The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1865, Page 4

A —<— NEW YORK HERALD. ae JAMES GOILDON BENSNEPYT, EDITOR AND OP RIETOR, Volume XXX AMUSE MEN Broadway.—Rivan Oxanax BROADWAY THEATRE, Giais—CaNEM. NEW, BOWERY HEA’ + Nxsiw—Tom Crinare—Lisis: Bowery —La Tour ps 3 Ir Was. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Inisa Euignant— Hanpy Anpr. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadyay.--Amkan-na-Pocur; on, rus Wicktow WEDDING. dway.—Bannua’s Museen i. Afternoon and Evening. WINTER GARD Company. THe GRE . Sif Broadway.—Erarori at WOOD'S MINSTREL #1 is Danoz—Tue Conscnirts. Dances, &0.—Cuar Broadway.—Saw Francisco Mix. LLER'S HALL, = Dancouga, €¢.—Tus Brack ‘TRELS—ETHIOPIAN SINGING, Butgaps. HOOLEY’S HALL, 201 Bowery.—3a Smaurezy’s Mix- arnxis—Pan.og CoNcert—Caunival OF 1'us—STUriD Site VANT. BOWERY THEATRE, bowery.—Grorae Canisry’s Min- sTusis In Boxas, Dances, &c.—Dousis Beppap Room, STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Tue Faxin or Visunv's MagicaL Soumsms and Gurr’ Exrgnraixaunts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.— Open from 10 A. M. til 20 P. af. New York, Saturday, July 22, 18¢ NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the New York Dally Newspapers. OFFICIAL, Year Ending Name of Paper. Moy 1, 1565. HSRALD.....6..++ Seen e nee eeeneeeenees $1,095,000 Times 363,150 Tribune. . 252,000 169,427 100,000 151,079 90,548 $1,095,000 ‘Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined... 871,229 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Our city subscribers will confer a favor by reporting any of our city carriers who overcharge for the Heap. Country subscribers to the New Yore Henarp are re- quested to remit their subscriptions, whenever practi- cable, by Post Office Orders, It is the safest mode of transmitting money by mail. Advertisements should be went to the office before nine o'clock in the ever THE SITUATION. Our New Orleans despatches by the steamship George Cromwell state that the Teche district, in Louisiana, is at present infested by a desporate band of guerilla thieves, who have so far defied ali the efforts of the national troops, with the assistance of the citizens, to capture them. They not only plunder the rural districts, but have on several occasions ontered Franklin and othor towns and robbed the stores. In accordance with the War Department order for mustering out of service troops whose terms of service expire before the 1st of October next, between fourteen and fifteen thousand of General Sheridan's men will be discharged. The Secretary of the Navy has issued an order requir- ing of commanders of naval vossela a stricter compliance ‘than has horetofore been observed with tho law of Con- gress, which stipulates that immediately on their return from cruises they. shall forward to the Department de- wcriptive lists of men entitled to honorable discharge and extra pay. For marked nogloct of duty in this rospect Acting Master John A. J. Brooks, recently in command of the Valley City, has been dismissed from the service. The Navy Department still continues the work at various ports of dispos.ng cf superfluous vessels in the government service, In addition to several previous sales nino steamers and sold at auction in Washington on Thursday, for an aggregate of one hundred and thirty-four thovsand seven hundred dollars, and two steamers, two barks and ‘ono schooner at Portsmouth, N. H., on the sume day, for ninoty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Fifty- one steamers belonging to the Mississippi squadron are to be sold at auction on the 17th of next month, at Mound City, Illinois, by order of the Secrotary of the Navy. Tho initiatory movemonts for inducing Northerners to emigrate to the South to settle and cultivate the ands of the reorganized States have been taken by two North Carolina gentlemen who are now io this city for the purposo of furnishing in- formation to those desirous of seeking new homes in tbat region. These gontlemen, who bave Inige quantt ties of land to offer for salo, say that the North Caroli- niana gonorally are glad that thoir State is rid of slavery, and are anxious to have it filled up and develop:d by Northern settlers. The returned soldiers composing the Irish Legion of this city, consisting of the Sixty-ninth, One Hundred and Fifty-Ofth, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth and One Hundred and Soventioth regiments of New York Volun toors, bad their formal reception yesterday. They marched through Grand etrect and Broadway, es. corted by tho First, Second, Sixty-ninth and Seventy-tiret rogiments of tho National Guard and a number of Fe- nians, to the City Hall, whore they were reviowed, two schooners wero and whence they marched through other parts of the city. They wore loudly cheered along their route. Alarge number of discharged troops belonging to this ‘and othor States arrived in the city yesterday. EUROPEAN NEWS. The Cunard steamship Africa, which reached Boston yesterday, puts us in posscasion of European files to the ‘Btb inst. The diplomatic correspondence respecting the close of the American war, which we publish im full, throws tin- portant light upon the relative actions of the French and British governments in withdrawing belligerent rights from the rebels. In the course of the negotiations which preceded this event Lord Cowley, the British Minister at Paria, onuncinted the idea that the United States govern- mont had the power of selling vessels late in the rebel service, The French Minister attached value to the ob- servation, Earl Rursell coasulted the Crown lawyers, and eo declared that tis was a sound proposition in aw, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The government steam gunboat Caynga, from Galves- ton on the 4th, and Pensacola on the 12th inst.; the steamships Varuna and Ariel, from New Orleans on the 13th and 14th respectiv the John Gibson, from Wash- ington, and the Chesapeake, from Portland, Me., arrived at this port yesterday, Our Hayti correspondence, though not eo lato by some days as previously rovetved ndvices, gives some interest. ing information regarding the rebellion in that republic, It is said to have had no very extensive ramifications at tho start, and the chief of tr, been previously outlawed by I nave, it 1a stated, had esident Joffrard's govern mont, and got up his fosurrectionary expedition within the tinita of the adjoining republic of St. Domingo. It is claimed that the gover mont troops could tong since have captured the town of Cape Maytien, in which the time besieged, byt thet their commander forcbore to mako am aeeault from a desire to save an uancoessary eifusion of blood. The steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Mirehouse, of the Inman lino, wil town and Liverpool, from pier 44 North river. The maile at tho Post Office at half-past ten A. M, ship Fung Shuey, Captain Hildreth, of H. B, Co.'s line, will sail at three P. M. to-day for will The st Cromwell & | Now Orleans direct, from pler No. 9 North river. Tho | Lawrence inails will close at (be Post Office at baif-past one P, M. the United States and Europe The relations betwee me so oxtonsive in late years that the different joes of steamships, though doubled in number within a 3 », are completely insufficient to meet present Wo sce in the Belgian papers that a now lino stab) shed between this port and Antwerp, evillo and L, Vereken, directors of tho Com- it Company—a stock company of recent o- are negotiating with the Cabinet of Brussels 5 uration of this important enterprise, demands. is about to MM. do jars Clarita will sail from this port to-day with a foree of engineers and workmen to ne telograph across the Gulf of St. it is expected to haye completed by the time wship Great Eastern arrives with the western terminus of the Atlantic cable, thus giving instantaneous communication between New York aud all the principal European cities, The bark Dahowy, lying at the Atlantic dock, Brook- lyn, was yesterday eeized by United States Marshal Mur- ray on auspicion of being designed for the African slave trade. An investigation of the matter will be made in a ropair | fow days, Yesterday we had a change in this city and vicinity from that genial weather in which we had been luxuriat- ing for several days, to @ temperature of a somewhat torrid character. In the shade the mercury stood at nine o'clock in tho morning at eighty degrees; at noon, at clghty-six, and at three in the afternoon at ninety. ‘The caso of the alleged elopement of Mrs. Frederick A. Muller, better known as Mile, Annetta Zanfretta, the dauseugo, with a reputed Hungarian Count, Eugene Orskay, which occurred several months ago at Daven- port, Towa, and which at the time afforded the material for some Western newspaper scandal, was yesterday be- fore Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court in this city. Mr. Muller, it appears, followed his wife Annetta and the Count hither, and kad the latter committed to Eldridge stroct prison, in default of three thousand dollars bail. The proceedings yesterday wore on a motion to set aside the order of arrest and give the Count his freedom. This the Judg® rofused to grant, but agreed to reduce the bail to twelve hundred dollars. A motion was yesterday made in the Superior Court to admit to bail one Patrick Shink, convicted some days ago in tho Court of Special Sessions of being engaged in one of the street sweepers’ riots, and sentenced to {in- prisonment in the Penitentiary. The Judge de the motion, on the ground that the execution of the priso- ner’s sentence had already commenced. The examination Into the charges preferred against Wm. D. Mann and Daniel Stratton, Jr., Treasurer and Secretary of the United Service Petroleum and Mining Company, for false pretence, and which was commenced on Monday last, before Justice Dodge, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, was resumed yesterday. Mr. Kel- logg, principal witness for the prosecution, was cross- examined at great length. Ascene between counsel, in which the defendant Mann took a part, caused much amusement fora time. The further hearing in the caso stands adjourned till twelvo o'clock to-day. Justice Dowling, of the Tombs Police Court, had under investigation yesterday a case in which Charles J, An- thony, a wealthy citizen of Worcester, Massachusetts, is charged with falee pretenses and ewindling ex-Governor Joseph A. Gilmore, of New Hampshire, out of fifteen thousand dollars, which the latter’s agent was induced by the former, as alleged, to invest in an onterprise called the Moosehead Gold Property, represented to bo located in Halifax county, Nova Scotia. On the conclu- ston of yesterday's testimony a further examination was appointed for the 3lst instant, and Mr, Anthony was re- quired to givo fifteen thousand dollars bail. He says the charge is brought for the purpose of defrauding him, A young man named Francis J, Sharpe, formerly in the employ of the well known equestricnne, Miss Leo Hudson, a3 a greom, was yesterday committed for trial in the Essex Market Police Court, charged with steal- ing from that lady, in Nashville, Tennessee, in Fubruary last, money and jowelry valued at over three thousand dollars, On boing arraigned tho accused confessed his guilt, and some of the stolen articles yere recovered, One of them, a gold watch, was found in the possession of George A. Meior, of 51 avenuo B, who was required to give Ofteon hundred dollars bail to answer tho charge of receiving stolen goods. The money had been squan- dered, Sharpe, after the robbery, coming to the East, and cutting quite a swell In this city and Philadelphia, finally winding up by getting married to a young lady in Sche- pectady, He was arrested at Albany while on his Doneymoon tour. On Monday last trunka containing four hundred and ‘ty doltars worth of female clothing, belonging to Mrs. Britton, of $1 Ninth strect, wero stolen from the Harlem Tailroad station, Twenty-sixth street. On tho following night Juines ‘thompson, alias Rogers, was arrosted at Niblo’s theatre on a charge of being engaged in picking pockets, and in his possession was found a card which had been on one of Mrs. Britton’s trunks. This led to discovering a considerable portion of Mrs. Britton’s wearing apparol in the possession of a couple of Wooster street girls, who stated that it had been given to them by Thompson, and be was committed for trial, A horrible tragedy occurred between four and five o'clock yesterday afternoon, at No. 616 Broome streot. During a dispute between a German, named George Wagner, and his wife, residing at that place, the former, as alleged, dealt the latter a powerful blow in the back of the head with on uxe. The sharp edge of the weapon penotrated the skull, and sho died instantly, The man Wagner was committed, to await the result of an inquest to be held to-day. Tho investigation of the alleged frauds in the Brooklyn Navy Yard was continued yesterday before United States |, Commissioner Newton. Two additional witnesses were oxam'ned, bt thelr testimony afforded no new develop- meuts of importance, At the annual meeting of the alumni of the Free Academy on Thursday even‘ng, arrangements wero made for ike ereciion in the Academy building of tablets to the memory of all graduates of the institution who died in the service of the republic during the late war for its maintenance, The German singing festival in this city baving been conclud don thursday, the majority of the singers from other citios took their departure for home yesterday. The noxt national festival of this kind, of which nine altogether have already taken place, will be held in Phil- adelphia in the sunimer of 1857. The Harvard University Commencement exercises were supplemented yesterday by a banquet and other special ceremonies in Loner of those of her graduates who served in the late war fer the Union, the total of whom was four hundred and ninety-five, Of these ninety-six died in their country’s se and about two hundred and fifty wok part in yesterday's festivities, General N. P. Banks was recently admitted to practise as a lawyer in the United States District Court of Lou sina, in New Orleans, Emerson Etheridge, recently arrested for using treason- able lancuage at a polllical meoting in Tonnesseo, has published rather a (art letier, addressed to the President of the United ‘tates. Of course he denios making use of any such language with the intent attributed to it, His letter, however, is nut of the slightest public importance, being chiefly devo'ed to a personal attack upon President Johneon and Governor Browalow, of Tennessee. The theatrical wardrobe of J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin, which was picked up from the wreck of the schooner Marie Victoria, has been sold by auction in Canada. Tho gh most of the articles were greatly damaged by salt water, they realized high prices, A dressing case, nearly in picces, brought fifteen dollars, and spoiled cos- tumes wore knock: d down at twenty-five dollars each. A Monireal (Canada) despatch of July 19, to the To- ronto Leader, states that tho police investigation in Montreal bas been brought toa disgraceful close. One councillor tore up the minutes, another left the room, and the absence of a third left the committee without quorum. The ato k market was firm yestorday. Governments were heavy, Gold was steady on the whole, and closed on the street at 14234, and ot the same price at mght. Tho sales of flour yesterday wore moderate, including low grades at reduced and high grades at firmer prices. Winter wheat was active and much dearer. Corn and oats were lower and loss sought after, Cotton was in fair r-quest, but at drooping prices, Groceries were in moro demand, ax were also oil, naval stores, metals, Manila ti Hides, leather, fish and tobacco, Prov! sions were more cought after, Pork and lard wore firmer. Wool wos in fuir demand, The freight market was more QOL sommes Of Hae inwurwous army bas Wwou for some | active g af! al (welve M, to-day for Queons- | Miiidary Courts Versus Civil Courts, as Jilustrated at Washington, The wh. before a military court of the gang of assassins éogcerned in the treasonable plot involving the murtivt of President Lincoln bas been denounced by thé gopperhead press and certain milk-and-water te bumanita- rians as a lawless and most outrageous tsurpd- tion. There has been a wild and fanatical cop- perhead hue and cry over this trial of a lot of civilians by a court martial as a fearful prece- dent of military despotism. We have been told that not only was it a proceeding without au- thority in the constitution, but without neces- sity, inasmuch as the civil tribunals of the country were amply sufficient for the ends of justice. The result of a later trial in Washing- ton, however, for the crime of murder, before a civil tribunal, ought to be sufficient to silence all these senseless clamors of affected indigna- tion over the military trial of Mrs. Surratt and her confederates, and the consequences. Their trial before a court martial was clearly within the discretion of the President, as com- mander-in-chief of the army and navy, consid- ering the ruling purpose of tlie conspirators and the time and circumstences under which they attempted to carry out their terrible de- signs. The results of the trial, too, including the summary execution of the four principal offenders, are perfectly satisfactory to all loyal men whose minds have not been warped into that maudlin sentimentalism which would spare the bloodiest of murderers out of respect to the sacredness of human life. The officers com- posing the military court in question were men of character, learning and intelligence. They fully comprehended their grave responsibili- ties in the discharge of the solemn duty assigned them. The trial of the prisoners placed before them was open, and deliberately and fairly conducted. The counsel and the witnesses for the accused were allowed a wider latitude in time, testimony and argument than is accorded in ordinary courts of justice. But the evidence against the prisoners was overwhelming, and their respective sentences and their prompt exccution, have given, we repeat, perfect satis- faction to the great mass of the American people. Thus much for the military trial of some of the conspirators concerned in the murder of President Lincoln. But what would have been the result had they been tried before a criminal court of the peace establishment? The trial of Miss Harris will probably furnish the answer. This person was clearly guilty of a deliberate murder, committed in broad daylight, in the Treasury Department. Her victim, whatever he may have meditated, had committed no wrong against her greater than the breach of a marriage promise. Her vengeance was out of all proportion to the offence for which she sought to punish her faithless swain, and for its reparation there were the remedies of the law. She is indicted for the murder—she is tried be- fore one of the established courts of Washington, her counsel put in the pleaof “insane impulse,” the case is submitted to the jury, and the jury bring in, amidst the enthusiastic shouts of the multitude, their verdict of “not guilty,” the faint- ing murderess is carried away in triumph, the curtain falls, and the farce is ended. This is the justice which in these days of pub- lic demoralization ot Washington, resulting from the war, is accorded a passionate young woman, guilty of murder, tried before a court of the civil establishment, Would it not have been as easy before such a court and jury in the secession heated atmosphere of Washington to have made out “an insane impulse,” for Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Harold and Atzerott? What else but insanity could haye led them to thoir insane conspiracy for the overthrow of the gov- ernment of the United States by # half dozen murders? But where would have been the safety of the government bad the license of in- sanity given to Miss Harris been extended to the confederates of Booth? These fearfal blunders in the way of mercy, if committed, would surely have been followed by a fearful outbreak of vengeance from an ouiraged loyal public opinion. Thus we sec, from the result of the Harris trial at Washington, that the trial of the assassination confederates of Dooth before a military court was wisely adopted by tho President, in view of the ends of justice, decorum, dignity, law and order. Tue CrcvuLaTion or THE TRIBUNE—TRYING TO Sex Ir.—The Tribune Association has been waked up by the news furnished in our columns. It is especially startled by our publication of the very document by which it made its return of sales, and, shameless asi is, could see how it logked hefore the people for that documeiit fo come ont when the Tribune had published that it never made any such return. Yesterday the Tribune had three or four reporters at the Assessor’s office hunting over the books. They were all very much disgusted to find that the figures were as we had given them—that is, that the sales of the Tribune were less than one quarter the sales of the Herarp. Unable to find an argument in the figures, these fellows fell to consuring the officer in charge for allow- ing our reporter access to the books that they— reporters too—were then examining. This piece of impudence is characteristic of the establishment that sent them. Praces or Amusewent IN tue Crrr—TuEm Receiwrs.—We published yesierday an extract from the records of the Internal Revenue De- partment showing the comparative receipts of the various places of amusement patronized by the people. These returns show that our citizens spend nearly two millions of dollars a year at the larger theatres and minstrel establishments alone, leaving out of view the innumerable minor show shops, It is remarkable that the receipts of Barnum’s Museum wero so large. That establishtaent was scarcely considered in the number of the theatres; but it worked away so lustily with its brass band on the balcony, and the What-Is-It? and the giante and pigmies and bearded women inside, that its receipts sum up larger than any other establieh- ment in the city. It received two bun- dred and eighty thousand dollars for o sea- son of eleven months; Niblo’s received two hundred and sixty-three thousand for the same period ; Wallack’s received two hundred and one thousand for a season of twelve months; the Olympic, for ten months, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand; the Winter Garden, for ten months, one hundred and forty-seven thou- sand, and the Stadt theatre, in the Bowery, where German plays are given, received one hundred and five thousand for nine mouths—the largest receipts of any house on that side of tho town. The actual receipts of the Academy of Music of the lyric drama, that especial resting place of the finest of fine arts, sums to his The Maes ace soven thousand dollars, But it should be re- membered that the Academy season is a short one. Its return is for four months only, while those of the others are for ten, eleven and twelve. {ts receipts are in a ratio that would give two hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars for season of twelve months. Thus, in the amount of money drawn in a given time, music is, after all, not far behind the mermaid and the woolly horse. Perhaps music would not do it all the year as the others do. If, also, we consider the difference in the price of admission to the two establishments, we shall find that the bearded woman is seen by four times as many persons as go to hear Kellogg, and that Brignoli and all the other tenors and basaos together have not one quarter the at- traction of the wonderful whale, the boa con- strictor and the rest of “the living curiosities.” This looks as if the taste for the refined pleas- ures were not 2s widespread as every one would like it to be. The National Debt—The Popular Mode of Payment. We publish to-day additional subscriptions towards paying the national debt. These, with subscriptions hitherto received, make the total number of shares now taken three hundred and twenty-two and a half, representing the sum of three and a half millions of dollars. It should always be remembered that this amount has been subscribed for in a purely voluntary way by citizens having certainly only the most patriotic motives. They have not had the inducement of any official promises to urge them on; but have put down their names to give weight and vitality to a acheme that they believe feasible. Since so much can be done upon a merely informal start, and the people are so ready io come out upon the possibility that there is a chance to pay tho national debt, what may not be done in the furtherance of this great object if the government will take it up with the same enefgy, and operate it with the same machinery that made the na- tional loans such greatsuctesées. Let the gov- ernment mect and encourage the spirit thus shown, and thereby prove that it is worthy of the people, understands their ideas and sympa- thizes with their desires. Let it put forth a plan that will give the country the benefit of the liberal disposition of the people. Organize all this patriotic generosity and no debt can stand before it. Do not stand still with the consideration that the millions subscribed are but as drops in the bucket compared with the thonsands ot millions of the debt. These fow millions subscribed are only the indications seen here and there of what is in the heart and thought of this -gront people, ready to burst out at the proper time. The first man that volunteered for the war— the firat companies or regiments that went to Washington, seemed but little ngainst the great rebellion; and if the government had argued that way, they would have re- mained as little as they were. But they were taken as tho indications, the country was called upon and rose, and, instead of two or three regiments, it sent the Army of the Potomac— renewed half a dozen times over—and the great armies of the West that swept with Grant and Sherman from Cairo to Raleigh. Treat the people in the same large spirit now, and they will honor every call for money as they did for men. Give us, Mr. Secretary McCulloch, a plan embodying the idea that so takes with the people. Make it one that will contemplate fully the immense present and prospective wealth ofthis nation. Let it glance at our great mineral wealth, our silver soil, our commercial and agricultural resources, and at what the cotton fields of the South will be within ten years when cultivated in small farms. Give us such a plan, and with that once before the people the debt will as cer- tainly be paid within ten years as this country will in that time be jst twice as rich as it is to-day. Tar Heratp Covrr Manriac—Ovr GeNnerats my Review.—We have nearly completed the preparations preliminary (o the beginning of the grand court martial of our generals, which we propose for the benefit of the American and instruction of the European public. Our cor- respondents are rapidly completing their briefs; charges have been filed, and evidence for and against the general officers who have con- ducted the war is rapidly pouring in. Protests against the “arbitrary, unjust and despotic sys- tem of court martial” which we have deter- wined upon have been made by ceriain office’ who lately had no respect for habeas corpus, and were profoundly itapressed with the beauty of military justice. They now oppédt fo have as much dread of the Heranp court martial as the rebels once had of the courts martial of the War Office. But all such protests are in vain. The people of this country are determined to know the secret history of the late war, and high or low, great or small, successful or wn- successful, the generals must pass in review. Not only this country, not only Europe, but future generations are to occupy the reviewing siands, and those who ere to be inspected will not march by in the holiday uniform which they have donned with the coming of peace, but will be revealed as they appeared ia the tented fleld. The army is to be reorganized-- fall yenerals and lieutenant generals created; and the people intend to have a voice in the matter. Hence they demand the record of each; and we propose to tell who were the workers and who the drones; who played the warrior and who was the marplot; who ad- vanced and who retarded the great end aimed at, and to point out who deserves to be rewarded by further promotion, and who pun- ished by prompt and effectual shelving. We have numerous witnesses. The arraigned may justly claim that they are hired witnesses. We paid them half a million of dollars as such, and were content to publish only half they had to tell. The people were content to know and we wero content to tell but half of the truth when all might have endangered the cause; but the people now demand to know, and the Heratp is determined to “tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” Our correspondents have been instructed to “nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice,” yet to tell all, every fact and incident, which will serve to correct eny false impressions regard- ing military operatious or illustrate the real character of the men who have been seen for the past four years only through the dim Olym- pian atmosphere, in which they appeared “like vast Oaryatids upholding the age.” Their nate abuse no? tansome public will be loft to and opi- nions, The Herat proposes £0 give the factsa— the very thing that many of the generals fear. The anxiety at home and sbroat! to hear all about our generals and to learn the true his tory of their strategy and grand tactics is not less intense than was that of the people to learn everything regarding the war during ite exiat- ence, This desire must be gratified, and we therefore intend to give from the pens of nume- rous war correspondents and others compre- hensive statements of the different campaigns, with sketches of the characters of our generals, which will be invaluable to tbe generation which rewards and punishes, and those of the future who are to remember or forget the suc- cessful and unsuccessful. Benefit of Barnum's Attaches at the Academy of Music. The double performance—afternoon and evening—yes- terday for the benefit of the attachés of Barnum’s suseum, who have suffered severely by tho late fire, was a decided success. The most pleasing feature in the entertainment was the spontaniely with which all the artists, musi- cians, and even the carpenters and machinists, volun- tered their services, showing that an esprit de corps, a3 woll ag an instinct of charity, animates the ¢heatrical pro- fession. The character of the performances selected is an evidence of the good judgment of tho managing com- mittee, It was light and varied. Nothing heavy or im- posing upon the patience of the audience was inflicted, which would have been asevere trial, considering the weather of yesterday. People laughed so much at the combination of fun and humor presented to them that they forgot the range of the thermometer altogether. Tho returns for the benefit of the sufforers by the destruction of the Museum must have been very handsome, con- sidering that nothing was paid for except the rent of the Academy—the inexorable rule of the inflexible directors forbidding a donation of that in stitution even in response to tho voice of charity. Mr. Barnum addressed the as- gomblod crowd at both performances. He said that he re. arded the destruction of the Museum not as an accident, But as a dispensation of Providence. His name had been associated for some yeara with that of humbug, and per- hapa the conflagration was designed to fumigate and burn-up and evaporate the stench which had emanated from the name which ho himself, as well as others, had allied with his name and his Museum. When he wrote a book he knew that people oxpected that humbug would be thrust forward prominently, or they would not consider that they had got the worth of their money, and so he gratified tho public. He said that he cared nothing for the loss of money, because, thanks to public patronngs, h8 Was above Waht; but ho had a fide in restoring the old establishment on a better basis ag means of amusement and instruction to the young; and if the feeling now demonstrated towards him continued he might one day erect a magnificent building. Governors of States and the federal governinent at Washington had offered him assistance in supplying valuable relics, as had also many private individuals; but what was a | Creag stimulant than all, he had received upwards of y lotters from children begging him to build a new Museum, and if he lived he would attempt it before twelve months. Meantime, he was about to fix up the Chinese Assembly Rooms as a Museum for the next twelve or eightecn months. His pantomime company would, for the present, oppear at the Winter Garden. Mr. jum was greeted with much applauso during the delivery of his remarks, which he interlarded with characteristic anecdotes and the development of a hilosophy strictly of the Barnum school. A noticeable ‘caturo of the evening’s performance was the appear- ance of the Hanlon Brothers, who had just arrived from Havana, and upon hearing of the disaster at once offered their services. Their acts upon the trapeze were per- fectly astounding, the ropes being attached to the summit of the proscenium, at an immense clovation trom the stage. BARNUM’S FRIENDS AND DIFFICULTIES. “tA friend in need is a friend indeed.” Among the many proofs of the truth of this adage to the Napoleon of ahowmen is the following lotter from Governor Buck- ingham:— i Srats or Connscricur, Executive DxrarrMeyt. P. T. Bsrwot — Drar Pm og ac of your museum has not onl ly been a personal but is regarded as a loss to the public. There has no place in this country where the masses could in a short time, and for a small sum, learn so much of history through interesting relics, or so much of ornithology and zoology as in the museum just lestroyod. I trust you will receive encouragement from those who occupy positions of influence in this and in foreign lands, ag well ag contributions from those who cun readily part with curiositics and works of historic intorest, and be enabled to band to the Ppp! another museum of greater value that which has beon burned. Yours, truly, W. A. BUCKINGHAM. Among the offerings to Mr. Barnum for the re-estab- lishment of his museum are some from Yale College; one from Mr. Hoadley, Corresponding Secretary of the Connecticut Historical Society, of duplicate specimens of Revolutionary currency, and assurances that the gov- eroment will contribute historical relics from the vari- ousdepartments, Besides these, Governors of soveral States have intimated that duplicates will be presented to him of Crecbaggge Fine re ‘and documents from vari- ous eters e Bm something from the c Queen ‘of* Mngland, an yell aod fowne ee ed men throughout the world. Amon; the contributions already received is one of rare curious shelis, to the value of $3,000; and the merchants have directed the employed on board their ves- evls, im many cases, to bring curiositics for the new muscum from all parts of world, Like the Second Jewish Temple, the glories of the second museum will probably exceed those of the first. Music in the Park. The Park Commissioners announce that if the weather is Gne there will be music on the Mall at the Park to-day, commencing at half-past four o'clock P, M., by the Park Band, under the leadership of H. B, Dodworth, The following is the programme::- a 2 3. 4 5. Overture to Preciosa 6. = kstep—Tho, General 7. Grand Selec! 8. Papageno Polka. ® Yiypydicres Son; irpwaler Baiut fis France. Ww. ete] onie of the Vale. Dads. tz—Dream of the Personal Intelligence. Lieutenam: General god SB. and family, nccom- panied by two or three Extmbers of his personal staff, will leave Washington in a few day® for @ quiot trip to the north, via the Hudson River and ake Champlain route to Canada. Stopping at Quebec and Mon:feal a short time, the party will proceed up the St. Lawrence river to Niagara Falls, returning to Washington after an of from three to four weeke, Tne General has invited Colonel W. 8. Hillyer and family, of New York, to ac- company him upon this trip, but it is understood the pro- fessional ongagemonts of the latter will prevent tho gen- tleman from joining the distinguished party. The ‘United Service Society’ of this city has inaugur- ated a grand serenade, to be given in a fow days to Gene- rals Dixand Hooker, the outgoing and ingoing com- manders of this military department. The matter fe in the hands of a special committee, of which Colonel Georgo D. Kellogg is chairman, General Joseph Holt, Judge Advocate General of the armies of the United States, is recuperating among the mountains of the North. the Miowing ae among the visitors at the St. Nicholas Hotel:—Hon. Mark Skinner, of Chicago; Hon. A. C. a of Schenectady; General Lew. Wallace, of Baltt- moro; Colonel Jas. D. Potts, of Williamsport; ‘Hon, Wm. of Rhivebeck; Colonel T. M. Bonman, of Wash- Hon. J. & Berry, of Michigan, and Judgo Chas, J. B. Peadody, of Philadelphia; 8. A. Hondor- of Washington, and A. Prot Providence, are Ju Spragu among the arrivals at tho Metropolitan Hotel, Tae Nawrouxvtanp Teizonara.—Tho Clara Clarita has been engaged by Mr. Everett, engineer of tho Now York aad Newfoundland Telegraph Company, and will eail today for Aspy bay. The yacht is about 160 tons burden and is a stannch sea boat, Owing to the large number of assistants required for the peculiar business of repairing or relayjng tho cable across the Gulf of St, Lawrence, and the quantity of machinery necessary with other appliances essential to the success- ful prosecution of the present expedition, tho oxtont of the accommodations is exceedingly circumscribed, and notwithstanding several of the crew have been dispensed with to accommodate engincer Evorett’s force, many of the latter will be obliged to find quarters on board entirely outside of the berthe and small cabins of the craft, It ie oxpeoted that tho yooht will reach Aspy bay in reason to resuscitate the prosent cable ncross the Gulf of St. Lawrence before tho arrival of tho Great Kastern with the western terminus of the Atlantio cable, Thia ac. complished, the telegraph lines of tho country will be at once intact from tho oxtreme onstern to tho westera Jook emall by thes furs Thatchoven hyme ! quills pball not ke dipped Ao cal» Tudiactigu-d shores of tus continent NEW ORLEANS. . “ Suiciie of Two United States Army Officers. The Teche District Infestes with @Guerillas. General Banks Practising Lav in New Orleans, ARREST OF A NOTORIOUS BUSHWIACKE:, &., &., &e. The steamship George Cromwell, Captain Vail!, from New Orleans on the 16th inst., arrived at this port a mt early hour this morning. The purser will accops cot thanks for the prompt delivery of our despatches sud files, Our New Orleans Correspondence, New Oniman, La, July 15, 1664. THE SHOOTING ON THE GUNBOAT NYANZA. Tho officer shot on board the gunboat Nyanza b of the crow was the pilot, Wm. B. McLean. lt w remembered that he was ehot in the hoad whi police officers were in the act of arresting certuln n ous perties on board. Mr. afoLoan was alive ab accounts, Tho affair occurred on Monday night last, and on Tot day the Nyanza was guarded and in charge of negro soldiers, SUICIDE OF TWO ARMY OFFICERS On Tuosday last Major Albort Elfeld, forer! ing to the Ninety-seventh United St comulitted suicide in this city by blowIng out his br: with a revolver. The deceased was about ifty-1 6 of age, and wasn native of Prussia. Major Elfield bad been subject for some time to fits of insanity On Wednesday night last Lieutenant Arthar W, Th op son, United States Army, died from the cifocts a overdose of laudanum. In the former part of the \ +> ning he retired to Lis room in a state of intoxication, »™4& in a short time complained of feeling unwell, at toa same time taking up a phial which contained about iv ounces of laudanum, which he drank, remark ng tha: would have one good long sleep. In'a few momo: sles the sleep that knows no waking. Physicians called, but tono purpose. The unfortunaio officer at the ago of thirty-one. The coroner’s jury brougia tx, ® verdict of suicide. Lieutenant Tiompson was & ushfield, Maine. native * GUBSILLAS ON THR TROUR. A band of guerillas are now infesting the Teche dv- trict in the neighborhood of Franklin. The Union si~ diers havo been assisted by the citizens in open, Se * up, but all attempts have failed up to this time, Friex and foo suffer alike from the depredations of these laws. They havo several times entered Frank! neighboring towns, robbed the stores, entored dwer for the same purpose, and escaped with their booty. MAJO® GENERAL WANKB A NEW ORLEANS LAWYER, Yesterday Major General Banks was introduced to tha Judge of the United States District Court as a rad attorney, and, having taken the test oath that he ‘bh. never borne arms against the United Siates, or give countenance, aid, or encouragement to the rebellion,” was admitted to practice. ‘THE PROPERTY OF CITIZENS UNDER TAK PRESIDENT'S AXN BIT? PROCLAMATION, ‘The Vicksburg Herald says, why aro our citizens stili refused the return of their property? President Joh son, in bis proclamation of amnesty, distinctly saya that all rights of property shall be img aoe There men in this city who have always beon Union men, an: who now hold office with the general approbation of our Union loving citizens, whose Renner, is still in the hands of the Treasury agency. hy is this? Thero cer~ tainly must be something wrong somewhere. We tra Governor Sharkey will look into thia mutter, and at call the attention of the President to the rank injuatts ig is being practiced towards the Union men of this) MUSTERED OUT. Under the late order of the War Department direotin, all soldiers to be mustered out of the service who: terms of sorvice expire on the 1st of October bl between fourteen and fifteen thousand will be di haryedl from the army of Gonoral Sheridan. ARREST OF A NOTORICUS BUFITWHACKER, Captain Robert Lynne, a notorious guerilla chief, commanded the “« Ga: ” was yesterday by Chief of Police Burke, in thia city. There are sev el es of mnie eee oe man personally from the parish of Avoyclles alone, and in all seventy-three indicte ments for robbery and murder. ‘ROMANO OF THE WAR An intelligent and handsome woman, named Tobin, recently appeared at the Fourth District Court etitioned Judge Hoard for wrong done her by Johu forman, the said John Norman heving married her it Algiers, Louisiana, while he had living at the North of the same timo a wife and two chil’ron. Ellon ask: that the ee should be declared null and void that the sum of five thousand dollars be awarded her at support. The divorce was granted and the sum of five thousand dollars allowed by Judge Handlin, as Normaa, failed to appoar on tho |. Noraan tsa soldier ip thé Fifty-aixth Ohio, now stationed at Alziors, The War Correspondence of the New York Herald. the Tolodo (Ohio) Commercial, July 19.) ‘Tho people ‘‘who sit at ho at ease” can adequate idea of the cnergy, nterprise and ¢: by which, through the long and dreary years of our civi war, they were furnished, #0 to , With photogra) i, of the field by the war correspondents of the New Youx Hanato, standing facile Froall th conditions we have enumerated, with a commendab! ride comes out to inform the public of what has beem fone forthem. There have been engaged in the military” and naval correspondence of that journal sixty-three gene tlemen of expericnce and ability—some of those now oon oupy high posts in the Comyn greater portion ettik hold office on the HrnaLy as home or forvign = and some have sealed their devotion to duty de in battle or in sorvice. We have no need to of the self-sacrificing labors of all. Through their means, the world was kept au courant with those exciting event# upon which depended the fate of a hemisphere; and whem other histories of the timo shall have become by fable tho letters in the daily journals wil turned to as roliablo records. The cost of the ent tothe Hxraup was half a million of dollars, and sone the items of expen:liture led are as curious as are interesting, The HrraLp says:— “One of our correspondents returns an item of one hua. dred dollars paid to a military conductor on a raliroad im Tennessee to gain twenty minutes lost time in order te make @ connection with & Louisville train at Nashville, The consequence was that our account of tho battles Chattanooga Was published @ day earlier than it w have beon if the ouo hundred dollars had not been exe nded. Our special account of the capture of New Ore toes, although filling but a few columns of a single issue clon paper oust as £m. nses alone of the corres ant who accom undred dollars. item of and heh e river. There are other items war transmitted by h will bo new fmany. The fnvention by wi this could be done was made by Mr. Thomas W. Knox, and was as cae Hoys as useful, A cavea: was filed at Washington and @ patent for the invention secured. By the use of thi simple invention Ur indents on the field cou telograph us, and Mente Wators pn coud prone for next day’s paper a full diagram of the fleld, streams, fields, yoods, the positions u by regiments, the entird Jines of baitie of the contending armies.” ‘We regret wo have not space at disposal to give the muster roll of the brave army of the pen, or to recow: the history of the “battles, Cy fortunes,”’ thi which they have passed, We cannot avoid, howev: ‘She obligations of ti press and the people of the count their zeal and talé ent, or of commending the ta Fear ptered and jus tice of Mr. Bennett in finding on his laces for the correspondents who choose to avatl 4 em, We not always agree with the teachings of Herat, ‘every momber of the press solicitous for the honor of hig order should not permit the spirit ay J ni goed the em torprise or the gratitude that rewards service go unrecorded. nother correspon wild turkey, caught by a soldiog. during gre curious. The National Loan. OVER SIX MILLIONS SUBSCRIDED YESTERDAY. Pumaperma, July 21, 1866 Jay Cooke reports the subscriptions to the sevem- thirty loan to-day at $6,275,100, including the follow- ing:— First National Bank, Boston. . First National Bank, Norfolk. Second National Bank, Chicago. 1 First National Bank, Bes Moines. . 120, First National Bank, Springteld, 200, First National Bank, St, Albans, V! s Second National Bahk, Cleveland 008 Central National Bank, Philad bowen 4 Merchants’ National Bank, Clovel Peper d Commercial National Bank, Cleyolan 100, p-4 New York National Bank, York. 200; Commpnwealth National Bank, Now York 309) ineaaligant eee Words fational ‘irgini v Leather Manufactures” Bank, New York fo0'00e F. 0. Fronch, Boston. .....+: ey A, Caldwell & Co,, Leavenworth, Kansas, , ‘The individual subscriptions numbered 2,641, eee Flood in Kansas. ermious Loss OF LIFB AND PROPBRTY. Leavanwortn, July 21, 1868, During a torriblo rain storm last night, the creek rum ning through the southern portion of the city overflowed ita banks, carrying away two stone bridges, eighteen oF twenty houses, horses, wagons, and property of all kinda ‘The loss of life is not yot known. Beven bodies were found this morning. Many were doubtless awopt away ‘Ja douse, ‘The loss ia pt! inated. ah $200,409