The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDUN BENNETT EOTMOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be at the risk of the sender. None but bank bills current in Now York taken TRE DAILY HERALD, For cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents per copy. Annual subsoription price:-— ‘One Copy 8 “bb NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. 4q,n0t return rejected communications. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. SIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaaw: WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Huxcunacx. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Byerrsopr's Frirxp— Rovew Diamonn NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Cantovcnz— My Vou axp My Pawtyex Jox—Mav as 4 Hartree. BOWERY THEATRE, Bow Mong askvEnt BeLie—Saro coitrauns: or Kinc Soto BROADWAY THEATRE, 433 B a GLiru—Prorre’s uve acters BARNUM'S MUSEUM. Broadway.<tivivc wn Two Giants, Two DWARFS, ALBINOS. BAnPENTS, AC. at au hours, Jocuomat dl A.M Saud 7) P.M. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway. —E: Bons, Dances, &c.—ux Coxtuamanns CoLincn ne CAMPRELL MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowerv.—Vartep ann Lxciaxc M&LANGE oF ETuLoriAN ODDITIES. AMLRICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batcers, Panronimes, BURLESQUES, &¢.—KOnunT AND BentRaNd. KEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— Cviiosis aNd Lecrenes. trom 9 A, Mul WP Me HOOLET'S OPERA HOUSS, Brookiyn.—Kemorrax Borcs, Dances, Bunugsqums, &c. Hf New York, Monday, August 29, 1864. THE SITUATION. Admiral Farragut bas carried out his programme in Mobile Bay most successfully. According to the Rich- mond papors of the 27th, Fort Morgan bas been taken Possession of by the Union troops. Whether it was sur- rendered, blown up or evacuated, the rebel journals do Mir. Staoton communicates the tact officiaily €0 Goneral Dix. mot state We give to-day a very interosting description of the fort and its armamont, a sketch of its commangor (General Page), and many other points con- ‘cerning the siege, the naval operations in Mobile Bay ‘and the water approaches to the city. Everything is quiet on Grant's lines, The portion of the Welaon Railroad captured by the rebels on Thuraday extends for three miles north of Ream’s station; but it Taad beew previously cut up by our troops. Considerable skirmishing is still going on along the railroad, but with- Out effecting any change in the position of affairs. + Gevera! Sheridan reports to Mr. Secretary Stanton that the enemy wore falling back from bis trout on Saturday efternoon towards Smithfield, and that it was probable Chat they were abandoning the Shenandoxh valley. Gooeral Sberidan says that be captured one bundred Prisoners, and killed and wounded one hundred and fifty of the enemy, facts which would indicate that there was @sovere fight asthe rebels were retreating. A general engagement 1s expected to take place very soon ia Gene Fal Sheridan's command, The only news from General Sherman js the report that he {s moving a large portion of bis army on the Macon nd Georgia Railroad, to the rear of General Hood's forces, and that beavy skirmishing was accompanying the movement. ‘It is stated in our despatches from Washington that Mr, Livcolo bas resolved, in the event of General McClel- Tan's nomination at Chicago, to open negotiations of peace i once with the several Southern States, in order to out- flank the aotion of the democratic party, which is now @retty certain to embrace in its piatform immediate pro- positions for peace. These facts, with reference to Mr. Lincoln’s intontions are not quite new to us, nor sball we be at ali surprised if they are carried out in the event re ferred to. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The National Democratic Convention for the nomination of candidates for President und Vice President of the ‘United States assembles at Chicago today, The number Of persons in that city drawn thither by this important occasion 1s very large, our special eorrespondent estimat- ing them at forty thousand. The indications are that General MoCie!lao will be chosen as the candidate for Prosident. 1a regard to who will be the nominee for Vice Presibent there appears to be nothing approaching certainty. We have advices from Japan, dated at Kansgawa on the 29th of June—a very late date from that part of the world. The relatious between the government and the foreign residents and traders remained in rather an un- Settiod copfitiD, and & serious political crisis was looked for, The Tycoon was making a tour of the chief cities on be coast. «= Foreign war veasels—toglisb, French, Dutch ‘end one American—were dropping iuto the Larbors. A farge force of British marines had been ianded and en- amped io the neighborhood of Kanagawa. Trade was father inactive, but a brisk business in silk, tea and cot. ton was expected The St. Thomas (West Indies) Timers of the Oth of August says:—The United States gunboat Ticonderoga, @evon days from New York, arrived hore on Wednesday 1-s', aud on coming to an anchor exehanged salutes with Yort Christian, The Indian war eeoms to be attaining considerable pro - portions, the Cheyennes, “ioux and other tribes having Dected togetuor, their number at one piace being esti- mated at from five thousand to eight thousand. On the sth, says the Leaveoworth Conserva’ive, near Little Blue Station, ninety miles west of Maryevilie, Kansas, Capt. Marpby, of the United States Volunteers, Seventh Jows cavairy, with one piece of artillery and a company ©f militia, fought the Indiaus for four hours, and finally had to retreat, The redakins followed them about ten rniles. Capt. Murphy returned to Fort Kearny and the militia returned home, not being able to compete with @olargea fos. About five hundred Indians, led by white mon, wore engaged. They have a provision train, and are Faounted on the fleetest horses that travel the Plains. A Srkono Ticket We bave received the following letter from a lady, and it is equally admirable for its good sense and its delightful Drevity:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE WeAALn. ‘Twery-rovnrn Starr, New Yorn, August 7, 1864, My husband js an officer in the United =tates fod my brother an officer in the uavy. My | ‘writes me that the jers all waut General Gray President, aud rotber Rays the sailors desire ‘A‘mira) Farragut. Now, Mr. Bennett, do piease advive to choose Genera) Grant for Premideat varragut for Vice resident, instead of Lincoln and Johnson. | am sure the women at home will yaake all their loval irionds vote (or such gallaot aod Hobie caudiaates aa Grant and Farragut yy Unfortunately neither the Union men nor fhe Union ladies have anything to say about mominating candidates. A set of miserable and incapable politicians attend to that busi- press exclusively, and the people are foolish poough to follow the politicians, This keeps 00d men out of office, and is destroying the eountry. Grant and Farragut would be wiected if neminated; but we fear that all our deavors to persuade the people to set aside be politicians and make such nominations Swill, unbappily, prove unavailing. The people must suffer still more before they come to [ebelr senses. z< NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1864. | Fert Morgan—Evacu 4 . doah Vattey. Fort Morgan is ours. This glorious piece of news comes to us by way of ‘the Richmond pa- pers, in which it would never have appeared if there were a possible doubt of its truth. For the particulars of the capture we must await the accounts of our correspondents; but the fort doubtless surrondered, as it was expected it would, io the joint efforts of the army and navy. It was bombarded by the fleet and land batteries probably until it was so hot that its occupanis gave it up, glad to get rid of it. Like Fort Gaines, it was another of the last ditches that the chivalry is determined not to die in. We give elsewhere an excellent map and description of the fort and its defences. As our readers may already know, it is the last of the rebel defences at the entrance of the harbor, which is thus left entirely in our pos- session. Farragut may now go on in bis glorious career, and give his attention to the defences proper of Mobile city. It is reported that still another reinforce- ment from Richmond is on its way to Early, and it is reported on better authority that Early is in retreat, and likely to leave the valley. Ju our remarks of yesterday on the operations on the Weldon Railroad we indicated the pro- bability that Early would be ordered to Rich- mond at once. It seems to be the impres- sion in some quarters that Sheridan ought to have forced a battle with Early fifteen or twenty days ago. But we are note of this opinion. For both Lee and Grant there was a possible advantage in operations in the Shenandoah valley. Lee, in Early’s second advance, did not threaten an invasion to divert additional force from Grant. He knew that our force in the valley equalled his own. His advantage | lay in his chance to gather the harvest, and the | harvest was all that he hoped for from the val- ley. It would be a great point gained for his cause if he could have gotten it. It would seem, then, on the surface as if Grant ought to have driven him out immediately, at whatever cost; but this is not quite true. Such a conclu- sion would be the result of a narrow view—of a view that regarded no other part of the strug: gle thaa that in progress in the valley. Tak- ing a larger view, it is worth while to inquire whether driving Early out of the valley was the very best thing that could be done, or whether, by letting Lee gain the apparent ad- vantage of the valley harvest, Grant could not through that very means gain a greater, more immediate and more real advantage elsewhere. We consider that the event has proved that he could. Sheridan could doubtless have fought Early at any one of a dozen places within the last fif- teen days. He could in all probability have beaten Early before the arrival of the reinforce- ments received near Strasburg. We are not sure that he could not have hurried from Ear- ly’s front at Strasburg, overwhelmed the rein- forcements near Front Royal, and then had time to fight Early as the latter hurried forward to assist his auxiliaries. But what then? Early, beaten, with thirty thousand men, might at most have lost ten thousand, and would have had twenty thousand left. Without any further hope to hold the valley, he would have hurried to Richmond with these. He gould have gotten there at least five days before Sheridan could have gotten into Grant’s lines, and he could have taken part in the battles of the 21st or 25th instant on the Weldon road. Let us sup- pose that Early’s twenty thousand had been at Ream’s station on Thursday last, at that dan- gerous hour when the lines of the Second corps were broken and the dismounted cavalry did such effective service. In ail probability we should have lost the immensely important posi- tion that the enemy has already made three desperate, but happily vain, attempts to drive us from. Sheridan doubtless acted under orders, and the orders have proved to be good ones. If Lee could be tempted by the hope of a possible gain in the valley to make movements that will likely lead to his ruin on the James, so much the better for us; and it was wise to let him go there and stay there. He now calls in his val- ley force. Since Early has been absent Lee has lost about half as many men as Early has with him, and Early, on the way to Richmond, will lose immensely by desertion. Lee has also in that same time lost great opportunities, and it is to be hoped that the position at Ream’s station is so well strengthened ere this that its capture is impossible. ‘Thus we bave for once done what the rebels have done many times—we have pro- fited grealy by out enemy’s blunder. Lee has gained no substantial point by Early’s movement down the valley, and it has been of very great advantage to us. Preparation FoR THE Drart—How THe Peace or tHe Crry Cay Be Best P VED.— It is quite evident now that there is not the remotest prospect either of the abandonment or postponement of the draft, and that it will undoubtedly take plece in the early part of the coming month. There are some apprehensions that the enforcement of it will be, to some ex- tent at least, resisted in this city, and that a conflict between the conscripts and the authori- ties will take place that may seriously compro- mise the public peace, and may, if not promptly checked, grow into such riots as we had here last summer. While we do not participate in these fears, we do not ‘presume to aseert that they are entirely unfounded. The most loyal and patriotic people regard the draft with undie- guised aversion, and are resorting to every expedient to escape its hardships personally; while, as to the copperheads, of whom there Is no inconsiderable infusion in our midst, there is no saying to what lengths thelr resistance to the Conscription act may éxtend. * Under these circumstances it is the duty of the authorities, whether federal, State or | municipal, to take proper precautionary mea- | sures to supprese any outbreak that may be attempted. It will not do at this time to weaken Grant’s army investing Petersburg, or | Sheridan's army protecting Maryland, by the withdrawal of such a force as might be deemed necessary to preserve the peace and enforce the law in this and the . adjoining cities. It is questionable whether the game would be worth the candle, whether the benefit to the govern ment from the draft would balance the loss sustained in enforcing it. We rather sus- pect that it would not. Bunt the State militia should be beld in readiness; and. in addition to the measure of protection afforded by it, it is suggested by a correspondent that a special police force of twenty to thirty thousand citi- zens should be sworn in aud armed to ald the authorities. We regard the suggestion as a good and a timely one, and we think that the Mayor and municipality should immediately, > ef the Snes | §n conjunction with the Metropolitan Police Commissioners, take eteps to have registered and organized such citizens as may volunteer to act as special constables in the preservation of the peace, to be summoned to their various places of rendezvous by the tolling of the City Hall bell whenever any necessity for their ser- vices may arise. We trust that no such occa- sion will present itself; but the adoption of seme such precautionary measure would cer- tainly be an act of prudence; whereas the failure to do so may bring disastrous conse- quences on the city and the country at large. The Presidenoy—The Prospect—Anot her Miseruble Party Squabble for the Spolis. “The cohesive power of the public plun- der,” which was aptly described by Calhoun as the bond of union among the democratic elements of his time, is a power which still exists, and which, within @ day or two, will be made manifest at Chicago. The seven party principles of John Randolph—to wit: “the five loaves and two fishes”—will, from present ap- pearances, rule the roast. How the war is to be progecuted; how the Treasury is to be sus- tained; how our financial embarrasements are to be mastered; how peace is to be secured, and how the Union is to be re-established under democratic auspices, are ugly questions, which, we guess, will be smothered in onions at Chicago. To the hungry democratic traders in spoils there assembling the paramount ques- tion and object will be the magnificent schedule of the spoils and plunder of the present federal war establishment of one thou- sand millions a year. From all the premonitory symptoms at Chi- cago we may look for a proclamation of prin- ciples from that quarter made up of old demo- cratic claptrap, with all the modern improve- ments. No such obstructions as democratic abstractions, or peace or war, will be permitted ap rand in Fheewayeor demooralle bat ony (oF). they have not relied upon paper procla- the spoils. There is some apprehension that Vallandigham, Singleton and the Wood brotb- ers may raise a rumpus on the peace question; but it is probable that for certain vaiuable con siderations even these incorruptible men will succumb. The prospect is that the Chicago Convention, as a concession to the war demo- crats and the army, will nominate General Mc- Clellan, and that in the next place, to conciliate the copperhead peace faction, there will be an equivocal and double dealing platform on the war question, very short, and signifying any- thing or nothing, but bold and emphatic in its bill of indictments and specifications against the tyranny, the usurpations, the spoliations, blunders, and lavish expenditures, corruptions and oppressive paper money system and taxes, and army drafts, of Abraham Lincaln’s admin- istration. * Of all the dreadful consequences of this ter- rible war Jeff. Davis and his fellow conspira- tors, and Buchanan’s administration, will doubtless be absolved, and the whole burden will be thrown upon the “Lincoln despotism.” The Chicago platform, in short, as we have every reason to expect, will be the “ play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out,” a platform directed not to the great and all-absorbing purpose of the loyal States—the suppression of the rebellion— but to the great and all-absorbing purpose of a gang of ravenous politicians—the spoils and plunder of the federal government. This, we guess, will be the upshot of the Chicago Demo- cratic Convention: a war candidate upon a peace platform, embracing the idea in a neat disguise of a liberal peace with Jeff. Davis, but war to the knife against Lincoln, and all for the sake of the spoils. Now, could we be assured that the Chicago Convention, setting aside all mere considera- jtions ef party, and looking only to the salva- ‘tion of the country, will adjourn ever to some day in September, on which they will meet again in convention with all the friends of tue Union, of all parties, desirous of a new order of things at Washington, and in view of the or- ganization of a new Union party, we should have great hopes of a glorious revolution in November. But as in all probability the Chi- cago Convention will reduce this Presidential contest, as we have indicated, to the debasing character of a mere party squabble for the spoils, it becomes an easy matter to predict the probable result. The administration, with the majority party in its hands, upon such an issue, will walk over the course. The disaffected re- publicans, including the Fremont radicals, brought to this test of the spoils, will fuse upon Lincoln, and the spoils democracy will be sig- nally defeated. We do not despair, however, of better things, although we are close upon the eleventh hour of the day. <A proposition, looking to a great and genuine Union party, has been thrown out to Lincoln and Fremont to withdraw from the canvass. Fremont is ready, but awaite the de- cision of Lincoln. Let Honest Old Abe intimate his readiness to withdraw, on the con- dition that the Chicago nominee shall also re- tire from the canvass, and that all the parties and factions concerned shall meet in a general convention, before the close of September, for the purpose of nominating @ common Pres dential Union ticket, and the happiest results may be expected. Otherwise, from present appearances, we can expect nothing better than a miserable party squabble for the spoils, marked, perhaps, by scenes of violence and blood, but, from the fusion of the republicans, and the enormous power and patronage of the administration, civil and military, ending inevi- tably in the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. Leaviye tae Conreperacy ror Goopv.—-We have acconnts of the arrival of the Hon. Pierre Soule, late of the Southern confederacy, lavana. A number of conjectures have been | in alged in by the Newspaper pies nt fegttd to this movement of a once distinguished citi- zen of Rebeldom. Some imagine that the ex-Minister to Madrid is on a secret mis- sion from Jeff. Davis to some of the potentates of Europe. But the unamiable relations ex- isting between the two forbid any such con- clusion. Otbere again express the belief that Mr. Soule bas left the confederacy temporarily on personal business. Neither of these snppo- sitions js correct. If we can place confidence upon our latest private information from the South—and we have no reason to doubt its accuracy—-Mr. Soule leaves the Southern confederacy for the purpose of fixing his per- manent residence elsewhere, probably in some part of Europe, satisfled, like many other prominent gentlemen whose fortuaes have been allied with Jeff. Davis, that the rebellion is a failure, and that their lost positions can be better regained in an old country, with fixed institutions, than in one like the South, deso- Inted by war and ruled with a rod of Corpotem. The How Plan of Peace—How to Divide the South. The theory of the so-called Southern Con- federacy is that each of the States which com pose it is an independent nation. The confed- eracy is simply an alliance, offensive and de- fensive, between the States. From this alliance any State can withdraw at pleasure. Jeff. Davis bas no authority to coerce either of the independent nationalities under his temporary control. This is the State rights system as op- posed to our Union syatem. It is the Confed- erated States inatead of the United States. It is a return to the scheme which was tried and found wanting after the American colonies released themselves from the British yoke. At that time the confederate system was proven to be too weak for practical purposes, and it was therefore replaced by the Union system, which made us a powerful nation. There are those who contend, and no doubt justly, that if we bad never invaded the South, but had maintained a blockade of all the Southern ports and guarded the border line with im- mense armies, Jeff. Davis’ confederacy would have soon fallen to pieces. The Hxrap held this opinion at the opening of the war, and General Scott was committed to it at one time. But ft was not tried, and we cannot now say what would have come of it if it had been tried. Under the pressure of this war the indepen- dent States of the South bave been welded to- gether into a firm despotism, of which Jeff. Davis ia the chief tyrant. Instead of leaving each little nation to defend itself, he united the armies of all the States into a grand army un- der dis direct command. Practically, there- fore, the idea of a confederacy was relin- quished. General taxation, a general currency, a general conscription and a generat army exist in the Southern Confederacy just asin the Union. Te war measures of the rebels have not differed from our own, except imperial cause is progressing very much like a crab’s movements—backwards—votwithstand- by parties in Havana favorable to the mo- nerchical and secession schemes “to make the worse the better cause appear.” Maximilian, in the city of the Montezumas, is preeisely the same’ automaton he used to be while he lived in ease and idleness in Miramar, his palace ‘‘by the sem”’ The scenes of Roman conquests in his immediate vicinity at that time seemed to have impelled him to the idea of like acquisi- tions in Mexico. But, alas’ for human great- ness, this illustrious descendant of the Roman emperors, and direct relation of Charles the Fifth, has row but sleader hopes of attaining the shadow of the renown of lis boasted ances- tors. The selid demoeratic geverals and the masses of the-intelligent people of the republic are arrayed against him in deadly hostility; and, to make the matter worse, the priests, who have hitherto stood by him, are beginning to feel weak in the knees, and, as we learn, have openty declared that he is no better “than their former executioners.” When'the church party desert Maximilian he. may well be said'to be lost indeed; for there is no other element of Mexican society of any strength, corrupt though it may be, that can rally to his support. It must also be remarked that violent efforts have been made by the partisan press of Mexico and the organs of the rebels in Havana to convince the world that the whole nation is about to lay its allegiance at the feet of the new sovereign. The leading generals and politicians of the country hyve been fre- quently named among those who bad “given in their adhesion to the empire’”’—in other words, who had sold their nationality for a very small piece of Freuch gold, borrowed from England, and again we are told that Uraga, bound hand and foot, hus gone over. We know the contrary to be the truth. There are sons of republican Mexico yet firm to the doctrines of Morelos and Hidalgo, al- though the base shadows of Almonte and “my dear Velasquez de Leon”’—as the new Em- peror delighta to call him—darken the other side of the picture. Uraga, Vega, Trias, Diaz, Cortinas, Ortega, Rivas Palacios and a thousand otbers still stand in the field, sword in hand, a solid barrier against the progress of European despotism in Mexico. mations to take the place of hard fighting, as we have at intervals very foolishly done. But, now that peace is talked about, the rebel papers begin to revive the confederate scheme. They say that Jeff. Davis cannot make peace for all the South. They argue that he has no right to cede a single foot of Southern soil, even to achieve Southern independence. Their position is that the States must make peace on their own terms. We urge President Lincoin to take advantage of this position. The rebel papers have given him a hint which be will do well to adopt. Let him recognize to its utmost the ridiculous notion of the independent nationality of the separate States, and begin to deal with them separately. As each of the petty nationalities bas the right to secede from the confederacy at will, let him hold out in- ducements for some of them to secede. By this course he can weaken, cripple and finally destroy the rebellion, To show that this new plan of peace has its practical merits we have only to look at the position of Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. These three States were claimed by the rebels, and were represented in the rebel Congress. But by a policy partly of conciliation and partly of coercion they have been retained in the Union. Their people were no less divided in sentiment at the outbreak of the war than were the people of North Carolina, Louisi- ana, Alabama, Tennessee and Virginia. Un- doubtedly a majority of the people of these five States would have declared in favor of remaining in the Union had a fair vote been permitted. Undoubtedly also these States would have remained in the Union had they been treated as Maryland and Kentucky were. We did not ask Jeff. Davis what course Maryland and Kentucky were going to take; but we dealt directly with the States themselves. Interviews oecurred be- tween the President and representatives of those States. Mutual pledges were given and ac- cepted. Exceptions were made in their favor in all abolition measures. The loyal popula- tion was encouraged, and the disloyal over- awed. The consequence was that Maryland and Kentucky stayed in the Union. In Missouri there was more fighting; but our policy there was essentially the same. Had it been ex- tended to all the other States, each of them, excepting perbaps South Carolina, would have seceded from secession and re-entered the Union. The hesitation and final refusal of the border States to join the confederacy sealed the fate of the rebels. With those States they might have accomplished disunion; without them they certainly never will. But had four or five more of the States been identically dealt with, the rebellion would bave died out in a month. Now, to apply the teachings of the past to the present situation, is it too late for President Lincoln to divide and conquer the rebellion by negotiating with the seceded States sepa- rately? There, for instance, is North Caro- lina. A large portion of her people have re- cently declared in favor of peace. A consid- erable portion of them are Union men. At Greensboro they bave just forcibly and success- fully resisted the rebel conscription. We have & report that a majority of the recently elected Legislature are in favor of re- union. Governor Vanee is, we know, {not altogether well affected towards Jeff. Davis. If the President were to send commissioners to him to negotiate in regard to North Carolina alone, we feel confident that they would be gladly received, and that much good would come of it. Should North Carolina return to the Union her example would be infectious, and her soldiers would demoralize the rebel army. The rebel soldiers have shown them selves tired of the war and great sticklers for the independent nationality doctrine. When- Mer ang séetion of the confederacy has been conquered by the Union arms the rebel soldiers from that section have desired to leave the army and return home. In some cases they bave mutinied as soon as they received the news of our euccess, and have been kept in the rebel army only by force. All these signs mean something. They cannot be disregarded by thoughtful men, They point out the course which this government ougbt to pursue, and which, if it were administered by statesmen, it would pursue. Iset us divide the confederacy and split up the rebel armies by negotiatlog separately with the seceded States. Let the administration ignore Jeff. Davis if they will; but let them not obstinately refuse to consider this practical and uncompromising plan of peace. Speaking nationally, they bave tho chance to save the eountry, and speaking poli- tically, they bave the chance to save their party, by thie movement for peace. If it fail, they will at least deserve credit for the at- tempt, and if it succeed, the result will be gerigu, Necro Soipinrs—AN Aponirion ORGAN Cuaneinc Irs Tunx.—It seems that General Banks, after trying various original experi- ments of philanthropy in behalf of the negro race in his military departwnent, has hit upon the military idea of ordering a draft of all the able-bodied blacks within his jurisdiction for active service in the army. One would sup- pose that in this movement, at least, all the abolition organs of the country would fairly shout with joy. But in the Independent of this city the benevolent Brudder Beecher sings his music ina different key. He declares this compulsory draft for military service upon the able-bodied negroes of Louisiana a shameful outrage. He has. perhaps, made the dis- covery that this war, so far as the ne- gro is concerned, bond or free, is working out his extermination, and that the more actively he is employed in the business of the war asa soldier the more serious are the consequences to him. But what would the Rev. Brudder Beecher do with the blacks in the South falling under the care of the government? Would he have them everywhere, as at Port Royal, es- tablished in comfortable quarters and support- ed in idleness, and educated in moral philoso- phy and psalm singing, at the expense of the public treasury? He seems to be driving at some such impossible experiment of emancipa- tion philanthropy. Against any such folly as this, however, and against that otver abolition mistake of relying upon the blacks to fight out the battle of emancipation as soldiers of the Union, we would recommend Brudder Beecher to study carefully and prayerfully the late mas- terly letter of General Sherman on negro en- listnents. His views upon the subject are those of a soldier, a statesman and a philan- thropist, and he is supported by facts and ex- perience, including the humanitarian experi- ments of General Banks, against all the im- practicable abolition theories of the last one hundred years. Our Saratoga Correspondence. Sararoca Srrixcs, August 27,1844, ‘The sixth weekly ball of the sexson at Union Hall was given’ hnst mght, and proved an eminent success, not- withstanding @ similar gathering at the Cougross had been fixed for tl evening. Indeed, these Union Dalles avd the nightly hops at the same establishment have been decidedly the rage during the present sam- mer, Last evening the iadies attended in large numbers: and splendid to1ets. Among them were many from your city. The weatber is delight’! since the recent showers, and is drawiog nither d iiy accessions to the crowd of searchers for health apd pleasue, The seeson bids fair to be a long one. Mra. Lincoin, who is ft!!! sojourning quietly at Lake George, is expected to yioid to the solicitations of many friends, ava arrive here very s0on for = few days’ Visit. Amusements. WALLACK’s.” Miss Olive Logan takes her benefit this evening, and makes her Inet appearance here, She will pley Julia, in the Hunchback. The theatre will then bo closed, cleaned and repsired, Manager Wallack will reopen bis theatre ort Monday night, if the drart doe# not prevent. Pouct »| Cault's Fox Chose wiil probably be the opeuing comedy. THE BROADWAY. , This theatre reopens thie evening, It has been redeco- rated avd partly refurnished. Ihe company its entirely © popular comedian, makes bis 'y in twelve years, During the interval be bas become a star and achieved a fortune in the provinces. Now he returns to claim a metropoli- tun endorsement. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Matilda Heron begins ap engagement of #ix mights, and plays Camille tuis evening. This is said to be her fare. woll appearance in this favorite part, but we doubt that the public will allow Camilie to be shelved. We believ that Mr. Forest follows Matilda Herom, and that Miss Maggie Mitchell will follow Mr. Forrest. This is ® strong programme. THR BOWERY THRATHES. A new play, called Cartouche, tronsiated and adapted by Mr. Edwin F. De Nyse, will be produced at the New Bowery to night. The Old Bowery announces & Masonic drama, called King Solomon's Signet Ring. This will be A curiosity, to ray the lenst of it, The Stadt theatre wi!l be reopened, and rechristened the Varieties—a good name. THE OLYMPIC. Mrs. Wood bas called her company together, and will reopen on Mooday evening next, the Sth of September, with a new domestic drama, called Mirtom’s Daughter, in which Mr, Holston will make bis first appearance bere an Hylen, There will also be @ new Engtisb farce, called the Comical Coquette, or something of that kind. Other reparation. and will soon be under were hrs Wo is going to posh her campaign in ear. ee as MIRC RLLANFOUS. ‘The Bryante are travelling in tho interior of the State with if fine monetrel troupe, and will reopen here on the 12th of Seprembor, Their prices will be raised to {ity cents mext seanon. Harnum has raised bis price ta, thirty conte, Vostvall plays in Baltimore next weelg, ‘and ja engaged for Philadelphia in October, Owe af ace most ponular songs will soon be Qublished by Ptyad & Son, Booed q Rervericanism tv Mexico.—The latest news whieh we have received from the republic of Mexico goes substantially to show that the ing the palpable efforts which are being made IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. Rumors of Negotiations for Peace with the Rebsilious States Separately. President Lincoln’s Designs in Refer- ence to the Chicago Convention. ae. &e. Wasincroy, August 28, 1864. THR PEACE NEGOTIATION RUMORS —PROPUBITIONS TO THE SEPARATE STA7H3—THB PRESIDENT AND THE CHICAGO GONVENTIUX. Although she arrival bere of = peace commissioner from Georgis ts not regardes:in iteeif as of much imme- @iate importance, yet the proposition to treat with the | separate States in regard to their restoration to the Union ja looked upon with great faver in Ca¥ivet circles. It 1 Known that both Georgia and orth Cerolina went out ofe the Union reluctastly, and there are asourancey that they wilt return with aacrity if a f2ir opportunity shoulda be |, afforded them, It ie sat hore that if General McClellan should be nominated at Chicago, Mr. Liceolu wil}, with- out delay, open negetiations with the separate scoededt States, and submit to sacb a propomtion for their returm tothe Union by thetr Staie Legisiatures. It is »groe@ that this will develop a peace parsy at the'South, an@ enabie the present administration to: terminate the wer honorably before the Presidental clection. - Gne thing: te certain: Mr. Lincoln doeo not intend that the Chicago nominee shail get ahead of Pim on this peace project. Politicians here pacties concece the nominations of McClellan at Chicago as a foregone conoke- sion, 10 is gupposed that’ % will be aoas by acclama- tion, H is doubted if any platform will be adopted, If any should be it is expectod tv be comprised in the following propositions:—First— Opposition to the civil and military polisy of Lincolw'® administration, Second—A repeal «f all uzcovatitutiona acts of Lincoln and bis partisan Congress: Thtrd—Ati readiness ut all times to negotiase with a view to the res> toration of the old Union, the old constitution and th ancient harmony and fraternity of the Statee. Fourth—@ A fair ballot at all bazards. Whatever may be stated to the contrary, it hae leaked out that a committee of the Re publicam Nuttmal Committee, lately in session here, is urgiug upon the Prosident the policy of entering: into peace negotiations without delay, with a view to outflank the Chicago Convention. The feeling bore is universal that a race ts about to be inaugurated betwoem the Chicago and Baltimore candidates as to who shail Seat. bring about @ termination of hostilities avd an honorable peace. WNCOURAGING OONDITION OF AFPAIRS ,AT MOBILE AND ATLANTA, Private and official advices received here from Mobile are very encouraging. Tbe situation there is excellent, and udditional news of importance 13 daily oxpected. & fow days will develop some very important movements now in progress, which are expected to materially im= prove tbe position of aifairs in Georgia, aud: aid in- the Speedy reduction of Atlanta. THB SKCOND NBW YORK CAVALRY. The Second New York (Harris light) cavalry goes ow of service to-morrow, after a most brilliant campaign ot three yoars, in which its acbievemonts have beon sur- passed by no other command, This regiment was organs ized by Colonei Davies, under the auspices of Senator Harris, and has, since first tuking the field, invariably wom the highest encomiume for gallantry and efficiency. Most of the men have re-eulisted, and, having been com- munded by Kilpatrick, Duffie and Davies, a valuable nequisétion to the regiments into which they have bees mustered. A number of its officers and men are now imprisoned by the rebels. BAKON VON NICKALOWSKI. Baron Von Nickalowski, commanding Battery nme, First United States artillery, has received four months’ leave of absence, and starts for Europe to-morrow, to attend to the settioment of the affairs of bis estate, re- cently left him by the death of his father. Captaiss Nickwlowski bas served with great distinction during the- war, aod expects to return to his command in Decembor. SHERMAN. The Bulk of Our Forces Being Moved te the Rear of the Rebels—Heavy Skire mishing Constantly Going On, &c. Louisyiiix, Ky., August 27, 1864, Am officer from the front says that General Sherman was movigg the bulk of his army to a postion of the Macon and Georgia railroad, in the rear of General Hood's forces, and that hoavy skirmishing was-coustaotly going on. adhe Ind n War. Sr. Lovis, August 27, 1864, Advices received from tho West state that seven mem of the Seventh lowa cavalry, en rowle from Salina te Fort Ellsworth with despatches, were attacked by up- wards of two hundred Indians, and four of them killed. Largo bodies of Indians are reported between Smoky Hii} apd Safina rivers, and all the valleys west of Kansag are swarmiug with them, About five settlers’ families are encamped thirty miles north of Fort Kiley. Tho savages are said to have captured over three thou sand horacs and mules, besides a large amount of cattle, during the past six weeks, The population of the various tribes banded together for war is nbout eighteen thousand, four thousand of whom are warriors. The Park—Further Donations. The Park was well attended yosterday, the weather being very pleasant and the breeze refreshing. The Drive was lively; but far from being as gay as on the concert days. The following additions to the zoological collection have been received since our last:— One very fine anaconda or American bon-constrictor, presented vy Brigadier General Asbotb, commanding a Pensacola, Ibis creature cannot yet be exhibited antl e proper cago shall have been constructed for that purprse, ‘One iguana, very curious animal of the lizard species, by H. G. Schmidt & Co, ‘One Caban dove, from St. Le Grand, Cuba, The donor signs himeelf ‘‘Americenus.’’ and promises to send other curiosities in animated pature. He seut from Cube ® pair of doves; bus one died or the passae to this city. One pair aia gray equirrels and cage, presented by Mies Locy S&. Waterbury. plugs The Lindsey Blues Mastered Into. Sere vice. OUR BLMIRA CONRESPONDENGR. Fuwma, N. ¥., Augost 26, 1864, Please pubdlish, for the toformation of our friends aa@ those wishing to Soin our org: dred and Second regiment, N. wo 18 at praseot doing gnard duty at this plece, and is mestered into the United States service for one hundred days. The-Jollow- ing are the offi: ors ~— Colonel—Ino. N. Wileey. Lieutenant Colone—-T. R. Taraball. Major—E. A. Roberts. Sui Wm. Company A.—Captain, T. i. C, Kinkald; Firat Renton. ant, J. T. Brady; Second Lieutenant, Wm. M. Walters, B.—Captain, —-— Milspoagh, First Lieutem. Dt, Noles ny D—Captain, JL. Devod: Firet Lieutenant, ke; Seoond Lieutenant. J. F, Aitron. nis, n Vieck; First Lieutem~ vaonant, W. HL. Van Cott. A. Smith; First Lieatem Company H.—Captain, A. ant, E. H, Squires; Seoond 1. Company 1.—Captam, Cha ant, A. L. Shaffer: Second | jc W. Gogaage. company K.—Captain, E. 8, Ric Licutenant, J. 6. Wilson, Second Lieutenans, J, B. Kieb. Palice Tuteiligonee. STRALING 4 Fanwnn’s Wacon Ain Honsns,—John Boyle wae yesterday committed to prison by Justice Shandiey, for stenling a pair of horses and a farmer's wayon, the Property of Mir, Jacques Stilwel) of Gravesend, L. 1, while Dorarily absent in Fulton Market. The |-bereen ayeh Wee Kot wore valued at $750, wore found ‘ AkeRgion Of tho acensed, WhO was try: wo dle. pose of Aber for a much leas sum than their real value, A Pacxrocker Annmeren on 4 Can,——Dr, Timethy Twigge, At @ jate hour on Saturday evening, entered a Third Avenue car, and goom after fell asleep. A young man named Jobn Reynolds, who sat deside Twiggs, " hand into the pocket of the sleep \ ag od took therefrom bie watch, with Whion bo’ attempted to leave the ear. A Mr. Schoffer Who bad noticed the theft, canght hold of Reynolds and compelled him to return the watoh to the owner, Rey- nolds was goon After delivered into the custody of & po oly ‘and yestorday Justice dhandiey committed bug for trial. eee