The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFION MN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS pened ‘TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be atthe risk of the sender. None but bank bills current in New York taken. ‘MAE DAILY HERALD Fovr cents per copy. Annual ‘subsoription price, 914. Volume XXX. =a AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Jussiz Brown. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Eaati Pir 70 au 4 Ducusss. eer . BOWERY THEATRE, HKowery.—Duas's Device—Mge- ouawr or Vumicx—Nick or tux Woops. CLosine@— NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taz Litrus Bareroer. wares GARDEN, Broadway.—Fasto; on, tax Iranian WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Ouiven Twist. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.—Potwam—Riouarp = Carrin Sreaxms--Tox sno Jaauy—Bompastes BARNUM'S MUSEUM, HBroadway—Two Living Wu ALes— Lavina Auiicator—Far Wowax—Qianress. MADELAINS. Day and Evening. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS. Mechanica’ Hi Broad. wey.—Krniorian Songs, Danous, a gle gc san Sraxets or New Youre. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 516 Broadway. —Erut Songs. Dances, 40.—Tum CONTKABAND COLLEGE, OW TIE Revatuious Brupaxrs. HELLER'S HALL, 685 Broadway.—Saw Frawotsco Min- uxis—ETHiOPiAN SINGING, DaNcina, &¢.—U. 8. G. HOOLEY’S HALL, 201 Bowery.—Sau Suanruey's Min. eee —Lanwon Concegt—CanNivaL or FuN—Kicuarp AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Ratuers, ‘Pantomimxs, BURLESQUES, &¢.—Tux Scout oF THE POTOMAC. STUYVESANT INSTITUTE, 6:9 Broadway.—Tur Traniax Maxionxrrs anp Miniature Taxares. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 1U P.M. Our city subsoribers will confer a favor by roporting any of our city carriers who overcharge for the Hxranp. Country subscribers to the New Yous HeRAtp are re- quested to remit thelr subscriptions, whenever practi- cable, by Post Office Orders. It is tho safest mode of tranamitting money by mail. Advorlisomonts should be sent to the office before nine o'clock in the evening. THE ASSASSINATION. The military court having charge of the cases of the ‘assassination conspirators met in secrot session at eleven o'clock yesterday and agreed upon a verdict, which was transmitted to the Secretary of War, but has not yet been made public. ’ THE SITUATION. Prosident Johnson was stil: too unwell yesterday to receive visitors or to give his usual attention to official Dusinesa. Genoral Meade has issued his farewell address to the Army of the Potomac, and that heroic and indomitable organization has ceased to have a distinct existence. The Army of the Potomac had at ono time in its ranks -over two hundred thousand men; but the casualties of thocamp and the field, the expirations of terms of State of Virginia Colonel 0. Brown, who has arrived in Richmond and assumed charge of his duties. Ope of the new government gunboats ordered for our Northern lakes was launched at Buffalo on the 22d inst. Sho is about one hundred and eighty fect long, twonty- nine feet beam, will carry Ove guns, ‘and will be finished by the middle of August, The following regiments arrived in this olty yester- day:—The One Hundred and Fortyfourth Now York, Fortieth (Mozart) New York, One Hundred and Twenty- first New York, the Fifth New York Indopendeat Bat tery, and the First Maine cavalry. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The steamship City of Dublin, Captain Kynoa, from Liverpool on the 16th and Queenstown on the 17th, ar- rived here at an early hour this morning. Her news has been anticipated by tho Cuba, which arrived on Tuesday. A report highly important, if true, regarding Mexican affairs comes from Matamoros under dato of the 15th inst. Itis said that President Juarez had been com- pelled to fly from Chihuahua, his capital, and that that place had been occupied by the imperial troops. The date of these events is not given, A Matamoros paper makes a charge that some of the American troops stationed at Brownsville, Texas, havo fired across the Rio Grande at Mejia’s imperin! soldiers, on the Mexican side of the river. It is reported that the soldiers of the late rebel armics of the South were ‘flocking to tho imperial stand- ard, and that ten thousand of them were to go to Sonora under ex-United States Senator Gwin, who, 1% was still confidently asserted, would succeed in his projects for colonizing the Northern Mexican States. Therv was also a report that the rebel Captain Page, late of the ram Stonewall, was in Mexico, trying to negotiate for the eale to Maximilian of the ex-rebel cruiser. A steamer has succeeded in passing through the fa- mous Dutch Gap canal. The Silas 0. Pierce, a vessel of forty-threo feet beam, performed that feat last Sunday. A vory interesting session of the Board of Aldermen was held yesterday, it beimg the last mecting of that body previous to the summer vacation. A preamblo and series of resolutions, the substance of which {s that, as the city advertising fund ia exhausted, all Common Council and Corporation advertising be at once discon- tinued, were presented and laid over, A resolution was adopted, after considerable discussion, permitting all persons to keep stands for the sale of articles on the sido- walk who first obtain permission of the owners of the property in front of which such stands are erected, provided they do not encumber the thoroughfares. ‘Tho resolution to print twenty-five thousand copies of the report of the obsequies of President Lincoln was adopted over the Mayor's veto, after a long debate, by twelve to three, Twenty thousand dollars wero appropriated to celebrate the Fourth of July. It was voted to lease cor- tain ground on the corner of Fourth avenue and Seventy- seventh strect for a German hoepital, for twonty-one years, for the nominal annual rent of one dollar, A por- tion of the annual appropriation to city institutions, amounting in the aggregate to soventy-three thousand dollars, was passed. resolution providing for an As- sistant Deputy Public Administrator, at an annual ealary of twenty-five hundred dollars, was adopted. After the transaction of some other business the Board adjourned till the 4th of September next. The Board of Councilmen met yeatorday. A resol tion was presented calling for a dotailed statement of the amount paid for advertising during the years 1964 and 1865, which was referred to the Committee on Print- ing and Advertising. A resolution in favor of requesting Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan to sit for their portraits, to be placed in the Governor's Room in:the City Hall, was referred to the Committee on Arte and Sciences. Five thousand dollars were donated to the Institution of Mercy. Major General Sandford, commanding the First division of tho National Guard, as well as several of the rogi- mental commanders, has issucd his official order for tho parade of our city soldiery on the Fourth, ‘The division will form in Twenty-third street, the right resting on Fifth avenue, at eight o'clock inthe morning. Major General Duryea, of Brooklyn, bas also issued his order for the parade of the Second division. Fire Commissioners Brown and Pinckney, of this city, eulistment and the recent heavy musterings out of troops have left in the service only about sixteen thou- gand of those lately belonging to it. It met with much adversity during the war, but always rose from each reverse endowed with now life and presenting a still bolder front to the foe, and had the glorious privi- logo, after its years of heroi-m, trial and perseverance, of giving the finishing blow to the rebellion. Its name and ts brilliant deeds will never be forgotton while the re public lasts, and for years to come its members will say with pride, “I belonged to the Army of the Potomac.” Tho rogular Hxratp despatches from South Carolina to ‘the 26th inst. reached us by the steamship Fulton, which arrived here yesterday. General Gillmore would ahortly issue an order dividing tne State of South Caro- ina into four military districts, to be known as the Eastern and Western districts and the districts of Charleston and Port Royal, to be commanded respec- tively by Gonevals Beale, Van Wyck, Hatch and Potter. Gone -al Gilimure had also issued his order for the cele- ‘ration of the Fourth of July. All labor not abso- futely oSe.sary will be suspended throughout the Do wiment of the South, salates will be fired at the varivas , us, the Declaration of Independence and Pre- Bidert coln’s Emancipation Proclamation read, ora- tions: vered, and the day goncrally observed in trae Yank w style, The late rebel Governor Clarke, of Mis- sissippl, had been committed to Fort Pulaski, Savannah iver, and the rebel ex-Secretary of the ‘Treasury Tren- holm, recently sent to that stronghold, had been released, by orders from Washington, and was in Charleston. Secretary of the Treasury MoCulloch has issued his oficial order, in pursuance of the proclama- “ona of the President opening the entire country to unrestricted trade, giving notice to his subordinates of 1) 9 removal of commercial restrictions and directing 41.em how to proceed under the now order of affairs. The special agents of the Tronsury Department for the pur- chase of products of the lately insurrectionary States are |. cioge up their accounts and consider their official con- nection with the Department dissolved after to-day, The Fulton brought North, for transmission to Waal ington, the papers and effects of Jeff. Davis and Bear gard latoly captured im Florida, General Rufus Saxton, in charge of freedmen’s affairs in the Department of the South, and the members of the One Hundred and Forty fourth New York infantry came a passengers on board the Fulton. Tho arnondment to the national constitution abolishing | ‘nd forever prohibiting slavery was ratified by the lower | hoese of the New Hampehire Legislature yesterday, The Benate bas not yet acted on it. yy Informed General A Texas paper says General Ca Buckner, when tho latter arrived in New Orleans to offer the surrender % General Kirby th's trans-Miseiss!ppt forces, that if he had been one later a formidable national army would have been in motion for Texas, and fn that event the rebel vrs of surrender would not hhavo boen accepted. Accounts from Texas state Wat the transition from a condition of war to one of peae is proceeding very quietly and in an orderly manner. Detween two and | three thousand bales of cotton Were Ayx\ting shipment at Houston in the beginning of this month currency sells in that place at seventy-five cents on the dollar for gold. National arrived in Boston yesterday, on their tour of inspection of the workings and plans of paid fre departments aud of steam fire ongines. We are informed that the regular transmission of tele- graphic despatches for the press between this city and the various Southern cities will not be practicable before about the middle of July, owing to the condition of the lines at the South and the great pressure of official busl- ness; but soon after that time, it is supposed, telegraph- ing with that region will be restored to something like its ante-rebellion condition. Judge Miller yesterday granted. an order in the Su- preme Court, requiring Henry C. Tunner, the receiver of the Artisans’ Bank, to show cause why he should not mako an accounting of his receivership, and an injunc- tion restraining him from disposing of the assets of the bank. Gustayns A. Burckhardt, a Southern refugee, from Atlanta, Ga., brought a suit yesterday in the Supreme Court, before Judge Clerke, against the Erie Railroad Company, to recover eleven hundred dollurs for baggage lost on one of their trains. Among the articles lost was an ordinary pair of boots, which in the now defunct em- pire of Rebeldom cost three hundred dollars, The plain- tiff lost his case, owing to his complaint being defective in consequence of the absence of the bill of lading; but the Judge gave him the privilege of making tho meces- sary amendment. ‘The committee appointed by the Treasury Department to inquire into certain fraudulent transactions of distit- Jers of spirits have held daily sessions for the past ten days. Representatives of all the leading distilierics ‘east of Buffalo have been before the committee, and a large mass of testimony has been taken; but for obvious rea fons the committee decline to have the facts mude public. General Rosecrans, since he came East, has been en- thusiastically received everywhere he bas visited. It was arranged to pay him the compliment of a serenade at Llewellen Park, Orange, N. J., last evening, on a large scale, Helmsmuller's splendid band was engaged for the occasion, and to give all érlat to it triumphal arches were erected on the grounds, and a large number of transparencies appropriately placed around. General Rosecrans leaves for San Francisco, on a visit to Cali- fornia and Nevada, on the steamer which sails to- morrow. ‘The annual commencement of St. John’s College, Ford ham, took place yesterday. The attendance was large and respectable, and the exercises passed off in the pleasantest and happiest manner imaginable. ‘The pupils of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Inatitute gare their annual exhibition in the Brooklyn Academy of Music last evening. ‘There was a crowded house, and the exer. ises were of a most interesting character, Admiral Farragut was present, and was heartily received. ‘The New York Dry Goods Exchange, an institution noarly similar to the Stock Exchange, with the exception | that its operations will be principally confined to the dry goods business, was inaigurated yesterday morning. The room golected for the purpose is on the second floor of Nos. 49 and 51 Park place, and ts well adapted for the business to which it will bo hereafter devote’, The Ex- | change will be open for tho transaction of business every day from noon till one o'clock P.M. Some very interosting oxperiments, which wore wit nessed by several American, English, Fronen and Ru sian naval officers, some of our merchants and ship 1 others, were made in the vicinity of Gov 1 on last Tacsday with submarine torpodoos The torpedoes were of two kinds, thove which were lately in ugo in James river and a newly invented one discharged by electricity. Tho results wore very satis factory. With a charge of sixty pounds of powder ain Immense mass of water was ralzod in the air, the contral column being thrown to the height of fifty or sixty feet, Itis believed that the force of the shock was sufficient to have disabled a very stout tron-clad. ‘The steamship Ocean Queen, Captain Slocum, of the Atlantic Mail Steamship Company's line, will sail to morrow, July 1, at noon, from the new and commo- dious pier 43, North river, foot of Canal street, for Calt- | fornia, connecting at Panama with the ateamship Consti R. L. Caruthers, at one timo a judge of the Sepreme | Court of Tennessee, and who in 1863 had himself eles rebel Govornor for that State by a few hundred of hi» followers, but who was soon compelled by the advance of ‘the national troops to become a fugitive, was arrested at t's home in Lebanon, Tenn., on the 2th inst., and com- criti to await bla trial for Ereasom, Major General Howard, Superintendent of the Frood- MURS urow Lae pevowies ab lig aveldiaut for the ad tution, The new scale of rates of passage, which are | lower, goes Into effect July 1, The maiis will close at NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNW 30, 1565) four days, and was yesterday further adjourned tif Chatham strect, was yesterday committed for trial, charged with stealing, in that place, on Wednesday night, about six hundred dollars from two discharged soldiers named Joba Woods and Michael Maloney. Mone of the money was recovered. Ayoung Englishman named Williem H. Harris was yesterday committed for examination on charge of stealing four hundred and twenty dollare in gold, on Wednesday night, from under tho pillow of one of his fellow lodgers named David Jones, in the house No, 14 Groenwich street. The missing coin was not found. A coroner's inquost was held at the New York Hosp!- tal yesterday over the body of a colored man named William Murphy, aged sixty years, who lived at 372 Canal street, and who, it is alleged, died from the offocts of a stab inflicted on Saturday last by another colored man named Willam Calhoun, who has not yet beon ar- wig man of Paterson, N. J., very respectably { Connected, has recently been arrested on charge of being the porson who, on the night of the 7th inst,, rovbed » mail train at Chester, N. ¥., ofall the lotters and a pack- age of bank checks dostined for this city. The supposed Criminal waa discovered by one of the checks, which he had given in payment of a lost bet om the Paterson races, being presented at the hank ,by the winner, who was iynorant of the manuer in which his sporting friond had Become possessed of it. A conflict arose between the civil and military: authort- | tern Philndetphia yostorday by the rofusal of ono of the provost marshals there to deliver up, im accordance with a writ of haboas corpus, a naval officer charged with defrauding #he government.. The matter remains unsettled, pending instructions from Washington, The warehouse of J, M. Mitchell, 24 and 26-North Frout stroot, Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire carly yester- day morning, entailing # toss of fifty thousand dollars, The stock market was dull but steady yesterday morn- ing, and firm in the afternoon. Govoraments were quiet and unchanged, Gold was unsottled, and, after opening at 13834, closed at 1384 on tho streot. The night clos ing quotation was 138%, The commercial situation was without special change yesterday. Tho downward turn in gold exerted but little influence on pricos ourrent, though it rendored the mar. kets rather heavy. The Prospects of the Administration and the South—The Negro Suffrage Ques- tion. The great work of the restoration of tho late rebel States in the hands of President Johnson goes on smoothly and with the most flattering promises of success. From all tlie Southern delegations waiting upon him we: have the same voice:—“We are beaten. We submit to the consequences of our defeat. We recognize the extinction of our Southern con- federacy and the dogma of State sovereignty, upon which it was founded, and the abolition. of slavery. We recognize the paramount sovereignty of the United States. We desire the restoration of our State to the full benefits of the general government on this basis. We ask you, Mr. President, to give us a provisional governor, to provide us with courts of justice, and to put us in the way of the reorganization of our State upon the terms and restrictions of’ your amnesty proclamation and other procla- mations upon the subject. We are in your Wands, Mr. President. We bow to your: autho- rity. We rely upon your justice and magna- nimity. We accept your terms. We need your assistance,"and we come to ask it, and to learn what we are to do.’” This isthe voice of South Carolina, and the: voice of hor “erring sisters,” from Virginia to Texas. There is no anti-administration party in the late insurgent States. The most fiery and the most confident and powerful supporters. of the Davis despotism are now competing with the staunchest Southern loyalists for a friendly recognition by President Jobnson. Thus far, then, he sails before the wind. All troubles are at an end among the Southern politicians. They have paseed through the fiery furnace of an awful revolution, and they are but as helpless children in his hands. But there is trouble rising in another quarter. The radical abolition faction of the North, slavery being abolished, have mounted their new hobby of negro suf- frage, and they threaten to “ride it rough shod” over the Southern States, and over the admin- istration if it shal) presume to stand in the way. What is to be done? This Northern radical faction, we know from experience, is no trifling adversary. We see already that under their experienced and active leader, Chief Justice Chase, his followers are skilfully arranging their plans East, West and South—radical in the East, cautious ifi the West, suggestive in, the South—but everywhere working to the same purpose. They will carry this issue of negro suffrage into the coming Congress. They will make it the test in both houses of the restora- 1 | tion of every rebel State. What then? Why, then, | ®td Barlow, and when we ridicule the drunken | ang gopperhead press of this city; have beon it is quite possible that the Southern States:now | Bohemian of the Minclo, we find the: old les) siting their columns with tho defense pat for- excluded from Congress will remain so for two years to come. Next autumn we shall have our State elections for the succeeding Congress; but the Congress now elected holds good tN the 4th of March, 1867, and it was elected as a radical abolition Congress. Now, it is unques- tionably the true policy of the late rebellious: States to get back into Congress this next win- ter, if possible, in order to look after the inte- rests of their States and people, in conneetion with taxes, tariffs, ap;ropriations, &c.; but how is this to be done? Ve have the answer at hand. President Johneon, ander certain carefully considered limitations in reference to loyalty, has adopted the poliey of leaving this question of negro suffrage to the discretion of the ad- But the emancipated blacks constitute one-half or more of the population of the cotton States. Will it be wise or safe to exclude them alto- gether from this right of suffrage? They have proved their loyalty to the Union, and upon this plea their claim to the suffrage will create ® powerfa! party in the North, We would, therefore, appeal to the provisional white voters of the South to take this matter into their own bands, and, upon some fair system porate negro suffrage into their new State con- stitutions, or to make it one of the first acts of their new legisintures. By this course of action in the South the Northern radicals will be disarmed and deprived of their stock in trade; the States concerned will be readmitted at once to Congress, and, with the twelve or once secure the balance of power in that body on every question affecting Southern intorests. Nor is this all that the Southern States will control the next Presidential election by the exclusion of their emancipated blacks from the lective franchise they run the hasard of being emcluded from Congress and kept out im the cold for at least two years longer; while by the opposite course they gain at once a power- ful voice in Congress, and the balance of power for the uext Presidency, and for, perhaps, «: half a century to come. It was only the other day that the slavehold- || New York wholesale firms can scarcely be com- ers of the South were brought to realize the | prehended without recourse te the official re fact that slavery is indeed abolished, and they | turns of the internal revenae officers. From are already preparing like men of sense for the | fiiese lists we find that the wholesale firm duty of a new system of Iabor. Let them take | doing the larges#- business in this city, accord- another forward step in the recognition of this | ing to the last returns, per anmum, was that of other fact, that the abolition of slavery | H.B.Claflin & Cv:, whose sales amounted to has changed the whole statas of the black man all over the country, and’ made the Dred Scott decision a thing of the dark ages, and they will discover that it is their policy to-accept the black man in his new relations, not as an enemy to be proscribed, but asa political element, who, voting or not voting, will control the bal- ance of power at Washington. “The constitu- tion aa it ia” in relation to its: “three-fifths of alt othor persons’ belongs’ to: & past age. It needs various amendments to meet the new | order of things, and before long we must have ® motional convention to shape it to the neces- sities of “the age wo live in.” Meanwhile, how- ever, it rests with the Joyal Southern whites to determine whether their four millions of eman- cipated blacks shall politically be used as a balance of power for the South or against the South. How will Southern men’haveit? That is the question to which we would’ oamnestly invite their attention. Three Very Black Crows. A secesh editor at Richmond, who has: not yet forgotton the infamous lessons he: learned during the rebellion, recently put forth, the ridiculous statement that Mr. James: Gordon Benuett, the editor of this journal, wrote a letter to Jeff. Davis at the commencement of the war offering to support the Southern confederacy im these columns for the sum of fifty thousand’ poundssterling. Ben Wood, of the Daily News, at once adopted this statement as a sort of off- aot to the twenty-five thousand dollars which: he is said to-have received from the assassina- tion fund in Canada. Tho Bohemians of Bel- mont and Barlow's organ, the World, dished up the same story, adding a little atale lettuce ‘and onion of their own in the form of a hint about corroborating evidence. An evening paper, which is now conducted by the drunken Bohe- mian who disgraced the Times by an-essay om the elbows of the Mincio, swallowed these three: black crows—feet, feathers and gizzards—and contributed his mite to the calumny. Now wo pronounce the whole statement, with and with- out the embellishments it has received, an im+ pudent lie and a scandalous fabrication. We have been an editor in this city for forty~ _years, and bave-edited the Hxratp for over thirty years, and daring all this period we have never corresponded with any of the politicians, North or South. They have nearly all written to us, but we have not replied, knowing them to be a set of charlatans and addlepated’ nuisances. As for Jeff. Davis, we never wrote to him, before, during or since the rebellion. The slanders with which we have been assailed for the past thirty years originated with our old associates on the defunct Courier and ‘Enquirer, Major Noah and the Chevalier Webb. Before Noah died he repented of the course which he had pursued towards us, and the Chevalier Webb must also repent if he desires a peaceful death bed and an easy hereafter. These two men corcocted their falsehoods in order to in- 1fe:re our business, We started tho Henan to | best employed, break up all such old fogy papers ‘as those which they edited, and they started their slan- ders to break us down. We succeeded, and they did not. We: lave seen their papers die out before the blaze of the Herap’s success, as the dim candle dies at noon. By our own efforta, assisted by Providence and the people, we have made this journal the greatest in the country and the best and cheapest in the world. No politicians, North or South, have aided us by a single cent. On the contrary, they have done everything possible to interfere with us and to circulate falsehoods to our: prejudice. And now, when we:trace Ben Wood's check to the rebel assassination fund, and when. we up- set some of the political schemes of Belmont revamped and a newslander tacked‘omto them, as if the fools of the present day hoped to com- plete the dirty work undertaken in vain by the fools of the past. At suche sorry exhibition we cannot suppress & smile: Whenever anything goes. wrong with the politicians they blame: the: Hkrarp, and some of them always dip their hands: in mire to throw mud at us. Poor fellows! They do not see that they only blacken their own palms. We were told that somebody paid five thousand dollars for the influence of the Herat during the Harrison campaign, ten thousand during the Polk campaign, twenty thousand during the Taylor campaign, one hundred thousand dur- ing the Scott campaign, and two hundred and” fifty thousand during poor Fremont’s campaign. mitted white voters of the several States com- | There is just as much truth im one of theve | tive facts and data proving beyond any shadow cerned. The power is in their hands in the | stories as in the others, and they are all false | oe doubt, that the eystem of inhuman treatment reorganization of their State governments, | At the very time that Fremont was reported.as | and starvation of our prigoners, was decided paying us two hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars the General had not money enough to pay his hotel bill. He had not yet come into his Mariposa property, and the politicians had bled him pretty freely. The notion which some people appear to entertain that, the Heratp can bo purchased—except for four cents a copy at the news stands—is be- neath contempt. Those who have no principle themselves cannot appreciate its ciate the absurdity of buying the Henary for o few thousand dollars whem we state that during the war we have expended half million of dollars for war correspondence alone—s sum more than sufficient to buy up the politicians and other fellows who assail us, and that the whole of the money which wo have been fulsely of this journal. ‘Tho. falsehoods about our obtaining fan this man or from that man—blackmail/ hero and whitemail there— people have whown us, by adopting the Hxratp Tax Great New Yorx Waozsats Housts— The vastness of the business of the principal upwards of forty-two’ and a half millions of dollars. The next was that of A. T. Stewart & Co., whose sales for the year, exctasive of their onormous retail’ business, amounted to nearly forty millions. Then we have @ large number of firms that do business: to: the extent of ten miftions per annum; and so’ on down to five and one'million. Among these’ large firms we observe'the names of many Boston people, transplantings or branches’ of Boston houses that were going to decay there, but are doings most flouriaBing business ithe soil’ of Mew York. Ina few years, if they continue to be transferred to New York in this way, the Bos ton houses will become simply.the out-of town receptacles ora ‘sort of bonded ‘warehouses for the fabrics of the mills of Massachusetts‘ prior to their being sent to the great mart of New York. These large sales of merchandise‘show the energy and enterprise of our merchants, who leave no sea unploughed and-noe: land:un- trodden wherein they can dispose’ of their goods at a profit. They also demonstrate: the competition that exists between’ the leading: merchanta—a competition that forbids: combi-- nation and monopoly, and thereby benefits-the: people. They account for the princely dry goods and other mercantile edifices~ that orna- ment our business thoroughfares; and they account for the surpassing luxury and elegance of the private residences and summer villas of: these great American merchants. Another striking feature in these returns: is the prodigious amount of business shown to be transacted by the stock brokers, exclusive of that transacted on their own private account. These sales amount to, for each firm, from: the: sum of one hundred and forty millions of dol- lars all the way down to fourteen ‘and fifteen millions per annum. In many cases these large brokers sell the value of single stook perhaps @ dozen times over in the course of: year. All this vast amount of business bas to pay government tax, and thus the ‘revenue collectors’ returns are proportionally swelléd. Truly there isa prodigious amount of business continually going on all around us in this the most young, 4most active, most progressive and gayest of all modern metropolises. It is a+ wonder there should be any poor people among us. Revmer ror rae Sovrnern Sotpmrs.—We have already received at our office contribu- tions:from different parties, to the amount of some fifty dollars, for the relief of the rebel soldiers who are endeavoring to return to their Southern homes on being paroled. As it is very difficult for us to disburse this money:and such sums as may in future be subscribed in a satisfactory manner, upon the application of men who may or may not be proper ‘reci- pientsof it, we have placed the fund at the dis- posal of the United States Medical Director,Sur- geon Hoff, at the Battery Barracks, who: is -the most likely person to know where it can» be as the rebel prisoners: now in the city are under his control. We have al- ready dispensed a few dolias to soldiers of whose claims to relief we were satisfied... One had obtained a pass to Baltimore, but! wanted under clothes and socks. We referred ‘him to Mr. Kershaw, who made the first contribution of ten.dollars, and that gentleman replied that the money was entirely at our disposal, to be used at our discretion. Another poor fellow, who was an unmistakable grayback, with tat- tered uniform and old knapsack, received at our hands a few dollars. It would ‘be prefer- able, however, if these funds were. distributed by the Medical Director at Hart’s Island, where the largest number of rebel prisoners are: Spaevina Prwoners or Wan.—The : abolition ward'by the committee of the late Confederate of their treatment of Union peisoners of war. This pretended justification ,of" the ill- treatment and starvation of prisoners im the prisons at Richmond, Andersonville and Salis- bury, is, to say the least, a very weakinvention. There were too many living witnesses and walking skeletons to refute these statements, without a word from any other:seuree. We take it for granted that: the repos’ naw pub- lished, is that which was made bythe commit- tee of the rebel Seneée, of which Henry S. Foote, once of Mississippi, but-now of parte unknown, was a member. That gentlemar, after coming through into the Union lines, stated to his own sonsin-law, that during the im vestigations of the subject, they obtained posi- upon in Cabinet meeting at Richmond, for the express purpose of breaking dewn the constitu- tions of the men and miwking them useless as soldiers when exchanged. This fact, he sasert- ed, he endeavored to report to the Senate, br‘ was prevented by the-other members. “ port now circulated is no doubt ing statemené presented * committee. The padi ance and weight in- vie of restrictions, we would urge them to incor- | existence fn others. But any ono can appre- | poretofore published. Our Minsrat witsh today a very interesting address, vivered In this city a few evenings since, by Captain Fisk, the well known Western oxplorer,in rolation to the minoral and. other resources of our Western Tervitories. Oaptain Fisk has made three fourteen additional representatives in the | reported at variows times as having received visits to the Western mincrat regions, under House secured by emancipation, they will at | would not begin éo cover the annual expenses | the auspices of the United States government, and devoted particular attention to the gold placers and guiches of Montana. Captain I, with characteristic energy, proposes to organ- gain by this movoment; for under this reor- | sre, once for, all, entirely untrue. We care ize a fourth expedition, which will comprise ganization they will be able to command and | nothing abouty them, because the American from fifteen hundred to two thousand persons, for the purpose of renewing his explorations cally. . has the-genius and sagacity which Mr. Marcy correspondence. | the Pout office at half-past ten A. M. Justice Dowling, of the Tombs Police Court, has under | investigation an interesting gambling case, wherein | fusion of the Northern democracy and all the | as the natioval journal, by giving it an unri- | and selecting proper sites for founding settle loose conservative elements of this section | valled cirylation and by bestowing upon itan | ments that may ina few years rise to the dig- with the Southern States upon a oommon Pre- | advertisiv.g patronage larger than that of all | nity and importeace of populous cities. Here Oxon Meade, of Litto Rock, Arkansas, charges Jobn Heviere ond George Kyigtor with having won from him, | gidential ticket and platform ‘It is to those | the othysr dailies put together, that they do not | is a legitimate fold for the exercive of the un- at Nuce*h rails, while playing with cards, ‘oan unfair | views and bearings of the question of negro | belleve the fabrications of our envious and | employed talent, industry and activity of our manner, over thirteen thousand dollars. Meade followed | magn that we would invde the attention of | nnayccesaful rivals. ‘This heing 60, why should | returned veterans, By helping to develop the the accused to this city and procured their arrest. The mineral regions thoy foailor has boeu under examination for the past vuree of | the leading Joval mon of tho South, Witu tho | wa/trouble ourselves about tbe siza of the three | rosources of owt Wostern Gunsrat Logan avp Presmenr Josimon.—t0 aypears that the gallant General Logsn, after 60 »ompletely using the radical politiciass up and dofeating their schemes at the Cooper Insthute meeting, returned to Washington and had m interview with the President The Feport \of the remarks made by Mr, Johnwor shows that he fully endorsed General Logue’ speech, fer he planted himself precisely on tbe same plavform, In addition te this Preside: \* Johnson bad something to sey sbout the’ national debt, and spoke of t&ie idea of repu- diation in gach an emphatic manner that it will be well for Wendell Phillips and his negro worshipping fraternity, as well as the copper heads, if they take warning in time less they are brought up:for treason. There can be ne mistaking the meaning of Mr. Johnson what he says “that the debt must be paid to the’ laa? dollar,” and that’ “he would never Rance any man, party; roto a at even squinted at repudiation.” _ A Hos mf Vinoima—Wer publistiod; axa | matter of news and te show what lend’ could! be bought tor in Virginfs, the letter of Wm: D- Hix, of Appomattox county, im which he offered to sel one hrmdred and sixty acres! of land for four hundred and‘ fifty dollars. That is all we know about it,. We don’t know | Mr. Hix, and cannot tell whether the land ‘is liable to confiscation for the acts of its owner. | Mr. Hix wrote te us in the matter just as‘a man anywhere weites to’ what’ he: evidently’ understands is a ‘leading journal—though he: confounds a city editor with those country: ones who do small chores of publication im: exchange for a bushel'of potatoes or‘a lond of* wood. We make this statement for the benefit of persons who want to buy the land and have already applied to us in large numbers with the money in their hands. It is -very’signifi- cant of the disposition of the people to-go: South that so many have applied to us on the subject. We have had applicants of both sexes, and of very different socis! position, all eager to know more and buy. This shows @: tendency to reconstruct’ in earnest—a reak practicable disposition to settle in:that: grand: old State and civilize and regenerate it, and’ give it the position in the commonwealth to: which its natural advantages entitle it, and tha¢: only slavery has provented it from getting, Rivarry Amono THE Great Men AND: POLIT c1ans.—We observe a disposition on ‘the part of the politicians, and even some of the depart ments of the general government, to create: rivalries and quarrels among the prominent: men ‘whom the war has thrown upon the sure face, asall great wars and revolutions invaria- bly do, Grant and Sherman and Thomas, and: such saccessful generals, arethe objects of this manceuvre of the politicians. They would be“ delighted to get up @ quarrel among them, im order'to-shear them of a little of their laurels, and damage the popularity of General Grant. especially. We remember that the same game was played at the time of the Mexican. war, when Mt. Marcy was instrumental in fomenting several quarrels among the generals, whem» GeneraliScott quarrelled with his best frienda,. and General Worth quarrelled with General Scott.. Then came the “hasty plate :of soup’ correspondence, and the fire in the rear, and the courtmartialing of generals who conquered Mexico, and all that sort of thing. The soup, correspondence killed off General Scott politl We do not know whether Mr. Stantom exercised in this line of business; but we de. not want any quarrelling among the great generels which the late war has made, nor ta- see Gsneral Grant damaged by theso tricks of - the politicians. In fact we want no more soup: on Tua: Croron Aguspucr Improciw—A : De. custon-Wdorren.—We have had final decisions im, the case of the Metropolitan Fire Departmentand | in that-of the Tax Commissioners, after consider- . able tedious litigation. The points ia dispute im, these. eases were similar to those new-involved | in the matter of the Croton Aquedact Commis-. sioness: The settlement of the twe first-settles.. thorlast. This being the case, why is it that: Judge Leonard withholds his dexision inthe. ceae,-of ithe Aqueduct Commissioners? He. hae had the papers im his hands several. days... Fie surely does not intend to lett: the.matter lie. ower until the September term... Already much. cenfasiom has arisen in the Business .of, ther Groton Department in consequence of: the ime broglio. among the icners, and the mia» chief ecomes worse the longer a decision je defesred. Street pavements ane gotting; ‘out of order, water pipes secome. rusty, out of repair, and liable to burst; new pipaslie ‘exposed to the wet weather and, ket sun,, in- stead.of being placed im their proper heds; contracts for a supply of new pipas are unglled, emptoyes are unpaid—in fact, our wholegigantie and. unrivalled system of water; works is going to wreck and prospective ruin awaiting the deaision of Judge Leonard. We hope the Judge will render his decisonimmedintely. The inte rante of the city impevatively demand jit, Tue Fourra at Garryssuge- "4 v Wirthday will be cekehr 8 on this. great * occa’ xe saa] a tts martyred uve of thein comrades in vught side by side, enduring the . peril aad performing the-same noble ser- vice as those who received om that fidd “the last of many scars.” The iiumedirte object of the celebration is to lay the eorner stone of (i monument over the heroes buried in dhe nw tional cemetery. Major Geweral Howayl, wise commanded in the first day’s battle, will defiver the oration, and the grand. marsiml of the ocak sion will be Major Goneral Geary, who ev manded on the extreme right in ‘hs hardest of the fighting. A pe be furnished for the occasion vate Miles O'Reilly. The expected to be present, and « » cession ts assigned for val Grant. If Gettysburr eis ue trious visitors as i* a ave one more grand Fory ‘ Gerrixa § y » his “stomach cannot « t “mis cont eay special refers ence ve vain vc,’ meaning the wit r hat ‘naw eatly exanined in the ‘ ooctial, Vory likgly noq