The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1865, Page 1

= WHOLE NO. 10,589. WASHINGTON. The Eniperor Maximilian Sends a Letter to the President. THE LETTER NOT RECEIVED. Tho Government Does Not Know Such a Person as the Emperor of Mexico. Proposition for a Congress of the Great Powers. Presentation of the New Belgian Minis- ter to the President. General Hatch and the Charleston Freedmen, &e. &e. &e. Wasuincton, August 25, 1865. THE MEXICAN QUESTION. ‘The Mexican question begins to acquire @ degree of im- Portance here next only to that of the restoration of the Bouthern States. While the government was intently ‘©-cupied with subduing the gigantic Southern rebellion dt rather avoided the immedjate consideration of any other troublesome matters not requiring instant atten- tion; and although it never swerved from the traditional and well established policy of the country with regard to ‘what is understood as the Monroe doctrine, it was not ‘anxious to precipitate a discussion about European inter- vention in Mexico before our own domestic troubles were in a good way of being settled. Jt did not permit its ap- Parent dignified reserve to be misunderstood, however, and has in no way tolerated such intervention on this @ontinent. And the language of the prees, the people and Congress has been so decided and emphatic that no @ne could help seeing what was the universal sentiment ef the country. But while our government has held this dignified at- Bitude and was disposed to allow the Emperor Napoleon and his pro‘égé, the Emperor Maximilian, to get out of Sheir Mexican difficulty without subjecting them to the ‘wnpleacantness and humiliation of a formal warning to eave, events are occurring that may bring this question to fan iesue sooner than anticipated. It is evident that both Bumperors are uncasy, like a person who feels the vibra- tions of an earthquake beneath his feet, for they have econ impatient and restless. They seem unable to endure suspense any longer, and have made a desperate effort to obtain the slightest semblance of recognition or ‘toleration of the Mexican empire from the United States. ‘The well informed correspondent of the Heratp in ‘Mexico, writing under date of July 23, states that the bamberiain of the Emperor Maximilian, Mr. Degollado, had been sent to the United States on a sort of quasi pri- ‘vate mission for the Emperor, in order to feel the pulse @f the government at Washington. He was instructed, %& is said, to ask an interview from the Secretary of State @r the President, through the French Minister, to deliver letter from Maximilian. This was simply an autogreph etter of condolence upon the assassination of President Eéncoln, and of congratulation to Mr. Johnson on his @levation to tho Presidency—a polite note only, having @oreference to official or international matters. This ‘waa an adroit movement, for the informal recognition of {bere being such s person as the Emperor of Mexico ‘would have been a crumb of comfort to his Majesty in Ahis uneasy seat. It appears further that Maximilian contemplated at ret sending Ramirez, his Secretary of State, and, per- ‘aps, General Bazaine with him; but this was deemed (Wo bold a move, and as looking too much Iike gpen, off- Bai reoguition to succeed. These diplomatic mafiagers woncluded that the Afftricins were too smart to bo Yooled in that way, and finally eoncluded to send in a ‘very private manner and charactor Mr. De, Ie ‘was thought that this gentleman, a son of late Gene- val Degollado, was a most suitable person for the mis- gion. Ho, Ike his father, had belonged to the Juarez party, was several years in Washington as an attaché to ‘Mr. Mata, the Minister of Juarez, had married only two years ago a Washington lady, and {sa quiet, unassuming person, whom no one would be likely to suspect as being engaged in any deep diplomatic game. Before the news of Mr. Degollado having been sent on this mission was published, the gentleman himself, with his wife, arrived in Washington. After having the way nicely prepared for him, and ‘every pomt carefully surveyed, while the French, English, Spanish and other ministers were ‘watching the result with the greatest interest, particu. larly the French Minister, Mr. Degollado made a respect- fal application for permission to present to President Johnson the nice little autograph informal note of con- olence and congratulation from the Emperor Maximilian. Everything went on very smoothly to this point, but ‘Shen there was doubt and trepidation. An ompire might hang on the answer to this seeming modest app'ication Would the government fall into the trap? Or, seeing it, if kindly disposed towards Maximilian, would it not take a@dvantage of such an admirable arrangement to give him g@omothing of a quasi recognition, without shocking pub- Mesentiment? These questions undoubted agitated the ‘minds of several of the diplomats, ‘Well, the answer to Mr. Degollado’s application came ‘@ last, and it was not long in coming, for there was mothing to hesitate about. The sagacious Secretary of ‘State end our clear-headed President did not evade the ‘matter when submitted to them, out of courtesy or com- plinrent. They were asked to receive a letter from the Bamperor of Mexico. They knew no such person, and ‘would not receive the letter, That was the answer. This tn. no imaginary scene or event, but a fact, full of signif- ance, and important in the history of this country. ‘This declaration had to come sooner or later; and, while the government was not disposed to embarrass ‘he Emperor Napoleon and Maximilian earlicr than ne- ‘Gemspry, or not at all, if they would gracefully withdraw from Mexico, it met tho issue fairly and firmly when Brought before it by the partics themselves, No amount ‘@f diplomatic trimming or ingenious explanation-can do- troy the force of this fact; and its full moaning is that, ‘mot only does the government of the United States not Know such a person as the Emperor of Mexico, but never an know such a person. In this atttiude of the United States what should be ‘the policy of Napoleon and Maximilian? Clearly to Weave Mexico. They cannot hold it against the will of ‘this country, Europe combined could not. It is hardly mecessary to refer to our resources, to the million of men woe could raise at the tap of the drum, to the fighting qualities of our veteran heroes, and to the consummate ‘ability of our generals. Ail this is understood in Europe now. A war in defence of republican institutions in the edjoining republic and to maintain the Monroe doctrine ‘would be most popular; and if the issue is forced upon us wo shall accept it at any cost But woe do not want to go to war. We want peace and the ‘most enlarged commerce with all nations; and for this ‘we would forget oven the insidious attempte that have ‘been made by Buropean Powers to destroy our institu- ‘tions and power. How, then, are we to avoid war? How can the Bm- peror Napoleon and Maximilian get out of the dilemma ‘they are in with as little discredit and danger as possi - ? Acongress of nations seems to be the most feasi- i only way, Let the Emperor Napoleon Proposition. Let the United States, as Powers of the world, be invited to this anticipate the future, to avoid war and hereafter, to save Europe from revolutions inevitably follow a war with this country a lasting peace, let the Buropean Powers American continent. In a word, let arent Powers declare that henceforth belong only to the Americans, Wasbing- | E “the constant friendship of the King, and to ox- ton advised us to form no entangling alliancés, and wo 40 not want to form any AH we want and propose by Buch a congress is to make a disentangling alliance—that ig, to disentangle ourselves and our future glorious ca- reer from European interference or influence. Our poeition now is analogous to that of France after it had put down the Jacobine, when the whole vigor of the nation was aroused and shook Europe to its very centre. We shall soon put our own Jacobins down, North and South, and enter upon a new career of unex- ampled vigor and power And this may revolutionize the Old World. It is for the European Powers to say whether our wonderful vitality shall be turned to war or to the peaceful development of our vast domain. If they withdraw from this continent the latter will be our destiny, and they will reap abundantly the fruits of it; if the former, the Monroe doctrine will be enforced at all hazards, which would be followed by the subjugation of the whole continent and revolutions in Europe, Shall we have the congress or not? GENERAL HATCH AND THE CHARLESTON FREED- MEN. General Hatch, in command of the military district of Charleston, 8. C., writes to General 0 O. Howard relative to certain charges that were preferred against him for alleged abuée of the freedmen by a Union League of Charleston. The Genera) says that the accusation that he refused permizsion for an oration in that city on the Fourth of July is utterly untrue, and that all business wag suspetided and celebrations becoming the day were participated in with his hearty approval. The only re- quest made which he did not deem expedient to grant was @ proposal to assemble some thirty thousand freed- men in Charleston on the above day, which, fearing a riot, he had refused to acquiesce in, subsequent events having shown him that the precaution was a most wise one. Inthe matter of contracts the General does not think the colored!people are imposed upon, as alleged, but that their interests are fully looked after by the local agents for freedmen. INTERESTING TO DISCHARGED SOLDIERS. ‘The Acting Second Comptroller of the Treasury decides that when soldiers have lost their discharges or other papers a simple affidavit of that fact sworn to by them will not be accepted in the first instance as decisive proof of such loss, but the existence of the papers must first be proved from the Adjutant General’s office before the affidavit of such loss can be made available. CONDITION OF GENERAL CROCKER. General Crocker still survives, but, in the opinion of his medical attendant, he cannot possibly recover. Mrs Crocker is expected to-morrow night from Iowa. PRESENTATION OF THE NEW BELGIAN MINISTER TO THE PRESIDENT. Mr, Maurice Delfoase was presented by the Secretary of State to the President to-day, in the quality of Min‘s- ter Resident of his Majesty the King of the Belgians. On delivering his credentials he said it was his first duty, and he was happy to fulfil it, to assure the President of press the sincere wishes of his Majesty for his personal happmess and for the prosper- ity and well-being of the United States. As for himself, the Minister said, he should have no other object in endeavoring to deserve the President’s favorable re- gard than to maintain friendly relations between the gov- ernment of Belgium and that of the United States, and to draw more closely the ties of friendship which happily exist between the two countries. To this the President replied:— + Mr. Detvrossr—I receive you with pleasure as the 1. presentative of his Majesty, the King of the Belgians, and I hope that you may find your residence here satis- factory and agieeable, Your sovereign has performed [Aneg d many friendly 6itices for the United and ¢ is therefore hi in high respect and esteem among the American Onr best wishes are constantly given for not only the welfare of your enlightened coun- try, but for the health and happiness of the King. APPOINTMENTS. Ex-Congressman George H. Yeaman, of Kentucky, has been appointed Minister to Denmark. Mr. Wm. P. Jobnson, brother of the President, and an old citizen of Brazoria county, Texas, has been appointed Surveyor of Customs at Velasco. R. E. Boyd and W. Waller have been appointed Postal Railway Clerks between this city and New York, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum each, com- mencing on the Ist of next month, % PARDONS GRANTED. The President this morning granted the following par- dans :—James D, Coleman, of Caroline county, Va. ; H. J. Randolph, of Albemarle county, Va. ; T. J. Randolph, of Aivemarfe ‘sinly, Va.; Benjamin F. Drew, of Virginia; Milton P. Jarnagan and Jos. 8, Claghora, of Savannah, Ga. SEIZURE OF WHISKEY FOR EVASION OF THE REVENUE Law. % Several heavy seizures of whiskey, for alleged evasion of the revenue laws, have recently been made in Cincin- nati; and Hon. 8. S. Cox, of New York, is here as attor- ney for the owners, The property at stake is reported to amount to several millions of dollars, The parties im- Plieated are expected in a few days, when a hearing will will be asked of Secretary McCulloch. INTERNAL REVENUE DECISION. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that it is the duty of executors, administrators; &c., to render lists of the legate and to the assessor or assistant assessors of the district in which the deceased resided at the time of his death. If a party dies while temporarily absent from his home the immediate place of hig decease should not be regarded, but his executor should make return to the assessor of the district where he actually resided. No distribution of legacies could be made (sec. 125) until the executor returns the list and pays the tax. The party liable to pay duty in respect to any succession (sec. 147) may be either the successor himself or (sec. 137) any person acting in his right or on his own behalf, The duty of the syccessor or his agent is laid down in section 147, so far as the rendering of alist or schedule of succession is concerned. If the successor is young or incapable it will, of course, devolve upon the agent, ox-guardian or trustee (o render the full and true account required by the terms of section 147. By section 148, if any person required to give an account of successions wilfully neglect so to do for the period of ten days after notification he is liable to penalty; and by section 147, if no account of succession should be de-" livered to the assessor, he may assess the duty on the best jnformation he may obtain. The duty falls due as soon as the succossor or bis representative for him be- comes such in possession. THE ALEXANDRIA COLORED MISSIONARY CONVEN- TION. The convention of colored missionaries that has beon convened in Alexandria for several days past, for the purpose of devising means of making colored labor more efficient and successful, adjourned to-day. A delegation numbering between twelve and fifteen of the attendants upon the convention made an early call at {the White House this morning and were kindly received by the President. Apparently the visit was an informal one, and no requests were made. A colored clergyman from Boston, named Grimes, headed the delegation. The total receipts at the Internal Revenue Bureau to- day were $1,270,848, Since the 1st of July last the total receipts have been upwards of $48,500,000. RETURNING VETERANS. The military consolidation—comprisi the Sixth, Tenth and Thirteenth New York artillery—left for home to-day, twenty-three hundred strong. CABINET MERTING. The usual Cabinet meeting was held to-day, at which all heads of departments were present, excepting Mr. Stanton. PROMOTION. Captain T, ReHey, of the Fourth United States artil- lery, lately in command of Batteries F and H, has been Promoted to a majority. PERSONAL, Hon. Preston King arrived in the city to-day, and pro- ceeded to the White House, He expects to leave to- morrow. Secretary Stanton and family, Surgeon General Barnes and others have gone North on a short visit, Major R. Eckert is Acting Secretary of War in Mr. Stanton’s ab- sence. Inspector General W. BE. Strong, of the Freedmen’s Bureau, returned to the city from the West last evening, ‘and will remain for the present at the headquarters of the bureau. Jeane L. Williams, of Indiana, bas resigned his position da zea es a 4. B. Doughty, late major of tbe Second Berdan sharp- un ye ee better than anybody else, uniforms all, and who think the houses of Ketchum, Son & Co., and Charles Graham taken from Marris Ketchum, Son & Co. will more than will not reach three millions doliars, Ths aseets has not yet been realized, but will bo about equal to the value of the abstracted bonds between two and a bes SH Ha im agaifiet the estate is a check for the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars now gary signed, but was filled up Bank and drawn against, Morris Ketchum & Co. de clined to acknowled turned to the Union the Mechanics’ Bank, but was not certified. thatthe Union Bank has sued the assignees of Ketchum & estate of Charles Graham & Co. The matter will no doubt be left to the decision of the courts. will probably cover the liabilities of Charles Graham & Co. The stock balance against Mr. Graham—$265,000— makes a part of it, as well ag the claims of the Importers’ and Traders’ and Rousse of Dabney, Mor 0. ment of the claim amount to $ which are now in the hands of their assignees, Graham & Co, the latter, wilt of ‘both Houses, “about $3, sent forgery of gold paper Ktchum, ceded ling to th forth at $4,200,000. A Pass here for Huntsville, Alabama, this morning, ran off @ long trestle work near Reynolds’ station. Tho entire train was thrown off and ten or twelve persons killed and about twenty injured. An express messenger, named HE NEW YORK HERALD. SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1865. THE WIRZ TRIAL. More of the Horrors of An- dersonville. NEW YORK, shooters, whieh during the memorable campaigns of the Army-of the Potomac served as a part of its vanguard, has recently received an appointment in the Engineer Bureau of the Treasury Department. ‘The rebel ex-Governor of Georgia, Joseph Brown, and Linton Stephens, a brother of Alexander H. Stephens, are at Willard’, Stephens is probably here on bebalf of his brother. Brown is desirous of being pardoned. Lieutenant Colonel Page, chief quartermaster of She idan’s army during the Saenandoah valley campaign, was yosterday assigned to duty in the office of the Quartermaster General, SALES OF GOVERNMENT ANIMALS. General Ekin advertises the closing sales of govern- ment stock in September. Twenty-five thousand aui- mals, without a single interruption, have been sold under his direction during the present mfonth. The entire proceeds from “this source amount to more than $4,000,000, Testimony of a Rebel Surgeon as to the Maltreatment of Prisoners. Copy of an Inspeetion Report of the Prison Camp. A SICKENING TALE CF SUFFERING. &e, &e. de. IMMIGRATION. The foreign immigration to the United States for the pix months ending with June comprised nearly seventy- five thousand persons, of whom forty-two thousand aro males. AUGUST REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL BUREAU. The raonthly report of the Agricultura! Bureau for Av- gust says the returns of the correspondents are very full and show aslight falling off in the wheat crop in the New Englaud and Middle States, something over half a million of bushels; a loss of about one and three-qnarters: millions of bushels in the States of Maryland and Delaware, and adeficiency of over twenty millions bushels in the Northern and Northwestern States. The corn crop eXx- hibits the greatest promise, It is everywhere goed. The potato crop is almost as promising as that of corn. The other crops harvested will be ample for all domestic purposes, and that of oats will be very large. The pros- pect, therefore, is that the injury to the wheat crop will be more than compensated by the unusual excellence of the other crops. The tobacco crop is the only one which exhibits a general falling off in-the amount planted, The heavy internal taxes on the manufactured product, and the apprehension of a tax on the leaf, are assigned by some of the correspondents as a reason for the di- minished production. Tae amount of wool and the in- crease of sheep are shown by the table to bear like pro- portional advance to that they have exhibed since 18a. The report says:—The rebellion has given to this great interest a prosperity which protective laws under a high tariff failed to accomplish for it, Wasuixoron, August 25, 1865. The court room was crowded with spectators this morning, including wowpen. Captain Wirz was brought in at a few minutes to eleven o'clock. CONTINUATION OF DR, BATES’ TESTIMONY. The record of yesterday having been read at length the examination of Dr, John C, Bates was resumed. Speaking of the Andersonville prison, he said the ecurvy there was next to rottenness; some of the patients could not eat because there was no mastication; their tecth were loose; they frequently asked him to give them something to eat which would not cause pain; while Dr. Stevenson was Medical Director he did not manifost much interest in the relief of *he “necessitous; the rations were less than twenty ounces m twenty-four hours; he did not know but what a man would starve to death on it, espeefally if the food was of few articles and monotonous; sometimes the meat was good and some- times bad; in consequence of the paucity and unwhoie- someness of rations some of she men starved to death; ‘the amputations and reamputations, owing to gangrenous wounds, were numerous; there was plenty of wood in the neighberhood which might have been cut to answer all demands: there was on one occasion an altercation between Dr. James and Captain Wirz, on going into the hospital Dr. James learned that his chief clork had been arrested and or- dered to undergo the buck and gag; the clerk was bucked and was set outside of the gate; on inquiry Dr. James found that the clerk had neglected to report a man who ‘was missing; Dr. James wrote a letter speaking of Wirz’s tyranny, and the clerk still continued to be punished. A sketch in pencil, drawn by one of the inmates of the prison, was exhibited to the witness, who said:— Here is Dr. Bates No. 1 examining the quality of the beef; here is Dr. Bates No. 2 giving meat and bones to the cripples; it was his prerogative, as officer of the day, to supervise the cooking; when rations were to be fesued be would frequently go to the place; sometimes twenty or a hundred would surround him imploring for bones; he was represented as dis- tributing bones; that was of frequent occurrence; the sketch was accurate as far as it went; but it was not filled in; there ought to be twenty or forty figures in the space where only one appeared; men as sketched hob- bled along on crutches: i with tin cups in their mouths, because they could carry these articles in no other way; they wanted to mash up the bones to precure their contents for food. ig Mr. Basen tomesieed-that Dr. Bates looked much better on the witness stand than he did in the sketch. ‘The witness thanked the gentleman for the com- pliment. REPORT OF THE OFFICER OF THE DAY OP ANDER- SONVILLE PRISON. P The Juncs ApvocaTs proposed to offer in evidence s morning report of the surgeon acting as officer of the day, and asked the witness to examin the handwriting. Mr. Baxgr objected, saying the prisoner was charged with conspiracy and murder. If the defendant had eon- spired with other parties, these must be before the court. No court could put in testimony in relation to other par- ties and try them in their absence. Whatever was put im must bear on the person before the court. He asked whether the court could try persons not before it? The evidence sought to be introduced was not strictly applt- cable to the defendant. There was nothing to connect Captain Wirz with this morning report, and with the sur- geon in charge. » The JupGs ADvocaTE supposed the gentleman was per- fectly aware that parties to a conspiracy could be tried singly. To save time, he would recommend to the coun- sel ‘Rushell on Crime,” and “Starkey on Evidence.” Mr. Baxer replied that these authorities showed that where conspirators were to be tried the court might, on application of counsel, elect to separate and try the parties separately. But in this case the alleged conspi- rators have never been before the court to ask for a separation, They were not even in custody. They were at large. It was not known that they ever would be tried. In acivil court he could ask that the charges be quashed. ‘The Court decided to admit the paper, which was read, as follows :— Tho President’s Guard. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. * Executive MAnsiey, Wasuaron, D. C., August 24, 1865. In your daily issue of the 22d inst. T notice some stric- tures upon ‘the President’s Guard” from your Wash- ington correspondent, He says:—‘‘Are our generals and colonels so occupied that they cannot see if the soldiers detailed to act as sentinels about the White House are neat and cleanly in their dress and equipments?’ The soldiers at present comprising the President’s Guard are men selected from the Ninth regiment V. R. C. for their superior soldierly qualities, and are as good a body of veteran soldiers as can be found in our army, and will bear comparison with the best for their neatness and cleanliness of person and equipments, and are almost daily in: ted by generals and colonels who are compe- tent to judge of these things. Their arms and clothing are of the plain regulation pattern; but they are not responsible for this. The suggestion that a corps of “ornamental” soldiers be placed here may be well enough, but the unjust disparagement of our homely substantial veterans fs uncalled for. There are those to whom the scarred men who have saved the country look they are the proper men to protect the life of our Presi- servant, dent. Very respectfully, your obedient id Y) ORAMOEL McKEEVER, Captain Company D, Ninth V. R.C., commanding Presi- lent’s Guard. THE KETCHUM DEFALGATION CASE. The Aggregate Losses Sustained. The latest accounts relating to the abstraction of bonds and the forgery of gold certificates by Edward B. Ketch- um, Whose fraudulent operations caused the failure of & Co., give atolerably complete statement of the losses and liabilities of the two houses. KETCHUM, SON AND COMPANY. The amount of funds, bonds and various securities ual two and three-quarter millions dollars, though it ntire Habifities of the firm are fully four millions. The amount of the dollars. held by the Union Bank. One check, it is stated, was re- Edward by order of and over to ited in the Union ctehum, directly before his ‘fl Mr. Graham, by whom it was the cheek, and # was at once re- nk, It was originally drawn upon It is stated Co. to obtain the full amount of the check. If this masure should fail the check willbe chargeable td the CHARLES GRAHAM AND COMPANY. Cne million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars the Fourth National banks, and of the in & Co, and Ketchum, Son & ham & Co. applicable to the pay- ,000, fve-sixths of The assets of Gi 1864. 1, &m—aAs officer of the day forthe past twenty. hours, I have inspected the hospital, and find itin as good condition as the nature of the circumstances will allow. A majority of the bunks are still unsupplied with bedding, while in # portion of the division the tents are entirely destitute of either bunks, bedding or straw, the patients being compelled to lie upon the bare a. 1 would earnestly call your attention to the article of diet; the corn bread received from the bakery being made up without sifting, is wholly unfit for the tse the sick, and often, as 4 the last twenty-four hours, upon exami- nation, the inner portion is found to be perfectly raw. The meat (beef) received by the patient does not amount to over two ounces a day, and for the past three or four days nv flour has been issued. The corn bread cannot be eaten by many, for todo #o would be to increas: the THE AGGREGATE LOSSES. The liabilities of morris Ketchum & Co. and Charles inciuding the redeemed checks held by amount to $6,700,000; amount of assets 000. Deducting the value r, Graham, the total pre- ilities of both hous*s are $5,350,000. ‘The total extent of the abstractions of bonds and the yy the defauiter, Edward B. above statements, may be set First Divisiox, C. 8. M. P. Hosrran, Sept. 6, four or checks held ANOTHER RAILROAD SLAUGHTER. er Train on the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad Thrown from & | ¢iscages of the bowels, from which a large majority Trestle Bridge—Ten or Twelve Persons | are suffer! and it is, therefore, thrown away. All their rations received Killed and About Twenty Injured. Nasnviiis, Tenn., August 26, 1865. A terrible accident occurred on the Tennessee and Ala- ama Railroad to-day. A passenger train which left is two ounces of boiled beef half a pint Under these circumstances all the skill that brought to bear upon their cases by the medical officer will avai! nothing. ‘Another to which I feel it my daty to cail your attention is the deficiency of medicines. We have but little more than the indigenous barks and roots with which to treat the numerous forms of discase to which our attention is eon 4 a eeuee bop of wounds, ulcers, we have nothing except water. ‘Our wards some of them are wild yor pe and we are compelled to fold our arms and quietly y its ravages, not even having stimulants to support system Mosbey, and a Mr, Hazelton, were killed, No farther particulars yet received. Collision the Che "I under its depressing influence, the article ONE PRRSON DROWNED AND Two oTuRS sevens. | Doing 90 limited To aia ean only be issued for Se . T would respectully call your earnest attention to the Barrons, August 25, 1865, above facts, in the hope that —— may be done to Last night, about midnight, the steamer George Leary, pote the sufferings beer = am, sir, very re- Captain Blakeman, from Baltimore for Norfolk, with one | *Peefully, your obedient . CRECOS PILOT, hundred passengers and @ heavy freight, came in colli- | Assistant Surgeon, P. A. C. 8, and Officer of the Day. sion off Cove Point with the propeller Sea Gull, of the | Ty burioon HD Eicaxp, iu charge, First division C. now outside sea line from New York to Baltimore. The Leary was cut down to the water's edge, but the shifting of the cargo fortunately lifted the injured part above the water line and prevented her from sinking. The pas- sengors and baggage were transferred to the Sea Gull, and reached here this afternoon, The Leary was towed into the Patuxent river. The chief steward of the Leary was lost overboard, anda chambermaid and a deck hand were badly injured—the latter, it is thought, fatally. Debate in the © dian Parliament the Renewal of the Reciprocity Tre and the Enlar, ent of the Canals. QvEnec, August 26, 1865. In the Canadian Parliament last night the opposition offered the following resolution, which, after a flonce de- bate of six hours, the ministerial party voted down by 20 ayes to 78 noes:— Resolved, That the renewal of the Reciprocity t with tho United States is rogarded By the people of th object of the utmost ; EXAMINATION OF DR. BATES RESUMED. ‘The court at one o'clock took a recess till two o'clock, when the direct testimony of Dr. Bates was concluded. Cross-examined by Mr. Baker—Is « resident of Louis. ville, Jefferson county, Georgia, and was there when the war broke out; up to June, 1864, remained at home as a Practitioner of medicine, being in consequence of his profession exempted from service in the Confederate service; he bad had sympathy or wish to go into it he did not vote or do on the wi 7 tract surgeon to keep out of the State trenehes; he took an oath to the confederacy; tt was forced upon him at the point of the bayonet, and being under duress at the time, he did not consider it was now binding upon bim ; requisitions wero nado on Dr, Clayton for hospital sup: foe iy not on Captain Wirz; never heard any blame att to the prisoner about the badness of a re erate soldiers ybody: ad several wells on the outside of the ied province as an j and, t0 | prison. The wituers did not think thoy wore brome nd Vp ty. pan Ooh ee. with water ‘rom the ‘came pouroe the Union pil ee oe were, the latter drawing their supplies from tho stream the work of entarging the Mg and Lawrence | pu, through Ho judged the stream of aoe ey plier Work livolving any cooniaerable | {ult Was not unhealthy, Dut the lower part of it might een er work involving any considerable have been from the drainage of tho camp; Gxpense to the country. ville wan merely a raliroad station until the war eom- ‘Tho Ministry declared this involved a vote of non-con- | mei when mili sy ay fidence, and, with their creatares, voted it down. When itners was naked if he had any that there they ask for a renewal of tbe treaty point then to this | nape, OMsPINACY there 10 cause estat vote, ———————— ooo PRICE FOUR CENTS. Tight as weil be asked whether (he witness believed tho prisoner guilty Tt was of no con-equence Mr. Baker replied that the question was of sulicient $pabpriance to cause an objection fiom the learned gen- an, ‘The Cour? decided not to sustain the objection. The witness was then asked whether he knew of any Persons who by their conduct conspired to marder or Otherwise cause the death of Union prisoners. He se- plied be had never been so impressed, be bad always objected to the incfficieney and character of the rations; the shortuess of the allowance was owing {0 ite baving becu furnished by the Southern confederacy, further supplies con’d not be furnished except by going te the dnone of the officers bad the right to go he surgeons always did the best they could, and frequently complained to the Surgeon General about the insufficiency of means furnished By the Court—s were received from the North from the Sanitary ieston, and he saw some of the Prisoners wearing the clothes Which had been furnished. EXAMINATION OF DR. A. W. BURROWS. Dr. A. W. Burrows, being sworn, testified that he had served as a physician to the iwenty-seventh Massacha- setts; was taken prisoner at Piymo.ibh, and finally found his way to Andersonville, where he was paroled by Cap tain Wirz and placed in co! the two wards of the hospital; he remained there six months, WH the 9th of October, when he made his escape, since which time he had practiced medicine at home; when he went to An- dersonville thers were six or seven handred paticuts lying on the ground; they were partially naked; some Had broken limbs and gangrene, scurvy and chronic diarrhoea; nine-tenths of the pationts were lyin, round, while the others had insuflicient shelter; Captain Wirz would say when any prison aped or attempted to escape that he would starve every damned Yankee for such attempt; the prisoner was punished either in the stocks or the chain gangs; the stocks consisted of a framework six feet high, with boards shut togetiver with room for a man’s neck; men thus fastened could stand on their feet, while others merely touched the ground with their toes; and the chain gang was somtimes composed of six men and sometimes eighteen: they were handcuffed and chains passed around their nseks and legs, and to these chains a thirty-two pound ball was fastened; the gang would be held together one or two weeks, the men mean time being exposed to the sun and rain, which had the effect of weakening and reducing them; he bad uo doubt of the fact that some died in consequence ; another kind of punishment was putting the fect in stocks, the feet being elevated and the other parts of the body lying on the grourd; the witness never got from Dr. White what he az:zed for, there always being some evasive answer; anti-scorbutics were much needed, but not supplied; he Proposed, but the authorities refused, to allow him to take men and cut timber, which could bave been pro- cured ten rods distant; hounds were kept near the h pai to got the trail of escaping prisoners, who, when caught, were brought back and put in the stocks; the witness knew of a case where # man under such circum. stances was mangled in the face by one of the dogs, but recovered; another case came under his observation: it was in the August or September of 1864, when a Uniou prisoner was wounded by one of the hounds; he died, indirectly from the bite, but directly from gangrene; he had seen Captain Wirz on horseback with the hounds, Turner seemed to have direct charge of the ; he had heard Wirz order Sergeant Smith to atart the hounds, as some- body had got away; very ane. sores had resulted from vaccination; the matter was poizonous aud many deaths and amputations resulted; the ration when he went there was small—two ounces of bacon, a small potato, eorn bread (two and a baif inches ere no coffee, tea, sugar nor flour; sometimes there wus a ttle nce soup—a gallon of rice in thirty gallons of water; in July they gota few vogetables—not a spoonful a day; the morals’ of the prisoners were corrupted by cruel treatment; men would steal from each other something to eat, and would work among the filth even for potato pairin; or anything else; a Union man Ta is "ward, was shot within ihe” hospital "by a rebel soldier and wounded in the thigh; the limb was amputated and the man died the next day; When a raid was expected from Kilpatrick, the witness heard Captain Wirz give an order to fire upon the pri- soners if they huddled together; there were from thir- ty-three to thirty-six thousand prisoners there at the time, and in the month of August, av appeared from the official report, nearly three thousand died; on the re- moving of the prigoners from Andersonville one of them fell back, when the witness saw Captain Wirz knock the men down and stamp upon him; this wasin Septem- ber, 1864; Wirz had a revolver in his hand, but the Bese endgi that Wirz used it to knock prisoner down. At @ quamter to four o'clock the court adjourned until — * ---——‘Phe Counsel of Captain Wirz. Wasnincton, August 25, 1865. Louis Schade, one of the prominent counsel for Capt. Wirz, the Andersonville jailer, now on trial at Washing- ton, is a Prussian or German by birth, not much of a lawyer, but considerable of a lover and hunter after noto- riety, and a would-be litterateur. Six or seven years since he was the reputed editor of a Germano-English Gaily newspaper in Chicago, started with the means of a wealthy brewer by the name of M. Dinersey, of the firm of Lill & Dinersey, of champagne ale notoriety, bat which in the short space of a tew months he succeeded in sink- img into obscurity darker and deeper than one of the beer maker's immense ale vaults. At that time he was but an indifferent English scholar, but aspired to the top- moat round in the profession of journalism. By some mystertous means never fully explained, excepting by having with bim E. B, Mayers, an old Hxeatp reporter, since dead, and other gentlemen of brains and expe- rience, who were in the habit of rewriting and dressing up his editorial articles before they were put in type, he succeeded in making the credu- lone German (Dinersey) believe that he indeed amounted to something, and was an individual of considerable tmportance. Of course he espoused the cause of James" Buchanan, and the Union, his paper, followed and worked its very best to forward the inter: este of the then democratic party. But before the elec- tion came off the paper collapsed, and Schade, after some trouble with Dinersey regarding his becoming his son-in-law, which he very much desired and the old gentleman was ag much opposed to, le{t for parts unknown. A German new! ‘Tr, ested in connection with the English edition of the Union, was all that remained to tell the tale, Of this Mr. Dinersey dispos. sessed himself as soon as an opportunity presented, He has not been in the newspaper line sinee, and bas proba- bly had enough of that branch of the politics of the country. Schade subsequently turned up in the State of Towa, ‘where he was a lawyer of few briefs and an immense #iock in trade of influence. He figured politi- cally, of course. Whothor he espoued the Union or copperhead side is immaterial. He has now been brought to the surface as the counsel of juilor Wirz. It would seem that the Capiain might have made a better selec- tion; yet, with an able leader, Schade may serve to con- duct ihe’ case as well as a more success{ul and experi- enced attorney. Police Inteili THEFT OF TREASURY NOTES. Detectives Mullen and Horbelt, of the Fourth precinct, yesterday arrested Nicholas Blake, an Irish laborer thirty-five years of age, on the charge of having stolen two one hundred dollar Treasury notes from John Quin- lan, residing at 20 Oak strect, on the 28th ult. Being out together on that occasion, Blake said he had no moncy and wished to borrow five dollars from his com- ion, bat he did not succeed. Before separating, Quin- Tan mised his money, and he has sluce been informed by James Bergen, of 152 Cherry street, that Blake pur- chased a suit of clothes on the day the theft was com- mitted, and offered « one hundred doliar bill in payment. It ig also alleged that Blake made other purchases with the mency he is charged with taking from Quinlan. Jus- tice Hogan, before whom the accused was arraigned, committed him to prison for trial. : ROBBED IN A DISREPUTABLE HOUSE. Herman Hillman yesterday caused the arrest, by officer Herbert, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, of Ellen Yale, on the charge of having stolen three $100 Treasury notes from him, while at the house 161 Greenwich street, While alone in the houre Ellen p: taking Mr. Hill- man’s money for safe keeping, and accordingly removed the notes from the lining his boot, where he had secreted them, and when he demanded a return of his money Ellen coolly denied all knowledge of it; hence her arrest on the charge of larcency. Ellen, who lives at 362 Fousth street, was taken before Justice Hogan and committed to the Tombs for trial in default of $1,000 bail. She claims to bea seamstress and an honest wo- man. None of the stolen money waa recovered, but officer Herbert is in search of it. FELONIOUS ASSAULT WITH A BRICK—THE viCTIM ALLEGED TO BE INSANE. James Waliace, a youth of eighteen years, was yoster- day arrested by officer Oates, of the Sixth precinct, on the charge of committing 4 felonious assault on Stephen Dunden, on the 20th instant Thomas MeGowan, of 75 Mulberry #trect, who makes the complaiut, swears that Wallace struck Dunden on the head with a brick, and believes Dunden to be insane from the effects of the in Jory. The viotim is said to be under treatment in Helle ‘vue Hospital, s@ pleaded guilty to tue charge, and Justice Hogan committed him for trial THEFT OF COTTON GOODS—MILES O'REILLY MAKES AN AKKEST. James Kelly, twenty-two years of age and a native of Ireland, was yesterday arrested in the act of stealing cotton goods, valued at $100, from in front of Mr, Albert Chesebro’s itore, 81 Franklin street. Miler O'Reilly canght Kelly in the act and held fast to him til! officer Wilsey, of the Fifth precinct, arrived and took charge of the prisoner. Kelly was taken to the Tombs, and Jas tice Hogan cfaninitted him for trial. He says he lives in Albany and is a carpenter by trade, ——— —— ‘Twe Thousand Cords of Wood Beton to the New York Central Rati Destroyed by Fire. Avnant, Augutt 28, 1 Two nine hundred fect in length, and two thouvand cords of wood bel to Rai at the Contre, city, were totally ‘000, The LOSS OF ANOTHER STEAMSHIP. | Wreck of the Brother Jonathan on the Pacific Coast. NEARLY ALL HER PASSENGERS DROWNED Brigadier General Wright, Family and Stal Among the Lost. 3 LIST OF &ec. PASSENGERS, &e. dee. [From the Alta California, Angust 2.) JACKSONVILLE, Oregon, August 1—10 P.M, Asoldier arrived this evening from Camp Lincoln, bringing a despatch to Colonel Drum, He reports the Brother Jonathan, with General Wright, staf’ and family, and between two and three hundred passengers, lost near Camp Lincoln, on July 30, except fourteen men and one woman, who were saved, No particulars yet. Additional Particulars. The steamship Brother Jonathan hed tho eng’nos which were in the steamship Atlantic, which dragged her anchors, drifted on shore and was wrecked at Fisher's Island, Long Island Sound, on Thanksgiving night, No- vember, 1848. She was cut down and rebuilt under the supervision of Captain Aaron M. Burns, in this city, two years since, and was considered one of the staunchert vessels afloat in the waters of the Poeiti The Brother Jonathan was owned by the Californ Navigation Company, She left here on Friday last, at ten A, M., under commend of Caplain 8. J. DeWolf. We learn that the only staff officer who went ep with General Wright was Lieutenant E. D, Waite, his adjutant. Mrs. Wright accompanied her husband. The General, as has heretofore been announced through the coluinns of this journal, was en roue to Fort Vancouver, to take cotamand of the Department of the Columbia, to which ho had lately been assigned by the general government. The following despatch has been placed at our disposal:— Camp Lixcoun, Via JACKSONVILLE, om} July 31, 1666, To Cot. R. C. Drum—At two P. M. ) storday the steam- ship Brother Jonathan struck a sunken rock, and sunk in Jess than an hour, with all on board, except sixteen per- tons, who escaped in asmall boat,” the only survivors of the ill-fated ship. No trace of the vesvel ia left. I Was out last night on the beach with fourteen men; shall keep a party ont on the beach. General Wright, family and staf are supposed to be lost. Full particulars by mail. THOS. BUCKLEY, Captain Sixth infantry, C. V., commanding. Passenger List. The following is the list of passengers, as obtained from the office of the California Steam Navigation Com- It will be een that Brigadier General Wright and Dr. Ingram, U. 8. A. ; Captain Chaddock, U. 8. R.8. 5 Lieutenant BE. D. Waite and Governor Henry, of Wash- ington Territory, were among those on board. Who are saved it is impossible to state at present: — Brig. Gen. Wright, U.S. A., A. Ingraham, M. D,, U. & aud wife; Army; Lieut. E. D, Waite, U. & Jas. P. Richards, Army ; Victor Smith, Miss Mary Berry, Miss E. P. Snow, &. Meyer, James Connell, David McHendle, J. G. Gay and’wife, A. L. Styles and wife, Miss N. Shuser, W. M. Logan and eervant, M. L. Hefron, James Nesbit, Geo. W. Pollock, Janes E Trites, Chas. G. Nerthrop, M. Crawford, J. C. Hunsacker, T. Dawson, Mrs. A. C. Brooks, Mise Mary ‘Place, M.s Hensley, Mrs. Stackpole, infant and D. Crandall, child; Mre. C. Fountani, daughter J. Wall, ‘and child; Mire. Anna Craig, D. C. Powell, wife and four Mrs. Lee and infant, children; Governor A. C. Henry, A. A. Stone, wife and in- L. G, Tattle, fant; BH. Stone, wife and in. Mrs. J. St Mrs. James Church, rant, Capt. Chaddock, U.S. B.S. Mre Wendell and ebild, Mire, John C. Keenan and Fr Leffor, seven ladies, . 8. Geddes, S. B. Morgan, B. Matherson, 8. N. Luckey, wife and Mrs. Luckey and two chil- Mien Forbe mayor &. W. Eddy, U. 8.4. 188 6, E U.S.A; Charles N. Belden, G. Cavel, is Albert Micklet, Moses Beitler, George Wedekind. Joseph Orse!'l, Joseph Berton, H. Definnie, Thomas Moyle and wife, George W. Annis, Robert M. Frazer, J. Strong, John R. Craig, 8. P. Craig, William Bilimisky, Mary A. Tweedle, J. 8, Bina, Patrick Dwyer, Mre. Woodlock, John Adams, Conrad Adams, Two Indians, Fred. A. Pound, RS. Manly Gilwan Clindruaid, Henry Abrams, Jumee Lynch, Thomas Gallan, Wm. Logan and wife, C. Bisner, And Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Pxorees Meseenzer, Deseription of the itrother Jonatha The Brother Jonathan was 1,387 tone regiat hundred and twenty fect keel, thirty-live feet beam, and twenty-one feet deep. She was built by Messrs. Perine, Patterson & Stack, at Williamsburg, in 1861, for E. Mills, Exq., and others, and ran for some time between this city and Aspinwall, She subsequently went to the Pacific, and was purchased by the California Sterm Navigation Company, and has for years past been running between San Francisco «nd Oregon porte. The Brother Jonathan was not considered, while running from this port, a very fortenate vorsel, having nt with several mishaps while running to and from Aspinwa CITY INTELLIGENCE. rere Parsextarion To Mra. Greerat U. 8. Graxt.—Ap exceedingly handsome set of jewelry, comprising comb, earrings and brooch, is about being presented to Mr. General Grant by Brown & Spaulding, jewellors, of this city. The dovign is exceedingly chaste—acorns and oak- leaves—the former made out of the wood of the apple tree at gem nder which Genoral Lee surren dered. © workmanship is delicately beautiful, the tracery of veins in the leavos brought out in black and white enamel, As a memento of her gallant husband's generalship we are sure it will be greatly prized by Mra. Grant. This, together with a handsome pipe of te samo wood, to be presented ty Colonel W, B. Curtis, Twellt regiment, are on view at Messrs. Brown & Spauiing establishment. Pivupene’ Proxic.—The annual picnic of the Jonrney- men Plumbers’ Protective Society will take place om ‘Tuesday, tho 20th inst, at Dudley's Grove. The boat will leave the foot of Fourteenth stroet and East river at seven A. M., Catharine stroot at hal.-past seven, Chariton street (North river) at quarter part eight, snd Thirtieth Street at nine o'clock. Preparations have been made for @ grand and jolly excursion Nationat Frespwen's Assoctatiox.—At @ meeting hela in this city yesterday, in which the principal Freedmen’s ‘Associations of the country, Bast and West, were repre- sented by prominent xeutlemen from Boston, New York, yhiladelphia, Baltimore, Ciucinnatt and Chicago, a na- Pate on wae of, anized under the ttle of the rican Freedmen's Aid Commies.on. Bishop Simp- fae chosen President, Wm. Lloyd Gerriton and Joba well Vice Presidents, Fred. Law Olmstead General tary, Jacob R shiperd Asgociate Kecrotary, and Ward Treasurer, which officers, with J. Miller MeKim and J. M. Wolden Corresponding Secretaries of » Eastern and Western Departmenis, tivate ® yard of Managers, The Commission comprises @ mi 1 at and active friends of tho f ’ ntly large to represent this work of #3 very part of the country end make it really ta Jin its Character, The object is to promote the ele- vation of the freedinen and te cv-oporate (o this end with the Freedmen’s Bureau, Farat, Ratroad Acormaxt.—Tho Twenty-third precinct police report that Henry G. Wheaton, whose residence ig not given, was rar over and instantly killed at six o'clock last evening, at the corner of eo street and Fourth arenne, by an phot A th New Haven Railroad. The remains were taken to th station houge aud a Coroner notified, 1 Finewewe Frour.—While Bngme Company No. 4and Hook and Ladder Company No. 6 were proceeding to thé alarm of fire at No. 101 Walker street last evening, they go C.