The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. COBNEB OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS TERMS cash in advance, Money sent by mail will be atthe risk of the sender. None but bank bills current in New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Annual subscription price, $14. NO NOTICE taken of Anonymous correspondence, We Four cents per copy. do not return rejected communications. Volume XEX.......5.0.ce see ceee ee eees se NOs ZOU AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street —Afternoon— Jmary Lind—A Dowustio Dkaaa—ANtonY AnD CLEOPATKA— Bauney tax Baroy. Evening—Mouwixe Cati—Las Deux re—Hanpy ANDY—Mx. anp Mus. Waits. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lavaa Wuen You Can—Kwigut ov Anva—Iuisa Tiaee. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Iaisn Emigrast— Hanpy Anpr. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Agean-na-Poaus; on, ux Wicktow Weppinc. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Rivat Ogaxce Gints—G anna. WoOOD’s MINSTREL HALL,’ 514 Broadway. —Ermroriay (a8, Dances, &0.—Cuauienax Daxcz—Tax Conscxirrs. HELLER’S HALL, 585 Broadway.—San Fraycrsoo Min- raxus—Er! B Buiaavx. mioriaN SINGING, Dancwa, &c.—TuR Lack HOOLEY’S HALL, 201 eruKis—I", Bowery.—Sam Swaneier's Min- ‘eeLon Conckat—Carsivat Or Fun—Sturip Skx- VaNT. BOWERY THEATRE, areeis ix Soxcs, Dances, Bowery.—Guopgs Ounisrr’'s Mun. ousLe BEeppeD Room. STADT THEATRE, 47 Bowery.—Tux Faxtn or 4 Visunu's Magical, Somxes np Give Ewrmerainuxyts, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— M. tll lo P. M. Open trom 10 A. ork, Friday, July 21, 1865. THE SITUATION. Provisional Goyernor Perry, of South Carolina, has pre- pared and forwarded to his State from Washington a pro- clamation appointing an election to be held on the 6th of November next to choose delegates to the State Con- vention, which is to assemble on the 20th of the same month. Now Orleans telegrams of the 18th inst. confirm pre- vious reports to the effect that the artillery and other property sold by the Tox as rebels to the Mexican impo- rialists after Kirby Smith’s surronder has been given up to our mililary authoritios by order of Maximilian. The report of the departure to Mexico of Generals Kirby Smith, Price, Magruder, Shelby, Douglass and Jackson, with a number of their followers, and Governors Moore and Allen, of Loutsiana, ts also confirmed. Genet and Clark and Murrah, of Texas, ral Canby is now in command of the States of Louisiana and Texas. The report of the Congressional Committee on the Con- duct of the War on General Butler's Fort Fisher expedi- tion and fadlure has beon made public. A large mass of testimony was taken, after sifting which the. mombers came to the conclusion that, considering all the circum. stances,{the General was justifiable in withdrawing his forces without attempting to capture the fort. The com- mittee, though only required to investigate regarding the first expedition, extended their examination in some de- gree to the second and successful one, under General Terry, and instanc®, as one important cause of its suc- ess, a cordiality of co-operation between the army and the navy which they vay was lacking on the first occa- sion. The election in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday last, resulted in the success of the candidates denominated secessionists, who are not suspected of any great love for or loyaity to the national government. The voting is Jaid to have been done principally by the paroled soldiers of Lee's army. One of our Washington correspondents states that Voneral Strother, Adjutant General to Governor Pierpoint, df Virginia, had a prolonged interview with the President yesterday, dur.ng which the latter expressed confidence in the policy which the Governor ia pursuing. On the occasion of President Johnson's reception yes- terday the ante-room at the White House was crowded with men who were formerly Senators and Representa- tives in the rebel Congress. They were seeking inter. views for the purpose of urging their claims for pardon. We yesterday noticed the application to the Presftiont for pardon of the rebel General Forrest, of Fort Pillow ‘and other not very reputable notoriety. Another of tho rebels who at one time figured conspicuously as a eavairy- man and raider in tho Southwest, Genoral Roddy, is said to be also among the now applicants for Executive clem- ency, with promises of future good citizenship and sup- Port of the government. General Ewell, in accordance with the President's order liberating him on parole and allowing him to retarn to his home in Virginia, took the oath of allegiance and ‘was released from Fort Warren, Boston harbor, on last Wodnesday. A petition to the Governor General of Canada is being Circulated for signatures in. Montreal and other Canadian towns, praying that an investigation may be had regard- ing statomonts made at the Detroit Commercial Con- vention by Mr. Potter, United States Consul General, and reports to the effect that that gentleman thas, during his residence in Canada, boon engaged fia secret efforts to bring about an annexation of that province to the United States. Mr. Potter stated at the Commercial Convention, as on argument in favor Of abrogating the Reciprocity treaty, that within two years from its discontinuance the Canadians will be ap- plying for admission into the Union. ‘The Indian Bureau in Washington has received General Herron’s official despatches furnishing = report of the ‘mission of two officers whom he recently sent to the Indian country to negotiate with the rebel Indians, full aad Interesting details of which were given im our Hous- ton correspondence published in last Sunday's Hanarp, On their arrival these officers found that a grand council Of twenty tribes, which thoy had hoped to be at the place Of mocting in time to attend, bad adjourned; but with geveral of the leading chiefs a tomporary treaty of amity [Detwoon the government and the Indians was entered finte, and arrangements made for negotiating a permanent (@n0 at a council to be held st Armstrong's Academy, in {he Choctaw Nation, on the 1st of next September, {+ From the 90th of May last, when the disbanding of our armics commenced, up to and inclusive of the 17th Mast, two hundred and cight thousand soldiers were Bent from Washington over tho Baltimore and Ohio MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The ‘report comes from Brownsville, Texas, that the ‘Mexican imperialists have evacuated Camargo, abandon. fing the entire country in (owarde Montorey, with on their heels. that rogion, and falling back the inevitable Cortina hanging ‘The republican party of Now Jersey met in State Con- ‘at Trention yesterday, and nominated Marcus 8. for Governor, to fill the place now held by Joel . A series of resolutions was adopted endorsing President Johnson's reorganization policy, pledging the to the endorsement of the constitutional amend- abolishing slavery, and reaffirming the resolutions of the Baltimore Convention ineference to the Monroe ootrine. Universal negro suffrage, or the Chase plat- ‘was voted down by an overwhelming majority. \istap Bernard, of the Suprung Court awed an ade exercises, ‘The kev. Alonzo Potter, Episcopal Bishop of Penn- sylvania, brother of Bishop Potter of this State, and father of General R. B, Potter, died in San Francisco on the 4th inst., aged sixty-five years. Just previous to his departure from this city to California, 'a few weeks ago, the deceased prelate was married to his second wife. ‘There was another government auction sale of Savan- nab and sea islands cotton in this city yesterday, over eight thousand three hundred bales being disposed of. ‘There was a large attendance of buyers, and the bidding ‘The terms were payment in gold, the gold dollar being reckoned equivalent to one dollar and forty-two cents in government paper currency. Middling fair Savannah cotton sold for thirty-seven and a half cents per pound, middling for thirty-three and a quarter to thirty-threo and a half, and ordinary for twenty-three and aquarter cents, First quality sea islands brought was lively, cighty-six and a half centa. A brief statement appears in this morning’s paper from. Captain Smith, of the ship William Nelson, which caught fire at sea off the Newfoundland Banks, on tho 26th of June, and was abandoned by the offlecrs and cabin pas- sengers, leaving on board about four hundred German emigrants, all of whom, no doubt, were either drowned or burned to death, as nothing has been heard of them since their abandonment. The result of thefour oared boat race on Tuesday last on the Hudson, near Poughkeepsie, caused much bitter feeling among the friends and backers of the defeated party, which has finally led to fatal consequences. During a dispute regarding the matter on Wednesday night at Poughkeepsie between two men named Thomas De Mott and William Stevens, the latter struck the former a powerful blow, knocking him down and break- ing his neck. Stovens, who disclaims having had any intention of killing De Mott, immediately gave himself up to the authorities. ‘A Base ball match took place yesterday on the Capitoline grounds, Brooklyn, between the Lowell Club, of Boston, and the Atlantic Club, of Brooklyn. There was a large attendance to witness the sport, many ladies being present. The game restlted in the victory of the Atlantics by a total score of forty-five to seventeen. The five days German Saengerfest was terminated yesterday by music and addresses at the headquarters in the Bowery, by excursions to different places, and™in a variety of other festive ways, and to-day the visiting singers from other cities will leave for their homes. The police magistrates made the following commit- ments yesterday:—Henry Diber, a discharged German soldier, only eighteen years of age, on charge, in con- nection with two other persons who are awaiting examl- nation, of breaking into the store 546 Prince street, on last Tuesday night, and stealing seventeen hundred dol- lars worth of silk goods; Julius B. Karrigs, a Hungarian, aged twenty-three, claiming to have recently been a lieutenant in the Army of the James, charged with hav- ing, by means of forged papers, swindled dif- out of considerable money; James McGlynn, of 126 Cédar street, on stealing two hundred and seventy- five dollars from John A. Sterling, of Cortlandt street, while the two were enjoying themselves together ina Greenwich street dance house; John Derren and James Murphy, on charge of stealing a horse and wagon, valued at sev@h hundred and fifty dollars, the property of Pat- rick Hogan, of 31 Bayard street, on Wednesday, at Jonos’ Wood, during the German festivitios, ‘and Margaret Holmes, a Water street girt, charged with knocking down Andrew Becktel in one of the characteristic houses of en- tertainment of that thoroughfare, and robbing him of over two hundred and fifty dollars. The investigation of the chargos against Jotin Maxon, John §, Marsden, William McDermott and Francis Riley, reeently employed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, of defrauding the government by appropriating public property to their own use, was commenced yesterday before United States Commirsioner Newton. The day was taken up in the examination of a witness pamed Joseph Anderson, a former workman in the yard, whose testimony makes somo curious disclosures, The case waa adjourned till nine o’clock this morning. A youth of sixteen, giving his name as Raymond O'Nell, was yesterday arrested at the Brooklyn Post Office, where he had called for lette?s in answer to ad- vortisements published in tho papers promising for cer- tain remittances of money to send to young ladies photo- graphs of their future husbands and to others a recipe for making a patent washing powder. By papers found on the young maa, it appeared that those advertisements had found plenty of soft victims among both sexes. As no one appeared to make a complaint against O'Neil, he ferent city firms complaint of was discharged. A fight took place about four o'clock yesterday morn- ing at the gate of the South Seventh street ferry, Williamsburg, between some of the ferry employes and two policemen on one side and four intoxicated men on the dther, growing out of the determination of the latter to cross the river without paying thoir fare. Some of the combatants of each party received serious injuries, poth fighting for somo time with much desperation. Tho freebooters wero finally arrested and locked up. A supposed manufacturer of counterfeits on the na- tional fractional currency, giving his name as Richard Walker, was arrested at Union Hill, Bergen county, N. J., yesterday, and committed to jail. The notorious Billy Mull‘gan, after killing two men, in ‘a fit of delirium tremens, in San Francisco, on the 8th inst, was himself shot and killed by a policeman. The stock market was firmer yesterday than during the earlier part of the week. Governments were dull. Gold was barely steady, and closed at 142% on tho strect; 142% was the night closing price. The demand for domestic produce was generally lees active yesterday, at a reduction in the prices of flour, spring wheat, moss pork, cotton and spirits turpentine; and at firmer rates for winter wheat and mixed corn. Whiskey was steady, as were also hay, hope, oils and fish, with » moderate business. Sugar, tobacco and tal- low were im fair request, the latter, however, at lower figures, The freight market was steady, with moderate encagements of breadstuffa, tobacco and petroleum re- ported. Repvcrion or tue Army ann Navy.—We learn from the most reliable sources that it is the intention of the government to reduce the army to one hundred thousand, or perhaps fifty thousand men, and the navy in like pro- We are glad of this, We do not re- quire a large standing army of several hun- dred thousand men. The only standing army wanted in this country is an independent press, which are the pickets of liberty, and a sound democratic government. We can raise an army of five hundred thousand men at any time in five weeks. Let not Louis Napoleon, however, or Lord Palmerston come to the con- clusion that, because we are reducing the army and navy, we are reducing our strength. On the contrary, we are husbanding our strength. Every one of the veterans who are now retiring to their homes to repose themselves would, if any necessity arose—i, for example, any doubt- fal question was to be settled with either of these two governments, or both combined, in Canada or Moxioo—rally round the old flag and comprise an army in six weeks that would sweep away double the number of troops that France end England could send to this countfy,in one fell swoop. We have gene- rals enough to command them, too, equal to portion. any in Europe. We are glad to perceive that the Secretary of the Navy is about to reduce the expenses of the government.in that department, 80 a6 to enable us to pay the national debt. All ex- penses should be cut down in like manner. Mr. McCulloch is not the man to believe, with Jay Cooke, that the national debt Is @ blessing. He is a thinker of ® different kind. A man of common sense and practical financier, he be- lieves. that to be out of debt ts to be out of trouble, and he fs going to get sid of bleagias as 2oon ag he gan, ——_—$ yesterday requiring the referoo in the onse of the city ‘Tax Commissioners to compute the amount of foes, emol- uments, &0., received by Christian 0, Woodruff and George H. Purser during their occupancy of the office, 80 that the sum might be turned over to the account of the present occupants, Messrs. Brown and Williamson. ‘Thestogree of doctor of laws was conferred on General Meade by Harvard University at the annual commenco- ment on Wednesday. General Meade was among the distinguished persons attendant on the commencement sums of Coobe’s NEW: YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1865. Our City dovernment—A Ph Opporta- nity for Governor Fenton. The city of New York is notoriously the worst governed city in Christendom. Bribery and corruption; which at one time in our muni- cipal affairs were exceptional cases, have now become the rule—universal bribery and cor- ruption, which no longer seek to hide them- selves in dark holes and corners, but sit with brazenfaced Insolence at our city gates. For twenty years we have been going on from bad to worse, until our annual Corporation ex- penses and requisitions have run up to the splendid figure of some seventeen millions of dollars, which would make an average of over seventeen dollars taxation to every inhabitant— man, woman or child—on this island. And still this swelling tide of corruption rolls on with steadily increasing volume; so that by next year our fellow taxpayers will have cause for astonishment, if called upon to foot a gene- ral city bill not exceeding the sum of twenty millions. . This, we must say, is progress with @ vengeance, when we remember that the costs of the government of the United States—diplo- matic, legislative, judicial, army, navy and mis- cellaneous appropriations—under John Quincy Adams were some thirteen millions of dollars, and when we remember that Adams was upset by the democratic electioneering cry of 1828, of “Jackson—retrenchment and reform.” Retrenchmentand reform are now unquestion- ably needed in the administration of our mu- nicipal affairs. But how are we to get them? Not in the ordinary way; for our city authori- ties and our political “rings,” with their system- atized machinery of bribery and corruption, embracing politicians, factions and parties and party journals of every stripe and of every language, too, in vogue from New York to Vienna, have, as matters stand, the game com- pletely in their hands. Taxpayers may hold their meetings, citizens’ associations may agi- tate the fearful corruptions and spoliations . which envelop us; but all such combinations will continue to be as they have been—utterly useless and impotent against the organized election machinery of our Corporation plun- derers. With a margin of eight or ten millions from the city’s Corporation assessments for divi- sion among themselves and their friends, the parties controlling this city corruption fund can be reached only by the intervention of the State. We therefore appeal to the Governor of the State, in view of this intervention of the State, to come to our rescue. We again call upon him to break the ground for our relief, in the removal from office of the Mayor and the heads of the several departments of this city, except- ing the Metropolitan Police, the Park Commis- sion, the Croton Board and the new Fire De- partment; for the organization of these depart- ments is in the direction of that complete metropolitan system of checks and balances which this great metropolis requires. Let the Governor, then, make the removals suggested, and, in the absence of any exciting national election or Presidential issues, or Presidential parties, we shall have in the interval a fine opportunity for making the question .of the reorganization of our city government the con- trolling issue of our November State election. We would submit the plan of making the heads of our Corporation departments, with the ex- ceptions indicated, responsible to the Mayor, and of making the Mayor subject to appoint- ment by tho Governor every year, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Under some such metropolitan administra- tion we should secure a system of checks and balances which would be proof against all such plundering combinations of local “rings” as those which now confessedly and defiantly com- bine to divide the spoils, This great reforma- tion, if taken up and put in motion by Gover- nor Fenton, will give him and the reform party supporting him the Legislature needed to com- plete their work. Otherwise, if he should elect to leave the affairs of this city as they are, the negro suffrage question, for want of something better, will be taken up by the democracy in November against the negro, and upon this issue they will unquestionably sweep the State. The revolution required in public opinion to secure universal negro suffrage will take some time; but surely the public opinion of the Em- pire State is ripe and ready for the practical reformation suggested in the government of this metropolis, in which every citizen of the State in s thousand ways is directly interested. Orrick Serxers iv Wasminatoy.—We learn by the Washington correspondence that there is an immense crowd pressing around the doors of the White House, and pestering President Johnson about getting offices. The term of many of the office holders appointed by Mr. Lincoln for four years is about to expire, and it is expected that Mr. Johnson will now either reappoint them, or put new men in their places. ‘There is great anxiety particularly in the ous- tom houses and Internal Revenue Department. Great efforts will no doubt be made by the pres- ent incumbents to keep themselves. in office. Our advice to Mr. Johnson is not to be too hasty in this matter. The custom houses and the Internal Revenue Department are filled with secret enemies of President Johnson and his administration. These departments of the government are ‘organized to damage the repu- tation of Mr. Jolinson, and obstruct his plans for the reconstruction of the country, under the leadership of Chase and Jay Cooke, upon the principle that the national debt isa national blessing, and that the negroes whould have universal suffrage, whether they are fit for it or not. With regard to the Internal Revenue De- partment we know that there are regular rings established there on the same principle as those of the Corporation, for the purpose of cheating the government, and these rings are in more active operation lately, since one of the initiated of the aldermanic rings has been placed at the head of it in Washington. He is not o lawyer, and knows nothing about giving decisions upon the important questions that come before him. His predecessor was too much of a lawyer, and gave decisions at the rate of about three a dey upon every possible subject, each one generally contradicting the other. The present incumbent knows nothing about law and hes nothing to guide his de- cisions but common sense, .and not an over stock of that. If President Johnson is wise he will clear out the heads of the custom houses and Internal Revenue Department and put new and feliable mon in their places. The present office holders are in league with the Jacobins to destroy the administration and nullify its . icy. : No doubt the old stagers of the last oentury— ~*.@A Biss pnd Thyrlow Weed—ere working vecr —— the sales of the daily papers of this city. That statement was copied from the official docu- ments—that is, from the books of the Internal Revenue Department in the office of the assessor to whom the publishers of the several papers are compelled by law to make a return of their’ sales. Some of the other papers, having nerve enough to face the music, copied that statement, and some pointed out that it was inaccurate, which, of course, was an affair between those papers and the assessor.’ We copied the figures |’ as they appear in his office; and if the sales of any paper are larger than it has stated in its return he will give the publisher, no doubt, a chance to correct it before pay day. able audacity to deny that any such returns were ever made. That paper, of course, is the sanctified Tribune. Cut to the quick by the official showing that its circulation was less than one-quarter that of the Henao, it denies in its columns its own statements made at the revenue office. Unable to argue around the numbers, it goes, with characteristic unscru- pulousness and its inevitable instinct for a lie, to the extremity of an outright denial, and de- clares, with the pitiful emphasis of italics, that “there are no such returns.” It further says:— “Whether the Heratp manufactured its own figures we do not know; ‘it certainly manufac- tured ours. The law requires no retarns of sales to May 1, 1865, and none have been made by this office.” returns that “the law requires,” here are the words of the law:— fifty thousand dollars shall pay fifty dollars for each liconso; and if exceeding fifty thousand dollars, for every additional thousand dollars in excess of fifty thousand dollars one di quired by any wholesale dealer shall not be for a less amount than his sales for the previous year, the Tribune shall take out a license as a whole- sale dealer; and in order to ascertain the amount that he must pay for his license it re- quires him to state what his sales were for the previous year. Thus—to prevent the possi- bility of a quibble—the price of a license to sell papers for a year “from May 1, 1865,” must be based upon a return of sales made in the previous year up “to May 1, 1865.” and the application for a license for a specified sum for the year, from May 1, 1865, to May 1, 1866, is itself a return of the sales of the for- mer year, and must be, or it is invalid. (enc + Application is Meet made oy the Tribune Association, Bamucl Sinclair, Croton, Weste! publisher (822,000), for a license as wholesale dealers under the or occupation to be carried on at No. 154 Nassau street, in the cl of New York, from May'l, 1 To — ——, Assessor, District of the following:— Application 2 license ag wholesale dealers, Entered and registered by dealers contains the figures $252,000, and if that sum is not a return of sales of the Tribune for the year from May 1, 1864, to May 1, 1865, then the Tribune men have caused to be regis- tered in the assessor's office a false statement of their business. mendacity with which the 7ribune is conducted now that its management has passed out of the hands of Greeley. No lie is too outrageous for it to utter, and its columns are collections of falsehopd and filth, as may be seen by its account of the Museum fire and of the German festivals. As for its other falsehoods, in rela- tion to advertisements, they aro not worth an answer. The Arrival of a New London Times spondent for the London Times arrived in this city. He brought letters of introduction to in presenting them. From these letters it ap- pears that he is duly accredited and that he completely supersedes Mackay, who was the last and least ot that ignorant trio of stupid jourmlist here for forty years and had carefilly watched events during all that hard to control the Custom House and seoure the spoil as usual; but we would advise these old gentlemen, who have been feeding out of the public crib for the last thirty years, to re- tire and make way for younger and more hun- ery men. Remarkable Newspaper Audacity and Lying. We published a few days ago a statement of “But there is one paper that has the remark- This isa very simple question. As to the Wholesale dealers whose annual sales do not exceed jollar. * * * * And the license r2- This law, then, requires that the publisher of Here is a copy of the Tribune's application qi.) APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. iON 72.) estor county, Now York, ixcise laws of the United States; asid business of New York, county of New York and State . ($252.) Dated at Naw Yonk, this 9th day of May, A. D. 1865, (Bigned) THE TRIBUNE ASSOULATION, SAML. SINCLAIR, Publisher. Endorsed on the back of the application is of the Tribune Association, 154 Nassau, for that it will be impossible for bim to write» good letter. Our advice to him is to hear everything and believe nobody; to regard our affairs a8 a game of chess, and watch the moves on both sides; to form his own opinions and record them frankly, and to be careful that he does not make predictions which will be con- tradicted by Reuter’s telegrams before his cor respondence reaches London. Above all, while he behaves like a gentleman in society, let him write like a gentleman to the 7imes, and aever be betrayed into the folly of abusing or sneering at the people among whom he re sides, In this respect, at least, we hope that he will be 8 vast improvement upon his pre- decessors, Feeding the Rebel Armies—Northern Cotton Operators and Their Transac- tions, We print elsewhere a report made to the rebel Congress of the working of the rebel Commis- sary Department. This report gives a view of the resources of the confederacy at the com- mencement of the war; and of the difficulties encountered by the rebel government in the progress of the struggle in the simple matter of feeding its forces. It shows that it was utterly impossible for the rebel States to pro- duce supplies enough to sustain the rebel armies, and that they never did so; and it also shows that many attempts made to feed those armies by meats that ran the blockade were all crippled by the blundering stupidity of Jeff. Davis and his associates. This report, moreover, makes some remark- able disclosures of the operations of men on our side the lines. our side, in 1862, a great many men ready to furnish the rebels with all necessary army sup- plies, and that these men had sufficient in- fluence with our government to be able to get their boat loads of stores through the lines and to evade all the “watchfulness” of the Trea- sury Department and the military commanders. There was not one of these men—nor two or, three. There were a great many. They were ‘in Memphis, and they were in New Orleans— both when Butler and when Banks commanded there. They were not contemptible obscure peddlers either. large a scale that they could contract at once to deliver thirty thousand hogshesds of bacon, thousands of sacks of salt, flour for an army, cof- fee in abundance and all other necessary stores. Who were theee men? Were they copperheads? Were they politically affiliated with the Treasury Department: that they could get its permits for these transactions? Answers to these questions would involve some little facts that the people would like to know—facts bearing no doubt upon the “purity” and “patriotism” of men that may even now stand high in the confidence of the country. Who are they? It shows that there were on They did business on so Eventially contracts were made between Northorn men and the Southern government for a license:— . P for the supply of Southern armies, and Lee’s army was fed in that way toa great extent early in 1863; but. at the commencement—at the first proposal—thore was great resistance to it, and that resistance came from Jeff. Davis, His opposition resulted trom his delusion in relation to cotton. It was shown to him that there was not enough meat to give the soldiers half rations, and that there was but one way to get it, which was to purchase it through the lines with cotton. He refused his consent be- cause that cotton would enable us to pay the interest on our debt; and he believed that if ' Dintriot ba ero gattant Amemor: | wo did not get it we could not pay that in- Max 1, 1865. (8252.) This application for # license as wholesale This shows the utter unscrupulousness and Correspondent. By the last steamer a new American corre- Belmont, Senator Harris, and other bankers and politicians, and has been busy since his arrival reporters of which Woods and Bull Run Rus- sell were the other two members. The name of the new correspondent is ——; well, no mattet what. It may be Black, or White, or Brows, or Blue or Red. Names are nothing in @ newspaper; but ideas, and the manner of treating them, are overything. Especially is this the case at the commencement of a great histotical ora like that into which we are now entering. When the intoxicated and imaginative Sala came to this country he walked into our office terest—our public credit would fail, and the war would be stopped simply by our financial difficulties. He underrated us, and he over- rated cotton; and that enormous delusion of his was an advantage to us all the way through. The report disclosss the, impotence in many points of the rebel government, and the errors and weaknesses of Davis; but it dis- closes, also, the fact that the rebellion was kept alive and the war prolonged by villanies car- ried on from our side the lines by a league of the -copperheads and of corrupt men in the confidence of the government. Broapway Tunatar—Matines.—There will be a matinge at this house at two o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) after. noon, at which that charming actress Miss Kate Reig- nolds will appear in her five celebrated characters in “Tho Angol of Midnight.” This will be the last pre- sentation of this effective sensation drama. Beverrt to Barnom’s Emrtoves.—A grand combina- tion performance will be given at the Academy of Music this afternoon, and another in the evening, for the bene- fit of the employes of Barnum’s Museum, who are now out of employment im consequence of the fire. The actors and managers of tho various theatres have gone- roufly proffered their services, and present two splendid programmes for. the occasion. No doubt the perform. ances will be woll got up and well patronized. Barnum himself is to doliver an address at both performances, which will not be the least interesting part of the affair, Mavamn Asa Bisuor’s Concert at Tonggns.—Ma- dame Anna Bishop, assisted by Miss Geida Harrison, the young contralto who made such @ successful début lately ‘at Saratoga, and Mr, Charles Lascelles, will give a grand conoort to-night at Yonkers. The Internal Revenae. BECRIPTS OF PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. Below we give the receipts of the several places of amusemont in the city, and the timo for which returns have been made, Places of amusement pay an excise tax of two per cent on their gross receipts, in accordance , with section 108 of the Internal Revenue law, which is.as follows :— dg Section 108. And be it further emactod, That any per- and announced himself as the “commissioner” ine phed i gf or the manager or agent thereof, hay of the London Telegraph, saying that Bull Run | of an faring taco o emnoveel Russa had advised him by all means to make | *znbition of dramatic, operatic. representations, PATS our acquaintance. We asked him what he was | manship, ‘acrobatic or other si whieh are going todo, In bis pecaliar, fippant style, be | Senet’ stsobt uatuidens ecrares or ekibinons. et said fiat he was going to look about him, de- scribe events, and toll the English people, as they had never been told before, what we were abou! and what we would accomplish. After ® quiet smile at tho complacent tone of Mr. Sala, we replied that we had been «4 period, and yet we found it rather diffealt to predict on one day what would hap- pen the next, and quite impossible to tell, even with all‘our means of information, what the American people would accomplish and whal they would not. Mr. Sala went away satistied that he could carry out his mission; but his letters wore rattling trash end his American tour injured’ rather than increased his reputation. Now, we say to the now London Times cor- respondent just what we said to Mr. Sala, He has come here at the beginning of a great po- liticwl era, and unless he has a closrer and cooler head than we give him oredit for he will be bewildered in less than a month. By the time he has listened attentively to Belmont and the other bankers, Barlow and the other brokers, Senator Harris and the other poli- tlolans, his brain will be sa agmploielz jumped « representatio: or musical er craneets, cates oxi ns, lectures works of art, shall be subject to and pay a duty of two ep eek onsen, tek cnmnpeny 0 oun receipts dorived firm, com} or from such person, a porters Among the passengors leaving here to-morrow in the Hamburg mati stoamship Saxonis, we find the name of oxdovernor Wi Of Indiana, our newly accredited Minister to the of Berlin, who 80 successfully rep- resented th! there & previous administra- tion. Governor Wright will ee ay by his highly Reeoretary of Loation Me. John ©. Wright, sod eibor ——————————————————————————— a _rimminnmemsnessmasa amaemeannieamneinamammammnmnNn aa SUCCESS OF THE OLD REBEL CANDIDATES. THE REBEL SOLDIERS DO THE VOTING, &0., be, ho. Oar Richmond Correspondence. Ricamono, Va,, July 18—Evening. ‘THR ELECTIONS IN BENRIOO COUNTY. The elections in Henrico county, of which Righmon@ city is the county seat, Mave taken place to-day, and the returns, 80 far as T can learn them, indicate beyond doubt the entire success of the ticket whose candidates and supporters are both atill dyed in secession, and whe hope by being re-entrusted with civil power to main- tain their treasonable heresies, and again breed war based upon this pestilence. al INSTANOR, For sake of oxample, it is alleged to-night that the secession candidate for Commonwealth Altomey, whe has been elected, was during the rebellion captain of@ rebel battery in Lee's army. wo pip rr? ‘The voting to-day haa been dono chiefly by the paroled rebel soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia. They are mostly young and bitter, and these eloments in their dispositions are enhanced by the untoward influcnce and arguments of late robel officers and the leading civilians of the excepted classes under the late amnosty rvolamationsand who were the leaders of the Inst re- Bellion, and who hanger to lead anotuer. AE Ri ASON of this result és to be found in (Me fact that Richmond city is the contre of thought, action and influence for the county, in a degree far greater than throughout the State. I cannot think that the same results will! obtaim in the rural districts, where the social, political and late military power, incident to the rebellion and {ts out- growt! ve far less sway. wan eeacr oF Tan Panboxters ow Tim xuxoTi0f. It may be added that the olection of to-day has been controlied by such men as composed the committee sent to President Johnaon to induce him to withdraw and oul- lify the twenty thousand dollar exemption in the memo- rable proclamation. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Avorion Save ov Govenxwent Corrox.—There was ‘another immenso sale of goverament Savannah and Sea Island cotton at auction, at one o’clock yesterday after- noon, by Mr. Simeon Draper, who also acted in the ca- pacity of anctioneer. The conditions of sale were pay- ment for the cotton within two days in gold or gold cer- tifteat>a; cotton sold as it was; no reclamation for dam- age; gold rate, 142, Thero was a large attendance of genticmoa who had “speculation in their eves,” and they put in their bids rapidly and with spirit. The prices obtained and lots sold were as follows:—155 bales mid- dling fair, 3230. ; 929 baies fully abe; 1,614 bales fally low middling; good ordinary, 26%c. a 2734c. ;518 bales iddling, 33%¢. @ ,755 bales fully rdinary, 23546. ; 29 bales pickings, 2040. ; 2,090 bales Soa Island, 863¢0 5 735 bales second quality Sea Island, 70c. ; 500 bales third quality Sea Island, Sic.; 91. bales saw ginned, 51c.; 20 bales stained, 2514. ; 20 bales sexdy, 21c. It is provable from a statement made in the sale by Mr. Draper, but one more chance will present for the purchase of Sea Island cotton at auction upon government account. Lavyon ov Tae Uxrrep States [Ron-CLAD DUNDERBERG.— To-morrow morning, at nine o'clock, the launch of the United States iron-clad frigate (ram) Dunderberg will take place, from the shipyard of Mr. H. Webb, at the foot of Sixth street, ast river. The public will be ad- mitted to the shipyard, but only those holding tickets of invitation will be allowed upon the frigate. Sonorers’ anp Saruons’ Protective Socrery.—About one hundred names have already been obtained to & pro- gramme for the formation of a socioty, composed of per- sons who have seen service in the army or navy, under the namo of the United States Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Pro- tective Society. The following is the heading of the sub- scription paper:— The undersigned, soldier from the service of the United States, do charged agree to be members of the rs and sailors honoral dis- United states Soldiers’ Sa:lorw Proteotive Society, having for its object to othe: in their juties as men and citizens, for the hts and amelioration ot their condition and the benefit of the country. They agree to meet all of them at Pythagoras Halt, 136 Camel. atreet, on the 19th of August, at seven o'clock I’. M., to ow ganiaé definitively the society, appoint its offloers and take all necessary measures to ensure auccess, The organization of the society is under the patronage- of the Metropolitan Employment Agency, managed by. Colonel J. B. Horman, at 136 Canal street. Lavina 4 Conner Stoxs.—The corner stoue of the Pro- tectory for Yestitute Catholic boys will be laid with ap- propriate ceremonies, by the Archbishop of New York, on the farm at Westchostor village, on Sunday next, at three o'clock in the afternoon. Toreach the place, take the cars on Second or Third avenues for Harlem, thenoe by cars to Tremont and then by omnibus to the grounds, A train of cara will also leave the Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue depot for Tremont, at a quarter-past eight. ‘A. M, and the steamer Osseo, from Peck slip, at haif-past eight, so that all may be accommodated. A Yaout Ansivat.—The yacht Nottie, of Boston, Cap- tain Dexter H. Follett, N. ¥. ¥. C., on a cruise from the “Hub,” Newport, and all along shore, arrived here om Thursday morning of the prosent week, and is anchored off the Club House, Hoboken. Obituary. DEATH OF RIGHT REV. ALONZO POTTER. ‘The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Pounsylvanta, Rev. Alonzo Potter, died at San Francisco, Cal., on July 4th inst., aged sixty-flve years. He was the brother of Biahop Potter of the Rpiscopal diocese of this State, and the father of General R. B. Potter, of this city. Bishop Potter was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., July 10, 1800. He graduated at Union College in .1818, became tutor io 1819, and was ciected professor of mathematics and’ nate- ral philosophy in 1821. He was ordained deacon im 1881. In 1825 ho was elected President of the college at Geneva, but declined the post to become rector of St. Paul's, t= Boston, where he remained until 1831. In this yoar he was elected Vice-President and Professor of D. OD. Moral His 4 ot and ; Tegel ty fe tt ia Beptember 1846. Bishop Bis vania in Sept . Potter married a daughter of President Nott, of Union College, for bis first wife. She died some years ago. Just aan hag mi for California, a few weoks since, 1e was in marric Bishop Potter has Mlso distinguished himeclf as am ‘uthor. | One of his soveral books, entitled “A Handbook, for Readcrs and Students,” hada wide circulation and popularity amonz young men engaged in study. ‘a vigorous writer and an eloquent speaker, and was justly held in high esteem in the large chureh of which he was so conspicuous a prelate, and by the schol- ars and thinking mon of the country. Bia body will brought to the for interment. Jonw Braxnon, a Revolutionary hero, residing in Macom county, Tenn., died on the 34 of July.” ‘He was over one hundred years old. Natwantnt Harwanp, said to be the original inventor ‘of the compound of India rubber with, and discoverer on at bis residence, in Colchester, Conn., om sul Tuesday Deacon Trmoray ‘and the oldost livi on the morning of ——, a oll known, philanth: ion inat., ngod sixty-eight years, Dr. Crantas M. Winns, of Roxbury, Massach: died, after a very brief iliness, of diptheria, on the inst. Jaume Hanes, one of the oldest and most citizens of Baltim of seventy-seven. died om the 17th inst., at ‘wa in Baltimore was invaded in ee een memorable battle of Nort i ————_——— Major General Meade in Boston. Boston, July 20, 1668, A public levee was beld in Faneuil Hall this afternoes in honor of Goneral Mende, who was introduced to the crowded assemblage by Mayor Lincoln. The General ex- pressed thanks for the courtesies extended to him, snd tm ‘afew well chosen words urged the claims of disabled soldicrs to the fostering eare of « grateful country. Release of General Ewell, B Boston, July 2% 1868. ‘The wife of the rebel Goneral Ewell procesded to Fors