and Messrs, Ohiarles O'Conor and Donohue for the defendant. ‘ Mr. Smith, on opeming the case, said that he had pro- ceeded ia this matter upon cortain information lodged with him, and upon which he had based his affidavit With regard to that instrument, which must be taken as a matter of form, he would remark that the statute made no distinction of persons, Therefore the reference to Gov- ernor Seymour in the language of the affidavit was couched in the words of the act, not with any intention of disrespect. Mr. Smith then read the Conscription act of 1863 and the amendatory act of 1864, the latter of which, at section twelve, provides for the punishment of apy person who shall incite to resist, or counsel or advise any resistance to, any enrolment, "draft, &e., claiming ‘that the publication of the articles in queation es the defendant within the provision of the act, He weuld now proceed to call his witnesses. per dealer, Robert Coddington, bookseller and news testified that he koew Mr. John Mullaly and recogut: him in court; to the best of his knowledge he was. tho oditor of the AMctropoliian Red@rd, offlee 419 Broadway ; identifies the two numbers of thé’ paper containing the Metropolitan Re- nal atton- objectionable articles as issues of the cord; believed that Mr. Mulialy gave bis tion ‘to the publication of the paper. ‘The papers of vuly 80 and August 6% evidence. Cross @} any information against Mr. Mullaly to person. By the Distriet Attorney—Remembered reading the ay, tielaa in question. Mr. Smith said this As eee ¢ for (he government. Mr. O'vouor then addresse< th Coilrs for he goren Ho had failed to discover anything in the cdmplalot to warrant this prosecution. If, however, the Commission- er thought otherwise, Sr, Mullaly aud his couusel were ready and would appy to go before a jury of their countrymen. A series of such acts as this has been Steadily increasing in gravity. Acts like this have been perpetrated and acquiesced in till those exercising this lawleas power must deem the time near whon the formal assault upon our liberty sbali be ordered, The execu- wwe power has now resolved to try whether trial by ‘the hallowed emery of hberty, can be effectually eanloyed to deprive us of afree press. That was the experizoent he desired to ses Drought toa speedy issue, the result of which will determine whether the people of this country have any ful means of defending the Ler ron by their fathers, or whether they are yet wo Mr. Tsonith briefly replied, and, having submitted the case, The Commissioner said that as far as he was concerned the case stood at precisely the same point it did when it wos first brought before him. ‘The only question before bim was where the line of demarcation should be drawn between the liberty of the press avd the abuse of that liberty. As tho case was presented he was deprived of hearing any argument on the legal points in the matter or on the probable bearing of the articles in question on the minds of the people. Under the circumstances be would take the case under advisement, and would therefore reserve bis decision tili Friday at noon. The Draft in Ohto—Prociamation of Governor Brough—Speech of Fernando Wood, &e. Gwemnatt, August 24, 1864, Governor Brough has issued @ proclamation to persons in Obio who are preparing to resist the coming draft, warning them to desist from such purpose. Forpando Wood, in @ speech at Dayton last night, as- sorted thata poaco man, on a peace platform, would be nominated at Chicago, and that the convention would bo bermonious. Auction Sale of Blockade Runners. Bostox, August 24, 1864. Tho following captured blockade runners wore sold to- day by auction:—The [Little Ada was bought in by the government for $35,000; the Rouen sold for $30,000, and tho Boston for $18,500. joners at Amdersonville, Ga. of Union P: ‘From tl it mn iner, August By en eS RE ville, Ga., with daily ua Jersey City News, A CouNcILMAN ARRRFTED FoR DaseRri0n.—Danjel Stare man, ® member of the Board of Councilmen, at Union Hill, was arrested on Tuesday night by Deputy Provost Marshal Ostendorf, on a Pepe! og fod aha the recent draft, on —— of bavi in caso drafted srrenea t ef falling to Cea ie self he should resist arrest with @ six s! failed to do when taken into on a was yesterday rel peer at |e ArrEurt To Onuave 4 Riot,—A man named James Walsh ‘was taken before the Recorder in Jersey City yesterday, ier" orng ewe sg enum. 2g Te sijaiarsigi Peak Darvas ecteeass eed of Jerecy menced an inquest yesterday on the body of @ named Mary Haanon, who was found drowned, under gus- Picions ctroumotancen, canal, oats Serene Fara: Acomarr.—A: carnian, named Robert Towen, who resides on the corner of Shirty-first street and Tenth avenue, in this city, while driving truck down Aviantic Ware confident ti EWS FROM WASHING Wasumaron, August 24, 1964, THE PEAOR RUMORS. fe very Mttlo nows Stirring here at present, Pa for military movements. ‘The politicians arg either absent, or awaiting the action of the Chicage Convention, The attention of the public is principally absorbed by the peace rumors; apd there are many whe t some action is about to be taken by th’ administration locking to a speedy suspension of hosw'lities, though nothing is officially known in regard to tt, THE QUOTA OF NEW YORK CITY. It ts atated to-day that: New York city is to receive Credit on its quota for enlistments heretofore made inte the uavy not proviously credited. These, with the num- ber of volunteers under the /ast call, will, it is said, more than fill the city’s quota, aad thus adra‘t in New York will be avoided, FORTHCOMING MANIFESTO oF SkNATORS, It 1s understood fn political circlos here that Senators — Brown and Henderson, of Missouri, are preparing ® manifesto, similar in spirit to that of Mosars, Wade and Davis, reviewing the policy of Mr. Lincoln’s administrae tion and strongly antagonistic to his ro-election, SIGNIFICANT AOTION OF THY 87. LOUIS RADIOALM | Mr, Knox, of St. Louis, who successfully contested with Frank Blair, Jr., for the seat in the House of Representa tives, from the First district of Missouri, aud who bub sequently gavo iu his adhesion to Mr Lincoln, at she Baltimore Convention, has been thrown overboard by his - constituents, and Mr. Jobson has beon nominated by the radicals to succeed him. HOW AND WHY WE FAILED TO TAKS PETSRSBURG. ‘There is authority whioh may be regarded as beyond Contradiction for the following statement:—Some bricf time before the recent atteck by mine and assaulh which, it was hoped, would result in the capture of Pe torsburg, Mejor General B, F, Butier.was relioved from command of bis troops in the field by order of the Sores tary 0! War, and was directed to resestublis& his head- quartera at Fortress Monroe, This having beeu done, a promise was given by General Grant to General Baldy” Smith, who was about returning home very sick on @ twenty days’ furlough, that on bis getting back from such leave of absence, the independent command of the Eighteenth army corps certainly, and probubiy that of the Tenth army corps, forming the bulk of tho Meld: forces recently under General Busler, should bo given to him. General Smith came North, but did not remaia his allotted time, He grew better sooner than he expected and, bearing that his presence was much needed be- fore Petersburg, returned at about the end of his teotn days’ absence. Calling upon General Grant, General “Baldy’’ reported for duty with bis own corps, the teonth, and for euch other assignment of troops as al Grant might see fit to make. Upon this General be produced an order, or lotter of Instructions, from the President for the relustatement of General Batler tm the fall ficld”commana from which be had been relieved by order of tho Secretary of War, Mr. Lincoln adding to Goneral Grant substantially as follows:—Having reia- stated General Butler in bis former command, as it wag before the Secretary of War’s late order, you will oblige me personally by exerting yourself to avoid all cause of ‘difference or irritation with Major General Butler, af least uintét “after new: clection.’’ It was in this manner we were deprived of the tried military rkill and expe rience of General “Balty’’ Smith; and the failure of am attack upon Petersburg may, therefore, be looked upom as byt a fitting sequel to this laet example of Mr. Ligooln’s “electioneering and engineering strategy.” Gonerad | Smith’s only mistaketin the matter was that ho grew per, nonally-angry, allowing his temper to get the better ef him, aud tad &n Indecorous scene with General Grant fer the latter’s obedience to the President's instructions. FINANOLAL MATIENS. ‘The official recapitulation of the public debt up to yen tenday shows it to. be $1,859,274,000, or $9,561,000 more than the previous wock’s statement, The unpaid requ sitions are nearly.$80,000,000, and the amount in the Treasury over $18,000,000, The debt bearing no laterews bas been decreased $9,832,000, while the debt bearing interest fa lawful money bas been increased’$17,000,000, fQnd tho debt bearing interest in coin $2,000,000. “Utne subscriptions tothe seven-thirty loan reported at thei Treasury Department to-day amount to $606,008, Sik-those to the ten forty loan to $213,000, ATTACK ON ANNANDALE BY MOSBY'S BAND. » Mogby’s med appeared in the vicinity of Fall’s chure® last night, and this morning at five o'clock the garrison Of the stockade at Annandale, consisting of two hundred and seventy-five men of the Sixteeuth New York cavalry, was attacked by tho enemy, under tho leadership of Mosby, who had with him two pieces of artillery and from two to three hundred men. On taking his position Mosby demanded the surrendor of the ison, wh! was refused, whereupon he opened Gre with his gue, the canponading lasting three-quarlz, of of an hoor, ‘ree Safriaon wil boldig Gut, Mosby withdrew. Ant tg about ton miles iroin Alexandria. APPOL Ls Alexander 8 Jobuson, of New York, bas been ap- pointed commissioner, under the treaty of July, 1863, te settle the claims of the Hudson Bay aod Puget Sound Agricultural Company, in the place of Daniel 8, Dickit- gon, declined. ANOTHER ONTO REGIMEN; GOING HOME. Tho One Hundred and Forty seventh Ohio regiment, one bundred days men, passed through the city yesterm day, en route for home, its term of service having expired, Previous to leaving the regiment visited the White House, and was addressed by the President. A SOLDIER DROWNED. Sergeant W. H. Doak, Company F, Eighty fourth New York National Guard, was drowned last night, near the Great Falls of the Potomac, while in the discharge of hie duty, * wernvorioxs TO TELEGRAPH COM PANIES. The following was recently issued by the Commi sioner of Internal Revenue:— Tamasury Derartuanr, Orrick ov IntERNAL Ri Wasnixaton, August 13, 1864, Sm—In answer to your letter of the 10th instant, § have to state that telegraph companies should make return required by seotion 107 of the act of June 1864, to the assistant assessor of the sation in wi Ubeir principal office is located. V iy, JCSEPH J. Lewis. mm iss loner. To Ausgnican TeteGrarm Comranr, 145 Broadway. ARRIVAL OF REBEL PRISONERS. ‘Tho mai! steamer to-day brought ap about sixty rebel officers, including a colonel, major and captain, and a lieutenant, captured on Sund: The Indian Outrages in the Northwest. Font Kaarny, August 23, 1864, Major General Curtis arrived here to day to straighten up Indian affairs. The Overland Stage Company have removed all the agente, stock and coaches to this post for Protection, There are no white inhabitants between here and Denver. All pave fled to the forts for protes- tion, The road around Denver is reported as swarming ‘with hostile Indians, The road between hore and Omaha fs almost entirely deserted by the whites, except at two fortified poste—Cotum bus and Fort Curtis. General Curtis has had a conference with the chiefs of the Pawnee tribe, who/agreed to assist bim in fighting the hostile Indians, There has been no a9 im the telegraphie news from this country Coroners’ in Ssor Hiwesuy Acopantatty.—An ja was held yesterday by Coroner Naumann, at the New York Hos’ pital, on the body of @ soldier, named Theodore Gaubp,, who died ‘‘from a gnnshot wound received by the acch sr bana o the 18 oo, the sathe was in Bis: Sark THE MISHOUBE