The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1865, Page 4

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Receipes on Balas er the New York Datty Newspapers. OrriciaL. Fear Ending Name of Pe May 1, 1865, Meraro.. + $1,095,000 Vines 368,150 Tribune 252,000 Evening Post 169,497 World 100,000 Bun... 151,079 Express... 90,548 1 sane . $1,095,000 871,449 New Youe Harare Timos, Tribune, We Advertisements for tb rato must be handed in befure ton o'elo k ever ag. Its cir. culation among the cs, farmers, Werchaats, maniuiact Be broughout the conutry 4 inereastug very raj ily. rtisements in- ferted in the Weekiy Heeato wii!l thu eu by a large portion of the active aud energetic people of the Blatos | THE Later intelligence has been received froin General Connor's Po wder river expedition against the hostile In dias of the Pleins, On the iGth inst. a party of his Paw~ nee sconts atiecked and Killed all of a party of twenty. four Cheye We Ove plunder Other parties, fom whom additional plunder, | horses, taulos, and letters which they had stolen from es who were moving northward from erland Mail road with scalps and large amounts of the mails, were recaptured, were attacked and kill.d on the 20\b and Ztst inst fored no losson Genoral Connor's mon had suf. | in these skirmishes, Ail the hostile bands oro moving ra, and () neral ( anor fa following eb thoy shall naake a ote ‘Te government sales of ho: Comitants of the travaportation ped, owing, it ix said, vo the wud other con ave been stop- xtoneive demonstrations of the hostile Indians of the Western pla’ Additional monanted forces, supply trains, Ac., have already been ordered thither. Now that the rebellion is crusted and slavery at an end, the subject of gettioment in various parts and almost every part of the South by Northerners and Ku- Fopeans engrosses public attention to a degree which it never could have done while the “peculiar institution” mainta‘ned its sway, Tho sensible people of each of the Bouthern States, and of every portion of each, recog nizing the advantages which roust aceray to them from Ruch migration, are urging tha claims of their particu. {ar localities. We bave already published the mamifes- Woes of various Southerners urging the superiority for Peitloment of their own sectiows, including the official document from Governor Brownlow in favor of Bast Teuneseos. In adilition to all these one Df our corresponlonic at Baton Rouge pro- wonts @ statement on behalf of Louisiana. Improved Potton and sugar lands In that State, he says, be purchased at very low prices, some of the planin- | ‘tions boing entirely doveried by the original proprietors conflecated by government, others so heavily mort. that they have been wndoned in despair, while oracan be bought for a mere trifle on account of the “@woors boing 80 dlagustod with the negroes having been ard freemen that they will not attempt to continue ag Fecatura operations with neo Under Yankee proprie- “ Ty warts i work willingly and in- cous of the promises ve W) ooo ay Sas w bd into ogptracte with Patil Saxton, Aseistont Commissioner of the Free: 6 Bureau for South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, isaned an official order for the regulation of martial jations among the newly negroes. The ion of slavery croated & Fery confused condition matrimonial afire with the onsiaved, tho colored ep sung punnooed (0 v9 9 2esbmnd poing (reaueutlr ir MHANERS, ona aro ratnor Fe police Bea | bein als . tm doubt as to what particular woman bad the strongest | along the Moditorranean, and at tho date of our intest |” NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1865. claim on bim to the title of wife, and the woman being | European advicos was provalont in ftaly, and alao, it ia equally puzzted as to who was really her husband... The order mentioned is designed, if possible, t educe some kind of system out of (hig chaos, and to cultivate ReSpect for ths marriage Teiation among the benightod troedmen. Inspector Genera! Strong, of tho Froedmen’s Bureau, who has for some time past bven engaged in an inspec- tion of freedmca’s affairs in the Mississippi valley, saya that their genera! condition and conduet throughout that immonse stretch of country, notwithstunding the dis- turbed state of things and all the difficulties and preju- dices which have had to be contended with, is most on- couraging. It recently became known to one of the military com- manders in the western part of Virginia that there was ata point in that Siate, near the Tennessce border, a large number of cattle formerly the property of the rebel government, and a‘small detachmont was sent to take possession of them. On the arrival of this force it was atiacked and driven off by the bushwhackors of the vici- nity, and was unable to accomplish its object. A largor number of troops has since been sent to the scene of the disturbance, and a summary disposal of the bushwhack- ers will no doubt be made, Among the many troubles of tho Canadians the fear of @ hostile movement on the part of the United States still holds a prominent place. The Toronto Globe of the 26th inst., replying to the remarks of a contemporary, who has been indulging in apprehensions of an invasion of the province by an army of half a million men from the United States, makes the silly statement, with tho view of administering consolation to the frightened pro- vincials, that it is absurd to suppose that anything like this number of men could be raised in this country for .5uch @ purpose. It says that in # war with Groat Britain the peoplo of the United States would not submit to the financial and physical drain required to put in the field even three hundred thousand fighting men, and does not believe that the greatest efforts which could he ex- erted would be sufticient to place on tho border ai. army of two hundred thousand, The report of the Park Commissioners for the year 1864, the oivhth of their annual statements, ba. doen published. 1t isa pamphlet of over sixty pagos, illus- trated with engravings of completed and projected adorn ments of this magnificent breathing spot of the metropo- lis, and is replete with interegting statistics, The book tella what has been done aud what is proposed to be done in the adornment of the Park—what it now is and what it will be, There are now completed and in use nine miles of drive, five miles exclusively dovyoted to equestrians, and twenty-two miles of wall, Over-nincty thousand trees and slurubs wore ndded during the year. The toinl cost of the Pork t up sae set of ember last was a little lo over nine millions of dol lars, including Tite amount paid for the ground, Tho yeorly expenditure for iyg maintenance and iinprove- fhont is iimited hy tuw to dhe hundred Aa nrey oun dollars, aud the ful) amount was exhausted by the “obi miss oners Jast year, It ie estimated that during the twelve months ending with December, 1864, thero wore nearly six millions of visitors to the Park. The fashionable season at the watering places is nearly ended, and the Park bas already comméncod to be enliy- ened by the presence of those who for some weeks past have not beon seen on ite gay drives. ‘The closing ball at Saratoga took pisce on lust Friday night, and, though many atill romain at that favorite resort, this event ig supposed to have terminated the fashionable soason there. It was a fancy dress masquerade civic and mili- tary ball, and is described by one of our correspondents as having becn a magnificent affair. Among the dis. tinguished persons present were Major General Hazen, of Fort MoAilister fame, and Governors Curtin and Morton. Coroner Collin yesterday commenced an investigation in regard to the circumstances connected with the death of Edward Aadrews, who killed himself by jumping from an upper window of the Union Place Hotel, while in a fit of delirium, on the night of the 20th inst, Several wit. hosses were examined. Their testimony, however, was principally confined to the details of statements relative to the unfortunate occurrence heretofore published. The inquest will be continued to-day. An inquest was held yesterday in the case of the deah of a man supposed to have been James Marinus Schon, late of the Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers, whose dead body was found lying on the rocks at the foot of Fiftith street, East river, As there is an unguarded precipice of avout thirty feet in height at this point, it is supposed that Gates ses identally tumbled over it, A doaperato fight ainong & party of disorderly cnarne- ters took place carly yestorday morning in the drinking Louse at 438 Second aveaue, during whieh one man re ceived dangerous stabs in the sido dud abdomen and another had his jaw fractured. Taree of the belligerents were arrested and committed for examination. The skeich which w+ give to-day in reference to internal revenue collection in this city, its m dus operandi, the amonnt collected and the cost of coliccting, contains much valuablo information. The total of collections in the seven Metropolitan districts for the fiscal year end- ing on the 30th of June last was betwoen twenty-sevon and ae oight pillions of dollars, The sp'rituntiatic fraternity had their usual Sanday gathering in dictropolitan Hall, Sixth avenue, yestorday. ‘There was present a considerable umber of both sexes, who were entertained with mnsic and a lecture by a Indy named Mise Fila ¥. Hobart. This congregation of spirit- tulists propose to commence this evening an impertial trial of Colchester, Davenport Brovhers and other profes:cd medinms. A few years ago the Japanese goverumont, having been infised with the Anglo-Saxon spirit of enterprise, made an appropriation of three millions of dollars for the construction of three magnificent steam vessels for its navy. The Tycoon and his eabinet having become convinced of the superiority of Americans ‘n shipbuild ing, tho money and the contract for constructing the steamers were entrusted to Mr. Pruyn, our Minister at the Japanese court. One of these ships, named the Fus'yama, afier a sacred mountain of the empiro, was leunched at one of the shipyards of thie city in May of Inst’ year, and completed and made a moat auc. cersful trial trip of threo days to sea in following September, and she was to have lofi immediately after for Japan, but owing to our national complications with certain foreign Powers consequent upon the rebellion in the South, she has been detained till the present time, Now that al! these difficulties vercome there is ng longer any necessity for were. Tho Fusiyama is a fine stoamer of over one thousand tons, magnificently fitted op and finished in every respect, and ts armed with one one hundred-pounder and three thirly-poundor Parrott Vahigrens and four twonty-poundar n of the additional attention which haa been drawn recently to Paragt the war ia which # is now engaged with Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine Confederation, we publish this morning w skotch of it which will b» found very interesting, giving, ae it doos, a history of its discovery, settlement and separation from the Spanish crown, its government by the dictator Francia and Lopes and its diMoutties with the United States, aa weil ax accounts of its popuiation and produc tiove and of the origin of ite prisent troubles, The tory of an excursion among the threo hundred and odd romantic ‘slands of Ugo Bay, and of a day's ox perience with the Down East mac fishermen, con- tained in the letters of the Hxe.n» correspondent from and bortland, Mai 0 this morn aper. will be found bo ning And inatrae- tive reading, affording much information in teferonce to mankerel fisht A bardehips, profs and risks, and the ex the business. The preliminary b in the case of Jeremiah Townsend, churged with sieuling, in May jast, about one hundred th nd dollars from the Townrend Savines Bonk, of New Haven, Connceticut, took place in that city on Saturday lost. The priconer pleaded not guilty. On the conclosion of the taking of testimony he was required to give twenty-five thousand doltars bail to appear Lor trial before He Superior Court néxt month, The coroner's jury ia the inquest relative to the fatal collision co the Gil Creek Railvond, Pennsylvania, on ‘Thursday Jest, returned 9 verdict charging hha it ree enited from negligence on the part of The onginecr and conductor of tho fevight tradp, aud Peque: hing he one wet prone, oe pu Weie sppeehinsiot” The jury alee vn hr eae o tisk of this road in eon- inenitigient accommodation. Fhe Htoaner George Leary, which was tan inte op Thureday t on the Chesapeake bay by the pro. artived sabely at Kaltimore, aod will ain 2 ater days. ori ey hus been sipphigd by oak of ipe omnes A Company. Nope srk thchobers reall injury by the coffivion. The cholera, which bas this vane? omitted ancl havoc in Byypt, ia sald to have vow almout dieappoarod Frome danb Coulter, tnt pe moved (wrtuer wanternnd the Reh atl said, on the coast of Spain, It is to havo origt- ‘fated: from the fulling of the Nite rendoring the water in @ canal which supplies the oity of Aloxandria for drinking purposes 40 low a8 to become staguant and putrid. ‘This canal was also made the receptacle for filth and offal of all kinds, and in tt, too, the poople performed their ablutions. When once the scourge broke out its Progress was wonderfully facilitated by the almost uni- vorsaliy unclean habits of the people. The panic cre- ated by its suddon appearance was extraordinary. It is estimated that twenty-five to thirty (housend persons immediately after quitied Egypt, for uninfected regions; nearly all businoas in the towns was susponded, and the principal occupation of the living became the burying of the dead, The opidemic broke out in Alexandria about the 10th of June, andat the maximum of its prev- alenca the daily wumber of deaths is supposed to have been seven hundred. The total number of deaths in that city during its continuance is estimated at froma five to seven thousand, The Greatest Swindle of AU—Krauds in the Army Pay Department. The embezzlement, fraud and forgery that are discovered to have been carried on in the Pay Department of the United States Army will prove to be the gigantic operation of this swindling period. Ketchum, with his two mil- lions, will sink out of sight. when all the facts of this affair are made public. One fact already known indicates this pretty clearly. That fact is that a Norfolk bank, whose securities were less than one huudred thousand dollars in amount, was entrusted, by the manipulations of paymasters, with seven millions dollars of gov- erament money. Corruption of the most ex- tensive character is evident in that simple atate- moni. It would be visionary to expect an honvat purpose where we find such a dispro- portion between the trust imposed and the se- curity exacted, and it would be perhaps eqnally visionary to enppose that officials would be superior to such tompiation if this distribution of government money resulted from accident or oversight. This grand pivce of villany tivst comes to light in the Richmond pay disivict, and that it, comes to light at all at } present, perhaps, cesulis from @ qiiairal between the national banks there end those at Norfolk. The rogues fell out. Colonel Binney, recently chief paymaster in that district, eecma just at present to be the emmncns’ front of of it, and It is alrandy renoried Ypres ores that fonrtvon other payn >Ripney's cub: | ordinates—are involved in ihe frauds. fi wil be found that tho operation tias extended beyond the one disizict named. Our Richmond correspondent informs us of the suspicion that “a large number of Northern payzmasters are involved in similar transactions,” and bints at what may have been dove in the immense dis- bursements made at the various depots to which the homeward bound troops have been sent from the seat of war, Simultanoously with this it turns up that corrupt practices of some character are just coming to light in the Pay Deparimont of the United States Army in this city. Ono arrest has been made, and there is undoubted evidence of the guilt of the arrested party. Lt is alleged that the crime in this case involves forgery, and there is an attempt to give the impression that it is merely a matter of selling forged discharged papors to soldiers, This is probably « blind. There is no doubt a very intimate connection between the swind- ling here and that in the Southern cities. They are paris of ove stupendous scheme of plunder in which the unscrupulous creatures of the Pay Department have worked Berlei and in which the gove ri Ha beget vietmizod to an extent 67 which the igures ‘hat havo /) already leaked out hardly give an intimation. How the swindiors operated is not yet certain; but It appoars to haye been by means of the soveu-thirty boi Hondas. In one statement it is alloged that seven-thirlies wore drawn by the paymas- tera anterior to the date at which thoir interest bogan, and that the goverament allowed interest from the date of sale; that the officers paid the troops in the bonds and pocketed the inter- eat allowed above what was borne on the face of each note. And the statement is that the paymasters, being in collusion with all the brokers and bankers in the Richmond district, paid the soldiers in sevon-thirties and then reatized @ large discount for the exchange of the bonds for legsl tender notes. Bat these epaulotted financiers vever submitted their money-making purposes to any such slow or inadequate machinery as this. The financial condition of the “Richmond district eapecially shows that thoy operated in a holder way. ‘There are three bauks in Riohmond and two in Norioik, and each of the five has « capital of ouly one hundred thousand dollars. Doubtless ail are in ihe hands of the paymasters. Binney was ivterested in the Norfolk banks, and we hear ihat Stanton, his sucecssor, is interested in those at Richmond. By means of these in- stitutions the paymastera were using govern- ment money to such an extent that one bank held seven millions. The full figage of the five banks will foot up tremendously. Men with sucti financial machinery as this @ thoir die posal were not satisfied with makiag eight dol- Jars on a thousand, or even four on # hundred. Keeping #o near shore as that was for smalier boats than theirs. The forgerios spoken of in the nsrrests here point aldo to a larger operatioa. We have beard thronghout the war of tho discrepancy between the oum- bers of men who eppeared on the pay rolis and those who appeared in the line of battle. Perhaps these forgeries will let us further into the.history of that discrepancy. If there were thousands of bogus auliiers there would also be thousands of bogus discharges, for which the forger would get not five, ten, or Atty dollars from a poor devil of a soldier, but tens of thousands of dollars, drawn from gov- ervomont aa the supposed pay of whole regi- ments that nover had any existence. The for- geries are in that direction. ‘The Pay Department of the United States Army was constituted, to a great oxtent, for just such o result as this, There sre in it, and through the war have been, hundreds of men who went in purposely to take every chaace to make monoy—men uiterly without patriotism, honor or conscience. Never wae such an im- menge amount of money disburyed 49 logsety, and if ever the fall history fs known the to- cords of all othe: wi6fery will be white to it, anst now the oie hari 8 gaye ft to onl Yio wen iment at to vigo jj eau into Uk of jrnlons, and to puting) swhadiet lo ss ve posatble extout, The miserably nals taken noflon that all. this villany should be hashed up and the villains shrouded out of re« gord tor the army should be gotton rid of at onee. Any hilure the part of the govern- stone vw gob with th Bin1osi vigor on this cage will have Shi demoxatizing tondeney, and the public wilt inevitably contound Y who Oriticiom Required. In a0 country in the world was there ever displayed a more total lack of independent journalists in gencral, and eritics in particular, than in this land of questionable freedom. Nor can tho want of true criticism be more sorely felt elsewhere than here. In France the arti- clea of Jules Janin and Philardte Chasles are distinctive foatures of the newspapers in which they appear. In Germany the opinions of Schlegel, Boerne and Monzel first obtained prominence in the columns of the daily or weekly press. In England the writings of Johnson, Steele and Addison corrected the then depraved taste of the reading public. Finally, the world over, articles penned with true critical acumen have arrested, and will arrest, the attention of all such as bave noted the progress of civilization and the good results attendant on the efforts of the oritics. Without attempting to charge the public with any lack of appreciation, it is nevertheless proper to give voice to the fact that in no country on the face of the inhabited globe are genuine, unprejudiced critfes fewor in number and less remarkable for their ability. than in - America.” Honce the rarity of truly creditable. performances’ on the operatic or dramatic boards, the scarolty of valuable literary works, and the paucity of a@uvres d’art so strongly evidenced in a nation which ia most respects stands second to none. Hitherto the managers of the daily press, far from endeavoring to supply the want, by their sacrifices on the aliar of puffery have sought to convince impressarii, artistes and the public of the usclessness of im- partial criticism. They have changed the reading columns of a newspaper into an advertising department, and might as we!l affix the rates of insertion per line at the hond of the second, page as at the foot of the inner folios. The souding of a card to the ofiee of any of ihe minor city journals has boon, and is at present, equivalent to the “uni. cation of the advortinomons, with flattering odilorial comm@uturios In the “oritioal dene" ment” of the sheet, Kuowin, wer a general rule, the public Bae that, a9 a aitows itself to be guided by the s8>"\464 optoions of men who joe regarded ‘4 competent, and perfectly con- scious that none of the Bohemian organs with whiciz the good sense of the town is sickened will givd yent to @ conscientious decision— biped such woula place their advortising sti- pends ia jeopardy hy THANABLTS and operatic tmpressarii have become perfectly feckless as to the pieces they may produce, or the artistes they may import. The lack of veritable crit- ics, the substitution of unskilled or prejudiced Bohemians for enlightened judges, and the system’on which have been conducted the host of second rate newspapers up to the present time have insured impunity to the publisher who would issue a scurrilous book, and to the artist who exhibiis a worthless printing, while the public, little respecting the true facts of the case, awards the palm of merit to those who least deserve the recognition wrenched from them by their confidence in unscrupulous and p&rtial journalists. Nor ig there any clasa of the community which has escaped the effects of the evil. The newspaper, circulating as it does in every home, is made up of 40 homogeneous & maas of fact and fiction that by the majority of its readers its edicts are held well nigh sacred, The first class notice of the worthless play receives the same attention as the brief announcement of the rmagoe of g standard wor atte Le per little doubting that the so-called “griticism” is in reality an advertisement, not only follows the advice therein given by the writer, but is thoroughly imbued with bis apparent opinions, which pervert instoad of correcting his literary iaste. “The cules according to which are conducted all the second rate dailies in this city are identical. Limited patronage bestowed on the advertising departinent, worthless favors forced upon the administration of a newspaper, bave given thoatrical managers—taking them as ropresentatives of publishers and professionals generally—a firm boid upon the gratitude of the petty journalisis. Depending ow the servility of the “organs of public opiuion” they really imagine that they can foist upon the public such worthless productions and unknown artistes as their avarice or poverty seduces them io having at their disposal. Unfortunately for themselves, it requires but the efforts of one newspaper to enlighten the patrons of the arts ond point ovt the folly and unserupulonsness of other journalists, while such a course of conduct, being recognized and appreciated, can only result in the future discovery of mon of ability, who will speedily occupy the positions of which they have been hithorto deprived. Nothing, thon, but true criticism will purify the public taste, hold up the legion of un- worthy journalists to universal scorn, bring forth, a# substitutes for them, writers of en- lightenmeat and unimpeachable impartiality, and demonstrate to the aailsfaetion of al! the justice of the charge of false j..cLences to which are amenable a host of impressarii, actors, liderageurs and professional menegenerally. Tun Wenox or THe Brotimn Jonarnan.—-Tho fearful loss of life incurred by the wreck of the steamship Brother Jonathan on the Pacific cosst suggests an inquiry into the causes of so terrible # disaster. §1 appours that the veasel astrack on a sunken rock within ten miles of land, and it would seem that the eaptaia of the steamship was entirely ignorant of the oxistence of such an obstruction, The distance from the coast, we should suppose, must bave brought this rock within the line ef the coast survey, and it becomes desirable to know whether it was marked on the charts, and, if so, whether the goveroment had tuken the preéantion to place a buoy or a light there us @ warning to navigators. There must have been gross negli- gence somewhere, and it is proper that we should know where the responsibility of it resta, If the officials of the Const Survey Department had marked the rook, then it was tho duty of the government to put a warnipg beacon there, i if no such means were taken to avert dan- vv the government ia to bl If the obfrts ot the coast aonae no i 42 api navi. t aailon ves thts Point, Te on we must bag sna a was very imper- Soe the bi, Hk er af, om * turn oat that this factly done. But s abe ~ a ab sunken rock wos marked by a buoy, erm. ° which we have as yet no informatton, the canse of this fatal calamity may probably be traced to oarcleasnoss on the part of those in command of the ship. I secms alrange that a dangerous obstrac- all the éteatiors which for 6 mony yoars have been trading between Panama and the ports on the more northern shores of the Pacific, and yet remain unknofn to mariners. It is to be hoped that an investigation into this matter will tend to oxplain where the fault lies— whether with the government, the coast survey, or the officers of the ill-fated steamer. The ac- cident furnishes a lesson which we trust will not be slighted, and that is the necessity of greater protection to navigation on the entire Pacific coast. Peace, Pleasure and Plenty. During the month of August, 1864, General Grant was extending his lines around Peters- burg; General Sherman, efter ordering all gu- Perfluous baggage to the rear, was on his way to Atlanta, and Goneral Sheridan was quietly mustering his forces preparatory to clearing the Valley. On every side were signs of war. But in April last Columbia’s Kaleidoscope was roughly shaken by the cannonading in front of Potersburg, and as the amoke cloared away the rebellion collapsed. Then the glasses—which for four years had been darkened by smoke from many a battle ficld—began to assume the *| rosy hues of peace. The American eagle cast his barbed arrows to the earth, and, clutching the Star Spangled Banner in his talons, mount- ed aloft with a joyous scream, which was heard the world over, telling all nations that the mighty problem of self-government had been golved, and that the American Union had arisen from ite baptism of fire and blood stronger and more powerful than ever before, Then ovor the length and breadth of the land the eagle flew with lightning speed. ‘One wiry talon was amicably clasping a white dove’s delicate claw, and together they carried. in their beaks the olive branch of peri oe. Then commenced tha felgn of pleasure. It was on no puny sale, but by wholesale, that the Amer- ican, people went into the, pursuit of pleas ey As when the rebellion had to be orushe millions trod the war nath, so why the wor | Dey ease er eee itl ta is over millions rushed to the haunts or pleasure, Vigorously the hammer and saw were plied, fixing up bathing houses and bed- steads, The paintor’s brush dabbed away with lightning-like celerity to rejuvenate watering place hotels, which had become somewhat seedy during the four years of war. Milliners and dressmakers, tailors and bootmakers rau Gbout almost distracted at the number of or- dors and minute directions received from their patrons. But this hubbub and excitement was agreeably broken in upon by the tramp, tramp, tramp of our blue-coated and bronzed veterans marching gaily home from the war. Colum- bio’s eyes Mashed proudly as she welcomed them back to the capital of their country, From thence by boas and rail they started for their homos, all hearts being. filled with joy and all pockets with greenbacks. At College Commencementa, at every public and private festive gathering, and at our watering places, these heroes of the war wore deservedly the most honored guests. As the heatof summer increased, so the fun grow fast and furious. Bathing and betting, dining and dancing, flirting and fishing, horse racing and busband-hunting, together with all the other pleasant otceteras which divide the altention and take up the time of those in pur- suit of pleasure, have been indulged in this summer to an excess which has never before been equalled. During a short reapite in these pleasurable pursuits the American eagle paused to wipe a drop of perspiration from his beak, and at the same time, winking across the At- lantic (not by telegraph), blandly inquired of the amazed monaxchies on the other side “whether they ever saw anything lke it be- fore?” Their answer is sapposed to have been received by Father Neptune, as one end of the cable now lies buried in the ooze and sand of mid-ocean, among the big and little fishes. Columbia smiled at the vagaries of her feathered champion, and, after pausing to watch the amusements of her children, turned to take atock of her stores, now that the mist and smoke of battle had cleaved away befbre the sun of peace and prosperity. She turned to the corn fields and oreharda of the West, and saw the golden grains ripening in the sun, and already bowing their heavy heads ig the earth, while thousands of trces were groaning be- neath their loads of luscious fruit, To the Territories beyond the Rocky Mountaina she then cast her eyes, and beheld thousunda of tons of the precious metals lying imbedded in the earth, and waiting nt for the pick and shovel of the miner lo be added to the riches of her people. Nenver the Atlantic seaboard she saw streams of oi! rushing up frum the bowels of the earth, while around them cities were springing up like Aiaddin’s fymed palace, From the far off rice fields and cotton plauta- tions of the sunny South there came to hor ears the hum of labor, telling that there the rav- ages of war were fast disappearing. All arouad she guw thonsands of her warriors in want of employmeat, and from acroas the ocean ships were coming laden with the sur- plus popaiation of the overcrowded cities of the Old World; but she fel! no fear for their fotare, after seeing the many signs of plenty in her broad domaina. Anprew Jounsos 1x RrenMony—1864 AND 1866.—The citizens of Richmond the other day, in public meeting, resolved that they “have learned with feelings of the liveliest satisfac- tion that thore is some probability of their city being honored at no distant day by « visit from his Excellency Andrew Jobnson, the present able and patriotic President of the United States,” and have appoinied a committee to muke arrangements for « proper reception. The managers of this meeting, we arc further advised, wore among the leading spirits of the rebellion. They would probably have been overjoyed in hurrying Androw Jobuson Libby prison or Andersonville bed they caught him so late as the Ist day of April last. But great revolutions work great changes in the minda of men, and, besides, the liberal reatora- tion policy of Andrew Johnson is fast making Converts of his former enemies in spite of them solves, A Fever to tam Soorumen Bracks—Among oar Southern newspaper items we find the statement that “an office to procure white Inhor frqm Europe hag heen opened in Mo bilo.” Here is & Sse uh ern blac! 2 tag vast and ins vitinys Wet for Aninigration, and the Souther blocks Fast gs to work chovrfully, stondily and eystematically, or they will We rooted ont, oxoopt in the swamps, by white ghiold the rowuos with tho rquuos themagkvos, 2 tion of this kind quould qxiat im the tragk of } Labor. me ‘Phe TheatrScal Seasén. h As the cool ead evenings of Sey! tember—the month when leaves begin to fal and blankets come into vogue, and the water. become too chilly for delicate constitutions— approach, the fashionable watering places begin to disgorge their whilom citizens ani deliver them to the inexorable Soylla ani Charybdis of metropolitan dissipation. F to welcome and the most eager to receive tl are tho theatrical managers. They aze on qué vive for the returning immigration, out o; which they hope to reap & golden harvest nex) winter. After an off season which has proved to: many; of the houses unprecedentedly prosperow® during the summer, some of the theatres are, | now being refurbished, wardrobes rehabilt}'| tated, old repertoires cofmed over sad now 0 Pus im preparation for the fall and winter cam paign. The managers say that they never did’ | 80 well in the dog days as they have this year This may perhaps be accounted for by the fact that people have not found it absolutely noo sary to seck far off rural residenots, but con} tented themselves, in many instances, with more accessible delights of our many 100 suburban retreata.. The Keans inaugurate @ new season at Broadway this evening. Wallack’s is clo for refitting. The Winter Garden will with Mr, J. 8 Olarke on the 6th of September} while the other establishments will glide quiet{, ly from the summer to the winter season, buth of course will add new attractions for the logitij 4 mate theatrical period. Our sober and religious frionds on the Brook! lyn side are also getting into harness. Theit! local theatre and Opera House are in course oj) proparation. Mr. and Mrs, Conway, who havi beon catering for the Brooklynites vory antig factorily at want is par excellence the Bre mies thentre, for It is the only one , will oom season carly next soonth in a house fully c@ touched 271d as bright as‘ now pin. Hooley’, opens on the gd in dark complexioned oper, in ofinw iheonae: which nic as tison like a Hae from the ashes of the Tals ‘Sonflagrnwac et that on both sides of the East river te theat cal campaign on these lines will he condycted with great vigor, if it takes all winter—to m fortunes for the managers. Cmcocmstances Vary Marerutiy A Cases--Werrs Lasog Wantep at rae Sovra.—: Before the late rebellion it was a vory commot: assertion of Southerners that Southern fields could not be tilled by white labor, and every! thing was done to discourage Northern emigrat tion. The war appears to have dissipated this among many other fallacies, Every encourage: ment is held out to Northern emigrants, and we are continually in receipt of letters from Southern planters urging us to advocate thei emigration to that “sunny land” of the “hardyj Northmen” who were sq unwelcome before war. We give a sample of these letters else where in the communication from a Sout Carolina planter, who declares there is co stant employment for ome thousand Northern) men in Abbeyville district of that State alone, and who farther adds that the negroes cannot be depended on. It appears, however, trom; our Baton Rouge letter, and the communication | of General Wager Swayne, om the same subject, the idleness of the freedmen, and that the proa- perity of the South, of the planters and of the negroes depend alike on the emigration of the | Yankees and d Yankee energy. Tux Iwvortanr Pi Prosisu.—How long will old Mother Welles and Fox try their atenmers tied to the docks before they will know which one can catch che Shenandoah? The pretext for all the 4] failures to take the Sumter, Gibraltar, Florida, &e.,a8 well as for the failure to take the Alabama till she had done fibulous damage, was that the necessities of the blockade rendered it impossible te spare any number of cruisers from home service. But we havo no longer any blockade to maiatain. What is the pretext now? Are they waiting for the Shen- andoah to come in and be tied alongside the dock and to surrender, if the government has a ship that can make more steam in an hour? Ie that it? Evu.anp ano Batraaneant Riawes.—In the ease of our late Southern rebellion Bogland lost no time in concetling belligerent rights to Jeff. Davis. There she stands. But let us sup- pose that the Fenians strike for the independ- ence of Old Ireland; what then? Then, accord- ing to the good old rule of reciprocity, “sauce for the goose will be sauce for the gander,” and England’s ingenious devices for our de- | struction will return te plague the inventor. A two edged sword isa | ie dangerous plaything. Tar Corpstose , ExcnaNor.—The respectable | financiers of this city have just established the principTe that thore is sufficient time during tho | day to sell stocks and gold By abolishing that hotbed of speculation, the Evening Exchange. Now lot them establish the principle that there is plemty of room indoors to de business by breaking up that public nelsance, tho Curb- stone Exchange. As one step towards this re- form the Open Board of Brokers will hereafter be free to the publio at ton A.M every day. Rotarion ™ ~ Ovrioe,—Prosident Johoson should continue his good work of displacing the Chase radicals from their snug berths in the Custom Houses, Post Offloes, and Internat Reveune Departments. In selecting thelr suo~ cesaors he should bear in mind the claima of”, our discharged soldiers, who are tao devorving to be forced to run errands abom the stroota } for a livelihood. The Ketohum Cage. NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. Thore were no further development yesterday fn the Kotchum defaloation caso, Edward B. Ketchum is «till confined in the coll in the roar of tho dotectives’ toom, at the Police Headquarters, whoth ho received on #unday several of his friends, He i qtil! tn oxcellont spirits and converses with groat frogdops and good sense on all sub, jects, whothor relatirg oF not to the frauds in which he is implicated, The oxamination into the frais of the ‘case will commence this morning, at ton o'clock, at the Tombs Police Court, before Juatice Hoge nee ence = No Sf ff the North ‘Ame~: ee Feqmen se hg nro no aa9 of the stentnor caret Tee wreathior Ts cold and cloudy, with a strong broege ARtaMUs Wan ant cus Mormons. — Artemus Ward is about to transfer lis husnor and bjs panorama to Eng. Jand; but before ho gooe we of to have six fwrowolt ontertatnments at Irving Hs'’, commencing (his evaning Artamus told many #5rie6 before about the Yormons and exhibited s pr ity fate panoramic viow of the youre to Balt Take ly, and many soenen and incidents thoroit. Ley comes “ow with a froah batoh of storios of pis expr 9n09%, Mormondom and ap ontiroly uew pAMOTaNL