The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1865, Page 4

f t le ower - —~ 4) NEW YORK ‘2RALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. orre advance, Money sent by mail will be TERMS cash i of the seuder. None but bank bills current in at the © Now York tiken. THE DAILY HERALD, published very day in the year, Four oon THE Annual subse tion price per copy. KLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents per copy. Annual subscription price:— One Copy..... ee $2 Three Coy is 5 Five Copie 8 Ten Copies... 1s Postage five cents per copy for three mont! Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sont to every club often Twenty copies to one address, one year, $85, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. Theve rates make the Wrewir Hest the cheapest! publivation im the country, The fukovKan Eprrion, every Wednesday, at Six cents per copy, $4 per 2znnum to any part of Great Britain, or $5 to auy part of the Continent, both to include postage. The Carrorsta Epitioy, on the Ist and 16th of each month, at Six cents per copy, or $3 per annum. Volume XXX r extent designed, and ie 5 erent ae teks Richmond p oat a amount of money should be raised, aud depo General Grant for presentation (o the national soldier who should first replace the glorious old ensign of the republic over that city, im the then convemplated assault ou it, The matter, however, wae not proseculed to the ly four hundred and sixty dollara were raised. Besides, Richmond was ool taken by as Saults, but by the forced evacuation of the rebels, In consideration of this latter fact, General Grant decided to divide the inoney among the Uiree soldiers most conspic uous for gallantry in (he final assault on Petersburg, which was in effect assault on Richmond, and, on the recommendation of their corpa com manders, he has awarded it to the following brave men, ‘and addressed each of them an autograph letter to that effect:—Sergeant David W. Young, of the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania infantry, Sixth corps; Sergeant Thomas MeGrau, Twenty-third Indiana infantry, Twenty-fourth corps, and Corporal Jacob R, Tucker, Fourth Maryland infantry, Fifth corps. The government steamer Memphis returned to this port on Saturday from her assigned duty of assisting in the return of the national Naval Academy from Newport, R. L, to Annapolis, Md. ‘The Fire Marshal’s investigation yesterday of the cir- cumstances connected with the fire on Saturday evening last at 650 Broadway, showed it, as suspected at the time, to have been a piece of incendiarism, and to have been connected with a plot to rob the Eighth National Bank. The burglars had actually effected their en- entrance to that institution and begun operations, when they wero alarmed by the roturn to it of the night porter, who had been absent for a short time, and in their flight they left behind burglars’ tools, a coat belonging to one of the party, and evidences that they had already commenced their work. In one of the pockets of thia coat were found loaded pistols and a letter from one of the robbers to another one, giving the plan of operations. They no doubt set fire to the building for the purpose of AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—ARrau Na PoGus; oR, eux Wicsiow Weppinc. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Piccouio. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dazax or Des- tiny—Lanaoarp Fix. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Barvow’s Muscuw Conrany, Mipsigut Assauit—Love AMONG Tus BONNeTS— Nioovo Famtux. Open Day and Evening WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Coitees Bawn. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL. Si4 Broadway.—Eraroriay Bowas, Dancxs, &c.—Hanpy ANDY—RUNBING THE BLOCKADE, ALL, 585 Broadw 4: 4 an Francisco Mix- NOPIAN SINGING, Dan &c.—Tux Biack Barns. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOU ING, DANciNG, BuRLEsauns, & , 201 Bowery.—Sinc OL: AU-VENT. Grorce Cunisty’s MIn- BOWERY THEATRE, Bo ONTUNATE DOORKEKPER. Stevis wn Songs, Dances. & NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadw: Opeu trom 10. A. M. till 10 P.M. New York, Monday, August 7, 5865. "NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers, OFFICIAL. Year Ending Name of Paper. May 1, 1865. BRT is anon aercaaicomneesscacenesate $1,095,000 Times. . 368,150 Tribune. . 252,000 Evening Post. 169,427 World 100,000 Sun...... : 151,079 Expreas 90,543 Naw Porn Herarn. $1,095,000 871,229 Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined THE CABLE. Dur European adviecs are to the 27th ult., and give “\mportant intelligence up to that time regarding the pro- ross of laying the Atlantic Telegraph cable. The lay- (ng of tho shore end from Valentia, a length of between twenty-five and thirty miles, was completed on the 22d alt. ; tho splicing of this portion with the deop sea cable 9a board the Great Eastern was effected on the 23d, and #0 the 24th the monster vessel commenced ‘paying put,”’ and on the 27th she was three hundred miles at Ja, having been completely successful in the work of Dying that distance. At this rate twenty-two days ld be required to reach Heart’s Content, Newfound- land, the terminns on this side of the ocean; but it was expected that the Great Eastern would be able to make more rapid progress as she proceeded. In view of the interest and importance attached to this great submarine telegraphic enterprise, we publish this morning an extended and complete description of everything connected with the great undertaking, illus. trated by maps and diagrams, together with accounts of the former attempt to lay an Atlantic cable and the pro- gress of work on the Russo-American telegraph, which fs to connect this country, via Behring Strait, with Asia and Europe, and thus, with the Atlantic line, form an olectric girdle around the globe. EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE. Tho steatnship City/of Boston reached this port yes. terday with European advices to the 27th ult.—one day later than those préviously rescived. The steamship Germania, whose news was telegraphed on from Cape Race on Saturday, and published in yesterday's Hxeatp, also arrived here yesterday. ‘The whole six hundred and fifty-eight members of the British Parliament had been returned. Estimates vary as to the exuct number of liberals and conservatives elected, but all acvounta agree that Lord Palmerston has secured a majority of at least seventy or eighty; and even the lowest of these figures would be more than sufficient for ail practical purposes, A Liverpool journal revives the rumor, previously con- tradicted as premature, that Lord Palmerston intends to Fetire from public life. Mr, Gladstone is looked upon as the futuro leader of the liberal party. Cholera was still making progress in the East, and official precautions had been taken to prevent its intro- duction into England. The assertion that the scourge has displayed itself among the inmates of the Birming- ham Union was untrue. Civil war is stated to have broken out in Japan; but Bo details are given. United States five-twentics remained stationary in London at 7087134. British consols were at 693, 90. THE NEWS. President Johnson has given our military commanders fn Texas injunctions to continue the observance of a Strict noutrality in the contest on tho Mexican side of the Rio Grande between the republicans and the impe- Malista, A number of applications have recently been received by the President for permission to visit Jeff. Davis in his Casemato domicil at Fortress Monroe; but none of them Davo yet met with any success. ‘Tho proclamation of Provisional Governor Perry, of Bouth Carolina, names the 4th of September as the day for olecting delegates to the State Convention, and the {3th of the same month for the Convention to assemble In Columbia to alter or amond the State constitution. Governor Porry, a# has been aiso done by the Provisional Governors of Mississippi and Alabama, directa that the different local officers who were acting in the various Counties under the rebel régime in May last, when the Bivil government was suspended, shall resiine thelr notions and continue to act during the existence of the government; and the State laws in force ‘when South Carolina seceded, excepting such as con- Bict with the present order of things, are proclaimed to be still operative, The headquarters of the provisional Bovernment will be at Greenville, instead of Columbia, bho capital ‘Our South Carslina despatches indicate that it is the Gntestion of the national government to keep a whole ome check for a season yet on the natural secession and Pobollious effervescence of tho chivalry of that State, Garrisons have beer! placed in ail the principal interior towns, and, much to the disgust of the Palmetto aristo. racy, those post detachments to a large extent consist of assisting in their escape. It is supposed that three men wore engaged in the attempted robbery and incendiarism, none of whom have yet boen arrested. The August term of the Court of General Seastons commences this morning, Recorder Hoffman presiding Although there are nearly three hundred prisoners in the Tombs awaiting indictment and trial, it is not designed to hold the court more than one week. It will thefefore be nocessary for jurors and witnesses to attend promptly, in order that as many cases as possible may be disposod of during the five days the court is in session, If they do not attend, his Honor will impose 4 heavy fine upon them. tonne Se We givo this morning the statement of Captain Owen, of the ship Harpswell, who on the Ist inst. discovered the burning wreck of tho steamship Glasgow, which caught fire and was abandoned at sea on the Sist ult., as already announced inthe Herato. The burning vessel was still in sight from the deck of the Harpswell at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the 2d inst., but was gradually settling by the stern. Adetachment of the Sixteenth Now York artillery, under command of Lieutenant Van Buskirk, and com- posed of the one year men of that organization, wero paid off at Hart’s Island on Saturday afternoon, and loft for their homes that evening. They numbered eighty-two men, and were the last of the troops serving in Virginia to be discharged under the order of May 10. The thanks of the men are due to their commanding officer for his Promptness and attention to their affairs, they being only five days from the field. The First Maine cavalry regimont,{which arrived in this city on Saturday night from Fortress Monroe, bas heen since quartered atthe Battery barracks, and is expected to leave for Augusta, Me., early this morning. A sermon was preached yesterday at the Marincrs’ church, corner of Catharine and Madison streets, by the pastor, Rev. E. D, Murphy, on the death of Miss Isabella T. Kirkman, a late member af tho con. gregation, and @ young lady who was well known for hor good works in various charitable onterprises. The d's course was attentively listened to by a large audience One of our reporters yesterday visited the place known as Metropolitan Hall, Sixth avenue, where on each Sunday members of the spiritual fraternity dis course. Yesterday there was an aniunated discussion be tween spiritualists, both malo and female, and their op ponents, as to the genuineness of the mysterious table tippings, rappings and other manifestations. The unbe lievers were strong in denouncing the entire spirit: at business ag a humbug, and wero as atrongly combatted by its supporters; but nothing decisive or satisfactory to disinterested listeners cold be eHminated from the ora torical contest. St. Paul’s church, Marcy avenue, Brooklyn, was en tered on last Saturday morning by some sacrifegious burglars, who stole therefrom about seventy-five dollars worth of property. The police magistrates yesterday committed John Dey ger, an alleged fugitive from the First Delaware rogi ment, cliarged with baving, in May last, in Virginia, stolen three hundred dollars from a fellow soldier named Thomas Holloban; Elus Delphy, of Rutland, Vermont, said to be a discharged soldier, on complaint of robbing Charles Helfrich while the latter was lying asleep on the Battery, and Ambrose Buergard, his wife and nine other Persons, both male and female, on charge of keeping and assisting in the carrying on of a disorderly danco house at 113 Willett street, A coroner's inquest was held yesterday in the case of Albert V. Vantassel, who was killed on Saturday by the explosion on board the steamboat Arrow, on the North river. The jury's verdict was to the effect that those having charge of the boat were not culpable, the occur. rence being regarded as one which could not have been foreseen. Acall is issned for a convention of deaf mutes, to assemble at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 30th inst ‘The Abolitionists and ; aado. ' What do the abolitionists desire now? In view of the enormous sacrifice of life and ex- penditure of treasure which have been forced upon this country as the ratural sequel of the long agitation and fomentation of the aboli- tionists, and in the renewal of their crusade with all their original earnestness, this has be- come a question of more than ordinary interest to every friend of the American Union through- out the world. Well may every lover of his country exclaim, what next? Is there no limit to their revolutionary demands? No end to their agitation and disturbance of the peace and prosperity of the country, or are the aboli- tionists determined to continue their crusade until the people are forced to either adopt the social and connubial equality, free and univer- sal amalgamation of races and sexes of the Fourierite phalanx order, or to resort to the alternative of a war of races and the extinction of the blacks on this continent? One or the other of these dreadful results must follow as the logical result of the renewal and continua- tion of the agitation of these philosophers. The severe lessons of the past, the bitter fruite of a flerce war and the development of crime in its moat horrible phase, which is now following in the wake of war, appears to have no effect upon these agitators; but they are, on the other hand, entering upon a new contest, more dan- gorons in its character, more disastrous in ite results, than any which has agitated the nations of the civilized world either m ancient or mod- ern times, The Tribune has become the organ of this new crusade, and boldly demands that concessions shall be made to the abolitionists or war will follow. It is well that the public ia forewarned as to their intentions, and # would be still better if it was as clearly understood as to the real concessions demanded by the abgli- tionists or the alternative of war. g Some thirty years ago Arthur Tappan gave form to the anti-slavery crusade by the organi- zation of a society fog that purpose. About the same time the tures of Virginia and Kentucky w considering the question of abglishing slavery in their respective States; and would, d a doubt, have consummated that work had it indt been for the noise of tho abolitionists in the North. Had slavery been then abolished in those States it would have ended its powor on this continent, and the oe NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1865. other Southern States would have followed the | example, relieving the country of its curse peaceably and without a struggle, saving us all | the sacritice of blood and treasure of the last | four years. But this did not suit the purposes | of the abolitionists; they had taken hold of it tor political purposes ; and now that slavery is abolished and the black man has obtained his freedom, they continue their agitation, which is proof positive on that point, if there were no other facts at hand, to justify the aaser- tion. Soon after the organization of Tappan’s society, a Mr. Lovejoy, of St. Louis, who, as a clerk in a mercantile house in that city, proved his worthlessness in that pursuit, and was noted for bis constant bragging over desperate deeds which he had committed and how he escaped detection, tried his hand at journalism, and inaugurated his career by assailing a por- tion ot the foreign population and Irish Catho- lics, thus inciting strife among the citizens of that locality. In this he exhibited the same lack of principle which he had shown by his former boastings was his peculiar characteristic. This brought him into difficulties, and unable to get up sympathy in St. Louis, he croased the Mississippi into Dlinois, and there started an- other paper; and although he was known in St. Louis as one of the most bitter pro-slavery men there, he adopted the abolition doctrine in bis new field, declaring that all his trouble in St. Louis arose from his opposition to slavery. He thus became one of the saints of the aboli- tionists, dying, as they claim, a martyr to their cause. The Tribune now cites the fate of this man, and compares it with the present state of affairs as proof of the triumph of the aboli- tionists and aa evidence that they intend to continue their crusade regardless of conse- qnences until they accomplish their work. Subsequent to the formal organization of the negro party of the North certain adventurers of the lower order of French society started , Fourierite societies, which were also inaugu- rated in this country by the Tribune philoso- phers and other abolition agitators, By these they proposed to reform the world—inaugurate @ millenium of free and equal rights to all, black included. Societies instituted under that principle were mere brothels under an- other name, where social equality and connu-' bial intermingling was free and open to all. Blacks and whites sat down at the same table, and free love existed without any one to molest. These societies sprung up in different sections of the country, but were soon forced to subside before their own innate weakness and the pres- sure of public opinion. Unable to bring about the millenium in this form—when the aban- doned of all classes as well as blacks could in- termingle—these reformers again entered upon their old crusade against slavery. They con- tinued their agitation down through the various scenes—adopting the arguments of Sharpe’s rifles in one instance and Jobn Brown raids in others—until finally the whole nation was plunged into a civil war the most extensive known in the civilized world. This has resulted in the extinction of African slavery in this country. It would be reasonable to suppose that they would be content with this triumph ; but it seems to but encourage them toa con- tinuation of their fomentations. Like the Jaco- bins of France, their taste of blood has but sharpened their appetite for more. Unabie to obtain full political control of the nation through the abolition of slavery and free- dom of the blacks, they are renewing their efforts to accomplish that end in some other way. They now demand that the right of voting shall be universally con- ferred upon the blacks. Through this the7 hope to obtain full political supremacy throughout the country, and thus force upon us the Fourierite phalanx millenium which they failed to inaugurate at the oarly stage of their first crusade. This is evidently the end which they are laboring for, which is nothing more than the political reign of the abolitionists, with universal negro suffrage, universal free love and amaigamation of races. Such, at least, is the inevitable tendency of their new crusade, if their past course is any index to the future. Are the people ready for the inangura- tion of a millenium of that kind? If not, then | let one and all rally to the support of the prac- tical policy of President Johnson, and puta final quietus upon the new crusade of the abo- | litionista, of ,which the exponent of the Four- ierite phalanx doctrine, the Tribune, has be- come the special organ. ia A Now Illustration of an Ancient Fabie. In old times, as the story goes, a great mountain suddenly began a tremendous rumb- ling. As there was no Heratp in that remote period, the rumbling was the mountainous method of advertising. Consequently a num- ber of people assembled to see what was going to happen. As the noise continued popular expectation rose. Some said that a volcano would be developed and astonish the world. Others believed that the mountain would part asunder and reveal countless treasures of gold and silver and precious stones. Still the rumb- ling was kept up and still the excitement in- creased, until all at once there was silence, and out from the mountain sneaked a ridiculous mouse, which the nearest by-stander killed with a blow of his cane, and threw, as a tidbit, to his pet dog. No doubt this story is trite; but yet it hasa most recent application. A short time ago a new weekly paper was started with an over- whelming flourish of grand promises, great names and long advertisements. Every one supposed that the paper thus pretentiously an- nounced would absorb all the wisdom of the country and annihilate all other journals. The people waited for its appearance as they waited for the first sight of the Great Eastern, the big comet or the fat woman at the Museum fire, Editors of other papers began to reflect upon what would become of them when this new periodical should deprive them of their subscribers, their advortisements, their contri- butora and their bread and butter. The inter- val which elapsed between the announcement and the publication of this gigantic sheet was one of the most intense anxiety among all classes. The laying of the Atlantic cable has produced no such sensation. At last the‘new weekly was issued, and behold! it was another ridiculous mouse. It was so dull, so stupid, 6o inane that everybody wondered who could have writton it. That it yet lives is a striking proof of the mercy of Providence. We now propose to knook it over and send it to the dogs. The paper in question is advertised to deal with topics of the day, with literature, with science, with the fine arts and with finances, ; ference in favor of the new one. A child of three years of age could treat these subjects more wisely. It announces that among its contributors are Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, the poets; Samuel Eliot, ex-President of Trinity College, Hartford; Professor Torrey, of Harvard College; Profeasor Goldwin Smith, of Oxford University; Dr. Francis Lieber; Professor Child, of Harvard ; Professors Whit- ney and Gilman, of Yale; Professor Dwight, of Columbia College; Professor Taylor Lewis, of Schenectady; Judge Bond, of Baltimore; James Parton, the biographer; Judge Daly, of New York; Bayard Taylor, of the Triune; William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist; Edmund Quincy, the essayist; Frederick Law Olmstead, the Rev. Dr. Bellows, Judge Wayland, the Rev. Dr. McClintock, the Rev. Dr. Thompson, and others more or less distinguished. Now, as we can find no evidences of the contributions of these gentlemen in the paper itself, we ask if they have authorized the use of their names? If they have not, the advertisements are a swin- dle; and if they have, we sigh over the degen- eracy of American writers. Can it be possible | that such men have penned the scrappy stu- pidities with which the paper is filled? Can they not originate one bright idea, one brilliant sentence among them? We prefer to think that the whole affair is bogus. Perhaps, like the Post bulletins or the signs of a Bowery show, all the attractions are intended to be in the advertisement. There area great many long names hung up outside; but within is nothing- ness. The mountain rumbles loudly, but it only brings forth a little mouse. The Atlantic Telegraph—The Girdle Round the Earth. The news of the Atlantic telegraph cable is of the most promising character. The latest date from the great enterprise is to Thursday, July 27, at which time the Great Eastern had ald gat’ the. fyenty-sevon millon of ‘the shore end cabie, and three hundred miles of the deep sea cable. She had then been at work six days, having begun operations on Satur- day, the 22d ult, at eight A. M. She had averaged, therefore, in the first six daya only two miles an hour, which was going slow- ly. It must be remembered, however, that one of these days was occupied in landing the shore end and ‘paying out the first twenty-seven mites. Nearly the whole of the second day, Sunday, 23d ult., was consumed in making the splice between the shore end and the ocean cable proper. Tho paying out of the latter cable was begun on that day, at twenty- five minutes past four P. M. Another de- lay occurred on Monday, in the afternoon, when it was discovered that- there was some defect in the insulation of the cabie. Preparations were immediately made to run under the cable laid and find this defect ; but it proved to be due to a kink, apparently in a part of the cable still on the ship, as that laid was not taken up. All was repaired and going on properly on the 25th, and on the 27th three hundred miles were down and the electrical power was very strong. If we accept the rate of speed of the first fout days during which the Great Eastern was laying tho deep sea cable as a fair average (three miles per hour), the steamer will not be dae on this side for several days yet; but her rate of speed will in- crease within a certain limit with every mile of cable paid out, and there is no reason to sup- pose that she will have from mid-ocean such delays as characterized the operations with the shore line—the splice and the defect al- luded to. The Atlantic telegraph is the great topic of the time—the paramount subject just now in almost every man’s thoughts; and we therefore lay before our readers to-day a full history of the grand enterprise, as well as an account of the other great electrical communications that girdle the earth. Our account of the present cable undertaking shows, by comparison with the former attempt, how much greater the chances now are for success. The map we give shows very distinctly the comparison of the two cable routes, with a very considerable dif- This route also has other differences in ita favor not leas important, the deacription of whioh will be found in the account. It will be seen that the construction of the present cable is aiso supe- rior in every respect to the first one, it being hardly possible that the present cable can fall a victim to the imperfect insulation that per- haps proved fatal to the other. We also give, as part of this history, the profile of tiie sub- marine plateau on which the cable is to lie, and on which, by this time, the greater portion of it is perhaps safely deposited. Our other map shows the wonderful extent to which the vari- ous most distant parts of the world will eventu- ally be brought into daily communication with one another by the telegraph. Of the lines shown in this map, that from London to Cal- cutta, by way of the Mediterranean, is in opera- tion. That by way of Denmark, Sweden and St. Petersburg, across the Russian Empire towards the mouth of the Amoor, is built for a great distance, but not all the way to the Pacific coast. That through Pekin and Canton to Australia is projected. So ia that from San Francisco through South America, as well as that from the Amoor river across Behring Strait and through Russian America to the Columbia river; but the ground for the latter line is now being surveyed both in Asia and America. We give in smaller diagram the three points at which it is proposed to pass Behring Strait. The result of this immense inter-continental telegraph system must be in every way benefi- cial to the human race. Aside from the en- lightenment that the introduction of this piece of modern civilization may carry into hitherto unenlightened segions—aside from the dark- ness that it may possibly dissipate, the igno- rance that it may dethrone—we can see its very practical benefit within the pale of civili- zation in its inevitable commercial results. Space and time, so far as they have made the common products of one clime bear often a fabulous value in another, are annihilated. The merchant in New York may sell the rice that is still in China with the same fulness of know- ledge in relation to it that he would have if it were in his city warehouse. The weeks and months of uncertainty that made it impossible for him to count upon his Chinese cargo are obliterated. In the same way between Europe and America, as between New York and New Orleans, the telegraph must equalize the prices of commodities, and men need not pay exorbitant rates in one city for that which rota in another. Apply this single fact to all the concerns of life and it will be found how high the telegraph must ever stand in the rank of those things that reudor the misses everywhere more comfortable and happy. Its political effects will also be great. It draws nations into a closer bond of amity, and ren- ders purely political war hardly possible. How many a heart has been pained when, having read the glorious story of the battle of New Orleans, they have found gt the last that that battle was fought after the treaty of peace had been signed—that it was an unnecessary slaughter. Such slaughters will never occur where nations are joined by telegraphic wires. Had there been an international telegraph when the Trent case occurred that case would have been settled in @ day, and the British government would have saved the immense amount of money that it cost to send a useless ten thousand soldiers to Canada. We might go on illimitably with such instances, but it is sufficient to say at once that under this grand telegraphic system there is reason to hope that the whole world will feel that impulse of pro- gress which has carried our own people for- ward in sucha grand career of national de- velopment. i PermaNency oy Supmariwwe CaBies.—It may be imagined that because the submarine cable in'the Bay of Fundy has become defeo- tive after being in operation for six or seven years that the Atlantic cable will also share that fate after a lapse of time. This, however, by no means follows. The cable laid in the Bay of Fundy was immensely thick, and con- structed upon very easy ideas of submarine cables. It was not protected sufficiently against abrasion, and consequently after several years grating upon the rocky bottom of the Bay of Fundy, it is found to be corroded and its con- tinuity lost. This is very different with the cable which the Great Eastern is depositing. Nearly eight years’ experience has been con- tributed to make it perfect. Every wire is protected by aceparate sontog of gatia percha and hemp, so that Tis almost impossible for it to be eaten away. The bottom of the ocean, too, has been ascertained, by soundings, to be soft, and covered with a fine deposit of shells, The shore end at both sides of the Atlantic will be braced with stout cables, which, no doubt, in the course of time, will become im- bedded in the soft bottom of the ocean, and will there be preserved for all time. The giving out of the cable in the Bay of Fundy, then, it will be seen, is no argument against the proba- ble perpetuity of the Atlantic cable. An Ace or Magnrrupe.—We live in the age of great events. Everything which is done now is onasecale of magnitude never before con- templated. The gigantic Atlantic cable is being laid by the largest ship in the world. The Suez Canal, uniting the Mediterranean and Red Seas, will soon be completed. The tun- nel through the Alps at Mount Cenis will find no impediment to its successful construction by the discovery of almost impenetrable quartz. Tho Hoosic tunnel will be a fait accompli. The city of Chicago is about to be supplied with water from Lake Michigan by a tunnel bored under its bed. In this city, on Saturday, we had another evidence of the magnitude with which things are done in these days. Six enormous boilers, one of which alone weighed sixty tona, were safely put on board the gunboat Dunder- berg with mechanical precision, and an ease which to those uninitiated in the business looka positively marvellous, The ponderous ma- chinery, the largest ever built, was deposited in the bull of the largest iron-clad ever con- steacted without the slightest difficulty or dia- aster. These are a few of the worka of im- mense magnitude which characterize the pres- ent age. City Intelligence. Foxera, Seavioe sy Tax Rev & D. Moreay. —Mias Isabolla T Kirkman, a young lady loug and favorably known as a member of the congregation of the Mariners’ hurch, and of the several charitable and religious insti- tutions attached thereto, died recently, in thiscity A fow days previous to ler death, she requested that a fu neral service should be held in proseace of the pupils of the Sunday school, and of the congregation generally In compliance with her last wish, yesterday, solemn prayora were offered up and an eloquent discourse do: livered by the pastor, Rev. B.D Murphy, at his bose of worship, located at the corner of Catharine and Madison streets. After alluding the many virtues and to (he sincere piety of the deceased in his sermon, the text of which read, ‘Precious in tho aight of the Lord is the death of his saints,’’ ho impressed upon his deply affected hearers the lesson which the death of one so young, #0 devo::t and so carnest in the causa of roligion, ahould teach alike to the aged and to the youthfu! of them all. The discourse was listened to with marked at- tention. Fata Rattroap Accioayt.—The boy injured on the Morris and Badox Railroad on Wodnesday last was the cond son of Morgan L. Curtis, of this city, and was on @ vit to bis uncle, Mr. Sturges, living in High street, Ho was in company with two other boya, and had beon fishing near the stone bridge, about two miles from the Passaic river They were all sitting upon the coping of the bridge, about ten feet from the track, when the ex- prose train’ approached with great speed, and fearing the steam @ engine, which, in consequence of re- versal, was escaping very fast, might scald them, two of them ran across to the other side, and in attempting to follow his companions David 8. Curtis was struck by the locomotive on the héad and remained insensible to the time of his death, which occurred about half-past two on pdinne Ape gay -ny9 Deceased was eleven years and four months of age at the time of his death. Fina i Toro Avewvs.—Shortly after eight o'clock las night a fire occurred in the grocery store of Frederick Britner, located on Third avenue, between Seventy-ninth and Kightieth streeta. Tho whole of the premiscs was destroyed. Loss estimated on stock about $1,000; said to be insured. Thie building is estimated at about $3,000. It belonged to Jonathan Polly. The origin ot the fire is suspicious, as Fire Marshal was sent for Pa Twenty-third precinct police to investi- it. building was four stories and imsured for 000 im the Importers’ and Traders’ Insurance Com- y. Mr. Britner is insured for in the Gebhard lasurance Company. On the second O'Con- ner reskied, on the third floor C. H. Polly, and on the fourth floor Alexander Robinson and Mrs. C. E. Smith ‘The New Canadian Premier—A Orists in the © Quunac, August 5, 1866. John A. Macdonald has been called in es Premier, ia Place of Mr. Taché, deceased. Groat excitement exists im consequence on the part of the friends of George Brown, to whom that position belongs. Ramors are our- reat of a probable breaking up of the Cabinet. Fire at Portland. Bostrom, August 6, 1866. A fire ocourred this morning at half-past five in the Evans’ building in Middle street, oooupied by Lewis, Rollins & Bond, clothing dealers, who lost $5,000 to $0,000; insured for $7,000. The fire broke out in the third itory, used as their manufacturing room, and ex- tended to the second story, occupied by ,Merrills & Lewalls, jobbers and dealers in fancy goods, who lost $10,000 to $12,000; insured for $6,000. The fire was extinguished quickly. The bailding was damaged to the oxtont of $2,000 to $3,000, chiefly caused by water and omoke Fire at Troy. ‘Tror, August 6, 1865. A threatening fire occurred in the lower part of the city this afternoon, destroying over 1,000 cords of wood, belonging to the Hudson River Railroad Company, at the Adams stroet dopot. The flames were stayed in the midst of an immonse quantity of wood by the united efforts of the steam fire engines of this city, Weat Troy and Lansingbarg. At one time the whole southern seotion of the cl'y was in daugor, ‘The cara and locomo- ti foly Otto ges was ten pe. 1 parity tote tet Toot ro rio oul ins ol by syart t.% OUR NBOTRAL POSITION ON THE TEXAS FROWFIEB. is enjoined to ® strict and faithful observance of the instructions heretofore issued, which require him ts forbear from any form of intervention in the war be tween France and the sovereign Power of Mexico, o# which President Juares continues to be recognized a the chief. APPLICATIONS FOR PERMISSION TO VISIT JmyP. ecutive authorities for special permission to visit Jeffer son Davis, Ono of these was made by hia former phys. cian, who, at the request of his family, desires to pre fessionally ascertain the actual condition of that ind vidual’s health. To this no answer has yet been made ‘The government, however, has abundant means of com stantly being advised on that subject; and so far as & known here the prisoner's health is not suffering from hia present treatment. GENARAL GRANT CONFERRING KBWARDS ON BRAVE ters were received py General Grant late last winter from enthusiastic in: country, enclosing small sums of money to be given a @ reward to the first person in the military service of the over the city of Richmond. The following letter from General Grant explains the disposition made of thé eee eeaeeaae OT Wasernctos, August 6, 1688. The General commanding the Department of Tems Davis. Several applications have lately been mae to the es SOLDIERS. Readers of the Henan will recollect that several let viduals in different sections of the United States who should pliant the Stars and Strjpea money :— secre 8M, Heanquarrens ARMin: oF THe Usrren Srarms, Wactixgro, July 22, 1866. To Sorgeant Davin W. Yousc, One Hundred and Thirty. ninth regimont Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers:— ‘The sum of four hundred and sixty dollars was sent to me by patriotic citizens, to be presented as a reward for gallantry to the soldier wh iid first raise our flag ¢ over Richmond. As Richmond was not taken by assault T have concluded that the donors’ wishes will be carried out by dividing the sum between the three sol- dirs most conspic.ous for gallantry in the tinal and sue- cosafii) assault on Petersburg. You have been selected jeneral H. G. Wright, command ng the Sixth ps, as entitled to this honor on behalf of that nd, and T herewith prosent to you one hundred ‘ty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, as one third of the original sum. Itatfords’ me groat satisfaction te receive from your commanding general such unqualified testimony of your gallantry and heroism in battle, amd t be the medium for transmiiting to you this recognition the worth of your services in defence of our common country, 1. 3, GRANT, Lieutensut General The following named soldiers received similar Letters and the same amount of money :-Sergeaut Thomas Mo. Graw, Company B, Twenty-third regiment Indiana Volum. teers, selected by Major General John Gibbon for the Twoyty-fourth army corps; Corporal Jacob R. Tucker, Company 4, Fourth regiment Maryland Volunteers, e lected by Mayor Genorat Charles Gritin for the Fifth ariny corps GEN: L BUTLER’S ERRAND TO THE CAPITAL. of Genoral Butler's recent visit to Washing- to have been to secure the pardon of Mmm nid other ladies of New Orleaus; but whether he acted in the capacity of a paid attorney or a party interest in the property to be reclaimed, or ase dis interested friend, is left for the public to conjecture The pardons were obtained on Friday, and General Butler left for New York on the evening train. He was unable to obtain au interview with the President during his stay. ‘TAS INDIAN TRIBES OF NEW MEXICO. Tho Secretary of the Interior Department and Com missioner of the Indian Bureau, with other officials, have now under advisement a readj:stment of our relations with the tribes of New Mexico It is represcuted that certain propositions from the Society of Friends in Phila delphia baye been received at this department, which point to certain reforms in the government system now in vogue in the Indian country, aud which crave the privitege of aiding in the readjustment proposed. It te said that Secretary Harlan left last evening for Philadel- phia, with a view to a persoual consideration with the Society of the suggestions it bad advanced. At «late hour yesterday afternoon Commissioner Corley, of the Indian Bureau, had intended to accompany the formen, Erasmus Paulson, of Philadelphia, had been reappointed’ Penston Agent for that city STATISTICS OF WOKSTED MANUFACTURES. The Consus Bureau has taken up the examunation of the returns in worsted.goods for 1860. The returns feos these goods embrace all wool and cotton warp. Mouseline delainea, barege, cashmere, &c., for ladies’ dresses, are mainly produced in three leading establishments im the United states. Those are the Manchester Print Works te Now Hampshiro, the Paciiic Mills at Lawrence, and the Hamilton Woollen Company's Works at South Bridge, Masa The axgrogate product of these catablishmeats 1860 was estimated at twenty-two millions seven bua dred and fifty thousand yards, which was valued at three millions seven huudred and one thousand three hundreé and soventy-eight dollars. The annual cost of the labor of such production was five hundred and forty-three thow sand #:x hundved and eighty-four dollars. Ono thoussn@‘ two huadred aod seventy-seven female and one thow sand oue buadrod and one male operatives were thus employed The cost of the raw material used in this production waa two millions four hundred and forty-twe thousand seven hundred and seveoty-five dollars. The number of pounds of cotton used in the yearly mane facture was oue million six hundred and fifty-three thou- sand and three millions of pounds of wool The capttel invested : estimated at thrée millions two hundred em@ thirty thousand dollars, CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTBRN RAILROAD. The General Land Office bas received from the Gow ernor of Wisconsin a map noting the change of route of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, authorized by ‘ the resolution of Congress and approved April 26, 186% As originally located, this road ran in a northwesterly @- rection from the town of Apploton, on the Fox river, te the State line between the States of Wisconsin and Michi gan. As changed, the road follows along the river to the mouth of the Menonomee river. The above resolution further provided that the State of Wisconsin should have the lands upon the ine as originally located, and that the even sections thus situated should be reduced to the ordinary minimum, aad upon tité river line each section should’ be increased to double the minimum price. THE SOUTHERN RAILROADS. A general effort is being made by the officers and stoom- holders of Southern railroads to regain their possession * from the military authorities and to obtain such credit a the North as will enable them to replenish their rolling, stock and otherwise prepare them for the transaction of business. Mr. West, President of the Mississippi Rail- road; Mr. Schackloford, President of the New Orieana, Jeckson and Great Northern Railroad, runoing from New Orleans to Canton; Sam. Tate, President of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad; Milton Brown, President of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad; Mr. Woodruff, President ef the road from Memphis to Louisville, and Mr. Pritcharé, Superintendent of the road from Selma to Meridian, are ‘all in Washington at present, hoping to make some ar. ¢ General Grant in Quebee. Quenac, August 6, 1668. Goneral Grant and family, with the staff, arrived here at half-past seven o'clock, met at the depot by Colonel Bérnard, of eral Monck’s staff, and escorted to Russell's Hotel. Large crowds of citizens assembled at and received the General with cheers. His arrival at hotel was quite private, only a few persons being red about the doors at the time. It is not certain Gonoral Grant leaves. His course will be decided morrow. Genoral Grant dines with the Governor General te ‘Morrow, to meet Admiral Hope, of the British Navy, has just arrived with the British war steamers Styx and Litfey. Fil i? 4 é jfleal. Meyerbeer's L'Africaine was produced in London op the 224 ult, The critics seem to differ even more thas doctors, The Times asserta that it was received with unanimous favor, and tays:—\Happy the master whose last melodious inspiration could so eloquently prove how great ‘a loss he was to the art he professed and adorned."" ‘The critic of the Morning Herald, on the contrary, says that, though applause might be called enthusiastic, there was no furor; that there is an “absence of melodic inspf- ration in the composer ;" that “the musto is uninviting And ©von wearisome.” All (he papers, however, agree 6) s10,009, 7 tine the Peto is unesually alsurd, and will da much te 6 ay tee Or