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Advertisements should be sent to the office before nine o'clock in the evening. TRIAL OF WIRZ. al of Wirz, the Andersonville jailer, was pro- with yesterday, and considerable progress in it was made. New counsel for the prisoner appeared in the persons of Messrs, Louis Schade and 0. S. Baker, who asked for a postponement of cight or ten days, in order that they might better acquaint themselves with the case, This being denied, they then put in pleas denying the jurisdiction of the court, claim- ing that Wirz is a paroled prisoner of war, and in- Gisting that the charges ought to be quashed. These also wore ovoruled, and after some further conference and other preliminary proceedings, the taking of evidence Was commenced, Colonel Gibbs, who commanded the Rebel post at Andersonville, testifled that Wirz had exclusive control of the prison pen; that the pri- oners were crowded together in a close and in- human manner; that the condition in which they were kept was most disgusting, and that they received the most crucl treatment. He also testified to the thousand dollars in specie, formerly belonging to the rebel Jat, which had been seeroted by @ rebel anaes agent and a rebel business ageut, who have been arrested. The cede! nest in Montreal is becoming fuller every day. Beverley Tucker, Carroll, George Sanders, Dr. Blackburn, Dr. Pallep, ex-Governor Wescott, H. 8. Foote ‘and other less prominent men have been there some ‘are slated by the Montreal Gazette to be quietly living at the Donegana Hotel. It is stated by our Quebec correspondent that the Ca- padians have already to @ certain extent initiated the proceedings which their delegates in the Detroit Com- mercial Convention hinted would be the reault of the non-renewal by the United States of the Reciprocity treaty, This was nothing less thai the throwing open of their ports along the border and encouraging smug- gling. Smuggling is now carried on to an almost unlim- ited extent along the frontier, and, it is said, with the knowledge and connivance of the Canadian Ministry. Our correspondent describes the condition of the prov- ince as very unpromising, The taxes and other burdens are so heavy and the crop and trade prospects so poor that thousands of the inhabitants have already sold out and emigrated to the Far West, Real estate has fallen seventy-five per cent in value within the past eighteen months, and it is estimated that in the city of Toronto alone there are thirteen hundred empty tenements. The United States steamer Commodore McDonough, which left Port Royal, § C., on the morning of the 17th inst., in tow of the steamer Donegal, became disabled at sea in the storm of last Tuesday, and, after struggling with the wind and waves through that day and the suceveding night, sank on Tuesday morning. All on board of the McMonough, forty-four in number, were rescued by the Donogal, but iost everything which they had on board excepting the clothing they wore at the time. The Don- ogal arrived safely at this port yesterday morning, George Gladwin, thes young man committed to the Tombs on Tuesday last on the two charges of fraudu- shooting of all who crossed the “dead line,’ and to th» fact of dogs being kept to hunt those who escaped Dr. John C. Bates, who was the rebel physician of the pr von, made a lengthy and very jnteresting statement regarding the shameful manner in wh'ch the imprisoned national soldiors were treated. He gave it as his opinion that with proper treatment the lives of seventy-five per cent of those who died might have beon saved, He also testified to the keeping of bloodhounds to reeapturs the esaped. Other testimony of a corroborative cheracter was taken, after whch the court adjourned to meet aga n to-day. THE NEWS. A Now Orleans despatch states that a recent nunther of Ia Btafe'te, the French organ in the city of Moxico, ad- mits that Maximilian’s empire is a failure, and says that only a French protectorate can save the country from absorption by the United Statex, A minister or commis- sioner from Maximilian is on the way to Wasbinyton to seek recognition by our government. The recall of the Pope's Nuncio created a sensation among the Mexican clergy. Fresh defeats of the imperial forces are an- nounced. Matamoror papers of the 18th inst. say that General Sberidan is making threatening demonstrations along the Rio Grande, and that large numbers of troops, prin- Cipally colored, and trains of artillery, continue to arrive at Brownsville, Texas, ‘The rebel General Joe Johnston har written a letter of advice to the Southern secessionists, in which he tells them that, baving referred the question at ise with tho government to the arbitrament of the sword and failed, it is now their duty to acqniesco in the decision and en- doavor to again become good, quiet and industrious citi. sens of the United States. ‘The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention met in Barrisburg yesterday. The resolutions adopted declare that “the slaughter, debt and disgrace” of the war for the of the robellion were the consequences of the counsels of the democratic leaders being disre- garded; call for free speech, freo press, no restric- tion on the habeas corpus writ, and trial by jury in ail cases; maintain that the rebellious States ‘we now as much in the Union as ever, and that their people are entitled to all the rights which they had before the war; oppose negro suffrage as a bigh crime and an attempt to degrade white men, and givoa qualified support to President Johnson, demanding that ho must take measures to give the Southern States im- Mediate representation im Congress, must save them from the curse of negro suffrage, must stop the punish- mont and murder of individuals on the sentences of Courts martial, and must do various other things in the ‘way of restraining bis military officers. Candidates to ‘be voted for at the ensuing State election were nomi- nated. ‘One of the Henatp correspondents sends us, from on board of a Mississippi steamer, some interesting facts in regard to the tide of emigration which is now starting southward from the Northern and Western States along ‘the Mississippi river valley. Many Northern and North- ‘western men of enterprise and means have bought cotton ‘and sugar plantations, and design commencing agricullys ral operations on them aa soon as possible. Argong these fre officers who have served in the national *rmy through- out the war. The genéral opinion fimong there gentle- hon is that the negro wij York well enough under the free labor 4 that they will have no occasion to call for whine from the North and from Earope, A Mathe man, however, is mentioned by our correspond- ent who has bought a Mississippi plantation, and who does not propose to try colored laborers at all, but is on his way to this city to secure the gapyicos of a large num- ber of Germans. ) ‘ General Curtis, commanding at Lynchburg, Va., has Froomuy Jearned the whereabouts of avor seventy-eight lently obtaining a four thousand dollar check from the New Haven Post office and of procuring over two hun- dred thousand dotlars worth of bonds from a St, Nicholas Hotel safe by presenting a forged order, was yesterday arraigned on the latter of these, complaints, pleaded guilty, and was remanded to the Tombs for trial. He was arraigned on and pleaded guilty to the former charge ‘on Wednesday. The swindling developments are taking a larger field, and extending from metropolitan financial circles to the army. Colonel Amos Binney, Chief Paymaster in the Departinent of Virginia and North Carolina, has within a few days been ordered from Richmond to Washington for examination on complaint of having so manipulated the funds in hie charge, amounting to some millions, a8 to pocket between thirty and fifty thousand dollars, The suspicion is that this was done by paying the soldiers in seven-thirty bonds, and then receiving a share of the profits which the Virginia banks made by buying these up ata disedunt of four and eight dollars on the hundred. There was a terrible railroad collision in the Pennsyl- vania oil regions yesterday morning. A freight train and A passenger train, running in opposite directions on the same track, on the Oil Creck road, near Titusville, came together at considerable speed and with terrific force, crashing the cars into fragments and killing nine persons and injuring many others, The catastrophe is said to have been caused by the engineer of the ht train running up on (he main track to get on a switch about the time the other train was due. An intervening curve prevented those on either train from sec!ng the other. An excursion train on the Old Colony Kallroad, while returning to Boston on Wednesday evening, collided with a hand car on the track, and the engine, tender and six cars, with about one hundred and fifty persons, in- cluding many ladies, were thrown from the track, three of the cars tumbling down an embenkment. Strangely enough, no one was killed, and only about half a dozen were injured, and none of these, it is said, in a serious manner. The steamboat Argosy No. 3, while going up the Ohio river on Inst Monday evening, having on board three hi.ndred men of the Seventieth Obio infantry, was driven achore in the storm eighty miles below Louisville. ‘Tho concussion exploded the mud drums, and twelve men were budly scalded, two of whom died immediately, and two others were not expceted to recover. From thirty to forty of the soldiers jumped overboard, and eight of them were drowned. Tho investigation into the circumstances attending the death of John F. Westlake, one of the victims of the ex- plosion on board the steamer Arrow, ‘vas resumed before Coroner Lynch, in Brooklyn, yesterday, and the evidence went to prove that the valve in the steam pipe connoct- ing the two boilers had been left closed, through the negligence of the engineer, whose duty it was to have seen tht it was open. The result was that the steam in- tended for two boilers was concentrated into one, and hence the disaster. The investigation was further ad. joured to Monday next. The new steamship New York, belonging to tho Atlantic Mall Steamship Company, went on a trial trip yesterday, during which she ran sixtoen knots within the hour in the lower bay, She will be open to the in- spection of the public to-morrow, at pier 43, North river, and will gail for Aspinwall on the 1st of September. ‘There was another auction sale yesterday of some of the property used by our Supervisors’ Volunteering Com- mittee in their late recruiting operations. The building on the Battery, thirty by one hundred feet, constructed of white pine timber, and used for enrolling purposes, was knocked down for only three hundred and thirty dollars, Three safes used by the committee were sold, and brought about what they cost when now. Judge Edmonds, in a communication which we publish this morning, criticises the case of Colchester, the apirit- ualist, tried in the United States District Court at Baf- falo, and our editorial remarks of yesterday on the mat- ter. The Judge contends that the result of this trial will bave no depressing fect on the minds of true and intel- ligent spiritualists, who themselves regarded Colchester ‘as little else than a juggler, and he thinks it will be 9 fortunate thing for spiritualism if the jary’s verdic: against the accused shall result in silencing him forever, The Judge says he was solicited to become Colchester's counsel, but refused on conscientious grounds, It appears that, under an arrangement with the New Jersey Central Railroad Company, garbage and offal from this city are being emptied into the docks which that company are constructing at the terminus of their road sonth of Jersey City. This has be- come @ great nuisance to the inhabitants of the latter place, poisoning the atmosphere and threat- ening the generating of an epidemic. Remonstrance having proved unavailing, a public meeting was held in Jersey City last night to take measures for closing this nursery of disease, and it was resolved to apply to the courts for an injuction to compel the company to stop using the docks for the purpose mentioned. Yesterday ‘the stock market was firm. Governments were steady, and gold closed at 143%. ‘There was a fair degree of activity in commercial cir- cles yesterday, and both foreign and domestic goods sold quite freely at full prices. Groceries were fairly active at full prices, Cotton was steady. Petroleum was firmer under a fair export demand. On 'Change flour was the turn better on State grades. Wheat was steady. Corn was firmer. Oats were 2c. higher. Pork was higher; sales were made at $31 76, closing at $31 623. Lard was steady, Whiskey was frm. Tas Views or 4 Ssnsietm Sorprmr.—The views of the rebel General Joseph E. Johnston in reference to the policy and the duties now devolving upon the Southern States and South- ern people are the views of an honest and sensible soldier, and they also. embody the soundest statesmanship. During the war, had Jeff. Davis followed the advice and sup- ported the plans of Joe Johnston, his confed- eracy would not have suffered the ignominious collapse which was brought upon it by the folly of Davis. It weuld at least have died with something of @ignity and decorum. Gen- eral J , however, retained, and still jh popularity all over the South; and it the South these opinions of his on the and duties resulting from the war will do @ vast amount of good. ‘gar The Shent-per-shent Democracy, con- ducted by Barlow and Belmont, every now ang then pop up their heads and join in the new movement for the restoration of the South on Andy Johnson’s plan. But it won’t do. They cannot be admitted into the new church with- time, Robert B. Lee is expected, and Jeff, Davig’ famiy i NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1865. Southern Restoration—New York with President Johason—Important Move- ment Afoot. We threw out certain suggestions and rea- sons in yesterday’s Herat in favor of a grand mass meeting in this city in support of Presi- dent Johnson’s policy of Southern restoration, fnd in order to counteract the mischievous ad- verse agitation of the Boston abolition fanatics; and we have already the satisfaction of an- nouncing to our readers that upon the issue indicated the potential voice of this great mo- tropolis will soon be heard. Among some of our influential citizons the initial steps in this direction were taken yesterday, and within a few days we expect that the call for the meet- ing will be issued, embracing men of all parties who have faith in the restoration programme of Andrew Johnson, In answer to this call we predict a gathering of the people of this city in support of Presi- dent Johnson’s policy of reunion and peace sur- passing in its grandeur, majesty and influence any public demonstration on this island siace our memorable spontaneous uprising in April, 1861, which rallied the loyal! States to arms as with the sound of a trumpet. As the great financial, commercial and political centre of the Union, the city of New York, when she speaks in an earnest and emphatic voice upon public affairs, always speaks to some purpose, and especially in a great crisis involving the settlement of some momentous national ques- tion. Such a crisis is now upon us, and the question involved is of the greatest magnitude. It is simply this: whether we are to have a policy of peaceable and speedy restoration for the late insurgent States, or a policy of exclu- sion, military domination, disorganization and destruction. Hence we may freely anticipate a judgment from the Empire City in this pro- jected mass meeting which will be felt through- out the State and through the length and breadth of the land. Every consideration of sound policy, justice and humanity is on the side of the restoration programme of President Johnson. He wishes as speedily as practicable to re-establish the disorganized Southern States in full communion with the general government, so that law and order therein, and industry and trade, pros- perity and progress, may be re-established. He proposes to leave the new and deli- cate question of negro suffrage to the legis- latures of the several States concerned, un- der the idea that this thing belongs properly to them, and that in binding them to the aboli- tion of slavery and to the constitutional amend- ment interdicting slavery hereafter, the white race of the States concerned will in good time find their proper course of action in reference to the political rights of the black race. This is solid ground to stand upon; for the interests of the Southern whites, in good time, will teach them to respect the interests and politica! claims of the blacks, so that order, harmony and good will may prevail between the two races. Leaving, therefore, this delicate question of negro suffrage to the States concerned, Presi- dent Johnson desires their speedy restoration, so that their enormous resources of wealth may be speedily developed to strengthen the national treasury and the national currency, and to agsist us in meeting the obligations of our national debt. With the restoration to Con- greas during the coming winter of the now ex- cluded Southern States we may expect such a restoration of their productive forces as wil give us next year an aggregate in cotton, su- gar, tobacco, rice, &c., of two hundred millions of dollars from their surplus productions—a very important contribution towards the light- ening of our federal taxes and the payment ot our national debt, to say nothing of the com- mercial prosperity of New York. On the other hand, the policy of the Boston fanatics, which is the continued exclusion irom Congress of the now excluded States until they shall have granted the right of suffrage to their blacks, will, from present appearances, result in nothing but mischief and disasters to both races and both sections, socially, politically and financially. In forcing now this conces- sion of negro suffrage upon the Southern whites, just relieved from the laws and usages of slavery, we can hardly look tor anything else than a violent political agitation between the whites and blacks, resulting in such dis- cords and disorders as will stay the band of industry, and leave the Southern States demo- ralized, disorganized, unproductive, impover- ished, and a burthenupon the North. Start them upon this road to ruin, and to ruin they will go. Nor will the Northern States escape from these fearful consequences; for, with the increasing pressure of our taxes and national debt, we apprehend that bankruptcy, repudia- tion, general demoralization and national dis- grace will be apt to follow, only to be finally solved in a regular military despotism. These are the blessings to which the Boston abolition fanatics are endeavoring to lead the country. We have had enough of them. We want no more. We prefer the wiser and safer restoration programme of President Johnson. Northern radicals may seek the continued ex- clusion of the South from the national councils, in order to retain their political power, reckless of the consequences; but in this scheme they will only provoke the wrath of the great body of the people. Abolition fanaticism has bad its day. Public opinion, softened and en- lightened by the terrible experience of the war, inclines to gentler courses, The wise and humane reconstruction policy of President Johnson will be supported by the country, and to this end this approaching mass meeting, in speaking for the olty of New York, will not speak in vain. Trovetz Avout tax Nicosr Sorpurns.—The nigger soldiers now, who number over fifty thousand, aro giving ® great deal of trouble, both North and South. The Mississippi Con- vention has petitioned the President to remove them from that State, as a kind favor. The “little villain” of the republican party is also sorely troubled about them, and he is dis cussing the subject in a non-committal way. But it is evident that he does not under stand them at all. We comprehend the case of the nigger soldiers thoroughly, Let the first batch of them be sent to New York and we can of them among all the different islands in harbor and rivers, The Loyal will no doubt be anxions to present the gallant fellows with another flag, and most probably the ladies of the Loyal League will present each of the fragrant heroes with « bouquet. The rest of the nigger soldiers should out a long probation and fall confession of po- | be sent North and scattered all over the towns litical sins. and cities of New England, where they will be worshipped like gods, and the scheme of the regeneration of the race can be carried out by their marrying into the families of Phillips, Garrison and Sumner, and the Boston traders who signed the lecture to President Jobnson. | Thig is the way to solve the difficulty of nigger soldier question. d ‘Weed and Greeley—Arcades Ambo. These two restless politicians have engaged in a hand to hand encounter, and such is tho re- gard they are really held in by the public that no one cares who is victorious. They seem to think this country is a stage fitted up for their personal advantage and particular exhibitions, and the people an audience, breathless from intense interest while they watch their performances. Nothing of the kind. Their brawls only show the real character of the combatants and what self-appointed leaders amount to when they, in their rage, tell the truth of each other. The one, his life long, haa been a political intriguer, with pecuniary am- bition and ‘the love of power; the other, a erack-brained philosopher, with one idea pre- dominating in his mind from time to time, as the wind shifts, or as his digestion may direct. The one, by bis manipulation of office seekers, has contrived always to have a following or a tail; the other, by his avowed humanitarianism, is backed up by vegetarians, women’s rights men and negrophilists, people with long hair and seedy vestments, optimisis, pessimists, and all other kinds of ists—the crazy champions of all isms. These Arcadians are, however, anything but peaceful—they are pugnacious. Nay, more, they are ambitious, and seek to govern. We have a constitution, a Congress, a President and a Cabinet; laws to govern us, and institu- tions founded by patriots and statesmen. What of that? These men continually—directly the one, indirectly the other—seek to control everything—the administration, and the legis- lation, and the official appointments of the country. War or peace, it is all the same to them. No chance is lost upon them. As gen- eral, Greeley ordered the army to Richmond, and plunged it in disaster. As pacificator, he attempted to patch up a degrading peace with the rebels, at the cost of the national honor and its permanent security. The other, with equal versatility, could proceed to England to induce the aristocracy of that country, by his persuasive tongue and elegant manners, to do us justice, for which he was duly remunerated though he achieved nothing. Ever scampering from New York to Washington, he did not for- get the business of contracts, nor the commis- sions that could be made with powder manu- facturers, nor the profits of charter- ing such vessels as the Cataline, nor the snug places in the Custom House, where unscrupulous followers might be housed and fed. Like the elephant, which can pick up e pin or drag a thirty-two pounder, he was always ready for the work he loves, some- times losing his trunk, bowever, and then trusting to his tusks, State conventions have been his delight, no matter which party they represented, and with facile principle he has been as ready to advise the democrats as the republicans, His motto has always been, like Decatur’s, “Opportunity,” though he bas im- proved it in a very different manner. No station in life has been too high to prevent his intru- sion. Presidents have been advised and re- proved, or cajoled and misled. Ward politi- cians have been his intimates and implements. No man too high not to be approached, none 80 low but his usefulness has been considered. Secarcely o project that promised any advan- tage has escaped his grip; even Wall street has felt his presence and the effect of his interference. Ii all this a certain amount of ability has necessarily been displayed, and his combinations have been close, although extensive. A political ring has been taught to feel that he was its centre, and to revolve about him. A man who could dispose of office either in the State or the national government, and. who gained his power to do it through the force he enrolled in his service, was always sure to find ardent friends and obedient followers. The reci- procity of obligation has been well maintained, and in this has always consisted his strength. As for his antagonist, it is to be said that while he has never apparently been mercenary, yet he has always been erratic and unreliable. With a tormenting love of distinction, he has endeavored to control public opinion and to impress his own half digested theories on the people and the State. Without training, with- out the solid acquisitions of the learned, and little intercourse with the refined, be has from his Tribune appealed to the people always in the spirit of Gracchus and the garb of a wandering Fakir. The toga and sandals would have been a large improvement on his white hat and coat and boots to match, His teachings are scarcely ever sound beyond some well known platitudes about which there jis little difference; all the rest has been but “leather and prunella.” And yet his ambition has been to upset society and re-establish it on a diet of squash and bran bread, to equalize iton the lowest basis; in short, to give to materiality and skepticism the advantage over intellect, cultivation and religion. At one time offering to submit to rebellion, at another assailing the government Ddeoause it did not put it down; again prociaim- ing the bankruptcy of the nation and giving treason its strongest reasons for holding out, and farnishing apologies to traitors tor desert- ing the national flag. In the name of common sense, we ask, if the positions these men have assumed before the country, their pretensions of manner or the assurance of their teachings, can any longer have any influence on an observing and sensible people? Is this whole country to be told in effect that to them must we look for the conduct of our political and national affairs? Is it mot time that they were and can we not get along without them? Is there nothing left for us to consider but their individual im- portance, and nothing else for us to do but to listen to their disputes? The French have a proverb that the reputation of men is like their shadows, which sometimes precede them and at others follow them. Ofteg it is longer than those who oast it, and many times much shorter. We thipk that the controversy between Weed apd Greeley is likely to shorten their shadows to nothing, and the public begin to | notice it. This country has not been created for the control. of Weed and Greeley, and i is | time they knew fe gar Who furnished the twenty-five thousand Aollars in gold required to caparison Ben Wood’s new donkey? Tos Last or ras Evenme Excuanas.—By reference to our financial artiole it will be seen that the Stock Exchange, comprising both the regular and open boards, passed resolutions yesterday forbidding any of their members to deal, directly or indirectly, at the Evening Ex- change, under the penalty of expulsion. This is s wise determination on the part of the two nn JENKINS IN THE ARM. A Payuister’s Operations in Seven-Thirty Bonds. \ associated bodies of stock brokers,and one| A New Way to Fleece the | which will do much to improve their social status, which the nightly orgies of the Evening Exchange were greatly calculated to lower. The domestic unhappiness and financial ruin to which the sessions of the evening board have led, to say nothing of crime, would be difficult to trace; but that it bas been a hothed of vice those most familiar with it can abundantly testify. Its extinction is a benefit to the Stock Exchange, to the city, to morality, and to civilization. Many families will have occasion to rejoice over it, and none will regret its disappearance but the gambling dens on the opposite side of the sireot to it and the barrooms in the neighborhood. We were the first to expose and condemn it, and it only required that the bubble should be pricked in order that it might burst. Henceforward the Evening Exchange will be a contemptible thing, belonging only to the history of these exceptional times. More Ratroap Accments.—Accidents on the railroads, it is no harm to say, are follow- ing each other with railroad speed. They average now about two each day, involving a loss ot life and limb which is positively fearful to contemplate. Yeslerday two trains on the Oil Creek Reailroad, Pennsylvania—a pas- senger and a freight train—eame into collizion, and nine persons were instantly kilied and | from ten to fifteen wounded, An excursi®n train, filled with a hundred and fifty passen- gers, on the Old Colony Railroad, near Abing- ton, Mass. ran into a hand car, and was thrown down an embankment. The casualties in this case were, foriunately, not great, but that is not due to the good management of the company. The only protection for the public | is in the verdicts of coro ’ juries and the activity of prosecuting officers. Untila stcik- ing example is made of some railroad director railroad travelling can only be accomplished at the imminent risk of life. Boous anp Unsounp Insurance ComPaNtEs.— In the midst of the heavy defaications, embez- zlementa, forgeries and the exposure of bogus oil and mining companies of the past fow weoks, would it not be we!l for the community to look a little after the condition of the life, fire, and marine insurance companies that abound not only in Wall street, but all over the city? That many of these companies are unsound, if not entirely bogus, we have heard repeatedly charged. Insurance officera are also frequently known to put off the payment of losses upon the most frivolous pretexts, and even compelling parties to go into a course of vexatious and expensive litigation to obtain the payment of just and acknowledged claims. What is the caus» of this? It companies can- not pay legitimate claims thoy should be com- pelied to wind up, and not be allowed to fleece the community at will. A stricter accounta- bility on the part of insurance companies and a general overhauling of their affairs would lead to reforms much needed in our insurance system. We repeat that it would be well in this era of swindling and public and private corruption to overhaul these insurance compa- nies. If sound, they can readily prove it. If unsound, they should be compelled to go by the board. Accents To Ove Sonprers.—Our soldiers returning from the war have been particularly unfortunate in meeting with accidents on rail- roads and steamboats. Hundreds of brave fel- lows who escaped the perils of battie have been killed or mutiJated a'most within sight of home. The last disaster of this kind on record was the explosion of the steamer Argosy, on the Ohio river, on Monday, having on board three hundred men of the Seventieth Ohio in- faniry, many of whom were drowned or scalded. In this instance, however, there ap- pears to be no blame attached to the officers of the boat, as she was driven ashore by a storm, and the concussion burst the mud-drums of the boilers. Ja The Hon. Ben Wood has again mounted his donkey. That is to say, he has resumed the Soldiers. &o. &. ko. Our Richmond Correspondence. Ricamonp, Va, August 23, 1868. ASTOUNDING DEVELOPMENTS IN THM PAY DEPARTMMNT OF THR ‘UNITED STATES ARMY. Disclosures concerning operations in the Pay Depart, ment of this command came partially to the surface to- day, the full developments of which will show that the criminal epedemic is on its travels, The questionable transactions are alleged to have taken place in the seven thirties, and involve the good name and fame of Lacut Colonel Amos Binney, a paymastor of long standing im the service, and for some time past the chic: pay master of this department. It appears that some time since Colonol Binney was entrusted with several millions of dollars to be used in the discharge of obliga\iona .o bis department, some three millions of which he converted into seven-thirties and deposited in Norfolk ‘aud perhaps one or two other banks. The Norfolk institution, with a very light capital, has recently takew one millon doliars of those securities, which fact it ia stated has created considerable astonisiiment in that sec. tion of the State. In one of ny despatches of some days since it will be remembered that T stated that some ol the bankers and brokers of Richmond, and all those at Lynchburg, were charging the soldiers who had beeily paid off in these seven-thirties @ discount on thom of “y four and eight dollars per hundred dollars, Hereupon a strong complaint was mado to the Paymaster Genoral of the United States Army at Washington, who directed am immediate investigation, which resulted ip the instant for of Colonel Binucy to the national capital su fh | and d ally 10 be hoped th eto explain but advices receiv: here late to day indicate Lop? Of such a reset. Colone! Binney wos appointed paymaster on the fifth of | st, 1851, from Mavsach setts, with the rank of f, and has Served unrenitlingly ever since TE SUOSRSOR. Thaddeus H n has been appointed Acting ay vill doubtless ed to the position thus w headquarters in thy Col nt in Norvolk in mn to th omplished and. strat htforwand © the service. He is a native of Ind ana, but was appointed from Towa on the 3d of Octo- the news prevailed mat leaving ye tra'n for Washington and this despateh, prevent my giving the (Host details im re | \ation to this matter. 1 will add to-morrow. THIS PAY DRPARTHANT | has beon enlarged very recently by the addition of North ng ftom: of the larg { at important the pay distri at Lynchburg, hase“ 1 of soventy-cight ars, in, bullion and pecie, formerly belonging 5 ok rebel exprcas agent and u rebel business agent, whom it had beon sent anterior to the surrender of Lec’s prated by them, are now , and are to be bro “ght ‘before a military These wen are eupposed to have colluded, nding the money, which they had sue- save a sum of ubout fourteen hundred under arre commi{ssio to th 0! comled in doing, dol PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS. Meeting of the State Democratic Conven— tion at Harrisburg—Endorsement President Johnson with Many Quel. fications—The “Slaughter, Debt and Disgrace of the War” the Consequen os the Democrac y’s Defeat tm 1860 Southern States Entitled to All Rights They Possessed Before the Bbellion—They Must Have Immediate Representation in Congress and Saved from the “Curse” and “Crime of Negro Suffrage, &e., &e. Hearwenenc, August 24, 1865. The Democratic State Convention met at two o'c this afternoon, and was temporarily organized by el ing Robert L. Johnson, of Cambria, President, and A. D. Boilleau, of Philadelphia; Benjamin Whitman, of Erie, and D. H. Nieman, of Northampton, Secretaries, was taken to permit delegates to indicate the Com on organization The commit afier a short consultation, returned! and reporied Richard Vaux, of Pailadelphia, as pe nent President of the Covention, with a vice p for each Senatoriai district, and twenty-nine Mr. Vaux, on taking his veat, made a spirited address, A committee on resolutions, composed of one each Senatorial district, was appointed, to whom resolutions on national and State affairs were ret without debat Mr W. H. Petrikon offered a resolution that soldiers of 1961 and 1862 having enlisted with little o no bo nty, should receive one hundred and sixty of land, and urging upon the next Congress the jut of maintaining svch an appropriation. — This resol was referred. ‘The convention proceeded to ballot for @ candidate fa Auditor Gencral. Colonel W. H. H. Davis, of the 0 Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania regiment, rece eighty-six votes on the third ballot, and was deo unanimously nominated, ide snd. cheated, A-sscries of resolutions was an r of which the following is a digost: — The preamble asserts the betrayal of their trast by rty in power since 1861. The resolutions affirm th faellt of Pennsylvania democrats to the hopes tgs clare that the slaughter, debt and a ng at management of all that remains of the Daily News—the skeleton of secession. The Hon. Ben will have, however, to mend his political creed, abandon secession out and out, ac- knowledge that the war was necessary and just; and then we may permit him to join our movement for the restoration of the South on the new basis of the abolition of slavery and the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine. He cannot be admitted into the new heaven and the new earth without a total change in char- acter and principles. Literary Intelligenee. It is stated on excellent authority that the sale of “Rnoch Arden” up to the present time has produced to ite autbor, Mr. Tennyson, the sum of £11,000. A shilling edition of “‘Artemus Ward,” says an Englieh paper, has just appeared in all the London booksellers’ windows, and Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son have taken no leas than four thousand copies, The ‘‘author’s odi- tion” of “‘Artermus Ward,” iesued by the same publisher, has been supplemented by two extra cbapters, entitled ‘The Draft in Baldinsvilie, with Mr, Ward's Private Opinion Concerning Old Bachelors,” and ‘‘Mr. W.'s Visit to a Grafick” (Soirée). The agent of Mr. Charies F. Brown (otherwise A. Ward) is at present in Lendon, and tt is expected that the “showman” will lecture there dur. : Hl Ht |! : i i 3 He ~ i 2 4 g —_ 3. 25 44 F i A war was a consequence of their counsels garded; that the constitution ought to be obeyed times, under all circumstances at conntry—the oath to support it being universally bind. ing, and it is only by a ricid enforcement of its prov that wo can hope for liberty or peace. Thi jum all our constitutional rights consists of by jury, habeas a free immt punishment e: w a vote at the elections, to State The Convention concurs with Presi Johnson in opinion that State ordinances of np are nullit in th Toe with a sole view to popular enjoyment, and is, ti it deserves to be, the recipient of a large pub ‘and attractive tableaus are the principal features of Bigntly and they are all as geod.in froveral lines as can be found at any other establighme | in the metrovolis, 3