The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS Volume XXX...... No. 193 New York, Thursday, July 13, 1865. THE SITUATION. We publish this morning the War Department order of the 27th ult,, heretofore alluded to in the Hxrap, but not previously given to the public in full, defining the limits of the new military divisions and departments into which the entire country is now divided and sub- divided, and giving their respective commanders. The following are the grand divisions, with their military chiefs:— Firs‘—The Military Division of the Atlantic, Major General George G. Meade, with headquarters at Phila- delphia, Second—The Military Division of the Mississippi, Major General W. T. Sherman, with headquarters at St. Lou's. Third—The Military Division of the Gulf, Major Gene- ral Philip H. Sheridan, with headquarters at New Orleans. Fourti 14 Military Division of the Tennessee, Major Genera! George H. Thomas, with headquarters at Nash- vila. Fifih—The Military Division of the Pacific, Major | General H. W. Halleck, with headquarters at San Frau- | cisco, ‘These divisions are severally subdivided into eighteen | military departments, each with a special commander. | Gencral Hooker, as previously reported in tho Hrrarp, supersedes General Dix in command of the Department | of the East, the headquarters of which are in this city. Provisional Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, issued at | Jackson, the State capital, on the Ist inst., his proclama- tion announcing to the people his appontment by the President, and informing them of the duties with which | he is charged. To ayoid delay in proceedmg with the | work of preparing for the State convention, he reappoints in a large number of the counties the county oflicers who were, under the rebel regime incumbents at the time the national forces took poss:s- sion of the State property, on the 22d of May last; but all are ired to subscribe to the oath of allegiance prescribed by the President, He names as the day for electing delegates to the State conventon the 7th of August proximo, and the 17th of that month as the time, and Jackson as the place for the convention to assemble. | Major General 0. O. Howard, Commissioner of the Bu- reau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, ycs- terday issued a circular of general instruction to his sub- ordinate oilicers throughout the South. The State Com- missioners are to appoint district agents to assist them in the protection of the freedmen, the adjustment of rates of wages to be paid them by the planters, the establishment and management of schools for the education of the colored people, and to make arrango- meats for supplying their medical needs. On these and various other matters monthly reports aro to be rendered. It is particularly charged that no apprenticeship system or other substitute for slavery shail be tolerated. Suffer- ing to some degree, Gencral Howard says, may result from this positive regulation; but suffering, he adds, is preferable to slavery, and is to some extent the neces- sary Consequence of events. Our Chariesion despatches to the Sth inst. are receiyed. ‘The white peopie in the country above Charleston along the Ashley and Cooper rivers were greatly excited in the beginning of the month by reports that the ne- groes in that region, to the number of several thousand, intended to rse in rebellion on the Fourth and march in a body to the city. The stories could be traced to no relablo source; but, to make matters sure, bodies of troops were to different points in the district named. The South Carolinians bave been for some time much annoyed by the garrisoning of various posts in their midst with colored soldiers, whose entire removal has been strongly urged on the military authorities, and there is now a rumor that this is soon to The Fourth of July was cele- brated at Charleston in fine style by the army and navy, there parades of the colored firemen and other colored associations; but the white natives did not take much part in the demonstrations. The appointment by the President of Mr, Benjamin F. Perry to be Provisional Governor of the State gave general satisfaction to the people, and 4 sent taxe place. and were meeting of the Charleston lawyers to express their appro- bation had been held. A company has been formed for the establishient of a now line of steamers between Charles ton and New York, and the Charleston‘ans expect to have through railroad communication with the North com- ploied by the middle of August. The health of Charles. ton fs said to be excellent, except among the negroes, who are still dying in large numbers. that the yellow fever had made its appearance there, but these are pronounced entirely false. A petition to President Johnson, requesting him to pardon the rebel ex-Governor Magrath, is being extensively signed by the South Carolinians, There were romors | was adopted, and reports favoring the construction of a MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. From Mexico some later items of news, dated at the capital to the 27th ult. and at Vera Cruz tothe lst inst., were brought. us in our despatches by the steam- ship Eagle, which arrived here yesterday, from Havana on the 8th inst, The imperialist General Castagny re- ports that he has achieved a great success at the town of La Pasion, in the State of Sonora, having, on the 22d of May, with seventy French soldiers, dispersed in com- plete rout an encampment of twenty-five hun- dred republicans, and captured an imugens? amount of valuable property. As an offset to this, the ‘republicans are driving every opposing thing before them in the State of Michoacan, where, besides other triumphs, General Regules, after an obstinate ent gagement of aday and night, had taken the town of Uruapan and made prisoners of its imperial garrison of three hundred, while in San Luis Potosi and other States the republican guerillas were still giving Maximilian's men an immensity of trouble, No allusion is made by this arrival to the rumored decree from Maximilian ceding Sonora and other Northern Mexican States to Napoleon, which previous advices reported was to be is- sued about the Ist inst. Marshai Bazaine was married to a Mexican lady in the city of Mexico on the 26th ult. The Emperor and Empress were present, and the wed- ding was attended with great display, ‘The government trausport steamship Tilinois and the merchant steamship Empire City arrived here yesterday, from New Orleans on the Ist and 4th inst. respectively, ‘Their dates, however, are nv later than those of the Evening Star, which reached this port early on Tuesday morning. In the international trade convention at Detroit yes- terday a number of questions were introduced and dis- cussed, The matter of tho basis of representation at one time menaced serious difficulty, the Chivago delezates de- ing that cach board of trade should have a vote for every one of its members present, and threatening to withdraw if this were not conceded, A compromis> was finally agreed upon to the effect that each State’s vote shall be numerically the same as its representation in the Electoral College. The Reciprocity treaty was touched ¥pon, a resolution proposing a national board of trade ship canal around Niagara Fails and the enlargement of the Erie Canal wer submitted. Attacks were mi yesterday by a number of the dis- affected laborers, in different wards, on the street clean- ers in the employ of the new contractors. One of the workmen received a severe fracture of the arm during the melee, and others serious injuries, Several of the assailing party were arrested by the police on the corner of Broome and Ludlow streets, Justice Shandley dis- cbayged them on their giving bail to answer the charges, Another meeting of the Cartmen’s and Laborers’ Asso- ciation wus also held, at 76 Prince street, Additional speeches in opposition to the present street cleaning con- tractors, their system and pay, were made; but the pro- ccedings were conducted in an orderly manner. A com- municailon was received from the City Comptroller stat- ing that he would end:avor to be ready to pay the Iaborers on Friday afternoon, The H«rauo’s special in- rday made toxrs of inspection through the ly the whole city, including the most obscure localities, and found that, with the exception of the First ward, they are not so bad as is gencrally be- lieved, though there 1s far more of ashes, garbage and offensive matter everywhere than there ought to be. ‘Tho Board of Education held a meeting last evening, when a report of the Finance Committee was received and adopted making various appropriations for school purposes, amounting in the aggregate to $317,974, Other separate appropriations, amounting altogether to over fifteen thousand dollars, were also votod. Thirty vesseis lately belonging to our navy were yester- day sold at auction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. There was a large attendance of purchasers, and the prizes realized were generally regarded as very fair. An interesting case was before the Surrogate yester- day, involving the question of the ability of executors to account as to estates which have been in their hands for a long period. Mr, James R, Smith, a mer- chant of this city,,and whose estate is said to have been very large in amount, died in 1817, leaving James Boor- man his executor. No inventory of the estate or ac- count of its disposal has ever been filed in the Sur- Togate’s office. Mr. Smith’s grandchildren now de- mand an account and the payment of their legacies, and Mr. Boorman replies that he settled privately, thirty years ago, with their father, now deceased, but never pasyed his accounts in the Surrogate’s Court. He claims that as trusice he cannot be com- pelled to account in that Court, and that, in his capacity of executor merely, he is protected by the lapse o/ time, under the statute of limitations. The petition-rs, in turn, claim that Mr. Boorman has done acts as executor as late as 1863, Etainent counsel appearcd on both sides, NEW YORK HERALD ' whe Next State Election—Formation of Parties. In the present chaotic condition of politi- cal parties, and the unsettled state of the various questions before the country, the ap- proaching fall election in this State, for which the plans are now being industriously laid down, will be the most important since the time of the contest between Jefferson and Adams, and the rivalry of Jefferson and Aaron Burr which succeeded it. At that time the first formation of parties occurred since the triumph of the Revolution of ’76, when they arrayed themselves against each other under the titles of the republican and federal parties. The issue then was clear, distinct and broad. It was based upon the foreign policy of the government, to be shaped upon the existing con- flict between the two leading Powers of Europe. It has been eaid that State rights and other questions made part of the difference between the two parties. But that was not so, The leading issue was upon our foreign policy, and nothing more. The party which obtained ascendancy then in the government of the country has preserved it since, with the excep- tion of a few brief intervals, The nomencla- ture, it is true, was changed, but the principles remained. Parties at the present moment are divided into three divisions:—The radical, or shoddy, republicans; the old democrats, and the adminis- | tration and its friends. If we can judge from the | declared ideas and certain circulars of the shoddy radicals, their principles comprise: first, inveterate opposition to the reconstruction policy of President Johnson, upon the allegation that the Southern States are still under military law, and that they should be kept in that con- dition for an indefinite period ; next the advo- cacy of universal negro suffrage in the South, without any condition as to such qualifications as intelligence or capacity to exercise the fran- chise with judgment; and next, the absurd doctrine of Jay Cooke, that the national debt is a national blessing. Judge Chase appears to be the leader of this party, and Jay Cooke, who is the appointee and organ of Chase, its “guide, philosopher and friend.” This latter doctrine is utterly opposed by the President and the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. McCulloch, a most able financier, has pronounced the national debt a great na- tional burden, and recommended that it should be discharged as soon as possible. In this view the great mass of the people cordially agree. They are not willing that the debt should assume the proportions of four, five, six, or perhaps ten hundred thousand millions, ac- cording to the philosophy of Jay Cooke & Co., and Chase, Wendell Phillips, Greeley & Co. The people have to bear the “burden on their shoulders, and they have no desire that the load shall be increased. Upon these three main questions, then, the shoddy radicals declare themselves explicitly. The old democrats—the disintegrated me mbers of that party which was defeated at the last election for want of common sense and asuper- fluity of bad leaders, together with a mistaken policy—would, no doubt, favor President John- son’s views on negro suffrage. But the demo- cratic party has now no policy nor any leaders. Among the floating particles of all parties—ihe waifs and strays who have lost rudder and compass on the sea of politics, whose troubled waves for the past four years have washed away all the old landmarks—are men of sound sense, with no strong political affiliations at all. All these will probably be found on tho side of the administration. In this state of affairs we are drifting towards the fall election; and hence its importance. New York is the controlling State of the Union, and of all the States is the only one that can and the Surrogate, aftor hearing argumnent, reserved his decision. There was a large number of prisoners disposed of yos- terday in the Court of General Sessions, George Delain was convicted of robbing a returned soldier in a Water street dance house of five hundrod dollars, and remanded for sentence, John Drake, indicted for the hom:cide of Patrick Cavanagh, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fourth degree. He will be sentenced on Friday. Thomas Godfrey, charged with robbing James Murray, at Har- lem, was convicted of grand larceny and sont to the State Prison for five years. Aman known as Jerry Cowsden, an engraver, fifty years of ace, was yesterday arrested in Guttenburg, N. J., by detectives, brought to this city and locked up for examination to answer the charge of being an extensive manufacturer of counterfeits of the fifty cent government notes, The officers surprised Cowsden busy at work in putting the finishing touches on some of his currency, and in his place they found counterfeit notes, of the de- nomination mentioned, of most excellent execution, representing over three thousand dollars; plates, presses, engravers’ tools and other counterfeiting apparatus, all of which were taken charge of by the officers. Edward Maloy, formerly acting as q government de- tective under Colonel Baker, was yesterday arrested at his residence in Bleecker street, near Mulberry, and com- John C. Breckinridge, rebel ex-Seeretary of War, left Havana for England on the 7th inst., accompanied by C. J. Helm, formerly United States Consul at Havana, and more recently representing the rebels at that port in the same capacity. The late rebel blockade runner Owl left Havana for Halifax on the 7th inst. Another ex-blockade runner, the Jeanette, arrived at Havana on the same day from Tampico. The Fourth of July was recognized at Havana in fine | style by the shipping in tho harbor. The steamship Eagle fired salutes, and all the other American vessels wore gaily decked with bunting. The Spanish war ves- sels and all the foreign shipping in port responded by | hoisting the American flag. Our Toronto correspondent states that the execution of Mrs. Surratt caused intense excitement among the rebel conspirators in Canada, They manifested their feelings by wearing crape on their arms, singing secession songs and threatening the President of the United States with terrible retribution, EUROPEAN NEWS. The Cunard steamship Persia, with European advices to the 2d instant—two days later than those previously r.colved—arrived at this port yesterday. The final arrangements in connection with the Atlantic cable had been pushed forward, and in a few days the Great Eastern would be ready to put tosea. Signals wore constantly and successfully being transmitted through the entire length of the cable, which ts sub- merged as it will be in the Atlantic. According to the Paris Patrie, Maximilion's negotia- tions with Rome bad not been broken off, but were still in progress, ‘The approaching elections were the principal political topic in England, The tory opposition in the House of Commons had taken up the recent revelations with regard to the distribution of the Lord Chancellor's patronage, and, unless Lord Westbury should resign, which seemed probable, would doubtless make good electioneering capi- ital out of the official corraption disclosed. ‘The British Board of Trade returns and the Customs duties each exhibited a falling off, In the Bank of France the stock of bullion amounted to $10,000,000, » larger amount than had been reached for many years. United States five-twenties were quoted at 70% a 71 im London on the ist inst, British console were at 904. mitted for examination, on the strength of an affidavit made by John McCullough, keeper of @ public house in Liberty street, who alleges that Maloy swindled him ont of two hundred dollars in May last by representing that a warrant was in his (Maloy’s) possession for the arrest of deponent, and that unless the said sum was paid de- ponent would be taken to Washington and confined in the Old Capitol Prison. It is expected that an examina- tion of the case will take place to-day. ‘The police early yesterday morning surprised two men, named William Temple and Daniel Biddle, engaged in a prize fight in a back room on the second floor of 638 Broadway. There were a number of spectators present, who, however, managed to effect their escape; but the principals, who had both already received pretty severe punishment, were arrested, taken before Justice Hogan, and liberated on giving five hundred dollars bail each to Koop the peace, : Mr. Edwin James, the English lawyer, yesterday ap- peared before Justice Connolly, Fourth district Police Court, and called his attention to certain articles recently published in the Manchester (England) Guardian, 1egard- ing certain criminal cases in this city in which Mr. James was engaged as counsel, and which articles are alloged to be of the most libellous character. The Judge, on read- ing the articles, denounced them as libels; but, as their author could not be discovered, of course no legal pro- ceedings could be taken in the matter, ‘We give in this morning's Hxaatn a report of the trial in Washington of Miss Mary Harris for the murder of A. J. Burroughs, a clerk in th» Troasury Department. ‘The testimony, as well as a number of letters introduced in court, is quite interesting. The stock market was, on the whole, firm yesterday. Governments were nearly steady. Gold was strong, and closed on the street at 141%, and at same price at night. The advance in gold yesterday had no other effect than to render the markets very quiet, But little was done in many articles, and the business altogether was moderate. Petroleum was dull but unchanged. Cotton was steady. Groceries wore steady, with a moderate de- mand. On ’Change things wore mixed. Flour was 5c. a 10c, better, but aM kinds of grain were heavy and lower, Pork was without decided change, Lard was firm and whiskey was steady. A largo falling off in the receipts of beef cattle caused a reaction in the market this week, and, with a good demand, the decline of inst week was nearly or quite recovered, the animals selling at 1}¢c. per pound more, ot from 126, to 170, “Milch cows sold fairly at from §40 to $80.0 $90, Veals were active and higher, ranging from 60, to 100, a 110, Sheep and lambs wore also higher, ‘varying from $4 to $8.0 $0. Hogs were likewise active and higher, ranging from 1030, to 110, The total re- coipts were 4,076 beeves, 86 cows, 1,980 vouls, 1),390 sheep and lamba, and 10,503 hogs define the organization of a party and mould it into shape trom the discordant materials at command. This city is the centre point of the State. It sustains the interests and minisiers to the prosperity of all the other counties, and it pays nearly half the taxation of the whole State. These facts might suggest an issue which any party looking to success at the com- ing election could select to run upon. If the peo- ple of the State generally take proper interest in the metropolis, they will aid any movement to obtain for it @ good and economical govern- ment. The interests of the entire State are bound up in those of the city, and a party ad- vocating the reconstruction of the city govern- ment as a leading portion of its policy would undoubtedly have immense strength. Gov- ernor Fenton is the reputed head of the radical party in the State. Let him accede to the de mands made upon him to clear out the whole government in toto, including the Mayor, Comptroller, Street Commissioner, City In- spector and Croton Board, and appoint new men who will carry outa new policy. If he have the sagacity to do this he may save his party for another year. It is only by a flank move- ment like this that it can be done. If he runson the basis of opposition to President Johnson’s policy the party has no chance at all. It will ‘be inevitably smashed up. So much for the radicals. As for the pros- pects of the democrats—who are no doubt willing to sustain the President in his ideas upon negro suffrage—they have permitted the party to full to pieces through the stupidity of its leaders and the introduction of talse issues, and it is only by remedying past evils and by sustaining boldly the political views of Mr. Johnson with regard to the negro, and the financial views of the Secretary of the Treasury on the speedy liquidation of the national debt, that they can carry the masses with them. There can be no objection to negro suffrage provided it is limited to the intelligent portion of the race and is circumscribed by such rules of qualification as govern the system in the Northern States; but the kind of negro suffrage that the radicals, such as Chase, Phillips, Garrison, Greeley and others demand, is a different thing. The people are as much opposed to that measure as they are to Jay Cooke's national blessing of perpetual debt and perpetual taxation, which the administration has repudiated. By the exercise of some wisdom and judgment now, and the co-opera- tion of sound men all over the country, North, South, East and West, the democrats may yet obtain a victory in this State and the country at large which would keep the party in the ascendancy for a hundred years to come. Crimmnats anp TH Law.—There appears to be a perfect saturnalia among the robbers, thieves and blacklegs all over the country. Our exchanges are filled with horrid details of their operations, including violation of the persons of unprotected ies. Some of their deeds exceed in oudacity anything known in THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1865, the annals of crime.’ We trust that the officers who are called upon to administer the law will discharge their duties fearlessly. Let every one convicted feel its full force, The laws should be unmitigatingly administered, and an end, if possible, put to these rapidly occurring crimes of all sorts. The protection of society demands that our courts should deal out sum- mary justice to the vagabonds. Tar Derrorr Commenctat Convention—Cana- pian Recrrrociry.—Numerous boards of trade ot the United States and the British North American provinces have assembled in general council at Detroit to discuss their commercial relations, the fishing question, the defences of the frontier, &c., &., in view of an enlarged system of reciprocities between these States and said British provinces. The Canadians are on hand to urge the renewal of their late Reciproci- ty treaty with this country, which has been abrogated in consequence of its disadvantages to us in connection with the rebellion, But when these Canadian gentlemen come to put in their propositions for a renewal of said treaty, and the muiual benefits which will flow from it, and all that, we hope the opportunity will be seized by “the Yankees” for obtaining some in- formation in regard to the late conduct of the Ca- nadian authorities, the parties controlling them and their purposes, in the matter of British neu- trality, as illustrated by her Britannic Majesty’s provincia!s from the rise to the downfail and capture of Jeff. Davis. We think it will be proper and expedient to know something of the ins and outs, from the Canadians themselves, of that charming Canadian neu- trality under which rebel highwaymen, finan- ciers, spies, pirates, incendiaries and assas- sins were sheltered, protected and lionized in Canada while concocting and carrying out their devilish plots for the robbery of our banks, the seizure of our lake steamers, the burning of our cities and the murder of the heads of the government of the United States. The Canadian delegates to this Detroit Conven- tion, without a requisition upon them, should make some explanation of that unsatisfactory neutrality which aided and abetted the infamous rebel conspirators involved in these atrocities; but, in default of some voluntary information upon these things, the delegates concerned should be required to enlighten the Convention. Reciprocity is a good thing; but when, in ex- change for our commercial favors we obtained only the reciprocity of “aid and comfort” to our enemies, we had enough of Canadian recipro- city. Before it is renewed we have the right to know the facts and the principal features and purposes connected with this sort of reek: | procity. Tax Conpition oF THE StreETs.—Every year is signalized by at least one spasmodic attempt to improve the condition of the streets. “The attempt is defeated, and then we lapse quietly into our former languor, and matters go on in the old way. The last attempt was the Health Dill of last winter. That was overslaughed in the games of the politicians, and sold out for something more important than the lives of the | people, and now the strects are in a worse con- dition-than they have ever been before, They reek with rotten and fermenting masses of filth, and these masses, one day under the hot sun, the next day under a heavy air that prevents the dissipation of their poisonous vapors, breed the low fevers and children’s diseases that make the fearful mortality of the thickly peopled localities, In the present condition of our municipal system there is no remedy. Property is taxed snfficiently to keep every alley scrupulously clean; but the money is diverted into the pockets of corrupt officials ; it even goes to Albany to defeat proper legisla- tion; and the city streets must remain sluices of filth and the city air a pestilent congregation of vapors. How long will the people stand it? How Jerr. Davis OverteareD Himsetr.—A Mr. Orr, of Mississippi, a leading rebel of that State, has, it appears, come to Washington in search of a pardon. We hope he will get it if the facts in his case, as given to the public, are correctly reported. It appears that Mr. Orr belonged to that powerful party in the rebel Congress last winter which was anxious to get rid of Jeff. Davis, and that to this end their reso- lution for the peace commission of Stephens. Hunter and Campbell was adopted. It further appears, however, that it was the intention of the rebel Congress to send down these commis- sioners with a carte blanche to President Lin- coln; and had this been done there would, doubtless, have followed a treaty of peace, un- der which Jeff. Davis would have been at liber- ty to visit his friends in England. But Jeff, in order to head off his refractory Congress, ac- cepted the commission as his own, and sent it down with his instructions confining the mem- bers to terms of peace “between the two coun- tries.” Davis thought at the time that his ma- nipulation of this affair was an exceedingly smart thing ; but we guess that he entertains a different opinion now as he sits ruminating on “Southern independence” in his quiet casemate of Fortress Monroe. Tae Rapicats AND THE Prestpent.—The radi- cal faction, finding President Johnson immov- able, are now changing their tactics and pre- paring to play the same game upon him that they did upon Mr. Lincoln. They will pretend to support President Johnson, but at the same time throw all the obstacles they can in | the way of his policy, and prevent, if possible, its success in the adjustment of affairs in the Southern States, just as they prolonged the war. This, they imagine, will eventually enable them to secure the adoption of their scheme of treat- ing the States as Territories, including univer- sal negro suffrage. But we are inclined to the belief that they will find President John- son is made of altogether different stuff_ than Mr. Lincoln. ” Henry A. Wisk ann Oty Jonx Brown.—It will be remembered that when Old John Brown was under sentence of death in Virginia, Hon. Fernando Wood, of this city, as. fellow demo- crat of the Southern rights school, wrote a let- ter to Henry A. Wise, at that time Governor of Virginia, pleading against the execution of Brown as a bad political move for the South, and suggesting that it would be better to hang W. H. Seward if they could catch him. It will also be remembered that Wise emphati- cally rejected the advice of Wood, and gloated over the hanging of Brown and its political consequences, This was in 1859, when Wise was the Lord Protector of Virginia and hot upon the trail of the Southern confederacy. What is he and where ishenow? He was the other day in Richmond asking of the govern- ment outhorities the privilege of occupying . his own house. But it is very doubtful if his a school where little darkies are taught to read Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation and to sing John Brown’s body lies mouldering in the grave, But his soul is marebing on, by a daughter of the same Old John Brown. How vastly different might have been this case had the Virginia fire-eater followed the advice of his friend Wood in reference to that crazy old abolition fanatic, John Brown. Aw Arrenpix.—In enumerating the thousand and one positions held by Mr. Deputy Street Commissioner Tweed in the city and county governments, we omitted to mention yesterday his connection with the Family Aid Fund, and also the fact that he is a candidate for election to the State Senate next full. Niblo’s Garden—Arrah. Pogue. New dramas, lke new books and new men, obtain notoriety and excite curiosity, if they do not always s0- cure success, by their fame being heralded im advance of their appearance. The drama “Arrah-na-Pogue,” by Dion Boucicault, which was produced, for the first time in Americs, at Niblo’s theatre lust night, was introduced to us with all the advantages of foreign criticism the most favorable and success the most unprecedented which Perhaps any drama of modern times has enjoyed. Its production in London called out unqualified praise from the critics there, and we have now an opportunity of pronouncing upon the validity of their judgment. Let us premise by saying that the task of constructing a drama which appears to depend materially for its success upon Fensational effects, and yet in which the story is so well told that these illusive accessories may be dispensed with, and still leave the plot and inci- dents invested with an absorbing interest, is no easy cne. This task, wo think, has boon mainly accomplished in the present instance, No doubt the effective scenery, the constant recurrence of incidents which touch the syinpa thies and captivate the heart of the audience, are caleu- lated to carry this piece through with a flattoring ée/a’; but, apart from all these outside influences, which often prevail in works of inferior merit, there is a force in this drama which, although it ia undoubtedly immensely in- creased by the auxiliar‘es of stage effects, ix not wholly dependent upon them, The title of the play is strange to many ears, The custom of fosterage, which is common in many countries of Europe, is regarded in Ireland alone, perhaps, as sacred. The children who are nursed at the same breast, though not related by blood, are esicome much as brothers and sisters, as them; and the love which foster cach other is often as enduring and faithful, whatever be the difference in rank, 2s if they were the offspring of the sam@parcnta, The hervine of this play, Arrab Meelish, is the foster sister of one of the principal char. acters, Beamish MacCoul, a leader in the Irish rebeli on of 1798, in which go taany of tho dominant spirits of Ireland became martyrs, and which will be always mem- orable for the savage cruelly with which the governtnent persecuted all who participated in it, from the peer to the peasaut. The foster brother of Arrah was cast into prison as a rebel, and his friends conceived a plan to rescue ‘him; but how to convey their plans to the captive was a_ difficulty which was only overcome by bis foster sisior vol- untacring to visit him in prison, carrying in her mouth a piece of paper containing the pians for escape, wh’ch, ' pon kiasing him, she passed from her mouth to his. Hence the namo attached to her of ‘“Arrab-na- Pog 1c’ —the latter word in the frish language meaning akias, This incident, however, forms no part of the present drama, except that it is related there, So much for the origin of the naine, The story can be told in brief. It is composed of one of the many episodes of which the period in which it is laid was fruitful. Its leading characters are an Irish refugee seeking. a dangera:s shelter in his own country provious to his flight to France; a county Wicklow car driver, known as haun the Post,” in whom are combined all the characteristics | of the Irish poasant—love, courage and devotion to « friend, even unto death; Arrah Sieclish, the fond and faithful betrothed maiden, willing to risk her life, or, what 1s still dearer, her reputation, to save her foster brother, Beamish McCoul, who is hunted down by the soldiory and the spiesof the government. Shaun tne Post is ber accepted lover, yet even to hm she does not reveal the fact that her toster brother ix concealed in her cottage. The fugitive is betroth«d to Miss Fanny Power, a young lady under the guardianship of Colonel Bagenal O'Grady, wio {s a suitor for her hand. ‘The concealment of Beamish in the cottage of Arrah exct.os the jealousy of Mias Power, and she consents to become the wife oi her guardian. 'Feeny, a British spy and a ‘process server,” names abhorred in Ireland, is an unsuccessful suitor of Arrah, and consequently a bit. ter hater of Shaun, whom through vengeance he accuses of robbing him of a sumo? money which he 1U>gally collected from the confiscated estates of Beamish McCoul, and which tho latter made bim disgorge by tho per- suasive eloquence of half a dozen. ugly looking weapons in the hands of a8 many brave followers. A portion of tho money thus recovered from the scoandrel Feeny, Beamish places in the hands of Arrah, his foster sister, which Feeny, by an adroit scheme, gots ion of, and chat his rival, Shaun, with having stolen. Shaun, rather than exposo the fact that Beamish is in the country, and concealed in Arrab’s re deciares that he haa stolen the money, and accepts his fate, in order to save the fugitive chieftain and preserve the name of hia betrothed bride from suspicion. If the rebol hero did not at once give himself up to the authorities, to save the life of his faithful follower and obtain a pardon for his offences, and if Miss Power were not re- Heved of her suspicions, and at the same time her engagement to her ‘guardian, and if Shaun were not pardcned and reunitd to his faithful Arrah, the story would have an unha| ending, which stories told upon the stage, except throug! the medium of tragedy, in order to be popular, never ought to have. But all these things do happen, and the termination of the piece is pleasant, even the ine!dent—which is perhaps the pl test o. all—the tra. gic ond of the rascal Feeny, who is pitched over a pre- cipice by Shaun while he is endeavoring to obstruct the lattor's escape from the tower in which he was confined, before Shaun heard the good news of his pardon. This plot is worked out, of course, with numerous imcidents, more or less striking, not necessary to be detailed here. ‘The judgment with which they have been introduced by the author and developed by the actors can best be ap- preciated by seeing the play, and we do not desire to spoil the enjoyment of our readers by anticipating effects and excellences which would only deteriorate by d’seryption, The drama is re; nted in three acts, of which the first is decidedly the bost—the finale being expecially effec- tive and natural, indoed, the best scene in the piece. The first scenes of the socond act havo mere strength, more fine points, and admit of betier acting than the closing ecene in the court toom, which is too long, and becomes wear some, bo altogether from its dissimilarity to any- thing of the kind ever witnessed in real life. ‘The third act is, we think, the weakest of all, ‘bly because the incidents depend so much upon machinery for the scenic effects, and neither ropes nor pulleys worked well last night. The scenery of the tower and sea, and the general effect of the of Shaun by climbing up the face of the tower will when everything works scenery throughout and round tower of rish for ery 's gallery. Thi is exceedingly fine; the valicy, lake Glendalough being a faithful picture of that landscape. The grou too, in the tableaux were skilfully managed. costumes might be improved a little, inasmuch as Irish peasants do not wear amber-colored be yi may hay had seen the Colleen Bawn who might ask themselves why it Amy an actor for this pt is Orton in some scenes was excollent as Arrah, although However, her ill no doubt be t continuanes of full houses, Tan Fam or Veuno.—This extraordinary conjurer is drawing large houges at the Stadt theatre every night. He has a wonderful facility of transferring sundry arti- cles—all of immense value, of course—into the posses- sion of some of the audience. This evening, for instance, some lucky ore is promised on the programme a suit of chamber furniture. It is to be hoped that whoever gets it will have a place to put the “elephant” in. ANOTHER HEAVY r's INKSS—OVER SIX MIL- LIONS SUBSCRIBED. Panapetrma, July 12, 1865, Jaye Cooke reports subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan to-day to the amount of $6,110,200, including tho following :— First National Bank of New York .. Second National Bank of Chicago. Third National Bank of Buffalo... , First National Bank of bees vig 5) National Bank of the Republi Vermilye & Co., New York. A. Clews & Co., New York. Franklin Bank, Columbus, Number of individual subscriptions, four Chousand two hundred and seventy-eiaht, THE ARMY. The Present Military Partition of the Country—Five Grand Divisions and Eighteen Departments—Theit Limita- Sherman, Sheridan, leck the Division Chiefs, &c. GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 118. War Deragtuent, Apsutant Gunenat’s Orriog, 'Wasuivarox, June 27, 1865. ‘Tho President directs that the United States be divided into military divis.ons and subdivided into military de- partments, as follows :— DIVISIONS. Fira.—The Military Division of the Atlantic, Major General Geo. G. Meade—To embrace tho Department of the East, the Middle Department, the Department of Vir- ginia, the Department of Norih Carolina and the Depart- ment of South Carolina, headquarters at Philadeiph .—The Military Division of the Mississi Major General W. T. Sherman to command—To embrace the Department of the Ohio, the Departrient of Missourt Le hg) Department of Arkansas, headquarters at St MH Third.—The Military Division of the Gulf, Me General P. H. Sheridan to command—To embrace t) Department of the Mississippi, the Department of Louisiana and Texas, and the Department of Florida, headquarters at New Orleans. Fourth.—The Mil'tary Division of the Tennessee, jor General G. H. Thomas to command—To embrace the Department of Tennessee, the Department of Kentucky, the Department of Georgia and the Department of bama, headquarters at Nashville. Fifth.—The Military Division of the Pacific, Major Gon- eral H. W. Hatleck to command@To embrace the De- partment of Columbia and the Department of Califor- nia, headquarters at San Francisco. DEPARTMENTS. Firtt—The Department of the East, Major General Jo- seph Hooker to command—To embrace the New Eng- land States, New York and New Jersey, headquarters, New York city. Scemd—fhe Middle Department, Major General W. S. Hancock to command—Tfo embrace the States of ‘West Virginin, Maryland, except the counties of Anne Arandol, Prince Georges, Calvert, Charles and St. Marys; the line of the Baltimore and Olio Railroad in Virginia, the States of Dolaware and Ponnsylvania, headquarters at Baltimore. Third—The Department of Washington, Major General ©. C. Augur to command—fo embrace the D strict of Columbia, the counties of Anne Arundel, Princo Georges, Calvert, Carles and St, Marys, in Maryland, and Fairfax county, in Virginia, headquarters at W: rage ce Furth-The Department of the Ohio, Major General FE. 0. C, Ord to command—To embrace the Statos of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, etroit. ‘ifth—The Dopartment of Tei jor General toneman to command—To en the State of oo, headquarters at Knoxville. i tho Department of Kentucky, Major Generag Palmer to cominaud—» cimbrace the State of Kentucky, headquart rs at Louisville. Seventh—-Tho Department of the Mistouri, Major Gencral Ino. Pop to command—To embrace the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Towa, Missouri and Kansas and the Torritori’s of Nebraska, Dakotah and Montana, hoad- quarters at Fort Leavenworth. Bighth—The Department, of Virginia, Major Genoral A. H. Terry to command—To embrace the State of Vir. winia, excepting Fairfax county, and the line of the jaltinore and Ohio Railroad, headquarters at Richmond. Nntih—The Departinent ‘of North Carolina, Major General J. M. nileld to command—To embrace the State of North Carolina, headquarters at Raleigh. Tati—The Departinont of South Carolina, Major General Gilmore to command—To embrace the State of South Carolina, headquarters at Hilton Head. E’eve ti—Tho Department of Goorgia, Major Genoral James B. Steedman to command—To embrace the State of Georvia, headquarters at Augusta, Twelfth--he Department of Florida, Major General John G. Foster to comnand—To embrace the State of Florida, headquarters at Tallah: partment of Mississippi, Major Gen- 'o embrace the state of Missis- sippi, headquarters at Vicksburg. Fouteenth—Ihe Department of Alabama, Major Gen- erul C.K. Wood to command—To embrace the State of Alobaina, headquarters at Mobile. ifirenth—The Department of Louisiana, Major Gen- nby to commuand—To embrace the States of d Texas, headquarters at New Orleans, Touisiana nth. —The Department of Arkansas, Major General . Reynolds to command—To embrace the State of ‘ansas and the Indian Territory, headquarters at Little Rock, Seventeenth.—Tho Department of Columbia, Brigadier General G. Wrizht to command—To embrace tho State of Oregon and T-rritories of Washington and Idaho, head- quartors at Vancouver. Eighteenth,—Department of California, Major General Irwin McDowell to com:mand—To embrace the States of California and Nevada and Territories of Utab, New Mex- ico and Montana, hoadquartors at San Francisco. ‘All officers hereby assigned will proceed, on receipt of this order, to take charge of their respective departments or military divisions. All officers relieved by this order will, on being re- lieved by the proper officer, report by letter to the Adja- tant Genoral for ordera. By order of the President of the United Statos. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. THE FREEDMEN. Instructions to Agents of the Freedm: Bureau in the South. Wasiuxaton, July 12, 1866. Major Genoral Howard, Commissioner of the Bureau of Refngees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, has to-day ordered, in Circular No. 11, that the Assistant Commis- sioners will be careful, in the establishment of sub-dis- tricts, to have the office of the agent at some point casy of access to the people of the sub-districts. He will have at least one agent—cither a citizen, officer or en- listed man—in each sub-district. Ho will be furnished with the proper blanks for contracts, and will institute methods adequate to meet the wants of his districts, in accordance with the rules of the Bureau, No fixed rate of wages will be prescribed for a district; but in order to regulate the wages in given individual cases tho agent should have in mind minimum rates for his own guidance. By careful inquiry as to the hire of an able-bodied man when the pay went to the master, he will have an ap- proximate test of the value of labor. He must, of course, consider the entire change of circumstances, and be sure that the labor has sure protection against avarice or ex- tortion. Wages had better be secured by the crops or lands, Employers are desired to enter into written agree- ments with employes, setting forth stated wages, or se- curing an interest in the crops or land, or both. All such agreements will approved LA the near’st agent and a duplicate filed at his office. In case there should be no agent within reach, the nearest post- master will forward the duplicate of contracts direct to the Assistant Commissioner for the State. Attention is by ae called to section four of the law establishing the Bureau, with regard to setting apart land w every male citizen, whether refugee or freedman, &c., and the same arrangement is recommended when it can be effected between private parties, This course is a re- nition of the general principle in the law. in order to enforce the fulfilment of contracts on both contracting partios, the Commissioner of ths Bureau lays down no general rule. The Assistant Commissioner must use the privilege and authority he already has. Provost courts, military commissions and local courts, when the freedmen and refugees have equal rights with other peo- le, are open to his use. Inthe great majority of cases Bis own arbitrament or that of his agent in the settle- ment by referees will be sufficient. No assistant commissioner or agent is authorized to tolerate compuls unpaid labor, except for the | punishment of crime. Sufering ome here sec | may result to some extent, but suffering is pi to slavery, and is to somo extent the necessary consequence events, In all actions the officers should never forget that no substi- tute for slavery, like apprenticeship without proper consent, or ¢. coniint them without consent to the land by any system—will be tolerated. ‘The Assistant Commissioner will designate one or more of his agents to act as the general superintendent of for each State—for refugees and fmeedmen. ‘This officer will work as much as possible in conjunction with State officers who may have school matters im charge. If ee can be adopted for a State it ig well; but if not, he will at least ¢ cognizance of all that is being done to educate refugees and freedmen, secure: Protection to acl 1d to teachers, method and efficiency, jpond with the nevolent agencies which are supplying his fleld, and aid the Assistant Commissioner in making his required irgeon C. W. Horner, Chief Medical officer of the Bureau, will have the general supervision of medical matters connected with refagees and freedmen. The Assistant Commissioners will instruct their medical and other officers to e hing medical d ‘agents must explain by constant recapitu- Tation the principles: laws and regulations of this Bureaa, to all parties concerned. It is rocommended to the As sistant Commissioners to draw up in writing & an age summary, to be ee privately read ve are directed, by Circular No. it their districts, stant Comm! 10, of July 11, to report monthly as to the number if-supporting refugees and imen in colonies, camps, ‘pote or tals, and on government farms or other lands under the supervision of the jers, and also the number of such persons who may not be so dis- posed of, to whom rations and clothing have boon issued, to what amount, and whether furnished donation oF purchase, It is intended that the first of the above re- porte will emanen period from the Seis ante 8p 00 sistant Commissioners entered ui tee first of the month following the receipt of the above Reports rected tobe made by the Commis. misefonors of rt Oe under their control for the benefit of or freedmen, confiseat et, Lay brief description of each t1 together with the same of the former owner occupant. Hereafter descriptions will be furnished of lands brought under the co oo re heh og ers during the month for w ich their reports are made, ‘stating how ee eet acquired, &c., and made lost to the use of the Bureau will ‘be accounted for with equal accurac; jition to the above, the number of scl waa tdechors at present under the direction ot the Bareau are to be carefu lly reported, and rosters of all officers and civilians employed by each assistant com- missi Sub-oommisaloners, staff officers td =) their ve duties, and how much salary is allot each civilian, ported abe ‘and from what fund it is paid, will be re- upon monthly from the regevtign of the above