The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1865, Page 4

3 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIC N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be ‘atthe risk of the sender. None but bank bills current in tNow York taken. —————— ————— — AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Howery.—Nice or THE Woows—laisu Harwaker—Assassin OF ADBRYILLS. @LYMP’IO THEATRE, Broadway.—An ALARMING 5acki- ewe—SixerinG Beauty. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sxvan Daucarars or Sawan. BOWKRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Fast Women—Tue Sansay Gint, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broudwa: ‘Tite Puant or Savor. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Camiuix, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Sriu Warens Bow Daxe—lor on Panis Fuancas, BARNUMS MUSEUM, Hroadway.—A Lavina Aut \ron—Kat Woman—(tiastess—Dor, 0% THR CRICKET ON Hwanta—Boong Fauity. Open Day and Evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mecianfos’ Hall, 472 Broad. way.—Hrutorian SoNncs, Dances, Buutxsqums, &0.—Live WOOD'S MINSTREL Hat) Broadway.—Eraioriaw Dances, &¢.—GReenn i ‘Tas PaLace or Soar. jroadway.—Mus. SaLvorri's DODWORTH HALL, aver CONCKRE. HIPPOTHRATRON, Fourteenth street. —Fquesrrux, Granasno ap AcRopario Exrexrainwasts—Tax BLUM ov Live. AMERICAN THEATR' Pawromnns, SURLESQUES, VANNUCHT’S MUSE) Frouges or PResipent Linc 4 Brondway.—Bartars, Sreorks BRIDKGROOM. NEW YORK 3 Open from 10 A. = a New York, Wednesday, June 7, 1865. =a oc re aay ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advortisoments for the Werkiy Herat must be handed dn before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gontlemen throughout the country ia incroasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- sorted in the Westy Hexsrp will thus be seen by a large portion of Lhe active and energetic people of the United Blatos, ‘ THE TRIAL. & ig stated that only a fow more witnesses remain to be examined before the court martial in Washington engaged in trying the assassination conspirators, and @xpectations are entertained that the trial will be con- Qluded tis week. A number of witnesses were produced yesterday by the defence, and gave evidence which was intended to tmpair that of Daniel J. Thomas against Dr. Mudd; but no new facts of importance having this tondemcy were developed. These witnences, as thors had done before them, stated that Mr, Thomas’ charactor for veracity was bad. Dr, Mudd’s counsel Foquosted permission of the court to re-examine Mr, ‘Thomas himself, for tue purpose of endeavoring to show that ho oxpected a large reward for the evidence he had @iven, and it was granted. Mr. Thomas, on his re- examination, denied that his motive in giving testimony egnius! Dr Mudd was the expectation of compenzation from government, Other witnesses testified that Dr. Mudd wae at his ome on the Ist, 2d, Sd, 4th and 5th of March. ‘THE SITUATION. Notwithstanding the reports published some days ago, to the effect that Jeff, Davis bad been placed on board a Monitor aud conveyed to Washington, oue of our Fortress Monro correspondents arsures us that both Joff. and ‘Pomoent ©. Clay were still confined in the casemates of Jhat stronghold on Monday of this week, out of which Jroy had oot yet been taken since their arrival from Doorgia. Davis’ health is suid to be bad, A despatch from Cleveland, Ohio, states that the Fourth army corpe has received orders to proceed to Galveston, Texar, via New Orleans. Our correspondent in Columbia the capital of South Osrolina, represents that the chivalry of that State are rapidiy accommodating themselves to the altered condi- tion of aifuirs under the restoration of national author- ather gratified at the downfall ough it has left them impov- it has given them the long coveted’ peace. The magniticent, unopposed sweep of General Sherman through thoir State seemed to give the South Carolinians thoir first realization of the power of the national govermmont, The splondid enccess of that march Gostroyet their faith im the mushroom in. Gtitution of Jeff, Davie, and many of them are now glad to be once more considered citizens of the great republic. The railroads of the State ure being rapidly repaired, and tas Cow weeks the transportation facilities will be as eomptete ax before the war. It w said that Trenholm, the late rebel Secretary of the ‘Troagury, waa very recently quietly living with his farm- Wy at Abdovitie, $C, If ho haa not already beon, he probably soon will be, taken into custody by the national @uthorities. Latge numbers of discharged soldiers continue to ar five in thecity daily, on the way to the varions homes. ‘Thore arrived yesterday the following regimente:—The One Hundred and Kighty-sixth New York, the Sixty-firet Massachusctts, the Eleventh New Hampshire, the Poveath, Twontioth and Twenty-ninth Maine, the Third ‘Vormont and the Eleventl: Massachusetts battery. An Gootion took ploce in Mis-ourl yesterday to decide pe the adoption er rejection of ‘he new State constitu- Boa. The result of the vote throughout the State is not xnown; bat in the efty of St. Louis there is a consider: Gbolo majority against the coustitution. Orders have been issued by the government for the to completion as rapidly as possible of the cornn wee aeriean Hampton Ronds. The Grand Sire of the United States Grand Lodge of Fotiows has issued a circular rearscrting the jurisdic. Of that body over all the subordmate lodges of the tm the lately insurrectionary Stater, and inviting Wo nend delegates to the annual national communi- to take place in Baltimore on the 18th of next Sep- i EUROPEAN NEWS. Pro eteamsdip North American, on her way from Liv. 00 Quebec, was boarded off Father Point yesterday. Fhe Worth American's news is to the 26th ult.—one later; but her advicss contain little of importance fans got already been publiched in the Hunsz, ka Feb ees 4 Pavtiement on the 26th ult Lord was to be questioned as to the alleged com- ly, wnd gouerally appea of the rebellion, since, Were quoted at 67% on the « Mey to ‘. closed ts London om the 20th ult. at 9040 wis am sftvance of from s half penny to « (i Liverfpee) cotton market, on American ‘at the opening on the 26th of Glose the tendency was downward. Breadstuiy end ¢ Tho ofty has been for some time past, and is still, Favored with the presence of @ sumber of prom) ‘Bont imiltery heroes. Among the new arrivals we potios @eorsis ohm A. Logan, Washburne, J, Wileom and Byer, LioueRsns GeDETAL SiMe GORITRL Corps of New York was commenced at Jones’ Wood yos- afternoon at the City Assembly Rooms, Broadway. attendance was large, The sessions will be resumed this and the bidding spirited. ‘The prices received ranged ‘all NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, -JUNE 7, 1865) ‘Thomas and other officers of distinction are expected to arrive in the city to-day, and to be eorenaded at the Astor House to-night, In the Board of Supervisors yesterday Supervisor Ely asked for the reading of the minutes of the last meet- ing, because some of the newspapers intimated that paper was passed which was withhold from the press. A denial was made by Supervisor Tweed, with which Sup-rvisor Ely expressed himself satisfled, ang the minutes were not read, Nothing further of public inte- rest came up. The decision of the Street Cleaning Commission om the proposals for cloaning the strcets of the city was announced yesterday. The contract ts for ten years, and was given to Messrs, Brown, Deveau & Knapp, for a yearly compensation of $490,800, This was not the lowest bid; but, all things considered, the commissioners stated that they regarded {t as the most favorable for the interests of the city, The contractors will be allowed twenty days to perfect ali their arrangements for com- mencing work. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge Nelson, # case as to the liability of bankers and brokers to the payment of taxes under the Internal Re- venue law ocoupied the day. Having heard argument on both sides, Judge Nelson said he would deliver his op!- nion on the question on Thursday next. In the United States District Court yesterday, before Judge Betts, two cases containing shawls, marked L. H. R,, stopped at the Custom House on a charge of un- dervaluation, were condemned, United States Commissioner Bette yesterday morning committed an alleged counterfoiter, named Michael Doyle, on whose person were found one hundred and one pieces of spurious fractional currency, The prisoner was brought on here from the Old Capitol Prison, in Washington, and committed for the action of the Grand Jury. In the United States Commissioners’ office yesterday the case of the United States against Jobn Storts, a young German, chargod with having opened a letter directed to another person, was, after a couple of adjournments, had in order to enablo the prosecution to establish a case, dismissed, United States Commissioner Stillwell, before whom the caso was investigated, stated that there was no cause whatever for detention, The accused was therezpon discharged The demand of the Consul General of Saxony for the extradition of Friedrich Theodor, alias Theodor 8. Sydel, charged with committing forgeries in Saxony in Jan ry, 1864, camo up yesterday before United States Com- missioner Newton, and was adjourned over till Friday next. In the case of Frederick Walker va. the Ninth Avenue Ratiroad Company, which was an action in the Marine Court for damages far the loss of a coat sleeve and bruises tothe person of the plaintiff, the jury yesterday made their report of disagreement, and were discharged by Judge Hearne, Henry H. Sterling yesterday brought a suit in the Su- perior Court, before Judge Robertson, against James W. Scott, to recover two thousand dollars damages for per. sonal injuries alleged to Lave been inflicted on the plain- tiff by the defendant, Sterling moved out of a Broad way store on the 1st of May, leaving behind some of his fixtures. When he afterwards attempted to remove these, he charges, he was assaulted by Scott, the new occupant, and roceived severe personal injuries at his hands. The case will be continued to-day, Tn the Court of General Sessions yesterday Jon Rieley and James Engles, charged with intending to rob John B, Clute, on the 11th of May, as he was passing through Prince street, were convicted of assault and battery and remanded for seutence, Aun Riley, who was charged with stealing thirty-seven dollars from Mary Mulcahey, pleaded guilty to petty larceny, and was sent to the City Prison for thirty days, John Decorsa, charged with stealing fifty-six dollars from Patrick Brennan, in Cherry street, was placed on trial and acquitted, the wit- nesses for the defence proving that the complainant was very inch intoxicated, and, instead of taking his money from him, connted it and placed it in hiv pocket. The court will meet hereafter at ten o'clock. At the monthly meeting of the Historal Sockoty last evening Gonerals Grant and Sherman were unanimously elected honorary members of the Society. Attorney General Cochrane read an interesting paper to prove that the waters between Staten Island and New Jersey were parts of the Hudson river. Mr, Jumes Sweeny, Clerk of the Board of Councilmen, is Tying so dangerously ill from general constitutiona debility that his recovery is despaired of, Proposals {or the erection of a new schoolhouse in the Fifth ward wore opened yesterday at the hall of the Board of Education. The lowest bid for the mason work was $20,335; for the carpenter work, $10,950; for paint ing, $1,878, and for heating, $5,400. ‘The contracts were awarded accordingly, subject to the confirmation of the Board of Education, ‘The eighth annual festival of the German Schutzen terday, and will be continued to-day and to-morrow. sises yesterday consisted principally of prize »d music. The attendance was good, tho corps @ fine appearance, and the best of order was The sonual communication of the Grand Lodge of Ma- sons of the State of New York commenced yesterday The morning. Over cight thousand baler of government cotton, mostly Savannah and sea islands, were sold at auction yesterday at 111 Broadway. The attendance was good the way irom twenty to sixty cents per pound, according y, and the total amount realized from the sale a million and a quarter of dollars, The funeral of Captain Edward K. Butler, who was killed in the battle of Coal Harbor, Va., took place in this city yesterday foronoom, from St. Stephen's church, Twenty-elyhth street. - The police magistrates yesterday committed Willian O'Keefe to await the result of suppored mortal wounds alleged have been inflicted by him, on last Monday evening, on the person of Jobn Abrahams, during « quarrel between the two, in the tenoment house 267 East Twelfth stroot, in which they both ecenpied apartments, and Georgo Wallace, otherwise known a# Joseph Trving and George Whalen, pending the result of suppored fatal stabs suid to have been received at his hand», early yee- terday morning, during a bloody affray im the concert saloon 616 Broa:way, by Joreph Johnston. An investigation was commenced yesterday at the ‘Tombs Police Court in the case of Judah Pierce, John W. Freeman, William Findon and Luther N. Fuller, liquor deaicre, of No, 4 Eric Buildings, Duane street, arrested on Saturday Inst, as stated in Sunday's Hunan, on charge of having set fire to thelr premiser on the nights of the 20th of April and the 8th of May ult., for the purpose of defrauding insurance companies. Considerabie testimony was taken, but the investigation was not concluded, and ‘was adjourned till this afternoon. Aconfidence man has within the past few days been making efforts, though it appearn rather unsuccessfully, to obiain money by means of forged notes upon different merchants in upper Broadway and the adjacent region. On Sunday evening he called at a drug atore om the corner of Broadway and Forty-second street, and showed a check for tity dollars on the National Shoe and Leather Pank, with an accompanying note from Dr. Perry, with whom the proprietors of the store are well acquainted, requesting the temporary Joan of the amount ‘on the face of the note, end which he would have suc- ceeded in securing but that he became prematurely armed, end burriedly left the place. The police are on the track of this confidence operator, and will probably arrest him. Joseph Middlemore, an Englishman, over sixty years Of age, living at the corner of Union avenue and John- fon street, Williameburg, committed suicide yesterday forenoon, by cutting his throat with a butcher knife, in the woodshod attached to his residence. Depression of mind is the only known reason for the act. The downward tfMfla from Raleigh, on the North Cave. Tima Railroad, ran off the track on the night of the 20th ‘ult, smashing three cars and seriously wounding eight oF ton persona ‘The stock market was firmer yesterday. Governments wero higher. Gold was strong, and, after opening at 13634, closed at 1813 in the afternoon, The night closing price was 187%. ‘The commercial situation was substantially the same yesterday as on Monday. A few commodities, under a speculative excitement, were higher; but as a gencral ‘thing prices were about the same. Groceries were again higher, Cotton waa lower. was without decided change. On ‘Change the chief interest was centred in pork, Flour was heavy. Grain opened firm, but closed heavy, Pork wae excited, and new mess went up to 990 60, an advance of three dollars in twenty-four hours. Lard wea firmer, Whiskey was nominal, closing a} the 2 week. ‘The demand was fair; but, with tnoreased re- | afford to take s rest before entering upon the ceipts, prices could mot be sustained, the butchers re- | race, There are mines to be developed and fusing to buy except on & concession of from 0. 10 Ko. per pound. The cattle were mainly good, and they suld protty quick at the reduced rates, Prices varied from 18c. to 18c., with exceptional sales at more extrome prices. Cows were steady. Veals were dull for all except prime, which went pretty freely nt 100. a 1o., the latter an extreme rate. Sheep and lambs were dull and lower. Hocs were higher, selling at O%c. a 103f0. The total receipts were:—5,436 beef cattle, 89 cows, 3,084 voals, 11,246 sheep and lambs and 12,774 hogs, Five Hundred Thousand and Thirty Millions of People. During the recent civil war there was but one issue—that of force. Now that the war is over, the soldiers returning to their homes and the country gradually assuming its former tranquillity, the professional agitators are re- suming their work, and a hundred new issues begin to present themselves. _ In this great country we have over thirty millions of people and about five hundred thousand professional agitators or demagogues. Some of latter class make a living by their labora; others, like Wendell Phillips, devote themselves gra- tuitously to annoying their neighbors; others, like Sumner, seek political advancement by means of fanatical agitations, As for the thirty millions of people, some look upon the agi- tators good-naturedly, “some ill-naturedly, some with contemptuous indifference and some with philosophical curiosity. To the frame of mind last mentioned we most incline. The crusade against slavery, led py the Northern demagogues, is over and has proved successful. The crusade in favor of State rights, led by the Southern demagogues, is over and has proved decidedly unsuccessful. The Northern agitators take off their coats and loosen their suspenders for another bout with renewed unction. The Southern agitators are either poor, in exile, in prison or in danger of the gallows. These men have cost the country a long war, thousands of lives, oceans of blood and millions of money; and after all we have only got rid of half of them. If this war had turned out as all honestly patriotic men de- sired; if at its close the troublesome, hair- brained ranters of both sections had occupied twin cells or adorned twin gibbeta; we might have regarded it as an immense blessing in more senses than one. But in this imperfect, foolish world we must take things aa they are, and not grumble overmuch. Let us see, then, what the future has in store. Slaveholders having been abolished with slavery, the Northern demagogues now pro- pose to abolish the Pope, the Jews, religion generally, and the distinctions of dress between the sexes. They propose to establish negro equality, negro suffrage, and the Bloomer cos- tume. If anything we could say would have any weight with these worthies we should ask them to spare the Pope. That venerable man enlists our sympathies as being the weaker party. Any number of plots to abolish him have been contrived in Europe; but he has maintained his existence with a tenacity which even his enemies must admire. The European world now seems to be combined against him, and, like his divine Master, he has nowhere in particular to lay his head. Under these cir- cumstances an attack upon him from this coun- try is cowardly, and we again offer him the hospitalities of Washington Heights. That Revolutionary locality is admirably calculated for defence, and we believe that we could pro- tect him against all assailants. Phillips may talk and Greeley may write, and little twad- dling Tilton may print; but in our opinion the Pope will not be abolished for a long time te come. Nor, for that matter, will the Jews. These children of Abraham have en- dured an awful deal of persecution and can stand a great deal more. The Emperor Napo- Jeon had a shot at them recently in the preface to his “Julius Cesar,” and August Belmont cast ridicule upon them by bis shent-per-shent con- vention; but yet they still live, and worship God according to the dictates of their own rabbis. We doubt that the Northern agitators can accomplish more than Napoleon and Bel- mont. Let us warn the demagogues to be careful how they seek to abolish all religions. As we entertain no fears of their being able to accom- plish this great work in our day, we utter our warning in a highly benevolent spirit for their own sakes. They will soon discover that an indiscriminate assault upon religion will lose them their strongest allies. The pulpit politi- cians will be arrayed against them. When they abolish religion they abolish Plymouth church, and Mr. Beecher’s twelve thousand dollar salary, like the riches spoken of in the Bible, will take to itself wings and fly away. Mr. Beecher will surely follow his salary, even if it should lead him into the conservative camp. Where his treasure is there will his heart be also. And there are so many clergymen of Mr. Beecher’s stamp, if not of his talents, that the agitators will find the attempt to abolish religion quite a losing game. It will be better for them to confine their efforts to objects in which the clergymen can assist them, as they did in getting up the late war. The Bloomer costume, for example, is a legiti- mate subject of modern pulpit discourse. Min- isters can preach about that who would find it difficult to preach about piety. A woman in man’s clothing could be exhibited on the sacred platform as slaves recently were. No doubt there are in this world many people in petti- coats who ought to be in breeches, and many people in breeches who ought to be in petti- conte, We meet more old women of the mas- culine than of the feminine gender. The young ladies and the hoop-skirt manufacturers might object to euch a reform; but every man who has been obliged to notice, practically, the vast difference between a tailor’s bills and a modisté’s bills might approve of the Bloomer idea, on the score of economy. At any rate, the scheme to make the marriage contract in- elude bed, board and breeches, is by far the most feasible advanced by the agitators since the close of the war. But while the five hundred thousand dema- gogues sre plotting how to make thirty mil- Hons of people uncomfortable, there ie no reason why the people should not be enjoying themselves, The summer is here; the watering places are open; the great yacht regatta takes place to-morrow, and we all have a chance to eat, drink and be merry before entering upon the philosophical, religious, social and philan- thropical war which Chief Justice Chase and his siders Ll * gulag spn 9p of but Providence paring for us, We are on the eve ® tremendous revolution; will kindly sllow us a little breathing space. The Presidential election is nearly four years off, and even Sumner, who is very vo reap into ths Whity Bont aa oil wells to be worked and the national debt to be paid off before we can think about the new subjects of agitation upon the programmes of the demagogues. In the meantime we advise the anti-slavery apostles to go South and visit their beloved brothers, the emancipated slaves. They will be heartily welcomed; they will be hospitably treated, and they will be ont of the way. Here, for the present, they can do no good to themselves, the negroes or other people. The suffrage question is to be settled by a con- stitutional convention, and the Bloomer ques- tion can be more carefully considered in cooler weather. We perceive most clearly that the peaceable revolution which is to follow this war will be even more important than the war itself, and that the great political parties will completely change front before many months. But while the leading politicians are arranging their plans at Saratoga and other summer resorts our agitators can spend their-time very agreeably at the South, and we advise, request and urge them to depart. General Butler's “Bull-pem’’—His At- tempt to Blow up s Parson. The military career of General Butler, when- ever the same shall come to be dispas- sionately written, without fear or favor, will present a not incurious variety of phases, widely differing. His first movement from the Relay House, on the railroad line con- necting Washington with the North, by which he seized Federal Hill in Baltimore and domi- nated therefrom that then rebellious city, was @ success of the first magnitude, both in popu- lar estimation and in its practical results, al- though at the time condemned by Lieutenant General Scott as an act of grossly mischievous blundering and insubordination, for which the perpetrator deserved dismissal or cashier ment. General Butler’s next success in the eyes of the public was his discovery of the term “con- traband,” as a full reply to all slaveliolders de- manding the return of their fugitive chattels from within the lines of our various armies. This term, it is true, was not original with the major general from Massachusetts. But as it was new to the public, and furnished a weapon whereby the gordian knot of an otherwise much entangled and difficult controversy could be sundered at a blow, the people took up the phrase with both avidity and humor; and Butler, in those early days of our military inno- cence, was as much praised for having “invinted” it as if he had won a battle. The last success of this remarkable officer was his civil administration of the city of New Orleans and his civil government of so much of the State of Lonisiana as our navy could bring and hold within our lines—for ot military suc- ceases in the Department of the Gulf, under his management, there were none of a striking nature. General Weitzel, it is true, did some quite respectable marching in various direc- tions and had some little skirmishes, and even “gffairs” which reflected credit on his troops. In these things, however, General Butler had no direct part, his headquarters being permanently in New Orleans, and the only weapons he wielded coming under the head of “stationery,” and not “ordnance and ordnance materials.” Of his military reverses and blunders we need only remark that they were as numerous as the occasions on which he was brought within “presence of the enemy” or had personal direction of any movements which ex- posed the troops under his command to the possibility ofa repulse. At Big Bethel he was badly beaten—“beaten out of his boots,” said the soldiers. At Fort Fisher he was only not beaten because he refused to fight. At Lowell he found himself despitefully entreated at the hands of a sturdy builder of sewers and cul- verts; while at Drury’s Bluff, in his mad at- tempt, with a few regiments of unreliable troops, to forestall General Grant in the glory of captur- ing Richmond, his command suffered useless and cruel slaughter to an extent which aroused an erudite Shaksperian chaplain of the New York volunteer engineers to write a bitter private letter thereanent to one of the poets of the Evening Post. This private letter the poet, of course, used in @ manner clearly indicating the Rev. Shakspe- rian chaplain, Mr. Hudson, a8 its author; whereupon General Butler caused said chap- lain to be hauled before him by his officers, and’of the sufferings which he caused this worthy and reverend man to endure are they not written out and printed in full in a pam- phlet now before us, entitled “Letter from an Army Chaplain to General B. F. Butler?” This letter is a strange comminglement of piety and the drama. Its quotations from the Old Testament and Timon of Athens are equally recondite and applicable. St Mark and Mac- beth, Luke and Love’s Labor Lost, St. John and Romeo and Juliet—all the Evangelists, in a word, and all the plays from Shakspere’s pen are impartially laid under contribution to furnish apposite illustrations for the sufferings of the parson in “Butler’s bull-pen,” and for the parson’s precise estimate of “Beast Butler's brutality.” Now, we respectfully submit to General But- ler that this business of locking up “a clergy- man in good standing of the Protestant Epis- copal Church” in an ordnance tent, containing several open barrels of gunpowder and piles of detonating three hundred pounder shells filled with Greek fire, was not a wise occupa- tion for a commanding officer in front of Pe- tersburg to be ongaged in. The parson, it is tre, was in danger of a“blowing up” in earnest, and piteously—though « brave man, who had often been under fire—descrives his terror lest some involuntary motion in his sleep should roll down on him and explode about his ears one of those dreadfal shells. But now the “blowing up” is on the other side; and, with all the pulpits in the land making common cause with their reverend, erudite, military and dramatic brother, there is no knowing but the reputation of General Butler may suffer even more from this act of alleged tyranny than it had to endure in consequence of the undis- guised mutiny and insubordination of the General’s farewell order to his troops when last relieved from command by General Grant. Bamo Ovr raz Corron.—The people of the late rebellions States, reduced to empty meat houses and short rations of corn bread by their late terrible sacrifices and sufferings for Jeff. food, clothing ahd money. But they still have on hand considerable stores of cotton, tobacco, pitch, tar, turpentine, and their superior red Davis and his despotism, are sorely in need of pine timber and lumber. Let them bring these AP markebigad Whey will @ once, he mvaled gteenbacks, provisions, dry | conquered, no ordinary war he has fin'shod, no groceries. If they have no wagons, horses, mules or cattle left them to haul their cotton, tobacco or products of the forest to the nearest railroad, let them apply to some army officer to lend them a few wagons, horses or mules for the purpose ; for we have no doubt they can be obtained with satisfactory vouchers of restoration or payment, We would submit this hint, also, to the special attention of the government. The people of the South, en masse, impoverished and prostrated in the dust by the rebellion, need the helping hand of the govern- ment in the way suggested to get them on their feet again. Lieutenant General Grant. The General-in-Chief of the army of the United States will arrive in this city to-day, on his way to Chicago, to be present at the Sol- diers’ Fair, now being held in that patriotic city. Thus, having fought many great battles and served his country most faithfully and suc- cessfully during a brilliant career, he takes the earliest opportunity to devote his attention to the welfare of those men he has so often led to victory. His presence at Chicago will un- doubtedly prove in its results not only an act of kindness, but of beneficence. In the galaxy of heroes which the closing year of the rebellion has placed high in orb, General Grant is the bright particular star. Without any disparagement to: his gallant comrades, he ig acknowledged to be the greatest in the group. Whatever particularly good qualities they have individually been found to possess, he appears to have concenirated in himself. So complete is his character that it is admitted to be quite without defect. He has required no defence at any time, for he has done nothing wrong, and to heap enlogies upon him is equally unnecessary, for his career is his best eulogy. It is “a solid fabric, und will support the laurels that adorn it.” When military men permit themselves to be taken up by political parties, and furnish their presses with their principal aliment, it is always to be feared that they have béen led astray by ® false ambition, or have been manipulated while under, the influence of _ selfishness, General Grant stands aloof from all such in- fluences and their dangers; beyond their reach and beyond their power, he shines by the con- trast of disintcrestedness, and gains our esteem by the purity of his motives and the strength of his principles. Envy, which often assails the best, leaves him alone, and no one dares question his patriotism or bravery, his skill, his modesty, his disinterestedness, his firmness or his success. To him is universally attributed the final triumph of our arms, the result of strategy the most skilful, combinations the largest and most overwhelming, and courage, persistent, self-reliant and dauntless. He has never been obliged to explain sway any mistukes or to romove any misapprehen- sions ;.to account for any disasters, to make any apologies, or appeal to his countrymen for a reversal of their opinions. His profound, his almost infallible judgment has lifted him above the errors of popular genernls, who are too apt to be thinking of the public when their business is only with the enemy. Thus we find him on his own pedestal in the full proportions of wise, great and successful man. Not the least of his merits is his unpretending demeanor. At no moment, on no occasion has he ever be- trayed any personal vanity, or any exhilaration in successes which would have turned the heads of most commanders. Not a word from his lips, not a line from his pen has ever been out of time, out of place, or out of character. How- ever others may have erred in this way, he never has, Whether os a subordinate and in the conduct of isolated campaigns, or at the head of the whole army and directing its entire movements—roticent, modest, thoughtful, discreet; the wise man who says little and does much; of “imagination alP compact,” he has pursued an unbroken career of triumph without having had to repair a single error. Not only may we therefore place him as the foremost among our military men—and this itself is praise in the extreme—but we may also claim for him an equal, perhaps the highest, place among all the generals of modern times. If we consider the vastness of the fields on which this war has been waged, the immense numbers of men en- gaged in it, the enormous amount of matériel employed and the loss of life incurred, we are led irresistibly to the conclusion that even the most celebrated European wars have, compa- ratively, been but forays and skirmishes, Thus we may with perfect propriety assert that the tactics of General Grant have been often as grand as those of the First Napoleon, his marches as bold, his combinations as subtle and original, his battles as fierce and as de- cisive, and his conquest of territory as vast and as frequent. In the capture of posts deemed impregnable, and of prisoners, artil- lery and munitions of war in numbers unprecedented, the comparison is really to the advantage of our modest hero. To go further back, he reminds us of some of the most famous of the more his- toric commanders in many remarkable particu- lars, Like Prince Eugene in the Tyrol, he could make his way through the most difficult and well defended passes of the Tennessee, and, like him, drive his foe before him from field to field; or like the famous Lord Peter- boro, whose sententious remarks won him as much applause as his battles, he has success- fally overran and occupied, as did the English general in the Spanish war, State after State, in spite of all opposition, and at the same time enabled a co-operating force at a distance to make splendid and triumphant marches, and win the greatest triumphs with the least loss of life. Like Marlboro, in set battle, Grant has been equally successful, after as hotly con- tested fields as Blenheim or Ramillies; and like Wellington, in his last triumphant march upon his enemy’s capital, after more deadly combats and with greater resistances, he has closed up & war by its capture, and that of the ebief who had thence directed and continued the struggle. So that we may fairly claim for General Grant thet he has been proved to combine in hin- self the highest qualities of all these comman- ders, without the faulte of any of therm And as the work he has accomplished exceeds in magnitnde and consequences any they ever were engaged in, we may place him on the highest pedestal in the same temple of fame, These European contests were, one and all, contests for dynasties or personal objects; while the campaigns of Grant have been for Wherty, and in fact for mankind. He has been 4ndeed the msn of the times; born for them, saul to them. It iy no common foe he has trifling cause he has maintained. His genins, discovered in time by the late President, and left unfettered to exert itself, proved by vis “short, sharp and decisive” strokes that it wa of the most brilliant order, equal to the most superb combinations, and sure to be followed by the most complete success. We are almost too near and too mixed up with these great events to give them their true outlines og understand their gteat proportions. The Eure- Peans, at a greater distance, are beginning te know them, as in the great political perspective. they see the effect upon themselves, And when, by and by, some other Marshall or Motley shall arisé to draw the character and portray the conduct of a hero, he will set’ bis canvass for the portrait of Lieutenant General Gram Renewed Trade With the South—Ous Steamship Lines. The close of the war for the restoration the Union has given a vast and surprising pulse to ocean steam navigation. In addition to the numerons lines of steamships that have been kept continually busy during the rebellion we now have branch lines, like spiders’ webq covering the Atlantic coast in every direction The whole South is rapidly being brought inte communication with the ports of the North Already have we steamers running from New York to Charleston, New Orleans, Savannah Wilmington, Newbern, Norfolk, Richmond ané several other points South. These ports were almost altogether shut out'from the world dur ing the extraordinary career of the late rebek lion, With the simple deetaration that peace had been restored there came a change; and now, instead of closed ports and a languishing commerce, we have fleet steamships scouring the coast and carrying wealth and prosperity into every port or bay of the South. This & another proof of the adaptability of our peo ple to eircumstances, Show them but the way to apply their enterprise and wealth and that is all they want. But it is not only in the coasting trade that our mercantile community have put forth theis energies, There are three or four steam lines connecting New York with Havana, all of them running with great regularity. And now we have a new line—the first steamship of which ie just about to start on its first voyage—from New York to Vera Cruz, by way of Havana, This is a line that was long wanted, but we must wait to see how the work is developed before speaking more fully of it If the enterprise succeed as well as it should; it will, doubtless, take large sums of gold an@ silver dollars out of the hands of old John Bull, who has been monopolizing the trade for many years. The future will show whether this is te be so or not. We thus have ateam communica tion with every part of the American continent and travelling is rendered an easy thing to all, There is no part of the Western world with which we cannot immediately communicate by our own steam vessels; and even with the islands of the sea, such as Nassau, Jamaica on Bermuda, we can be brought into close an@ almost immediate connection. Such, indeed, is the demand for steam vessela of the first class for ofr own trade that the splendid steamship Guiding Star, of the “Star” line, has been withdrawn from the Southamptom line for service in these waters. It was intended that she should have been the pioneer of a re- newed European trade; but it seems that the demands of our Southern commerce would not permit her to be spared &t present. In the meantime all the steamship lines have our best wishes ;and we have no doubt that within a very few months thelr old prosperity will fally return, to be even surpassed by the crops of wealth that the future has in store for them. Ovr Conqurrinc Herors anp THE Pourre crans—We rejoice that the spoilsmen of our city councils failed in their little pro- ject of appropriating twenty, fifty or a hum dred thousand dollars of the public money in lionizing General Sherman. He decline@ the honor, and their scheme was dished, and the city treasury escapes another Japanese bill of white kids, carriages, ice creams, confee tionery, brandy, beer and cigars. Another set of politicians, whose loyalty is not so coppery, have been more successful in a scheme to lionize themselves while lionizing some of the conquering heroes of the Union. The saving merit of this glorification movement consists in. this: that the expenses thereof are not to be extracted from the city treasury. The poli ticians concerned pay the costs, which is good; and they have secured a promise from General Grant, General Thomas, General Logan and stout old Admiral Farragut to be present at a public meeting in support of President John son, at the Cooper Institute this evening, and the public are invited to come free of charge, to which there can be no objection. The people will be present in large numbers: to do honor to the greatest soldier of the age, General Grant; and to that other splendid soldier who has never been defeated, General Thomas; and to that heroic civilian who hae shown in the field the qualities of a West Point veteran, General Logan; and to that old fire torpedo and bomb-proof selamander, Admiral Farragut; but the politicians concerned expect also to shine in this blaze of glory. Very good. ‘These lions are the genuine article—the people want to see them, and manifest their approbe- tion face to face; and we are therefore disposed to give the politicians concerned ® chance to show off on the occasion their confidence im President Johnson. In thie matter, however, the people are ahead of the politicians; tor, regardless of spoile or plunder, they support the administration of “Andy Johnson” all througd. Corton Fanores m bera.—When the rebeb lion broke out, and the prospects of obtaining cotton in England began to look rather slim, attention was immediately turned to the cultt vation of that material in British India. For a time it looked as if suffictent quantities could be obtained, and John Bull began to feck independent of the United States for his supply of cotion—a matter of which the English press was not slow to boast, Immense speculation in India cotton was, of course, the result, and we now learn that the failuros of English houses in Bombay who have gone deeply into that trade will probably be the heaviest among all the commercial disasters now occurring im India, Losses in cotton are said to have beem one of the principal causes of the failure of the house of Cama & Son for the sum of fifteem millions of dollars, and further smashes were anticipated from the same cause, Now, that the war Is over, and the cotton of the Southern States, which is botter and cheapes