The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIGE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume KXX.....csssereeeseeeeree AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Psa Worrincton. NEW BOWERY THEAT! p—KaTuLREN M. atlas | "RE, Bowery. ‘aut ae qiTBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Ausau xa Poous; 08, WINTER. GARDEN, Broadway.—Barnum’s Mcstum Comfany. Beauty oF ILLR—ROBERT AND BBRTRAXD— ‘Niworo Broruxas. Open Day and Evening. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Coutuen Bawn. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Eraroria¥ Sones, Dances, 40.—Haxpy Anpy—Runxing tae BLOCKADE. HELLER'S HALL, 885 San Francisco Min- eae wrmorut Thmame, Davorva, or-Autali Ma TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sixa- ana, Dancuna, Buaiesquas, &c.—Sairn xp Buown. BOWERY THEATRE; Bo: .—Grorce Curisty's Min- StRELS IN Songs, Bande ae —Naew Yuan's CALs. NEW YORK 'SBUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— oben Trom ida ae ua tOT, M. + is | New York, Tuesday, August 1, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Meceipts of Salcs of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. ; Year Ending } Name of Paper. January 1, 1865. Heravp.. Ruistd cach Abue sal $1,095,000 ‘Times. . ++ 368,150 ‘Tribune. . 252,000 Evening Post.. 169,427 100,000 151,079 90,548 New York Heratp ‘Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. 871,229 ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Waexty Heraty must be handed in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- ‘culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers,” merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the ‘country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- werted in the Wesx.y Hxraxp will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. j THE SITUATION. General Grant and party met with a grand reception at Boston. The Hab turned out in handsome style to welcomé him to ite sacred precints, A dinner was set at the Revere house in his honor, at which Governor Andrew presided, and at which Congressmen Sum- mer, Wilson and Hooper and the French Mar- quis’ De Chambourd were present. Daring the evening the General was screnaded, and a large rowd assembled before the hotel demanding a sight of him. Hedid not make his appearance; but Governor Andrew addressed the crowd, stating that the General would hold a publio reeeption at Faneuil Hall on the next day. Yesterday the General visited the Charlestown Navy Yard, and was receivea by Rear Admiral String- ban. ‘The news from North Carolina represents that the ‘prominent rebels who have been pardoned through the influence of Governor Holden, are disposed to become ‘troublesome, and seem determined to oppose the adop- tion of any means looking to the restoration of North Carolina as a free State. William A, Graham, formerly Vnked States and latterly rebel Senator, lately pardaned, Boolares he will not consent to the return of the Biate to the Union if negro suffrage is made a condition, pod heads a party which boasts sufficiont strength to Wefeat Governor Holden and his plans. J. P. Russ,a federal civil officer at Raleigh, declares that if he had the power he would return every freedman to slavery. So formidable had this party become that the Unionists are organizing against it, and the opposition on their part fo an early conyention is growing stronger daily. = Re The mission to France of M. Eloin, the pri- vato secretary of the Emperor Maximiflan, ap- pears to have rosulted in obtaining very little material aid from Napoleon III. It is even as- serted that he hed no other diplomatic mission than the honorary ono of delivering despatches to the King of the Belgians. M. Eloin was to have left Liverpool in tho Bootia, for this city, accompanied by an eminent Coun- cetlor of State, who goes out to Mexioo as a Finance Minister. ‘The subject of our foreign relations 1s absorbing tho ‘attention of the politicians, Tho Monroe doctrine and its enforcement is a favorite topic with the public speak- ers, particularly those who have been in the armies of the country. The opinions and utterances lately ex- Pressed of Generals Kilpatrick and Blair, Hon. Simon Cameron, Henry Winter Davis, Senator Nye and Secro- tary Seward are collected and given in another celumn, ‘and form « formidable array of opinious in favor of the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine in Mexico. Our Savannah correspondent furnishes the synopsis of an interesting address to the people of Georgia by a Inte chaplain of Lee's army, in which he counsels tho- frough submission to the United Stated authoritics— sivil and military—and advices all former rebola to ac- copt peace and renew their citizenship, though at tho gost of the abolition of slavery. By the same corres. pondence we learn that the telegraph wires botweon Qharleston and Savannah are being rapidly rebuilt. General Dwight, Iately commanding st Savanoah, has de the city under orders to assume command of the district of Alatoona. Governor Brownlow, in a letter to the imprisoned Mayor of Columbia, strongly condomnes the action for which he was arrested, endorses General Thomas’ action and declares that the rebellious people of Ten- Tessee have not yet given sufficient assurances of return- ing loyalty to warrant the withdrawal of the military power. A warm reception yesterday greeted the return to this pity of the Forty-sixth, Fifty-first and One Hundred and Whirty-first New York veteran regiments, Tho Eighth fogiment National Guard and a large body of policemon @seorted the regiments from the Gentse Market Armory down Contre stroot, across the Park @3@ up Broadway to the Union League Club rooms, where dinner was morved up to the veterans and speeches of welcome made by Colonels Colyer and Shephard. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The nows by the Hibernian Is to the evening of the 2ist ‘The result of tho late English elections show still fur bk gains for the livorals, The Porsian Guif cable has rey id commu jon we is agai Petaiod, is Ctoe ste amor Semangs we Brest on the 19th ult. - | The cholera, which had broken out at Birmingham, had attacked large fiimbers of the paupors of that city. ‘Advices from AléZandria, Egypt, show a gratifying dim- nution in the cholera at that point and at Cairo, while it ‘was spreading at Consiantinople The French journals are discussing the subject of a fevival of trade with the Unitod States, and the Journal des Debits im a long article sets forth the groat advan- tagos which France is expected to derive from the cessa- tion of hostilities in this country, It says the only per- sons in France likely to suffer from the return of peace are those merchants who supplied tho Confederates with powder, arms and privatoers. On the 21st ult. United States five-twenties were 7134 @ ‘113 on the London Stock Exchange. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘Tho unfavorable weather has delayed the commence- ment of the work of laying the cable. The Great East- ern was still in Valentia bay, and at the latest dates the shore end of the cable had not been laid. The latest nows from Valontia direct states that the shore end would doubtless be laid by the 22d ult., and that the Great Eastern would sail abont the 25th ult, Tho steam- er City of New York, which arrived here on Sunday, re- ports encountering strong head winds, which were oon- sidered favorable to the laying of the cable, as it would enable the Great Eastern to reduce her speed as desired. Later electrical experiments on board the Great Eastern have resulted on the adoption of a new “curb key,” by which the speed of transmission is increased to over five and a half words per minute. There was every hope en- tertained that the expedition would be a great success. It will be geen by the log of the Inman steamship City of Now York, in another column, that she has made another splendid run of about ten days from Queens- town, though she experienced head winds nearly the whole passage. The steamship Ocean Queen will sail to-day at twelve M, for California, trom the new pier No. 43 North river, foot of Canal street. The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A, M. A pleasure boat, containing five men, one woman and a child, capsized on Sunday last near the Hamburg Steam- ship Company’s wharf in the North river. Lieutenant Woods, of tho Revenue cutter Cuyahoga, dispatched two boats to the assistance of the party, and succoeded in rescuing threo of the men and the woman. The other two men and the child were drowned. The Board of Fire Commissioners yesterday appointed the officers and men for Metropolitan Engine No. 1, the first organization completed under the paid sytem. In the Police Court yesterday Stephen Smith and Francis Sandford were committed, in default of bail in one thousand dollars each, to answer a charge of larceny, in robbing Edward T. Kearney; James MoKegney was committee to answer the same charge, in robbing Michael Kennedy of a silver watch, and John Madden was ar- rested for stabbing Charles Elmandorf with an ice pick. Atanearly hour yesterday morning the row of frame cottages on Durden place, near Graham avenue, Green- point, was destroyed by fire. In one of the burning buildings was found a quantity of half-finished postal currency, presses, dies and plates, and a mattress filled with counterfeit currency. Michael Hart, an employe of the. Post Office, was yesterday charged before United States Commissioner Osborn with having secreted and embezzled certain let- ters passing through his hands and appropriating the contents thereof to his own use. It is charged that de- fendant thus abstracted some seven thousand dollars in drafts and checks, on the proceeds of which, as alleged, he lived in rather exponsive style with a female com- panion. The latter has turned principal witness in the case, The examination was adjourned till Wednesday August 9, Coroner Collin yosterday commenced an inquisition on the body of Josoph Van Doren, who was shot and killed at No. 40 Beaver strect, on Saturday last, by James F. Oram. A mass of ovidence showing that the deceased had been shot twice in the abdomen by Oram was taken. ‘The inquost was continued until two o’clock to-day, whon farther ovidence will be taken. The petroleum case, which has been dragging its slow length along before Justice Dodge, at the Jefferson Market Police Court for several weeks, was yesterday brought to an untimely end. Some witnesses who wore to have been in attendance yesterday morning being absent, the counsel could not go on with the case, which was theroupon, by consont, adjourned to September 20. The Anthony gold mine swindling case came up yester- day before Judge Dowling, at the Tombs Police Court; but, after some cross firing between the lawyers, was postponed till to-morrow, at nino o'clock A. M. In the investigation into the cause of the Furman street disaster in the mason who built the houses for Mr. Merritt was examined, and testified that he had believed that the walls and arches were strong enough to support-the roof and earth placed upon thom. The investigation is to be resumed on Wednesday. The employes of the Mayors of New York and Brook- lyn had an excursion yesterday to Coney Island, whero thoy partook of aclam bake duly prepared for them. The Hon. C. Godfrey Gunther was present. Governor Fenton's health is somewhat improved, but he is still unable to attend to the active duties of his office. The Mayor of Portsmouth has been arrested by General Mann, commanding the district, for some interference in the business of the military eourte. ‘The steamship Blackstone, from New Oricans on the 19th ult., put into Hampton Roads on the 30th, her valves having given out, her pumps being rendered uso- less and her boilers leaking. Her passengers were taken off by the George Washington when off Cape Hatteras. A-oldier, named John Dowley, was garrotted and robbed in Jersey City yesterday morning by Martin Har- vey and John Finerty. A large and important council of the Indian tribes is to be held next month at Fort Gibson, to decide upon their futare relations to the government. Some thirty tribes, numbering about soventy thousand Indians, will be Present. The Indian troubles in Colorado Territory continue. A party of emigrants were attacked by them near Jules- burg, and another party near Valley Station on Saturday last. War parties of the Indians have made their ap: pearance at various points on the South Platte river, and more troops havo bad to be sent to the assistance of the settlers. A serious riot occurred at Cumminggsville, Ohio, on Sunday last, in which several men were shot and much property destroyed. A defalcation has been discovered in the Castom House at Memphis, and the Commercial Bank of the samo city has been seized yy the government authorities under the belief that the stolen money was in its vaults. We publish this morning a complote list of the names of the passongers of the ship William Nelson, with such of those as have been saved and landed on the other side of the Atlantic, together with a list of twenty-six saved and landed in St. John, N. F. Our City Inspector's report of mortality for the past ‘week shows an increase from the week preceding of four. Last weok the number of deaths was five hundred and ninoty-one, against five hundred and ninety-five for tho ‘wook ending yesterday. Of this number ono hundred and gixty-three were adults and four hundred and thirty- two were children. The stock market was depressed yesterday. Govern- ments were higher. Gold was Orm, and closed on the street at 144 a 3, and in the evening at 144 Tus Reset Corron Loan in Enotanv.—The rebel cotton loan at last dates was selling in London at eight pounds ten shillings sterling for one hundred pounds of stock. By this it appears that the infatuation for the cause of Joff. Davis which seized the rebel sympathizers in England has not yet become entirely extinct, and that there are a few who invested in that wild scheme that are yet nursing the shadow of Mtcawber’s hope. The loan, it will be recollected, amounted to two millions five hun- dred and fifty-six thousand six hundred pounds, or over twelve and a balf millions of dollars. It was negotiated at sixty to ninety pounds on the hundred, to bear seven per cent interest, and redeemable in 1883 at par, or to be paid previous to that time in cotton at six pence per pound, Gasete Apovr Caase—The Fourierite phi- losopher characterizes our account of the say- ings and doings of Chase on his recent election- cering trip South, West and North, as “gabble.” We don’t know but this is a very proper ex- pression to use in relation to the sayings of Chase. It is the first time thgt a Chief Justice of the United States 8¥8 desesiided fo that level, Chase's whole effort and endeavor has heen to bring about such a condition of society a8 must induce a war of races like that which happened in St. Domingo. Are the people ot this country prepared for snch a war? NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST I, 1865. e whiclt at present seems Itely to disturb @e| THE MAYORS’. The Monroe Doctrine as Applied to Mexico, Canada and Cuba. In the minds ef hearts of tho American people the Union and the Monroe doctrine are almost equally cherished. Although the masses do not understand the mysteries of statecraft, they are yet sensible enough to see that the presence of an European Power upon this con- tinent is inimical to the republic. What our representative men, of all shades of political opinion, think and say in regard to this sub- ject may be seen by the extracts which wo publish in another column. Our newspapers of every kind and degree are as unanimous as our politicians and our people, At the North the Monroe doctrine ranks next to the Union in popular estimation; and at the South it is strenuously insisted upon even by those whose affection for the Union is but just reviving. Never was a nation more decided upon any one thing than this nation is upon the great and grave doctrine enunciated by President Monroe. We repeat this statement in every possible form that may add to its emphasis. The sooner European governments understand it the sooner we shall be able to dispose satis- factorily of the issues involved. In regard to the Monroe doctrine we are a unit. The statesmanship of this country has never been inconsistent with the present sentiment of the people. The raids upon Cuba, under Lopez, and upon Nicaragua, under Walker, were only ill-advised demonstrations of the popular feeling. When England, France and Spain joined to demand guarantees in regard to Cuba from the administration of President Pierce, they were refused by Secretary Marcy. Buchanan’s Ostend manifesto was another indi- cation of public opinion, although it was made in the interest of the South and of slavery. When the trio of European Powers which bad been acting in concert upon American affairs asked us to join them against Mex- feo, we declined, and entered our protest against theirexpedition. The result of this was the withdrawal of England and’of Spain, both of which nations have possessions on this conti- nent Hable to attack from us in case of a dis- agreement. France, which had comparatively nothing to risk, proceeded alone in the Mexi- can business, and has established there a Ger- man Emperor, surrounded by a French Court. In almost all the provinces, however, the Mexi- can republicans are still struggling against what they consider a foreign usurpation, and they still call upon us for assistance. Here we have, then, a sister republic clamoring for aid and our people most willing to come to the rescue, ’ We do the Emperor Napoleon the justice to believe that he cannot contemplate this situa- tion without disqu’etude. He has managed the Mexican affair with singular skill; but yet every one of his shrewd diplomatic measures have been to our advantage. Providence is fighting against him, as it fought against his uncle at Waterloo. The Emperor imagined that our civil war would give hima clear field for his intrigues ; but, on the contrary, our civil war has rendered us more dangerous than ever by making us the strongest military and naval Power in the world. His promise at the open- ing of the Mexican imbroglio, that there should be no interference with the institutions of the country, was skilfully designed ; but it only afforded our government the very)pretext wé needed to delay intervention untiliwe had set- tled our own troubles. So the assemb! the Council of Notables ; the selection of a man—instead of a Froivh—-prince as Emperor, and the appeal to a popular vote were all able diplomatic movements ; but they assisted us very materially, because they afforded our gov- ernment excuses for procrastination and en- abled us to subdue the Southern rebellion un- disturbed. Now we take up the game just where we left it to plunge into civil war. So far as we are concerned, the Monroe doc- trine stands just as it did before the war. We have not recognized Maxi- milian; we are bound by no pledges; weare under no obligations to the French Emperor, and we have become powerful enough to enforce the Monroe doctrine. Napoleon, on the other hand, finds the Mexican expedition very unpopular in France; and as he can ex- pect no help from Maximilian, who is unable to maintain himself without French bayonets, he is really weaker than at the commencement of the affair. Circumstances have outwitted him. His diplomacy has overreached itself. Providence is agejnst him. We ask Napoleon and Palmerston, who hold all Burope in their hands, and Senor Nava¢z, the Prime Minister of Spain, to calmly and dispassionately consider the position of the government of this country in regard to the Monroe doctrine. On the one hand the people unanimously insist upon its enforcement. We have a tremendous navy ready for war, and an army of s million of men can be recalled to the field within two months, We have gen- erals like Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas, unequalled in the world. In spite of our recent extraordinary ex- penditures, our finances are in quite as good condition as those of England, and in a better condition than those of France and Spain, so far as the necessities of war are concerned. Besides this, a foreign war is the very thing we require, in order to quickly weld together in the heat of battle the divided sections of the country. On the other hand, our government does not wish to engage in another conflict unless it is compelled to do ao. Our wisest statesmen prefer a slower, but a more peaceful, process of reunion. If France will retire from Mexico, England from Canada, and Spain from Cuba, the situation will be greatly simplified and our government can afford to make some concessions in return. Let the Mexicans them- selves take care of Maximilian, and he of them, the troops of France being withdrawn, and we shall not interfere. We do not want Mexico. We conquered it once and relinquished it, as we expect France to do now. England could make no more satisfactory settlement of our claims for damages inflicted by the Alabama and other rebel privateers than to quietly slip out of Canada and allow the Canadians to mansge thels gyn affyirs. We do not want Canada, aay more than we want Mexico ; but the point is to have European Powers withdraw. England would be doubly the gainer : first, by the settle- ment of the Alabama claims, and, secondly, by the reduction in her annual exponditures, As for Spain, we would pay her a round sum for Cuba, as we bought Lovisiaua from France, Finig the whole matter would be peaceably and aatisfuotorlly Arranged and the Monroe doctrine vindicated without a war. Should Napoleon, Palmerston and Navaéz accept this adjustment of tho only question peace of the world, we have no doubt that our government caf the people to ac quiesco in such @ solution of the difficulty. In- deed, the free trade party in this country might be willing to grant England peculiar privileges in return for the cession of Canada. But should this adjustment not be accepted, the result will be most humiliating to the pride of France, England and Spain, We do not threaten; we simply point to facts. Here is a mode by which Europe can retire from this con- tinent with honor, and, perhaps, with profit. If that mode be refused, nothing remains but a contest, in which we cannot fail to be victo- rious. It may not occur under the present administration; for Secretary Seward seems dis- posed to attempt the un-American plan of matching diplomacy with diplomacy. But as President Johnson is avowedly a man of the people, and peculiarly susceptible to popular influences, peace is by no means certain, even during the next three years. The. danger is, that public sentiment will gradually rise until ft becomes uncontrolable. As in the recent civil war, the people will suddenly place in office politicians who sympathize with and will carry out their ideas. Then, without warning, the Senate will declare war; the President will call for a million of men; our veterans will take down their muskets; the Secretary of the Navy will provide trans- ports and aconvoy, and before the news of the declaration of war reaches France the first shot will be fired and the first battle won. After Mexico will come Canada, and after Canada will come Cuba. The crash will be heard, like Horace’s thunder, from a clear sky. England, France and Spain may eombine, or they may fight us separately ; but the result in either case will be the same. We warn Na- poleon, Palmerston and Navadz of these facts of the future in the best possible spirit and in the interests of peace. For the same reason we urge them to accept the adjustment which we propose. The end willbe the same; it is simply a matter of choice with them how we shall reach it, by treaty or by war. The Ameri- can people have just shown how sincere they were in saying the Union must be preserved. They are equally sincere in the statement that the Monroe doctrine must be maintained. Reconstruction of President Johnson's Cabinet. There is just now considerable excitement in reference to the reorganization of the Cabinet at Washington. That some change will be made is plainly evident from the very nature of things. Mixed up with this gossip are rumors of the retirement of Secretaries Seward and McCulloch. But Weed and his friends insist upon Seward’s remaining in the State Depart- ment. He will, however, soon be forced to leave, through the natural workings of the laws of nature. His health has broken down under the severe calamities which have visited him, and this alone, in due course of time, will com- pel him to make way for come one else. As to Secretary McCulloch, whatever changes are made he should by all means be retained. He appears to be a scientific financier and a prac- tical business man, attending closely to the duties of his department, and paying no atten tion to the intrigues of the politicians. He is a decided improvement upon his predecessors, and is too valuable a man for the government to lose af the present time. We are coming upon troublesome times Qpanoially, and will require all the skill of a practical man, likd McCulloch, to carry us through, The retirement of Seward, on the other hand, is onfy a question of time, and will be brought about by natural causes, # not otherwise. Thurlow Weed, who brought Seward out and made him the great man of this State, now de- sires that Raymond shall be the next man on the list, and the person to fill Seward’s shoes when the latter steps off from the public stage. But he certainly is not fit for that position, and will not be for several years to come. He lacks experience, and cannot gain it in one day or a year. But who have we for that position? The State of New York in the past always had some bright and leading statesmen whom the people looked up to. They were men who gained that position by energy, perseverance and years of toil. Thus, in the days of the Revolution, we bad Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, rivals with each other. They were followed by the Livingstons and Morrises, who were also competitors in this State. Upon their disap- pearance De Witt Clinton loomed up as the great man of the day. Then came Van Buren, who took the lead for some time. Silas Wright would have succeeded him had he lived ; but the death of Wright opened the door for Sew- ard, whom Weed had been training for the emer- gency. The latter will soon pass off from the stage, and it is natural that the public should be looking around for his successor as the great man of the State. Who it will be must be decided by events. No man can be trained for the position to order. The question as to who will hereafter manage our foreign affairs is one of no ordinary import- ance. Our relations with foreign governments are commencing to assume an important and difficult aspect. There are but few public men able to grapple with and manage the numerous complicated questions which will arise from time to time. It therefore needs some person at the head of the State Depart- ment thoroughly versed in international questions. But there are men qualified for the position and capable of managing the perplex- ing questions with success. General Dix, of this city, anquestional/ly understands our tor- eign affairs, and would make an excellent minister in that department. Charles Francis Adams has also bad the experience which has fitted him for the discharge of those duties sat- isfactorily to the public. We would even be willing to take Senator Sumner in that position; he would be a suitable person but for the fact that be has an enormous negro creck in his head, which lets out his common sense, subject- ing him to all manner 6} cracy fancies. For that reagan be 1s cot If he com- imthéed to send instructions about the depre- aatlogs of the pirate Shenandoab, or to reqtest Napoleon to withdraw his forces from Moxico, he would be sure to turn itinto a dissertation about some negro way down South. Neither Raymond nor Sumner is the man for the posi- tion, and we think that the general public wif agrod with 15 that either General Dix or Minis- ter Adams is the proper person for the posi- tion. a Marder and Robbery. Toumpo, July 31, 1865. Ayoung, man named Fred. Hoilkamp was murd hore, and robbed of a amall amount of money and a gold wateh, early yesterday morning, No arrests bave been mode. prstaatersit., cous ‘White Bait at Greenwich Ve.,eus Clam at Comey Island: ‘Tho employes of the Mayors’ offices of Br>Yklyn and ‘Now York started, at one o'clock yesterday, og “2 °%- cursion, dectination was Coney Island, an’ having their forces at the City Hall, they pro- wood, via Fulton. ferry and Green- The Mayor and a number of Brooklyn Aldermen wore tn @ car somo short distance in advance of No. 8, which, at one poiat on the line, considerably increased its speed, and threatened the first car with demolition. Tho scene which ensued was ludicrous in the extreme. Burly aldermen hustled slim assessors in their anxiety to get out, apd, having effected an exit, rolled over the bank to the no small amusement of their less frightened fellow passengers, In justice to his honor the Mayor we will say he exhibited an unusual amount of self-possession. The pu of the excursion was no less than a grand —* @, and, therefore, a few words may not be amiss on NATURAL HISTORY OF OLAM BAKE. Clams are a peculiarly American luxury. European waters are not congenial to their existence. Cuvier would classify them under his sub-kingdom as mollusca, in the game division as the oyster, to which they are somewhat allied. The inventor or discoverer of clam chowder has conforred a blessing upon mankind, and de- serves a pedestal among the public benefactors of the age. Everyone eats it with a relish, with a gusto, which plainly indicates supreme satisfaction, What roast becf iahman, sour krout to the German, frogs to East Indian, Soyer and search ig to the the Froncliman and curry to the clam chowder is to the American. Biot know nothing about it. You may the former’s culinary campaign and the latter's family recipe book without. being initiated into the mysteries of its manufacture, But even higher than the chowder stands clam bake; and most delicious of clam bakes was that which received the attention of all yesterday at Co- ney Island, The mode of discovery of this dish is wreathed in mystery. It might have beon found out by accident, as roast pig, fried whale, frizzled kangaroo, &c., wi would never have been thought of save through certain reports of the late fire; suffice it to re- peat it is a great institution. A PRECEDENT. At the cloga af each session of the English Parliament hungrv ministers and their no less hungry satellites bur- Ty tom wavering piace near Westminister called Green- wich, where they forgot the affairs of tho nation, which tney had during the provious months so characteristically muddled; and, free from all care of stwto, indulge fa a dinner of white bait—a delicate Engl fish—with a due and pléntiful accompaniment of cham and Madeira, Those annual gatherings are looked forward to with feelings of the most pleas- urable anticipation by the membors of the government, and it need not be said that many schemes for future de- bates and taxes to be im) aro concocted at those select reunions. What if thore be a few discrepancics in the comparison? It matters not; those discrepancies will exist im all guch cases. In this case the dinner oc- curs before an election, and is given to the employes of the Mayors’ offices, and the fish eaten is not white bait, but clam bake. But, as we said, these aro merely tech- nical differences not of any vital importance, The party put up at the Tivoli Hotel, kept by Mr. 8. bei hd who seems to manage his establishment well, ‘and at five o’clock they sat down to their piscatorial re- past, Amot those present were his Honor Mayor Gunther, G. W. Morton, First Marshal; Messrs. Hinch- JE. Halsey, 8. 8, Fish, Aldermen Fisher, pley, the Mayors of Brooklyn and New York, as also Mr. G. W. Morton, were the principal. Few speeches of any length were indulged in, and about eight o'clock the party started for the city.’ Great crodit is due to the per- sons who took the matter in hand, as all weat off with a feeling of good fellowship which reflects credit om all connected with it. ‘Wo undorstand it {s intended to havea grand clam bake each year on the 31st day of July, 80 as to presei the presen auspicious occasion as an anniversary, City Intelligence. Macwestom Licot.—A specimen of the magnesium light, sboat which so much has lately been said in the Enropesn papers, was on exhibition in the city last even- ing. The reflector used was not a poworful one, yet suf- ficiently strong to cast a vivid light upon a wall distant about the width of a block from it, The principle upon which the apparatus works may be given in a few words. a is a silvery white substance, frat discovered ‘by Bir resem! HL. Davy to be the oxide of a metal. It bears a blance to 1m and aluminum, and is malle- ductile fusible at a dull red heat. It is suffi- ciently hard, however, to work under the file and chisel, and a s Ted beat consumes with a brilliant white flame. ‘This was Bansen, and applied for taking Professor i sarees Royal photogray it seo se ita ait fe oT) , Bg, suo oi ty ini ie oe oh ip country. Atmos? ax Acotpanr.—A gentlemen who was Upon the New York and Erie express train last evening relates ‘an ineidont which, although not ending in a tragedy, is sufficiently strange for repetition. The cars were run- ning at their usual speed, four miles this side of Paterson, Only One Occupant of the Old Ca pital Im,ortant Council of the Indian Tribes to Seventy-five: Thousand Red- Internal Revenue Receiyts for BETURN OF THE PRESIDENT FROM HIS BXCURSION. far as Cape Henry and Norfolk, returned to Washington this morning. from his frequent water excursions of late, his health does not appear to be completely re-established. He was obliged to limit himself to very brief audiences to-day, and was unable to see any one this evening. Hopes aro entertained that he will be able to hold the usual Cabinet meeting to-morrow, though it is by no means certain that he will, tribes ever held upon this continent will assemble at Fort Gibson about the Ist of September next, to sottle upon their futu.e relations with the government, and to give now and positive assurances of good conduct and loyalty. Some thirty tribes will be represented in the great congress, and the whole number will count up- wards of seventy-five thousand strong. Among the most important of the Indian organizations to be present at that timeare the Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Semi- noles, Camanches, Camanchos of Prairies, Osages, Sene- cas, Shawnees, Pawpaws and Cherokees—all of which are representative tribes of undisputed bravery and strength, and are each implicated moro or loss in aiding in the late rebellion of the Sowth. The rep- resentatives of the government who will confer with them upon the forthcoming occasion, and dictate the status they will be called upon to assume towards the United States, are Commissioner Cooley, of the Indian Bureau; Commissioner Edmonds, of the Land Office; Su- Porintendent Sells, of the Southern agency; Colonel Parker, military sccretary on General Grant's staff; Gon- eral Harney, General T. F. Herron and Colonel Boat. ‘These gentlomen will start upon their mission about the 20th of August, mate to $22,000,000. Now that the income tax is begin- nig to be paid, it is estimated that the receipts will be at least a million per day for the next two or three months. have been unable to exeoute their ponds and to required oath that they have never voluntarily borne arms or given aid and counsel or encouragement to per- fons engaged in armed hostility against the United States, and that they have not yielded a voluntary support to the late rebel government, &o. DECISION OF THE GENBRAL LAND OPFICH IN RELA- Prison Remaining. be Held at Fort Gibson, skins to bé Present. July, $22,000,000, on &o., &e. Wasmuaron, July 31, 1866. The President and party, having made an excurston as THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH. Although President Johnson has derived much benefit IMPORTANT COUNCIL OF INDIAN TRIBES. ‘The largest and most important council of the Indian INTERNAL REVENUB RECEIPTS FOR JULY. ‘The réceipts of the internal revenue for July approxt- THE ANDERSONVILLE PRISON KEEPER. ‘Tho rebel Captain Wurs is the only prisoner-of-war now confined in the Old Capitol Prison. Colonel Chipman's departure North within a fow days indicates that his trial has been postponed for several weeks. MAIL FACILITIES IN THE SOUTH. ‘The Postmaster General is gradually ordering addition- al mail facilities in the South. On Saturday arrange- menta were made for carrying mails from Gordonsville to Selma daily, and from Lynchburg to Goodson and Bris- tol, and also from Alexandria to Winchester. THROUGH RICHMOND MALL. ‘The Richmond mail came through to Washington direct this evening, the rat time for more than four years. It appears from the Richmond Times of to-day that Gover- nor Pierpoint has promised to do all in his power to represent the munteipal election case to the authoritics at Washington, and request of them a removal of the order prohibiting the exercisc of the functions required by the offices to which the obnoxious gentlemen had been elected. It is further stated that a meoting of pro- minent citizens was held on Saturday, to concert mea- sures for proposing a new ticket for the municipal offices of Richmond. FEDERAL APPOINTEES IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. A number of federal appointees in the Sou = TION TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMS. In cases where pre-emptions have been recognised on lands within the Sioux Indian Reserve, on the Minne- gota, by the pre-emptor proving title according to law, the latter has been made to pay the appraising value of the land, and also the value of the Indian improve- ‘ments thereon. In this connection a case has recently arisen, and been decided by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, that when the pre-emption claimant alleges there are no Indian improvements upon the land in controversy, and files affidavits of the same at the land office for the district in which it may be located, an ex- ‘amination shall be ordered by the Commissioners at 8. Peters, and the pre-emptor and Indian Agent notified of the proceedings; and if the former shall succeed in es- tablishing the proof of his averment he will be allowed to take the tract at the land valuation alone. REPRESENTATIVE TO THR PARIS EBNTOMOLOGIOAL CONVENTION. Townsend Glover, the efficient naturalist employed in the Agricultural Bureau, leaves this city to-morrow for Paris, for the purpose of representing the bureau at the great Entomological Convention to be held in the above city, commencing on August 15 next, Mr. Glover takes a Iarge number of drawings and representations with him, and will probably be absent about three months, intending in the meantime to visit England and secure greater facili- ties for obtaining a general exchange of the specimens and experiments constantly contributing to the enlargo- ment of the science of agriculture. PREPAY YOUR LETTERS. Previous to March, 1863, all letters were required to be Prepaid, and the people had become so accustomed to the law that not more than fifty thoasand unpaid letters ‘wore annually returned to the Dead Letter Office. But ‘at that date Congress passed a law permitting all unpaid letters to pass through the mails, the receivers of them paying double rates. This arrangement resulted disas- trously to the postal revenues, and so at the late Congress the law absolutely requiring prepayment was restored. The people generally, however, are not aware of this fact, for the number of unpaid letters returned to the Dead Letter Office averages fourteen thousand per day. THE APPROPRIATIONS OF LAST CONGRESS. It has just been ascertained that the total appropria- tions of the last Congress will amount to eight hundred ‘and twenty milhoas in round numbers, when a horse and carriage were seen to come upon the track. The animal became frightened at the noise of the locomotive, jumped soon enough to escape destruction, and the engine, Dut ran down a steep embank- ment, making a fall of some ten ora dozen feet, land- ing in a hae of bushes, throwing ovor the vehicle and spiiling out a lady who bad been an involuntary com- n of the ‘and horse, and who soon recovered jer feet, shook out the feathers of her kat and her rum- led crinoline, and looked about her more amazed than urt. The wonder is that sho was not instantly killed. Fins 1x Frowr Strusr.—About four o’slock yesterday morning a fire broke out inthe cracker bakery of James Stel, in the rear of No. 28634 Front street, and before the flames were extinguished the frst and second floors were burned out, Mr. Steel's loss on stock and fixtures will be about $1,000; no ingurance. Mr. J. Connery had some plaster stored on the second floor—loss about $2,000; no insurance. The bvilding is owned by A. was "it is supposed, by the man in dropping a coal of fire among somo wood while taking some fire from the oven. Personal Intelligence. Major General John A. Rawlins, Chief of Staff of Liou- tenant General Grant, and Mrs. Rawlins, arrived in the city yesterday, and are stopping at the residence of Colonel W. 3. Hillyer, in Fifteenth street. General Raw- lins has just rethraed from a trip te the West, where he went to recruit his health, which was greatly impaired during the Richmond campaign. He will remain here a few days under medical treatment, but the absence of the Lieutenant General requires the return of General Rawlins to Washington as soon as it is compatible with his health. The trip of General Grant has been deferred on aecount of the absence of General Rawlins; but it is to be hoped that General Rawlins will not resume the responsible duties of his office until his health is fully reatored. ‘Wattace's —Mr. Dan Bryant, in his personation of character than in either of the parts which he has as- sumed since the commencement of the present suecess- ful summer season at Wallack’s, under the excellent management of Mr. Theodora Moss. Mr. Bryant's ren- dering of the character possesses @ positive and a nega- tive quality; that is to say, he looks and drosses the part i a Sarria ; SST: conios oenheeny ean pangse | “Retna. Se Seniesa be- | ing’s mail notifying Mr. Washburn of his reappointment ‘es postmaster at Philadelphia, INSPROTION OF HOSPITALS. 8. Yorko Atlee, of the Treasury Department, who bee had charge of the marine hospitals for years, will leave on a tour of inspection within the next fow days, to thirty- -tix different institutions, scattered through nineteen States along the seaboard and Gulf, His report will doubtless throw much light apon the practical workings of these hospitals, which are now sustained by an tm- mense annual tax on the federal government. SERENADE TO GENERAL HARDIE. Goneral James A. Hardic was serenaded this evening by two bands of music, at the Ebbit House, where he is stopping during the absence of his family. ae RASIGNATION OF SUDOE ADVOCATE GENER AT. 5 Major Turner, Judge Advooate General for the Dopart- ment of Washington, resigned his commission in the ——_______—— Broapway Tanatas.—Miss Kate Reignolds appeared in now character at the Broadway last night—Pegg Wof- fington—in Tom Taylor's remodelled version of Charles tageous to Miss Reignolds then to the original drama‘ affording her, as they nities for a display of the talent which she cs to bring into the repre- | volunteer service to.day. see euflons "old an,” wan very good es Tip CONTENT of Eebenty, eneten his excel man, was vel an foe rue other parts, which aro almost al merely subor. | Mr. Holloway, Comms a ‘on icon. dinate ones, were fairly cast. The house last night was | office to-morrow, and home cienber only moderately filled; but the Hie successor will be Me. T. 0. Thacker, an ox-Mom cr of their appreciation of Mise Reignolds and Mr. of Congress and the present Chief of the Board of Ex- : aminers of Pater PERSONAL. ward, bead of the Freednion's fora fow days’ ——————————— Dofalcation in the Memphis Castom House. Oincinsani, July Sl, 1866. Tho Gasette bas gedespatch from Memphis reporting the seiaure of the mercial Bank in that city, and the discovery of a defalcation in the Custom House. It is supposed that the money which should have been in the Custom Hanae had bean used by the bank Major Genoral 0. 0. Ho Rureau, loft Washington this afternoon, sojourn at bis home in Auge Me Prominent Canadian, Death of a Si noien. sir BP. Tacho, Promior of the Canadian aqverament, died yostertar