The New York Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1865, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 10,595. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1865. PRICE FOUR CE NTS. ANDY JOHNSON’S HOME. A Visit to Greenville, East Tennessee. Recollections of the President When a Tailor. Bomimscences of East Tennessee During the Dark Days, de. &e. ae. Our Knoxville Correspondence. Kroxvmg, Tenn., August 23, 1865. Our party left Knoxville early on Monday morting and eeturned.last evening, having visited all the important points between this place and the crossing of the Wau- tauga river, in the extreme northeastern corner of the State, the present terminus of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, I will give you a brief resumé of what we saw and did, with such observations as may be of interest to the general reader. FROM KNOXVILLE TO GREENVILLE. } We had secured from the post commandant the ser- vices of the band belonging to the Eleventh United Btates colored infantry, and as we glided out past the houses of Knoxville, and the people who stood gazing with wonder on the pageant, the “black machines’? re- galed us with as good music asI ever heard. And here Jet me digress to remark that, whatever faults the negro may be addicted to, and however low he may be in the erder of intelligence, he is capable of not only appre- Ciating, but executing the very finest compositions of music. I never heard more enchanting ‘“‘concords of sweet sounds” than fell upon my ears from the instru- ments of this band, composed solely of negroes, as black as Erebus. As the cars glided along very rapidly, I ould obtain nothing more than a coup d’a@il of the coun- ‘try, though I spent most of my time in gazing out of the ‘window wistfully upon the rapid succession of hills, dales, mountains, valleys, creeks, meadows and fields of ripening grain, Everything has settled down into profound quictude, and the mountain fastnesses that but so recently ‘mp-echoed to the roar and thunder of artillery, or the quick erack of the picket’s rifle, now only reverberate with the ound of the woodman’s axe or the lowing and bleating of the herds grazing upon their slopes, The yellow corn basks im the sunlight, mviting the farmer to gather ‘the rich harvest for his toil, and herds of sheep are ready for the fall shearing. While I was indulging in such re- flections as these, Governor Brownlow tapped me on the shoulder and ejaculated, ‘Scrib, there’s the road that President Johnson travelled when on his way to Wash- ington to take his seat in the Senate. He travelled in an open buggy with a pistol and double barrelled shot gun. ‘The rebels pursued him, and fired at him several times ¥m Cumberland Gap; but he miraculously made his @ecape.’’ He also directed my attention to the Ashville, Camberiand Gap and Nashville Railroad, which was in course of construction when the war put a stop to it. It 4s nearly all -graded, cross ties down and ready for the zeception of the rails. Work upon it will likely soon be resumed. The only other features we saw worthy of special mention was Mossy creek and Blue spring. Mossy creck takes its rise somewhere in the Northern Moun- tains, and empties nowhere. It will gush out of the round, run for some distance and suddenly sink from sight. 80 itis a continual succession of up-comings and @own-goinge, from its source to its mouth. It derives its ame from a peculiar kind of moss upon its surface, to De found in no other stream, The water, which isa Bight nm, in many places flows in sufficient quantities an nil, which are built on its banks. The Blue spring is situated about two miles from Midway station. It ts notable on account of the peculiar flavo? and colo? of ite water, which is almost as bine as indigo. The spring in unfathomable. A lead has been sunk to the di@ance of five hundred feet, but no bottom wag found. About eleven o’clock we ARRIVED AT GREENVILLE. Bere we were met by the Fortieth United States col- ered regiment, who had been ordered out as a guard of honor. Horses were im reattiness, and we were all mounted, The regiment, after going through several evolutions of drill, divided into two battalions, and with one in front and one in rear, and the band discoursing their sweetest strains, we proceeded to the hotel. Gov- ernor Brownlow was here met by a large number of his id Union friends, and it was amusing to listen to their velations of adventures during the rebellion. ‘Mine Rost” of the hotel had been a “brother chip,” and worked upon the tailor bench with President Johnson in Gays lang syne, and I obtained from him some valaable \nformations concerning roneccoee ‘A. JOHNSON, Tailor. eeceeerere-reeneree ne neee se oboe: which sign—a fac simile of the old one which was sent bo the Chicago Sanitary Fatr—now hangs over the door. Whe old gentleman’s story concerning our present Presi- + lent rans thus:—‘'There was a vast difference between @ndy and I when we worked on the same bench I poukt’spell B-a-k-e-r and he could’ not; but he could ‘fdx” mé’on a pair of breeches or a fine coat, and could get a better price for bs work than I. He never made a garment that didn’t fit, and never had a job returned. Blo was the best tailor I have ever met. When Andy got ‘arried tie hadn’t ten dollars in the world, and his wife ‘wad as poor as Naomi’s daughters. Her mother said to ber before sho was married (calling her by name), ‘ I can ve you all the money there ie in the house—fifteen do!- help you about going to housekeeping; or I will take the money and give you a ‘wedding’—which will you prefer?’ ‘Mother,’ said she, ‘I will take the atone Andy and I'll work for money—won’t we? sopreling to ber lover. — aera and the ~ was couple had not ene cent wi to ‘eet 7 or’ themneaiven After they were she tau; him to read, and the world knows rest,” said the old man with a sigh of relief, as he ed down his sandy wig, and pufled away at his old pledetan! it is a long and ru, leads from the tailor’s bench in Greenville to Presidential chair in Washi ; but that wonder- Cumberland Gap told its tale. RESIDENCE OF ANDY JOHNSON, THR TAILOR. residence of President Johnson stands on the only # few rods from the hotel. We walked irveyed its outward structure, though we did Bot enter, as it has been prostituted to the most vile pur- since the rebellion. It isa simple brick house, stories high, with an L extending back, with a porch on one side. Very like other houses, where destined Presidents have never lived. It, being, however, the place where President Johnson had made his struggle for | onan had a desire to see it, and have given my benefit of my short visit. ‘THE TAILOR’S sHOP. The place where the famous knight of the scissors held forth was the next thing that attracted my curio: aity, and #0 1 weat also to eee that. ‘A. Johnson, Tai- Jor,” painted in crude letters, en imitation of the original, gaid Eureka to me, and I stopped before the magic sym- =, intently on the little eight by ten frame 5 was plebeian in the extreme, built ver much on the style of a farmer's smokehouse, of roug! weather nmi y whitewashed. On either end the Doards are torn off in places, and the chimney is crum- bling to decay. An old negro, raised by President John- gon, and assuming his name, is the sole occupant of the Duilding, and he is the successor in business of ‘ A. , Tailor.”’ He says, ‘ Massa Johnson been in de trade de bes tailor in dese diggins.”’ President John- ‘son’s first public office was Mayor of Greenville. I next visited | ig a 2 2g THR PLACE WHERE JOHN MORGAN WAG AHOT, which is a garden in the rear of General Cruft’s head- quarters, in the centre of the city, i at yey @reons, fruit and vegetabl an gray Regro pulled aside the corn to show me where the noted fell. He was making great endeavors to gain house when a ball from the carbine of a soldier sent him to his * last diteb.”” detachment after him, but the bird had flown the day be- fore, and they had their trouble for their pains. This train of reminiscences brought to the Governor's mind the circumstance of the han; of two innocent citizens by the rebels, in 1861, named 1 and Tery, both Germans, and before we boarded the train we rode over bo THE TREE WHERE THEY WERE HUNG, It was an oak, on the side of the hill, and they were hung to a limb extending towards the town. They were ordered to hang four days and four nights by General Ledbetter, but on the second day the citizens impor- tuned, and Ledbetter made a nainesake and nephew of Andy Johnson, a youth of some sixteen years of age, cut them down. ‘They were then thrown into a hole ‘ander the tree, and covered up with dirt. Weeds and parsers f ‘bushes alone mark the spot. We immediately subecril five dollars apiece to be given to Governor Brownlow for the pu of erecting a suitable head- stone, and enclosing the grave. The charge against these men was bridge burning, and they were convicted by a dramhead court martial. They were both innocent of the charge, as has since been clearly demonstrated, ‘The rebels knew it at the time they were hung, but they wisned to spread terror in the ranks of the East Ten- nesgee Unionists. The ‘deep damnation of their taking off”? is a gad commentary on the rebellion. AT JONESBORO. Nothing of importance occurred until we arrived at Jon where we learned that instances of Union men either killing or whipping bushwhackers were of iw d frequent occurrence. of thenr have been tied to trees, while the women whom they had robbed and insulted while their husbands were in the Union army were allowed to scourge them with lashes to+ their hearts’ content. The returned soldiers from the rebel army are left alone fm their (in)glory, but the bushwhackers and thieves catch it unmercifully, A card in the last issue of the Jonesboro Flag sufficientl; explains the modus operandi of the preliminary pero in It is signed by about twenty of the most influential citizens of the county, and warns about the same num- ber of rebels that if they do not leave the county before a certain time they will hang them, every one, to the first tree. And they never fail to execute these threats. I showed the card to Governor Brownlow. He said he knew that it was his duty, as Governor of Tennessee, to stop all such proceedings, but he had not the time to do so at present. 4 will be some time before he will, Timagine. Apropos of this, while I was being shaved by a darkey, in Knoxville, I remarked to a gentleman near by that I had heard that Governor Brownlow had declared his _intenti to pardon Union men who were convicted for killing bushwhackers. The darkey spoke up and said, with a broad grin, “I shave de Gob’ner, and he told me I might shoot a rebel if I wanted to.” The aforesaid rebels have little to expect from Brownlow, I assure you. He is as radical asever. At the late session of the Grand Jury in Jones- boro there were forty citizens indicted for treason against the State of Tennessee. VIRGINIANS STILL PLAYING GUERILLA, In_ West Virginia, bordering on Tennessee, the rebels still keep up gueriila operations. There have been hun- dreds of horses, cattle and sheep stolen from Tennes- seans by them recently, and the owners are afraid to go afterthem, there beimg no military force in that locality. Within a few days, however, General Grey, with a small force of cavalry, has established his headquarters at Ab- ingdon, near the State line, and he will probably make short work with the rascals. AT THE WETANGA RIVER. Tucsday morning we went to the Wetanga river, the resent terminus of the East Tennessee and Virginia road, the bridge being burned at that place, Here, if the road was in ruining order, we would have been within thirty-four hours’ travel of New York. As it is, it would take two weeks, via Nashville. Nothing is lacking but this bridge over the Wetanga and the one over the Hol- ston, and very few repairs to the road, It could be put into running order in two weeks, and it is to be hoped it will soon be done. THE REFUGEES. General Fisk is issuing orders to his subordinate off- cers to break up all refugee camps and issue no more rations to these people, who are neither Guelphs nor Ghibbelines—Union people nor rebels, pay 2 are a regu- lar sot of leeches upon the government, too lazy to work and too mean to die. How appropriate to them, is the following, which some poet, possibly Dante, wrote some time dumng the fourteenth century :— Thou shalt know how salt will taste The stranger's bread; how hard it is To ascend and descend by other people’s stairs. THE NEGROES are all getting along finely, learning vepiay and prepar- ing themselves for their new status. But I must reserve the “nigger question” for my next, as Sambo has just warned me that the train starts in fifteen minutes. THE STREET CLEANING COMMISSION. Charges of Corruption—Action of the Governor—The Trial Fixed for the 26th Instant, At length a step has been taken in the right direction by the Governor, which may serve to break up what is sale pais of m nicipal authorities. It may be re- memi that Certain Charges of an important nature were made a fortnight since against the members of the Street Cleaning Commission by Jas. Gregory, of Third avenue, The charges are a8 follows;— To His Excellency Reuven E. Fextox, Governor of the State of New York:— Sir—I respectfully present the following ct and specifications of official misconduct ist Matthew T. Brennan, Comptroller of the city of New York; C. God- frey Gunther, Mayor of the said city; Francis I. A, Boole, City Inspector of the said city; John B, De Counsel to the Corporation of the said city, and John T. Hoffman, Recorder of the said city, and each of them, and ask that the same be e: ‘by you, and the guilty parties removed from office, a8 provided by law:— CHARGES. ‘That the officers above named, being authorized and required, a8 commissioners, by an act of the Legislature ‘of the State of New York, passed May 1, 1865, to make a contract for cleaning the streets of the said city tor a term of not less than five years, with the person or per- sons whose proposals should, in the jndement of said commissioners, or a ie a of them, secure the most effective service and the most advantageous to the public interests, did wilfully and corruptly disobey and dis- regard the Ff poor and requirements of the said act; and did wilfully and corruptly, in pretended compliance with the said act, but actually in subversion and viola- tion thereof, make a contract with persons for cleaning the streets of the said city for a term of ten years, whose proposals were not, as the said commissioners well knew, the most advantageous to the public interest, or likely to secure the most effective service; and did wilfully and Sr and consummate a fraudulent and wasteful job, the purpose of securing personal and pecuniary benelits to the said commissioners, or some of them, and of illegally and improperly evriching persons who are their dependants or associates, and did in other respects wilfully and corruptly misuse anid abuse the power and authority conferred upon them, as aforesaid. and seize and usurp power and ‘authority hot confe upon uem by the said act, to the great wrong and injury of the publi¢, and to the great pecuniary loss and age o! the Corporation of the city ot New York. Ti cn followed a detailed statement of specifications up a which the charges made by Mr. Gregory were based, and which have been published in the Henatp. THE COMMISSIONERS TO BE TRIED. The long expected answer to those charges came yes- terday. Daniel F. Tyler, Esq., the government messen- ger, arrived in this city on Wednesday, and yesterday delivered letters, of which the following is a copy, to his Honor the Mayor, as well as the other commissioners, copies of the charges and specifications being enclosed :— State oy New York, Executive be era Awpany, August 30, 1865. Sm—Herewith Rod will be served with copies of charges and specifications that have been preferred inst you. An opportunity of being heard in defence thereof will be given at ten o’olock in the forenoon of the 26th day of September, 1865, at the Executive cham- ber, in the city of Albany, before me; and you are re quested to appear at such time and place, with the proofs you may desire to offer on an investigation of the same. Very respectfully, FE! IN, Governor of New York. Hon. C. Govrrey Gunrnen, Mayor of New York By this it will be geen that the Mayor, Comptroller Brennan, Inspector Boole, Recorder Hoffman and Cor- poration Counsel Develin will be required to appear for trial on the 26th inst., and on the issue of that trial de- pends to a great extent the government of our city for some time to come. New Line of Travel Between New York and Boston, {From the Providence Journal, August 29. } We hear that the contracts have bee tween the Neptune Steamship Company, the Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad Company, and the Bostop and Providence Railroad Company, for ibe ertablis of a new line of travel between Boston and New *™) ‘way of Bristol. The Neptune Company wil} ra, to be conatrs.| to this service, that they saay be entirely, secure in the jest weather, These ~ rw have already contracted for ud work Upon hem has commenced, The Brist-? ™4! ros On we awarded the contract for we extension of wharf facilities at Bris- tol, ana that work te-aleo progressing This job embraces about four thousand boy ie Fad LL ecniment, gos 4 eal nest cr rid, The Boston " of the fi arbors in the world, e an Providence Company, have now Le ad & number of firet clase modern cars for the line, and a Jocomotive will be at once put under contract. between Boston and Bristol vill he oe eae 9 } horete so ee 1m completed be- | The Opera and the Preas. MAX .RETZEK AND THE HBRALD. To Tux Epitor or tus New Yore Times:— The politicians have been for some political past by a flerce encounter pod ry tors of no small celebrity. Messre. Weed and Greeley with skill and vigor, and they will retire from the com- bat, if not wiser and better men, atJeast with their repu- tation for pugnacity considerably increased. But a more piquant contest now attracts the attention of the town, and provokes no little merriment. The German impresario of our Italian opera suddenly down his musical baton, and, pee in hand, made @ furious ton the New Yore Hera. Some admired the pluck, and others condemned the folly of the foolhardy Max, while not a few wondered at his ingratitude, for the Hgraup, of all our jor has lavished on the Italian opera ite steady and support. All, however, speculated ‘on the motives of the doughty Max. Was the harrowing tale he told us of his being bled to the extent of ‘twenty thousand dollars perannum” the real cause of his fury, or wasit, after all, only an ingenious device of axi operatic Dulcamara to advertise an old opera troupe -by Lee 4 dae with the Heratp, in which he expected the New York press to join by writing Jong evetes in their honor, there- by exonerating his pocket from the advertising expenses that always inaugurate a new season? Maretzek has all the cunning of his Jewish origin, sharpened by his familiarity with the cowlisws. The sen- sible article that appeared in the Times. of Saturday deep- ened = suspicions, and I resolved to investigate the facts. If Max was really the victim he alleged, Lea then he was entitled to the sympathies of the musical, if not of the humane; but if this was only a Barnuin trick to draw a crowd by cries of “‘exactions’’ from the Heratp, why then Max could only expect the smile of contempt usually bestowed on mountebanks. I therefore took the liberty and the trouble to visit the headquarters of the Heraxp, and here I discovered that every statement of the inventive Max was wholly un- founded, with the single exception of the proscenium box offered to the editor's family, for which, however, the usual price was repeatedly tendered, but, through the policy or politeness of Max, as steadily declined. Everybody knows the editor of the Heratp is a million- aire, and the Times says he is notonously Javish in his penditure. Itisthe rule in this establishment, it ap- Hees, that no employe shall accept the usual ‘‘courtesies to the press,” in the way of ee seats in steamers or cars, or free lodgings in the hotele—every- thing is paid for by order. It is idle, therefore, to sup- pose that the editor of the Heratp desires the kratuitous Civilities of an opera manager, though they may through calentation be forced on him. If Marctzek has occasion- ally bestowed opera tickets on aMachés of the HeRaLu, it was without the knowledge of its editor, and with a view only to his own advantage, As to the accusation of blackmail, the editor of the Heratp would be obliged, he said, if Maretzek would name the delinquent, if he can. It is admitted that application was made to Maretzek for the en; ment of Mme. Van Zandt, an admirable artist, and a deserving woman; but, though the was re- luctantly engaged for a short period, she was rarely al- lowed to sing, through some unmanly prejudice of the manager. The tissue of charges preferred against the Herat are pronounced by its editor to be mere fabri- cations, and only intended to enlist public feeling in behalf of a second hand opera troupe. In this case Maretzek’s story of losing $20,000 per annum” to secure the patronage of the Heraxn is simply bosh (patdor the expression), and justifies the supposition that he must have swallowed double his usual quantum of lager beer to circulate sucha prepostcrous falsehood. The whole- some rebuke so gracefully vdministered by the Times will not likely be thrown away on Maretzek, and will serve as a warning to his tribe. It may be the custom in the Jews’ quarter ot his native ‘town to abuse women, but in this Christian land there is not a man, high or Jow, who would not blush to insult a lady in order to vent his spite on her husband. A SUBSCRIBER. OPERATIC DISCORDS—MAX AND THE PRESS. [Editorial comments of the Times.) We publish what may be styled a semi-official reply to Manager Maretack’s onset upon the HeraLp, made some days since, It comes avowedly from the “headqnarters” of the hostile camp, and substantiates on that authority the matn points which we suggested a few days since would probably prove to be the facts of the ease. There seems tobe very little foundation, except in Manager Maretzek’s ingenions imazmation, for supposing that he was either enjoying or snffering from a subvention of twenty thousand dollare a year at the bands of the Heratp, He may congratulate himself on having that costly and uncom(ortable delusion completely dispelled. Now we hope he will go to work and give us the best possible opera season which his long experience and large resources will enable him to produce, same. and other n r may Ray. him into one of the grand secrets of journalism as to pnp ings _ foe mnie 1 favo 4 very son g w de- clare that to v declares: Jor ite pains, If fps) If it doeg it will have its labor avail himeelf of this hint Manager Max may have a re time of it. Hehasonly to be virtuous and he will be PY: quite sare of being hap The Police and the Omnibusce Tho following general order has been issued to the Police Department by Superintendent Kennedy — GENERAL ORDER—wO. 418. Orrice oF THs a or or Pouce, MULBERRY sTREET, New York, August 31, 1865. Captain + —— Precinct. Much inconventence and unnecessary delay to paseen- gore results from omnibuses and street cars ing within the lines of intersecting streets, You will this without frog hay ee are liable to arrest, and to a penalty of ten for each offence. (See Revised Ordinances, chapter 39, section 26.) hold up, for the of receiving or discharzing pas- before crosswalk, or. else to pass entirely with the crosswalk there. Compliance with this arrangement will secu‘ mutual | ‘accommodation to proprietors and passenges on every Mine of street travel. JOHN A. KENNEDY, Superiptendent, Daniet. Carpenter, Inspector. Carelessness of Omnibus Drivers. TO THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD. New Yorn, Augtst 31, 1865. While getting into a Fultop ferry ommbus in Broad- way, above Franklin street, to day, the driver started the donty, bovore T had entéred the vehicle, | hat I was almost thrown beek into the street, in which caso T might have been seriously injured, if not killed, as other vehicles were, as usual, clove behind, The driver saw that I was lame, and therefore bad no excuse, as Ov getting out at Fulton strect the same thing occurred iy & more he might bave had were T an active man. aggravated form; for I had no sooner placed foot, the upper step than the omn:bus again startedsuddely. Happily for mo I know the reckleseness of /he oy who drive the public vehicies of New York, ae usual, ame to a halt. this foresight alone I was savi at least a ‘serious fal onthe back. The driver o Aes fame contempt of life and limb all the time I ws in ae, bus as fast as a passenger got in or ont, Fhe number of his vehicle was 879, ang Twas put dow/nt tn mninaies to two P. M. opposite te Herat office, PLA . The Chicago Chamber ofCommerce. DESCRIPTION OF THE BULLDIN' B OPENING, BTC. (From the Chicago TribunoAugust 29.) The new Chamber of Commerg, Dullding, jhe mest magnificent edifice of its kind te United States, js now completed, and was throwy fa rors for the inspection of the public, So nic’ ‘been said and go much seen of this building thit it #ems scarcely neers | sary to, in this connection, gige Mo than a briof glance at its prominent features’ art peciliaritics; but thes are jo numerous and noteworthy that a description must necessarily be somevbat extended. Its exter.or may be said to be imposing, bat cannot bt oalled beautiful; it belongs to what we might term a pwaliarly “American composite’ order of architecture, i which the fat feature is intonse utility, and for the attaining of thi recognized ‘orders’ of architecture arejumbled together with perfectly fantastic looseness. + it is a huge building, massive even in its dotaye foxy conveys to the beholder a strong sense of endr-tDE © os 'y, @ very pro per idea when connected w Mt of ‘one typical this i¢_of the wealth ane merce in thi Kreat Northwest. ance, which is an exty Passing the ene *ty sr ption to the © fig chatacter of the exteror, and generally "Yinircase leading up to the gre hall, 0 conding sy regret that it has not been mais wider an canye” ‘The two iron stairways, each five abd \ half foot Je“ width, and the succeeding’ wooden one, at right ‘angles with them, five fect each in width, allem small ‘and insufficient when viewed in connection wah the great exterior and buge hall to which they lad. They fre, however, no doubt quite sufficient for li the re uirements to be made upon them, and are veryclegantjy hed. "ihe at hall is withont doubt the grarlest meeting room of any commercial body in this courtry. | It is hundred bo] Fon Peay iy ~ , Py hog | th forty-iive height Pay rtors| by Yen windows on and tive in 1, each twenty-five feet im height #d the hall ae have used their weapons He has learned how to do without newspaper assistance ; let him repudiate all sbventions, repel all exactions, treat news- papers just as he does the rest of mankind, attend care- fully to his own business and leave journalists to ¢o the He may rely upon it that if he has good artists produces good operas th? public will find it out, and will go to hear them, no matter what the Hgraip or any Indeed, we may #0 far let MATTERS AT RICHMOND. Characters of Some of the Rebels Wh: Figured in the Mass Meeting—Th: Pardon of Mr. Dudley Revoked by Pre: dent Johnson—General Terry Suffering from a Sun Stroke—Closing up the Vir- ginia Banks, dé. OUR RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE. Ricuwonp, Va, August 80, 1865, ‘THE MASS MERTING. T find that I sent you last night all the salient points of the mass meeting held in the Capitol square at five @’clock, It was, indeed, hard work for these chivalric Southerners to find words in which to clothe their new and suddenly born loyalty. For instance, the venerable James Lyons, father of the president of the meeting, and one of the foremost speakers, who publicly threatened just anterior to the federal occupation, and was as pub- ely applauded for the remark, ‘I will wade in Yankee Dlood up to my armpits before I will permit the detested Yankees to enter this beloved capital,’? said yester- day evening, “We have done nothing to forfeit our, rights in the Union.” Again he said, “If a revolution ever does take place in this country, it will Begin, if it does not end, at the North, and Southern men will have no responsibility for it.’’ As a ‘‘voice of the people’’—the sons of chivalry—the meeting is pronounced @ decided failure; for, it is held that the gathering was in nowise endorsed, by either action or sentiment, by a majority of those who took part in the late rebellion or ‘urged others to do so, A committee of three was ap- pointed to wait upon the President of the United States and invite him to visit Richmond. Of this committes Mr. William H. Macfarland is chairman. Macfarland was @ member of the convention which, passing the ordinance -| of secession, took Virginia unwillingly out of the Union; a member of the Provisional Confederate Congress, and a candidate for the permanent Congress of the confederacy . from the Richmond district, beaten by ex-President John Tyler, in the canvass for which Macfarland said :—‘*My ery is for eternal separation—eternal separation between this people and all north of the Susquehanna.” THE NT PIKE, at Lynchburg is said to have destroyed property valued at between five hundred thousand and a million of dol- lara, In the item of tobacco seven hundred boxes were -destroyed, valued at more than twenty thousand dollars. SENTIMENTS OF THE PEOPLE, Ata Inge and entirely harmonious gathering of the people of litsylvania county, at their Court House, a few days sinte, the following resolutions were offered, eiponseed and iopted. They embrace many significant Joas:-— Whereas, the termination of the late unfortunate civil war in our country has resnited in the re-establishment of the authority of the national government ond the per- petuity of the Union of the States: and whereas, the peo- ple of this State have not beew yet restored to all their political nghts aud privileges; and whereas, our silence may be mis‘onstrued into indifferenee to’ our prosent situation and want of fidelity to the government; we, the people of Pittsylvania county, deem itour duty ‘to give public expression to our views upon these questions; therefore, in public meeting assembled, we reeolve:— 1, That in our opinion it is the duty of every citizen of Virginia to give his earnest adhesion and support to the national government, and cordially second all efforts of the present administration looking to (he restoration of the Southern States to equal rights in the Union. | 2. That we regard the institution of domestic slavery | as tinally disposed of by the issue of the war, and that negroes are no longer to be held in involuntary servitude in this Stater 3. That with aview to expedite the removal of the military and the return of civil law, we think it the dnty of the county courts of each county, # soon as it may meet with the concurre of the generat government, to make guitable provision fox the care of the indigent blacks unable to support Wiemselves by labor; and it in the policy of the people to encourage all freedmen to habits of industry and economy, 4. Phat for thé rapid development of the resources of our great country, and for its permanent peace and pros- perity, and to show our appreciation of the spiryt tmant- fested towards us by the business mon of the North, we think that the most amicable relations, both commercial and political, should be established between the North and South, and that svely individaal should use hig best leavors to Terult. . That the decision of President Johnson that the question of snffrage shall be left to the different States, where it of right belong’, is just and constitrtional, an should be promptly acquiesced in by the people every- Require vedicles to horses’ heads reach the line of the over the cross street, and stop where the rear of the vehicle will be on a jine where. 6. That we accept the constitution adopted at Alexan- in ag the organic law of the State, and fully endoree | tt pirshed by the present Executive, Governor Pierpoint, in his efforte to rehabilitate this Common- | wealth and restore her to her former proud pos tion in the federal Union. 7. That in the elections of members of Congress and of the State Legislature it ie the duty of the people to elect men known to be favorabie to harmony and concili- ation between the Northern and Southern States, THR PARDON OF DUDLEY. the pardon of: Alexander Dudley, River Railroad, to which editorial reference ts made in the Sunday Heratp, emanated from the President of the United States, upon representations from General Terry that Dudley had, since the granting of his pardon, been guilty of vehemently disloyal lan- guage and acts towards the government, military and people of the United States. TNR MUNICIPAL GUVERNYENT OF RICHMOND. General Turner bas issued the following order, which shows the forbearance of the military towards the citi- Special Ordere—No. 99. Heapquantens, Dister t 0° Hesrs% Ricrmoxp, Augnst 25, 186. V. The better to define the doties of LW 2 reed Manages of the city of Richmond, appois Special Orders—No. 60, parugraph 6, hestuarters of Henrico— Ksvnsk te Ttis hereby announced that the said peW'sional Mana. ger is vested with all powere and authg/y vested in the City Council under the ebarter of thet of Richmond, and shall have power to enforce ay ordinances hereto- ity of Richmond un- General TURNER, neral. ional Manager of the ' fore enacted by the Council of the | der said charter. By comman i i Brevet Mi P. A. Davin, Assistant Adj ita fo Mr. Davin J. SAcnpensy city of Riehmond. Reenyso, Va., August 20-6 P.M. arpienf APPORSTER ST. Governor Pierpoint o-day appomted R. M. Hudeon, Eagq,, Jude? Of the Fourteenth Judicial Cirewt, composed of pw counties of Alleghany, Botetourt, Roanoke, Craig aad Giles. RETURN OF MAJOR CRNERAL TERE, Major Genera! Terry, United States Army, commanding the Department of Virginia, has returned to this city from his visit to the rebel works around Petersburg, and is quite ill this evening from the effects of a partial sun stroke which befell him during the inspection. VISIT TO THE AGAWAM, ‘ Major General John W. Turner, Colonel Edward W. Smith, Adjutant General, accompanied by several Indies, paid a visit this morning to the United States iron-clad steamer Agawam, Captain Richard Renshaw, United States Navy, commanding. The iNustrious party partook of luncheon on board, and inspected Captain Renshaw's admirable ship with much interest, The Agawam is now the flagship of Captain Renshaw in these waters. RESTORED. Captain E. H. Moore and Captain Thomas A. Davis, of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania cavalry, recently dismissed from the service of the United States, have been honor. ably restored by the President. These officers were con+ nected with the command of Major General N. M. Curtis at Lynchburg. THE PAYMASTRERY, Colonel Thaddeus H. Stanton bas been appointed fall Chief Paymaster of this Department, consisting of the States of Virginia and North Carolina, in piace of Colonel Amos Binney, lately holding this position, and now under arrest at Washington awaiting the fall report of Colonel Gibson, Inspector General of the Poy Department of the Unlted states, npon,whieh the final decision in bis case will be made. Colonel Stanton has demanded an investigation into bis affairs, and his entire exoneration from any complicity in the late unfortunate transaction is apparent from this new confidence reposed in him. The samo is aleo eminently trae of Major Joel A. Fithian, who succeeds Colone! Stanton as Chief Paymaster of this district, with headquarters in Richmond. Secretary McCulloch ie understood to be much disturbed about the late developments. NEW MATL ARRANGEMENTS of an important charactér are about to go into active Operation through the entire South. Serious diMouit ‘existe in the oath required to be subscribed to by all ‘oft. Core connected with the penal feeernems as commanded ST ea April and March, 1862 and 1868, the req of which Are especially exacting and rigid— the words wed in thie connection being “that the ap- Pett e have never voluntarily aided or abetted, coun- iced or «yinpathized with the rebellion.” . This pre- of vents appointmens being made. The Governors the ening away of the vy by recent rains, The will be an og ney and travel resumed over Bereafter be cued from Riehmond to Washington. ‘VIRGINIA BANKS. tained that certain banks date rebel money in banks. In view of the hg rule being worth something, even bh in rebel money, the present action of the cere seoms inexcusably unwarranted in receiving that which ig notorjously worthless. The Commissioners in their rt deprecate in emphatic terms all of this character, In other their report is iJ but flattering to the hopes bill or stockholders. ‘These statements embrace the freo as well as the banks. The Commissioners further recommend closing up of all banks in which the State has an interest, expenses being heavy and vaults unprofitable, and the substitution therefor of national banks. ANOTHER RAILROAD DISASTER. Collision Between Two Trains Near Dal- ton, Tenn.—A Number of Persons Killed and Seriously Injured, &. Cuarranooga, August 30, 1865. A wrecking train, which left this city this afternoon, bound south, when nearing Dalton, about dusk, came in collision with freight train No. 9, coming towards Chatta- nooga. A general wreck of matter ensued, the cars of both trains being demolished. Two dead bodies have been taken from the wreck, and it is certain that a num- ber more have been killed and seriously injured. Parties are now at work clearing away the wreck. been receiving up to made by the banks dur- The Long Island Railroad Accident. A SIMILAR OCCURRENCE ON THE SAME ROAD SEVEN- TEEN YEARS AGO, BTC., ETC. The inquest on the bodies of the victims by the late accident on the Long Island Railroad will be resumed at half-past ten o'clock this forenoon. In the meantime it will be interesting for the public and jury to consider the following account of a similar accident on the same road, which we condense from the Heraip of August 18, 1848:— A most melancholy accident oceurred on Wednesday morning on the Long Island Railroad, about four miles = west of Greenport. A train from Greenport and another from Jamaica collided on a curve four miles from the former place. The two locomotives, two tenders and two of the passenger cars were crushed together. Two per- sons were killed and five wounded. Suggestion to Railroad Superintendents. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New Yorx, August 31, 1965. | I wisn to make a sugggstion, through your columns, to | the managers of railroag.orporations, for the benefit of wounded passengers. Having been in threo different collisions, on.as many different railroads, when there were many killed anda great number in each collision wounded, and also being a soldier, and having my own leg shot off once and cut off three times, I think I know how to feel for my fellow beings. I would suggest that each train of cars carry a sufficient number of army | stretchers hanging upon the outside of the car—the same asthey are on an army ambulance—so they could be easily got at, and that the employes on the train should into a company or sqnad of stretcher car- the. conductor and engineer for officers (as they generally get off the train first and without being much hurt), and it. would save.agreat armount of suffering in removing the wounded from the wreek. I will give my reasons for making this suggestion. I was a passen- ger on the express train on the Long Island Railroad at the time of the collision on the 28th inst., and at the re- quest of ex Governor King and Captain Henry I superin. tended the removal of the wounded to the best of my ability I found a gentleman he name of Walker, with one leg badly crushed and rile broken, also a severe bruise on the eye...Some of the passengers were trying to carry him in their arms to the car that was waiting to take the wounded. to Jamaica, and Thad to insist with | foree that he should not be cafried in that way. I often wished for an, army. stretcher to lay the poor old Finally we gol a door and laid \car cushions upon it, but the. door was too wide to enter the cars and we hart'to wait until the engine could run down During this time E went kK and fond wveyne man by the name of erton, with both legs brokd; I told the bystanders to bring meacar door, and theavewor “We can't got one unless we break it off.” T said, “Break it off,” when onc of the employes of the road interfered and faid it must not be done, for it would damage the cur T tola him to bring ¢ door, then placed upon it and taken {om the The German who had leg crushed off near his body, and which was rely by thovendons, was carrieg on two rails with acyss them. It is sad, indeed, to have men Justled about in this way when a few army stretcherywould save them so much pain. W. H WALCOLT, Capt. United States Army. More Railrond Mismanageme: Frou the Philadelphia Inquirer, August 30.) On the eprees train of the ware and Raritan Bay Railroad, yhich left Long Branch on Monday Inst for Philadelplia, an accident occurred which even the most ordinary¢aution on the part of the company would have The season at the Branch having about el @ train was filled with passengers returning home, All of whom had thetr baggage stowed in tho bag: gage Ar, as they supposed, safely in charge of the per- tan @ployed for that purpose. There wero, of course, verymany huge Saratoga trunks, such as ladies aiways hgrdat watering places, Mled with expensive clothins, | aadin many iestan with jewelry and money, By | 4006 neglect the boxes of the car were not oiled before } arting, and becoming heated by the friction produced by the rapid revolution of the axles, they set fire to the car, which was soon wrapped in flames. The baggase master Wreanot at b's Dost, and the fire wax not discov ered until it had made such great headway that it was found impossible to extinguish it. The car was specdily detached from the train, however, and was almost co pletely bomed to ashes, little or none of {ts contents being savew Many of the passengers lost everything they possesed in the shape of clothing, It is to be hoped that taey will demand compensation from the Ths road is a branch of the Camden and nd Heems to be managed in pretty much the ner. Heavy Judqment Against a Rattroad, (From the Desatur (I1l,) Chronicle, August 25.) One of the mom interesting cases’ tried during the —_ torm of the Oecuii Court was that of M. & J. W. anworth verens the Goat Western Railroad. Plaintiff ued the yailroad compe for damages sustained by them ip dhe loss of holt Whehonse, burned Inst January, ged that the De originated from sparks nb by a paaolng tra tient hearing ered “a ie u for $5,240 20. This covers the los the ‘palitiogand machinery only, a separate suit havihe peen instituted for loss on grain burned at the samesime RECEPTION AT THE ASTOR HOUSE—Visir To THE PARK, ETC. The city bas of late been in various stage of excite ment over the presence of our distinguishet generale. Yesterday a large number of citizens assembed at the Astor House, anxious to catch sight of Major General Rousseau, who it was announced in yesterday's Yarauw would arrive in the city during the The Gen- eral travelled without other insignia of the soldier\pan the martial tread and bearing of lis stalwart figure, a few of the numbers who had fathered to greet bhp recognized the “Hero of Perryville” in his babiliment of peace. He is a stranger to the people of New York only in person. His deeds are remembered, and his name and fame are bright in their memories, He Is re- membered not less for bis brilliant achievement at Per. ryville and bis gallant conduct at Shiloh and Stone river than for hie dignified and patriotic course in 1861—for his firm and ancompromising warfare against Kentucky neutrality in 1861 and Kentucky slavery in 1565. His late bold and manly race for Congress in Kentucky, in which his personal popularity overcame a heavy party majority acainst him, is till fresh in the minds of the people as the most encouraging sign of returning reason on the part of “our deluded brethren,” and‘as affording good reason to hope that they are henceforth going to choose similarly sterling men for their leaders, Many of our most distinguished citizens called upon the General yesterday. At an early hour he was visited and welcomed to the city by W. M. Evarts, Feq., who remained with him during the greater part of the morn ing. Hon. John H. Clifford, Attorney General of Massa chusetta, and others, also paid their respecte. In the afternoon thie General visited the Park, and wae an moch pleased as astonished at the prodigality with whieh New Yorkers have enriched their favorite public work . General Roursean is to leave the city thie morning by the Albany boat. He is returning to Tennessee to for mally relinquish bis command of the District of Nash- ville, preliminary to bis return to civil life and political e CONTINUATION OF THE INQUEST ON MARY RLIZA- BRTH RRICBBON. Coroner Gover yesterday continued bie investigation into the cause of the Arrow explosion. Mr. David D. Smith, one of the owners of the Arrow; Mre, Margaret Van Tassel, Captain John Faunce, Mr. Joel W. Hopper, Mr. J. T._Bartholf and Mr. Alfred Conklin were ex. Hemen before Coroner , Se Bee th DAVIS AND WIRZ. ee eee ae Jeff.’s Repudiation of the An- dersonville Jailor. The Story Said to be Unfounded in Truth, Boston Corbett’s Testimony to be Rejected by the Commission. The Andersonville Prison Records Missing. DESCRIPTION OF W1IRZ. &. &ke, &. Our Fortress Monroe Despatch. Fortress Moyroe, Angust 30, 1865, ‘A paragraph has worked iiself into the papers stating that a person high in military authority has(just bad a conversation with Jeff. Davis, wherein the latter, among other things he had to say, disclaimed any acquaintance with the notorious Captain Wirz or knowledge of the inhuman treatment to which our prisoners at Anderson- ville were subjected. If the object of this paragraph is to clear the skirts of Jeff. Davis of implication in the charge of inhumanity to our prisoners in advance of his trial, it might possibly accomplish that purpose were there any truth in its statements. Except General Miles and the officers on guard duty no officers have had any conversation with Jeff. Davis or been allowed to visit him, One of President Johnson’s sons had addhg inter- view with him a few days since, and ne is. the only civi- lian to whom this privilege has been conceded, and his conversation was limited to general inquiries as to bie health and how prison life agreed with him, Our Washington Despatch. Wastixcron, August 31, 1865. THE DEAD LINE AT ANDERSONVILLE. It is understood that Wirz to-day placed in the hande of his counsel voluminous documentary evidence to- prove that in establishing the dead ling within the fa- mous Andersonville prison yard and shooting of prison- ers who crossed it, he in the first instance acted under the direct orders of the rebel General Winder, and more latterly by emphatic orders of J, A. Seddon, rebel Sec- retary of War. BOSTON CORBETT’S TESTIMONY. The Commission now trying Wirz have decided to reject. the testimony of Sergeant Boston Corbett, which ap- peared in the record of the Court two days th’s week, om the ground that he is a monoraniac npon the subject of the cruelties practised at Andersonville. THE WINES? TO ME RXAMINED Judge Advocate Chipman to-day was engaged in classi- fying the witnesses for the government in the Wirz trial. Many of those heretofore subpcenaed will be dispensed with, and only the more important oues will be held for examination. The trial will be resumed to-mérrow. THE ANDERSONVILLE PRISON RECORDS. The records of the Andersonville prison, captured by General Wilson and furnished to the expedition sent to Andersonville by order ofWecretary Stanton to lay out a cemetery and marche graves of our soldiers who died in the prison at that place, have turned up missing since the return of the party. One of the clerks of the Quartermaster’s Department who accompanied the ex- pedition; and in whose bands the records wore last seen, has been placed under arreet by the military suthorities until he can give a satisfactory account of the disposi tion he made of them. It is thought by some that if the records were stolem instead of being lost, it was for the purpose of prevent. ing them being used as evidence against Wirz, she keoper of Andersonville prison, now being tried by court martial. Mr. Kennedy, late of the Census Bureaa, is condition- ally offered the presidency of the United States Tele- graph Company, at a salary of five thousand dollars per annam Persona! Appearance of Wt (Washington (August 25) correspondence of tht jicago Trioume } Henry Wirz is a Swiss by birth, and has an unmistaka- dle foreign air and manner. In the early part of the war he did duty at Richm where he was simply known as a low bred and vuleattreawure, who had no ax sociation with the so-call d gentlemen of society or of the army, Afterwards Le went to Europe on secret ser- vice business for the rebel State Department. What the business was if not definitely known; but some facts point to the conclusion that it was in counection with one of Benjamin's schemes for raising troops ainong the a. of Poland, Germany and other central States of urope. After his return to this country Wirs,was, for a time, on detached service in Orleans, In the early part of 1864, within four or five months after the estab- lishinent of the Andersonville prison, he turned up as commandant of that institution —a fit tool for the hellish aint of the Winders, who were his immediately superior: officers. i Wirz isa man apparently about forty-two or forty- three years of age, five feet nin> inches in height, and weighing not from one bundred and thirty-five pounds. He is somewhat round shouldered, and never walke or stands fn an erect povture, fo that le appears scarcely taller Han men who measure but five tect six or seven inches, There is no clastie ty or springiness im h »; but Me shuffles along as if shunning observa his ld silk ha€ ay if he feared the crowd through which bo passes to and frym the place of confinement. It gives one nade UItthy vo wre, that aarp r4 Creed ashe. can go wack and forch without sutféring any iimult, He Wears @ cheap black cloth coat, which jc always buttoned, an old date vest, and reddish brown f soine ribbed or barred ste, His abows are such » called here office slippers. Slovenliness and general untidiness seem natural to him, though he is not specially repulsive Om that ‘ Fis handt are long, bony and ch given to using the right with finger fended nnd the last two and the them abut fingers into the palm—elving him a sort of prim and ime air that no other maniiestation of character that he hig yet made seems to justify. The ceneral angularity of the man may be due to coninement without exercise, or may te hile natural cond'tion ; but the brown and Jeathory character of higakin i# clearly enough its normal condi ton, and makes his face noticeable on this account, if for no other. He wears a full whisker and moustache, cut to about half an inch im length, and go trained as to conceal the contour of his mouth, His hair is of dark vrown color. His head is long and narrow, high over te ears, Wanting in the upper forehead, noticeably def cit behind, and full about the outstanding care He Deyne to be bald in front. His face is thin, angular and flestiess; high and narrow in the forehead, fall over tho eyedand hollow in the cheeks, with aplifted eyebrows, smalland sharp nose, and keen, brown, ae L The man attracts ‘in spite of himself. Mecting him carelesly on the street one would set him down as tnker of watches and clocks—a man without mental capacity but of mechanical ‘skill. Moreover, I can take on into the roome of the Coast Survey and mateh you Ti crant manner and some of his peoullaritios of ac- the ty the engravers employed there. Seeing his peculiar eye at a moment when he would naturally bo stirred by some feeling, and you would gay he wor- shipped the violin and was in the orchestra of @ theatre, where he played with passionate self-absorption. While there is nothing pleasant or agreeable about the man, it keome impossible that he could, of his own choice, ini ate the system of cruelty he so ‘and 80 mercilessly practised there. There is DO evi of good and worthy manhood about him, and he might be great rascal of choice; but he did, it would fe in a low and sneaking style, The he has achieved cannot be ly hie own. He looke like & man without conscience and untroubled with remorse, Given one of two conditions and he would shoot a man with ag little feeling ae a dog. I doabt not he was ambitious of the will and the fellowship of the Wind her, son ard nephew—who were su) reat the They are of the “ gentlemen,” thou ~ ep 3 is