The New York Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1865, Page 4

; f ‘ ‘ a RRR ERT ee 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON SRYEOTP, Urrivs N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash in advance, Money seat by mail will be ‘at the risk of the sender, None but bank bills curreat in Now York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. VME WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Vive cents per copy. Annual subscription price: — One Copy... . $2 ‘Three Copies 5 Five Copies. Ton Copies. Postage five cents per copy for three months. Any larger numbor addressed to names of subscribers $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club Forten. Twenty copies toione address, one year, $25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be gent to clubs of twonty. These rates make the Wee ry Heap the cheapest pudlication in the country. The Evrorgan Eprmion, every Wednesday, at Six cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or 96 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. ‘The Canvorxta Epitioy, on the Ist and 16th of each month, at Six cents per copy, or $3 per annum. Apvertisanents, to-2 lmited number, will be inserted Inthe Weewty Hzaaco, the European and Califoruia Editions. Volume XXX....00.066 = —— 0. 239 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Piccovimo—An- anp CusoPatRa. ror NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery —Dareau or Des- winy—Jouty Cosarer. WINTER OARDEN, Broadway.—Bansux's Mosnom Company, Mipsicnt Assautt—Love Amoxa tun Bossers— Nicouo Fawice Open Day and Eveuing NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway,—Annau sa Pogue; oR, ug Wicktow Weppine. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway —Cotcean Bawn, WOOD'S MINSTREL BALL, 51¢ Broadway. —Bri Gonos, Daxoks, &c.—Hanpy Anvr—Ruwsing tus Buor aN ie AELLER'S HALL, 585 Broadway.—San Fraxcrsco Min. rexie—Etuiorian Singing, Dancixa, &c.—Tur Brack Buigape. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 20! Bowery.—Sina- «xe, Danctne, Buniasquss, 40 —Vou-ac- Vest Grorce Cari: t Rascat Jake. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe: ‘s Mar erruts in Songs, Dances, &c.—' NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10.4. M. till 10 P.M. New York, Friday, Augast 11, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. of the New York Dally Newspapers. OFFICtAaL. Recetpts or 8. Year Ending Moy 1, 1965.~ +. 161,095 000 «os 868,150 see 262,000 + 169,427 Name of. a Henacp, » ‘Tribune...., Evening Post... World..... 100,000 Bun... ..see 161,079 Express..... 90,648 Naw York HERALD. 0.0.0. ceeeeseeeese4+82,005,000 ‘Timea, Tribune, World and Sun combined., 871,329 THE ATLANTIC CABLE. Our Account of the Atla: Cable In the Weekly Herald. We shall publish in the Wesuuy Heraco this eek the full and elaborate account of the Atlan- c oable, with the maps and engravings given in ur edition of Monday, together with the latest ews from the Great Eastero to tho borr of going to press. THE NEWS. Important intelligence regarding the progress of Hostilities between Paraguay and Brazil was brought by the steamship Saladin, which arrived at thie port yesterday, (rom Rio Janeiro on the 6th ult The war has opened in earnest, three severe engagements hav- Ing been fought up to the 26th of June =A stubboraly contested naval battle between the Meets of the two mations took place on the 11th of that month on tho Parana fiver, in which there is said to have been great slaughter on both sides, the Brazilians cla:ming the victory. The Paraguayans had captured the town of Sap Borgia, on the Uruguay tiver, and it 43 reported that they put to death the entire Bra. zilian garrison, On the 25th of June tho tacked the Paraguay orrientes, and. ‘ight, took the town at the point of the tayonet, but wore immediately after compelled to retire, im conte. ‘quence of ascertaining that large reinforcements for the'r opponents were near at hand In the meantime iarge Dodies of troops on both sides were movicg for imporiact ‘objective points, and other severe battier have ac doubt aiready been fought. The treaty of allen.e betwoen Brazil, the Argentine Confederation and Uraguay was defnitively ratified on the 14th of Juno We publish this morning tu full the proclamation of Proviatonal Governor Parsors, of Alabama, to the people of that State, a synopsie of which appeared in the Heraro of tho 26th ult. The 31st of this month is the day uamed for clecting delegates, and the 10th of next month for the delegates to asremble in Sinte convention Sho Governor also on the 25th ult. issued ap official order wf tnstructions to those as of obtaining the Presi. ential pardon, giving a list of questions, in eleven dis ‘Cinct paragraphs, to which they will be required to av- Bwor explicitly. The opinion of Attorney General Speed, given ip writing previous to tho trial, in response to President Jovnson's inquiry whether (be conspirators in the plot which resulted Im th seination of President Lincolo should be tried by a civil or military court, bas been printed, and we give a #foopeis of it this morning He mail hat during « time of wara military tribune ex. ints under and according tothe constitution; that it isthe duty of the military not only to Aight the public enemies of the country in open battle, but to pursue, capture, try Bnd execute secret enermi | made by Mr Jour Parker, caster of ust institution, whick the prisoner is charged with baving, ducing the last two years, ombezaled of the moneys of ihe bank the aunou ed. An investigation of the matter will Jenkins is forty wine yours at ap carly day boon considered an upright man A suit has been commenced by counsel on behalf of some of the leading bunkers and brokers in Wall street to restrain the United States Iaternal Revouue Assessor from levying, and ollector thereof from demanding, contain taxes, aow claimed upon alt aalos mado by brokers on their own account, the samo as for stocks, &e., sold on commission. The contestants claim under ‘a Inte decision of Judge Nelson as grounds for their action, the rst step of which ts an application for an in junction to stay the collection of the tax. United States Assistant District Attorney Samuel G. Courtney contests the application, on the ground that, Judge Nelson's dect- gion having becn appealed from, the taxes must be pald till further rullag is mado, and also that the equitable powers of the court could not be tavoked in a caso of this kind, There was a largo aumber of cases disposed of yoster- day in the Court of Goneral Seasiona. A notorious thief, named John Honry, the ex-Presidont of the Forty Thioves Cub (‘4 Mackorelvilte boys"), was sont to tho State Prison for dve years on @ plea of burglary. Three men, named Munday, Casey and Gordon, also guilty of burglary, were sent to the State Prison for five yoars. Manuel Oliver, who was in the pabit of stealing the Jewelry of the inmates of disreputable houses, was sentenced to the Sing Sing Prison for the same period, Joseph Butler, convicted of robbery in the frst degree, as sentenced to the ‘State Prison for ten years. “A number of other prisoners were sentenced for various offences, Surrogate Tucker having ordered tho cstate of the ‘Yale Colonel Audrew J. Butler to be inventoried and ‘Appraised, Genoral Benjamin ¥, Butlor, the oxecutor, yesterday applied for the appointment of two appraisers, and the Surrogate appointed for that duty Messrs. Algernon 8. Sullivan and Thoodore Martine. It ts stated that the personal property of the deceased will be found to amount to over haif a million. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction adopted a resolution yesterday to invite Governor Fenton to visit the penal and charitable institutions of the city. The tumbers in the institutions have not varied matorially 6ince the last report made to the Commissioners. An extensive fire occurred in Brooklyn yosterday after- noon, It broke out about half-past twelve o'clock in the morocco factory on the corner of Kent avenue and Taylor street, and, spreading with great rapidity, soon extended to the large glass house: adjoining, and in lees than two hours both buildings were entirely destroyed. ‘The ecutire loss is estimated at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Three firemen who were on top of the gtass hause were plunged into the burning building by the falling of the roof, They were all three, however, rescried; but one of them mot with such severe injuries that his recovery is considered doubtful. Avother meeting of the votorans of the army and navy at preaent out of employment was held yesterday fore- noop at Pythagoras Hall, Canal street, to complete the arrangements for their parade through the city, which is to take place to-day, for the purpose of presenting their claims ina body, for such positions as they are qualified to fill, to the authorities and large employers. The pro- cession will torm at tho corner of Bowery and Canal atreet about nine o'clock this morning, and, preceded by &@ military band, will march through “the Bowery, Chatham and Chambers streets to the City Hall, thence through Nassau aod Wail strects tothe Custom House and the adjacent haunts of the money changers, and thence through Broadway and various up town strects, The altendaice on the Saratoga Springs tee course was aga:n very targe yesterday. Thore were two caceg— as.ogte dash of a mile and a half, known as the soiling face, and the ihree mile race, for a purse of one thon- sand doiiars. Tho Arst was won by Throgsneck in two minutes and forty-two seconda, and tho second by Fleet- wing, intwo airaight beats, the time of the Grat heat being Ave minutes and thirty-one and three-quarters teconds, and of the second hoat five minutes and forty. Qing seconds, The time inthe Grst heat of this tatter race was (he fastest which has been made at the North. The examivalion was resumed yesterday before United States Commissionor Nowton, in Brooklyn, of tho alleged frauds (a the Brookiyn Navy Yard, and there wae con siderable additional dvidence taken, principally in regard to the bookcases, desks and other furniture, 50 much alluded to in previous testimony, said to havo been manu. faotured in the yard by the defendants, Nothing particu- larly important, however, was elicited. The case was ad- journed till Monday next. 4 coroner's inquest was held yestorday over the ro mains of Mra. Priscilla C. Ellorby, of Tarrytown, a widow lady aged forty years, another of the victims of tho ex- Plosion 90 board the steamboat Arrow, on Saturday last, whose body was found floating In the North river, off the foot of 108th street, on Wednesday afternoon. The German Liederkrang association held thoir eecond summer night's festival of this season fast night at Jones’ Wood, and designed contiauing the festivities till daylight tha morning. They had music, dancing, fire- works, foastiag, drinking, fu illim:lable and amuse ments of various other kinds. Dr Swinburne, Health OMcor of the port, has sent us ich we publish this morning, in against him and the maoagem:at of Quarantine generally, contained in the report of the apecial committee of tho Shipcwners’ Association, given io yesterday's Heracy. He reviews the report at some length, and says that tt ia full of errors and m.srepresen tations. Tho State Department in Washington bas beon in formed by our Consul io Malta that the cholera is raging there fearfully. Communication with the adjacent islands has been suspended; but the eteamers stii! con- tinue to ran between Engiand and Malta, thus giving the dreaded disease a chance to spread beyond the Mediter. rapean. General A. H. Terry, the tero of Fort F sher, aud at present commanding the Department of Vargrnia, has boen promoted tothe rack of brevet major geaera! in the regular army. Vice Admiral Farragut, who hes becn spending the summor at Rye Beach, hag deen complimented during scm by two enterta‘nments by tho <'eitors at that place The second of these, which wage bril fair, took place on last Tueeday night at one of tho fashionable botels, and comprised a reception, a dance ‘and a supper. Mosby, the rebel guerilla, recently arrived in Alosan dria, Va, from Warrenton, to apply for edmitinace to the bar of the former town, when he was arrested by the mill. tary authorities and placed tn confivement, op charce of having broken bis parole. There was another large sale of yessela by the govern ment at the Philadelphia Navy Yard yesterday, some twenty five being disposed of, including tugs, aide wheel and screw steamers, barks, brige and schooners Harry Leslie, the great Niagara Falls ropo walker, while performing yestorday, when over tho middle of the river, slipped and came very near falling into the raging waters beneath. He, however, regained hia footing and returned in safety to the shore. General Grant way one of the witnesses of the thrilling scone. Yesterday oceurred the anniversary to honor of St Lawrence, one of the saints celebrated in tho history of the Catholic charch in Ireland, The day was appropri- ately observed in a number of the places of worship of of the President boing Tepublic in the person of ite Chief cused of the crime are clearly amenable to mi The Navy Department hay received intelligen the rebel pirate Sbenandoab, before leaving Australia Tor her carcer of plundering and burping tn the North Pacific, Look on board at Melbourne twelve hundred tons of coal, and that her present Orat Houtenant, who joined ‘Der thet ¢ up the command of an English steamer to enliat io her piratical service. ' The Republican State Convention of Maine met in Port- land yesterday, and unanimously renominated for Gover- nor Samuel Cony, the preseot lacumbent Resolutions ‘were unanimously adopted congratulating the country on th oe8s of the uational arme and the ox! tion of , and thanking the army a vy ‘or; Pressing confidence im President Jobnson, asserting the Tight of the colored people to the exercise of the elective franchise, maintaining that (he Southern pospio Phoutd Ge kept under provisional governments tintit it bas been Proved safe to trust them alty, apd that they ‘should not be atmitted fo reprosentation in Congress Until they have prouibited glavery in State consti tutions and removed color disabilities, and urging (hg pordy trial and punishment of Joi, Dyvis thats Ao alleged tmimonse bank defalcation in this city, ating to (Wo hyndred and fifty thousand ‘doilurs ‘aa yestorday brought to the attention of the authorities, jonry B. Jonkins, for many years past the paying teller - the Phenix Bank, 4% Wall stroct, was arfosted and com (ted for examination an tho stew wth of ao atta it that denomination in this city. There were severe bail and rain atorma in Wisconsin apd Minnesota on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, which did tmmense damage to the crops, In four counties of the former State it is estimated that damage to the extent of three or four hundred thousand dollars was done. One of the govornment farma for the employment of freedmen {9 located on the Patuxent river, io Mary. land, This farm, according to the account of a contem- porary, embraces about thirty thousand acres; but only about twenty-two hundred acres aro now under cultiva- tion, much of the land being still covered with timber. From seven to eight hundred gegroes are emplored here, principally ta raising corn and tobacco, fing grops of which are produced, from which, aftey pabing al] Qk: penees, a considerable tnoome to tho goyoraifient ts realized, The freed are gonorall, i 4 wea code ott Walaa cod tat. The Rad eek receive ten dollars a mi M16 the old and disabled are well taken carg of, and schools aro ostablished for the children, i The stock orkst AY SUPOHE VOM AAy HAFAtOE, but | father 4*2¥y in the afternoon, Goverumenis wore hrm. Gold was weak, and cloved op the street at 142%;, and at night at 142 There was no material change in the complexion of mmercial alfairs yeatorday, though domestic produce was irregular Imported merchandise was quiet a* a | general thing, but fem, and tho valoa were at full prices. Covion wor datt and heavy Petrotoum waa dell and NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST HL, 1865. in | dectining. Groceries were iw moderate request, without ossontial change im prices. On ‘Chango there was a large business in flour and grain, mainly on Western account, at higher prices; but the market closed dull. Provisions wore decidedly lower, now mess pork closing al $32 (2. Whiskey was dull aed oearly aomnal. Munictpal Corruption E; plified—The Duty of the Noxt Legislature. We publish in another column this morning an official communication from Comptroller Brennan to the Common Council, in which he thoroughly exposed a job which had been engi- neered through that body by the municipal “ping.” If the Tribune and those other journals which have constituted themselves the defenders of corruption, and demand of us specifications of the charges which we have made against the Corporation, will carefully peruse this docu- ment they will Gnd proof positive of the truth of our assertions, We have alread: ted. out the Plere aod horse hits oe a schemes to be denounced; we now add this gas swindle, upon the aufbority of the Comptroller himself, and we shall bave something to say by and by in relation to the Battery enlargement project. ‘These are specifications enough, we should think, to satisfy the Tribune and other champions of the “ring,” and we now call upon them to meet these charges or to enter a plea of guilty, as the Tribune’ has done in regard to the piers and wharves concern, On the 30th day of last December the Com- mon suddenly terminated the contracts. of the gas companies which light our streets, upon the receipt of a notice to that effect from the companies, and also ordered the Street Commissioner to make new contracts with these companies, practically at the companies’ own price. No reason whatever was assigned for this astounding action. The city held valid contracts for lighting the streets which had several years to run. The gas companies had a monopoly of the business, and could make the new contracts to suit themselves, Thus the city was placed entirely at the mercy of the gas monopoly, and the members of the Common Council, without offering the slightest excuse, justification or motive for their course, con- sented that this monopoly should take several more millions of dollars from the city treasury for performing work which was already con- tractéd for at a lower price. Mayor Gunther, who bas pretended to be a reformer, stayed down town and signed and approved the reso- lutions the same day they were passed. One week afterwards Street Commissioner Cornell advertised for proposals for the new contracts. Had not the Comptroller, alarmed at the gigan- tic proportions of the job, put his foot down and refused to open the proposals, and had not the Heratp and our citizens generally indig- nantly denounced the whole affair, the atrocious scheme would bave been consummated, and we would now be paying double, or more. than double, the presont price per lamp for lighting onr streets, ‘he celertty with whiol this Job was cuxbed through the mon Council, the smooth- ness with which all the machinery was worked, show it to have been one of the operations of the “ring.” Although millions of dollars were involved in the schome, it passed the Common Council without even being referred to a com- mittee. Although it bore corruption on its very face, Mayor Gunther made haste to sign it on the day of ils passage. "Although it was for the interest of the city to get the work done as cheaply as possible and to escape the inflictions of a monopoly, the Street Commissioner imme- diately districted the city so that the present companies could not be interfered with, leav- ing them at liberty to name their own terms. Thus the Common Council, the Mayor and the Street Commissionor acted in concert to deprive the city of the valid contracts now existing, and to subject it to such contracts as the gas compa- nies might choose to offer. It is said that the Mayor is interested in one of the compa- nies to be affected by this change of the con- tract price; but, whether this be true or not, it needs no argument to convince any candid mind of the intrinsic corruption of the whole affair. Why should the city give up valid con- tracts, beneficlal to her, in order te make others, beneficial only to the gas companies? What would be thought of a business man who should adopt such a course? Suppose the Mayor or the Street Commissioner were to act | in this way in regard to their private affairs — offering people more than they bad agreed to take for their goods—how long would they be out of the lunatic asylum? But, whon officials deliberately throw up the city’s valid contracts and place as at the mercy of monopolies, they do it for some other reason than insanity. We ask the Tribune what that reason is? Let the champions of corruption face the facts if they can. This exposure of the detestable “ring” sys- tem by which our city is governed ought to convince the most skeptical of the necessity of a thorough municipal reform. We bave called upon Governor Fenton to remove the Mayor, the Street Commissioner and the other beads of departments ; but another “ring” seems to have been formed, embracing the State as well as the city, and our appeals have been unan- awered by any practical action. The people, bowever, have this matter in their own hands, and if they will resolve to vote for no candi- date not pledged to the reforms so urgently demanded we can elect a Legislature next fall which will abolish the present corrupt system of government altogether, and give us a metro- politan Mayor and a clean, compact and pure municipality. The next election will hinge upon this question, and whichever party takes it up will be assured of success, In national affairs there is now no opportunity for a contest. Both republicans and democrats profess to support President Jobnson, and neither of them will dare risk an open opposition to his policy. Snch an oppo- sition may be attempted in Congress by a “ring” of radicals and copperheads; but it will not enter into our State election. The only vital issue, then, will be that of city re- forms throughout the State. If the republicans throw away their advantage by refusing to raise the refo, rd, the demooratic party oan be den and conquer by adopting the feform policy. Let our very best me} bé sent 10 the Regt Hegilare, case Seng date with the least taint of corruption bs elected in any district. It will be the duty of that Legislature to iftaug ih require and demand, end pe ¢ nat who will perform isis duty faithfully, Our citizens must look to thelr own ini? 4 outrageods repeal of valid contracts io swindle is conoluatve evidence that tho “ring” will atop at nothing to rob and defrand us. Lot us be equally determined to affect @ thor- ovgh aad immediate reform Max Marotzek, His New Actists and the Next Opera Season. Max Maretzok bas returned to this olty from Europe, having engaged several alngers for the next Opera season. Max of the Opera is more ofa man of business than Max of the empire ; for he went to Europe in person, while Max!- milian sent an agent. But when Maximilian goes he will never return, while Maretzok is again among us in good health and more oloaginous than ever. Itso happens that our Max and Maximilian’s agent have accomplished about the same thing by their journey. Eloin received very little encouragement from Palm- erston and Napoleon, and came back without any definite success. Maretzck’s mission has resulted in the engagement of a number of peo- ple; but we doubt whether he can put bis finger upon any one of their names and declare {t to be a strong card. Max of the North and Max of the South have gained equally little by their transatlantic ventures. * When we look over the list of the new com- pany we are surprised to find It so barren of attractions, We have certainly never heard of any of these singers before. More than this, we are reliably informed that the most of them are unknown even in Italy. They come to us without the shadow of @ reputation. New York gity surely di oe ae treatment den Hie deni Opera Pil be var brilliant, so far as the audiences are concerned, if Maroteek will only take ordinary psins to please the people. If he does not please them they will leave him and go to the theatres, the performances at which will be extraordinarily popular. Against this powerful theatrical com- petition what has Maretzek to present? A parcel of nobodies whom we have no desire to hear. They may be hired more cheaply than good artists; but they will prove dearer in the end. This shabby system of operatic management will not do for this metropolis. We pay enough for the Opera, and we ought to have it of the best material. It is bad enough to buy a whistle dearly; but the affair becomes aggravated when we find that the whistle is of inferior quality, and cannot be made to sound. If Maretzek is suse to persevere in this sort Of managemsnt we shall demand an operatic as well as a municipal reform, and insist that he shall be removed with the other hoads of departments. mA pene It is the misfortune of some men that they become useless as soon as they become suc- cessful. Thoy are great in their failures and small after their triumphs. Whether or not Maretzek belongs to this clasa remains to be seen. During bis long struggle to” establish the Opera here he did very well, and gave us exccllent ‘artists; but now that the Qpera is established his enterprise and liberality appear to diminish, ‘several le singers, who were ia the oity and offered hiro their ices, and wascon- tant with othsh, gheapok and worse performers Now. he presents us witha list of unknowo people, whom he would have blushed to own as members of his company a few years ago. This deplorable falling off is like thelosa of insulation in [tho Atlantic cablo;,it neutralizes all the previous successful work. I Maretzek, then, like one who builds a house that other mon may dwell in it? Has he established the Opera that other “managers may reap all the honor and profit of its prosperity? Has the Bohemian crew into whose hands he has fallen already led him so far from the right path? We assure him that if he intends to conduct the coming season as he did the past it will probably be the last over which he will be called to preside in this city. There is no lack of good managers nor of good artists either, if tho managers choose to engage them. The public know this, and are not to be humbugged by nameless performers. Marctzek has only to persist and he will complete the paralte] between himselfand Maximilian, Both will be unanimously condemned by American sentiment, and both will be compelled to quit the continent in disgrace. There is a Monroe doctrine for the Academy as well as for Mexico. We warn Max Maretzek not to force ua to apply it to himaelf. Tur Consctence Keeren ov rags Srara De- PARTMENT.—The organ in this city of the Stato Department in Washington is greatly exercised about the opinions said to have been expressed by General Grant and General Sherman con- cerning affairs in Mexico. It condemns General Sherman tor the ¢xpression of opinions imputed to him, and doubts that General Grant used the words which he is reported to bave spoken in Canada. It says that Grant ie remarkable for his reticence. and therefore not likely to have given any opinion on the Mexican quos- tion. [tis true that General Grant was very reticent about bis military operations, plans and designs on the battle field; but now that the war is over, Grant and Sherman and every other general can and doubtless will express their political and military opinions upon every public question, and it is perfectly right that they should do so, as well as any otber citizen. It is known that General Grant when in New York spoke freely hia opinions about the condition of Mexico, and stated that it was impossible for Maximilian to main- tain his empire there. So also did Sherman. It by no means follows that because such opinions are held by our leading generals, tn common with the entire people, that we should therefore precipitate a war. We will give Na- poleon ample time to avoid that bloody issue by getting out of the scrape he has fallen into in Mexico; for it is a disastrous scrape for bim. We advise him to take the opportanity and withdraw his army, or Mexico will prove another Moscow. Tus New Move or rae Riva.—The delay of Governor Fenton in taking action upon our municipal corruptions is accounted for by the fact that the persons surrounding the Governor and who are supposed to influence and control him bave been “seen” by the corruptioniats and promised @ share of the Publis — Thus we go on from bad to worng, gielar ture must be clocted next fall pledged to munt- cipal reform thronghout the State, or we mugt wed inclined to favor Forney {n gore Ne Hog poy anit oa MEY {n the RA eect nt his couse latel Caused tis to hesitate about supporting hi ¢ longeg, He appears to be losing his cond of ao He also ania A disd- aition to go with the radicals against the Presi- | dent, Tt is certain that he cannot have our in- | fluence in his behalf unless he gives Prosident | Jounaon’s noticy a cordial anonort, There must be no flattering one day aud attacks tho next, but firm and consistent support through- out. Rw Van Winare Wettes ano Fis Boar Race.—Old Welles and his Navy Department underatrappers and managers declared that the double-ender Algonquin was worthless, and that her engines ought to go to the scrap heap. The builders of the Algonquin denied this pretty boldly, and challenged the Navy Depart- ment to teat the question ina fair and open way by a race—the Algonquin against any vos- sel of a similar class that the department might choose to name. This was a pretty stout de- fiance, and the Navy Department, thus chal- lenged before the country, and unable to see any escape, ordered the trial. But {t proposes the funniest boat race heard of yet. We all knew that Old Welles didn’t know much about war, or about ships, or about any part of the business of his department; but no one was pre- pared to believe that a seoretary of the navy could be so stupid as not to know what 4 boat race was, But it appears that old Welles has got the same idea of a boat race that he had of war. It is the real Rip’ Van Winkle idea—the sleepy, drowsy ‘notion of « comfortable mat, who ‘wants’ to be left at his ease and hates excttement, enthusiasm, and ail that. The comfc almanacs used to have & plotuiré of a man fond of fishing and also fond ot his ease. He couliin’t endure the day’s row- ing or tramping, or take the chances of weather or luck; so his servant put little shiners in a tub while the gentleman fished them out at his leisure and never left his cosy parlor, That is Old Welles’ idea exactly. He proposes that the two racers shall be tied toa dock, and then go it—the paddles splashing terribly, the water fuming, but all in good order and quiet, and quite at ease, and Old Welles in a window look- ing on. The boat that oan get up the most steam, or in favor of which certain engineers will swear the hardest, shall be considered the best boat, And that is the yy they do things “in official circles.” Suppose the same plan were tried for two race horses, Suppose that the two fine-limbed snorting beauties, all fire and spir{!, were put each Into a treadmill and then siarted whip and spur for three hours, the one that revolved his mill the fastest to win. Would that be a Trace, or in any way a fair tost of the horses? Certainly not. Neither is Old Welles’ proposed plan a boat race ora fair trial of the boats. It is absurd—ridiculously nonsensical and only to be hooted at. Ifthe purposes of the Navy Department men are fair in this matter, why not give up this artful dodg- ing, accept the challenge in a straight up and down style and settle the question fairly t Tue Contract Futetures.—The Honorable Last season he rofused to engage. nog Wood (price twenty-five thousand dollars in gold) appoars inclined to fuldlt bie potition contracts, whatever he may do with his lottery contracis. He received twenty-five thousand doliars in gold from the Jake Thompson fund, and it would appear that it: is not exbausted yet, for he continues to abuse. President Jobn- son and his administration every day, denounc- ing the government as a military tyranny, and 80 forth. Wo should.like the Hon. Ben (price twenty-five thousand dollars in gold) to tell us when the contract Is to end. The rebellion ie over; the South is all right; its citizens are taking the oath of allegiance and returning to their duty as loyal men. We want the Hon. Ben (price twenty-five thousand dollars in gold) to assiat usin the reconstruction of the South, and we are therefore anxious to know when the contract expires. Cortous Ingas Anovr Tae Herato.—The Bo- hemians of the city and country press, when writing about the Herat, al say that they detoat it; they cannot abide it; they abhor the Heratn; bat they always buy it round the corner, and read it every line. Satan must have been the first Bohemian, for we are told of him that he “bolieved and trembled.” Syurarny vor Mes. Jerrerson Davis.—The Hon Ben Wood (price $25,000 in gold) ex- preases great sympathy for Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who, it appears, is in distress somewhere In the Southern States. Why don’t he give her five hundred or a thousand dollars out of what is left of that twenty-five thousand he received from the Jake Thompson fund? Mr. Jumel when he pitied a man held up 9 bank note and said, “I pity dis man, ten dollar.” Why don’t Ben make his eympathy equally practical? Coxcrars at tae Warerma Praces. —The fashionabie summer resorts are attracting the fashionable auiuse ments from the metropolis, and we see no reason why they shonld not. Saratoga bas its theatre as an estab. lished institution, and the dining roams of tho watering piace-hotels are ‘being Converted into impromptu con: cert halls, There have been already some concerts given at Rockaway, and we see that the novelty of a sacred concert will be ted at the Reach Hotel there on Sunday, under the direction of Mr Gonzaler other, not sacred, but miscellaneous, on Monday ing. These entertainments used to be confined to New port and Long Branch, the summer retreats of the opera singers. No doubt they can be as well patronized in places of lesser note by artists of smaller ambition than primo tenori and prime donne ‘Turoporn Taowas’ Concents,—The regular season of concerts, under the direction of Theodore Thomas, on Wednesdays and Satnrdays, at that delightful suburba: retreat, the Lion Park, Belvidere, ba tended with a succosa which is only equal to their me: On to-morrow afternoon the performance will be unui ally brilliant ‘The Relvidere, with its fino gardens and the magnificent landscape it commands, is one of the leasanteat places of resort within reach of the people. he vrovided by Mr. Thomas and his orchestra of thirty artists cannot be excelled in any concert room iv the metropolis. ‘The third and last day of the Ame: Tostitate of Instruction has been of exceasding interest. The Music Hall was crowded to-day. The morning was occupied by discussion as to the best mothods of presenting moral topies, anda lecture by President Havens, of Michigan University, on education, Ia the afternoon there was A very Interesting teaching exercise in physiology by Mise Melvion Micheli of tho Massachasetts State Nor. tga! School. Her mannor of representing the aystem was much applauded. In the evening the Institute was addressed brie@y by Governor Andrew of Massachusetts. He said: The trath is, friends, we have seon for the last four years, that hte we wore engaged in the Wott war, made aeces- into which we were providentially eT oor tent. 1a. the ioe future as it proved to be io the warlike we must devote our. with which we devoted oonntry ft the i ay # ee S's igure ve inf) Bort in Te tan try; or else sho faile ly jor higher vocation, With “ogr Poputaion oft milous and &, quer , the richesy and moat Howorful tn all the poans of and heart and external wealth, lew Eny is the rr powerful throes and 4 if ay millions meh And women under the aun, and our dountry demands the utmost exertion of the peculiar power which it is the gi of New England to Wield, He congratulated the Institute that collegos and sominartes wero everywhere flourishing in spite of the reat exponditures of the war, and said we myst goon id eduoate this people np to more lofty ideas of aman righta and of absolute justice ‘ Signor Sarinnionte, Minister from the A energy to the maintenance mt ourselves to the 0 Repub entary (0 io, made ® ermarks In Spanish « the American people, which were tut the au: dieneo i The tnatitute thom wljaurned for socal Lateroae9 RICHMOND. Promotion in the Regular Army of Gene- rals Terry, Dandy and Tarner—General O@icers to be Relloved—Polloy of the Government Towards the Hreedmen, d&e. Wasainoron, August 10, 1865. * Tho Henato correspondent st Richmond gonds the following uader this date:— PROMOTION OF CAYERAL TERRY. Major Genorsl Alfred Howe Terry, commanding the Department of Virginia, last atght recetved his promo- tion from the War Department a3 major general in the regular army of the United States by brevot, This te indeed a promotion in every way Ot to bo made. PROMOTION OF GENERALS DANDY AND TURNER. General George B Dandy, United States Volunteers, commanding Second brigade in Major Gonerat R. & Foster's division, Twenty-fourth army corps, was yeator- day brevetted by the President respectively major, Heu- tenant colonel and colonel in the regular army of the United States, These brevets date from March 13, 1866, and are for gallant and meritorious services during the war, The conferring of such series of brevets at one time is exceedingly rare in the service, and is therefore complimentary beyond the ordinary measure. Major General J. W. Turner, who holds the rank of Captain and Commissary of Subsuwtence in the regular service, has alao received the same series of brevets for the same reason, JUDIOLAL APPODNTMRNT BY GOVERNOR PIREPOMNT, Governor Pierpoint bas to-day appointed Richard H. Coleman Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of this State. CONMANDER 47 PETERSOURG. Major General John Gibbon, of the lato*Fwenty*fourt corps, will be assigned to the command of Petersburg, under General Terry, in place of Major General Harteuft, who, under the late order of the War Department, is um- Assigned, and therefore rewuras to his rayk jo the regular army. GENERAL OFFICRRA TO BE RELIBVED. Brigadier General J.- H. Potter, General McKentio (cavalry), General Thomas ©. Osberne, Gonerat T. M. Harris and Goneral B. C. Ludlow will be relieved from duty in this department within tho next few days, and directed to report from their various homes to the Adju- tant General at Washington. This prefigures the Gaosi ce- tirement of theae officers from the service. RECIPIENT OF EXECUTIVE CLEMBNOT. It has transpired that only two citizens of Richmond, one of whom is Franklin Stearns, Esq., have beca aq tually put in possession of the papers granting their ar don, Mr. Stearns was alwa Toei Gas ASSET eaten eee ee Major General Terry, commanding this department, avd Major General Turner, commanding Military Divtrict of Heaorico, each gave a magnificent dinnor party last even- ing. Major General R. 3. Foster and his accomplished lady were the leading gueata at General Torry's, in the Sof, Davis mansion; while Major Genoral Chartos Devens was the guest among many others of General Turner CIVIL LAW ON SPOTTAYLVANIA COUNTY. ‘The civil authorities of Bpottaylvania cqunty, in this Btato, were organized aud put in operation ou the Teh instant, haa vue PRREDMEN. By request of several prominent citizens Brigadier Goneral Harris, commanding the sub-district of the Rap- pahannock, under Major General Charles Devens, Jr., defined the policy of the government toward the freed mon, saying that the negro must be Cully protected in his rights—those rights being in all -respecteequal-to thoze of the whites. Contracts muat be made-botweea the froedmen and theirformer masters, if the ‘former romained, and ample om will be extended by the tnttitary authorities, The was kindly cooeived, and very mang of the Grat clive: +0 epprobalory terms of the condict of the military dathe Northoasters district. . PERZONAL. Major Geaoral Devos, accompanied by Captain George W. Hooker, Aasistant Adjutant Geasral, is in the city, « guest of Major General A. H, Terry, commandiag ‘this depattment.* : Colonel Kier Otis, United States Army, of the cavalry bureau at Washington, ia to tbe city. tNa@PRcTION TOCR TAROTGH TAF CITY. Major General J. W. Turner, accompanied by bis staf, entered upon a general tour of inspection through the sty yesterday morning, and was 90 accupted during the Gaz 7"The inspection at the bands of tbls distiogutines officer, so well known among this people for bis military directness and thoroughness, attracted wide epread at- tention. Tho iuspection will continue to-dar GENERAL ‘e Beoui Major General R. 8. Foster is t to retire from the service, to the general regret of all. Genera! Footer wild return to his native Stato, — after a career of cep- spicuovs and highly honorable military effort. Day. Observance in the City. Yesterday was the day set apart for the annual festival of Saint Lawrence. The churches dedicated to the saint usually have service in their patron's honor. This fes- tivity bas been moat rigidly observed for some bundreds of years by all good Catholics, both in the Old World an@ in America. This boing the case, a short sketch of the life of Saint Lawrence may not be unacceptable, ehowing, ag it does, the state of Ireland as it existed some seven hundred years ago. aT. LAWRANCE was the youageet son of Maurice O’Tool, a rich and pow- erful prince in Leinster, Ireland, and was born about the year 180 When he was but ton years old, during one of tho ware which then raged to [roland betweea the bative princes, Lawrence wae delivered up by bis Cather aaa hostage to Dermod MacMurchard, Kit Leta- ster. The King treated Lim with great iabumanity, keeping bim (np a desert piace, and practising other ercotties spon him. The father hearing of ‘obliged the tyrant to put him under the charge of the ot Clendaioch, who carefuliy instructed bim as te tie path he was to iow io future years. Whoa twolve yours ot age be returned to bis father, ead, that rs00! eeelag 6 ‘mprovemeant a: mede, took Teimreses with him to thank the Bsbop. After this (he Bishop told bim he was to cast lots whch of tis chiideen be ebou'd ded cate to the Church; aa Piiake a oD pecan wy gw = wee desire give bi vice of the Church, whereupon be was teft in the the Ke shands of the Bishop When be iP twenty-five ng old, the Bishop of Clendaioch dying, weacl abbot, and the saint governed bis ouméroas community swith ‘admirable virtue and prudence, and to a famine \qwhieb afflicted them was the saviour of bis country by undies charities. Gregory, Archbishop of Dul when the saint was thirty years of age, he waa to fill that metropolitan #06, and was consecrat:d in 1162 by Gelasius, Archbishop of Ar [o this exalted situation he wae careful of the welfare of all. The saint wore ot ali times inom J bair shirt, sub- jected bimself to ot diecipline. His liberality was unbounded Every day be entertained at bis own table thirty poor persons, besides many in private houses. At the conciusion of one of the Og. iaud Saint Lawrence war sent to England to see ny Henry U., who was then at Camberion. On arriv' here he was desired to say mase nest day, ‘and on going up tothe altar s madmen, who bed beard mach of the saint's sanctity, out of an ¢: tion of making the saint a martyr, gay imo blow on the head with a sta, which knocked the down. Al! thought bim mortally wounded, but to himaeif again be called for water, it sign of the ‘and then ordered the wound washed with it. 8 was no sconer done than the was stanched and the saint proceeded with the About the year 1179, another famine occurring i land, the saint laid bimesif under an ee fifty st per day and three hundred of bis ow cove, bosides many he furnished with necessaries. Several were so reduced as to unable to keep their own children so brought them ‘at the saint's door, where faint would be likely to see them. The sait ebarge of them, his bands at ‘ime, Be nds at ime. jose at Roderic, the irish oats sistiveil ie ge8 k the journey to England to ney atoa reconcifiation borween feess Hnesy. reste pot Hates to: Biss, Sasa. weoks urediately get out for Normandy. In throe ~ wed him to France, and at last Also te was attacked by a fever and compelled to slay bie uurney, He took up his quarters.at the Monastery at u, on the confines of Normandy, ras carefully at- tended until his death, which after, This was in the year 1190, The saint ran bios to tho Ghurob of the Al and s%, aftor et — up to be enshrined. Gaint Lawrence og leroy eee tng given all bie wealth ax it came into oe Poot nde, orer/n8 820th abbey eB Pom semen : qromer part ‘of the relics of the saint, ay :: several churches in Paris and elsowhero have on- riched with certain portions. Heavy Rains in Wisconsin and Minner aota=Great Damage to Farms. Minwavars, August 9, ie Wieconaia Thore were very heavy rains throughout and ‘Minnesote last night and to-day, fo pey sootions tg badly damaged ph gbendinn shore was a sevoro hail sidrm extond i " roughout dauk, Crawford, Richland and lows po nities in this Stato, wilting and destroying large Ootda ot ‘abont, Te te catimated that two humdrod fartay are completely destroyed. Tha lowe ia estimated ab from thonewnt dotlane rr eC ay » ad (