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HOOLEY'S HALL, 901 Bowery.—Saw Suanriay's Mix. ae aa Concest—Cagmvat or Fux—Ricouarp AMERICAR THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Barvers, Tantomines, Suntesqus, £c.—Tusz Scour ov tax Potomac. STUYVESANT INSTITUTE, 659 Broadway.—Tus Iranian Mamionurrs anp Muvature Taxaten. NEW YORK ears 4 ARR Broad: - ‘Open from 10 A. M. till na cd New York, Saturday, July 1, 1965. THE SITUATION. President Johnson's health was somowhat improved yesterday, and he gave some attention to business; but he was not sufficiently recovered to receive visitors or to render it prudent to hold a Cabinet conference. In tonsequonce of his illness there have been no Cabinet meetings this week. The steamships George Washington and Guiding Star, which arrived here yesterday, from New Orleans on June 24, brought us our despatches containing inter. esting intelligence from the departments of Gene- als Sheridan and Canby. Up to the 2ist of June ton thousand men of Kirby Smith’s rebel army had been paroled and ninety pieces of artillery and twenty thou- sand stands of arms had been surrendered. Of the gene- ral officers of Smith's army some sixteen or eighteen hhad been paroled, including Buckner and old Stirling Prico, of Missouri, whom rumor has so often killed aod ‘as often brought to life again. Generals Shelby ‘and )§=6Magruder have taken refuge in Mexico, with their leader, Kirby Smith himself. General Gordon Granger on the 17th ult. issued at Galveston his order assuming command of all the troops in Texas. The Mexican imperialists st Matamoros have recently been “very much excited over a report that there will shortly be seventy thousand United States troops slong the Rio Grande, on the Texas side. A fleet of transporte carry- ing the Fourth army corps, destined for the Rio Grande, passed Now Orleans on the 22d ult. Our Brownsville correspondence gives information of ‘the capture of correspondence between the rebel General 4. B. Slaughter and the Mexican imperialist, Genoral Me. fia, showing very clearly that the trade in cotton by the rebel governmont was recognized by Maximilian and bis ‘authorities, and that about two million dollars worth of cotton was carried across the Rio Grande to Mexico, through the connivance of the Mexican authorities subse- quent to the surrender of the rebel General Kirby Smith. {foMotal inquiry proves the correctnons of this report our government will no doubts demand its restora. tron. Our Brownsville correspondent aleo furnishes a satis. Cactory statement of the exaggerated story of « Matamo roa paper, published in yesterday's Henatn, regarding Aho Gring on two of General Mejia's officers by American ‘soldiers of General Brown's command, near Brownsvilie At appears that previous to the Gring the imperialuts ‘wore challenged, but deigned no reply. ome French officer at Matamoros wrote an insulting letter in refo- fence to the matter to General Brown, who took no no- tice of it, whereupon the Frenchman felt bis dignity ‘wounded, and, determined to advertise his importance in some wey, published « silly communication in one of the Matamoros journals. General Herron, commanting the Northern division of Louisiana, with headquarters at Shreveport, has sent Out detachments of troops to garriton the various towns of that region, and the country is rapitiy becoming quiet ‘and orderly, Genoral Herron had isuod orders for- Didding foraging and lawless appropriation ot private pro- porty by his soldiers, ‘and also requiring the negroes to ro main on the plantations and continue their work. 1t is said thas at the time of Kirby Smith's surrender thore were about one hundred thousand bales of cotton along tho Red river, General Herron has sent two of his officers to the Indian country for the purpose of negotiating treatios with the Indians. Major General Meade left Washington yesterday for Philadelphia, where the headquarters of his mew oom: mand, the Military Division of the bog will be located. ae ame ecto * Governor Bramiotte, of Kentucky, dolivered ao ad. ft ew dress in Louisville on Thursday evening in advocacy of the constitutional amendment to abolish and prohibit slavery and illustrative of the advantages of free over slave labor. He admonished his hearers that the pro- gress of events had practically destroyed tho institation of slavery, and urged them to take measures immedi- ately for its abolition in Kentucky. The very interesting and replete report of our County Volunteering Committee has been submitted to the Board of Supervisors, and is published tn this morning’s paper. It shows that the entire number of men recruited for the war in this city was over one hundred and sixteen thousand, exclusive of the twenty- five thousand three months men, at a cost for bounties and premiums of $0,870,327. Besides this there were ex- pended for relief of soldiers’ families and other war pur- potes $6,916,281, making, inclusive of $724,006 for the necessary expenses of the Volunteering Committee, the total expenditure for the military support of the govern- ment by our city authorities of over seventeen millions and a half of dollars. Gayle, the man who is charged with having caused the publication in Selma paper, in December last, of the advertisement offering one million dollars for the murder of Presideat Lincola, Vice President. Johnson and Secretary Seward, is tobe gent back from Washing- ton to Alabama fortrial. The Thirty-second Massachusetts, First Maine and Eighth Vermont infantry regiments arrived in the city yesterday, on route for their homes. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The Inman line steamebip City of New York, Captain Leitch, will sail to-day at noon, from pier 44 North river, for Queenstown and Liverpool. The steamship Bremen, for Southampton and Bromen, also sails at twelve M. to- day from Hoboken, The mails for both vessels will close ‘at the Post Office at half-past ten A.M.” The steamship Havana, Captain Greene, will sail at three P. M. to-day for Havana direct, from pier No. 8, North river. The mails for Cuba will close at the Post Office at half-past one P. M. Judge Leonard, of the “res Court, in chambers, yesterday decided the Croton Aq gontroyeray in favor of the Sere BAe M Btephens “and Darragh, and issued an order compelling the new ap- pointees, Messrs. Giles and Joremiab, to vacate the office in favor of the old Board. The case will probably go to the Court of Appeals, The decision of Judge Leonard, it. will be perceived, is adverse to the idea that the Board of Aldermen are vested with the power of removing heads of departments at will, and maintains the position that the power to remove is vested in the Governor alone, City Inspector Boole, accompanied by representatives of the press and other gentlemen, yesterday made a tour of the city to inspect the condition of the streets in regard to cleanliness. Mr. Boole has had charge of the street cleaning for the past two years; but yesterday terminated his supervision of the matter, and to-day the work will pass into the hands of the new contractors, Messra, Brown, Devoe and Knapp, who have a contract to do it for the next ten years, provided they give satis- faction, at a compensation of $498,600 per year. Mr. Boole delivers the streets into their bands in good con- dition, as the excursion of yesterday showed, all the thoroughfares being ina very cleanly state. The City Tuspector and his fellow excursionists concluded their Proceedings by a dinner at Delmonico’s, A mecting of the cartmen and laborors who have here- tofore been engaged in cleaning the strects, was held last ‘evening at the Apollo Rooms, Prince street, when an ad- dress to the people of the city was adopted, protesting against the contract system, and declaring their unwil- lingness to work for the stipulated wages of four dollars per day for cartmen, and one dollar and three-quarters for sweepers. It is understood that they will nut go to work for the new contractors unless an advance on this scale ig conceded. Few of the people of New York need to be told that yes- terday was the hottest day we have yet had this summer. The mercury in the thermometer, in the shade, stood at nine o’clock in the morning at eighty-nine degrees, at noon at ninety-two, at half-past two in the afternoon at ninety-four, and later in the day it rose to ninety-five degrees, which was about the maximum, and certainly a temperature hot enough for this latitude. At about six im the evening the air became a little cooler, and at half- past cight a rain storm, accompanied by thunder and lghtning, passed over the city, rendering the tempera- ture much more tolerable. Last evening’s storm did much damage to the telegraph Hines, and considerably delayed the reception of news. Nearly all the wires between Philadelphia and Washing- ton were prostrated. Surrogate Tucker bas admitted! to probate during this week the wills of Charles Steinweg, Samuel P. Queripel, Jacob Shaffner, James Laurence, Edward Mott Robin- son, Jonathan 8. Trotter, Rebecca Price, Lydia Griffin, John Bottomley, Sarah G. Fleming, and Malinda B. Fostor. ‘An interesting lecture on Russian America was de- livered last evening in the Traveller's Club Room by Pro- fessor V. P. Blake, of California. The annual commencemont of Grammar School No. 48, in West Twenty-eighth street, took place yesterday. The exercises, which wore of a very interesting charac- ter, consisted of declamations, the reading of prose and poetical compositions by tho lady students, music and addresses by several gentlemen. The attendance was Bumerous. Twolve young ladies received their diplomas of graduation. A coroner’s inquest was held yesterday over the body of @ German butcher, named Charlies Schweiger, who resided at 95 East Fourth street, which developed the singular fact that death was produced by the bite of a fly. The insect stung deceased under the right eye, pro- ducing inflammation and immense swelling, which the physicians wore unable to allay. Charles Bird, an alleged hotel thief, was yosterday committed for trial om charge of having entered the room of Mr. James Arnold, at the Revere House, and stolen from bis pockets @ watch and money altogether valued at about three hundred dollars. ‘William E. Johnston, only nineteen years old, but said to be already @ell known to the police, was yesterday committed chi with picking the pocket of Mra. Ack- erson, ‘esiding io Eighth avenue, on board an Eighth avenue car Judge Joseph J Lewis, of Pennsylvania, will to-day fetire from the position of Commissionor of Internal Revenue, and will be succeeded by Mr. William Orton, of thie State. Eight bundred and twenty-five hogsheads of the French government tobacco stored in Richmond were destroyed in the conflagration ignited by the rebels at the time of their evacuation Four thousand five hun- Gred bogsheads were saved, and are now being shipped for Havre. The prices of meats, provisions, vegetables, fruit, &c., ig the markets of Richmond, Va, are now twenty per cent below those of New York, Philadelphia and Balti- more. ‘Tho extraordinary feat of driving a horse, hitched toa light sulky, from Boston to Portland, a distance of about one hundred and twelve miles, between sunrise ‘and sunset, some minutes over fifteen hours, was attempted ono day this week, for a wager of two thou. sand dollars, by Edward Brackett, of Roxbury, Mass., with his gelding Lyon. The start was made from Boston atthe appointed time, and all went well until within about four miles and a half of Portland, a full half hour of the stipulated time yet remaining, when the hore ‘and fell, as though ina fit, and shortly after died, It is estimated that over twenty thousand dollars had been bet on the affair. The stock market was stronger yesterday, and & general improvement of prices took place. Governments also improved. Gold was steady, and, after opening at 130, closed at 14134 on the street, and at the samo price ‘at night. Tue Paworta Concenep tae Sovura Wr. Gam Everrramne.—If the loyal whites autho- tized by the President to reorganize the late rebel States will onl; the few order of things like 4 practically admit the pri ns ¢ the emancipated negro is a citvep, Kind, under certain restrictions, is en- itled to the right of suffrage, they cannot be kept ont of Congress, and they will soon have the game for the next Presidency in tholr own hands NEW YORK HERALD, Our Four Years of War. Our correspondents in all the great Southern Cities eo lately in the hands of the rebellion, continually tell us of the joy of the Southern people to be once more under the Stars and Stripes. The telegraph runs from New York to New Orleans. Steamboats go down the Mississippi and never receive a shot. Every few days there is a Union Governor appointed or chosen for some Southern State, and north- ern men are sending ploughs into the South, where lately they sent Parrotts and twelve- pounders, All these are the faots of peacoe— the demonstration that the war is over. Peace has indeed settled on the land, and we can contemplate in its completeness the terrible war that has raged for the last four years. We cannot see, or perhaps even surmise, the full effect that the war is to have in the his- tory of this nation; but the war itself, the four years of action, we ésn view and consider as one distinct grand drama. We may well question whether the world has ever seen its equal in any respect. It was firat beyond parallel great and real in its origin and purpose. More than half the great wars that have tormented the human race have been useless and have originated in tri- vial and contemptible causes. They began in the disputes of royal favorites and paramours, or at most were questions of dynasties, disputes of no real account to those who waged the war; but ours was the greatest quarrel in which a nation ever took up arms, It was the necessary collision of two great systems of civi- lization, for both of which the same continent was not large enough, and it was, therefore, a quarrel that could only be settled by war. We fought to sustain human freedom; our enemies fought to destroy it. This is so grand an ar- gument that all who go to war seek the pres- tige it will give them, and as a rule both sides pretend that they fight for human free- dom. Since the first days of the French Bare futiod, whep France stood £5 Feats: We 25 sion of the soverei of Europe, we are ne first nation that have in truth fought for this glorious cause. For nearly a century we are the only people that have been stimulated to fight by the only just cause of war. Nor was the war leas grand in ‘ita develop- ment than in its cause. It was the universal movement of a great people, and was, there- fore, immense as a display of power merely. All the sovereigns of Europe opposed to Napo- leon agreed to put a million of men in the field against him; but they never did it. Five hun- dred thousand men was the total embattled power of all those nations when the battle of Leipsic was fought; and yet this one free government actually put in the field one mil- lion of men on one side of this great struggle. And with these million men it concentrated in four years the events that with nations of less vitality are scattered over twenty years. The greatness of the means employed and of the events crowded in the time are equally without Precedent. Never were battles contested with such desperate stubbornness, or won by, more magnificent valor; and never was the succes- sion of great combats so rapid and ‘so per- sistent. Europe saw in this only that the great battles were not decisive, and held it up as a reproach. That was a grave error, but one founded on the narrow view that Europe has persistently taken of the whole war. The inde- oisiveness of these great battles was only ap- parent, and the effect of every battlo camo at once when the last one was fought. In the meantime that effect had been kept down by the greatness and tenacity of the fighters. In Europe 8° battlo ts ‘dotisive~ when one side is routed. Except Bull Run thers wore no routs here, American soldiers can never be so badly beaten as that, and in this fact is the one grand difference be- tween us and Europe that made the war such a great, tenacious and satisfactory fight. Equally wonderful also has been the develop- ment of genius—military, naval, political and financial. We have gone through the great struggle without foreign complications or foreign loans. Native genius also has enabled us to carry the military art to a higher pitch than it has ever reached in any other war. Our naval novelties have astonished the world with their effectiveness in combat, and our naval heroes given new and grander examples of wonderful daring. And this great war is also without parallel in the lurid and horrible aspects of its last events—in the fearful dramas of arson, piracy, wholesale murder and assassi- nation with which the fiendish passions of our enemies have characterized its close. There is 8 feature of the close that Europe wilt ander- stand quite as little as it does any of these, and that, in fact, will be incomprehensible on the other sidé'the water; and it is that the whole country will be reconstructed and once more grandly free and progressive in less than a year. Wuat Was Geverat Siceies’ Mission !—We see it stated that General Sickles has returned from his South American mission. {t is said that in his new sphere he has accomplished a splendid victory, which will tend to preserve his military laurels bright and fresh in spite of this scorching weather. We notified the Gen- eral on his sudden and mysterious departure last January that our correspondents would execute a flank movement on him at the first favorable moment, and the letter we published from Panama a month or so since is a very conclusive proof that we have been as good as our word. We might go further, and furnish on the spot the most incontestable evidence that we have overmatched both the General and the American Mazarin at the head of the State Department, by letting out the important secret which has hitherto been so admirably kept. We consider our right to publish all we know undeniable, for we are under no obligations to the State Department, nor to our diplomatic hero; but we forbear for yet a little while longer, as it might be an injury to the public service if we were too explicit on this really weighty matter. That England and France will be filled with indignation, not to say humiliation, we have no doubt, when they come to learn what a brilliant triumph our State Department has achieved over them in the recent mission of General Sickles to Bogota. We beg them forthwith to string up their nerves and get their tempers under due control, for they will have a pill to swallow shortly, however nicely it may be sugar-coated by that very expert confectioner at the head of the State Depart- ment. Gevenat Watxer, Tax Reost ex-Secrerary or War.—We seo it stated that Genoral Walker , the rebel ex-Secretary of War, is applying, “tor @ pardon from Prosident Johnson, and 1 Srurthor- SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1865. + more that he has never been on good terms with Jeff. Davis since the Montgomery govern- ment was born. One of our special corre- spondents in that country at the time has reason to think 0; for while General Walker, as rebel Secretary of War, extended to our correspondent the common civilities which a public man should always extend to the re- presentative of a respectable press, Joff. Davis acted an entirely contrary part, and iasued military warrant in order to secure our correspondent’s permanent residence in a not very agreeable mansion known as the Montgomery jail. Evidently the rebel Presi- dent and his Secretary of War did not agree at that time. The Two States of Virginta and West Virginia. The new State of West Virginia, taken out of the side of old Virginia, has been pretty exten- sively denounced as an unconstitutional opera- tion that must sooner or later be set aside, inas- much as the federal constitution declares that ‘no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State,” &., “with- out the consent of the Legislatures of the States (that is of the Northern States and the new State) as well as of the Congress.” We have, however, an official document before us (the message of Governor Pierpoint to the loyal Legislature of the old State lately in session at Richmond) which shows that the now State of West Virginia is “a fixed tact,” and cannot be shaken. In April, 1861, the State Convention of Vir- ginia (stretching then from the Potomac to the eastern line of Kentucky and the Ohio river) passed in secret its mysterious ordinance of secession declaring Virginia no longer a Stateof the Union, but a member of the Southern confederacy of Jeff. Davis. The State Governor (Letcher) and the State Legislature then in power at Richmond joined in this move- ment. But there was a large body Pe i a loyal provisional State government at Wheel- ing, which declared the Richmond secesh eatab- lishment a spurious affair, and everything con- nected with it. F. H. Pierpoint was chosen the Governor of this Wheeling loyal State organi- zation, He called upon the President of the United States to assist him in suppressing “the domestic violence” then existing in the State, and the assistance asked was promised and given. Thus recognized by the President as the legitimate Governor of Old Virginia, Gov- ernor Pierpoint called a loyal Legislature to- gether at Wheeling. Hunter and Mason, the old Virginia Senators in the United States Con- gress, having joined the rebellion, the loyal Legislature thus called elected two new Sena- tors to fill said-vacancies. They were admitted into the Senate, and thus, by tho acts of that body, the Wheoling-Pierpoint government be- came constitutionally the State government of Old Virginia in her territorial integrity. The new State of West Virginia was organ- ized in the usual way,.and this-new State gov- ernment was set up at Wheeling. Then Pier- point’s government of the old State was re- moved to Alexandria, on the Potomac, and the consent of both these Legislatures, as well as of Congress, having been next obtained, the now State of West Virginia became, under the re- quirements of the federal constitution, a mem- ber of the Union, on the same footing as the old State and all the other States. The Pier- point government of the old State, recognized by President Lincoln, has been also recognized by President Johnson, in tho transfer of Pier point and his Alexandria establishment to Rich- mond, as the rightful government of the State; and thus the division of Virginia into two States is fixed and complete—although the work of a mere handful of men; but in the midst of a huge rebellion they were her loyal citizens, and they were enough. The Supreme Court (Judge Taney delivering its opinion), in several decisions bearing upon this business, has affirmed that in case of an in- surrection in a State the President “must deter- mine what body of men constitute the Legislature before he can act” in the exercise of his authority to suppress such insurrection. The decision of the President in such a case thus determines which is the legal State government. Next, the Supreme Court, in advance of this case, had decreed that “when the Senators and Representatives of a State are admitted into the councils of the Union, the authority of the government under which they are appointed, as well as its republican charac- ter, is recognized by the proper constitational authority, and its decision is binding on every other department of the government, and can- not be questioned,” and this settles the ques- tion. Thus the losses of Old Virginia by the rebel- lion embrace not only the thousands of her able-bodied young men cut off by the war, the widespread destruction of her towns and cities, mills, factories and foundries, the desolation of her fairest agricultural districts, and the over- throw of her institution of slavery, but the cut- ting off into a separate State of one third of her territory of 1861, one sixth of her population, and three fourths of her coal and iron mines, salt and oil springs, &c. And yet, relieved of the incubus of slavery, Old Virginia, within ten years, razeed as she is, may be vastly stronger in population and wealth than ever she has been heretofore. citizens, srrecietiy the a eS sca State, who Reeeind on fi ing, Waat New Yore Has Dons—Cornesronn uyoe anp Report iv Rarerence to Crry Wan Expenses.—We give in another column an important correspondence and report of Super- visor Blunt, chairman of the Volunteering Committee, It is made at the request of Acting Assistant Provost Marshal Colonel Dodge, and gives a full and complete detail of the pro- ceedings and expenditures of the committee, the number of mon for the national de- fence raised by the city of New York, the number of years service, the cost per man per year or for two or three years, the total cost of all the men and the total expendi- tures for war purposes of the city and county of New York from the commencement of the rebellion to its close, Every fact is placed in the clearest light, and challenges the closest investigation. It showy how stupendous the labors of the have been, and gives also evidences of patriotism on the part of the citizens, a4 “Well as the authorities of New York, way/sralleled by those of any other city fo i inion, 3,0 report not only gives the whole number %f men enrolled, but the differont periods of enlistment, under what call and on what par- ticular quote, and tho cost of each man on each partloular call. to perform all this labor connected with volun- teering, and to seoure at the same time the rights and interests of the soldiers, who ever found in the members of the committee, and epecially of its chairman, who ‘was ever pre- sent, their truest friends. It appears from the report that the whole number of men—not including the 26,000 three months men—enrolled for the war from this city was 116,382, and years of service 267,551; that the amount paid in bounties and premiums is $9,870,327, to which must be added expenditures not directly connected with pay- ment of bounties, ench as relief fund, defence committee, &c., amounting to $6,916,261, making a grand total of $17,512,671. In this is included the whole expenses of the Volunteering Committee, from its organization to ita close, which amounts to $724,064 §8—a small percentage on the pis made and for the work accomplished, It appears further thas tie average cost to the public fund of all men enlisted, including expenses of the ittee, is but $160 47, and that the average cost per year of service is $65 45, Of substitutes for enlisted men there were furnished 1,208 by or through Mr. Blunt’s committee, and some $500,000 paid for these by individuals, This was owing to the arrange- ments made and facilities granted by the com- mittee for procuring substitutes, and caused a saying to the county of the above amount— nearly enough to pay the entire expenses of the committee. The entire report is replete with important facts of great interest to the community, and should be carefully read and treasured up for future reference and asevidence of the magnitude of the affairs of this city as connected with the late war of rebellion. z vernor Bramlette has been giving the people of Kentucky some wholesome information in regard to African slavery. He tells them that the institution is dead—stone dead. He advises them to prepare at once for asystem of free Isbor. He calls upon the masses of the landless whites to look to their own interests; he wants the constitutional amendment abolishing and interdicting slavery ratified by Kentucky, and this will no doubt be done by the next Legislature; but he has little or nothing to propose in regard to the black population beyond a fair compensation for their labor. Now, ase leading Southern Uaion man, and in behalf of the present and future material and political interests of the South, we should like to see Governor Bramlette break- ing ground in favor ofa judiciously regulated system of negro suffrage, We want to see all the late rebel States back in Congress next winter, and there is only one thing which can keop them out, and itis a test which is raised to keep them out bya Northern faction anxious only to maintain its own power in Congress. That testis negro suffrage. If the Southern States fight against it they will lose by it; if they'take it into their hands they will soon command a groater degree of power in the political affairs of the country than they have ever had in their best days underslavery. The abolition of slavery has effected a great revolu- tion in regard to the political rights of the negro; but if, under certain limitations, he has voted in the South asa free man in the midst of slavery, what danger can there be to Southern interests in giving him the franchise, slavery being extinguished. Leading Southern men should look into this matter, and decide upon it, not according to the old, but according to the new order of things Tor Question vor Tue Sovrn—Whether the Southern States shall make their four millions of emancipated blacks a political balance of power for the South, or permit the Northern abolition radicals to use this element of politi- cal strength against the South? That is the question. : Music in tho Park. Tho Park Commiasionors announce that there will be music at the Park on the Mall to-day, July 1, com- mencing at half-past four o'clock, P. M., by the Park Band, under tho leadership of B. B. Dodworth, if the weathor is fine. The following is the programme:— PART I. teen cre 4. Polka, “Pliff"’.......-. 5. Overture, ‘Frans Ji 6. Mazurka, ‘The Bell’ 1. Turnes March, “Good Personal Intelligence. H. #. Van Dyck, Esq., late State Superintendent of the Banking Department at Albany, assumes tho dutios of United States Assistant Treasurer in this city this morning. John A. Stewart, whose resignation takes effect to-day, rotarns to the United States Trust Company in the ca- patity of President of that woll known financial insti- tution. Mr. Brown, of Grace churoh, sailed on Wednesday for Europe. Captain Francis C. Speight, of the Twenty-ninth pre- cinct, salle to-day for England on the steamer Erin. He will be absent for about two months, the object being to recruit his health, which for some time past has been bet eee Ho takes with him a letter of introduc- Kennedy, couched in the most taterag tera toi 0 Inspector ‘Tanner of the London de- Frey will probably visit many of the Euro- pean cities before he returns. Foes ——s the Rovian Hoard of the Theatro Franoais, day on the City of New York. Pa pA ps fp, Aon J Avenne Hotel are T. of Congress, of Maine, and Professor Bia calttornia Pts Fpl pn Aa Kota mae ang 1—Major General T. Me 0r, bas R Bate Bates, St. Louis; a aoe F Mr. Honry Toomey, of Calit who bas been re- Soant at teh, one of bi at sonralar appoitaseat, Teavos for Kurops to-day on the steamer Eni wre Count Wydeabruck, Austrian Minister iy the United and family at the are stopping Pavilion Hotel, The Nationa) Loan. PurLavaruta, June 80, 1965. Jay Cooke, United States subscription agent, reports, fubseriptions to-day to the seven-thirty loan to the amount of $2,186,200, cane the following:— First Nouonal Bank of 100,000 Second National Bank 175,000 ‘Third } ecoenny Bank 200,000 First National Bank of 70,000 Second National 200,000 First — Bank 500,000 First Nations 250,000 First National 60,000, Sohafer & 100,080 Fisk & ¥ Blo Evargrille Ne ++ 000 be aumber of individual subsorigtions (9F “gums of It gives tho numbor of 7 850 aod $100 was 1,600. women umanawen, Suna #100. “THE HEALTH OF TSB PARSIDENT. ‘The President's health ts somewhat improved t-day. but he is ngt yet well enough to attend Cabinet mect- ings; consequently none have been held this week. He partially resumed attention to business to-day, aad signed a fow of the large number of papers requiring his eignature which have been accumulating during his il!- ness, The principal cause of his sickness is his close ‘and incessant attention to basiness, he having, as is un- derstood, been out of the executive mansion but twice since taking up bis residence there. It has been his habit to devote allgjthe time from eight o’clock in the ‘morning to ten o'clock at night to the oneorous duties of his office, His family and friends have been urging him to remove to the Soldiers’ Home for the summer months, but thus far have been unable to induce him to do #0. Unless he oan be persuaded to alter his prosent arrange- ments it is feared that bis illness may become protracted and serious. DEPARTURE OF GENERAL MEADE vos FaILapat- ' PHIA. Genera! Meade and a portion of his personal staff left to-day on the quarter-past eleven train for Philadelphia, where his headquarters are to be Lpriapeoraee estab: lished. = A HUNGRY JOUBNALIST’§ APPEAL TO GENBRAL GRANT. General Grant received to-day o letter from.qn enter. ¢ prising attache of a leading New York journal, calling 5 his attention to the fact that he had written up very fully and flattoringly his journey to Chicago and the ovations _ received in the trip, and stating that ashe ‘(082 eritry was in straightened circumstances, ang found living very expensive, &c., any donation that the General might see fit to make as @ compensation would be very gratefully received, and he might rely upon ita being considered strictly confidential. ‘The perusal of the letter highly amused the General. If the New York papers instead of making absurd charges of black mail against the Herat would devote their energies to correcting such practices among their own employes, they would add to the respectability of thetr Journals. Perhaps, by increasing the compensation of their attaches, they might obviate the necessity of their resorting to such disresputable practices. GALB SENT TO ALABAMA FOR TRIAL. @. W. Gale, who, in last December, advertised in the Selma (Ala.) Despatch for oné million dollars to procure the assassination of President Lincoln, William H. Sew- ard and Andrew Johnson, was taken from the Old Capl- ~“ tol Prison to-day and sent back to Alabama for trial. COURT MARTIAL CASES. Among the cases to be tried before tho military com- mission, of which Colonel Chipman ts Judge Advocate, aud which is sitting in this city, is that of a resident of Virginia, who, 3 year ago, conspired with a guorilia to cauge the doath of a loyal citizen, the accused having furnished the guerilla with United States uniform as & disguise. THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. ‘The following is the proper form of all oaths of allegt- ance under existing laws and proclamations :— United Statee of America.—I, ————, of the county of 49 scemmniy swear, in Bey aur zy cog oe, att ure be ibutie fl ally 80} t and det 0 constitution United. States” and the union of the States: thereunder; wa that twill, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all laws and prociamations which have been ‘unde during tho existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves: So help me God. Subscribed and eworn to before me, this —day of —, A. D. 186-. ——, Notary Public, THE COLORED PROPLE OF VIRGINIA. ‘A committee of delegates, representing the colored population of Virginia,"is to be held‘at Alexandria, Au- gust 2, to'take into consideration their present and fu- ture condition, and deviso means for the good.and wel- fare of the colored people throughout the State. LAND FOR AGRIOULTURAL AND MECHANICAL OOLe LEGES. Under the law of 1862 for establishing agricultural and mechanical colleges in the States, there have bees selected for the Btate of Minnesota 119,212 acres of pub- lic land, leaving 8 residue of 787 acres yet to be selected to complete the compliment due the State under the atatute. INCREASE IN THE MONEY ORDER OFFICES. The money order offices are after to-day to be increased from two hundred and eighty to four hundred and twenty, principally in the Woatorn States. Measures have been taken to extend the system to the Pacific coast. The result of the experiment so far has been satisfactory to the Post Office Department, while those who remit small sums of money are perfectly insured frpm loss. THE NEW COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Lewis retires from office to-morrow, to be succeeded by William Orjon, of Now York. PASSPORTS. ‘The number of passports issued at the State Depart- ment during the past month is unprecedentediv large. THE WEATHER. The Hottest Day of the Season—HBffects of the Heat, dé. Yesterday was the hottest, thus far, of the season, an@ but for the prevalance of gentle breeses, that ‘whispered among the leaveses of the treeses,”’ it would have beea entirely too torrid for human endurance. At nine A. M. the thermometer indicated cighty-nine degrees, at twelve M. it stood at ninety two dogrees and at half-past two P. M. it was ninoty-four degrees, at which stage it became too tedious an undertaking for any common mortal to exa- mine the thermometer for indications, and our record was lost. Itis probable, however, that ninety-five de- grees was the highest reached in the shade. At about five P. M. the morcury fell a few degrees, and the evon - ing was more salubrious, yet by no means uncomfort- ably cool, In the language of the Hoosier, yesterday was “gum bot’'—in fact it was summer. About six the mor- cury began to fall, and in fate of thevapproachiag shower tt fell eleven degrees in less than an hour. At belf-past eight o'clock the rain came down pouringly and re- freshingly, and the signs are that the city will be woll washed and the air well cooled. A labourer named John Flynn, while gt work in Third ‘avenuo, near Eighty-fourth street, on Thursday after- noon, was prostrated by the heat. He wae removed te Bellevue Hospital. WASHINGTON. Wasuroron, June 30, 1865. It ts intensely warm here to-day—undoubtedly the warmest day of the year. The temperature has been as high as ninety-six degrees in the shade. Lato this after- noon there was s heavy rain storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning. BOSTON. Bogor, June 30, 1866. At two o'clock this afternoon the thermometer stood | ninety-two degrees in the shade, Invina Hats.—The concert at Irving Hall, for the bene- fit of Mr. Gougler, of the One Hundred and Twonty- seventh New York Volunteers, comes off this evening. Mrs. Mozart, Messrs, Morgan, Mills and Lumbard have very kindly volunteered their services for this occasion. ‘The names of the artists are sufficient guarantee of a good entertainment, and, as the proceeds are for the Denefit of s wounded soldier, there will no doubt be a large audience. ‘The Deserted Rebel Mansion” is the title of another song of Mr. Gougler, just published by ' Horace Waters, Broadway. ‘Woon’s Mixerasis.—The performances of these cole- brated minstrels continue to be largely attended, not- withstanding the sultry state of the weather. ‘“Green- Dakine "’ ie still the chiof atttaction, the performance of which ie nightly greeted with uproarious expressions of merriment. iP Puraperema, June 90, 1666. ‘The contest between the civil and miiitary authorities growing out of the arrest of W. B. N, Cozsons continues, Last night three of the sheriff's deputies proceeded to Provost Marshal Frink’s beedquartera with orders to ar- rost that officer. They wert, driven away by the provost guard, and made 9 return nocerdingly to the Court to- day, Tho matter tes been postponed till to-morrow st nine o'clock, when the heriff will probably call on all citizens to ait, him in arresting the Provost Marshal. ‘There 800m, % he some doubt as to whether the appli- cation fof ygsistance to enforos the arrest should be di- Footed ¥, iho Shotiff or to the Governor. M CORRECTION. Paanmrm, June 90, 1865, ‘A typographical error oocurred in » despatch sent from this city, and pablished in the New York men Sesion this morning Te ts Wiliam BN, Goangon and ot Com: inodore B,.N. Consens