The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1865, Page 5

> 4 os NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 31. 1865. NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Wolume XEX.........-.ccseereereees --++No. 211 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Couzxn Bawn. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Katutesn Ma- vouaween—Busi Racers. WINTER. GARDEN, Broadway.—Barncn’s Mussom Company. Beauty evitte—Rosert np BsrTranp— Nicove Baornens, Open Day and Evening. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Asrau wa Pogue; on, war Wicktow Wxppixa. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Pac Worrinctom. ‘WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Eraiorian Sones, Dances, &c.—Hanpy Anpy—Ronnixe tus BLockaps. HELLER’S HALL, 585 Broadway.—Saw Francisco Min- wamis—Eruiorian Singing, Dancing, &¢.—ARRAH NA Pocus. hee TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 cind, BORLESQD! BOWERY Bowery.—Guoror Cnniste’s Min- ano, Dane 188, 40.—Sarts AND ‘sTueis wt Songs, DAnces. &c-—Naw Year's Catts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘Open from 10 A. M. ‘uh 20 P.M. New York, Monday, July 31, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. _ Year Ending ame of Paper. January 1, 1865. HERALD.......+ ea doninacialneseaie PARE PE $1,095,000 Times.. 368,150 252,000 169,427 100,000 151,079 90,548 New Yorm Heratp.... ses eeese-91,095,000 * Gimes, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. 871,229 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Our city subscribers will confer a favor by reporting ‘any of our city carriers who overcharge for the Henato, Country subscribers to the New Yorm Heratp are re- quested to remit their subscriptions, whenever practi- cable, by Post Office Orders. It is the safest mode of transmitting money by mail. Advertisements should be sent to the office before nine o’clock in the evening. THE SITUATION. We give this morning another most entertaining chap- fer in the narrative of Joff. Davis’ staff officer, descrip- tive of affairs in Georgia, the condition of the country and the people, immediately after the explosion of the rebel confederacy. It contains some striking facts re- garding the demoralization st that time and previously prevailing in the South, and also further particulars relative to the capture of Joff., his Secretary of the Navy, Mallory, and others. ‘The fooling of the Canadians in favor of the annexa- | tion of their province to this country is represented by our Toronto correspondence to be gradually growing and Strengthening, notwithstanding some drawbacks with which it met in the late Commercial Convention at De- troit. The provincials, while their towns remain dull and almost devoid of business, glance across the line and ‘s0e cities and villages close to them alive with all the stir, bum and bustle of teeming tirade and industry, and quietly but earnestly long to be under the flag and institutions in which such prosperity inheres. It 18 said Bhat the contrast formed by the business activity on one Hide of the bordor, and tho absence of it on the other, is Jest now oven more marked than at any former time, and it is believed M@hat unless the provincial Parliament dove something at its next session giving promise of im- provement to the Canadians, the annexation storm will break out with fury. In accordance with the directions of the Postmaster Goneral, hereafter all letters deposited In the mails addressed to post offices in the South which have not been reopened since the termination of the rebellion will, instead of being sent to the Dead Letter office at Washington, be forwarded to the reopened offices nearest to the ones for which they are designed, here to remain, if not previously called for, until the offices to which they are addreased shall be again in operation, when ‘they will be sent thither. The Fourteenth regular infantry, numbering about seven hundid men, arrived in this city yesterday, en rout: for California, Battery A of the Third Rhode Island heavy artillery arrived here from Hilton Head yesterday. The Eighteenth New Hampshire infantry, which artived on Saturday night, left for home yester- day. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamships City of Manchester and City of New ‘York, from Queenstown on the 15th and 20th inst oapectively, arrived at this port yesterday. The City of New York, whose foreign advices are four days later than those by previous arrivals, passed Cape Race on ‘Thursday last, and a telegraphic synopsis of her news ‘was sent from that point, and published in yesterday's Henarv. To-day we give fuller details. Of five huadred and fifty returos of the English elec- tions made up to the evoning of the 18th instant, three « hundred and twenty-three were professed liberals, being ‘a liberal gain so far of eighteen. The Princess Helena, Queen Victoria’s daughter, has been engaged to tho Prince of Orange. The cholera was rapidly decreasing in Egypt. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The steamship Empire City; Captain Barton, from Hilton Head, 8. C., on the 27th in arrived at this port yesterday. She brought no news of particular im- portance. General Grant remains in Boston. Yesterday he dined ‘with Governor Andrew, and afterwards drove out in the @uburbs. To-day he will hold a public reception in Panoull Hall. A very interesting account of current fashionable and Political doings at Saratogo, including the ceremonies and ‘excitement attendant on the visit of General Grant, is @urnished by one of our correspondents at that place, ‘and given in this morning’s Henato, Mr. Dickerson, in response to the proposal of the Sec- @otary of the Navy to test the relative capacities of the Steamers Algonquin and Winooski alongside one of our leity piers, instead of trying thom in @ river or ocean aoe, says that, although the engines of the Algonquin ‘were not made to run ata dock, a kind of service for which he beHeves those of the navy well qualified, still the will accept the challenge, though he considers ita (very unfair mode of trial |_ The Forty-sixth, Fifty-first and One Hundred and Mhirty-Orst regiments of Now York Volunteer infantry @re to have their formal receptions in the city to-day. Who Forty-sinth and One Hundred and Thirty-first will Move from the Centre Market armory at nine o'clock in the forenoon, escorted by the Eighth regiment of the Wotional Guard and about one thousand policemen, and E rade through Centre street, Broadway, Fourteenth treot and other thoroughfares. The Fifty-tirst, escorted yy the Thirteenth National Guard regimént, wiil move fom Centro Market at three o’clock in the afternoon, Mbrough Grand sireet, the Bowery, Chatham street and roadway. The suppression of the rebellion and the extinction of Blavery have incresed our field of country for rettiement | Dy adding to tho great West, towards which the eyes of | lemn'granta were bofore principally turned, immense fer- Wile regions in the South. In order to encourage and assist the large mass of persons desirous of making either of these regions their future homes, plans of operations have been devised and an organization effected, the cen- tral office of which is in this city, whereby the colonists ‘are afforded every facility to reach their destined loca- tions. In an article published in ourcolumns this morn- Ring the particulars of this organization and its extensive arrangements to meet the objects in view are fully described. We give in to-day’s Hanatp an explanation of the difficulty between the Harlem Bridge Commissioners and City Comptroller Brennan. It originated in a refusa! of the Comptrolier to cash, in the absence of a list of items for which the charge was made, an order of the Commis- sioners for thirty-six thousand eight hundred dollars, given to one of the contractors for materials furnished to be used in the construction of the bridge. The Com- missioners have resolved to take legal measures to en- deavor to compel Mr. Brennan to honor their draft. ‘Avery interesting tabular statement, compiled from the best data in the Indian Bureau of the Interior De- partment, of the names, numbers and locations of the various tribes of Indians at present within the limits of our country, is given in another part of this morning’s Heratp. From this it appears that there are from forty to sixty distinct tribes, principally scattered throughout our Wostern territory, though small fragments of some of them still remain on their aboriginal ground in North- ern, Southern and Western States. It is estimated that altogether there are now in the United States between three hundred and twenty thousand and three hundred and fifty thousand Indians. Rev. J. Ryland Kendrick, formerly pastor of a Bap- tist church in Charleston, 8. C., preached yesterday in the Baptist church in strong place, Brooklyn. There was but the usual congregation of the church present. The reverend gentleman took his text from Paul’s Epistle to the Phillipiaus, second chapter and eighth and ninth verses, upon the words of which he delivered an ex- Cellent sermon to an attentive audience. Rev. Mr. Quintard, of Nashvilie, Tenn., preached yes- terday in St, Thomas’ church, corner of Houston street and Broadway. No allusion Was made in the sermgg to affairs In the South. A sermon on the death of the Rev, Edwin R. T. Cook, late pastor of the Memorial church, Hammond street, was preached in that edifice yesterday by Rev. William C. Winslow, the new pastor. There waga numerous attendance. Between two and thi o'clock yesterday morning, while one of the Sixteenth precinct policemen was con- veying to the station house a man whom he had arrested near the corner of Seventh avenue and Nineteenth street, named James Tallent, said to have recently returned from Sing Sing, a crowd of the prisoner’s frienas assembled and by the free use of their fists and pistols endeavored to effect his release, Areinforcement of police, however, prevented them from succeeding, and Tallent was taken before Justice Dodge, who sent him to the penitentiary for six months. During a quarrel between two and three o'clock yes- terday morning on the corner of Mott and Prince streets, John McGee was shot in the lower jaw and dangerously wounded by Robert McMenee, who escaped arrest. A German woman named Mena Selback, keeper of an alleged disreputable house at 48 Hudson street, was yos- terday committed to the Tombs for trial on charge of steaiing in said place two hundred and twenty-five dol- lars from Joha Thorne, belonging to the Sixty-fourth Iiinois infantry. Au alleged confidence man of considerable accomplish- ments, fine manners and the dash of a first class “‘sport,”’ known as Benjamin W. Allen, alias the ‘Hon. John W. Herris, formerly of Texas,” has recently mysteriously disappeared from St. Paul, Minnesota, much to the an- noyance of a number of individuals in that section of country who claim to have against bim little accounts of a fow thousand dollars each. The Hn. Mr. Harris hed made St. Paul his headquarters for some time, stopping ‘at first class hotel, spending bis money like a princ, tugratiating himself in the upper circles of the apostolic city, and making of himself quite a marked character by perambulating the streets in a violet colored velvet coat, It is charged against Harris that, among other little human weaknesses manifested by him within the last eighteen months, he has by forgery and other means swindled different Wostern capitalists out of about eighty thousand dollars; taken to himself two different wives, with each of whom he only lived a few months; flirted with various other women, and etolen ten thousand dollars belonging to an Ohio bank. After bis fightatin box purporting to contain sixty-one thousand dollars’ worth of government bonds, doposited by bim in aSt, Paul bank for safe keeping, ‘was broken open and found to be filled with old news. Papers. A Dow temperance organization was inaugurated in Jersey City yesterday with considerable demonstration. There was a large and imposing procession on the occa- sion, in which a number of temperance societies from this city and Brooklyn, in full rogatia, took part. A Methodist camp meeting, to continue during this week, was commenced yesterday in tho vicinity of Glen Cove, Long Island. About eighty tents are on the ground. The Southern Electi cessfal Candid The result of the recent elections in Rich- mond bas been that the majority of the candi- dates chosen were those who had been in the rebel army during the war. Some of the North- ern papers growl bitterly at this, and when the radical republicans bear the news we may expect a tremendous outcry for imme- diate negro suffrage and an appeal to President Jobnson to set aside the elections. It is con- ceded, however, that at Richmond the people had their own way, entirely undisturbed by the military; and this fact must be very grate- ful to those sticklers for the purity and inde- pendence of the ballot, Messrs, Ben Wade and Henry Winter Davis. So, if one portion of the radicals is in a rage at the choice the people have made, the other portion will be happy in | the knowledge that this choice was not inter- fered with by the military authorities. It is rather difficult for us to understand how the election of ex-rebel soldiers gan be legally prevented. Union men were put in nomination; but it seems that the people did oot want them in office. This being so, what are wetodo? The mere fact of an election presupposes the intention of the general gov- ernment to allow the people to choose their own local rulers; and if they prefer rebel sol- diers to Union men we do not see how the matter can be helped at present. Indeed, the government can have no volce in the affnir, unless the President decide to violate the con- stitution in order to keep ex-rebels out of official positions. It must be remem- bered, however, that, after all, this is mere question of the records of the different candidates. There are no rebels now. The soldiers of Lee’s agmy elected at Richmond have already taken the oath of alle- giance and been pardoned, or, at least, they will do so before they hold their offices. These ceremonies, then, make them, in the eye of the law, just as good Union men as the rest of us; and we hope that they will prove to be so in practice. The shortest and the easiest and the best way, therefore, to remove all apprehen- sions in regard to the Southern elections is for us to remember that rebels died with the rebel- lion, and that all the candidates are conse- quently good enough Unionists for all practical urposes. Nothing in the world could be more natural than for the Southern people to vote for those candidates who bad served them in the rebel armies. The Unionists, of Richmond during the war were very few and very silent. If they loved the Union they kept the fact to them- selves, and only revealed it when General Grant had made the confession perfectly safe. For all the good they did the Union cause they might almost as well have been rebels. But, waiving that point, we find in the secreay they observed in regard to their opinions a strong proof that they considered themselves tranged from the sympathies of the people at large. Now, does any one suppose that the people have utterly changed their sympathies within the past few weeks? They are sick of re- bellion; they are glad to be in the Union again; but they sympathize rather with the men who always thought as they did and acted as they did than with those with whom they were constantly at variance in sentiment. We believe that they dislike Jeff. Davis and the other rebel. leaders who deluded them; but it is too much to expect them to dislike Lee’s soldiers, who were equally deluded, and with whom they suffered in common. No; the Southern voters are neither more nor less than men. We like to see them selecting their bravest men for office, and we desire the North to follow their example. If the Southern people were to rally at once to elect uncompromising Unionists to posts of honor, we should be inclined to sus- pect such sudden loyalty. We of the North will take care of the sufferers for the Union, and will trust to time and education to develop the Union sentiment in the South as clearly as we all wish. Then, when every Southern man is an uncompromising Unionist, there will be nobody to complain. Human nature is human nature, and we must not look for impossibili- ties. Under the guidance of President Jobn- son, who understands the South thoroughly and who is himself a Southern man, all these things will come right. Patience wiii be a much better remedy for thefi than immediate negro syffrage. “That would be simply stepping out of the frying-pan into the fre. ie Municipal Reform and the New York Press. The_revelations in regard to the conduct of municipal affairs in this city have been perfect- ly astounding. We have discovered that rebel funds were largely used to influence our poli- tics, and that certain members of ex-Governor Seymour's staff shared these funds and man- aged their distribution. We have found that one city journal was paid twenty-five thousand dollars by Jacob Thompson, and we have every reason to believe that the other papers which sympathized with treason were bought up in like manner. With an avowed copperhead as Mayor, the whole city government has been more or less infected with his influence. We see, too, that almost all the city journals have been bribed by Corporation advertising or are manceuvring so as to receive a bribe. Add to all these things the notorious jobs and pecula- tions which are constantly occurring, and we have a picture of disloyalty and corruption un- equalled in the. world. 3 Parties are rapidly dividing themselves into conservatives and destractives. The conserva- tives are those who support President Johnson in his reorganization of the Union, and the de- structives are those who labor to destroy the President and the country. In the destructive party the ultra radicals and the copperheads combine, just as they combined in favor of secession. Now, if*we examine the organs of the destructives, we shall find them all supported by Corporation advertising. We loyal men pay heavy taxes to keep these disloyal papers in existence. We contribute heavily to sustain the very journals which are trying to break us down. In vain do we refuse to read them, to advertise in them or to subscribe for them. They know how to get the money out of our pockets without our consent. Asa last resort, we have appealed to Governor Fenton to aid us by removing the officials who connive at this outrage. The Governor has returned to Albany, and now there will be no further excuse for his delay. By displacing Mayor Gunther and all the rest of the heads of de- partments, he will not only reform the city, but he will also reform the press. In view of the coming elections and of the future of this coun- try, such reforms are imperatively demanded. Look for a moment at the organs of the de- structives, and see the class of papers we are paying taxes to support. There is the News, a rebel paper, which never said a good word for the Union or a bad word of traitors, and which was suppressed by the government on account of its treasonable utterances. That paper lives upon Corporation printing, although it is not upon the list authorized by the Legislature. Loyal men are compelled by an outrageous swindle to hand their money over to Mr. Bea Wood, to be placed alongside his receipts from the rebel assassination fund. Next comes the World, another copperhead sheet of the most malignant type. That is also a Corporation paper, and the money by which it is kept alive is filched from loyal men by the same process. Then there is the Express, another copperhead organ, which boasts that it has printed the Cor- poration advertisements for years, although very tew people ever read itsecrappy columns. On the other hand, there is the Tribune, which belongs to the same destructive party and is also fed out of the Corporation crib. The other so-called republican journals enjoy the same privilege; but, instead of taking up our space by naming them, we desire to call attention to the fact that our officials, who profess to be democrats, actually pay over the people's money to sustain these radical papers, which are endeavoring to break down the democratic party. This apparent inconsistency is accounted for by the existence of a “ring;” for in a “ring” politicians of all parties, however antagonistic, join together to fleece the public. How long will Governor Fenton allow this state of things to continue? The Hsnato—which is the only independent paper in the city, and which for that reason expresses the sentiments of the people most accurately—now warns the Gov- ernor that unless he reforms our municipal abuses he will be held responsible for them. He must destroy them or they will destroy him. Fatse Reowrer or Deatas.—A very curious fact was developed in the communication of Dr. Ramsay, the Registrar of Records and Statie- tics, to Mr. Boole, City Inspector, which ap- peared in our columns on Saturday, and that was that physicians are in the habit of making careless and sometimes positively false returns of the causes of death. It is stated that in one case the death of an infant from erysipelas was registered as occurring from spotted fever; and in another case a death resulting from puerpe- ral fever, and subsequently so admitted by the physician, was returned also as a case of spot- ted fever. If reports are made in this way, the system of registering the causes of death ts nothing but a farce. Certainly no respectable physician would risk his reputation by report- ing a case of fever after childbirth, which is quile common, as one of malignant spotted fever, which is comparatively rare. Dr. Ram- gav should have given the names of the medical men who falsely reported these two cases. Such culpable ignorance, or carelessness, whichever it was, should receive a proper pub- lic rebuke. Indian Hostilities=The Probable Exter- mination of that Race in Our Ter- ritories. There was a battle with the Indians on the 25th and 26th of the present month at Platte River Bridge, on the telegraph road, in which about a thousand men of the Sioux, Cheyennes, Camanches, Arrapahoes and Blackfeet were beaten by two hundred and fifty United States troops. The Indian loss was perhaps large, and they retreated, tearing down the telegraph as they went, and swearing that they were D“jw making war “for all time.” This was ‘there. fore, in all probability, the first of, 4 series of fights, that will result in the exermination of that race in the limits of the U’nited States Ter- ritories—the first combat OF an Indian war that will prove the laat we V“ll be troubled with. The fact of this vigorous commencement of hostilities just now, and the consideration of the condition, status gn present temper of the Indians, alike poip*to this conclusion. We give ig ®“other column the last statement published “by the Commisstoner of Indian Affalrs“of the probable numbers of the Indians, The statement embraces the Indian population “of all the Territories and of the several States in which there remained any of the race at the time, it having been made before the war. The total was three hun- dred and fourteen thousand. Of these three hundred thousand 9 large number was depend- ait upon the government for support at that time, and that number was increasing every year. Every train of emigrants that crossed the plain, carryitig the arts of civilized life with them, reduced the éélf-supporting power of the Indians, and the great development of the gold bearing regions did the same toa greater degree. Settlements of whatever character injured their hunting grounds, and so inevitably increased their dependence upon an- nuities. Then the war broke out, and its de- moralizing influence upon the savage was very | great. They were easily led into war from any cause ; they lost their annuities, and suffered considerable distress, and thus were made ready to go to any extremity. What will make all this still worse is that we must expect, now that our greater war is over, a more extensive emigration, and development of the gold fields, and a consequently greater pressure than ever upon the Indians. The circular from the Commissioner of In- dian Affairs, which we give elsewhere, shows the temper in which the government regards these hostilities. The Indian Bureau by that circular subordinates its action entirely to that of the War Department, and orders the imme- diate cessation of all intercourse with hostile Indians, Thus the Indians, dependent in a large degree upon the government for support, have that support at once entirely withdrawn, and cannot even purchase the necessaries of life from traders. Then the immense present power of the government will, no doubt, be used against them with proper vigor, and the resistance that their fifty or sixty thousand warriors can offer—even if all are brought into the struggle—will soon be overcome. The Indian bas accomplished bis part in the devel- opment of one portion of this continent, and must make way. And while the white laborer succeeds the negro in the once dreadfully mal- arious regions of the Southern States, the negro, perhaps, will displace the red man and carry our Western wildernesses as far forward aa be baa taken the districts be is now likely to leave. Our Two Verenans.—Veterans are no longer @ novelty in this country. Every day they pass in honorable procession through the streets on their return from camps and batile fields. - But wo have two veterans, representing both branches of the service, who are perhaps the most advanced in age of any living represen- tatives of the army and navy of any country. There is the veteran Winfield Scott, who was congratulated by a party of his fellow citizens at Wes Point on the 13th of last month upon attaining bis seventy-ninth birthday. Scott was born during the progress of the Revolutionary War, afew years before the adoption of the constitution, and ten years after the Declara- tion of Independence. The great American soldier and the American nation are nearly coeval. Winfield Scott has lived through three wars, and each war a victory, yet his form is as erect as ever. He used to say that he was so tall and his backbone so straight that people called him proud. If be only had a stoop, ho thought, he would be considered a modest man. However, although in his eightieth year, bis backbone is stiff still. The oldest representa- tive of the navy, who also witnessed three wara, is Rear Admiral Charleg Stewart, of Philadel- phia, who was eighty-seven years old on Fri- day, and had been sixty-seven years of his long life in the American navy. He was born in 1778, just after the British evacuated Philadel- phia, and he is reported to-day to be “active, healthy and cheerful.” These are veterans of whom the country may be proud. Born almost with the republic, they have lived to see it pass through trials out of which few nations have come triumphantly. Tas Nommvati~a Convention Sreteu—The method of nominating candidates for elective offices which has been in vogue for so many years is thoroughly rotten and corrupt, and should be abandoned. Good institutions be- come sacred by time; but bad ones—euch as the customary political nominating conven- tions—become more rotten as they grow older, Ike everything else which is dead and decey- ing. The effect of the system has been almost universally the selection of the worst men io the community for offices of trust. It has re- sulted in banding over the interests of the people to the keeping of a,parcel of rogues and rascals, and converting the exercise of the fran- chise into something worse than @ farce. It is evident, from the expressions of public opinion on this subject, that people of all parties are convinced that it is about the worst system which could be adopted, and in this public opinion is right, Merit bas no influénce with o nominating convention, but money has 9 great deal. It is obvious, then, that candidates for offices should be presented to the people with some better guarantee of their fitness than the endorsement of a political convention. If a man bas not backbone enough to stand on his own merits when he invites the suffrages of the people for an important office, no certificates of character from @ nominating convention can supply the deficiency. As‘ far as regards the system of nominating candidates at volitical conventions, and thrusting the ecaitneed 3i'the people, we bad better “reform it altogether.” Emigration to the West and South. The population and of our Western Territory and the Southern States— which hereafter must be oultivated by volun- tary labor—is one of the most vital questions of the age. We have just emerged from the throes of a great wer. Hundreds of thousands of men are thrown upon the resources of the country for maintenance, We have a heavy nations). debt to pay, which the people by no me>“ag regard as a national blessing. fore it becomes essential that every means should be resorted to in order to develop the value of the country, much of which has here- tofore never been made available. Emigrants are 9 upon us from Burope in numbers # than ever before, and it behooves us to put them on the fertile lands of the West and South, where they will at once become useful members of the community and masters of an independent fortune. Every man who lands here is set down at a positive value to the country—in the product of his labor alone ten thousand dollars. It has been shown by calcu- lation that every emigrant brings an average amount of seventy dollars in specie with him. The number of emigrants who landed in New York last year was a little over one hundred and eighty-four thousand. According to the above statistics, then, the value of last year’s emigration would amount to a fabulous sum. It is true that the value of the emigrant is not immediately demonstrated. It takes some years for his contributions of in- dustry, skill and capital to reach the sum of ten thousand dollars, but sooner or later every emigrant becomes worth that, on an average. This value could be greatly enhanced, and their’ own condition vastly improved if emigrants were directed to the Western and Southern States. In the At- lantic cities their labor and capital are rarely reproductive. The former is barely sufficient to obtain a living, the latter soon melts away; but on the uncultivated, though wealthy lands of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Montana, Idaho, Arizona and other gold and silver bear- ing and agricultural regions, where illimitable acres invite the industry of the emigrant, labor atid capital can command a rich reward. It has been shown by the accounts of the Heratp correspondents in the South that there are many delightful localities—for example, on the banks of the Alabama, the Mississippi, the Edisto and other rivers—quite susceptible of cultivation by white labor, and now easy of purchase. In the West the prevailing crop is breadstuffs, which are more or less dependent for their value upon the failure of the cereal crops either in Europe or certain localities upon this continent. But cotton, tobacco and rice, which can be raised in the Southern States, are staples that always hold an almost equal value. They are necessi- ties to the greater portion of humanity. We observe that efforts are being made here to send newly-arrived emigrants to the West through the medium of organized societies, one of which will be devoted to the interests of emigrants from Ireland, who are largely in the majority, and will be under the supervision of gentlemen inspired by purely philanthropic motives to better the condition of their race in this country. We trust that the border and ex- treme Southern States will receive due atten- tion. There are splendid opportunities in those districts for obtaining the mutual result of prosperity to the cultivator and a thorough development of the resources of the South. Tue Price or Goup.—There is a strong feel- ing among the gold operators in Wall street for arise in the premium on coin. The argument is this :—That the dishursements of the national treasury will plethorize the money market, and, as there is no national loan now to absorb the surplus, a demand will be created for gold for the purpose of hoarding until such time as another government loan may be authorized, which cannot take place until Congress meets in December. The Increased importations have also a tendency to raise the price under the anticipation of @ foreign demand. On the other hand, it is held that the government, with @ surplus of twenty-five millions, can at any time prevent a rise by throwing from two to five millions upon the market, or any amount sufficient to break down the operations and | anticipations of the bulls. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE, The Frigate ress Net Afloat—Or- ganization of County Courte—Large Sale of Rebel Ordnance—The Steamer Blackstone Disabled, d&c. Fortness Monroe, July 27, 1865. General T. 0. Osbora passed through here to-day on is way to Chicago. ‘The late Third New York cavalry, Captain Derne com- manditg, now the First New York Mounted Rifles, un- der Colonel Sumner, have been transferred to Fredericks- burg, and have been relieved at Suffolk by the First Dis- trict of Columbia cavalry, by orders received by General O. L. Mano. ‘The United States frigate Congress is not afloat, as was roported; but an effort will soon be made to raise ber, which it is expected will prove successful. ‘The courts of Elizabeth City county were organized to-day, aod every officer is pronounced a Union man. The commissary depot at Portsmouth has been dis contioued. Thermometer 106 in the shade. Monnos, Jaly 28, 1866. ‘The steamer Columbia arrived last evening from Rich- mond, bound to Baltimore, with the Tenth Obio regi- ment, seven hundred men, going home. ‘The government will sell here on August 3 one bun- dred and seventy cannon, several brass pieces, and a lot of muskets, all taken from the rebel forti@cations. Fortasss Monaos, July 20—5 P, M Information has just reached here that the steamer Blackstone is ten miles southeast by east from Cape Henry, in a disabled condition. She has a pilot on board from the pilotboat Pride, No.3. Captain Andrew Ains- worth has gone to her relief with the steamer Elita Han- cox, Captain Post. ‘Tox Saansrens Mowownnt.—On the 234 of April, 1864 which was the torcentenary anniversary of Shakspere’s birth, the corner stone of a monument to the great bard of all bamanity was laid by a society of gentlemen in the Park. The Execative Committee, which consists of many leading citizens, and of which Hon. Judge Daly is chair- ‘man, have just issued a circular stating the progress of the undertaking. It appears that the munificent sum of $19,903 has been contributed, of which $6,350 was the proceeds of four benefits at Niblo’s and the Winter Gardeo. It was originally resolved by the committee, that no design should be adopted until $20,000 was col- lected, and as that sum is now in their bands, within a fraction, they are ready to receive designs for the monu- ment, which is intended to be a full length representation of Shakspere, conforming in face and costume to the monument at Stratford-upon-Avon, and the Droeshout print prefixed to the first edition of his works; these being regarded as the only reliable authorities. That the sculptor must be an American is a condition of the intention to erect this epleadid monument in our Park, Chief Justice Chase’s Great Vey Southern Excursion. —eer The Black Man to Control the South im the Future. / ————eee ra Colored Representatives for the Colored People, ky &., ys i ~ nal July 30, 1865. OHIEF JUSTICE CHASE'S SOUTHERN TOUR. It is stated by” those who ought to know that Mr. Chase has returned from his extended jand expensive trip to the South with another hobby. His abeneranioes of the conditions of society existing where he has been’ induces the belief that the black is) destined to be the ruling race throughout the land of slaveholding States. The whites are enervated, demoralized and certain to be eradicated. Tho blacks are vigorous, pro- gressive, and bound to become the dominant people in” jess than a quarter of a century. He predicts a nec aristocracy will spring into full grown exietence in al these States, elect negro members to the federal Con- gress almost without opposition, and hold the legislation” for that section completely in their own hands. Is the wish father to the thought? Is this conclusion the de- gitimate deduction from principles long entertained, or the result of the gentleman’s recent observations as now reported? ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL EXCURSION. ‘The President, accompanied by his family and the Hon. Preston King, left Washington yeeterday onatrip | down the river, expecting to return to-morrow morning. THE TAIAL OF WURZ, OF ANDERSONVILLE INFAMY. The delay in trying Wurz, charged with ill treating our prisoners at Andersonville, is for the purpose of en- abling the Judge Advocate of the court to subpoena tm- portant witness from Georgia, Tennessee, and other Southern States; over forty witnesses Lave voluntarily reported themselves ready for examination. MORE PROMINENT REBELS SUING FOR PARDON. Among the petitioners for pardon on Saturday were J. T. Lamkin, rebel ex-Congressman from Mississippi, P. D. Roddy, rebel general of cavalry in Alabama, and Wm. C Rives, of Virginia, The latter had a national reputation § before the war, but has not been conspicuous since. He was at one time member of the Lower House of the rebel » Legislature, but was never a recognized leader. 9 THE MEXICAN QUESTION. i The ebb and flow of public opinion elsewhere on Mexi | can affairs never affects us bere. Inthe most apathetic | circles there is a steady under current in favor of some | governmental action that will induce Maximilian’s imme- | diate abdication. It is not believed that war is necessary to this, or even any formal threat or declaration of war. Any authorized exposition of public opinion is believed to be amply sufficient. , THE REBEL DICK TAYLOR'S ABSENCE SPECULATED UPON. ( The rebel General Dick Taylor is expected to return on 4 Wednesday. His present whereabouts occasions con- siderable speculation. Those possessing the best means of obtaining information intimate that he obtained per- mission to visit bis brother-in-law, Jeff. Davis, and that he is now at Fortress Monroe. THE EXTRA COMPENSATION TO TREASURY EM- PLOYES. There has been much dissatisfaction expressed by a portion of the Treasury employes at the mode of distrib- uting the extra compensation appropriated by Congress for distribution, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. The policy adopted in making the distri- bution was to give such extra compensation to those chiefs of divisions and others whose services were indis- pensable to the successful working of the department. While it is easy to obtain as many of the lower classes of clerks as may be desired, persons of ability and expert- ence requisite to fil important positions in the depart- | ment could only be retained by increased compensation, | and to such the Secretary has given such amount as was at bis disposal, and to others who have specially de- served it by industry and faithfulness in the discharge of their duties. + THE RAM STONEWALL. It is understood that the rebel ram Stonewall is now at the service of our government, but will not at present be brought to the United States for fear the yellow fever, prevalent at Havana, where she lies, may thus be intro- duced into our country. NO PENSIONS TO REBEL DESERTERS. The Commissioner of Pensions bas decided that robel deserters, who have subsequently enlisted in the Upited States military service, do not thereby become entitled to the benefits of the Pension laws. It is expressly pro- vided by Congressional enactment that no pension shall be paid to any person who has borne arms against the government or in any manner given aid and comfort to the rebellion. The Executive pardon has no effect to set aside or modify this law. q THE ASIATIO CHOLERA. The State Department has received advices from the United States Consul at Palermo, dated July 9, relative to the Asiatic cholera, prevalent in that vicinity. He re- presents that owing to the prevalence of cbolera in Alex- andria, Egypt, and some cases having happened at Malta, the Director General of the Health Office of the island has ordered the expulsion of all vessels arriving from the above points, and a quarantine of several days for all arrivals from the Levant. There is a considerable pane in Palermo and Messina, yet there have been no cases of cholera, except in Messina, of a person lended from « steamer from Alexandria, who died at the Lasaretto. GENERAL OOCBRANR’S SPEECH. John Cochrane’s remarks, when called for at the serenade on Friday vight, were pot such asfthe Tribune reports them. He expressed cloarly, that the equality of the negro, and his recognition as a mani wore among the fruits of the war for the Union. He did not deny to bim the right of euffrage; but ob jected to its universality, stating bis belief that the right sbould not be indiscriminately Bestowed, but limited to those of sufficient intelligence to understand its use. There were no exclamations of “copperhead,” and but very few hisses. which were promptly drowned by ap- plause. NATIONAL BANES AUTHORIZED LAST WERK. For the week ending Jaly 29, fifteen national banks have been chartered, with an aggregate capital of $5,456,765. APPLICANTS FOR POSITIONS IN THS TREASURY De- PARTMENT. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has decided to make 20 more clerical appointments, excepting in cases of vecan- cies which must be supplied. Over fifteen thousand ap- plications of unsuccessful aspirants for clerksbips are om file in this department, having accumulated during and since the rebellion. It is estimated that there are nearly sixteen hundred clerks and four hundred copyiste em- ployed tn the Treasury Duilding. THE BFPRCTS OP SATURDAY’S STORM. The storm of Saturday proves to have been more damaging than was at first apprehended. ‘Signboarde and skylights were blown down and broken toa serious extent, and the submerging of cellars entailed heavy losses in many instances. Large branches were torn from shade trees in every direction, and # few houses ‘and other buildings were unroofed in various parts of the city. A spout leading from the roof of the Execu- tive mansion, and leading through the west wing of the building, got clogged with refuse material left there by the workmen who had been making repairs, in conse- quence of which some of the chambers were flooded with water to the depth of several fest, and the ceiling of one of thom fell, Much slarm was occasioned to the in- mates, and the utmost activity was required to prevent the East Room and other apartments from being simi- larly invaded, No accidents to persons have been re- ported. WASHINGTON AT THE EXTREME OF DULLNESS. The oldest inhabitant avers that Washington was never 0 dull before as since the disban@ment of the army, and the consequent discharge of hundreds of government employes inall departments of the service. ‘A quiet bas fallen upon the place that surprises every ‘one, The continued heated term has alee contribued, by driving away all who chuld obtain furtoughs or find tho slightest pretext for absence. The President takes hie drives regularly down the Potomac; Secretary Seward and family are off to Cape May; Attorney General Speod ie at some of the many Fastern watoring places; Soll- citor Jordan, of the Treasury, i ga # visit to New