The New York Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1865, Page 4

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Intoresting and important intelligence respecting the ‘ex-rebel pirate Rappahannock, lately made over by rebel ‘ageats to Liverpool merchants, is contained in our Kingstown (Ireland) correspondence. is stated that {Captain Walke, of the United States tte Sacra® ‘mento, on learning that this redoubtable “neutral” ves- ‘gel had put out for Liverpool from Southampton, where she had been lying since her liberation from Calais, started in pursuit, with the fixed intention of capturing she ox-pirate and bringing her to this country to be ‘adjudicated upon in a prize court, As the Rappahan- ‘tock, according to the latest advices, reached Liverpool jin safety on the 9th inst., it is probable that Captain ‘Walke did not get up with her in time to put her as- umed noutrality to the test, ’ A San Francisco despatch reports that on the 30th of March last, in the Pacific Ocean, on the voyage from the Micronesian Islands to Honolalu, the Hawalian schooner Pfel was boarded by the officers of a vorsel believed to fhaye boon the rebel pirate Shonandoah, though her Captain said she was the English ship Miami. She car. riod English colors; but the boarding officers were Amoricans, Sho was then on the track of returning ‘American whalers, among which it was supposed she Gesigned to operate. Australia advices of a late date give a rumor that the Shenandoah was cruising off the ‘const of Now Zealand, and that she bad recently burned ‘an American vessel in that vicinity. ‘Tho highly interesting narrative of the flight of Jeff. Davis and his accompanying fugitives, by one of his staff officers, is continued in to-day’s Heratp. Inthe portions of this chronicle heretofore given the writer has detailed the circumstances of the journey through Virginia and South Carolina, The present chapter is devoted to the passage through South Carolina, thus preserving the connection of the story. ‘The details are not very creditable to the ones rampant and boasting chivalry of the Palmetto Stato, showing as they do that but little hospitality was shown to the fallen rebel chief and his followers by the people who had proclaimed the loudest thoir deter mination to die in the last ditch in support of his and their own chimera of a Southern empire. The houses wore closed against Jeff. and the other high robel dignitaries, They were compelled to live in the ‘cars on the railroad track, and the few necessaries they got wore given grudgingly. There is said to be no mistake about the South Carolinians being thoroughly gubdued. The various departments of the rebel govern- mont—State, War, Navy, Treasury, Judiciary and Post Omce_-wore located in the cars and scattered for miles long the road, waiting for thé signal, which never came, {0 again assombio together at some safe place. The ar- Chives of these different departmonts were destroyed in in- Btalmente at different points as the fleeing ‘‘goverament”’ (moved southward, and as one hope after anothor for its ultimate ro-establisment expired. Thus the Navy De- partment coased forever to exist at Charlotte, N.C.; the State Department at Lexington, and #o on, one after another, these institutions collapsed by the roadsido, in morited obscurity and ignominy. The rebel General Jeff, Thompson is among the recent applicants for Executive pardon \ Que of pho Hepany ogirewvondcats who has veen travel “4 * ‘ Lng extensively through almost every portion of the South since the termination of the war, gives us, from Selma, Alabama, the resulta of his observations in ® recent trip through that State, and particularly, along the Alabama river. All along thet) stream there are now lying large quantities of cotton which the Dolders are unable to get to market in conse- quence of the very imperfect transportation. There are only a fow boats, and they of the most inforior character, on the river. Alabama is represented a8 offering strong inducements for Northerners designing to emigrate to the South. For four hundred miles the banks of the Alabama river are lined with the finest of plantations, and many of the planters, who are disgusted at the idea of free labor, think they cannot possibly live in country where the negro is free, and design going to Brazil or Cuba, are now willing to take four and five dollars per sore for land which, before the war, was valued at fifty dollars. Our correspondent states that large quantities of the rebel government cotton, which now belongs to the national government, are being stolen from the plantations by private indi- viduals, conveyed to market and sold, and that these frauds are understood to be perpetrated in many cases with the knowledge and in the interest of the*‘tntlitary post commandants. . Large numbers of refugees ftom Georgia and Alabama, who were some time ago furnished transportation to their homes from Nashville by government, having re- cently returned to the latter place, on the plea that if they had remained in their own States they would have starved,’ General Fisk, Assistant Commissioner of Refu- gees and Freedmen for the State of Tennessee, has directed that for the present no more such persons be sent southward from Louisville, Ky., without his orders. It is stated that the rebel Captain Henry Wirz, formerly keeper of the Andersonville prison pen, will shortly be placed on trial before a court martial in Washington for the barbarities practised on national soldiers under his charge. , S. T. Suit, President of the National Bank of Virginia, at Richmond, has addressed a communication to the President, requesting him to suspend legal proceedings for the confiscation in that State of the property of rebels until the question of pardon in individual cases can bo one hundred dollars, in the saloon at 91 Division street; James MoCloskey, charged with stealing three hundred dollars from Lawrence Malone, of 63 Greene street, in an oyster aloon in Seventeenth street; Nellie Woods and Belle Hacket, two Greene street girls, n : fifty dollars saten Sie ot soldiers, and Samuel Davis, a colored man, on complaint om charge of stealing over one from. Patrick Of burglary at 600 Broadway. ‘Three or four additional witnesses for the prosecution were examined yesterday before United States Commis- sioner Newton in the case of the alleged Brooklyn Navy Yard frauds, but their testimony was mercly a repeti- tion of what had previously been given. ‘The record of the Court of General Sessions of this city for this month’s term shows that sixty-nine per- sons were tried in that court alone for various offences, of whom all but four were convicted. The majority of charges were for grand larceny and attempt at that crime, while burglary cases are numerous, and there is fair proportion of the various offences known to the criminal calendar, from manslaughter down to sneak thieving and petit larceny. Two garroters, named John Hoey and Samuel McLean, were sentenced to tho State Prison for twenty yoars. Possession of Ford's theatre, in Washington, will be taken on Monday next by the govornment, which will pay Mr. Ford rent for the building until the meoting of Congress, in anticipation of an appropriation for its purchase. Affire which is sald to have been Caused by the bpon- taneous combustion of petroleum destroyed the Pacific warebouses on the'corner of Broad and Battery streets, San Francisco, on the 17th inst, entailing. loss cati- mated at a quarter of a million of dollars, Some of the Canadian papers mention a project for ing @ new line of emigrant steamers. between Europe and Queboc, and granting assisted Passages to emigrants, with a-view of keeping them, if possible, on the Canadian side of the border. ‘The stock market was dull and barely steady yestor- day. Governments were lower. Gold was steady, and closed at 1425; u 142% on the street at five P. M. ‘The general markets were without remarkablo activity on Saturday. Desirable lots of flour, wheat, corn and oats were firmer and in fair request. Cotton was quiet, but steady. There was rather more doing in provisions. New mess pork ranged from $31 25 to $32 25, closing heavy at $31 50. Lard advanced a shade. Tallow was heavy and drooping. In groceries, oils and naval stores there was less activity, without any remarkable changes in prices, Hay, tobacco and wool wore in fair demand, and held with much firmness. The freight market was less active, the engagements consisting mainly of grain, cheeso and tobacco for Liverpool at about previous rates. There are four hundred and fifty-nine vessels of all dedermined, What the President’s action in the matter will be is not yet publicly known, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Commander, Captain Terry, from Wil- mington, N.C., onthe 20th inst. arrived at this port yesterday. She brought no news of-importance. President Johnson, accompanied by the Sccretary of the Navy and other official persons, yostorday started on an excursion down the Potomac and Chosapeake, on board the steamer Hornet. The oily member of the Heaanp corps, after the lapse of several months since his previous tour through Petro- lia, has revisited that region of greasy marvels, and sends us, from a place with the pretentious but unromantio title of Pithole City, a very graphic chapter, published in this morning’s Heraxo, descriptive of what he has seen—of the changes wrought there since his formor visit, and of the present .aspect and condition |, of that modern wonder. A fow interesting facts regarding | the oil speculations of the assacsin Booth are algo given. The information ia. interesting just. now, ‘white the | curious developments are being. made. in- our ‘courts relative to the organization and operations of oi} cour panies. At afew minutes past nine o'clock yesterday mora- ing, amidst the strains of patriotic music from Dod- worth’s Band, the waving of thousands of hats and handkerchiefs by the assembled multitude of enthu- siastic spectators of both sexes, and in a drizzling rain which did not in the least deter the people from crowding every point in the vicinity, on land and water, from which a view could be obtained, the immease naval steam ram Dunderberg was most succoss- folly launched at tho foot of Sixth street, Kast river. The Dunderberg ia the largest iron-clad ram and the most powerful war vessel afloat, and is aa beautiful, as regards the matter of naval architecture, as she is staunch and invulnerable. Her extreme length is threo hundred and eighty-one feet; breadth, seventy- three feet; depth, twenty-nine feet, and her meagure- ment about five thousand tons. To her prow is attached, below the surface of the water, a wrought iron ram or beak, fifteen feet long, and she will carry, when ready for service, four guna of fifteen inches calibre and twelve of eleven inches calibre. Her fron plating is three inches and a half thick, and extends a considerable distance below the water line. Acar laden with Southern mail matter, which had just arrived ina train from Philadelphia, was run down the ferry bridge and precipitated into the North river on the Jorsey City sido about cleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, by some mismanagement or misunderstanding between those having @harge of it and the deck hands of the ferryboat on board of which it was designed to place it. The fotters and papers were all recovered and brought to the Post Office in this city; but ina soaked condition, and many of them are injured beyond the hope of resuscitation. The new Fire Commissioners, at their meeting yester- day, balloted several times for Chief Enginecr, but did not succeed in electing one. The balloting will be ro- sumed to-morrow. Communications pledging themselves: to continue duty were received from several of the volun teer companies, and a charge of assault against the mem. bers of Hose Company No. 56.was made by Hose Com- pany No. 28, ‘The Cartmen’s and Laborers’ Association met fast evening and received reports from the various wards, showing the number of members of the association working for the street cleaning contractors, The Presi dent announced that employment was promised to all the old hands to-morrow, Speeches denouncing the Street Cloaning Commission, and particularly Mr. Boole, were made. ‘Another caso of alleged swindling by false pretences, having a strong tincture of petroleum, was under inves tigation yesterday before Justice Dowling, of the Tombs Police Court. The charge is made by Nathaniel E. Shel- don, of this city, who alleges that Frodorick A. Howe, of headville, Crawford county, Pa., by false and fraudulent pretences defrauded him of five thousand five hundred dollars, which was paid for a tract-of land represerited to be located in Forest county, Pa., and to have on it excel- lent timber and to contain valuable ofl deposits, which tho plaintiff, on personal inspection, could not discover. Mr. Sheldon’s deposition was taken, and Mr. Howe was required to give six thousand dollars bail to appear at a futuro examination. The investigation of the charges of swindling against Mann and Stratton, of the United Service Petroleum and Mining Company, was continued yesterday before Justice Dodge. The principal portion of the day was occupied in hearing the testimony of Colonel Hillyer, formerly a member of Lieutenant General Grant's staff, on the con- clusion of which the case was furthor adjourned till ten o'clock on Tuesday of this week. New photographed counterfeits of the one dollar greeng backs, well executed, made their appearance in a pretty extensive manner last night in this city, Brooklyn and Williamsburg. The police, by getting early information Of the fraud and notifying the shopkeepers, prevented it from being as successful as designed. We did not learn of any arrests connected with the matter. A coronor's inquest was hold yesterday at the Righth precinet station house over the remains of Mrs. Mary Wagner, whom, as alleged, hor husband, Joseph Wag. ner, killed by blows on the head with the sharp edge of a hatehet, at their residence, 616 Broome street, on Fri day afternoon, Some of the witnesses examined tes. tifled to seeing the accused chop his wife's head three or four times while she was lying gn the floor, he holding her down by resting his knee on her back. The vordict was in accordance with these statements, and Wagner, who 1s @ German, @ cabinetmaker, and aged thirty-nine years, and who professes entire ignorance of the horrible affair, was locked up in the Tombs, to await the action of the Grand Jury. The police magistrates yesterday committed Bridget Gaffney, a domestic in the employ of Mr. Berau, of 388 West Thirty-second street, charged with stealing in that gentleman's residence money and papers valued atpover two thousand dollars; Henry Rota, & carman, living at 138 Reade atreet, on complaint of stealing a box of linen goods worth six hundred dollars from in front of tho store 130 Duane stroot; Patrick Colton, Patrick Hewitt and Michael Dorsey, on charge of boating fud cobbiue a sailor oamed Samos Murray of over classes in port The Trial of Jefferson Davis—Who Shall Deeide Upon Its Form ? The question of how Jefferson Davis shall betried is very interesting and very important. Some persons contend that he ought to be tried before a civil district court. Others wish him tried, with great pomp and ceremony, be- fore the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice pre- siding in person. Others, again, think that he ought to be tried before Congress, if possible, in the most imposing manner. Others still are - favor of a military commission and the prompt judgment of a court martial. Jefferson Davis himself would of ‘course prefer a civil court if he had any right to have @ preference in the matter, But the guilt of the archtraitor is-s0 manifest. and se. notorious that his trial, so far'as. he is personally concerned, will be a mere formality. It is only whon'we consider him as the representative of the rebellion that we see the importance of allowing him to enjoy the services of the most eminent counsel he can secure, and of permitting him the fullest and most impartial trial. His case will be a precedent for all time to come. It wil] settle, not only his fate, but the great constitutional questions which the rebellion has raised. Com- : pared with it, the celebrated case of Aaron Burr sinks into insignificance. We think that it mey be'taken for granted that the only defence which Jofferson Davis can make will be the State rights doctrine. The facts that he was a citizen of this country, that’ he had taken several oaths to support the gov- ernment of the United States, and that he afterwards levied war against this government, and tried to divide and destroy it, must be conceded by his lawyers, and can be readily proven if they are not conceded. The only hope of Jefferson Davis, then, is to plead a justification of treason in the doctrine of State Tights, Such a defence will amount to pre- cisely this:-—Jefferson Davis and the other rebels were right because they believed in State rights. The reply to this defence is, that Jeffer- sgn Davis and the other rebels were wrong, because the majority of the American people did not beliexe in State rights, It the rebellion is to be narrowed down to a matter of opjnion, we have as much force in our opinions as they have in theirs, Both sides think themselves right, and each thinks the other side wrong. As, under these circumstances, there must evi- dently be a mistake somewhere, the rebels re- ferred the difference of opinion to the arbitra- ment of war, and the suit was decided in our favor. We conquered the rebels, and in con- quering them we annihilated State rights, The best men of the South recognize this fact, and the leading rebels are now sueing for pardon and taking an oath of allegiance, which expressly declares the individual States subsidiary to the United States. In their conversion we have a guarantee for the undisturbed future of the Union. The State rights defence of Jefferson Davis, which has been thus condemned by the arbitra- ment of war, must now be forever settled by a judicial decision. We must have itdeclared by Jaw, as it has already been declared by force of arms, that this Union is an integer, and not a mere string of beads which anybody can break at pleasure. When we put Jefferson Davis on trial we place in the dock, in his person, the secession dognia that this nation is a confede- racy, and that any State can withdraw from it at will without the consent of the States which remain. Practically, we have killed that dogma; but we have not yet killed it judicially. This we propose to do. upon the trial of Jefferson Davis; and therefore the form of his trial is a question of importance. Of himself Davis amounts to very little. | Shut up in Fortress Monroe, his eyesight failing him, and his health in a very preca- rious condition, he is too miserable an object to excite any hostile emotion. But as the em- bodiment of the doctrines which, carefully in- atilled into the minds of the South, have so terribly distracted the country, he demands the sirictest justice at out hands. The serpent that crawled into Eden was harmless as a snake ; but as the incarnation of the spirit of all evil it succeeded in ruining the peace of the world. So the miscrable wretch at Fortress Monroe is of no consequence, one way or the other, whether he lives or dies; but, the evil principle of which he is the acknowledged representative must be destroyed beyond the possibility of @ resurrec- tion if the nation is to be preserved intact and glorious. The tribunal before which Jefferson Davis is to be tried rests entirely with President John- son, He can designate the time and place and tmannor of this important historical trial. It is ous responsibility incident to the winding up of the affairs of the great rebellion, President Johnson was called to his high office suddenly, without warning, without = moment's time for reflection and preparation. Since that period he bas been constantly busied with the most engrossing cares. The zeal and with which he has discharged his duties have in- jured his health, and he is now physically inca- pable of doing all the work he desires to ac- complish; He will not lesve Washington and its miaama to recruit, and he objects to take up his residence at ‘the Soldiers’ Home lest some- thing should be overlooked or neglected during his temporary absence, Undoubtedly, then, he would feel greatly re! if he could dismiss the trial of Jefferson Davis completely from his mind by determining to pass it over to Con- gress, We deem it probable that he will adopt this course, if not for the reasons. we have given, then for some other reasons, such as & graceful recognition of the claims of a co-ordi- nate and popular branch of the government to settle a question so delicate as that in regard to the form of the trial. President Johnson is fond of referring everything to the people, so far as is possible; and Congress will represent the people in this matter. The Press in the Late Confederacy—A New Power in.the South. We notice a remarkable growth of new jour- nals in the Southern States—all of them very different in character and quality from the jour- nals we received four or five years ago from the same region. The press of the South never amounted to much before the war, and for a good reason: it was never an institution with the real vitality of the people init. It was opposed on principle to that popular develop- ment in which alone # great and powerful preas can originate. It advocated the interests and expressed the ideas of only that small class of men whom the Southern people were content to call their leaders, who controlled the policy of the South, and controlled it always in the narrow views of the slaveholders and against all pro- gress. It was, therefore, ever constrained’ in its utterances—mean, poor and contemptible in spirit and in fact. And of course its utterances were from the commencement. the wildest of the. wild in favor of secession and. war, It clamored for wat asa pack of hungry hyenas. might fer meat, and its noise perhaps con- tributed in some degree to influence the thoughts of Southern men and induce the intemperate acts that made war inevitable. The war came, and the Southern press was one ot its earliest victims, This was one of the revenges of the “whirligig of time.” The very event that the Southern papers had clamored for and assisted to bring on killed them one by one, until hardly half @ dozen were left, and the country was naturally glad of it. But now a new crop of Southern journals has come up. There are Monitors, Heralds, Posts, Records, New Eras, Advertisers, Tran- scripts, Republics, Mails, Chronicles—and there is one even content to bear that now disgrace- ful name, “The Nows.” There are a very great many of these papers, and they are spread over the whole South, coming from all the larger cities. Some are very distinot in the enuncis- tion of principles, Thus one publisher in the late capital of the confederacy carries the motto “ No North, no South, no East, no West.” Another, from Georgia, stands upon the broad platform of “Wisdom, Justice, Moderation.” ‘Though some of these sheets are revivals of the old papers in the form of a “new series,” far the larger number are new in all respects. They are a sign of the times. They indicate a new development in the life of the Southern people. They show that the same enterprise, the same spirit, that has made the Northern press such a powerful engine for popular rights is spreading in the South. They show that the same energetic purpose is at work, spreading intelligence among the Southern people and educating the masses up to the level of good citizenship. It matters but little what especial opinions these papers may advo- cate. They all recognize the present facts of. the situation, and they are letting the light into the minds of the Southern people, who need little else to become as good citizens as any in the country. They are the very best guaran- tee against further troubles with the South. Mextco—Prestpenr Jounson’s Poticy.— There has been of late too much twaddle in certain newspapers as to what the Paris Monitcur has said in relation to what our Minister to France, Mr. Bigelow, officially said about the Mexican policy of Presi- dent Johnson. The statement of Mr. Bige- low, as reported in the Monitewr, whether | he made it or not, to the effect that the present administration at Washington has no idea of going to war about a form of govern- ment in Mexico, amounts to nothing. All the public statements of Andrew Johnson, since his nomination for the Vice Presidency, in 1864, and all his private declarations, we have no doubt, from the day he succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President down to this day, have been unequivocally and emphatically in favor of the Monroe doctrine and its practical appli- cation to Mexico—“ peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.” This is President Johnson’s Mexican policy. Louis Napoleon is, naturally, very anxious to know his exact purposes in reference to Mexico, but he is not likely to find them out by in- quiries of Mr. Bigelow. There is a very simple way, however, whereby the Emperor of France can ascertain whether his Emperor of Mexico will or will not be tolerated by Mr. Johnson. Let the French Minister at Washington be in- structed to spply to Mr. Johnson for the recog- nition of Maximilian, and we are quite san- guine that an answer will be given which both Maximilian and his master will interpret as the Monroe doctrine. President Johnson is in no hurry to settle this Mexican question, be- cause the game is in his hands, and he can settle it at any time ; but Louis Napoleon will act wisely by making a virtue of necessity in ® voluntary abandonment of Mexico, without further loss of time; for, voluntarily or invol- tuntarily, he will have to leave. probable, refer the matter to Congress, In this he would be supported by the good sense of the people, who have no desire to overwhelm the President ; responafbilfties. Congress is & branch of the government so which such a question as this may be very properly referred. It the majority of the people have any decided preference as to the mode of. the trial ef Jeffer- son Davis, the Congressmen, coming fresh from the people, will be aware of it and will respect it. At any rate, it is but fair that Congress should be allowed to assume some of the oner- Govenvox Pzsar’s Exrtanarion —The new recently made a provisional speech to & "° Pe vy / ple of that State, in which he glorified Ge. ‘°"*! ; Lee, lamented the failure of the rebellion, a "4 Presidential Excursion to the recognized the duty of submission to” the” Chesapeake Bay. Union rather as a painful necessity than an q agreeable choice. This was s bad beginning for one of the best specimens of loyalty that could be found in South Carolina, Governor Perry, however, as we are glad to perceive, on being called up to explain to President John- son, has put in an explanation which is deemed satisfactory... We presume this explanation was that he lad to say something to conciliate the chivalry; but we predict that if he utters another Ismentation over the failure of the Southern confederacy he will get this com- pliment frem Andrew Johnson: “Cassio, I love thee, but mever more be officer of mine.” It will not do for Southern provisional governors to get too large for their breeches. Corron For Bacon.—Many of the most intel- ligent rebel leaders during the war, after being cut off from the beef and bacon supplies of ‘Tennessee and Kentucky, were anxious to in- troduce a-eystem of exchange of Southern cot- ton for Yankee bacon. Ht appears, however, that Jeff. Davis, still hugging the delusion gt cotton was king, believed that by withholdihg it from the Yankees their national treasury would soon become bankrupt, and that then his Southern confederacy, including King Cot- ton, would become a fixed fact among the na- tions. Jeff. held fast, therefore, to his cotton till his confederacy was brought to a collapse: by starvation. Now, as he is out of the way, and as bacon is the staff of life in the South, which those people, rich and poor, eat three times a day the year round, when they can get it, we would suggest that a barrel of Western bacon will bring out a bale or two of Southern cotton where even gold would fail to find it, Among the animal creation the hog in the South ranks A No. 1, and when their hog gave out the Southern confederacy went down. It failed for the want of bacon. fy I "git Bobel Prisoners of War to be Discharged om : Taking the Oath of Allegiance. . ‘ \ \ Ayph'cation for Pardon by the Noto- rious Jeff. Thompson. The Government to Fake Posses- sion of Ford’s Theatre. The Andersomville Prison Keeper to be Tried Aor Barbarities to o Be, Ae ke. ' ‘W asammaron, July 22, 1968. MXOURSION BY TH)’ PRESIDENT. Raving derived so’ much benei tt from his previous ox cursions down the river, the’ Pra sident this afternoon, accompanied by Secretary Welles, Hon. Preston King, Assistant Seoretary of the Nav.y Fox,end Wm. Faron, Eoq., Chief Clerk of the Navy }2epan'ment, left in the United States steamer Hornet for a tn'p, which will ex- tend to Chesapeake Bay and outside... The party will return on Monday morning: \ PARDONS GRANTED. Special pardons have been granted’ by tha’ Prosident to Geo, W. Ward, formerly of Louisiana, now yof Newport, Ky., and to Albert S. Berry and Andrew J, Barry, som of Gen. Wm, T. Barry, of Newport, Ky- JEFP, THOMPSON APPLIES FOR PARDOA'- Among the personal applicants for parton is the noto- rious Joff. Thompson, who has figured s® conspicua usly during the war as an active partisan of the robe&tion. He was at the White House on Friday last. THE APPLICATIONS FOR PENSIONS. Aconsiderable portion of the applications now being: made to the Pension Bureau for pensions for wid mothers, &c., state exposure, starvation, or shooting } the guards at the prison pens of the South, as tho came of death. . ' THR ANDBREONVILLE PRISON KEEPRR TOBE PUT ON TRIAL. ‘The country will bo gratified to learn that Capt. Henry Wirm, lately prison keeper at Andersonville, is shortly te ‘be put upon his trial for the cruelty and barbarity prac- tised by him upon our prisoners confined. at that place. ‘The Military Commission sitting in this city, of whick Brigadier General A, B. Hunterwood is President, and Colonel N. P. Chapman, of the War Department, is Judge Advocate, has been directed to try the case, The charges embrace a list of atrocities that are little short of fiendish, and will arouse the indignation of the civilized world. The government is now engaged in the collection of testimony preparatory to trial. Let the ‘soldiors who have survived their imprisoment at this prison put Colonel Chapman in possession of any essen- ‘Hal facts, ; Governor Jonson, oF Georaia.—The brief report of a recent speech to the people of Au- gusta by James Johnson, Provisional Gover- nor of Georgia, has the true ring of loyalty and of devotion to the great work of restoring Georgia in good faith to her proper relations as aloyal member of the Union. It is to such appeals to the Southern people from leading and influential Southern men that we may look for the speedy reconciliation of the Southern States to their manifest destiny. Governor Johnson clearly understands it, and faces the music like # patriot. We congratulate the Georgians on their. good luck in the appoint- ment of James Johnson as their Provisional Governor. He isevidently the right man in DISOHAROM OF RiBRI. PRIGONERS. By onder of the President. all the rebel prisoners of the right piace, ‘war, incinding-the generals, aro to be discharged on tak- ‘ ‘ing thé oath of allegiance and giving their parole. This NEWS FROM TENNESSEE. wilt clear out all the military prisons and close up the office of General Hoffman, Commiscary General of Prison- ors. Under this order Major General Edward Johnson was to-day relieved from the Old Capitol. ‘The President has directed the release, on parole, with permission to returm to Georgia, of the rebel Gonoral Philip Cook, « prisoner of war in the department of Ma- Jor General Hartauff. NATIONAL GURRENOY. ‘The national ourrency issued during the woek ending July amounts to $3,767,660, making » total of $157,007,665 now in circulation, _ GOVERNMENT HORSES AND MULES FO BH SOLD. During the month of August twelve ;theusand horses and fourteen thousand mules will be geld by the govera- ment in the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, New Jersey, Indiana and the District of Co- lumbia. This will close the salés of heres end mules by the War Department. ‘The sales ef animals by that department since the lst of May have netted to the gov- ernment over two millions of dollars, FORD'S THEATAS. The government takes final possession of Ford's theatre on Monday. Everything therein is being packed for re- moval. The government is to pay 4 certain rent to Mr. Ford till the 1st of February, and: f by thet time Con- gross has not made am appropriation for the purchase it will be returned to bim. ‘THE CONFISCATION AG? IN VIRGTWTA. ‘Tho following letter to the President, im regard to initia tory proceedings under the Confiscation sect against citizens of Virginia, was yesterday morning presented to him. 16 isnot known yet what action the President will take in the premises:— To his Excellency Axpni joao, beemliont of the x a United States :— President of the National Bank of Vi The Refugees in the State—Onpture of Bushwackera, &ec. ‘ Nasaviian, July 22, 1866. General Fisk, Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugee Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, has directed that no more refugees from Georgia or Alabama be trans- ported southward from Louisville, except upon special authority from him. Refugees from Georgia and Alaba- ma now in the State, north of Ohio, desiring to return to their homes, will not be transported South unless they can show by the best evidence that upon their return they will not become a charge upon: the, govern- ment for their subsistence. This action: is made neces- sary by tho return to Nashville of large bers who havo but recently been furnished transportat: their homes, and upon their arrival they were unable to pro- cure food sufficient to prevent starvation. Eteven bushwhackers, captured in Hamlin county, wore brought in to-day. They will be severoly dealt with, President Johnson's timely endorsement of Governor Brownlow’s course relative to the approaching election has really cooled the excitement existing. Arrange- mente will be made to compel! submission to the law whore violence may be apprehended. ‘The trial of Crane and Ferguson is progrosaing slowly. ‘The testimony for tke prosecution is very damaging to the acoused. Singular Mail Accident. THR SOUTHERN MAIL OAR IN THE HUDSON RIVER— MANY LEPTSRS AND NEWSPAPERS DESTROYED, RTO. Yesterday morning a singular aceident occurred at the Jersey City ferry, by which the mail car containing let- ters from Philadelphia, Baltémore, Washington and other points south, was precipitated into the Hudson river. Richmond. Thove rook a 44, 4 The mail train, which usually reaches Jersey City at an | unhappy effects of the t mof things upon \ early hour in the morning, did not arrive until about | the Dusioens and prosperity of i Of that State. cleven-o'clock yesterday. The mail car was instantly | Tam senaible that this great minferie po ragnnen fet detached from the train and started down the bridge for the ferryboat, which had the chains up and was all ready to leave the dock. A ory of “Hold up! from the man at the stern was not heeded, and the car rolled down the dock and fell into the slip. ..The accident created considerable excitement, " means, ime to inter- fere with the policy which I doubt not with the = leave or the interfero with while it will con- great ‘who are doa- tined eventually to receive pardon and amnesty at your measure and drew forth many suggestions for the recovery of the | hands. The which I ask you to adopt After a ehdrt t i is merely a of for the con- po @ ehért delay two men descended into the.| 1. SiS Amey aul a ea Gaeial ve pre. water with ropes round their waists. They attached cables to the car, aud it was sgbn hoisted up, when the mail bags were forwarded to the Post Office in thia city, with their contents considerably damaged. At the Post Office the bags were carefully opened and the letters Iaid out to dry. Evory available inch of room was used for this purpose, and all the counters were soon covered with otters, newspapers and other packages, all in a state of moisture, and many of them reduced to @ pulp. Postmaster Kelly and all the employes of the office were at work sorting and redirecting the mail matter, Among the letters mere many containing money, and other valuable packages, These were all carefully looked after, and will be forwarded to their destination as soon as they are in a fit condition to travel. ‘At the request of Postmaster Kelly the superintend. onts and clerks will be at the office to-day for the pur- pose of getting the damaged mattor into shape. All letters and packages which cannot be forwarded will, if possible, be returned to the writers. Notwithstanding all the care and attention bestowed on the damaged mail, much newspaper, letter and other matter is injured past recovery. Many of our letters, since received, are in # very bad condition. © me pared to act on the ications which shall be made to ee exercise of your clemency in the premises. it is the public expectation that the mass of those who took up arms the government and who are now excluded from benefit of the general amnesty, will finally be nishment, and & sorious evil to them that they are held in susporke; but I beg to say that the actual commencement of legal proceedings, superadded to the uncertainty of their final condition, is a great aggravation of the trouble, which I hope you will consider unnecessary. All'that { venture to ask in the name of the people of Virginia ts, that these Feeney for confiscation may be suspended until the question of pardon in individual cases can be T have the b be, pectfally, obe. we the honor to be, moat res your obe- dient servant, 8. b surr. ‘The Ac y of Music and Charity. TO THR EDITOR OF THR HERALD. 118 Pacwic street, Brooxtys, July 22, 1866 Your article in this day's issue, in alluding to the bene- fit yesterday at the Academy of Music, New York, for the attaches of Barnum’s Musem, has this sentence: ‘The inexorable rule of the inflexible directors forbid- ing @ donation of that institution, even in response to the voice of charity”—inferring that they were not lib- eral in this respect. Pardon moe if I remind your re Rr that at the lnat benefit for the American Dramatic and, with Edwin Booth and Miss C. Cushman in Mac: beth, the directors not only gave me the use of their building, but lighted and heated it at © most inclement season of the year. With many apologies for troubling you, Tam, doar air, yours truly, M. DAVIDGE, Chairman of Bonefit Committee, A. D: F. A. Personal Intelligence. Among the passengers by the Saxonia is Mra. Drake Mills, who is en route to Europe on a tour of jnapection. ‘The following are atnong the arrivals at the Metropoli- tan Hotel :—E, L. Gould, Cal. ; Col. 8. R. Throckmorton, Cal. ; H. W. Vaile, Baltimore; Thomas Carann, Mexico; Louis Cartellot Mexico; Major James Lipton, U. 8. A; Col. T, Farnon, U. 8. A.; Pascal P. Childa, St. Louis; Col, W. ©, Fox, St. Louis; L. B, Sidway, Chicago; James Quigley, Chicago. It is stated that the “genuine” will of Petor the Great hag been discovered, and that it pers the document hitherto supposed to be the political testament of the famous Caar to be fictitions. The principles set forth in this will are entirely opposed to thove laid down in the supposititions one, especially as regards Poland. The Czar says that Poland must be treated in a friendly spirit, and care must be takem ‘to avoid driving her to desperation by any sort of oppression.” Tho death of Bernhard Elis Malmstrom, a distinguished Swedish poet, is announced. Malmstrom dicd at Upsala, aged forty-nine. tuary. The Hon. Rictano 8. Fay, of Massachusetts, died at Liverpool on the Bth tnat, It is reported that he drop ped dead in the street while on his way to the steamer Africa. The deceased was about sixty years old. Frevenick “tiursox, well known for a number of years as an express messenger between this city and Boston, for Adams & Co., died at his home in Lexington, Maas, on the 18th inst, Eowann Faneman, well known in Washington as » former editor and correspondent of the press, died in that city on the 20th Inst, a Mre. Fanwy Marte Korwes, whose death we announ on Wednesday last, was the wite of W. C. Forbes, Ksq., formerly manager of the Charleston and Savannah the recen ‘of the Providence theatre, R. I. tke Vornes a actrees of great versatility and tare wer shart bed 7 few yeara appeared in Londom mer't, having within & and the English provinces, eliciting the ungnaliited praire ‘and admiration of the press and public generally. The disease which terminated her life was contracted some two years since in California, whence she returned about ‘gins. She was an affectiona’n wife, and hed Visitors at Portiand. Portiann, Me, July 22, 1865, Chief Justice Chase arrived here this noon, and is the guest of Senator Fessenden. He will proveed to Boston Disting early ip the wook Hien pao profeasiig Christian. She will tong be re- Tha Marquis and Marchionoss of Drogheda and Mr. | membered by admiring friends York, son of the Earl of Hardwick, are in the city as tea mere 4 —Both of the Now guest of ox-Governor Washburne, ‘The Inter party pro- wet Talento bere | Lg ya 4 pod to the White Mountains and thence t Boston. They | jnoome on United States bonds \rentyfive por cont, and } it) apond the sammor in sho States any. Canadas wis ogy & law.