The New York Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1865, Page 4

4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS Volume XXX... ...No. 207 eremees aut New York, Thursday, July 27, 1865. SS te NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending Name of Paper. May 1, 1865. ERALD.............5 aesainene eens «$1,095,000 368,150 252,000 169,427 100,000 151,079 90,548 ‘New Yorn Heratp........ eshcnsecnes! $1,095,000 ‘Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. 891,929 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. ‘Our city subscribers will confor a favor by reporting any of our city carriers who overcharge for the Hanaup. Country subscribers to the New York Herat are re- ‘quested to remit their subscriptions, whenever practi- cable, by Post Office Orders. It is the safest mode of transmitting money by mail. Advortisements should be sent to the office before nine o'clock in the evening. ————— THE SITUATION. Another very interesting inside view of the strong casemates of Fortress Monroe, and especially of that Particular one which is now the circumscribed resi- ence of Jofferson Davis, is furnished in the des- patch of one of our correspondents published this morning. Joff.’s health is still bad, and open air exercise, in which he is dally indulged, is said , to de indispensable to the preservation of his life. He «continues sad and quiet, and spends much of his time ;gazing from his window out upon the sea and sky. Je er Reames ~The dosyfatches brought to this port from Havana by ie at the steamship Morro Castle mention the arrival at that place from Spain of the steamer Isle of Cuba, which the Havanese supposed brought the official order for the delivery to the United States authori- ties of the ex-rebel ram Stonewall, As our readers are already aware, speculation on this sub- ject is no lopger “necessary, it having been do- finitely settled in the correspondence between the Spanish Minister in Washington and Secretary Seward, published in the Heratp of the 18th inst., in which the latter was informed by the former that the Stonewall ‘was at the disponal of our government. Captain Walko, of the United States steamer Sacra- mento, in a despatch to the Navy Department, dated at Kingstown, Ireland, on tho 10th inst., gives an account of his recent pursuit of tho rebel pirate Rappahannock on her trip from Southampton to Liverpool, and shows why he did not succeed in capturing her. The Rappahannock ‘managed to keep so close to shore that he could not in- Aerfero with her without violating international law. A treaty of amity, commerce and for the oxtradition of fugitives from justice, betweon our government and that of the republic of Hayt!, which was concluded and 4 gned in Novomber last, has beon officially proclaimed vy President Johnson. Mutual privileges of sojourn, settlemont, civil protection and for the transaction of business are guaranteed to the citizens of each republic within tho territory of the other. e A report received at the Freedmen’s Bureau in Wash- Jngton from one of its agents in Arkansas represents the conduct and condition of the freedmen of that State an ‘a highly favorable light. They are generally working industriously, and appear to appreciate their freedom ‘without being disposed to abuse it, Goneral Sherman was entertained at a banquet in In- dianapolis, Ind., on last Tuesday night. In response to @ toast he made along speech, glancing at the various “matters in connection with reconstruction in the South which now engross public attention. He rejoiced over the extinction of slavery, but opposed unrestricted negro suffrage. The rebel General Dick Taylor arrived in Washington Yosterday, it is understood for the purpose of advancing Ayjs claims for pardon by the President. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The Cunard steamsbip Scotia, from Liverpool on the 15th and Quoenst own on the 16th of July, reached this port early yesterday, bringing three days later news from Europe. Liberalism was still making headway in the British elections, though some notable liberal defeats had been ‘austained. Jacob Bright, brother to Mr. John Bright, had been defeated at Manchester upon local and peMonal issues, and Mr. Leatham (Bright's brother-in-law and imt- tator) had lost hie seat for Huddersfield. At Liverpool Mr. Ewart, a tried and voteran reformer, had been super- seded by Mr. Greaves, a tory of great local popularity, and Lord Russell's son bad been unsuccessful at Leeds, On the other hand Mr. Gladstone's son had been victo- ious at Chester. The chances of Mr. Gladstone himself at Oxford University looked small, and in anticipation of his being rejected by that constituency he had been put in nomination for South Lancashire. Asa whole, the borough elections had proved favorable to the govern- ment, who had gained thirty-five seats and lost twenty- eight. Apropos of the elections, Lord Palmerston had enlo- gized bis own neutrality in American affairs; the Attor- ney General had defended, from a legal point of viow, the noutral policy of the government, and Earl Rus- sell a new edition of his “History of the Constitution,” ‘adding thereto an oxtra chapter to prove that be was still a live reformer. A singular letter, addressed by Maximilian to his Min ister of the Interior, giving an outline of %he policy to bo pursued in Mexico, had been iseued in Paris. M. Eloin, Maximilian’s Envoy, had reached Southampton on his way back to Europe. ‘ In the case of Charles Windsor, the New York bank teller, the Court of Quoen’s Bench bad ordered the rost!- tution of the money abstracted; but the jury censured the lax manner in which the bank conducted its busi- ners Five-twenties were at 7144.72 on the London Stock Exchange on the 16th inst. British consols were quoted at 90 0 00%. ° MISCELLANEO! Havana advices to the 224 14h } ived by the steamship Morro Castle, which there yesterday from that port. The powder magazine of the Spanish steamship Isle of Cuba exploded on the 19th inst., doing amuch damage to the vessel, bul neither killing nor injur- ‘ing any person. Steamers Jaden with troops wero still argtving at Havana from St. Domingo, and yet the evacu- ‘ation was not completed. In fact there are now indica tions that it is not designed to effect ye Soppletiog yer; pon, since wo arp informed tnet,' m4 fad i settle up the heaps 14 prisoners on both ides, it being found that the Dominidéfia held an excess of about five hundred, the Spaniards immediataly seized on any ‘and all of the natives who came first to hand til! the nc. count was balanced, and carried the fresh captives to Havana. Additional trouble is apprehended from thie Proceeding, and perhaps Spain may thus find excuse for a new invasion of the Dominican republic. In a letter received in Washington from the Mexican a republican General Arteaga, dated on the 13th of June, &t Tacambaro, in the State of Michoacan, he gives & very favorable view of the republican cause in that section. A report was in circulation there to the effect that Maxt- milian had wade a contract with foreign speculators for the introduction into his dominions of soveral thousand negroes as slaves. ‘The steamship Scotia brought us additional interesting intell'gence regarding the preparations for laying the Atlantic telegraph cable. The Great Eastern was to sail for Valentia bay on the 16th inst. Everything connected with the cable had progressed most satisfactorily and was in perfoct condition. Some Interesting experiments had been made with it, incliding the transmission of messages, at the rato of four words per minute, through the entire circuit of the coll # it lay in the hold of the vessel. The official statement of the captain of the ill fated ship William Nelson, burned off the Banks of Newfound- land, on July 2, with a loss of three hundred and fifty- two lives, is published. It brings to view terrible scones of panic and dismay among the unfortunate passengers; but clears up the grave suspicions which hung over the officers of the vessel. After the fire broke out they ap- pear to have done the best they could under the circum- stances for both passengers afid ort: ‘Tho carelessness which led to the disaster has alone to bo accounted for. ‘An interesting case of alleged circulation of counter- felts of the government fractional currency was before Judge Shipman, in the United States Circ@it Court in this city, yesterday, The accused is a man named Michael Doyle, and.the principal witness against him is @ Chicago detective named Hartman. - Doyle is charged with having been extensively engaged in the sale of the bogus stuff both here and in Chicago, The principal point of the defence is the alleged bad character of the witness Hartman, who, it was stated in evidence, was once an inmate of the Michigan State Prison. The case is not yet concluded. The alleged Brooklyn Navy Yard frauds wore again under investigation yesterday before United States Com- missioner Newton, when further evidence regarding the Manufacture of bookcases in the yard was taken; but nothing new of importance wae disclosed. A motion was made by the counsel of Reilly, one of the ac- cused, for his discharge, on which a decision was re- served till to-day. The Commissioner stated that dur- ing the progress of the examination he had received anonymous letters in reference to it, the writers of which, if discovered, he would properly punish. Another auction sale of government captured cotton took place in this city yesterday, two thousand bales of North Carolina and New Orleans qualities being dis- posed of. The attendance was not so numerous ‘nor the bidding so lively as at previous sales. Fair prices, how- ever, were realized. ‘ ‘The cominencement exercises at Yale College in honor of the graduates of that institution who were in the mili- tary or naval service of the republic during the late war took place yesterday. The roll of these scholastic patriots numbers seven hundred and fifteen, largely exceeding the list of warriors sent forth by any other college in the country. The commencement exercises proper of Yalo take place to-day. Asad and fatal accident occurred yesterday in Farman street, Brooklyn, in the building re-erected on the ruins of the fire of some months ago when several firemen were burned to death by the caving in of the roof. The houses on Furman street in this locality lie under the Heights, and their roofs form the rear yards of the houses on Columbia stroct. About nine o'clock in the forenoon, while laborers were engaged wheeling carth on the roof of the building alluded to, the front wall gave way, plunging roof and men into the contre of the structure. Three laborers were killed, and others had very narrow escapes. A (disaster somewhat similar to the above, though happily not attended with consequences 80 fatal, occurred “between twelve and one o’clock yesterday on the ruins of the late fire on Broadway, Fulton and Ann streets, of which Barnum’s Museum was the prominent feature. The wall in the rear of the five story building on the corner of Broadway and Fulton streot suddeniy gave way and tumbled to the ground, severely injuring several persons, one of them, named Thomas Mullery, aged sixty years, it ia thought fatally. The little city of Hudson, on tho North river, in this State, it appears, was placed completely at the mercy of ‘a band of roughs on Tuesday of this wock. On that day an excursion was made to the place by the Emmett Guard, of Albany, and with them came a gang of outlaws, who set all the civil officers and civil regulations at defiance, attacked, beat and robbed the citizens on tho streets, en- tered and sacked the public places, and kept up a reign of riot and terror during their stay in the town. They made unlimited use of their Osta, guns, pistols, clubs and stones, and s9 great was the consternation éreated «by thom thats lat¥e number of women and children in their fright fled for safety to adjacent country. A number of citizens received serious injuries, helpless, old men and boys being the persons principally maltreated. Only six of the scoundrels were arrested, and even these were yesterday liberated on paying a small fine, During an affray on Tuesday night at a public honse at the foot of Fifty-fifth street, East river, among sev- eral men who were returning from the Fen‘an picnic at Jones’ Wood, James Smith, aged twenty-four years, who lived in Thirty-second street, near Second ‘avenue, re- ceived stabs in the back, neck and throat, from the effects of which he died immediately after, and other persons were injured. Frederick Hooker, a boatman, and Peter Carley, a boiler worker, wore arrested and committed on charge of causing Smith’s death. An in- quest in the case was commenced yesterday at the Nine- teenth precinct station house, when considerable testi- mony was taken; but, owing to the absence of import- ant witnesses, it was adjourned over till this afternoon. The examination bef¢ justice Dodge, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, in’ 0 alleged petroleum swindlo case was resumed yesterday. Colonel Hillyer and Messrs. Kellogg and Goodrich were on the stand. The testimony taken was brief, in consequence of the un- avoidable absence of Justice Dodge at other court duties, on account of which questions objected to had to be waived till the Court could rule upon them. Ata little after five P. M. the caso was adjourned till half-past eleven this morning. About six o'clock on Tuesday evening a bold highway robbery was committed in Westchester county, on the road loading from McComb’s Dam to Woodlawn Ceme- tery. Mosars. George Van Houton, of 459 Eighth avenue, and Arthur R. Wilson, of 445 West Twenty-third street, were riding algng this road in a carriage, when they were suddenly confronted by three robbers who had been in ambush, one of whom seized the horses by the bridles and presented a cocked pistol, which, on the waylaid gentlemen resisting his demands, he fired at one of them, but fortunately without doing serious injary. Messrs. Van Houton and Wilson were finally compelled to yield and to deliver what valuables they had about them to the highwaymen, who escaped. Aman named Moses B. Aldridgo, living at 282 East Fourteenth street, waa yesterday committed for trial, in default of one thousand dollars bail, on charge of having, on Tuesday evening, proceeded to the residence of Mrs. Douglass, 131 East Eighteenth street, who, it is said, was formerly his wife, but some time ago procured a divorce from him and married another man, and at. tempted to murder her. He was prevented from execut- ing his purpose by the timely arrival of neighbors and the police. On the night of the 2ist inst. the store 605 Broadway was robbed of one thousand dollars’ worth of goods. The police subsequently arrested Thomas Ryan and George Lockwood on charge of being the robbers; Mrs. Cohen, of 92 Baxter street, and Solomon Lowisky, of No. 1 Forsyth street, charged with receiving the stolen goods, and a man named Poter Wagner, who, it is al- loged, assisted in their removal. Yesterday all tho prisoners were arraigned in Jastice Shandley’s court, when Ryan, Lockwood and Lowisky wore beld to answer the charger, Mra. Cohen was liberated on three thousand dollars bail, and Wagner was detained asa witness. Experiments were mado yosterday at the foot of Twenty-fourth street, North river, in the presence of the now Fire Commissioners and the leading gentlemen of the Volunteer Department, with the new steam fire on- gine Metropolitan, which worked, in every respect in which it was tried, ina manner the most satisfactory to every one present. The Motropolitan is considered the most powerful, complete and beautiful steam fire engine which this city has yet bad. The } ing cere ining candidates for Ee a ieriel eseriay by Archbishop McCloskey, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, with all the solemn and imposing forms of the Church. About a dozen candidates were ordained. There were closing exercises at Grammar Schools Nos. 1 and 8 yesterday, preparatory to the summer vaca. tion, which were quite interesting to the large numbers of persons Interested in those schools who attended ther. Captain Mayo, of the brig Flora, which arrived here yesterday, from Matamoros on the 2d inst., states that the town of Bagdad, Mexico, on the Rio Grande, had been for ten or fifteen days from one to two feet under water, thus rendering boats necessary to move about the place. Owen D. Kelty, the engineer in the steam planing mill on the corner of Second avenue and Fifty-fourth street, in which an explosion took place on the 15th inst., died on Tuesday night in Bellevue Hospital, from the effects of injuries received on that occasion. An inquost was yesterday held by Coronor Gamble in thecase. But little additional in relation to the cause of tho explosion was ascertained, The stock market was very strong yesterday, and Erio rose rapidly to 9734, under the manipulation of the bull clique. Governments were firm. Gold was stronger, and closed at 148% a 14334 on the street. The closing price at night was 14334. There was loss activity in breadstuffs and provisions yesterday, but prices were generally firmer. Cotton was steady, but not in much request. There was more doing in groceries at former quotations. The freight market was more active, with 404 yeasels of all classes In port. ‘The changes in other articles were unimportant. England and Prance—T' : With the United : ‘Béveral documents of a diplomatic character have lately been published that indicate the position and feeling of the governments of France and England toward the United States. The most significant of these are the late letters of Earl Russell to the British Minister here, showing the existence of a Franco-English league against us, These indicate that the po- sition of those -governments toward us now is just what it has been throughout the war; and that while they pretend to be friendly and make e specious show of good feeling and amity they are in fact animated by a spirit of hostility that is all the more bitter because it is necessary to conceal it. This spirit originated in the natural antago- nism between sys of government so diamet- Tically opposed each other, but it is now intensified by the disappointment that our suc- cess in putting down the rebellion has eaused in both France and England. For thirty years England especially fomented the trouble inber- ent in’ our system owing to the existence of slavery. Finally all those exertions lighted up @ grand war, and it was confidently and hope- fully expected in both England and France that that war would finish the “grand experi- ment”—that it would hreak down the great republic, tear every State from the others, and leave us in the lamentable condition of South America. They expected to point triumphantly to the record of these events, and to use it as an argument against revolution in their own dominions, and to point out that all progress and all amelioration of the condition of the people must lead to this, But now that this terrible war has not torn us to pieces—that we have come out of it with a grand success—the immense influence of the example is all the other way; and hence the fear, the hatred, the disappointment and the bitterness of the Powers that expected to use our failure as a proverb. Already this example shakes every foundation stone in the European system, and the more the governments see of ite influence with the people the fiercer is the resentment that they feel toward us. The manifestations of that resent- ment must be met in 9 proper way by our gov- ernment, and we must never give to it a ficti- tious strength by even seeming to yield to it a single inch. We must meet it face to face on every point, boldly, openly, firmly; and so show how little real power there is in it. These European Powers fancy that they see jast now thelr advantage in the redaction of that on Aye eae sa Boa pola that as they have othe? ‘polnta in our history in this great straggle. The fact that we now, almost before the echoes of the war have away, can reduce our army from a force of nearly a million to a hundred or even fifty thousand men is not a wedkngss in our position, nor in any way an argumeht on their side of the question. It is, on the con- trary, the crowning glory of our republican system, and the best of all arguments against the system under which Europe is governed. European governments keep up their armies of four or five hundred thousand men, and burden the people with the immense taxation necessary to pay the expenses, and thus the energies of the people are sapped and their very lives ground out to maintain armies whose principal use is to keop the people down. But here, where there is no necessary antagonism between the government and the people, we no sooner get through a great war—the result of political ambition—than we disband our armies, lightening the burdens of the people; and we will go on in the same direction, putting away the load of taxe§ one by one till we have even dis- charged the great debt run up so rapidly. Then once more the position of the people here will be as it was before the war began. This example, also, must have its inevitable effect in Europe. The less the European governments do to make their people acquainted with American affairs the better it will be for their stability. The less they familiarize the European mind with our history, the less they agitate Ameri- can questions, the longer they will stand. They rush to their doom in this spirit of bitterness that leads them to give vent to their spleen against us. Their true policy, the only policy that has any safety in it, is to keep away from us; to keep at as great a distance as modern civilization will permit, and, above all, to avoid the entanglements of political questions on this continent. And the first step to be taken in this policy is for England to get out of Canada and France out of Mexico without farther delay. Let them go at once— give up precipitately all claims and run as if for thetr lives, It is their only wise plan. By pursuing it they may keep up their systems in Europe, perhaps, a hundred years longer; but they have no time to lose. Relations A Cnattence to Tae Navy DerarTment.— We publish in another column # communica- tion from Mr. Dickerson, the steamboat man, to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Fox, upom a subject which strikes us as of some public interest. We care nothing about Mr. Dickerson in the matter, neither do we care about Mr. Secretary Welles or Mr. Fox; but in @ national point of view we regard any propo- sition to test the efficiency of the navy as wor- thy of consideration. At this time especially, when the reduction of goverament expenses is of vital momont, it is well that we should have the advantage of every test or suggestion whereby the expenditure of the Navy Depart- ment, as well as all the other public depart monts, may be reduced. Mr. Dickerson, it appears, proposed to Mr. Fox to give a triaPto the engines of the double- ender steamer Algonquin, built for the govern- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1866,, ment and pronounced “a failure” by ,the chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. It is alleged that vast economy of fuel is ob- tained by the construction of these engines, which it is proposed to prove by running the Algonquin down the harbor of New York with any other naval vessel of the same class and loaded with the same quantity of fuel.. It is promised that the Algonquin will run with ber rival as far and as fast, until the fuel of the lat- ter is exhausted, and then will tow ber back, the fuel of the Algonquin still holding out, This is @ trial of economy and speed. We : do not see why Mr. Fox should refuse to accept this challenge just now, when our naval vessels are all idle, particularly as he himself proposed a similar trial with the Eutaw at a time when we were in the midst of war. If the Algonquin can accomplish what is promised from her it will be very important to know whether our navy is good for any- thing, and whaiher the vowels bullt during the war are not behind the age, and probably un- equal to any emergency that may hereafter arise in the ahape of a foreign war. The chal- lenge of the Navy Department in the case of the Eutaw was not accepted, because it was proposed to run the race in fresh water, whereas naval vessels are constructed for salt water service. A navy is not supposed to be used in fresh water, except in cases like our Western campaigns, and there river steamers, and not seagoing vessels, had to be used. We think it is due to the ‘public that the Navy De- partment should permit the trial to be made, and let us know whether we can save two- thirds of the amount of fuel on our naval ves- sels and yet obtain the same speed. This is the age of ecenomy in public expenditure. Secession Literature and Secession His- torlans—Pienty of New Books. Great wars, like great convulsions of nature, bury many old things under mountains of rub- bish, and bring many new things to the sur- face. ‘For example,. before the late terrible war, which has turtied the South upside down and inside out, the elements of Southern litera- ture were Southern rights, Southern chivalry, King Cotton and the almighty nigger, under the divine institution of slavery. During the war this literature was absorbed in the issues and elements involved—material, military and po- litical—in the struggle for Southern independ- ence. With the decline and downfall of Jeff. Davis all this secession Uterature goes to the grocery at six centsa pound. Slavery is dead— its divinity is gone; State sovereignty is laid out, King Cotton is shelved, and Southern chivalry, quite chapfallen, is fed upon govern- ment rations, including a daily allowance of Yankee codfish. Think of that! Yankee cod- |. fish for the Southern chivalry !—a relish as de- testable to Southern stomachs as Yankee fish- ing bounties or negro suffrage. Could South- ern subjagation further go? Secession literature, however, under various modifications, may survive‘on Yankee codfish. The living militagy chieftains, politicians, poets and philosophers whose lives have been de- voted to the glories of a Southern confederacy, on the corner stone of slavery, may now, like Napoleon at St. Helena, fight their battles over again, and give employment to a host of book- makers. Some of them have already thus ap- peared in print, others are well on the way with their manuscripts, and more are coming. Pollard, of the Richmond Examiner, has given us his “Southern History of the War,” ds an ‘Olivet, We” suppose, to Greeley’s history of the rebellion. That famous female re) el spy, now rejoicing in exile a ar eT ae, Belle Boyd, has published the book of her warlike advgntures, from which we expect an uivalent from that loyal female surgeon, Dr. Walker. Madame Le Vert, the celebrated literary queen Of Mobile, is coming to settle down in New York tayrite out her dgmoirs of the Late Civil War;” and to balan that’ account on the Northern side we must call upon the most capable of our blue-stockings who have smelt gunpowder. No other than one of these can give an equivalent for Mrs. Le Vert’s siege, battles and capture of Mobile, and the inside social life of that clty during the war. We learn that General Duff Green, returned to Washington, is preparing an autobiography embracing sketches of public men and measures of the last forty years. This will be a formida- ble book, including the rise of General Green as the Washington organ of General Jackson, and the decline and fall politically of General Green as a deserter to Calhoun. To meet the secession arguments and the historical state- ments concerning those “mahogany-stocked pis- tols ” from General Green, our champion will be forthcoming in our fighting chevalier, James Watson Webb. Let General Duff Green, there- fore, come on. We are ready for him. The irrepressible Webb is our man. His cry for the last twenty years has been, “Oh! that mine enemy would write a book.” Ex-President Buchanan is giving the finishing touches to his apology for his unfortunate administration, and it may possibly embrace an apology for Howell Cobb, Jake Thompson and Floyd, those precious secession members of his Cabinet. To make his story complete, however, poor Pierce ought to give us his history of the Kansas-Nebraska bill and of Jeff. Davis as © member of his Cabinet, and Fillmore the secrets of his Presidential cam- paign of 1856, whereby Buchanan was elected. We are sorry that Jeff. Davis, in his casemate at Fortress Monroe, is denied pen, ink and paper; for otherwise his leisure hours might for the country be profitably appropriated in work- ing up his accounts of the sudden develop- ments, the terrific struggle and awful collapse of his confederacy. But, to some extent, Breckinridge and Benjamin, from the island of Cuba; Mason, from England, and Slidell, from France, may supply our loss from the historical suppression of Davis, Against Breckinridge we shall have to pit the sharp and caustic Gurowski; against Benjamin we must call upon the chop-logic of Wendell Phillips; against the cold and malignant Mason we will place the genial and gracious Ward Beecher; while for the smooth and slippery Slidell we name that polished master of dinner table diplomacy the Chevalier Wikof. With some such arrangements as these wo shall satistactorily wind up the secession litera- ture of the South, and then we shall be ready for Maximilian’s narrative, from his home of Miramar, on the Adriatic, of his adventures In Mexico, and for the second or third Yolumo of Julius Cesar from Louis Napoleon, and with some oxplanatory notes from Lord Palmerston of the latest “Napoleonic ideas” on the Mon- ron doctrine, Why the Rebel Pirate Rappahannock Excursions of the President and the Seere- Dick Taylor in Washington Look- Favorable Condition of Freedmen’s ‘asa Agony of the Philadelphia and Baltimore WwW. Treaty Between Our Government and that of the Republic of Hayti, Was Not Captured. taries of State and the Treasury. ing for Pardon. in Arkansas, Office Hunters, BC. &c., &e. Wasemaron, July 26, 1865. TREATY OF AMITY, COMMEROR AND NAVIGATION WITH HAYTt. The treaty of amity, commerce and navigation: and for the extradition of fugitive criminals, between the United States and the republic of Hayti, is officially pro- claimed by the Presidont. It was concluded and signed in November last. The treaty, among other things, de- clares there shall bea porfect, firm and inviolable peace and friendship between the two countries in all tho extent of their possessions and territories, and be- tween their people and citizens respectively, with- out distinction of persons or places. The citizens of each of the contracting parties shall be permitted to enter, sojourn, sottle and reside in all parts of the terri- tories of the other, engage in business, and hire and occupy warehouses. Whilo they con- form to the laws and regulations in force, they shall be at liberty to manage their own business, subject to the jurisdiction of either party respectively, as well in respect to the consignment and sale of their goods, as with respect to the loading, unloading and send- ing off their vessels. The citizens of the contratting par. ties are to have free access to the tribunals of justice. The two countries recognize a8 permanent and immuta- ble the principle that free ships make free gooda, and that the property of neutrala on board of all enemy’s vessels is not subject to confiscation unless the same be contraband of war. Persons shall be delivered up, accord- ing to the provisions of this treaty, who shall be charged with any of the following offences, to wit:—Murder, in- cluding assassination, parricide, infanticide and poison- ing; attempt to commit murder; rape, forgery, the coun- terfeiting of money, the utterance of forged paper, arson, robbery and embezzlement by public officers or by per- sons hired or salaried, to the detriment of their employ- ers, when these crimes are subject to infamous punish- ment. ‘The treaty contains important provisions, of the most liberal and friendly character, for the benefit of com- merce between the two countries. i EXCURSIONS. Thé President this afternoon went down the river on an excursion. These excursions are found highly ad- vantageous to him physically, and contribute much to sustain his strength under the immense labor and fatigue induced by his official duties. Secretary McCulloch and the heads of bureaus of the Treasury made an excursion down the Potomac this evening in the new revenue steamer Lincoln. It was the trial of the steamer, and she will return during the night. 2 Secretary Seward and family left Washington to-day for an extended excursion, perhaps as far as Cape May. THE PURSUIT OF THE PIRATE RAPPAHANNOCK. The Navy Department has received a despatch from Captain Walker, of the United States steamer Sacra- mento, dated Kingstown, Ireland, July 10, detailing his pursuit of the Beatrice, late the rebel pirate Rappahan- ile on her way a Southampton to Liverpool. OF AREABSA ST the itis. he “received informa- tion from Minister Adams that the Beatrice had sailed from Southampton for Liverpool. As soon as steam could be got up, which,jfrom inability to get wood for kindling the fires at Kingstown, where she was coaling, was not until the next morning, ho started for Holyhead. Ho says:z— enh CTR EER Ree. oh As we approached Holyhead a bark. steamer was reported to me in sight, steaming and sailing up the coast, close to the shore, with English colors flying. I immediately stecred for and overtook her, pvr bp tt an an eo WAS Lares, Mla but = engine, ing slow progress; but she kept so close to the Coast that I vould not molest her, without violating the international law of jon. Oo Pee Fe After due consultation and a th observation of her movements, I was convinced that I could not possibly ke a legal prize of the vessel—which, from appear- bene was the aforesaid pabannock—in British waters. She was in a crippled condition, stecring for Liverpool, when J loft ber. DICK TAYLOR APPLIES FOR PARDON. Among the numerous applicants for pardon to-day was tho late rebel General Dick Taylor, who arrived here to- day and is at Willard’s Hotel. THE IRON-CLAD DICTATOR. A despatch from Commodore John Rodgers, from Bos- ton, on the 24th Inst., received at the Navy Department to-day, announces the arrival of the iron-clad Dictator on the 23d, in forty-fve hours from Newport, She made ten knots an hour going into port, and he says would un- doubtedly have gone faster if her bottom had been clean. ‘Her engines worked better than ever before. APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS DENIED. Frederick Clinson, who was arrested a fow days ago for appearing on the stroots in a brigadier general's unt- form, having on his person what are charged to be forged passes and also four checks charged to be forge- ries, and who was committed to the Old Capitol, petitioned Judge Wylie to-day, through his counsel, for corrus a writ of habeas corps, directed to Colonel N. D. Colley, the officer in charge, commanding him to produce the body of the petitioner on Wednesday, at three o'clock The petition represents that he t a good and loyal citizen; that he is wrongfully and illegally restrained of his liberty, and that he is not in the mili- tary or naval sorvico of the United States. Judge Wylie declined to issue the writ on the ground that a military offence is among those charged; but be remarked that if the military authorities would dismiss that portion of the charge ho would isue the writ as regards the other charges. PERSONAL. Senators Wilsow and Sherman are in the city on a fying visit. Tho friends of the latter confidently expect his re-cloction to the Senate by tho Ohio Legislature this fall. « General John Cochrane arrived to-night and is at Wil- lard’s, It is understood that his presence has reference to political matters of some moment in New York. ‘Tho Prosident has appointed J. Hubley Ashton, As- siatant Attorney General, to be Acting Attorney General during the prosent absence of Attorney General Speed. ACTING BEORETARY OF STATE. ‘Wm. Hunter, Esq., Chief Clerk of the State Depart- ment, has been appointed by the President Acting Secre- tary of State during the absence of Secretary Seward. THE PRERDMEN IN ARKANSAS. ‘Tho affairs of the freedmen in Arkansas are ropro- sented as in a most prosperous condition in a report re- ceived to-day at the Freedmen’s Bureau from Colonel Wm. Strong, now making @ tour of examination in that portion of the South for the purpose of observing the working of the system now being tested by the bureau. ‘Tho writer says that in the Little Rock district alone there are thirty-nine hundred and eighty freedmen who ‘are now employed, in pursuance of ordors from the Seo- retary of War, at the following rates of wages :—First Clags male laborers receive from twenty-five to fifty dollars per month and rations, and first class women labor- ors reosive from fifteen to eighteen dollars per month, ‘with rations. One-half of the wages of these employes are paid to them every two months and the balance is ordered to be retained for them to the end of tho year, Of the above number of laborers upwards of two thou sand are employed by some Yorty4hreo lessees of plan- fations, The latte profess to be entirely satiafied with any pera ta we these ‘aligh hoy eptimate chge I pms fa, the s eer 4 thetr cotton will cost them from twenty to twonty-five cents per pound when baled and ready for the market. Colonel Strong remarks, in this connection, thatif the - Planters are not at fault in these calculations no money will be made upon the cotton crop. He also remarks that there can be no doubt that the freedmen of that lo- cality are doing better than in any portion of the South. PROPOSED RAILROAD BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND POINT OF ROCKS. Tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, who ob- tained a charter for a road from this city to Point of Rocks, on the upper Potomac, has @ force of engineers at ~ work making the survey of the road, the preliminary / survey having been made some time since. The road, it is expected, will be under way before the season closes. INTERNAL REVENUE DECISION. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that manufactured tobacco upon which a duty has been paid according to law, may be cut into smoking tobacco or fine cut chewing tobacco, if done in the presence or under the supervision of an inspector, without becoming liable to an additional duty. weighed before so cut, and no addition to or subtraction from the same. THE BALTIMORE AND PHILADELPHIA ‘APPOINT- The tobacco must be MENTS. The agony of the Baltimore office seekers and their ¢ friends is still unrelieved. Two more delegations appeared at the White House to-day and had interviews with the President, Mr. Johnson listens patiently to all, and would no doubt be pleased if some compromise between the belligerents could be effected; but of this there is as yet no indication, and go farfrom it thas the Baltimoreans seem to be disposed to become riotous over the matter. The Philadelphia appointments are still undisposed of, and hope fluctuates largely from day to day in the bosoms of the anxious expectants, MONTGOMEBY BLAIR DESIROUS FOR A SEAT IN CONGRESS. It is understood that Hon. Montgomery Blair, having failed to secure a seat in the Senate, now desires to enter ‘ the House as the successor of the ‘unworthy member Harris,” from the Eastern district of Maryland, who will probably be rejected and his seat declared vacant on the meeting of Congress, Mr. Blair has of late been very active and prominent in Maryland politics. The intensely secession character of the district represented by Harris would seom to render problematical the success of any member of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet before ita people. PROCEEDS FROM SALES OF GOVERNMENT VESSELS, Over one million of dollars have been paid into the ‘Treasury as the proceeds thus far collected of the vessela sold by the Navy Department since the termination of the war. ‘THE PUBLIO LANDS. An important circular, containing detailed informa- tion, has been prepared at the General Land Office, and 18 soon to be issued for the benefit of our people and emi- grants, setting forth the mode of obtaining, by purchase or location, public lands under the Homestead law. The document in question is accompanied by a list of all dis- trict land offices in the United States, with the location, of each, RELEASED ON BAIL. Thomas Story, formerly clerk in the Treasnry De. partment, who has been in jail for the past sixteen months, on the charge of forging consular certificates, was to-day released on giving one thousand dollarsbail, Story has already had two trials; but the jury in each case were unable to agree. NEW PATENTS. Since the Ist of March, 1865, the Commissioner of * Patents has issued over four thousand patents. Noexf Tuesday one hundred and sixty-three will be reissued. APPOINTMENTS. The following appointments have been made by th¢ President:— Alexander Murdoch, Marsha! of the Western District of Pennsylvania. William F. Lockwood, Associate Justice of the Su. preme Court of the United States in the Territory of Nebraska. W. 8. Croft, Collector of Customs at earns 8.C. William T. Leitch, Surveyor of Customs at jeston, &C. 2 + F. Walder, Appraiser of Merchandise at Charieston ie tM. Lazarus, Appraiser of Merchandise at Charles: n, a ‘ John B. D. Coggesshell, District Attorney of Wisconsin, at Browns Charles yy, Rogister of Land ville, Nébraska Territory. * J. R. Watson, Indian Agent of Washi! Adolph Rosenthal, Consul at the Rousse. Torritory. peony of APPOINTMENT OF POSTMASTERS. The President has appointed the following aamed Post- masters:—R. G. Grane, at Potersburg, Va.; John ©. Taix ney, Columbia, 8. C.; Foster Blodget, Augusta, Ga} Francis Finch, Fort Hamilton, N. Y.; William Post, re- appointed at Yonkers; also for California—Simeon Cutter, at San Jose; Charles B. Burton, at Stockton; Curtis H. Pyle, at Yroka, and Frank @. Gail, at Nevada. <u Ordingtion Ceremony. | senvidsi LF Wr. parnicn’s CATHEDRAL. The ceremony which attends the assumption of the robes and prerogatives of the priesthood in the Roman / Catholic Church is one of the most impressive in an order replete with grand and imposing services, and one which generally calls out a numerous attendance of clergy and laity, Bishop McCloskey yesterday morning performed this office at St. Patrick’s cathedral, com- mencing at about nine o’clock. There was « large con- gregation assembled, consisting of pastors of othes churches and the relatives and friends of the partied about to take up n themselves the sacred robes, and the candidates occupied seats near the sanctuary. Sbortly after nine the priestly procession was formed and marched from the sacristy to the high altar, where the candidates put on the emblematical dress. After the usual geneflections at the altar Rev. Archbishop Mo- Closkey called the novitiates before him. They were the following gentlemen :— Rev. Mr. Lowry, Rev. P. Hamel, Rev. L. Carnes, Rev. J. Shea, Rev. J. Conlon, Rev. C. Capens, of the Society of Jesus, from St. Ignatius’ Seminary, Fordham; an Rev. Mr. Hughos, Rev. Mr. Fitzsimmons, Rev. Mr. Tur- ner, Rev. Mr. Hanner, of the diocese of New York the Rev. Mr. McDonnell, of the diocese of All Each having answered to his name the Bi pro- coeded to deliver the ritual on the duties of the pricat- hood, explaining the dignity of the holy sacrament of the mass. After this the now-made themselves before the altar, and prayer was offered by the i the divine aid for His chosen ser. vants. pric ‘still kneeling, joined in the chant of the Litany of the Saints. ‘The ceremony of the imposition of hands on tho prieste was thon performed by the Archbishop, which was fol- lowed by the preface of the ordination services and the lacing of the ‘stole’ upon each candi: the Arch- Bishop reciting, during the latter process, “| jive the = the Lord; for His yoke is sweet and His burden Sitter thiss “chasuble” was upon each candi-, the Bishop :— Receive this sacer- dotal garment, which is the emblem of charity, for God is powerful to increase in you this charity—to be perfoct in His holy work.” The hymn, Veni Creater, was then sung, and the hands of the priests were consecrated with holy chriem, that whatever they bi might be b! ‘and whatever they consecrated might be consecrated. right was then conferred in the mode:— "Receive the Boly Ghost; whose sins ye forgi they are Oy and whose sins ye retain ny Bond rotained."’ High mass followed, the ee, ing the celebrant, and the new priests joining in rec! it This was the first act of their sacred office. The cere- monies were conducted throughout in an impressive manner, and closed with the benediction. THE S0UTH PACIFIC. % The Revolution tn Poru—Movemonts of Amertoan War Vessels, &c. Wasuixaton, July 26, 1965. The Navy Department are in receipt of a despatch from Commander Geo. M. Colvocoressis, of the United States ship St. Marys, dated Callao, Poru, June 28. He states that the rebel steamer Shenandoah had not made her a pearance yot. The report that the revolutionary Ge Prado was marching on Lima with a considerable foros was not believed by the authorities of Callao, and they appear to feel very confident that if he should come the government forces would bo more than a match for him. Tho Spanish Admiral was atill in port; but his prosence excited no unpleasant feeling among the people, as the difficulties which brought him there have been satisfacto- rily settled. ‘The United States steamer Suwanee arrived on the night of the 25th alt from Valparaiso, Chile. After, making somo repairs she will proceed to Panama, Ofi- ‘cors and crews of both vessels all well. ! Commander Paul Shirley, of the United States steamer! Suwanoe (double-ender), writes to the Navy Depertment trom Valparaiso, Chile, undet date of- Jtune 12, roporting hor arrival at shat port from the'ptraité off the wost const of Patagonia, Onthe Gist ehe encountered a heavy gale and tremendogs #0, He aay8in''I must say excited bY the seaworthy [no beednng M4 & Tittle water in over bn at