The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1865, Page 4

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Year Ending May 1, 1865. + + -$1,095,000 368,150 see 252,000 + 169,427 + Name of Paper. Evening Post. World. . + 151,079 see 90,548 Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. 871,229 THE SITUATION. Tho previous report that the rebel pirate Shenandoah bad left the Australian waters and was moving towards the North Pacific to operate among our whalers is con- firmed by a San Francisco dospatch of the 20th instant, which states thct the bark Milo had arrived there with the crews of several whalers captured by the corsair. We are given tho names of ten vessels she had taken, tho most of which were burned, and the work of destruction was still going on, it being expected that a fleet of about sixty whalers would soon be at her mercy. ‘The Shenandoah’s commander was informed of the ter- mination of the rebellion, but professed not to believe it. Ho believed that President Lincoln was assassimated, be- cause he had been expecting it. Major Goncral Thomas, commanding the Military Division of the Tennessee, after refraining for a con- siderable time from interfering with the disloyal demon- strations and exhibitions of petty. spite towards the government and its officers of some of the incorrigible rebela of Tennessee, has, it appears, concluded that forbearance has ceased to be and pounced down upon some secessionists in Columbia prising as disagreeable to them. He has suspended the Mayor and a justice of the peace of that place from the oxercise of their functions, and ordered the imprison- ment of a lawyer named Frierson ond another citizen named Galloway, all of whom are charged with mani- feating their disloyalty to the national government on every occasion when they thoitght they could safely do g0,,and with gross and continued persecution of the ‘emancipated blacks. Genera! Sheridan on the 17th inst. issued from his headquarters in New Orleans his official order on assum- ing his new position of commander of the Military Divis- ion of the Gulf, one of the five grand military divisions longer a virtue, of the leading in @ manner as sur- into which the entire country is now partitioned off, General Sheridan’s command {s subdivided into three military departments, and embraces the States of Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. mander of one of these departments, known as the De. partment of Louisiana and Texas, and consisting of those two States, On the same day he issued his order General Canby is com- on assuming command thereof. The Department of the wal ™ such, of which General Canby was previously -" ‘der, no longer exists. * comm , com Willcox on Tuesday last issued his fore- woll to thd proPs of the Pirst division of the Ninth army corps, which hé for ¢ }0P6 time commanded with great ability and gallantry. Ag, It is announced. that the Postmaster General will to-day resume the transmission of the mails between ‘Washington and Richmond over the Orange and Alox andria Railp after an interruption of over four years, ae eo us NEWS, * apes - Seeeaaan The btaataships Glaggow, from Queenstown on the oth inst; the McClellan, Neptune and Meteor, from New Orleans on the 19th and 20th; the Hatteras, from Nor- folk; the Yazoo, from Richmond, and the Chesapeake, lay. facts, statements and garding Mexico, that f wonderful rumors, is given in this morning's Hxeann. These accounts are from different sources, and while in some of them there is truth, and in others plausibility, stil! others are grossly absurd. In the first place, the important compilation of facts which we furnish in rela tien to the recent movements in this country and Europe of M. Eloin, one of Maximilian’s chief ministers, ind: cates that the Emperor is setting his house in order for a mere complete and early abandonment of Mexico, Then we have a Galveston despatch of fhe Ist inst. which announces that orders have been tasued at Mata moros to propare accoutrements at that place for thirty-five thousand imperial troops, in con sequence of the supposed threat conveyed In the assembling of a large ited States fr m the Rio Grande border, We have amoros advices of the 10th inst, city of Mexico of the 11th, Brownsville (Texas) of the 11th, Galveston of the 12th, and full Now Orleans files of the 19th, none of which make any allu sion to this absurd story of the Ist inst. In our Now Orleans correspondence we have confirmation of tho Previous report that the imperialists have abandoned Camargo and nearly all the region between that town ‘and Matamoros, and concentrated their forces in the vicinity of the latter place, the republicans occupying the country as Maximilian’s men fell back, Some start- ling statements regarding persccutions of Americans in the Emperor's dominions, purporting to be furnished by a gentleman who has just escaped thence, are taken from a Memphis paper, and given with our other Mexican matter, He states that in many parts of the country, #o bitter is the hatred of the United States, all Americans are either driven out or murdered. He also says that an armed insurrection of the church party lately took place in the city of Mexico, but that the insurgents were soon put down, and a numberof them shot on the public plaza. Lieutenant General Grant arrived at Saratoga Springs from West Point last evening. The degree of LL. D. has been conferred on Lieutenant General Grant, Secretary Stanton and Charles O'Concr, Eaq., of this city, by Union College, Schenectady, during the commencement exercises of this week. ‘Tho trial of Michael Doyle for uttering counterfit postal currency.yas concluded yesterday in the United Btates Circuit Court, and resulted in the acquittal of the prisoner, on the ground that there was a reasonable doubt as to the truth of the testimony of the chief Hitmen for Che proseoution, The verdict is looked 100,000 $1,095,000 was referred for adjudication to United States Commis- ciding that persons of the classes in question are re- quired by the law to have individual as well as copart- nership licenses, ‘one hundred and eighty thousand dollars’ worth of gov- ernment bonds from the Treasury Department has here- tofore been noticed, was yesterday committed to prison in Washington for trial, in default of one hundred thou- sand dollars bail. ‘The hearing in the United Service Petroloum and Mining case was resumed yesterday before Justice only one witness examined during the day; but his evi- dence was important. Tho case stands further adjourned till ono P. M. to-day. ‘The coroner's investigation was continued ycsterday in regard to the murder of James Smith, who was killed at the foot of Fifty-fifth street, East river, on last Tuos- day night, while returning from the Fenian demonstra- tion in Jones’ Wood. Two other men supposed to be implicated in the affair were arrested, but yesterday dis- charged, after their innocence being made apparent. Suspicion is strong against a man named John Burns, whose residence is on the corner of avenue B and Fif- whom the police have not since been able to find. Con- siderable testimony was taken yesterday, and the exami- nation was further adjourned till this afternoon. ‘Thomas McCue and Joseph Benedict, charged with the theft of fifty-five hundred dollars’ worth of stock certifi- cates of the Delaware Gold and Silver Mining Company, belonging to an Exchange place firm, as noticed in Wednesday’s Heraip, wore yesterday arraigned in the Jefferson Market Polico Court, and committed for further examination, Tho property was stolen or lost on the 18th inst, and subsequently returned to the owners by a man to whom five hundred dollars, which had been offered as a reward for its recovery, were paid. On Wednesday night counterfeit ten dollar bills, pur- porting to be issued by the Thompson Bank, of Thomp- son, Connecticut, made their appearance in different parls of the city, A youtg man named Thomas Golden, an expressman; Solomon P. Stoddard, ® yer, and Loyig L. Angels, a clerk, were arrested and cominitted on charge of being engaged in circulating them. The alleged frauds in the Brooklyn Navy Yard were still under consideration yesterday, before United States Commissioner Newton. A considerable portion of the day was taken up in argument in favor of the discharge of Roilly, one of the accused, by his counsel, The Com- missioner postponed his decision for one week, and further public proceedings in the case were’ also ad- journed for that time. An inquest was held yesterday over the remains of an insane man. named Willliam Walker, recently released from a lunatic asylum, who resided at 197 Weat Twen- Ueth street, and who committed suicide by swallowing Paria green. The unfortunate man formerly belonged to tho Fifth New York Zouaves, and was thirty-four years of age. A man who gavo his name as Edward Duer, and said he was thirty years of age anda native of Philadelphia, was found lying in Washington park, Brooklyn, about three o'clock yesterday morning, suffering from tho eflects of a number of stabs in the region of the heart. Ho was taken to a police station, and at first stated that his wounds had been inflicted by two men who attacked him for the purpose of robbery; but subsequently, on being informed that they were fatal, he confessed that he inflicted them himself in a fit of despondency, being homeless, friendicss and moneyless. Chief Engineer Decker, of the volunteer Fire Depart- ment, in response to his request that the new Commis- sioners would fix a time when they will be ready to re- lieve him of his present position, has received from them a communication designating the 1st of August proximo as that time, ‘Commissioner Evgs was ;yesterday en- gaxed in investigating charges of incompetence and neg- lect of duty made against Messrs. Dailey, Owens and Seixas, tire telegraph operators, Tho funcral services over the remains of the late Rev. E. R. T. Cook, in the Memorial church, Hammond strect, wero performed yosterday by Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg and Rey. Dr. Hollingsworth, in the presence of a large con- gregation. The remaina wero then romoved to Grecn- wood, Bids for repairing streets in different parts of stw city from Angust 1 to Decsmber 31 of this year were opencd yesterday by the Croton Aqueduct Board and the City Comptrolier, and the contract was awarded to Messrs. A. J. McCool and Warnock for $72,500, they being the lowest bidders. Tho New York State Teachers’ Association, which con- vened in Elmira on Tuesday of this week, closed its ees. sions yesterday. Considerable business of interest to teschers generally has been transacted during the sittings, In Nashville, Tonn., last night, If. B. Payne shot and killed on the street Captain W. S. Allon, whom he charged with the scdu tion of his wife, Both the men were old residents of the place, Another citizen tamed Cochrane was wounded during the shooting. We have accounts of terrific rain, thun‘ter, lightning and wind storms both in the East and the West on Tues- day last, At Hartford, Connecticut, and in that vicinity the rain poured down for threo-quarters of an hour in the most furious manner, taraing the streets into rivers and flooding nearly oll the celiars, Many buildings were strug’ DY lightning, and much damego was done. At Cincinnati at fh QNiGe TRAE OF ONG Ad {A Otter West. ern States there was equally heavy rain, with the a com paniment of a furiads tornado, casing Immense des. tion of property and sonsiderable loss of life. It will be remembered that on the afternoon of the vame day New York and vicinity were visiied by a heavy shower, bat nothing approaching in force what the storms at other places are represented to have been, ‘Tho stock market was excited and variable yi but quotations were firm at the close, Gov were steady, Gold was steady, It stood at 14534 a 146 at five P. M., and cloged at 146 at night. There was more doing tn breadstuffs and the leading kinds of prov yesterday, at a further matorial rise in prices, Much of the business was purely speculative This was especially trae of flous and wheat, tr in which were quite liberal at an advance of 150. a 25e, and 3°. a Se, respectively; stimmlated by the usual mid- summer eronking obout damaged erops and probable serious deficiency in the yicld at harvest time, of which the speculative cliques in the swterior and in this market are making the utmost vse to promote their sinister in- terests, Cotton was a shade firmer and moreactive. Groceries were in request. Freights were quict, Other branches of trade presented no really new feature. Ma. Sewarp anp Lis Dyxasry.—Mr. Secre- tary Seward, as far as we can see, wil! have to give up his place in the Cabinet as soon as President Johnson is thoroughly informed on Northern policy and the financial and foreign relations of the country, which he will soon be when he has setiled the offairs of the South, Thurlow Weed is hunting around New York to find a successor for Mr. Seward, and he has got hold of Seward’s boots to find somebody that they will fit, He has hit upon Greeley’s “Little Villain,” and has discovered that his fect will exactly fill the boots of the Secretary of Siate, and he intends to put him into the State Do- partment by making him Senator from New York. Thurlow is going to take charge of the Times, and manage it as he did the Hvening Journal—that is, by running it into the ground— while Raymond gets into the seven-leagued boots of the Secretary of State. Mr. Seward has done very well in the Cabinet, but he is probably worn out by the sevocity of his labors, his long letters and tho effects of the accidents which he met with at the close of the lamented Lincoln’s administration, Thurlow Weed is, therefore, prepared to fill his place with a new secretary at a moment’s notice. However, if he can do this he will be accom- plishing more than he ever did before, whilo if ho fails he will kill himself as dead as General Butler did by his speech at Lowoll. ‘The collectors took the opposite view, and the matter sioner Osborn, who yesterday rendered his opinion, de- The young man Wallace W. Whittlesey, whose arrest in this city a few days ago on charge of stealing about Dodge, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, ‘There was teonth street, who was present at the deadly affray, but, .| disposal of the negroes. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 28) 1865, ‘The State of the Country—The Adminis- tration, the Potiticians and the People. We have put down the most formidable and persistent rebellion that ever convulsed any nation on the face of the globe, and the sud- denness and completeness of its collapse is without a parallel in history. Never were any rebellious people so thoroughly subjugated and rendered so powerless for further mischief as those of our late rebellious Southern States. In ‘of the copperhead school, and certain Southern journals revived or created under the new order of things, affect a good deal of astonish- ment and indignation in regard to the continu~ ance of the war power and military authorities of the government, not only throughout the South, but to some extent throughout the coun- try. Why, it is asked, does President John- son still keep in force his military occupation of the Southern States? Why not turn over those States absolutely to the civil authorities? Why not put an end to these military tribunals, these Roman provincial satraps and their pro- vost marshals? and why not give free scope again to the habeas corpus? These questioners forget that after ® great tempest has rolled away it takes some time for the agitated sea to settle down. The fiery storm of war, with iis iron thunderbolts and leaden hail, has passed off; the insurgents of the South have laid down their arms; they sub- mit to the resistless power and sovereign authority of the United States; but still, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, chaos—social and political chaos—reigns. The intervening country is & vacuum so far as State govern- ments and civil authorities are concerned. So it is that over all these States the President is compelled to fall back upon his war powers to enable the people to reorganize their local in- stitutions and to get their State governments upon their legs again. In doing this he recog- nizes the settlement of certain great isques by the war—the extinction of slavery, and the thern fallacy of State sovereignty and the Seamer at the —Seutbos” alarshalg oligarchy, He makes these decisions of the war the testa of the--restoration of the insurgent States; and here is a task which, from the dis- organization and confusion of Southern society, the new order of things resulting from the war, the military arm of the general govenment must be employed to maintain order and to assist the people in the work before them. This, we think, is sufficient for the fullest justification of President Johnson in the con- tinued exercise of his military authority in the South, and partially in the North, although the war is at an end. Southern secessionists still disposed to be vicious, Northern copper- heads still sympathizing with Jeff. Davis, and Northern negro suffrage fanatics still intent upon some scheme of sectional agitation and discord, are in this business doing all they can do to misrepresent and embarrass the admin- istration, and to rule or ruin it; but the prac- tical common sense of the great masses of the people, North and South, will carry the Presi- dent successfully through this great work of Southern restoration. The Southern people must have the instruments before they can have the full benefits of the peace establish- ment. The radical abolition agitation of immediate and undonditional negro suffrage means nris- chief, and nothing else. The Southern seces- sion and Northern copperhead outcries against the military agencies of law and order, con- tinued in force by the administration, may be placed in the same category. Negro suffrage in the South wil be attended to in due season, and under proper limitations. The military appliances of the government are being, and will be, withdrawn from the South as fast as possible consistent with the public safety, and all these disturbing forces of abolitionists, cop- perheads and secessionists, North and South, will be thrust aside, With every passing day the administration, upon this qreston of negro suffrage, is gaining strensth, The training and long experience of Andrew Johnson in the midst of Southern slavery give him, in this matter, a strong hold upon the public confidence. But there is still another question to which we would call his attention—tke question of the national debt. Mr. Jay Cooke, the Subscription Agent of the Tregsury Degariment, tells us that a great na- tional debt is a great nailonal blessing—a dogma which involves the policy of an inde- finite expansion of our existing debt, with all its onerous taxetions, corruptions and high prices. We shall expect from President John- son a different argument in his first annual mes- enge lo Congress, and a plea for the immediate reduction and speedy settlement of our national debt as a great national burden. Occupying this ground, in connection with bis res‘oration platform, he will soon find bimself the un- doxbjed master of the situation even in Con- gress. Guyerat Sienman's Nixery-sivra Spercn.— General Sherman made another speech at Indianapolis on Tuesday last, in which he had something to say about reconstruction and the The telegraph does not inform us whether he had any more to say about the original planning of the great eam- prign in the Southwest. His opinions in rela- tion to that campaign, in speech before this last, have brought ont a letter from an officer of General Buell’s staff claiming that the real original originator of that plan was Genoral Buell, and the Post tells us that the same claim has been made on behalf of General Fremont. So here is a bevy of claimants. Fremont and Buell have it first, and then it originates ina conversation between Halleck and Sherman, And what is it that they claim? They claim to have discovered that the Tennessee river runs perpendicularly to a line which crosses it at right anglos! Analyze it as they will, that is what it comes to. Of course no one mentions General Grant’s name in connection with such a wonderful discovery. All that Grant did was to take the troops forward and beat the enemy, capturing thousands of men and hundreds of guns, succceding gloriously where every one else managed (in spite of the plan) to fail, Bat the people somehow don’t seem to care who talked about the plans and perpendiculars, ‘They hardly heard of any one but Grant when the fighting was to be done, and it will be difficult to make them believe that he was not the real hero. Sher man had better give up his speechmaking. Let him take notice of the history of Butler. Butler has been making speoghes and writing view of this remarkable fact, Northern journals demands the supervision of the war power of the President. In a word, until the civil autho- rities of the Southern States, thrown out by the war, are re-established upon the basis of letters since the war began. He has puffed himself incessantly, and has got the Committee on the Conduct of the War to puff him and give a certificate that he is a very good hero. It is just like the certificates of Geo. W. Childs in faver of the Tribune, or the certifi- cate of John Jobson in praise of Brandreth’s pills. But the people don’t believe it; and the more Butler says the more he is langhed at. And it is not impossible that General Sher- man, by the force of many foolish speeches, may make his own good record much less re- spectable than it is. The Military Power of the Great Re- public. In the course of the exercises at the Yale College Commencement on Wednesday last General Parsons, of St. Louis, made a speech. We have not had the pleasure of knowing much about General Parsons, and under ordi- nary circumstances a speech from him would not attract much: attention; but upon the present occasion General Persons was fresh from an interview with Secretary Stanton, and the statements in his speech were made upon the authority of that official. General Parsons said, then, that Secretary Stanton had already sent home about seven hundred and fifty. thousand soldiers; that one hundred thousand more would be on the route in s few days, and that at the time of Lee’s surrender the Union forces were within two or three thousand of a round million of men. These enormous numbers will give our own citizens and our foreign critics some definite idea of the immense military power of this republic. During the war the North has lost about five hundred thousand men in killed and disabled, and the South about seven hundred thousand. Here were twelve hundred thousand men placed hors de combat,and yet our ranks were full when the war closed. At the’ time of Lee’s surrender the South had about three bundred thousan: my in the field, counting those who wé7e upon the muster rolla, buy who had Anticipated the final defeat | ing. On our side, as we have seen, Hak Ge u falon of so]diers divided among our various armies. Of theaé, eight hundred and fifty or nine hundred thousand have slready been dismissed, or are pre- paring ¢o retire. The balance will probably be retained for the present and subsequently discharged in batches of ten thousand, as the restoration of the Union progresses, until only our regular standing army of a few thousand men is left in the service. But the point to which, most of all, we desire to direct attention is, that at least six hundred thousand of our discharged veterans can again be called to the field at the tap of the dram whenever the government may require their aid in a foreign war. Within six weeks we can again have an army six hundred thousand strong. This army will be composed of veterans, against whom the volunteer militia of England or the holiday soldiers of France are as nothing. These men have fought over half @ continent, and are trained in all martial ex- ercises. They constitute a continual defence for the country they have saved, and are the only standing army we shall need for many years to come. If, on the one hand, these facts teach our government how safe it is to be economical in regard to our military establish- ment in time of peace, on the other hand they teach foreign governments how formidable this republic will always be in time of war. Thirteen hundred thousand veteran soldiers, North and South, are not the only military strength of this country. Behind them and dis- tinct from them are the militia of the several States, well drilled, thoroughly equipped, and, as their brief campaigns have shown, by no means ineffective. Then again, there is the great body of citizens behind the militia and ready to furnish volunteers. But a mil- lion and three hundred thousand trained and %xperienced soldiers is a larger nucleus for an army than any other country possesses, and than any other country has ever possessed before. Napoleon never had such an army in his by 9 gpd brightest days. Half of this force, as We have said, genits laced in the field in six weeks, and the other half could speedily follow. During the recent war Europe bas had a chance to estimate the comparative strength of the North and the South; but now Europeans must learn to estimate the strength of the North and South combined. It will prove a gurious and instructive study. When the Emperor Napoleon bas finished teaching the Prince Imperial all about Algiers we hope that he will take up this subject and give the young Prince a few lessons upon it, apropos of Mexico. The military mathematics, tor which we here furnish bim the data, will be found quite as interesting and much more important than the discussion of the schemes for French colonization. Governor Fenton and Municipal Re- form. The heads of departments and the Chase radical politicians of this city have been trying to patch up some arrangement whereby the present city officials shall not be disturbed by the action of the Governor. According to our advices, this patch work will do them but liitle good, Governor Fenton’s health is fast recov- ering, and he anticipates returning to Albany and resuming the duties of his office early in the coming week. We have received direct in- telligence, through a personal friend of the Governor, who bas recently been in consulta tion with him, to the effect that he will investi- gate the charges as soon as presented, and, if there is any just cause, will act at once. We are informed that the charges are already in Albany, and that several influential parties will visit the State capital a3 soon as the Gov- ernor arrives there, and press their considera- tion upon him at once. As to there being good reason to justify prompt action we apprehend there can be no doubt; and that, on the other hand, it will be fonnd that there is no good reason to justify the Governor in delaying action for even a day, But it appears that the Governor will not neod much pressing, having already made up his mind as to bis duty in this respect. In the meantime combinations will be formed among the politicians here to save the necks of the beads of departments. These rings are assuming definite shape, and those interested are giving out that Governor Fenton has already been hedged in. It appears that there is a movement on foot Between Thurlow Weed, Raymond and the Seward wing of the repub- lican party of this State on the ono hand, and a portion of the democratic party, including Tammany Hall, to unite their political fortunes in this State in support _ of President Joboson and hig reoxeaniaaiion ‘ policy. This movement bas alarmed the Chase radicals; ind the ‘leadera of that faction, in- cluding the Tribune philosophers, are trying to patch up some arrangement to secure the influence and patronage of the several depart- ments im the city government to defoat that combination. It is understood that they have given the heads of departments to understand that if they will prevent a coalition of the democracy of this city with the Weed and Seward republicans in support of President Johnson’s policy, they (the Chase radicals) will see that Governor Fenton does not molest them in their present position and fat offices, The Chase faction know very well that if the conservative republicans and moderate demo- erats unite on any such platform they will sweep everything before them, and in ‘order to enable them to force the negro suffrage and the Chase platform in all its deformities upon the people, they are ready to enter into any corrupt bargain and continue the present cor- rupt system of government in this city. We have no doubt but that the heads of de- partments stand ready to give this pledge, or any other, to be able to retain their present lu- erative positions, It is by just such bargaining as this that they have been able to hold on as long as they have done. It is by just such com- binations that this city has been fleeced year after year, the spoils divided between men of all parties, and our expenses and taxes run up to an enormously high figure. We have no idea that Governor Fenton will be party to any such arrangement, In fact, our intelligence from. him points to the very reverse conclusion. Should he become party to it, then his career as & public man is at an end, and, like Governor Seymour, he will sink into obscurity as soon as he retires from the Gubernatorial chair. His true course is too plain and his duty too mani- fest for him to go amiss if he possesses even or- foresight. The public can rest assured that Governor Fenton intends to act promptly, notwithstanding the reported combination to the contrary. The Chase radicals may as well abandon their schemes to secure a repudiation of President Johnson by the people of this State at the coming election, and the beng of adpitathts prepare for thelr doom, for the signs of the times now point very conclusively to the fact that the watchword from one end of the State to the other in the coming election will be Municipal Reform. Ewicration Tarovas Canapa To THe UnNtrep Srares.—The emigration to this continent dur- in; the pregent yeas will probably amount to atid of a fiillion oy more. Last year the emigrants who landed in thé pott of New York alone were nearly 185,000. The Wostera States, with all the advantages they offer to the labor of the stalwart emigrant, furnish im- mense attraction for this class, both from Ire- land and Germany. The Canadian govern- ment is making great efforts to direct the tide of emigration to Quebec, but the Canadian pa- pers laugh at the idea, because they say that the people who land there find their way imme- diately to the United States. It is not probable that anything which we could say would deter the Canadien government from prosecuting their efforts in this matter. Nor do we wish to deter them trom inviting emigrants to their shores. The emigrants, by coming through Canada to the United States, will only be showing the Canadians the way they will have to go themselves, and they may as well be packing up their trunks for the journey. Barnactes on Tur Bottom or THe Sp or Srate.—Old Blair and his femily, of Silver Spring, and Old Weed and his tail, of New York, are both boring away vigorously for oil in Washington; or rather, we might say that they are slinging like barnacles to the bottom of the administration. State and City Bounties. ®& 1 astonishing to see what large numbers of retarned soldiers aro applying for the State bounty, which they are falrly entitled to, but which they have never ‘re- ceived. Scarcely a day passes but what Supervisor Binnt—who of course has yothing to do with the State bounty—has numerous applications from roturned hardy and honored veterans for this stipend, of which, during the hurry and confusion of their departure to the front, or inability to find the State agent, a large portion never received one cent. It is cruel to keop these men out of their just dues, and equally cruel to recommend thom to the numerous military claim agents. We are not aware of any authorized State agent in this city, whose duty it is to attend to this business, and would suggest, therefore, that all soldiers havin such claims proceed at once to Albany, and place them before the Adjutant General of the State. This plan is, we learn, invariably recommendod by Chair- man Blunt, and is the only true and reliable course to be adopted. Itis quite useless to apply to the Volunteer- ing and Bounty-paying Committee of this city for it, for itis a matter with which they have nothing to do, it being a Stato instead of a county affair. The businoss of our Volunteering Committee is being rapidly concluded—only abont $200,000 of $300,000 as State indebtedness to this city, on account of volun- teering, remaining unpaid. Vouchers for this amount are being forwarded by the chairman of the committee as fastas the accounts can be made up and adjusted, which roquires great care and no little patience. When thes» accounts of the Volunteering Committee are settled with the State, Supervisor Blunt will,-we understand, be ready to adjust the substitute papers about which so much anxiety exists on the part of the holders, Be patient, gentlemen, your claims are good; but you must give time to the committee to cluse up its business regularly. Your time will soon come, and your bus ness will be afl the more rapidly consummated by the care and caution practised by Mr..Blunt in closing all previous claiins. Work well dono requires no reopening. Personal Intelligence. Lieutenant General U. 8. Grant arrived at Wost Point ‘on the 25th inst, after an agreeable trip over the Hudson by the steamer Chauncy Vibbard, being wholly unex pected, as it was generally supposed he would-sojourn at Capo May some time be‘ore reaching that place. The surpr'se was agrecable on all sides, and was followed by tho wildest excitement. Upon landing from the stoamer 80 great was the rueh to taxe the General by the hand that the distinguished gentleman was almost extin guished, and bad considerable diMeulty in reaching his carriage, where, after several mishaps, ho took refuge. The General is reported as looking extremely well, pleased with the climate and the people, though the latter he could wish were not quite so pressing in their compliments. He is averse to all public display, and desires to got over the pleasure trip as quickly as possi- bie and be back at his work again. Rumor has it that he will noxt honor Saratoga with hia presence, Whore. ever he goes he will find welcome. The Liewtenant General gnd his staff arrived at Saratoga last evening, and are stopping at Congress Hall, George F. Robinson, the soldier who saved Secretary Seward's life, was married on the 13th inst. at Spring- field, Me. He has also been presented with a farm out Wost, and may now settle down and enjoy himself, with reminiscences of his deperate encounter with Payne to Monlivon his winter evenings. Mr. Bigelow, the wife of our Minister to France, is stopping at Congress Hall, Saratoga. ‘The St. Lonis Republican says that Major McConnell, a apriehtly young officer, who at one time officiated as Provost Marshal in that city, has eloped with and mar: ried a daaghjer of Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania. The Republican says that the Major, while in St. Louis, was decidedly # Indies’ nan, and just the boy to carry off 4 boarding achool girl from a rich old Governor. ‘The Washington Chronide says:—Hon, Thomas T. Davis, member of Congress from Now York, has rented, at four thousand dollars per annum, the bandsomoly fur- nished house of Mr. Thomas A. McLaughlin, on #, bo- twoen Thirtoonth and Fourjeguth stroots, for (he poxt Gon "easlonal poARioi, DAVIS. HI8s HEALTH IMPROVING. His Walks Continued and Strength Increasing, &., JEFF. &., &e. Our Fortress Monroe Correspondence. Fortress Moxnoe, July 26, 1865. Asecond hours’ wali inside tho fortress was yoster- day afternoon permitted Jeff Davis. The same guard attended him as in his firat walk, and the same reticoneo was kept up both on his part and that of his guardi@ attendants. Tho salutary offect of this ont-door exercise on the spirits of Davis is already apparent. If they are continued there ean be no doubt of his health improv- ing, if it is not wholly restored. Renewed ramors reach us of his speedy removal to Washington for trial, but no credit is given them, The Funeral of the Rev. E. R. T. Cook. The funoral services of the late Rev. E. R, T. Cook, pastor of the Memorial Episcopal church, took place yes- terday in that edifice, at the corner of Hammond street -and Waverley place. The church was crowded to excess by the congresation, the friends of the deceased clorgy- man, and a number of the clergy of the Church to which he belonged. The burial services of the Episcopal Church are impressively solemn under all circumstances; but when those serviees are read over an Episcopal mintster who 18 well known to all the congregation and has sud- denly been called to his last account, how much greater are the solemnitics of the service. The exercises were th laid down in the Episcopal ritual. The officiatt clergymen wer? Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg and Rev. Dr. Hot lingsworth. ‘The latter read the service, and Dr. Mublem- berg delivered afew words, which, from their brev'ty, cone scarcely be termed a funoral discourse. Among the hymns sung was the twelfth, which commences with the words— God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants hia footsteps on the sea te And rides oye o Lee as, YD mn Muhlonberg spoke from the wort ezaed the dead who die in the Lord: even go saith tho Spirits for they rest from thoir Iabors, and their works do fol- low them.’’—Revelations xiv., 13, He said it was unne- cossary for him vo eulogize tha character of a pastor whe was 80 well known to and beloved by his con; as tho deceased. He added @ few words on the uncer. tainty of life and the necoastty of being prepared at a times for the suddon chunge that awaits us all. ‘After the conclusion of the services the con; filed past the remains of the deceased, which wore em cased in a fine rosewood, silver-mounted coffin, with the lid ratsed to enable his frienda to take a farowoll look at the coyntenanco of the sapere. Tho remaina wore. pen fofnoved to Groenwood Cemetery for commitment tholr kindred “ . vg ~~ Excursion of the I Grove. ‘A most pleasant excursion to Chelsea Grove took place yesterday, under the auspices of the ‘Invineibles,”” who are a number of the young men of our city—all of them holding high positions in society—banded together under this title. Tho club is at present in its thirdecesion. Their object is rational enjoyment, which they attain in the winter by a series of sociables or “‘hops;”” in the summer by p'cnics, like that of yesterday. The title is a charac- teristic one, and, but for the unexcelled manner in which <ry out their plans, might possibly be considered they omy Oe , a ae asa weak concit, We HRM of many bows oe go SS invinctbility whkk they havé not. The #0-called =outh- orn confederacy were never tired of patading this before us, and yet Northern prowess has proved ft had but am existence in namo. Achilles, when a child, is said to have been immerseg by his mother in the rtvor Btyx, thereby rendering him perfectly invulnerable, save if the heel by which his mothor held him. Unfortunately for tis invincibility, Paris, at the ny of Troy, dis- charged an arrow which plerced his heal, and killed him. This society, however, lays claim to the title ‘borause they have never as yet been conquered a5 re- garde their displays, and are perfectly determined they never shall be. The officers for thy present session are:—D. W. Stevenson, President; Phil». A. Beebe, Vico President; Thos P. Oril, Jr., Recording Secretary; J. E. Willtams, Corresponding Secretary; D. E. Demar:st, Troasurer, Tho gentlemen in charge of yesterday’s excursion were:—L. L. Devoe, floor director; Moesers. H. G, Knapp, 8. Denlap, E. Zabriskie, D. L.’MeDougall, J. 8! Warr. D. D. Danbar, T. A. Rice J Gray, Jr., ants; while the Reception Committee was composed of Messrs. M, D. Marshall, H. B. Pardee, D. E. Demarest, P_A. Be and B.S Hughes, The party, which nembered about four hundred, lett the foot of West Tenth street at nine o'clock om board the barce Mayflower, arriving at Chelsea Grove, which ys si'uated on Staten Island, about twelve, noon, During the trip a portion of an admirably eelectod pro- gramme of dancing was gone through. Arrived, the first thought was of dinner, after the discussion of whicl dancing was resumed on the commodious platform, They started on the return trip at five P. M., arriving im New York at half-past eight. The whole affair was con- ducted with an order and goed taste which reflect great eredit on all the members, A generous courtesy, — possessed by tho true gentleman, pervaded all. ladies were the choicest flowers culled from beanty’s garden—the pretty blonde, tho dark-oyed brunette, the oung wife, the youthful —— to that title, were all esd t, and certainly, if the “Invincibles” are against the attacks of the tender sex, they are worthy their name. The bright eye, sweet smile and musi voice of woman are by many more feared than the thun- der of artillory and tho glitter of bayonets. Subjected te the latter, there is a chance of escape ; but fow have beem known to escape when the resistless attacks of the Pale oped thenasale ro hi and the onl, J] enjoyed themselves heartily, Teg) onthelr arrival in Now. York was that. the Tadeo ovening had fallen so quickly, and that there was an ¢1 Lo the festivities of tho It should be mentio1 that the membors of the ian Glee Club during the day delighted the excorsionists with some of their chotcest melodics, rendered with their well known ability. ibles to Chelsea@ Tria, Tar or tie La Prorsxa.—Tho steamer Le Protena made her trial trip on Wednesday of the presen week as far as West Point. The run, a distance of fifty- two miles, was made in three hours and ten minutes, The revolutions of the engine averaged twenty-one. Her pressure of steam was twenty-five pounds. ‘Tho Protens was built at Kast Boston, by Messrs, McKay & Aldera, Hor dimensions aro as follows:—Length, one hundre@. and nincty feet; breadth, twenty seven foot; depth, tem: feet four inches; cylindor forty inch stroke, ten feet, & solect party, about sixty persons, including the Minister of the Argentine Republic, and many Brazilians, were om board, and the boat was pronounced a success. She te owned by Messrs. George Savory & Co., of this city, and is intended asa regular steamer between Buenos Ayres ‘and Montevideo, She will leave here on the 6th of August noxt upon her first voyage. Concert at Rockaway.—Mr. C. J. Hopkins annowaces, anovelty for this evening, namely, a concert “by the’ ' sad sea waves" at Rockaway. Secretary Seward at Cape Island. Care Istaxp, July 27, 1866. Secretary Seward and party arrived here on the gum- boat. Northerner at soven o'clock this evening. The party consists of Secretary Seward, Attorney General Speed, Assistant Secretary F, W. Seward and wife, Gon, ‘W. H, Yeward, Jr.; Lieutenant Colonel Wilson, Medical Inspector, United States Army; Mrs. L. M. Worden, sim ter of Secretary Soward; Miss Fanny Sewar® and Miss Ellen Perry. A. W. Markloy, Esq.) welcomed the distinguished guests, and the Secretary replied, expressing gratification a8 reaching this celebrated watering place. The visitors " wore then placed in private carriages and conveyed to Club Cottage, attached to Congress Hall, fronting lawn, whore elegant quarters have boen fitted up them. As soon as the Secretary and party reached cottage a band commenced playing national airs and lawn in front of Congress Hall was brilliantly itu nated, As the Secretary desires quiet, meals for hi solf and family will be served in tho cottage parlor During to-day upwards of seventy telograms and I wore received by Mr, Cade for rooms for to-morrow Saturday. Movements of Hon, Anson Burlingame. Boston, July 27, 1966. Hon, Anson Burlingame arrived at his homo tn bridge this morning. He leaves for Washington tov row on business connested with his mission to China, ————— News from Fortress Monroe, Fortress Mownon, July 25, 1866, fr ‘The jowotry store of J. M. Freeman, on Main street’ Nortote, pb ‘proken opon last night and robbed of all ite) watches and valuable jewelry, Los upwards of "| thousand dollars. . The prs Northerner, Captain Smith, has arrived, from City Point. She is bound to Baltimore, with the: Ninth Ohio regiment, en route home. ‘The Third New York cavalry is ordered, to Richmon@ for duty. , #inoe June 1, 1865, there have been three thousand ong, bundred and sixty-one passes issued at this post to rebep soners returning home, This does not, of course, ind clude those that have passed on steqmery loaded witty