The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1865, Page 4

g NEW YORK HERALD. . © anannnnnnnnnnnnnn “Jitks conpon BENNETT, [SDITOB AND PROPRIETOR, ‘OPFION N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, ; preemebctiener eres ‘TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by maul will be ‘at the risk ofthe gender. None but bank bills current in New York taken. 7 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLAQK’S THEATRE. Broadway.—Bosn 10 Goop Loon tare Pimox oF Bossa ba RY . 5 ‘s Ruvenqe—Mas- es See Sne—rowre } — WINTER GARDEN, < . DRCHALUMEAU. Fear vine ee Sirontag” [LABY BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Duxd's Bioxst— Ss G. iN, é i a a Broadway.—AgRau Na Pocus; of, ‘WOOD'S MINSTREL HAL! Broadway.—Ersiorisx B'S 585 Broadway.—San Francrsco Mrx- AMERIOAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Ermi0rian Manyraxist—Batiats, Pawrowntes, SUsEsG0n, 80: TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sina- ia, Dawoua, Burtesques, &c.—Luisu Exiceant. SEER OL NT. wo Bene ———————————eeaeae"es=@PowvOeeee New York, Monday, August 21, 1865. —————————————— NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts ef Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending May 1, 1865. - $1,095,000 368,150 252,000 wening Post. 169,427 orld. . 100,000 Bun.... 151,079 Express 90,548 Mew Yorm HERALD. .........0ssceseseeeees $1,095,000 Times, Tribune, World aud Sun combined.. 871,229 ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Werxty Heratp must be handed in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- ulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country ig increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted in thd Wexxty Heraxp will thus be seen by a large Portion of the active and energetic people of the United Blatos. THE CABLE. Anything connected with the ocean telegraphic enter- prise of course still possesses absorbing interest. Though there is nothing later from the steamship Great Eastern, by tho steamship Belgian, which arrived at Father Point yesterday, we have information of the speculations and proceedings on the other side of the Atlantic subse- quent to the suspension of communication between fhe cable fleet and the Irish shore. On the uth instant, the date of the Belgian’s last i Advices, particulars of the accident to the telegraph bad not of course reached England, as it was only on that day that the Great Eastern left the locality where the cable was dropped. It was supposed that something had happened to the tanks on board the Great Eastern, and that the cable had been buoyed till the damage was re- ired. A special meeting of the shareholders had been 14 to raise additional capital to the extent of eighty jousand pounds, for the purpose of completing the t cable and laying down a second wire. The meet- is described as large and unanimous. EUROPE. News from Europe to the 11th inst., five days later, reached us by the arrival of the steamship Belgian at Father Point yesterday. 7 A threatened rupture between Austria and Prussia on the interminable Schleswig-Holstein question and the rights of the Duke of Augustemburg seems to have ended, like all previous difficulties of a similar character, joa fizale. In the London stock market United States five-twen- ty bonds were quoted at 67 2 68 on the 11th inst. Erie gharos had been made the subject of some exciting specu- fation, arising out of a corresponding movement in the market here. British consols stood at 89% a 8934. Prices in the Liverpool cotton market remained tolera- oly firm, with an active demand. THE NEWS. South Carolina news to Thursday last is contained in our despatches by the steamship Moneka, which arrived here last night from Charleston. Very little attention thas been paid by the army officers to the demands of Go" emor Porry’s civil appointecs, heretofore noticed in the Exrato, for a surrender to them of superior control in the administration of affairs, and the Palmetto State ptill remains under military rule. There has been no ac- ual collision, but considerable disagreement apd lack of po-operatioh, between the civil and military authorities. Gen. Gilimore, who recently returned to Charleston from bis tour through the interior and conference with Gov- frnor Perry, is represented as stating that the military will maintain direction of affairs until the regular State government is organized. Our letters present a state- gnent of the difficulties between the General and the Gov- @rnor, some account of the progress towards the election of delegates to the constitutional convention, and a pic- Lure of the condition and feeling of the people of the coo to Virginia matters, our Richmond corre. ppondent reiterates his former statement, notwithstand- denials which have been put forth, that Governor rpoint has decided upon changing his policy. The Bovernor says that the Virginia rebels have deceived him, \d proved ungrateful for what he has done for them jor their promises of future loyal and decent conduct, pnd that hereafter he will not tolerate their trifling and bubterfuge. General Terry, commanding the department of Vir- ginia, has issued at Richmond an order to correct the mis. apprehension of certain of his troops, who, having enlisted for the war, are now clamorous for their di irge, on tho ground that, there being no longer any rebel armies in fhe field, tho war is ended. Ho tells them that, though the rebel military organizations are disbanded, it eannot po assumed that the war is fully concluded ,and the term of their service completed, since civil au- thority is not yet restored in the rebellious States. He pounsels his soldiers not to tarnish thoir proud reputa- fion by acts of insubordination, but warns them that if they should forget their duty martial Jaw still prevails, \d that the refractory or deserting will be pnnished. A very satisfactory digeet of the new free constitution f Missouri, an account of its adoption and effect upon the disloyal people of the State, a history of the prelimi- mary struggle between the secessionists and loyalista, and P reliable statement of the treatment which the rebel Dushwhackers, thieves and disloyalists have received, ud of the present condition of affaigs in the Common- fwealth, is contained in the letter of one of our St, Louis forrespondents published to-day. 1n our correspondence from the city of Moxico down Yo the 1st inst., published m this morning's issue, will De found « most interesting statement of the prosent @ondition of affairs throughout those Mexican States ver which Maximilian claims to exercise imperial con- trol. It also furnishes important facts in relation to the public enterprises which the Austro-Aztec Emperor is podeavoring to build up and foster; the native wealth of the country in the precious metals; the newly discovered petroleum deposits and capacity for almost unlimited Festlow onsiety of the imperialists in regard to the anti- productiveness in every department of agri¢ulturo; the | ——_——_—. statements made by ox-United States Senator Gwin, after his Sonora viceroyalty failure, relative to a reported arrangement between France and the United States for & coasion to the latter of five of the States of Northern Mexico. teen naee emnn pushin ouundon few snartnt en Poe in of the well understood American policy that European monarchies should be allowed to obtain no further foothold on this continent, and its flagrant violation in the éstablishment of Maximilian in Mexico, will be found in our compilation, under the head of “The Monroe Doctrine,” of the official letter of the American agent in Mexico, Mr. La Reintree, written \in 1860; the argument to the government of Austria, in 1862, of our Minister to that country, the historian Motley, and the speeches on the subject of the Mexican empire of Generals Sherman, Logan and Herron. Judge Florence McCarthy, of the Marine Court of this city, died yesterday, of consumption, in the forty-second year of his age, at his residence, No. 84 West Forty-eighth street, The trial of Charles J. Colchester, the spiritualist, whose arrest at Buffalo, in May last, for a breach of the Revenue law in exercising his calling without a license, was noticed at the time in the Hmmaup, was commenced on Saturday. Our correspondent at Buffalo gives a very full and luminous report of the case up to its adjourn- ment, together with a description of the defendant and the state of feeling among the spiritualists and kindred co-laborers, who have assembled in great numbers to attend the trial. The case will be continued to-day. The exhumation of defalcations continues, and even the quiet of the Sabbath must needs be disturbed by them. Another case, though of quite a small potato character in comparison with the late Wall street speci- mens of hundreds of thousands and millions, ‘engaged a modicum of the Tombs Police Court’s attention yester- day morning. Aman, named Henry Singer, living at 183 Third street, and a bookkeeper for Messrs. Aufenan- ger & Co., wholesale grocers and flour dealers, of 205 Washi strect, was arraigned and committed on a having for overs year past been engaged in abstracting money from his employers, in all supposed to amount to ten or twelve thousand dollars. ‘The Ketchum defalcation has led to the suspension of a prominent Chicago firm of brokers who had intimate financial connections witn the firm of Ketchum, Son & Co. Benjamin Green, Postmaster at Mystic, Conn., has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, anda Boston paper gives the rumor that he has swindled many per- sons out of different sums of money. There have been numerous and strong charges that the present State census is being taken in a very imporfeot manner, It is said that the census takers’ estimates of the population of this city will fall fully fifty per cent below the reality, and a statement which we publish this morning giving the enumoration so far in Brooklyn, represents the increase of that city’s population in the last five years to bo only a Jittle over five hundrod. A desperate fight took place about one o'clock yeater- day morning on the corner of Ridge and Delancey streots, between Nos. 6 and 41 engine companies, while they were running toa fire at 33 Ridge street. A large force of police was called into requisition to restore order, which they did not succeed in doing until a num- ber of persons wore badly injured, one of whom subse quently died. Pistols, clubs, stones, trumpets and other weapons wore freely used. Several of the belligerents were arrested and the badly wounded were taken in charge for surgical treatment. Tho fire itself did little damage. About two o’olock yesterday morning a fire was dis- covered in the lager beer shop and dance house kept by John Schoffer, in West Forty-first street. It was extin- guished after doing slight damage; but, as there were discovered about’ the ignited part of the premises kero- sone and other indicatives of incondiary preparation, the proprietor was arrested and detained on suspicion of having fired the building. On the person of Schoffer, it is said, were found nearly three hundred dollars in money and a bank book and policies of insurance for twelve hundred dollars, while it is estimated that all hia personal effects in the place wore not worth over four hundred dollars. : A Mrs. Catharine MoGee was yesterday committed on charge of having set fire, on Saturday last, to the tene- ment house No. 184 East Thirty-sixth streot. It appears that Mrs. McGee, who had beon a resident of the Premises, and had only moved out the previous day, had had some difficulties with the other tenants, and the suspicion on which the charge is founded is that she fired the building with the object of being revenged. The damage done was trifling. The old pocketbook drop gamo was yosterday morning played, in West stroot, near Fulton, by two sharpers, upon an unsophisticated gentiomaa from Nowburg, in this State, named James Davis, Ho was swindled out of one hundred and seventy dollars, seventy of which were recovered. William Moore, alias Woolly Moore, a twenty years acquaintance of the police, and Thomas Finnegan, alias Big Ox, were committed to the Tombs on charge of being the violimizers ot Davis. It is supposed that the woman who jumped overboard from the steamboat Granite State, in the East rivor, on the morning of the 13th inst., and whose body was picked. up a few hours after off Whitestone, Long Island, an ac- count of which appeared in yesterday's Hmraup, was a Mrs. Bowen, a widow, belonging in Granby, Connecticut. The police of Williamsburg had an “exciting chase early yesterday morning after two desperate burglars who committed depredations in rapid succession in va rious streets. One of the policemen received a severe pistol shot wound in the hand, in Sixth street, from one of the burglars, neither of whom was arrested, the ab- sence of gaslight, which generally prevails throughout Williamaburg, as well as Brooklyn, enabling the despe- radoes to escape. The Mississippi State Convention—A Little on the Back Track. The State Convention of Mississippi,gor the reorganization of the State as a loyal member of the Union under the new order of things, isin full blast. From the reports which we have received of its proceedings, however, it has a strong tendency to run on the back track, and is in danger of embodying certain “ ob- solete ideas” in the reconstruction of the organic law of the State calculated io result in its rejection at Washington. For example, among the proceedings of this convention the other day an ordinance was passed to a first reading “ ratifying all judicial proceedings in the courts, including all judg- ments, decrees, deeds and indictments; also ratifying all marriages, contracts and snles; also ratifying all State laws passed during the war.” Now, this is just the place where the shoe pinches, and cannot be made to go en without some cutting. The “ratification of all the State laws passed during the war” necessarily involves the recognition of the late rebel authorities, Confederate and local, and their acts as legiti- mate and binding upon the people and future legislation of the State. It involves, among other things, the recognition and enforcement upon the people of the State of the contracts made and debts incurred by the late rebel authorities of the State and the so-called Con- federate States in the prosecution of the recent war against the sovereign authority of the United States. Can the members of the Mississippi Conven- tion, or any of them, entertain the idea that such doings as theae will be winked at by President Johnson or tolerated by Congress? We would call their attention to the Virginia proclamation of some weeks ago, and to other proclamations issued about the same time by the President, defining the terms which all the late rebellious States must accept and recog- nize as the conditions of their restoration to the fall bencfits and equalities ‘Sf the Union. Thus President Johnson takes the ground that as the late political organization styling itaclf a ” the “Confederate Stateg of Qmor' 4 everything connected with it, men and mi ures, Confederate and local, were set up in vio- lation of “the | supreme law of the land” and for the purpose of overthrowing the sovereign autho ty of the United States, all such pro- Giruied ouvrvemment of the Meusoe qostrine, ang gome'! Geedings must be gounted as nyll and veld.and NEW YORK tu tmpregnable. ‘Ths wat Confederate States was fought to determine the question whether in the States of the rebellious league the laws and authority of the one side or the other should prevail. The “war has set- tled this question in favor of the United States, and hence the so-called Confederate States and all their doings, Confederate or State, are wiped out as with a sponge, or cast into 'the fire as so much waste paper. Contracts made and debts incurred by or under the rebel authorities at Richmond or at Jackson, resting for their va- lidity upon the rebel government of Jeff. Davis or its rebel affiliations, are worth no more than the rebel treasury bonds of Memminger, paya- ble “after a treaty of peace between the Con- federate States and the United States of America.” Here, then, is the proper starting point for this Mississippi State Convention. It must face the music of the absolute repudiation of all the legislation of Mississippi of the last four or five years identified with the rebellion, or its labors will be repudiated at Washington by the President and by Congress. The memorial of the Convention to the President, praying him not to garrison the State with negro troops, we doubt not, will receive a proper answer, a3 well as that other memorial “praying thatsteps be taken in behalf of Jeff. Davis and Governor Clark.” The President will probably suggest to the Convention that these things do not belong to its legitimate business. The Constitutional Committee of the Conven- tion are proceeding in the right direction in proposing that “such changes be made in the constitution of the State as will hereafter pre- vent the establishment of slavery or involuntary servitude, except for crime, and striking out all parts of the old constitution relating to slavery;” as are likewise ‘the second committee in proposing to ratify only such acts of their State authorities as shall be consistent with the constitution of the United States. Let the Convention goa step or two further, and repudiate in toto all the debts and contracts of the State connected with the re- bellion, and recognize under proper limitations the principle of negro suffrage, and the mem- bers from Missiasippi will be promptly admitted to both houses of Congress. Otherwise the people of that State may be still held, and for at least. another year, under all the restraints of the mixed commission of a Provisional Governor and a military commander with his negro troops. The State Convention, at all events, must be guided by the maps and charts of President Johnson, or it will surely run aground. More Operations of the Evening Ex- change. ; If any one doubted the demoralizing ‘effects of the Evening Exchange, the account which we gave of its operations and the machinory of its business in these columns yesterday must have set his doubts at rest. As we have before intimated, the Evening Exchange is a gigantic gambling house, as splendid in its appointments as the other gorgeous dens up town that tempt men to the faro table, and. breed crime, and ruin families and reputations, and make subjects for the State Prison of men who move in the “respectable” walks of life. The operations in stocks and gold which occupy the daylight houses in Wall and William streets are exciting enough for the wildest speculator, without carrying the maddening work into the night.: Men can make and lose large fortunes enough within the regular hours of business, and it is not too much to ask of the most greedy speculator to pass the even- ings in rest with his family. The morning, with all its excitements, risks, gaina and losses, will come time enough. The necessities of business by no means demand the existence of an Evening Exchange. It is the passion of gambling that has created it and sustains it. To ita baneful influence we attribute all the monstrous frauds which have recently come to light, to the list of which two more were added on Saturday—the absconding of another Wall street bank official and the acting freight master of the Erie Railroad Company. We are sometimes afflicted with an epidemic of crime which takes a special form. Fraud on a large scale in the mercantile community would seem to be the prevailing malady of to-day; but we are inclined to think that it is only the detec- tion and not the commission of these crimes that is the epedimic just now. The frauds are going on always, and they will continue to go on as long asgold is the god of the people, and avarice their highest incentive to action. They will undoubtedly continue as long as such a system as that of the Evening Exchange is per- mitted to exist. It is a crying evil in the com- munity, the nursery of immorality, loose habits and unscrupulousness in business deal- ings. We have had specimens of its bantlings in the recent gigantic stealings, the suicides, the disgface to families, and sudden ruin to many. It should be shut up, then, at once, and if it is not we shall not be surprised to hear of its being prosecuted as a nuisance. Many houses which have bred lees vice have been 40 dealt with before now. Sovrmenners Comne Norta.—The large num- ber of Southerners who have taken part in the rebellion but are now coming North is exciting no little attention. Our hotels and private boarding houses are filled with this class of re- deomed white men, So extensive is the influx that it is difficult to get up much of a sensation about any of our late adversaries. An ex-rebel major gencral excites no more concern than poor Union private, except among a coterie of todies and copperheads, who would at all times “rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.” No emall proportion of these people are entering commercial pursuits in the North— one engaging ina steam packet line, another joining a large commission house, many enter- ing into the stock jobbing business, a few in the California pearl fisheries, and others pro- miscuously in all sorts of avocations calculated to yield them a livelihood. Most of these Southerners, particularly those who have been in affluent circumstances, abhor the {dea of living in social or political equality-with those who havo been their servants for generations, and as the: that politioal power has settled upon the North they prefer living where that power ‘is established than among those who may not for many years bo restored to their former political strength and influence. Wesee no objection to welcoming these people. They constitute a type of the Amorican character, and (heir courage and dash will mingle har- j opposition fpotion on tho ground, on the prin. ; Market, a that any recognition of them ls p touch of MONDAY, AUWUST 21, 1865. moniously with the endurance and hold that 1 be miad thick % whose fyigm and obsequiousness not only degrade themsélves as Americans, but must disgust all honorable men coming from any quarter. zo A New Opera House for the Metropol ts. We learn that the Russian government has declined to pay the operatic subvention, and that the Opera House at St. Petersburg has con- sequently closed. Itis reasonable to suppose that the usual subvention was withheld because the Opera was not worth the money. We pre- sume that some impudent and ignorant German adventurer had, by hook or by crook, become the manager of the St. Petersburg Academy of Masio; that he had made a little money, and had grown meaner as he grew richer; that he had refused good artists the salaries they de- manded and deserved, and had engaged cheap and poor artists in order to swindle the St. Pe- tersburg public, and that the Russian govern- ment, determined that its subjects shall hear good music or none at all, has refused the sub- vention in order to close the Opera House and drive the German adventurer back to the land of lager. cr . In this country, under similar circumstances, we manage matters differently. Instead of shutting up our Opera House we invoke the genius of opposition. When a manager turns out to be a failure we do not allow this to de- prive us of Opera; but we find another manager, open another lyric theatre, and transfer our patronage to that. The St. Petersburg mode of revenge simply punishes the public for the fault of the impressario. The New York method is to punish the impressario by leaving him with a beggarly account of empty boxes and vacant stalls, while in a cosier and better conducted establishment fashion flirts her fans and displays her magnificent toilettes, the habitués flourish their eyeglasses and ear- trumpets, the critical appreciate and applaud, the ladies discuss the newest scandal and the last bonnet, the gentlemen throng the lob- bies between the acts, and everybody listens, more or leas, to the divine vocalism of those really excellent artists who, through pique or false economy, were tabooed at the de- serted house. At St. Petersburg the manager, who has not a soul above pretzels, has been permitted to spoil the season; but in New York we leave the ex-sausage vendor out in the cold and go on enjoying ourselves as usual. The taste for Opera, which appears to be dying out in most parts of Europe, is on the increase in this country. Especially is this in- crease evident in the metropolis. To accom- modate it a new Opera House will shortly be built, and we have been shown the plans for the new edifice. In location, size, ornamen- tation, acoustic properties and every other feature the new Opera House will be all that can be desired if the present plan is suc- eessfully carried out, Aa the enterprise is in the hands of some of our wealthiest men there can be but little doubt upon this score. The most active and indefatigable of our operatic mana- gors, the irrepressible Grau, is now in Europe engaging first class artista for the new estab- lishment, and upon his return he will assume its direction. The New York public have not forgotten that they were indebted to Grau for Opera at a season, during tho war, when no otherthan had confidence enough in himself, the pépplo and the Union to engage in any auch undertaking. The provincial public have been shed with regular operatic perform- ances, during the past few years, by the same energetic impressario, and are consequently, devoted to his support, There is every reason to believe, therefore, that the new Opera House will be immediately and permanently popular under Manager Grau’s administration, and that it wil compete triumphantly with our present big barn of an Academy. The summer season is nearly over, and our belles and beaux are preparing to return to the metropolis. The recent excitement in Wall street has already drawn many family parties to the city. Our country cousins have not yet left us, however, but may be seen admiring the alligator at the beautiful Park of an after- noon, or staring, open-mouthed, at the Irish comedians now acting at the theaters of an evening. What with those who have returned, those who have stayed here, those who are coming back and those who are not yet going away, New York will be full before very many days. Ofcourse all these residents and visitors will desire to have the new Opera House: open at the commencement of the fall season, so that they may flock to it at once. Rome, however, was not builtin a year, and an Opera House cannot be erected in a month. Still, in order to satisfy the public, a compromise has been effected. There is a gem of a lyric theatre at the corner of Madison avenuc and Twenty-fifth street, which was built and is owned by Je- rome, the millionaire. This Opera House will seat about five hundred people, and there, be- fore the élite of the metropolis, Manager Grau’s inaugural performances will be given. As in the#e times everybody claims to be among the elect, we have no doubt that every seat will be taken by subscription and that the applications will be a dozen deep. Thus we shall speedily have a novel and charming addition to the attractions of this brilliant city, and shall teach St. Petersburg a lesson in the management and punishment of incompetent operatic adventurers. Tae Last Krox or ras Onto VaLLaNpiGnaM Faction.—The radical cepperheads of Ohio held a State Convention at Columbus on the 17th inst. at which they nominated Hon. Alexan- der Long for Governor—a man who narrowly escaped expulsion from the last Congress as a traitor; and they set him up on the old South Carolina platform of State sovereignty and all the most ultra revolutionary notions of the copperhead faction. The Convention likewise still adhered to Vallandigham’s Chicago plat- form that the war has beon a failure, having settled nothing. Why Vallandigham was not put up by this delectable faction for Governor, unlesd it is becauge he has had enough of it, wo t tell; but the people of Ohio, in the same Way, will make short work of Long. Wo aro a little curious, however, t0 know what the Vallandigham copperheads of New York intend to do, It is hardly probable that Fernando Wood will be back from the Holy Land in time to. head a factious movement against the Democratic State Convention of the 6th of September, which, it is expected, will stand up for Andy Johnson; but it is possible that Bon Wood may endeavor to got his little accumulation of debt which, unless our gov- ernment interferes, will render them forever slaves to France. In France itself the cost of the imperial ré- gime is making iteclf fearfully felt. In Paris the house rent of the working man is double what it was in the time of Louis Philippe. It | {a stated that a couple of rooms in the roof of a house, which in the reign of the Citizen King cost the laboring man only one hundred and fifty francs per annum, now let for twice that amount, The price of the other necessaries of life is augmented in proportion. It is chiefly by the ocfrot duties that the cost of the im- provements by which the French capital is being embellished is defrayed. As these are applied to its ornamentation, and not increas- ing the accommodations of the working classes, the condition of the latter, always bad enough, is rendered the more intolerable. In Austria imperialism has brought the nation to a condi- tion of bankruptcy, and revolution and repu- dination seem inevitable. It is for our govern- ment to show that although a republic cannot avoid the burdens entailed by war, it possesses an economy of administration and a recupera- tive power that divest them of political danger and anxiety for the future. It is the example thus set that will in reality strengthen our moral and political influence abroad. We may be powerful from the extent of our military and naval resources, but we can never be truly great as an exemplar until we show that our government is not only the strongest but the most economical in the world. Femare Inrivence.—Disappointed old bache- lors are fond of asserting that women are at the bottom of all evil. The fact that protty waiter girls figure in our bank defalcations, and that Prince Plon-Plon is travelling about with a mysterious female companion, are cited as fresh evidences of the truth of the axiom. These crusty philosophers mistake the effect for the cause. Men naturally seek in the com- panionship and sympathy of women relief-from their cares. Had they consulted them previous to yielding to temptation, they would in nine cases out of ten never have got into trouble. As it is, the consolation which they afford is precious to both saint and sinner. If it costa a diamond ring or @ 4lice of imperial revenue, the donor no doubt thinks the article cheap at the price. Unemprovep Souprers anp Satora.—The re- turned voterans of the army and navy, wo perceive, are taking practical steps to obtain employment by the organization of a protec- tive society and a bureau of employment— both excellent institutions in their way, if they are only properly conducted. The protective socioty, for instance, must not be permitted to fall into the often dangerous and oppressive combinations and strikes which the trade associations sometimes indulge in; neither must the bureau of employment become, as many others of that class have become, mere traps for the unwary, who are anxious to obtain work, and are too often only cheated out of the fee. The soldiers and sailors are entitled to every consideration from the commercial community, and they should be employed ac- cording to their merit and capacity whenever it is possible. Sranpina Upon Briquerrz.—The Prince of Wales won't go to the naval féles at Cherbourg because there will be no prince of the blood to receive him, and the French Minister of Ma- rine (Laubat) also refuses to go because there will be no English Lord of the Admiralty present. The princes and statesmen of the Old World havo, it appears, made but little progress in common sense since the time of that Spanish King who refused to be saved from his burning palace because the officer ap- pointed to care for bis person was not there to attend to is dut; The Mi ppi Conven' Jaonson, Miss., Angust 19, 1865. The apecial report of the committee on the amend- mont to the constitution was discussed at length, but no action was taken. The report of the committee as telo. graphed will be substantially adopted, giving Mississippi a free State constitution. Jersoy City News. Danwa Higawar Rossgrt at Tus Farry.—Shortly after sevon o'clock last evening a young man named Anthony Higgins was arrested by officers Mann and Devine, on a charge of baving robbed an acquaintance, named William W. Andrews, of a five dollar bill of the Leroy Bank, New York; a waterproof coat worth eight- cen dollars and his hat, It appears that Andrewa, who was recently employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, had procured a situation in Philadelphia, and was on his way thithor. He came over to Jersey City about six P. M. yesterday for the purpose of taking the cars for Phila- dolphia, where he met the accused (with whom he had formerly been on a gunboat) and two of his companions. Aftor conversing for some time oe gory Higgins insisted that Andrews should not until he had paid him the balance of some borro' money. Andrews replied that he had only ten dollars with him; but said he would send it on within a fortnight. Higgins was not satisfied § with saying that he slfould not leave in the cars unless the debt was paid, and in- timating that by saying the word, Andrews would be whipped by the two companions of the accused. Tho latter then proceeded to the ticket office, and while in the act of ng bill to the agent, the — is hand and also seized heed in the meleo by a woman, who restored it to the owner. Aftor in wes taken down to the colle he stated to of x Devise tae, the, Bre ceeaeged to te ion ster. lo, eeet_ pecoees jouRe, but the wotnan donied all knowledge of tt, but sald they wou! go, Out sa been Sr eee One of the women went aad ashort absence returned ‘and handed the dollars, which Audrews idon- Uded ag thd one ‘Doon taken from him. Justice a refused to admit the prisoner ® descent upon and Amboy sey een wea Sed artorved Us ‘giword Knoles, Dennis Bit. — and charged with ly con- aalebenatanenageccenes L) 100 of id ‘ * the vicinity ot the Washiogvon pa rover examination of the book deficiency in their cash rece’"ts, and efter being satished showed ghat there was a large of the fact the firm called upott Captain Greer, of the Third precinct, and detective Tilley: pnd requested thas taken into custody, when he confessed té Captain Greer and detective Tilley that for a year of more past he had been engaged in taking his ousployere’ money at the rate of from $25 to $00 per day, and thd books of the concern, as far as the examination has pro- greased, show a deficiency of about $7,000, which Singer had concealed by a skilful alteration of the figures. Itis supposed that the total amount of the deficiency will reach the sum of $10,000 or $12,000. The money thes purloined Singer saya he has spent among his friends, and has saved nothing out of i Singer was yesterday arraigned before Alderman Jones, at the Tombs; but as the exact amount of the defalcation was mot ascertained, the remanded the prisoner to the custody of Captain Greer till the firm concludes the of the prisoner's accounts. i Mr. Singer was to have been married at ovolocks this morning to an estimable young lady, who was im court, anxiously watching the proceedings. Effect of the Ketchum Defalcation im Chicago. —~ [Chicago (August 17) of the Cincinnatl J Boyd & Brothers, brokers in this city, whose probable suspension 1 telegraphed you yesterday, closed their doors to-day. Their liabilities are not large. connection of the senior member of the firm with the house of Ketchum, Son & Co., in Now York, is the cause of the failure. They hope that their suspension will bé brief. The yor man Ketchum, whose swindl! transac- tian Reve ‘so excited the’ Suancial world, during the session of the National Democratic Convent in this city, last August, was present as a leading friend of Mo- Clelian, He kept open house at one of our leading hotels, and scattered his money like a prince, and made @ big splurge generally. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Gunman Promos, Exoursions, 2T0., Yssrenpay,—Al- though since the enforcement of the Sunday law of laté tho exercise of music and song on Sundays is not al lowed, which rather interferes with the German musical societies and glee clubs—a number of picnics and exour- gions were arranged yesterday, which took place in the vicinity and in the parks in the upper of the city. At Fuak’s Union Park, at the footot ixty-third street, | East rivor, some three or four thousand persons were con: grogated, ‘where a picnic was held under the auspices of the Socioty Fidelia. The members offthe following societies articipated in the festivities :—Beethoven, Maennerchor, Eotonig, Holvetia, Mozart Verein, Orphous, Sohillerbund and Rheinischer Saengerbund. It was, however, the duty of the police, which was represented on thé z grounds by Captain Hart and Mr, Weith, of the Nine- teenth precinct, to enjoin the singers not to engage any singing. The societies were, therefore, com| to onjoy themselves as best as thoy could without music and song. Although the park was crowded no disturb- ances occurred. Jones’ Wood was also visited by anum- ber of oxcursionists. At the Broadway Park, the mem- bers of the German Lioderkranz were engaged in a ae- ries of social pastimes. er Ser Firs 10 His Wire.—Officer McGrath, of tho Sixth procinet, made the arrest Inst evening of 6 man aame® John Cusick, charged with setting fire to his wife's oloth- ing. It appoars that Cusick and his wife hed an alter- cation about eight-o’clock in thé evening, at their t when the accused threw * om No. 60 Baxter wito on the floor and her ciothes, burning her neok, face and body ina shocking manner. He was locked up for oxamination. Fitzgorald, of the Twentieth precinct, at about three o'clock on Sunday morning, arrested John Schoffer, ~~~ keoper of a lager beer saloon, on suspicion of purposely setting hia saloon on fire. He was conveyed to the sta- tion house, and there detained by Sorgeant Ji and Firo Marshal Bakér was notified to investigate the Ps It seems from tho facts and ciroumstances elicited by the Marshal that Schoffer on pai bog evening opens a dance, and of course & number of nowy persons aré froquently found thore. On Sunday morning Fitagerald saw the saloon pee at about half-past o’clock, and in less than an hour after the alarm of occurred, and the fire waa found to be in this saloon, Officer Brooks, assisted by others, broke opon the The smoke was vory thick, but the offlosr forced in, and behind the beer eounter saw the fire was insido a closet which stood against the wall back counter. Some water was got and thrown on which Vein aubdued it. Hussy broke door of the oloset. The flames then burst out water was appliod and the fire extinguish bottom of this closet was found a small tub half burned, in the bottom of which were the remaing bu paper and some kerosene oil; a bottle was al found on the floor close by, in which somo kerosene still remained. The officers say on caleing, , that the smell! of kerosone was very dit these circumstances the officer in the discharge of bis duty (ook Mr. Schoffer into custody on suspicion of set- ting his saloon on fire. It further ap that Ace cused had on his person whon sume of tram 4 amounting to near three hundred Ker So bank and two policies of insurance—fone was for eight hun- dred dollars on hia stock and furniture in the the other for four hundred dollars on bis household furni- turo in the same building. Both icles are on the Pacific Fire Insurance Company. e stook and furni- turo in the saloon are estimated altogother at not over hundred dollars. The da: done by tho fire wi amount to about one hundred dollars. Mr. Schoffer de- nies the Awa # and says he knows nothing about it, and alleges that his saloon has bocn visited by rowdy’ fole lows on more than oné occasion, and that when hé ejected some of them, throats were made that ho would not bo thore long, as they would burn him out, and he now thinks they have carried their threats into effect. The case will be taken before tho. Police Justice at Jeffer- son Market Court for a thorough investigation. Fine in East Tarety-sixti Srreet—Anrest or A Womam on Susricion or ARSON.—About five o'clock on Saturday afternoon a firo. was discovered in the cellar of a tene-, ment house, No. 184 Bast Thirtysixth stroct. On tha alarm being promptly given the occupants of the house E aihge ee é Seve FH 5 3 ag 2] and some persons from the strect rushed in and with @ few patis of water succeeded in extinguishing the flames before they had gotten under much headway. Officer John Kairos, of tho Twenty-firat attested @ Teappeare trom the investigation made hy: Henry “0: it appears from the im on fenry 0. Baker, the Assistant Fire Marshal, that tho woman McGee removed from the premises on the day previously, and that she was seen to onter the houso with a basket on her arm about five o'clock yostorday afternoon, ang 0 to hor former woodshed in the cellar. Several chil- iron followed her in. At first sho tried to drive them away, but finding they would not go she gave thom some’ pleces of fine aud old iron, and told them to run off an sell it quick. The eldost boy, John Drinon, aged about fourteen yoars, started with the othera to go, and when part way sneaked back, and it was that he saw Mra, McGee spilling something from a amall, bottle, and he ¢ays he smellod somothing hike kerosene orfluid; he thon saw her rub a match, after the sul- phur was burned off she the corner, behind artrunk, then shut and lock tho wood shed door and go up stairs and through the ball into the street, she followed up by the children, and was not out when the fire was discovered. One or two of children tell the same story. saw Mra, McGee ing had turned her out of the promises. Mr. Mc husband of the accused, allegoa that it ia a made up to injure his wife. The or was convoyod Justice Kelly, at the Fifty-seventh stroet Police and committed to await a further examination Fire Marshal. The Rebel Commissioner Oald. ‘TO THE RDTTOR OF THF HERALD, New Haven, Conn., August 19, 9966. Sm—As a long resident at Richmond, and having left there only six months previous to the surrender of Lee, T claim to know something of tho rebel Ould. A stronger secesh, or moro tyrannical official, or an ardent su er of the so-called revel government did not ex! the rebel commissioner. It would be creditable to the if overnmont as well a8 aatisfaction to a large portion of ¢ citizens of the Northern States, if this arch:traitor and Ug) io : od under the same roof as ia, and were it made abundance of evidence could soom be mined taae would incarcorate a huge whe monster and release others were mero ‘ustramonts in the hands of the rebel chiofs. i hm oe in en pr 7 the ballot on the freedmen 00 the and the Union. Ia- asmuch #4 the election ia Maine occurs before the mect-