The New York Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD.| JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND Waasat’ STs. Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending Name of Paper. January 1, 1865. Higmaup..... 0... 66006 rr vee eens $1,095,000 363,160 ‘Tribune 252,000 Evening Post. . 169,427 World 100,000 Sun +e «161,079 MRRPMONS occ cesee nad ccercresveusasis . 90,548 New You Mat anp cece ees 291,095,000 871,229 Times, V'ribune, World and Sun combined. . ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. 0 mnst be handed Its cir- Advortisoments for the Wrexty He in bofore ton 0 clock eve Culstion among the er merchants, manufacturers and gen country is increasing very rapidly, ported in the Way Henaxp will thus be seen by a large ‘ePortion of the active and energetic people of the United States. Ti1k CONS spposed to be John H throughout the Advertisements in- PIRATORS. 1, one of the con- Aman ed in the murder of 1 the plot which resw Pa, yos- Tt is paased through Harri goarded, en rou'e for Washington. captured in Texas, The government steamer Floridu, which carried the assassination conspirators Mudd, O'Loughlin, Arnold and Spangler (o Port Jefferson, on the Dry Tortugas, arrived here y 26th ult. and from jay from that place on thy Koy W e 27th. Madd, O ghlin and Arnold, as will be re ed, were senienced to imprisonment for life aud Spengler for six y ‘The prisoners were not aware antil after starting on their journey that their destination had been changed from the Albany Penitentinvy to this arid spot off the southern coast of Florida, sud on boing informed of it were unploasantly aitooted wit after their arrival, on finding that the is about thirteen acres in extent, enjoys a fine sea breeze and is very healthy, was notso bad a place as they had supposed, they were agreeably disappointed, They place of imprisonment on the 25th of July, aod congratulated themselves on the change, ate sorvice— ninediately after put to » of an assistant sir. set to work at his nter and O'Taughlin pnt to an employ- moat tn which he can be useful Arandrad wad Afty prisoners now coniined on the Dry Tor- tages, Mudd boing placed im the pos Koon, Arnold that of a clork, Spangle trade of a ¢ ‘There are about five THE SITUATION. ed in the Northern of hatred said to The s! newspaper be ent recontly pub ing the bitter feel ained by a large portion of the old inhabitants of North Carolina towards the uational govern- ment and (nion people have Ted to correspond. ence on the subject between North Carolinians in this city interested to promoting Northern emigration 4o their Stats and Governor Holden. ‘The Governor aaya 1 feoling is not general, and need not be appre hended b to render thom uncomfortable or give them annoyance. persons designing to settle there as calculated Addiliona! accounts reach us of the manifestation bythe secessionists of the State of a spirit of disloyalty and oppo- sition to the President's arrangements for the restoration OF olvil government, Some newepopers of the rebel per- @uasion are strongly opposing the propored amendment to the av 1 constitution abol shing slavery, and ineal- ‘eating tac idea that slavery Is to be re established in the State as as itis free from militasy control, and tie inhabitants of several of the aouthera tier of counties, it fs anid, design ccnding their delegasions tnto the State Conventi with instractions to this effet, In view of the approaching election in Kentucky, a Procla podlished by Gor or Bramlotte end am ¥ ord as been issued by General Palmer, commanding the national troops in the State, wart ng Persona who have borne aris in favor of the rebeltion, ‘or 996 ted it in any manner, nst_ attempting to vote, in violsiioa of the Slate law ly prohibiting their exercise of this privilese, al here y of the steamers Kan. and Alhambra, we have our Chorles- sof Saturday tet.” The prepara. the serving Charleston hos tory order for out muntoring of the troops of a crimi pres*nt in the Military District been published. Superior nal provost of very extensive range have been orga nix dby Hiltmore, and are now fn fall operstion: Cotton is ing Into Charleston froin the interior more f in heretofore, as the result of additioual eneral Hatch las given uotice sthe tssue of pubtic jonrnals in the Dis- vv n tantst 1 it before th erik with their enterprise of Sta nhubitante . Spotsylvania and other counties to bo ina there fs 4 of that see sia are ery destitute ¢ Ht pres vod prospect of relief when the corn erop, It is wre the war thonght which pr ays est tha o manu fields, ti We trapefer to our columns th weil, is ready for office ad said ng. whe bet ae are now daily at work im the ug thei noruing from the nat inte Liverpooi Post ting histor ship and arming of the Euglieh pirate Known, perhaps, a8 the rebel privateer Shenandoah, a British versel, which was manned and supplied in and failed from a Britieh port, and which, at the date of Antes sccounts, was burning Amoricen whaling vessels in the Nori Pacific ocean in a wholesale and most fear: tu Major General Halleck and family, with quite a nam- Der of army of sailed yesterday for California ta Me Ktewmstiy conn Qvoen, The General goes to the Golden State io assume the dutios of his new command, votfie Military Division of ul one of the five grand divisions into which the couviry is now militarily par- Bitivaod u eps very quick wh in the city, and thoudt to elip of but his personal friends had a sory in store for him, as he dissovered on wrriving at the ship. ‘Ther, on a steamboat boside the Ocow Quoen, he found awaving bin, aud ready to nipany him owt to Soa, Adcistant Quartermaster General Van Viiet, Major Govern! Dix, Colonel Taylor, Clement Barclay, Wm. h Fronktin Allen, stoamsbip company, and a large number of other nota Gurrigon, secretary of the ‘Vilities; and #0 the General, instead of quietly getting ‘off, met with choors and good wishes, and good toasts, Wo», which were deank in bumpers of jor) wine. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1865. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The stoamship Asia, from Queenstown on the 23d alt., with advices two days later, arrived at Halifax, N. B., yesterday afternoon. = Of sax bi and twenty-five members of the Eng- lish Houde of Cothinons elected, three hundred amd afty- three were liberals, being a liberal gain of twenty-four. Mr. Gladstone hag been successful in South Lancashire, ‘The shore end of the AMantic Telegraph gable was successfully laid at Valentia on the 22d ult, in the midst of considerable demonstration and enthusiasm, three cheers for Queen Victoria and for President John- son forming @ portion of the enthusiastic ebullition, ‘The re-establishment of amicable relations between tho governments of England and Brazil is announced. Prince Napoleon had arrived at Bristol, Kagland, in his yacht, Tt was ramored that the Spanish representative in Chile was to be dismissed, on account of bis recent nego- tiations with the Chilean government. ‘The cholera was decreasing rapidly in the PLevant. Nothing further regarding its reported appearance in England 1s given. United States five-twenty bonds remained steady in London at 7115 a 71. English consols were at 87% a 90 for money. In the Liverpool market cotton was un- changed, Breadstufls and provisions wore duil, with a downward tendency. Produce was quiet and steady. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Lientenant General Grant took his departure yesterday from Boston for Portland, Maino, amidst demonstrations by the citizens evincing the warmest affection and the fullest appreciation of his great services to the republic. He loft on a special train, accompanied by several gentle- menjof prominent official positions, and an immense crowd was present, who, in loud huzzas, sped the parting, as they bad welcomed the coming, of their distinguished and be- loved guest, All along the route between the two cities, at the varions towns and stations, the general was greeted with much enthusiasm. He arrived in Portland a little before four o'clock tm the afternoon, and was received with the same enthusiastic outbursts which have accompanied his arrival at other places. He will give a public reception in Portland to-day, and aftor- wick to attend Bowdoin College cement exercises, f the United States against George Barry, charg d with the murder of ene John Reilly, a seamon on board the schooner Menawa, in April last, and wh et down for hearing yesterday in the United Cire .it Court, before Judge Shipman, was postponed till October next. We publish in another column a communication deny- ing the trath.of certain statements made by our Jackson vil correspondent relative to alleged improper ces in the District Court of Northern Florida, The of the court (Judge Frazier) has also called ov us, and denies the truth of the statements so far as he ie We have written to our Jacksonville corre- snondent for further detailed statements of the cases alluded to, in order that full justice may be done all parties, The Cartmen’s and Laborers’ Association of street clouners et last evening, but adjourned without trans- acting any business of importance. @ Coroner's investigation of the circumstances ot- « the shooting of Joseph Van Doren, on last Sat- in his office, No. 40 Beaver street, was concluded Considerable additional testimony was taken, va la., concerned, and the jury’s verdict was to the effect that Mr. Van Doren was shot by James F. Oram, who was thereupon committed to awail the action of the Grand Jury. Oram says that he acted in the tragic affair purely in solf- of them desivuus | defence. Another of our old city laudmarke wilf shortly be swept out of existence, St. Thomas’ church, corner of Broad- way and Houston street, has lately been sold for one bitn- rod and seventy-five thousand doltars, and is to be torn down uext spring, for the purpose of erecting business houses on the site. The weilknown contralto singer and actress Fel'cita YVertvaii was yesterday before Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court, in chambers, on the suit of Henry D. Palinor, formerly her agent, on a claim for moneys due him from one of their engagements. The difficulty, howover, was compromised in a manner satistactory to both parties, Mr, Richard Hildreth, American Consul at Trieste, Aust 4 the anthor of different historical and other literary works, died at Florence, Italy, on the 11th of July, in the fifty-ninth year of his age, of general debility. ‘ The Jewish anniversary in coimmomoration of the dowtraction of the second temple in Jerusalem vy order of the Roman Emperor Titus was very gener- ally observed im this city yesterday by appro- priate services In the various Hebrew synagogues. The ceremonies commened at sunset on Monday, and from that time until sunset yesterday the faithful were required to observe a rigid fast and a mournful demeanor. The wearing of leather shoos is stricily prohibited to those participating in the services on cach recurrence of this anniversary, and many of the worshippers consequently appear in the synagogues voted, while others wear cloth slippers. co Dowling yestorday committed for trial Michael evan and Cherles Hunter, charged with attacking robbing, ou the Battery, Anthony Cook, a aoldiar, living at 21 Frankfort street, and Margaret Russell, on comploint of stealing over threo hundred dollars from a di-charged soldier of the Fifteenth New York engineers, petaed John Quigley, in the saloon No. 100 Washington street. A ian mained George Bradiey was found by the police carly yesterday morning lying in Roosevelt street, near Water, with a dangerous stab ia his back, He was taken to the York Hospital, His ayeailants escaped. National Temperance Convention assembled at Springs yesterday, and was largely at- by delegates from every section of the ’. The Convention was called to order by Chaneetlor Walworth, who made some appropriate re- the oceasion, and was followed by Governor icinghem, of Connecticut, ia a short speech, . Jored people of Now York and Brooklyn cele tho Thirty-first Anniversary of Emancipation in erday at Myrile Aventie Park, Brook. commenced stan early hour in the till sundown, amusements of various ba} brat the West Ind lyn. kin ts, enti dancing aud music, being the order of the day. Addresses were delivered in the afternoon by Professor William Howard Day and Frederick Dougiess, wore listened to with creat intevest by ree Atleast ten thousand colored people must ipatod in the enjoyments of the day, and thy of order prevaiied throughout ¢ Siamese twins, who some yoars ago married Southern women and settted in North Carolina as plant- lost their property di the rebellion, send tion from Surrey, in that State, annonne- will again shortly exhibit themselves tn the | Northern cities. tarkweather and her daughter, a young girl urteen, were yesterday morning found murdered ie beds in Oakland, @ villago about six miles from 11. The bodies presented « horrid sight, th having been literally chopped to death wit re koi on of the murdered woman was arrested on suspi { lwving committed the horrible act, to obtain pow: of four hunared doltars, whieh was found tn hie or with the knits which he is supposed ed in murdering bis mother and sisier t Marshal 1m Medford, Pennsylvania, waa troots of that town yesterday by f robel re y rotarned from Canada, named Joba P. «land his brother, said to have been also mixed up in the affuir, were arrested and committed to jail. whee Ha oxo, and stabbed in many places with a bute! Th shot dead The stork market was depressed yesterday. Govern: monte were steady, Gold clowd stendy on the street at 145 0 159%. The night cloving price was 145% ‘Thove was loss activity in breadstuffe and provisions terday, though prices of flour, wheat, oats, and new mess pork favored buyers. Cotton was steady, with « fuir demand. There was more activity in groceries, fiels, hay, hops and naval stores, with a moderate busi- ness in progress in metals, hides and tobacco, within our quoted figures In the freight line, transactious were tinimnportant, and rates somewhat nominal, ‘Tho wholesale live stock markets have generally been well mpplied with animals this week, and beef and mut ton are lower, Hogs have advanced sc, per lb. The supply of beof cattle has been very large during the week, amounting to more than six thousand head, though come of the droves were made up of enol: poor little material that two should be counted as one, rly one half of the above number were sold during the week at the various market places—largely at Bergon—so that when the market regularly opened on Mouday morning, y ( Alicrton’s, only three thousand one hundrod head wer in the farda, ‘Those would have been insyMolent, but Crom the fact that butchers bad provioualy vrei . Well supplied thomeclves, Holders, however, had to yield moro than 3c. on the price, and the market was not active at 15o. a 16c, for good steers, 130. a 140. for ordinary to fatr, while scallawaga were begging custom- areat 10c, 0120, All were finally sold. Sheep are 30. @ 340. lower, with 17,773 offered for the week. Good lots are worth 63gc. per lb., lambs 8c, a 10¢., and sell slowly. ‘Hogs are doing better, with moderate arrivals, receipts amounting to 10,350 for the week. Tho best are selling ‘at 124c., with some prime held at 12340, of the South in Con- Gress. The Southern people are electing to the various offices that they have the right to fill men who are well known to have been active, energetic rebels, They choose to reconstruct a Southern State, the men who did most to de- stroy it and to carry it out of the Union. They do this for a simple reason; there are no other men whom the people will trast. They know that, with a few exceptions, the so-called “Union men” of the South are slippery fellows, weak-kneed trimmers, who were rebels when the rebellion was up—and Union men when it was down. Such men will not be trusted where they are known, and we ought to rejoice over it as a healthy sign of the real honest republi- canism of the South. We ought also to regard it a3 a healthy sign that the Southern people choose to be represented in peace by the men who led them in war. The Northern people will do the same. No one has given up the rebel cause so completely as the Southern soldiers, No class of the Southern people is so fair or honest, or so sin- cerely earnest in their desire to see the country pacified. These are the men that the South now puts in office. It is, as we say, a healthy sign—but there is t6 be a fight about it with the vadicals—especially in so far as the South wishes to be represented in Congress by this class of men. The fight will turn upon the fact that a law of Congress provides that no person shall take his seat in that body who has taken part in the rebellion. The passage of this law was skil- fully secured by the radicals, at a time when populur passion against the rebellion ran so high that the people were ready for any ex- tremity of legislation on the subject; and it was done with a view to its use at a time like the prosent, when the returning amity of the two sections would dispose them to drop all ques- tions and difficulties, and get into the old status once more in the easiest way. This law, there- fore, stands as « barrier against the reconstruc- tion of the Union—it forbids the admission into Congress of the only men that the South ever will or ever can sendthere. All that the South can set up against it is the amnesty proclama- tion, also authorized by Congress. But no proclamation that is general in terms can remove a disqualification of this na- ture, Unless the pardon extended to the rebel contains a clause that specially rebabili- tates him in all bis rights of citizenship, so as to override this disqualification, the law made to keep him out of Congress will prevail. The position of the radical Southorn anarchy party, therefore, is that there arc no white men in the Southern States that can be admitted into Congress, and that those States can only be represented by negroes. On this, as a sort of dead lock, they doubtless expect to make their bargains with the South for negro suffrage. This is a very large gun, and they have taken a great while to load it; but it may prove to be one of that kind that “kicks back and knocks the owner.over.” They will find this out if they ever venture to go before the people on such an issue. The common sense of the country will finish their scheme at a blow, and will not consent to delay the settlement of our troubles a single hour for the furtherance of their wild plans. Let the Southern Staies arrange the suffrage question by giving # vote to negrocs, just asit is given in New York and im Massachu- setts. That is all that the Northern people will require. For the rest let them fearlessly rely upon the people. They may let the issue go boldly before the country, and the radicals will be nowhere in the struggle. The Rostora jeipat Govern- Corruption of the M ment, One of the crying evils of the day is the out- rageous corruption of the munieipal govern- ment of the metropolis. The expenses of the city government have grown within the last ten years from five millions to seventeen mil- lions, and it has increased to this unprecedented amount, not by necessity, but by wastefulness and fraud. One of our cotemporaries—the Daily Times—which is the recipient of a portion of the public meney to the extent of some thirty or fifty thousand dollars annually, paid | for Corporation advertising, is the only one among the many papers similarly favored that has the courage to denounce the corruption of the city officials. It broke ground upon this subject in an article yesterday, which we copy into our columns to-day. The bribe which our cotemporary receives is not sufiicient, it appears, to purchase its silence. We hope that if will not lose courage now; but will keep straight in the course it has adopted. This is the first honest act which we have known this shect to perform, and it is quite refreshing to have to record it. This is a fit and acceptable time for this State to relieve the city of the frightful incubus of corruption under which it is suffering, by clect- ing an entirely different class of members of the Legislature from those we have had for the last ten years, Unless the people all over the State have pity on us, we can effect nothing in the way of that kind of thorough reform which alone can save us. A partial change in the logislative representatives will be of little service, We want the Legislature entirely remodelled. It is not only the Corporation which is corrupt; the corruption has extended to the Legislature as well in the purchase of votes, the value of which it is well known are predicated upon the price the Corporation ring will pay for them. This, we say, is the oppor- tune moment for working out a complete mu- nicipal reform. The general affuirs of the coun- try, which the federal government has under its control, will not besetiled until Congress meets in December next. Then President Johnson will be in a position to take these matiers in hand. Butin the interregnum we may settle the affairs of this State, and especially of this city. There is but one way of doing it, and that is by Governor Fenton making a clean sweep of the city officials, from the Mayor down, which he can conscientiously do upon the documents before hin No half measures will answer. The people also must give us an honest Legis- Inture, which will supporta municipal reform movement. If the Governor does not enter upon this work we will very soon lapse into a condition of revolution in the city in which vigilance committees will probably take the place of governors and legislatures, while Gov- ernor Fenton himself will sink into absolute oblivion, and the republican party will be utterl y demolished in the State. Governor Fenton must remember that the republican party only carried the State at the last election by a majority of about six thou- sand. If he refuses or hesitates now to secure a thorough municipal reform, we shall appeal to the democratic element everywhere to assist us, and the probability is that the democratic party will carry the State at the coming elec- tions by a majority of twenty thousand votes. We hope, therefore, that Governor Fenton will follow the course we suggest to him. There is an Augean stable in our city government that needs a good cleaning. If Governor Fenton only proves himself the Hercules of the day, he may win the everlasting gratitude of the people, and possibly save himself and his party from annihilation. Our Modern Places of Summer Resort— Our Future Watering Places. The summer senson is at its height. New York and other large cities are deserted by the votaries of fashion. Clergymen have for- saken their congregations, who in their turn have deserted the churches, which are, neces- ceasarily, closed; lawyers have lett their clients, with their briefs, cognovits, fit. fa. and ca. sa; the bulls and bears of Wall street have re- laxed their worship of mammon, only to return when renovated with greater avidity to their accustomed idolatry; in short, all who can do so have, in company with their families, sought those summer resorts by the seaside, or far away in the interior, where, avoiding the intense heat of July and August, they may ob- tain that rest and relaxation which wil! enable them again to engage, with renewed health and spirits, in their accustomed occupations in Wall street and Fiith avenue. Nor are the fushionables alone in this nomadic movement. The time has gone by when a sniff of sea air, the refreshing bath in the bosom of old ocean, the imbibition of mineral waters at our fash- ionable spas, or the enjoyment of a cool atmosphere and enchanting scenery on the summit of our glorious mountains, was the ex- clusive privilege of the weaithy people. {n these days all but the very poor can avail themselves of some one, at least, of these ad- vaniages. If the man of small income cannot afford to spend his summer holiday at Saratoga, Long Branch or Newport, Rhode Island, he can, by ptudent management, lay by the small sum necessary fora trip to the rural districts of some one of the adjacent New England States, where. in some snug farmhouse, he may, for a trifling consideration, lay in a stock of health and good spirits, which will work wonders in enabling him to resume his ordinary business with renewed vigor at the end of his two or three wecks’ holiday. It he happen to havea family witli bim, his pleasure at the benefit they will have derived from their short period of rustication will be considerably enhanced. Persons in moderate circumstances seem becoming aware of the advantages they can derive from a short sojourn in the country during the pre- valence of the summer heats, and this year they are largely availing themselves of the facilities afforded them by railroad and steamer, which ere constantly crowded with passengers, bent on leaving the city for a time, with its toils and cares and anxieties, to seek relaxation in a purer atmosphere. In fact, this temporary exodus of persons who are new to the atirac- tions of our places of summer resort, to judge from the letters of ovr correspondents at these places, is quite unprecedented in point of numbers, The usages. and amusements are pretty much the same at each of the fashionable watering places. In each the same passion prevails for a display of blood horses and superb carriages, with mythical armorial bearings on the panels; with the adjunets of stalwart coachmen, grooms and footmen, in gorgeous liveries; and immense sums of money are expended in maintaining such luxuries as four-in-hands, or even the more unpretending, but still costly pairs, in the style suitable to the notions of dignity that pre- vail in such places. To the millionaire, whose income ean bear the outlay, besides contribu- ting largely to the support of the government, and furnishing it with the means of diminishing the debt caused by the recent war, all this is allowable ; but nothing except contempt is due tothe snob, or the upstart valgacian, suddenly growa rich by some- shoddy ‘contract, who, | without adequate means, caricatures the display of the man of means and culture by falling miserably short of the reality, or overdoing the thing, and thus making himself ridiculous, Such persons are shoddy all over, and richly deserve the unmerciful quizzing they are apt to receive from the young bioods who drink their | champagne and flirt with their daughters, Some of the usages of the watering places seem to border on the ridicutor auch, for in- | stance, as the competition that is carried on at | Saratoga every morning by chronic and impro- | vised invalids to ascertain who can drink the | largest quantity of mineral waters before break- fast. To persons of cynical disposition this wholesale drinking of a not very pala- table liquid is shrewdly susceptible of overnight dissipation, the effects of which the matutinal drinking match is in reality intended | to remove. Ef this is really so, what an exposé does this open up of the nocturnal orgies of the popular parsons, eminent lawyers, pious church members, solid men of business, phi- lanthropists, philosophers, staid matrons and blooming maidens, not to mention such legiti- mate topers as young men about-town, gam- blers and professional politicians, with which Saratoga is always filled during the season. This far-fumed watering place can now boast, however, of an institution eminently calculated to discourage irregular habits, namely, the new opera house, lately constructed by the Lelands. It is to be hoped that the divine art may be as instrumental as it is calculated to be in refining the tastes of those who visit the place ostensibly for the benefit of its waters. To those who profer sea bathing to the drinking of mineral waters, such places as Newport, R. L; Cape May, Long Branch, &c., possess many attractions; and the lovers of the marvellous in nature may feast their eyes on the stupendous Falls of Niagara, and thence deduce a moral. These places are all full to overflowing—the numbers being augmented by an influx of persons of moderate means, who are new to such places of fashionable resort. A great deal of folly and dissipation charac- terize these haunts of fashion. What wonder, then, that the temporary change of residenoe, undertaken ostensibly for the benefit of the a, especially those of the fair sex, returning hone more worn and faded than when they left) A little of that scarce article, common sense»Would remedy all this. But there’ is another Newport, in Vermont, well worth a visit. To yet there a stage will take you to Littletom? there you take the train for Newport, changing cars at Wells River, and arrive'in time for a dinner at the Memphremagog House, in which lake trout plays a conspicuous part. Next miprning a trip throughout the whole length of the lake to Magog, in Canada, and the series of charming landscapes, perpetually opening up to view, will be better than all the doctors’ stuff in the pharmacopeia. The season is not too late to give the picturesque and inexpensive Vermont village a trial. So much forour Eastern watering and other pleasure places which are well known; but these are not all the summer attractions that will mark the future. In exploring the bound- less tracts stretching into the Far West, this side and beyond the Rocky Mountains, by the army officers connected with the Topographical Department, in order to discover a track for laying the railroad to the Pacific, places have been discovered abounding in mineral springs and other attractions of such wondrous character as will throw into the shade the tame spas of Baden Baden, Ilomberg and other towns of Europe, and even eclipse the glories of our own watering places, when the seltle- ment of those districts shall render watering places in those Western regions a necessity. So numerous are these embryo places of fashionable resort, and so extensive the ex- plorations, that it requires twelve large and thick volumes to contain the reports on them. A generation or two, and what is now anticipa- tion will become fruition. votarles of fushto: The Responsibility of Disorder. The press has been compelled to record for many weeks past the prevalence of great dis- order in this city. Scarcely a day passes that a stabbing affray,an actual murder, a street robbery or # burglary is not announced, as an ordinary occurrence, Our criminal courts are thronged with offenders charged with offences against life and property. It is dangerous to be in the street after dark; even the city cars are the constant scenes of personal violence and theft from the person.. Such a state of things is disgraceful to the times in which we live, and show a decline in public morals acarcely credible. The feeling of insecurity is rapidly spreading both in town and country, and something must be done specdily to stop the progress of crime or our institutions will be no better than a farce, or, still worse, lite but a bitter tragedy. Tt is worth while to consider what is the catise of all this mischief; and the explanation is not very difflenlt. It is to be found in the corrupt condition of our politics and the lax morality of our leading and managing politi- clans. When-we' seo how infamously corrapt. our local legisiation has become, how rings are formed and concentrated, how offices are boughi and sold, what crowds of venal men are in the enjoyment of place and salaries, how these are multiplied and increased, bow cliques of un- principled office holders fatten and thrive on the public expenditures, how contracts of all kinds are farmed out and the profils corruptly divided, it is not wonderful that crime stalks abroad with an, unblushing front and bids defiance io the laws. When these rnfflans look around them and see that the men they elect to office are filling their pockets, they do not see why they cannot fill their own. When they hear of thousands of dollars being annually pocketed by some keeper of a rum hole or a grocery, as a reward for political servi es, they do not see why they may not cut # purse, When they know that their votes elect alder- men and mayors no better than themselves, they do not see why they may not plunder |ghat she isnot a British ship. But where did with impunity. And this is the secret of all our disordets. The mon who control our clee- tions, the men who are paid for their votes, the gentry that pile the majorities, cannot perceive any difference in principle he- tween those who steal from the public and those who rob individuals, We therefore hold those party leaders who acek for and affiliate with such constiiuencies to be the couse of all these crimes, As long as they look to such support their affinities ap- pear alike, at least to the thieves with whom they politically co-operate, and the public will continue. to be the losers and the city: be: dine graced. We therefore distinctly charge om the lead- ing and active politicians of this city—the men who control committees, wards and drinking holes, who in primaries or secondaries, or in. any way pack, own, direct and control the vote of this city—we charge them with being the real protectors of the criminals who are now run- ning roughshod over this city by day and niybt. ‘The men in office in this city and who rule e elected by the uid of these lawless mon, and know it. These lawless men also know it, and defy punishment. We therefore insist that | to our leading politica! managers we owe all the crime which now disgraces and endangers the peace of the city, and we call on these wire- pullers to pause before they fall victims them- selves to the evils they have engendered. If nothing but a vigilance committee can puta stop to the bloodshed and murder of every day’s occurrence, the consequences be on the herds of those who have, step by step, marshalled the way downwards to profligacy and crime. Every politician who is known to lead a clique or manage an association is, in our judgment directly responsible at the bar of public opin- ion for these disorders, for the men who commit them are those whose votes and support give power to these very politicians, Disguise it as they may, our politicians are in reality the real criminals. The real thugs are the men whe own and manage the rafflans. Farsm Roons Avovr Nowra Caroriwa.—We publish in another coiuma an important tele- graphic correspondence between Governor Holden, of North Carolina, and two gentlemen from that State who are now sojourning, in this city for the purpose of assisting emigration to the Old North State, It appears that rumors originating with a Raleigh journal were cireu- lated through the medium of the press des- patches that great lawlessness existed in North ‘i horify, and have no fear that they encourages emigrants to come and assure them that the people will welcome them. Iti curious to divine what the object of circulatin such statements as the Raleigh paper bas in vented, except it finds its golutiow in o laten hatred to the North, which the result of th war ought to have thoroughly extinguished, \Histery of the Pirate Shenandosh—Aas Hiustration of English Neutrality. We print in another column a British history of this notorious cruiser, which originally ap peared ia the Liverpool Daily Post, and which we find eopied into the London Morning Star, of January 2, 1865. It appears by this history that the firsregistered owner of this sbip, then called the Sea King, was William Wallace, of London, banker. Last September she was sojd to Richard Wright, of Liverpool, shipowner, and @ near connection of the rebel agent in that city, and in the same month P. S. Corbett was endorsed as mmster ofthe ship. Last Octo- bet, the owner, Richard Wright, issued to Cor bett, the master, a certificate of sale, empower- ing Corbett to sell the Sea King at any port out of the United Kingdom for not less than £45,000, On the morrting of the 8th of October, | 1864, the Sea King cleared from London for Bombay, in ballast, and‘ae an ordinary mer- chant vessel. On the same day the British ship Laurel, the property of blockade runners, cleared: tron Liverpool for Nassau, laden with heavy cannon, arms, fifty or sixty barrels-of powder, and bearing some rebel officers, John Wilson, a British subject, had engaged as carpenter om the Sea King in good faith, supposing that she was going to Bombay, and other ports in the Indian and Pacific oceans as a merchantman. His affidavit, made in November, 1864, shows that the Sea King went immediately from Lon- don to Madeira. That there she fell in with the Laurel, and that the two ships went in com- pany to the Island of Porto Santo, where, in Pore tugnese waters, the armament and stores were shified from the Laurel to the Sea King, and that Captain Corbett there announced to the crew that he bad sold the ship to the so-called — Confederates, and that she was to destroy American ships, especially whalers. He also introdueed to thom as the new captain an officer in » gray uniform, whom he invited. them to join, Nearly all refused to do so, The rebel flag was then hoisted, such of the crow ag would not join were-put on the Laurel, and the Sea King, having become the Shenandoah, staried on her new career. This affidavit was made by the carpenter with a view to the re- covery of his wages—he having shipped for a long voyage—but the case was settled by the captain. is same ship lassince cruised many montha in the Indian Ocean, to the injury of out com: merce there, and recently has destroyed a larga: number of our whaleships in the Pacific Ocean, Bhe is pursuing an undoubtedly piratical’ | career. She cannot-any longer even pretend tq represent the. confederacy, since there is no confederacy, and: her’ captain has been so in- formed; but he-is- conveniently skeptical, and refuses to believe it.. While the outrages of this British ship, against our commerce are fresh in every thought, Lord Palmerston pratea to the world about the neutrality of England in our war, and English officials at large impus dently maintain that the ships that cruise against our commerce—this one wifb the reat— are not English, but rebel ships, But when and where did thia ship change her charactert When did she cease to: be a British: ship, and where did she acquire another nationality? We have followed her from London and her London owner—seen her transferred by a bogus sale in Portuguese waters—seen her receive the arma- + ment sent from Ungland for her—seen her sail away on her piratics1.oareer, and now we are gravely told from: those-in authority ia London she acquire any other ctinractert’ Tux Cry Pavemen7s.—With a: persistency almost fatuitous the: authorities adhere to the abominable aystem,of paving the: streets with smooth stone pavement, although the experience of years proves that itis the worst kind that could be conceived for horses. It is a perfect trap for horseflesh, especially in:wet or wintry weather. The horse must He-as sure footed ag achamots that can Keep a fitm step on the arched siones of which the Russ pavement, for instance, is composed, and’ tlie: consequence is that the poor animals ave consiantiy falling and breaking their lind in.our public thoroughfares. The Russ pavement should’ be cemoved, and Broadway and the.other principal streets mac- adumized as the streets of London and Paria aré, It would be- quite as cheap and onduriog asthe prosent pavement, There could be no finer roads anywhere than the drives in the Park, which are all macadamized. It has been objected to that mecadymized streeta are very dusty, There is no reason why they should beso, in this city. A very moderate portion of the eighteen millions of dollars required for the- annual expenses of the city government would: keep the streets well watered, and if nocessary rolled, as the roads in the Park are, if the city authorities could ouly be prevailed on to do their duty. Tux Crors—The reports from the Nosth- western States generally are favorable to, the abundance of the cereal crops. In some. di tricta there appears to be evidence of a -def- ciency in the wheat crop; but on the whole, — there will be an immense yield of all kiads of grain, We observe that tho grain crop im Russia this yoor has fallen short. Russia isto, Europe what the Northwest is to this country: the principal granary of the contincat, and tty balance between production and consnmptian of breadginffs in Europe is eo even that one short crop ensures a demand upc this country for the deficiency. Although it ia not » omitter to be rejoiced over that any country is suffer. ing from a failure of crops, t is nevertheless for the benetit of this counity at the present junciure that such should bo the. case in Bus rops It will benefit thes trade of the Wert, , and. it with decrease the, export of gold; for our breadatuits will supysy ils place. Tt unfor- tunately happened theg ‘the war in the South endod just at the times that the cotton planting season was passing, away—February, March amt April—and ths people in the cotton Statca boing then in # ‘sondition of war did not sow Jurolina ; that the aristocratic—that is tosay, | inoie crops. It ‘way take two years before the former slave holding elemont there—was perse- cuting Union men and the negroes, and that as | soon as the United Statea troops were with- drawn there would be scenes of vwarciy and violence enacted there, This Governor Holden manufacture of eaiton fabrics is resiored to its former prosperity; but there can be little doubt that by next year there will be on abundant supply af cotton ryised in tho South. Mean: , time, it ts well thot our grain crops are 80 good, positively doniea, On the contrary, all clases healt, should, in numerous case's, result tn the of the pa0nle bo gaya are aulmisive’y tho Tt wit? relieve the country from a good deal of ia ombarcasamout (a our Wade with Busove.