The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1865, Page 4

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By them we received our,customn- ary Giles and correspondence. 4 | Tho Atlantic Mail Steamship Company's stcamer Costa | Rica, Captain Tinklepaugh, will sul (day at noon for | California, from the new and extensive pier No. 43 North river, foot of Canal street, ‘The Costa Rica will conneot | at Pauama with the now steamship Sacramento, The | mails will close at the Post Office at half-past (en A, M, | Over4en and a quarter millions of dollars worth of the | seven and three-tenths per cent government bouds were | subscribed for on Saturday last ub fifty mit | lichs of dollnrs of the loan now remain untaken. A man named Brophy having published a statement derosatory to the character of Lewis A, Weichman, an important witness for the prosecution in the teial of the Washington assassination conspirators, and des'gned to | impeach his testimony, Mr. Weiehman has published a reply in which he pronoune y's asservions false from beginning-to ond, and say@@hat lis statement was submitted to the President once, and to Judge Advocate General Holt twice, before the execution, withoat having aay eifect on those gent!omen, | ‘There wore great stir and life yestertay among tho | thousands of German singers: now congregated in this city for the purpose of taking part in their five daya micsical festival. Rehearsals wore held in the morning | for the evening concert and for the in concert, which is to take place to-day, In the afte: ‘a large number> of the visiting singers, as guests the New York sotictics, were taken on excursions to\ different places, and a variety of pastimes were indulged iu. In tho evenjng the reception concert took place at the Academy of Mnsig, which was crowded in every part. Overone thousand singers, including one hundred aud fifty ladies, and one hundred instrumentalists, took part in the musica! performances. \ Bishop MoGill, of Richmond, Va., who is now on a visit to the North, for the first time since the commence- ment of the war, preached an eloquent sermon yesterday at the Paulist Catholic church, in Fifty-ninth street. ‘The funcral services over the body of the late Rev. ‘Newton Heston, pastor of tho,State street Congregational | church, Brooklyn, took place yesterday afternoon in | the presence of a very numerous assemblage. The re- mains were taken to Philadolphia, the native city of de- | ceased, for interment. The readers of the Hzrazp will be enabled to form | some idea of what this establishment has done in the work of keeping them fully informed regarding all the events of the immenso war just olosed by the sketch of the services of our war correspond- ents which we publish this morning. No less than sixty-three of these writers have been in the service ‘of the Herat, chronicling the events of this great strug- hardships of the camp, the march and the voyage, and running the risks of bat- tle. To maintain this force of correspondents has cost us over half million of dollars. Some of these men have died in the service of their country and the Hrra.p, while a number of them have been wounded by the mis- siles of the enemy, and others have undergone long terms of confinement in rebel prisons. Those whose business engagements or pecuniary cir- cumstanc we never yet permitted them to enjoy a visit to the famed White Mountains can enjoy some of the pleasures of the excursion and be enabled to imagine the remainder by reading the sketchy lettors from that elevated region of a Heratp correspondent, publizhed in our columns this morning. . Sitting by a hot stove, drinking hot gin slings, with the window panes encrusted in ice, as the writer describes the order of the day to be now at the Tip Top House, is decidedly neat and comfortable enjoyment for the middle of July. A check for over three thousand three hundred dollars was presented on Saturday atthe Marine Bank, in this sany of our olty carriers who overcharge for the Hznaup. | city, which the officers rofased to cash, suspecting It to Country subscribers to the New Yorn Henaip are re- bo a forgery, and the man presenting it, who gave his quested! to remit their subscriptions, whenever practi- sable, by Post Office Orders. It is the safest mode of transmitting money by mail. Advertizoments should be sent to the office before nine name as W. Brennan, was arrosted and committed for trial, ‘The following persons also were yesterday commit- ted:—George Seit”, charged with stealing one hundred and fifty dollars from Charles Trumper, while the latter was asleep in a room at 15 New Chambers street; Annie ‘YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 17, 18v5. ay, but at nightfall, Gilt and Longstroet { north side he-wonld ave had one lundred to assaulted the posilion at beaver Dam, a mile | seventy—cncugh to 'wateh tho river and whip further west, and were repalsed, These two | the seventy. On the sonth itde he would have were stubborn fights, but not great baitles, had ong bundred:to thirty—fhe seventy om the . On the 27th, at daylight, Hill and Loagatrect | other side. could not have touched hiin—ard renewed tho assault at Beaver Dam; but Me- | Richmond would have been the prize. He even Clollan had already decided to withdraw from | claims tint by concentratign ow the north the position, as Jacksoa, coming down on bia | side be “eonid have beaten the cnemy, there.” right, was sure to turn it, Longstreet and Hill, | He conid have done either—he dit neither. therefore, only encountered a force pliced to | He dceited not to strike for Richmondi and for cheek and retard their advance; so they carried | an anhoroic reason : he might fail; so Ke con- the position, and this made the third of thoir | tinued his retreat. That offered no chance for wonderful “victories.” failure. On the same day camo the first gront battle But Loe bluntered very greatly also. Tho of the series, called by McClellan the battle of | blunders of tho two Ro together, and either, in Jaines’ Mill, and by Lee the battle of tho | the hands of a great pereeptive soldier, would Chickahominy. McClellan had retired his whole | have been annihilate, On the 25th of June line from its advanced,sposition, his left being | McClellan, as he tells us had his preparati on the Chickahominy creck, and his | made for an onset against the enomy’s capital. right swept back 60 rt Bi 4 Tine was almost | His roads and bridges were built, his Jines parallel with the line @f the. Against this | formed, bis supplios up, his troops in hand—all ‘Lee pushed Jackson,,Wwho had now arrived | was ready, and the dogs of war were held in with a command of forty theusand men, Long- | the leash, ready and panting to go. There wag street, A. P. Hill and D. H. Hill, It was a | only one fact be feared, and that, was the enc- ~ fierce battle, and our forces were withdrawn | my’s numbers—the immense power with which across the Chickahominy at-night. That ended | they held the place. HH was to move on the the fighting north of the river. 26th, and on thattvery day Lee, as if in league On the 28th there wasno battle. Our forces | with MoCicllan, moved out of Richmond all ihe were all south of the river and retreating | troops with which he held it, except about through White Oak Swamp, while Lee waited | twenty-five thougand. on thé north side of the river, expecting that McClellan would /attempt to repass the stream and fight his way to the White House. On the 29th occurred the fights at Allen’s. ‘Thére was Richmond defended by only that number, and here were a bundred thousand ready to move against it. Eee made haste to put a river between Richmond and the rest of his force. He took away his heroes—Long- street and Hill—and carried thenr to join Jack- the battle of Savage Station. None of the,| son. Dranken Magruder and impotent Huger troops that Lee had had north of the Chicka- | were the only ones in Richmond, an@ they had hominy were engaged in this. It was the | only two divisions. Lee did all this, even by attempt of the force—under Huger and Ma- | his own showing. It was the most complete gruder—that Lee had left in the lines around | division of forces ever seen. He kept his forces Richmond to storm the position held by our | thus divided for three days—the 26th, 27th and rear guard. Meantime, however, Jackson was | 28th of June. On one of these days Lee and hurrying across the Chickahominy in rear of | his army were alone on the north side of the this position to get at us, and Longstreet and | Chickahominy. “The bridges,” says Lee “were Hill, who bad marched up the Chickshominy | destroyed, their reconstruction impracticable.” and recrossed it, were hurrying down on the | That is, McClellan’s hundred thousand were on Richmond side to get at McClellan’s flank, or, | the same side of the river with Richmond, it may be, they thought it was to save Rich- | and only Magrader and Huger stood between. mond. But Magruder and Huger were re- | Lee, with seventy thousand, was om the other pulsed, and we withdrew from Savage Station | side the river, and couldn’t get across; he was at night, out of the fight. This lasted all day, and Mc- On June 80 occurred the battle in White | Clellan employed that day in securing his re- Oak Swamp, and that at Glendale, which the | treat. One hour of Sheridan on that 28th of enemy call the battle of Nelson’s farm. We | June would have given us Richmond, and Lee* had gotten through the swamp and burned the | would never have been heard of again as a bridges, and now formed a line that faced | general. He must have died with shame. towards Richmond, its right being in the But the discrepancy between the statensents swamp, its left at Malvern Hill, on the James. | of facts in these two reports is not greater Glendale was near the centre of this line. Long- | than their difference of tone. McClellan’s ex- street and Hill were trying to force our position | hibits a strange mental condition. He never at Glendale, and expecting Jackson to come | once considers how he can defeat his enemy’s through the swamp and help. If he could | grand attempt, but only how he can got away. have gotten through he would have been in | He is anxious to put on some one else’s the rear of us at Glendale, but he could not get | shoulders the responsibility of the defkat in through. Franklin.held him all day as a giant | battles that have not yet begun. He has from would hold an infant. Longstreet and Hill | the first made up his mind to be-beaten. His were consequently held with equal ease-at have the despondency of “last Glendale. We withdrew from both positions | words.” His apprehensions have doubled the at night. size of Lee’s army, and that has made him On July 1 was fought the battle at Malvern’) hopeless, His mind is so preoccupied with re- Hill. Our force was tolerably concentrated. | treat that, even when he has whipped the Jackson, Huger and Magruder assaulted our | enemy—by his own showing and the enemy’s position, and were repulsed with very great | showing—he sees no other advantage but that Farm, Peach Orchard, and so on, that may properly be classed under a general head as ‘o'clook ‘in the evoning. | ednceufuntsnbtnaeisoiiony iii | Spencer and Catherine Lowery, of 398 Canal street, on THE SITUATION. ! ebarge of stealing from Annie Wilson, of the same house, : one bundrod dollars worth of wearing apparel; John ‘Tho Seorotary of the Interior, Ina communication of | Henderson, for picking a gold watch from the pocket of tmatructions to the Commissioner of Indian Aftairs, | Henry Kern, one of the German singers, during Saturday loss. We withdrew at night. it gives him the opportunity to run a little Such is the record. It is obvious that the | further. Little as we are disposed to glorify important battle was the one at Gaines’ Mill. All that went before was preliminary to that, Lee, it must be acknowledged that the tone of his report is very different from this, and that it states that in future dealings with hostile Indians the Taterior Dopartment will subordinate its action to the policy and operations of the War Department, and the Commissionor is requested to instruct the superin- tondonw and agents to make no deliveries of money or goods to any tribes or bands in hostility to the govern- ‘meat, and to suspend all intercourse with them, except- ing #0 far as may be sanctioned by the officers of the War Departmoat. WH The rode ex.Governor Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, tm an address which he has issued to the people of that Stato, advises them to submit gracefully to the emancipation of their slaves, to take the oath of alle- giance and qualify themselves for voters, to ebeer- fully join in maintenance of the national govern- mont, to acquiesce in the measures taken for the restoration of civil government in their Common- woalth, and to give the administration of President Johnson a cordial support. In his description of a trip from Augusta, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama, one of the Heap correspond- ents throws much additional light on affairs in the States ‘oamed, including matters relating to the new system of labor, the erops and the confused and impoverished con- night's demonstration, and William H. McGuire, charged with burglary and attempted robbery at 222 avenue B. The Chickahominy Campaign—The Re- ports of Generals Lee and McClellan. General Lee’s report of the operations before Richmond subsequent to the battle of the Seven Pines is a very interesting document. General McClellan’s report of the same events lus been bdeforo the public for considerable time, and has been freely commented upon. But the set assaults of professional critics, hav- ing no other purpose but to write McClellan down, have had comparatively little effect, while it is certain that the quiet story told by General Lee will damage McClellan’s military reputation beyond repair. In the comparison of the two reports we must find the historic truth of the story; and that historic truth will forever show McClellan in a light scarcely less than ridiculous. All the story of that terrible fighting which began at Mechanicsville and ended at Malvern Hill has, from the commencement, been foggy. The mass of the people have never distinctly and what followed was the necessary conse- | always contemplates in a manly spirit the le- quence of the loss of it. McClellan having lost | gitimate objects of s soldier’s ambition— that battle was compelled to relinquish his | victory and the destruction of all opposing € min which the war loft the people and the various understood it. The correspondents got mixed “fits, up at the start, hardly knew where they were “1 enter The fre : 4 “indent, «isc edad Sad aa pai ing | and never found out until they awoke at West- FECOTOOE ean a ph, ® acquis: | over, Then they began to write confused do- tion of thee, diy T's have settled down to work OD | sovintions, in which the fights they had seen tho plantations; but *'2Y of them have yet to be} wore frightfully muddled with one another aoght that freedom 884 {dees are not *y- ang with the fights they had heard sonymona In Georgia, it is said, the planters | shout, No one untangled this snarl. ‘havo this year to great extent, instead offeoton, | pings the people were deprived of planted corn, of which an immense crop is anticipated. ! the readiest means of information, and never Though some of the landed Proprietors are determined | made up the loss. Correspondents had before not to omploy their foriner slaves as hired laborers, the | and have since furnished intelligible schemes ‘majority are disposed to give the free labor system a {air ‘trial, and are confident that if the negroes will work in: Avatriously both they and their employers will be bene fived by tho change, and that the lanés and allother | kinds of property will ina very short time be far more | valuable than ever they were under the existence of | slavery. In the States of Missizsippi, Louisiana and Texas, our | correspondence informs us, the cotton, sugar and corn } In Northern | crops promise a most abundant yiclt! Louiniana the negroes, a8 in other portions of the try, having imbibed erroneous ideas of freedom, we wbandoning tho country for the towns, and agricultare | was in danger of being seriously interrupted, when Geue- ral Custor issued at Alexandria an order and took the nocessary tnililary measures to put a stop to the evil ‘The One Hundred and Vifty-second New York regiment arrived in this city on futurday night, The following regiments arrived yesterday:—The Seventeenth and Bixty-first New York, the Kioventh and Fifty-eighth Massachusetta, the Seventeenth Vermont and the Second Rhode stand. It is expected that the Trish Legion will arrive this morning. EVROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamship Hansa, from Bromen on 1 Bouthampton on the Sth inst., with advices thre later, arrived at this port early this mor Mr. Seward’s official despagch to Sir Fredoriek 's tho British Minister in Washington, in answer t notification that Great Britain recognized the termine of tho rebellion against our government, had beon laid before Parliament. or skeletons of battles and campaigns, that en- able the people to grasp each as a unit and put in the proper places all facts that might subse- quently come to hand. But this no one ever did for the seven days. It is therefore only proper to run over the names and relation of the various fights at present in order to make more clear a comparison of what is said by the two generals. Lee was in Richmond with about sixty thou- cand men, and McClellan was in front of it with | certainly not less than one hundred thousand ; Jackson, with forty thousand, was marching to join Lee. The notable natural feature in the theatre of operations was the Chickahominy river. That stroam traverses the country about four or five miles north of Richmond, ina direc- | tion very nearly east and west, and runs through an extensive tract of marshy land to the northeast and east of Richmond, known as White Oak Swamp. McClellan's left reated on thia swamp, which Lee supposed to be impas- sable for an army. His line crossed the stream, and his right rested on Beaver Dam, a tributary of the Chickahominy, he having a small force thrown out about a mile further, in the village of Mechanicsville. MeClellan’s right was therefore north of Rich- | mond, witht the Ohickahominy between his line and the city. His left was due east of Rich- mond, without. any river between the city and ‘The people of England wore principally engrossed with the forthcoming elections. ‘The resignation of Lord Westbury, the Lord Chance! for, had been sont in to the government, and it was un Aeratood that it would be acospted. After a long and animated dobate on the 3d instant, in the House of Com mous, & adovted resolution consuring the Lord Chancellor was his troops. The fighting began on McClellan’s right, north of the city and on the north side of the Chickahominy river. On the 26th of June, at noon, A. P. Hill as- saulted Mechanicsville and captured it, driving out our forces, which were not large, and {which rotired to Boaver Dam, On the same position and get a new base. Had he won that battle he would not only have held his position, but he would have destroyed the force with which Lee fought it. That it was within his power to win that battle, to make that day decisive against the enemy, and to turn their apparent victory into positive disaster, is obvi- ous both from the report ot McClellan ard the report of Lee. McClellan tells us very clearly the reason why he lost the battle. It was because he opposed to the seventy thousand men under Lee only half that number. Lee tells usthat in that battle he moved his whole line against our position, comprising the com- mands of Longstreet, Jackson and the two Hills. McClellan estimated that force at seventy thousand, and that must have been very nearly right. McClellan assures us that Porter only had thirty-five thousand, and he wrote to the President the next day that “a few thousand more men would have changed this battle from @ defeat to a victory.” With “a few thousand more men” he could have turned the tide of that important hattle, and yet he had on the other side of the Chicka- hominy, hardly half « day’s march away, sixty thousand men. Why was that force idle? Why | were Hooker and Kearny left at Barker’s farm to lisien to the fire and stand still? Why were the divisions of Sedgwick, Richardson and | Couch not put into it? Sumner, Heintzelman, ; Keyes and Franklin were all on that day fit to fight for the grandest empire under the sun, { and the corps of any one of these would have changed the result. But these troops were not used on that day, because General McClellan | was the victim of a delusion. He was utterly and shamefully fooled by the manauvres of | He had made up his mind that | General Lee. Lee had two hundred thousand men; that seventy thousand were pounding Porter, and were at Richmond ready to pounce down and | gobble up Sumner, Heintzelman and the rest. And, the proof that they were not there is | pyyxpssin.—The civil affairs in the State of | found in the fact that they did not do it. That large force existed only in McClellan’s imagination and on the pages of his “secret service” report. Lee’s main force was in front of Porter, | and a force of twenty-five or thirty thou- sand held the Richmond lines; and in order | to prevent McClellan from reinforcing Porter they made a great noise, as is usual in such cases. They were successful ; for McClellan watched them with the largest part of hisarmy. That he did so watch them is evident from his own report, and that the force in front of Rich- mond was inconsiderable is evident from Lee’s report, as well as from every fret in the history of the event. McClellan reports a battle on that side, and Lee does not even mention it. There, then, was McClellan’s humiliating blun- der. As he acknowledges, it was possible for him to concentrate his force on either side of the Chickahominy. have the preponderance of numbers. The inducement to concentrate on the north side | tion is whether a. simultaneous attack, upon On either side he would | power. Tae Bram Carckexs.—In the Blair coop there are a great many chickens—old roosters, fighting cocks, hens, pullets, bantams and little’ chicks. When Old Blair wants to make a point anywhere he'selects one of his chickens to open the campaign. Montgomery was re- cently sent down into Maryland, with his comb cut and his gaffs on, to pitch into Secretary Seward, which he did with all the vigor that could reasonably be expected from a man who had been turned out of the Cabinet and was very anxious to get back again. General Blair, a genuine game cock, was despatched to Kentucky, where he assailed Chase and Stan- ton with equal spirit. What Old Blair intends by these prelimina- ries is not very evident. President Johnson and Secretary Seward are apparently in sweet accord upon the Monroe: doctrine, to which topic Montgomery directs his attention; and Stanton appears to be: under the especial pro- tection of the President and his organs. No doubt Old Blair would like to carry his family coop right into the White: House kitchen, oust the Chevalier Forney,.an@ let his chickens run about and pick up the Presidential crumbs and scratch at the Presidential gravel; but the ques- Seward and Stanton is.the best mode to;accom- plish this result. Old Blair may discover that in attacking these two. Secretaries he is. hitting President Johnson; and Andy may hit back | and kick over, the entire coop before long. Assaults upon Chase are always in order, and | into the Cabinet by laying out the Chief Jus- ' tice, like a dead coek in the pit. But Seward and Stanton are under President’s Johnson’s | own eye, and so long as he approves of their | eackle against them in vain. Parson Browntow axp THE ConprTiIoN oF Tennessee under the administration of Gov- ernor Brownlow do not appear to be moving ; along very smoothly. The Parson is one of | those eccentric and obstinate men who have not a particle of conciliation in their composition. | His fort is in pronouncing anathemas and in | damning his opponents in the fire and brim- stone style, Insiead of quieting the bicker- ings, allaying animosities and conciliating con- against the sharp corners of the different inter- ests in his State, and thas increasing the. ¢on- tention among the people. Maintaining his pre- judice with all his original bitterness, he bids | fair to endanger the peace and order of the State. Owing to these peculiarities of the Par- | son, we should not be surprised if Tennessee ! during his ontire term of office. Mrs. Groxpy at Apsany.—When Thurlow Mrs. Grandy was putin charge. This old lady was the chance to destroy Leo’s army by a magnificent battle, The inducement to concen- | trate on the south side was the chance to cap- ture Richmond almost without a battle. On the talks upon every conceivable subject under heaven. Sometimes she talks well, sometimes badly, and sometimes indifferently; but the trouble with her is that she talks too mach. Montgomery might possibly peck his way back | that the other hundred and thirty thousand | proceedings the Btair chickens will crow and | flicting interests, he is constantly rubbing | | remained in a condition of turmoil and strife | Weed lett the Albany Bvening Journal a sort of Courraums now Sovptema.—Wo havo re- ceived of late numerous letters from our gal- lant soldiers filled with all manner of com- plgints in regard to their treatment. . We have been flgoded with these missives, many of them presenting grievances which the government is in daty bound to correch Theso letters come from various s2ctions—from Washington, Northern Virginie, Potorsburg, Richmond, North Caroliva, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ake eamps in and around this city. A large proportion of the mumbey complain of the food and horrible fare; and th failure to ge! their pay. It is evi- dent from theee complaints that the contractors consider: that’ @hix is -thetr last opportunity to supply, the camps wilh food, and are farnish- ing just as small am amount and as poor a qual- ity as possible, im order make a good (hing while fey have a ebance. The soldiers all unite ithe etatoment that they fared much better while at the fromt in the trenches and en- gagel in Buttle. There is no excuse for this, and the goverment should eee that ii is cor- rected without delay. The complaints about not receiving their poy for six amd eight months, and in many instances having -been taken to campa to be mustered out, and detained beeause the ipay- master is off speculating with their fands, are also numerous; Still others that their com- pany commanders rofise to make out their pay rolls, and companies are thns kept from their homes:wher most of their regimont have been paid off and mustered out. Then thore are assertions that men who have served but a few months and received enormous boun- ties are mustered out, while men who have served through the whole war, with no boun- ties, are retained. There are also many griev- ous tales of poor fare and worse surgical treatment in the hospitals. One soldier says he had a piece of cheese about as large as the end of his’ thumb eace in several days, a dish of spoiled water, called coffee, and ‘the balance ofthe time only bread and wator. Those and numerous ether grievances are re- lated by our gallant heroes in pitiful strains. They all ask if that isthe kind of treatmoni and pay which they are to receive as s recom- ponse for their service to their country. While we have no: desire to unjustly censare the administration, or in: any way interfere in the selection of mem te be discharged and those to be retained in tte service, yet it seems ‘to us that many bf those: grievances complained of can be and should be immediately remedied. There is no excuse for keeping our veterans on poorer fare than they had when engaged in battle, nor in allowing company officers or pay- masters to neglect their duties to the detriment of the private soldier. As long as they sre in the service they should be treated just es well as when in battle; and the officers held’ to just as strict accountability in the discharge of their duties, To the soldiers. we would also say that they must exercise: patience. Our army was a large one; and the adjustment from:a condi- tion of war to that of peace eannot.be done in one day; but this, however, is no excuse for the neglect of’ duty by any surgeon, pay- master, contractor or officer of any grade:. Let one and all push their part of the work. for- ward as fast as possigle, and all will soon be relieved, the:daily expenses of the government materially reduced,.and the people relieved to just that extent from taxation. Governor Fanton anv Our Crry ArrAIRs:— Governor Fenton: ought to pay this city a visit. He bas a duty to perform here, and if he have any pluck, backbone: and common sense he will attend. to it at once. We object to the idea that a Governor is only elected. to draw his. salary. He must work for the people and earmhis salary fairly. Instead of retiring into the country to doze and dream through the summer months, Governor Fenton should come down to. the metropolis and investigate our affairs. He will! see, before he has-been here many days, that the shortest, simplest and best way to-reform the municipal abuses of which we complain is: to remove the Mayor and all ,the heads of departments, including such depu- ties as Tweed, who are the real heads, although they are-‘nominally subordinate. We make no single-individual in the municipal government bearthe burden of our grievanees. We com- plain: of the: whole lot of them and demand their remowal:. If in this clean sweep any indi- vidual is treated unjustly, he has his remedy by appealing to the people. Let the Gowernor wake up and visit this me- tropolis, and he will be surprised to find that our-city government is actually driving people out of the State. The heavy taxes, made-neces- sary by the corrupt extmvagances of our rulers, foree our population to seck refuge and relief’ over in New Jersey. In addition to the large annual taxes which our people have to pay, there is a bareau connected with the Street Department which levies a tax of two and a half per cent upon all improve- menis of city property. This is the reason why #0 much property in this city lies unimpreved, while our cilizens are crowded into.fever-hreed- ing tenement houses, or compelled to pay ex- orbitant rents, or driven across the ferry into another State. This is the reason why New body can own his own house unless he be a comparatively rich man. The poor man has no chance of obtaining a little domicil as an in- vestment for his savings. Enormous taxes op- press him the moment he buys a foot of land. | But Governor Fenton, instead of stepping for- ward to relieve the poor man and to defend the rich man, actually allows this State to be de- frauded of some of its population and a portion | of its wealth. We say that this is not a mere local matter. It is a matter in which the whole State is interested; and Governor Fenton, as the guardian and representative of the State, neglects his duty by not attending to our com- plaints immediately. Perrotkom Swixpuers.—The exposé of the tricks and dodges resorted to by the ring in one of the petroleum boards, which we pub- lished yesterday, reveals the fact that the swindling operations in the petroleum line | have been transferred to the Petroleum Stock Exchange. There is an old proverb that trath lies at the bottom of a well; but it is evident | that it is not to be foufd at the bottom of an | oll well, Under the financial policy which the | thembers of the petroleum ring have adopted, the manner in which so many sudden fortunes are made is easily seen. The violation of all honor and contracts, and the deliberate adop- tion of resolves to take money out of other people’s pockets and put it in their own, which appears to be in vogue in the Broad street board, is one of the coolest financial opera- York is the only city in the world where no-| tions of this fast age. But we thas this oily scheme will bring many of these phi- losophers into trouble. Already one leaders of the movement has been’ to the attentiow of the Grand Jury. Tae Exrenses: or tue Hemera Comps ov War Corresronvents.—As an evidence of the immense expense incarred by the Heratp im originating, organizing and conducting its corps of war correspondents, we publish this mora- ing brief statement of the numbess, names, adventures and expenses of the writers en- gaged. It isthe story iy bricf of an organiza- tion which had no preceglent in the armals of the press, and’ one whicts was never equalled in point of numbers or ability by any of its numerous imitators. It was’ reserved for the HuraLy not only to origiante this, the only practical scheme for obtaining war news, but also to organize the’ largest force of writers ever engaged ‘by one paper We have regu- larly employed more war correspondents, at’ greater annual expense, than’all the rest of the New York papers combingd: These writers ate all retained in our service; and’we expect” to pay still more for our records of thie victo» ries of the peace now happily inaugdrated tham we did for those of the war now gloriously: cadek: ‘ Pa > A Soupmnrs’ Parry.—There is a fine: oppor tunity now for the returned soldiers and sailors to organize » powerful independent party. The old political parties are, ina’ measure, disin- tegrated. They are all at sea; beating’ about wildly for some issue upon which to, faster. that will give them strength for the coming election. There is ome honest cause mwhich the returned soldiers and sailors: of the war can enlist and whip the politicians’ out of the field, and that is the @ause: of géneral recon struction of our city government. It' is the most popular. idea of the day, and’ wiiatever party takes it up will be regarded as’ a public benefactor. Tho radical republicans are beat- ing their heads against President Jobnson’s: negro suffrage policy, and hugging 40) their bosoms Jay Cooke’s national blessing—em: un- limited debt. The democrats are without:lead- ersor policy. Now, then, is the time: for: the soldiers and sailors to take the matter into: their own hands. The United Service Society, for instance, might make-an excellent: nucleus forthe organisation of such a party.. There is plenty of material there, and it would'be about the best place for sucha movement: to hail from. A Svacesrion.—It is declared that’ ifi Jeff Dayis be hanged for treason he will become a: martyr; that his execution as a political offen- der will give dignity to a career that now ra- pidly declines toward tlie contemptible. Sup- pose this to be so, there is yet a very strong public opinion not willing to sée the wretch. set free. We therofore.suggest that his case be taken up on behalf of any one of the ten mar dered by his agency at Libby prison-or at Andersonyille. The blood of thousfinds of Union men K'lled in that cowardly and terrible way cries out for justice against their wilful and cold-purposed murderer, and the families of those patriots will be justly horrified if the atrocious criminal shall ever be feasted im London and boast of his crimes in after-dinner speeches, surrounded by the enemies of this country. Banparrry 1x East Tennessee.—“Worthy and truthful” gentlemen from East Tennessee are trying to get up an excitement about the bad treatment that returned rebel soldiers and other representatives of the rebellion recelve from the Union men of East Tennessee. It is all very bad and lamentable, no doubt; but we can inform the “worthy and truthful” gentle- men that it will be very difficult to excite the country on this sabject. The reason is that the country has got so used to hearing of barbar ism in East Ternessee that it does not mind it any longer. When the rebels had the upper hand in that section they gave us so many and such magnificent instances of barbarity that the public: sympathy was quite used up by hearing of them; and now, even when the tables are-turned, ihe country don’t care. Tae Boarp or Epvucation.—We published’ a few days-ago a communication’ from a teacher in one of our public schools, showing another reason why the Board of Education should be thoroughly overhauled and: reorganized. This reason is. @ financial one. It is alleged that teachers’ salaries are not paid regularly, and that the Board, despite the sums appropriated for its use, isalways making a pretence to bank- muptey. Will some one tell us why this is, or must we suppose that it is for the old and or- dinary reason of corraption? It is not difficult, to believe that the Board, which had done so much to demoralize the schools in one way, sheuld have in its midst plenty of plunder + ho. VIRGINIA. Our Richmond Correspondence. Ricamonn, Va., July 14, 1866. THR RICHMOND CITY ELECTION, The Governor last evening issued his writ authorizing ‘fa.municipal clection, to be held im this city on the 25th of the current month. The officers to be elected area Mayor, Judge of the Hustings Court, Sergeant, Colleot or Asseasor, Guager, Grain Measurer, Superintendent of Gas Works, Superintendent of Water Works, Superin- tendent of Poor House, Constable, five Common Counct!- men for each ward, five Aldermen for each ward, Clerk of the Hustings Court, Surveyor of the city, Attorney for the Commonwealth for the Hustings Court, Sheriff of the city, Clerk of the Cireult Court, Attorney for the Commonwealth for the Circuit Court, and three Commis- sioners of the Revenne. The candidates are numerous. Hon, Reverdy Johnson, United States Senator from Maryland, arrived in the city last evening, as counsel for the citizens who are disposed to resist the Confiscation act, THE FRENCH TOBACCO has arrived at Fortress Monroe. MILITARY, 2 ‘The Twenty-first Pennsylvania Ohio have been mustered out of the sorvios, and leave this morning for their homes, Battery of the Fifth United States regular artillery, Lieutenant Morlenbergh, has been ordered to Lynchburg, where M. Curtis commands. ex.Governor of Virginia, has arrived in the olty, The Assassins, CARD FROM WEISCHMAN, WITNESS IN THE CON- SPIRACY TRIAL. Puiapeienia, July 16, 1865. Weischman, the principal witness for the government | in the conapitncy cases, publishes @ card in one of the papers of this city, stating that the statement of Brophy his character and testimony isa tissue of ginning to end; that the said statement was twice submitted to Judge Holt and once to President Johnson and all the members of the court before the thout any effect; that it was only at Fs aly Voquest that he was even not called to the ron tyy entity to Welschman’s good character, | The card also details some conversation of Mra. Surratt, impeaching lies from be; which did not appear before the court, showing her * jodge of the conspiracy. He says Brophy is an ao, ‘tanaturalized, and haa never taken the oath of allegiance to the i ho attempts to osgail in the vorson of its chief witness, ‘ ’