The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1865, Page 4

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Year Ending May 1, 1865. . + $1,095,000 368,150 252,000 169,427 100,009 161,079 90,548 New Yoru Wer anp............::ceeceeeeee $1,095,000 ‘Times, Tribano, World and Sun combined., $71,229 TRIAL OF WIRZ. ‘Me proceedings of the Wirz trial yesiorday were ex- Ocedingly interesting, though the details of cruelty were eickaning. The examination of Dr. Barrows, formerly Surgeon of the Twenty-seventh Mascachusetts infantry, was continued, and the testimony of another important Witness, Robort M. Kellogg, who was also.a prisoner at Andersonville, was taken. Their evidence corroborated in full all that has heretofore been spoken and written ‘of the horrors and sufferings of that dreadful prison pen. Tho captives were tarved and tortured to death, and the doad bodies were sometimes left lying where they had breathed their last for three days, poisoning the atmos. phoro and rendering it ulmost intolerable to the living. two hundred and seven men died in one day in Au- gust, 1864. The mlions sepplied, rotten as in many tases they were, were not sufficient in quaniity to long sustain life, The men were compelled to lie in dirt, (ith, raggedness aad almost nakedness, ‘the bare ground, in the freezing cold and the scorching heat, and in the morning, where a party was thudd'ed together, tho dead were frequently found ‘Those who were not killed by this course of treatment were reduced to skeletons, while many were eaten up with gangrene and others lost limbs. On one occasion thirty-two out of a squad of ninety men to which Mr. Kellogg belonged were unable to stand minglod with the living. when ordered to form in line, owing to weakness from scurvy and diarrhora, Nearly three hundred out of four hundred who accompanied him to Andersonville died a fow days after they were paroled, and the Twenty-fourth Now York Battery was nearly annihilated in the prison. The court will meet again on Monday. THE NEWS. President Johnson has issued an order announcing that persons implicated in the rebellion against whom fn0 special charges are pending who desire to leave tho oountry will be furnished passports for that pur- pose by the State Department, on condition that they Shall not return without the President's permission. It is satd that application has already been made on bebalf of & M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, now contined in Fort Pulaski, for permission for him to leave the country forover. An application for the Presidential pardon was reccived . Yostorday from Wade Hampton, the South Carolina fire- cuter and cuvalry chief, Accounts of the havoc committed by the robel pirate Shenandoah among the American whalers in the North Pactiic Ocean continue to accumulate. Later San Fran- cisco advices then those published yesterday give us @ list of ten more vessels captured by the cor- @airin tho vicinity of Behring Straits, eight of which were destroyed, two being bonded and arriving at San Francisco with the crows of the others on the 2d instant, Tho iatest intelligence from the Shenandoah is to about the 28th of Juno last, when she was in quest of additional prey. There wore about fifty more American whalers in such positions that it was thought they could not escape from her. Her commander, Waddell, though informed of the surrender of Lee and Johnson and tho collapse of the rebellion, professed to be skeptical on the matter, and oxprossed his determination to continue bis work ot destruction. Ordors have been despatched for the naval btoamer Saranac to cruise in search of the Shenandoab. Later news of importance from Mexico ix contained in our despatches by tho steamsBip Vera Cruz, which urrived here yesterday, from Vers Cruz on tho 14th Snd-Havana on the 20th inst. Mews was received in ‘Vora Cruz on tho 14th of an imperial victory néar Puebla, and enlutes of rojoicing were fred by the forta and the French and Austrian vessels io he harbor, Tho town of Zongolica, In the Stato of Orteaba, bad proclaimed for the republic, qnd @he imperial tyoops had attacked it twice and been wopulsed. An imperial expeditionary force was being ‘organized in Oajaca to drive the republicans out of Chiapas, It is said that tho republican General No- Q@roto lost half men oud all his horses daring bis wotroat from Matamoros. Notics hag boen given by Maxi- ‘milian’s Socretary of the Treasury that he is prepared to edeom some three hundred and thirty thousand dollars ‘worth of the famous Jecker bonde, nt a diecount of sixty- Bix and two-thirds per cent. Troops from France cou- Ginued to arrive in Moxico, M. Bloln, Maximitian's Bmbassador to Europe, who passed through this city ®ome lime ago on his way back to Mexico, n:rived at ‘Vera Crug city on board the steamship Vera Cruz, on her Bast trip to that place. && Later California advices confirm the statements pub- in yesterday morning's Henatp, regarding tho king of the steamship Brother Jonathan in the Pacific Deoan, in consequence of striking ona snken rock or . Outof about two hundred passengers only from to twonty Werg faved. There appears to be no Watahs was aubig those way porialied, ‘The vessel wan only eight of ten maes from shore when a the last attempt to lay ecourred. ‘The m ain facts eonnected with an pokey cable, the difficulties surmounted in the progress of the worl, the parting of the great wire and tho subsoquont attempts to recover it, have Already appeared in our columns; but, as the most aninute yarticulars in regard to this important enter- prise are exceedingly interesting to hundreds of thous- ‘ands of reaiers, we this morning publish a complete and detailed accornt of the laying of the cable, of the re- covery at diffrent times of its lost insulation, of its final paring on the @¢ inst, and of the subsequent grappling for it, down to and tucluding the 9th inst, The water where the cable was lost ts about two miles and threequarters deep; but, notwithstanding this, the broken end vas on one occasion brought within twelve hundred yar of the surface, and would have boon again restored to he deck of the Groat Eastern had not its great weight ben too much for the strength of the grappling rope. ne of our correspondents at Heart's Content, Newfoundand, also gives an account of the closing scones there on the arrival of nows of the great misfortune. At alate hour on Friday aftemoon detectives Gilmore ‘and MacDougall effeoted the arrex of the defaulter, Ed- ward B. Ketohum, whom they tk into custody ata house in West Twentieth street, where be was known under the alias of C. R. Lowry, of Gincinnat. He has not been out of the city since the diseovery of bis defal- cations. Inthe possession of the agouxed were tund threo letters, forty-nine thousand donee in Treastry notes, and sixty-seven forged gold certificates. ‘Tho pris- oner was at once taken to she Police Headquarters, and yesterday afternoon District Attorney A. Oakey Hall, representing the perele, appeared at the Tombs Police Court and preferw4 against him « charge of forgory in the third degr’?- ‘The dofexation, swindling and forgery developments evatinue, military as we!l as civil Mnancial circles having now become a field of disclosure, and alleged (romen- dous frauds among army paymasters are now being brought to light, In Friday’s Henan was notic d tho fact that Colonel Amos Binacy, Chief Paymaster ia the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, had beon ordered to Washington on suspicion of having made thirty or forty thousand dollars by paying the soldiers in seven-thirty bonds and sharing tho profits of buying them up at @ heavy dissount by the Virginia banks, It is now stated that four- tecu other paymasters im that department are implicated with Binney, and the whole matter is under inveatiga- tion. An offloer of the army has beem arrested in this city, ang is now under examination, on charge of fraud and forgery on the Payrsaster's Department, and with having been engaged in the businoas of procuring discharges for aoldiors by forging papers and other orimiual moans. ‘This caso also will shortly be investigated. Adefalcation to the amount of sixty-four thousand doliars has recently been discovered in the accounts of a bookkeoper in « large wholesale establishment in Bostou. It appears thatthe young man Gladwin, now in tho ‘Tombs on charge of forgery in the cases of the New Haven cheek and the procurement of two hundred thousand dollars worth of Western railroad bonds from tho safe of the St. Nicholas Hotel, illustrated, previous to his arrest, the position of the biter bitten. After pro- curing the money on the four thousand dollars check he gave nineteen hundred dollars of it to a woman whose acquaintance he had made, with the understanding that thoy were to live together; but she kept the money and eloped with some man she liked better, and it was while soarching for her that Gladwin was arrested. The girl, whose name is Ann Casey, of Hartforg, is supposed to have fled with her paramour to Chisago, and police offi. cors are now on the track of the “igitive pair. It is said that a fraud on the Customs’ on the part of a broker of one of our shiyptng firma was discovered on Thursday lagt. The asir, though small in itself, gives reason for suspiciea that there may be other similar cases, A bill eC dutics was altered from $3,100 to $8,000 by changivs the figure one intoacypher. There ts to be an javestigation of the matter. A young man named John Leach, alias Morris, a news agent on the Hudson River Railroad, was yesterday com mitted to the Tombs charged with stealing six thousand dollars in bonds and notea from Mr. George Douglass, of 70 Beekman street, on board one of the. trains of that road. All the stolen property was found in possession of the accused when he was arrested. Aman named Bartholomew Connors, alias “Flaxy,” was yesleaday required to give one thousand dollars ba'l to answer the charge of being the leader of a riotous demonstration which took place in the vicinity of Four. teenth street and avenue B on Friday evening. After the first arrest of Connors he succeeded in escaping, but was recaptured, when a number of his companions as- sembled and endeavored to take him out of the hands of the police. The disorderly crowd followed the officers, throwing stones and other missiles at them, and severely injuring policeman Coughlin, but did not succeed in get- ting possession of the prisoner. Fritz Trotter was yesterday arrested and locked up in the Foutteenth precinct station house for examination on charge of severcly stabbing Edward Williams, dur'ng a quarrel between the two, yesterday forenoon, in Broadway, neur Houston street. A coroner's inquest was commenced yesterday, but not concluded, in the case of the death of Mrs, Catharine Cleeves, a victim of the fire on Friday afternoon in the pyrotechnic establishment No. 16 Jobn street. It has not yet been ascertained that any other lives were lost on the occasion. The city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has been very much excited for the past few days by disclosures of murders committed there. On Thursday last the re- mains of a map, with the throat cut and the body shock- ingly mutilated, were found lying on some vacant ground, and on tho following day a Mra, Grinder was arrested on charge of having been for some time engaged in secretly and systematically poisoning persons who visited her, without any apparent motive. It is said to be known that three of her victims have died, and a fourth ts not expected to live. A sailor named Smith, belonging to the Portuguese ship Abodeen, lying at one of the Hoboken piers, was shot and severely wounded on Friday by the mate of the vessel, named Valin, who alleged that tho sailor was con- ducting himself in a disorderly manner. Valin was re- quired to give one thousand dollars bail to answer tho charge. Major General Marcellus M. Crocker, of Towa, died in Washington yesterday, aged about thirty-six years. General Crocker served thronghout the war for the sup- pression of the rebellion. Some of the secession organs of Halifax, Nova Scotia, are much exercised and express groat disgust at the fact of Mr. Ritchie, the only Union editor of that city, having been invited to New York to receive the thanks of the loyal merchants of this metropolis in some substantial manner for his fearless upholding of the United States government during the past four years. ‘The secessionists, in order to offset this movement, have extemporized @ presentation supper to one Dr. Almon, who has been a leader of the rebels in Halifax, and who made himself notoriously conspicuous in the steamship Chesapeake affair, and who algo aided the escape of the pirates after they had been arrested. It will be remem- bered that the captain of the pirate Tallahassee publicly thanked Dr. Almon for assistapee rendered that craft while there, after being ignored by the British admiral. A hearing in the famous Howland will cage, which iv contested by Miss Hetty H. Robinson, the niece of the testotrix, was had on Friday last, upon the offering of the will for probate at the court house tn the city of New Bedford, Mass., Judge Bennett prosiding. The attesting witness and the physician of the testatrix were examined atlength. The Judge admitted the will to probate, and the case goes up to the Superior Court for Gnal adjudi- cation. There was another three mile rowing match yesterday on the North river between the Atalanta and Columbia clubs, the start being from abreast of the Elysian Fields, Hoboken. The boats wore the Columbia and the Vo- lante, the former being the winner, and making the distance in twenty-two minutes and forty seconds, Crowds lined ihe shore to witness the contest. Ad inquost was held in Hoboken yesterday over the remains of @ girl named Bridget O'Connor, who, accord. ing to the testimony, died from the effects of frequent doses of phosphorus pasie, administered “by berself for the purpose of destroying her life, in consequence of disappointed love. ‘The stock market war on the whole steady yesterday. oid ne eronges ma clowrd se 1 a cies pal Falray Nola st SS Ee firmer na a gonorat thing, and bales of métohandine werd quite goverally at improved prices, Tho business in tm. ported merchandise was light; but in domostic produce a fair trade was done, Collol Wha atondy. Groceries were firmer, Petroioam was firm, with a fair demand for export. On 'Change flour, grain agd proyjjiona wore ‘higher, as was Likewise tallow, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1665. America in the Future-The People’s Rule North and South. Despite the prophecies of the partisans and hirelings of European monarchies and despot- iams, and notwithstanding the croaking fore- bodings of certain sage augurs, wise in their own conceit, who, regarding the failure of the Grecian and Roman republics as an infallible precedent, have, during the past four years, ominously predicted a sudden collapse of the glorious republic of the United States of America, and with it the extinction of re- publican institutions throughout the world— despite this moral wet-blanketing, however, the Union now stands before the world stronger than ever, after the flery ordeal of civil war. The strength of the republican form of government has been triumphantly demon strated by the issue of the war just ended; and the universal prevalence, ultimately, of this form no longer remains a matter of hope or conjecture. Let Europe, therefore, take warn- ing in season. One million of hardy veterans, skilled in every branch of warfare, are ready— eager may be—to spring at the first signal from their firesides to drive out the last mer- cenary invader from one ead of the continent to the other. The “nephew of his uncle” long since dis- covered his last “Napoleonic idea” of a French protecwrate and Latin-race-extension scheme in Mexico to bea terrible blunder. Yot, in- stead of gracefully gliding out of the faur pas and its consequences, he intends, according to the latest advices, to forward a large reinforce- ment of French soldiers to Mexico in order to bolster ap Max. I. for a few months longer. Napoleon, if you would only get up again that Taternational Congress of the nations of Europe and America, the affairs of this continent might not only be seltled without war or revolution buf with honor and profit to all parties 7 Whatever may have actuated Maxinilian— whether @ soaring ambition for the imperial purple, a desire to oblige Napol€on ip return for favors received, or anxiety to got away rom the quarrels of the House of Hapsburg— one thing is certain, viz: that Max has made as great a mistake as his imperial backer, All his benevolent and philanthropic, or rather philo-Mexican overtures, whether genyine or bogus, to his new subjecta; all his iusinuating efforts to popularige aad Mexicanize himself, have proved futile. The people do not care to give him his naturalization papers. ‘They place little faith im the sincerity of hie proclama- tions and enactments for the promotion of their material and moral welfare. The Mexican thinks with the Trojan of old, Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. All Masimiliano’s velvetness of speech and action cannot conceal the threatening talons—the bayonets of his foreign mercenaries. In the charitable belief that Max isa verdant young man who has been grossly deceived and cat’s-pawed by that wily old confidence operator, Nap.-ILL, we would earnestly advise his Anstro-Mexican Majesty to pack up his clothes, his Spanish grammar, dio- tionary and dialogue book (leaving the crown and sceptre for the use of some future ill-fated Iturbide), make # bee line for Vera Cruz, and thence back to Miramar, where he might, in some measure, make up for the Toss of his ephemeral .greatnoss, by writing book, in emulation of his imperial patron. He might entitle it “Confessions of an ex-Emperor, or Eighteen Months on a Throne.” The copyright of volume I. of Napoleon’s “Life of Cwsar” netted 130,000 francs, and why should not a book by Max yield enough at least to pay off 8 few of the debts he lett behind bim when he started for the Halls of the Montezumas? We have another cousin, northward, another sickly child—Canada. Cases have.come to the knowledge of the faculty, where strong, healthy children have wasted away to almost skeletons solely from sleeping with some decrepit old nurse or grandmother. So it is with Canada. She is enervated and paralyzed by close contact with and dependence upon that bleary, tottering old dame, Britannia. Let Canada pillow her head upon the bosom of ber buxom cousin, Columbia, who is the blooming mother of a large and healthy family. Some of the children have been naughty lately, and she has had to whip them for trying to get over the fence of Uncle Sam’s tarm, so she is rather busy just now mending their torn clothes and healing their bruises and scratches with salutary ap- plications of amnesty salve and reconstruc- tion lotion, as prescribed by the family physi- cian, Dr, Andrew Johnson; but as soon as the untuly invalids are able to take caro of them- selves again Mrs. Columbia will see what she can do for her Canadian cousin. Colonies are like some hired assistants, in this respect: that if you don’t watch them mighty closely they get lazy and try to restrict their labor to drawing their pay. Now, Spain had a grow® up child of a colony called St. Do- mingo, and its keep cost so much that finally the tub was permitted to stand on its own bottom. The mother gouniry is pretending now to reas- sert her maternal righta, but this is meroly a feint. There is another expensive child which Uncle Sam wants to adopt ata fair valuation, to wit: Cuba. There is plenty of toom on the Amerl- can flag for another star to represent the State of Cuba, without crowding either Mexican or Canadian Inte arrivals. Here is a chance for Dr. Gwin. After the admission of the State of Cuba into the Union his Grace of Sonora might ran for Governor of the island, when the little Spanish he bas managed to pick up in Mexico would doubtless do him good service tn his gubernatorial campaign. With the absorption of the countries of North America into one grand republican unity, and the league against European intervention re- cently formed between the Central and South American republics, the mighty reality of man’s right to freedom and self-government will come bome to Europe with fearful force. ‘Then the armed right hand of America, which has swept like the besom of Hercules through the Augean stable of slavery within the Union, will, by a more menace, eradicate this scourge and stigma upon the humanity of the two te- maining civilized nations where slavery ia still tolerated, viz; Bragil and Spain—the latter in her colonies. The reign of liberty is in its infancy a4 ve, We shall not live to see the day, but or chit- dren or grandchildren will took on with ied. dened hearts wih Anyerica shall vicetet neat ce Y Raw anmes ve Fim Wy yey eel oF Fight hand acroas the Atianile. wn¥ hee let beyond the Pacific to meet the friendly grasp of aigter republics, equal members of the great family of nations. Thea the feeble expiring groans of used-up monarchies and crumbling @mpires, based upon the “divine right of Ings,” will bo drowned ia the mighty ghoras of millions of strong, earnest, self-governing free- men, shouting in every language, “Vox populi, vow Dei!” Fashion and Defaleation—Wall Street end Our Summer Resorts. Tt is a remarkable fact that scarcely a day intervenes in the metropolis between one great excitement and another. We have had our peculiar fits of mania tending to extemporize and foster excitements which would otherwise have been of little account. Now that the war is over it would appear philosophic to take resting spell. We had watched for four long years the contending movements of two great armies. News from the camp and the battle field was alone of interest in our eyes; the roar of cannon and the shouts of victory the only music in our ears. This surely was excitement enough for the time. But now the war is over. Dusty veterans, fresh from scenes of slaughter and victory, have passed in thousands through our streets. Cheers and blessings welcomed them, while a whole nation’s thanks strewed their homeward paths to peaceful domestic enjoy- ment. Since then we have had the excitements of reconstruction, Atlantic cable failure, and, com- ing down to our present dey, what do we seet Defaleation, robbery, murder, suicide, together with the infectious disease lately brought to light by Dr. Kennedy, Police Superintendent, of “waiter-girl-ism.” Every day brings the intelligence of some new defalcation. Attempts have been made in several cases, and in some, no doubt, with success, to hush up these transactions, The safety 6nd morality of some of our graat commercial and banking institutions arg #* siake. The concert saloon, the pretty walter girls, Mr. Charles Browa (“the man” of Genevievo Lyons), Wall siregy dignity, gold room pomposity @nd gentle- thanly bank directors do not soem lo chime well together. Like the Atlantic cable, insula- tion has given out. Grant and Sherman and Sheridan had a controlling influence in Wall sireet some time ago; but Genevieve Lyons has taken tho whip in hand. She was for a timo the receiving teller of the Phenix Bank, and Jenkins the safe from which sbe oxtracted her supplies. Who knows but Ketchum was attacked with some disease of this description ? Wall street is a mighty place; but who can tell what the smiles of a pretty waiter girl will accomplish ? Naught can to poace the busy female charm ; And if ahe can't do good she must do harm Amid this reign of light fingers and long purses fashion blazes forth with really more than her accus‘omed brillianoy. At Saratoga, Long Branch, Newport and the various other fashionable resorts, waterfalls, curls and jewels flourish with vigor. Tho season is draw- ing to a close, but there is yet no perceptible change in the attendance The waterfall mania is somewhat waning, Fourteen feet in ciroumference was the average size, but our‘latest despatches announce that they have come down to seven. ‘As there was @ rush from Saratoga on the announcement of the Ketchum defalcation, the ladies, in the ab- sence of their lords and masters, conclnded on retrenchment—in waterfalls; at !cast so it is re- ported by our fashionable critic. Noble disin- terestedness, touching display of affection! If this feeling should spread we will possess the character of the most economic nation on the face of the earth. And now that Wall street has taken hold of 8 new idea in the way of bringing under its folds of protection the “protty waiter girls,” why not the fashionnbles at @eaggoga exercise their charitable functions im fige manner? Some enterprising Yankee or Teuton should immediately go to work and open a first class concert saloon, hire a choice orchestra, to be presided over by an experienced bank direo- tor, give Miss Genevieve Lyons the position of cashier, and matters would go on swimmingly. The thing is feasible, and would pay. Wall atreet claims to be our fashionable as well as our financial power. . Its teachings must there- fore be looked upon with a good deal of con- sideration. The new “ism” which has just been started will beat Beecher, Cheever, Wen- dell Phillips, and even Horace Greeley himself. The latter gentleman should take the matter in hand. There isa fortune in it, and he is just the man to direct such a movement. Gun con- tracts and peace negotiations dwindle into in- significance in comparison with it. A new suit of black clothes anda clean shirt, however, are indispensable adjuncts to the position. In this trim Horace would take as the recognized leader of the new religion known as “waitor- girl-ism.” With defalcation ns our latest excitement we await further developments. What next? A Contovs Proosgpiva.—Our Richmond cor- respondent announces that “Major General Terry has caused Alexander Dudley, President of the York River Railroad, recently pardoned by the President, to surrender his pardon,” end that “this action alarms all who have re. ceived the Executive clemency.” Why not, when @ pardon which wax «ranted by the President yesterday may be isken back by some military officer to-day or to-morrow? This affatr needs some explanation; for surely the desire on the part of Southern rebels to get @ pardon will be increased or diminished according to the value of the article. What has Dudley done that his pardon should be re- called? This is a question of considerable im- portanee, and it ought to be answered by General Terry. Free Love Amona trax Nicoers-—-Maaniace Roves or rue Fagepwen’s Burrav.—The Freed- men’s Bureau announces that it bas met with a monster evil in its attempts to organize darkey society. This is an evil that bas made trouble in many anotber bureau besides the one that proposes to govern Sambo. It ia the indispo- sition of one man to be satisfied with one wife, and the universally mixed up condition of ma- trimonial affairs that slavery has left in the Southern States. The bureau has published an order containing « list of “marriage rules” for its sable subjects, and jj would appear from these rules that go nigger ts exactly cortain which particwat woman is his wife. Sambo WS* f promiscuous hushand of almost sl) plan- tatious, and on many «@ first hon plantation larvae looses apd there, wong Vary fo planter 5 vontured to insist upon at morallty in slave intercourse. Consequently the Freedmen’s Bureau finds itself called upon to decide in such cases aa “where a man finds two wives restored to him by freedom”—which may be part of the delights of freedom, end may not. It will aleo doubtloas have to pro- vide for cases in which @ man will find himsolf blowsed ta an even arpater exteat. In a case = where one wife has children and the others have none, the bureau declares that he must take the one with the children; but what shall he do if each of a half dozen wives bas a dozen children, which is the likely case? Such a perplexed nigger leaves in all his original doubt. Here is one of the rules:—“A busband living with a wife, having no children by her, may take a previous wife if she have children who are still minors, and if she have no other husband, and if the present wife as- sent to the change.” This rule alone will show the almost inextricable complications of these relations. The rules altogether make very sen- sible and proper regulations to establish some respect for the family and for marital rites in the hitherto demoralized race, and, if they aro enforced, will do much to improve the social condition of the negro. How to Start an American Transatlantic Steam Line. Now that the Republic has gloriously and triumphantly emerged from the dangers and embarrassments of war, there isa universal desire among all patriotic citizens that our greatness in peace shall be equally demon- strated. Befére the outbreak of the rebellion the European steamship lines had succeeded in obtaining almost @ monopoly of the steam traffic of the great aquaria lying between this country and Europe. This was not owing to any superiority in Enropean steamers, for American steamships had repeatedly estab- listied their superiority over them. But the Kuropean lines were maintained by subsidies from European governments, while the only subsidy ever given to au Awerican line was parsimoniously withdrawn by Congress. Thus American enterprise in this dircotion was temporarily.crippled, much to the chagrin of Americans everywhere. Our old line and clipper ships, however, still continue to prove that where the contest is equal we are the masters of the ocean. Since the rebellion broke out the few steamers that we had still engaged in the unequal straggle on the Atlantic were withdrawn and converted into transports apd despatch vessels, and tbe European monopoly has since been complete. Thore is a universal desire now, however, that this monopoly shall cease. The railroad com- panies whose termini are in Philadelphia and Baltimore are already moving in the direction of starting European lines from those ports, which will probably not only pay in them- selves, but will greatly increase the business of the railroad companies, With a capital say of ten million dollars a magnificent line can be put in operation on the Atlantic, About seven vessels are necessary to run a weekly line. Splendid ships, with the most modern and approved improvements and far superior in every respect to anything now on th Atlantic, can be built now for about one mifiion dollars each, The necessary number for a weekly line of ships of. this class being seven, their cost would be seven’ million dollars, which would leave a Working capital of three million dol- lars in the hands of the company. Such ves- sels, with anything like good management, would very soon not only become popular, but completely revolutionize the present foreign monopoly in their favor. They wonld be con- stantly crowded with passengers, freight, specie and mails. Thoy would, undoubtedly, be a safe and profitable investment, and would place our flag in its proper position among the carriers of the Atlantic trade, When we con- sider the hundreds of millions squandered in bogus petroleum and mining compantes, and then contrast them with this honorable and patriotic project, we wonder that a grand American steamship line on the Atlantic has not yet been established. But better late than never. What say our railroad companies? What say our merchants and our people gene- rally? There is both honor and piofit to be had in carrying out the project. Tax Musstssrret Convention—Jum, Davis.— The Mississippi State Convention, called to- gether under the judicious management of Pro- visional Governor Sharkey, has done its ap- pointed work and adjourned. A complimentary despatob from President Johnson to Governor Sharkey shows that the work done gives satis- faction at Washington. The old State consti- tution, which was a good one in its day, has been remodelled to fit the new order of things, inoluding the abolition of slavery, leaving the negro suffrage question tor future considera. tion. The constitutional amendment abolish- ing slavery it was voted by a very large ma- jority should not be submitted for ratification to the people, and doubtless for the all-suffi- cient reason that Congress has directed that the ratification shall be by the legislatures of the several States. The first Legislature of Mississippi, as returned to her proper alle- giance, will raiify the amendment, and will probably take some steps in regard to negro suffrage that will secure her prompt restoration to Congress in stopping the clamor of the abo- lition radicals. @ petition praying for a pardon to Joff. Davis and the rebel Governor Clark, and signed by over four thousand ladies, waa adopted by the Convention, together with a resolution requesting jhe presiding officer thoreof to forward said petition to the President of the United States. Jeff. Davis is « Mississip- pian, and this sympathy of the ladies of the State in his behalf is natural and commenda- ble, whatever may be the oxtent of bis sins and transgressions as the head traitor of tho rebellion. Wo presume, too, that the good spirit and activity shown by the people of Mis- sigsippi in this work of reconstruction will not he forgotten by the President, should the fate of Jeff. Davis, after the trial of his case, be left to the Prosident’s discretion. [t will be no small circumstance in favor of clemency to Davis should Mississippi, his own State, in fol- lowing up her good work of restoration to the Union, he the first of the seven original States of the so-called confederacy to get back into Congress VaLtaxprauam Torney Ur Aqat.—We per- ceive that at the late Ohio Democratic State Convent} Clement L. Vallandigham tuned up ‘Smong she and that among the reso- 3 adopted was one “maintaining * a ne doctrine ‘of Btawe 7h 98 ald wown Th the Virginia and Kentucky tesoluttond of 1798." That plank in the new Ohio democratle plat- form was doubtless from the builder of the Chicago shent-per-shent platform. The Ohio demoorata, it would thus appear, have yet to learn the fact that Vallandigham and all his isorganizing oopperhend factions are played out, and that the partiser, Kentucky and Vir ainig State rlahta F690’ ntIons of 1798 have algo Horatio Seymour, havg had enough of claptrap, and we guess will take higher gi Anpy Jomvon’s Suort Mernop Wrr Narorzon.—A letter is brought to. P Johnson from his Serene Highness the First, by the grace of Napoleon the Emperor of Mexico. Andy Johnson that he can’t come in; don’t know any sy dignitary as the Emperor of Mexico. ; will do. It is s regular Napoleonic idea. ‘ { ae THE LOSS OF THE BROTHER JONATHAN. | Additional Particulars of ta CONFIRMATION OF THE PREVIOUS ACCOUNT, NAMES OF THE SAVED. bee ke. hee The Alta Oakiformia of Sen Francisco of the $4 has been received by private band. It contains the f\ {owing additional particulars of the wreok of the Brother Jonathan: — Crasonnr Crrr, a Vie Jacasonvinis, August 2, ‘Tho stoamér Brother Jonathan struck s sunken off St. George’s Point, eight or ten miles west from | at half past one P. M, to-day, All on board were ly | except fifveen adults and two children. e ‘A boat baz gone to the rescue, but there are 10 Qf seving more. ‘Two boats swamped alongside of tho ship, and boats were left on board. ‘The following are tho names of shone SATed ive THE SAVED. James Patterson, third officer. David Farrel, stoorage steward, Honry Miller, baker. Patrick Sims, froman. . William Loury, fireman. William B, Shield, waiter, Stephen Moran, waiter. Mrs. Mary Ann Tweedie. Mrs. Minnie Bernhart and child, ‘ Mrs, Martha E. Wilder, Mra, Martha Stott and child, Four Colored seamen, ‘The boats have returned, having seen nothuig of wreck. We give up all hope of saving more p Officer Pattergon reports that Brigadier Genoral Wrig! when last seen on board, had a lifo preserver ia hand. - The Latest. San Feancasco, August 14, 1665. Many bodies from the wrecked steamer Brother J than have been recovered. No lives were saved except those eacaping im smi boats, as heretofore reported. Our Special Washi ‘Wasaisaron, August 26, 1865. The Acting Surgeon General, 0. H: Crane, this mo ing received a letter from Surgoen Robort Murray, tioned at San Francisco, under date of the 34 is giving some further intottigence about the loss of steamer Brother Jonathan, near the Grescent-City, an route for Oregon on the 30th ult., in which be says: General George Wright, Assistant Surgeon i U.S,A., and Paymaster Eddy were on board, and it pretty certain they are fost; for although the acd cocurred on Sunday, the only pereonssaved, go far as can hear, wore seventeen adults and three children, of nearly two hundred passengers. I find none of army officers’ names among the short list of the saved. 4 Broapwar Tsuatas—Taw Keane.—Mr. and Charles Kean will commence a season of twenty-thr: J nights at the Broadway theatre to-morrow evenit announcement will be welcomed by all who the highest clase of the drama. We have not seen years, and probably will not see fora long time to'co such perfect interpreters of Shakspere as Mr. and Charles Kean. Long familiarity with the stage has produced in either the conventionality which with actors whose career has been #0 long, 60 prosperous so brilliant adheres to them like a garment. The gt of the [great dramatic author suffers nothing in care. If dramatic art in this. country acquires any vantages from the brief visit of the Keans—as we sume it will—we ought to regard their temporary dence among us as of some value. To-morrow tho season opens with the play of King Henry the ‘and the comedy of the Jealous Wife, to by followed Tuesday by Louis XI,, and on Wednesday and Thus by the Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. ‘Miss Zeupa Harmon's Coycer.—The concert Dodworth Hall on Friday evening was attended by large an audience as the capacity of the room permit Mics Zelda Harrison, a young American contralto, her délwt in this city on the occasion. She possesses «| remarkable contralto voice, of a power and depth rare in one so young—for the debutant is not over eon years of age. The airs from Martha wore admirably sung. With a few years’ training and the assistance of «| good master, Miss Harrison will make a vory p vocalist. It was ovident from her performance at first appearance that all the material ig at her comn 1 A little cultivation will accomplish all that is desirable a good artist, Madame Anna Bishop sang with a goo deal of the freshness of the olden time, and, we not say, sang well. Mr. Lascelles’ humorous songs received with a great desl of enjoyment. Miss will give another concert with Madame Bishop at Brooklyn Athensum to-morrow evening. J Saceep Covornt at States Istano.—-A grand q concert will take place on Sunday next, at St. Joseph's church, Rossville, Staten Island, undor the pastoral care | of Father John Barry. The prococds are to be devoted to defraying the expenses incurred by the enlargement: and elegant Aecorations of the church. Signori Massl- | miliani, Belfini and Ardavani, M. Henri Appy and” and will no doubt be attonded by the élite of Staton Island and a large number of people from this city. ‘Tes Geaman TuzaTne.—As the summer season is draw~ ing to s close, and the evenings are getting cooler and longor, the open air festivals and musical exercises im the parks in the vicinity will be loss frequent than dur- ing the past few months, although sevoral Y nights’ festivals are yet to take place under the auspices of tho German musical societies. The hot weather being nearly past, it hae been thought proper to provide for other entertainments, and the directors of the their i uit isfactory rosult. Thi wit fa very ich, and includes, g variety of aeloct inoluding one new dramatic, Gemposition in wi raed wil appear athe prepa i ae Ted ‘uy had charge of tho Newton © saltimore, Fonto”, of New York; Governor Morton, of Goa. cy Indiana; Gover” or Bradford, of Mary! eral Baton, ¥.ajor ‘General uswit, oF Conaéctivae, Con. oral Commander Rhind'are among the diatin- GuiAhoy Guoate mf tha Vuion Hotel saratoga Sorinan,