The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD.| JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. t a AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, vax Wios.ow Wepping. BROADWAY THEATRE, roadway. —Macsern. ROWERY THEATRE, bowory.—Mvstenixs or Can- noo Ansxy—Dick or Deatu. NEW BOWERY THEATER: piae's Rerorx—Goon ror No URVING HALL, Irving place.—Anremus Warp Amon rus Monmons. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ermiortax Sonas, Dances, &c.—Tax Cuatiunar Dance—Tatent Ar- preeoiaTe, £0, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Motropolitan Hotel. —Eauiorian Sinutng, Darcie, 0.— Tax Wise Ceciar. Bowery. —Ornz..0—Sou- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sina- ina, Dancrng, BuRuesques, &¢.—Et Nino Enpir—Ser- vants BY LEGACY. AMERICAN THEATRE, No, 44 Broadway.—Eruiorian MinsTReLsY—BALLETs, PanTowmmes, BUKLESQUES, &c.—Tas Coorens; on, Taw Maco FLUeE. BLITZ NEW HALL, 720 Broadway.—Pacace or [u.u- s10N—Leaunup Caxary Binps—Ventaivogyism, &0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open from 10 A. M. ull10 1", M. “New York, Sa ” NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. y, September 3, 1865. OFFICIAL. Year Ending Name of Paper. May 1, 1865. HIBGALD, oso cose cose see's 05 8 aisle as vue $1,095,000 ‘Times. 368,150 ‘Tribune. 252,000 Evening Post 169,427 World... 0505 100,000 Ses... h5 - 151,079 Express se. 90,648 New York Heratp. seaeee eee ee eM§1,095,000 Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined. 871,229 TRIAL OF WIRZ. The proceedings of the Wirz court martial yesterday were exceedingly interesting. A number of witnesses were examined, their statements furnishing additional evidence of the horrors of the Andersonville prison pen and the guilt of its inhuman keeper. Further testimony was adduced regarding the hunting of the prisoners with 48, the ironing and starving of them, and their being shot dead for the most trivial offences and no offences at testifled to seeing a man who in ly stretched his arm acrozs the dead all. One witne: his sleep vneons Vn» instantly shot, and similar cases were not rare. Mr. Davidson, bolonging to an lowa cavalry regiment, testi- fied that he had been deputed to drive the dead cart. Sometimes twenty-five wore thrown into it at once. They were buried in trenches only about two feet and a ualf deep, some with clothes on and Some naked, On oue occasion one hundred and fifty Once, when the witness'and Wirz were together in the graveyard, the letter remarked that he was killing more national sol- Giers there than Lee was at Richmond, A return of the prison for the month of Angust last, signed by General ‘Winder and Wirz, was produced in court. It shows that there were confined there during that month thirty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty men,, of whom three thousand dicd. The remarks of Wirz at- tached to this statement are interesting, showing, over his own signature, the cool barbarity of the man in regard to hunting the escaped with hounds, and indicat- dng that many of the rebel soldiers, tounched by the hhorrid condition of their captives, were loth to assist in proventing their eseapé, The court will not be in sessjon Bgain til! Tuesday next. Captain R. B, Winder, son of the deceased rebel Gen- wral Winder, whose name is among those indicted with ‘Wirz for inhuman treatment of imprisoned national soldiers, was arrested at Drummondtown, Virginia, on Thursday last, and sent to Washington under guard to await the disposition of the military authorities, THE NEWS. ‘Tho steamship Morning Star, from New Orleans on tlio 2eub ult., arrived here at an early hour this morning. She does not bring any news of importance. The eflicial statement of the public debt on the Ist inst, Las boon issued from the Treasury Department, and 8 resumé of it appears in our paper this morning. The total debt |s $2,757,689,571, on which the yearly intercet is $18,031,620. The debt has been increased only by two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars since the Slat of July last. Secretary of the Treasury MeCulloch yesterday issued his official order in conformity with the President's last proclamation removing restrictions on trade with the Southern =tates. It will be remembered that Provisional Governor Shar- key, of Mississippi, recently issued a proclamation di- rocting the formation of one company of cavalry and one of infantry militia In each county of the State, with the professed object of putting a stop to the prevalent out- lawry of the guerilla bands. It appears, however, that Gonoral Slocum, commanding in Mississippi, thought ‘bat this looked very much like the rearming of the Bouth, and that the Governor was getting on a little too fast. The General has therefore ordered that no such military organizations be formed anywhere in the State, and that all citizens having arms shall at once surrender them to the national officers. Provisional Governor Parsons, of Alabama, has issued 8 proclamation, instructing the people how to proceed in regard to taking the cath of allegiance and preparing Bhomsolves to become eligible to vote for members of 9 Btate convention or to serve as delegates in the same, 7 also alludes to the lawlessness which is so prevalent Bin tho Stato, and tells the offenders that if they do not stop their criminal conduct voluntarily he will call upon tho military, who will compel them to do so. The Grand Jury of Maryland on Thursday returned in- ictments for treason against Bradicy T. Johnson, George Froaner, John G. Howard, Thomas Fitzhugh and Henry G. Gilmor, the guorilia, The indictment against Jobn- son ia for levying war, with others, against the United States, especially on the 18th of June, 1863, in Washing- ton county, Md., and in capturing aud taking possession of Gettysburg. Advices from the republic of San Domingo to the 8th of August report that the Spanish troops have flually completed their evacuation, and that the Dominicans fre now in undisputed possession of all their territory. ‘The previous announcement of the deposition of Gen- eral Pimental as President or Chief, and the appoint- ‘mont of General Cabral as Protector, is confirmed. A mational convention was to be convened for the purpose ‘of taking moasures to form a permanent government. | A correspondent sends us some interesting statements {in regard to the proposed emigration from our Southern Btates to the rich and magnificent empire of Brazil. ‘About twenty agents of various Southern States sailed Mor Rio Janoiro on the 12th ult,, to make an examination bf Dom Pedro's dominions, and return and report on thoir advantages for the setuement of Southerners, (Dur correspondent estimated that upwards of fifty thou- of our Southern countrymen are now ready to emi ad thither, and, should the reports of those agents be worable, he gives it as his belief that this number will poo greatly exceeded. \ A mooting of the several city officials compoising the Cloaning Commission was held yesterday in the Mayor's office, when considerable discussion took place in jrogard to the official notification from Governor Fenton, tpublished in yesterday's Hrnaco, summoning the reveral gmombers to appear before him in Albany, on the 20th Inat,, to angwor to certain charges of offictal misconduct ; put no uniform course of action was decided upon. { A collision occurred on last Tuesday evening on the [Lake Shore Railroad, betwoen a passenger and a freight brain, while rounding © curve, owing, it seems, to the Woalre of thoge havips charge of thelatter to gain a little Dodios were put in a single trench. OND Se SC Sn NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER: 3, ‘1806. time. Severat persons wore injured and the cars were weil smashed up; but no one, it ia aad, was killed. ‘The baggage car of the passonger train trom the wost- ward on the New York Contral Railroad duo in Albany at seven o’cloak last evening waa thrown from the track by the breaking of an axle, killing one person instantly and injuring three or four others. The verdict, or rather verdicts—for thore was — sories of seven separate aud distinct renditions—of tho coro- ner’s jury at Jamaica, L. I, mn regard to the collision on the Long Island Railroad on Monday last, betwoon the mail train from Hunter's Pointand an express train from Greenport, by which five persons were killed and seve- ral others injured, wore submitted at an early hour yes- terday morning. Tho first vordict tm order is signed by seven members of the jury, and charges the catastrophe to tho caraleasnoss of R J. Race, conductor of the mail train, and James White, engineer of the express train, and the second, signed by tem jurors, censures Oliver Charlick, president of tho railroad company, as indi- reotly reaponsible, owing to the careless manner in which the trains aro run. The third, fourth and fifth renditions are signed by one juror cach. The third divides the blame between the two engineers and two conductors of both trains; the fourth lays it all on Daniel F. Chase, engineer of the mail train, and the fifth places the onus on Louis C, Sands, conguctor, and James White, ongincer, of the express train, and en- tirely exonerates the conductor and engineer of the mail trail, which latter gentlemen, however, are de- nounced as the real culprits in the sixth verdict, signed by four jurors, who also make some rather vague recommendations as to the observance of more regularity in running trains, The seventh verdict is the produc- tion of two jurors who: doclined voting on tho general mismanagement of the road, as they considered it an improper ‘question for them to report upon. These soveral renditions present rather a complicated state of the cage, The only one in which anything like una nimity is approached is that censuring Mr. Charliok, the railroad president, signed by ten membors. There have been two coroner's inquisitions relative to the late fatal collision on the Oil Creek Railroad, in Penn- sylvania, another of the injured passengers having died soon after the termination of the first examination. The jury in the second investigation rendered a verdict that the slaughter was caused by the culpable negligence of the conductor and engineer of one of the trains, and that the president and directors of the road, by refusing to furnish sufficient accommodations for passongers, wore criminally responsible, and they concluded by request- ing the coroner to issue warrants for the arrest of all these persons. Up to last Sunday night twenty-seven dead bodies had been recovered from where they were embedded in the mud and water by the catastrophe of the 25th ult. at Richland creck, on the Tennoesee and Alabama Railroad, and it was supposed that a considerable additional num- ber were still among the rains. The application to release on bail James F. Oram, charged with killing, on the 30th of June last, by shooting him with a pistol, Mr. Van Doren, a weigher and gauger, of Beaver street, was yesterday granted by Judge Suther- land, of the Supreme Court, in chambers, and the amount of bail was fixed at twenty-five thousand dollars. There were no new appointments of subordinate officials yesterday in the Custom House, as many anticipated, in consequence of the installation of the new Collector on the previous day; but fourteen of the special detectives employed to prevent contraband com- merce with tho lately rebellious States were discharged, their services being no longer needed. Just this little piece of official pruning will save the government about twenty thousand dollars a year. The new Naval Officer, Mr. Odell, caused a notice to be posted in his department apnouncing that all clerks who may be absent from their desks during business hours will be considered as having vacated their positions. A communication was yesterday received from Gover- nor Fenton by Colonel Colyer, Superintendent of the State Soldiers’ Depot in Howard street, removing the latter from his position, in consequence of the necessities growing out of the war having 80 greatly lessened as to render his services no longer requisite, and directing him to turn over the property and official papers of the estab- lishment to the corresponding secretary, who is to act as temporary superintendent. ‘The captain of the brig William Carey, which arrived at the lower quarantine yesterday, reports picking up, on the Ist inst., a man-of-war’s boat, containing a sword, a case of surgical instruments, an overcoat, a carpet bag, a pair of shoes and socks with the name of Philip White marked on them, These articles are now on board the brig; but it has not been ascertained to what vessel they belonged. Probably they are relics from the government steamer Commodore McDonough, which sank at sea on the 23d ult., while being towod from Hilton Head, 8. C., for this port, by the steamer Donegal. Major General Meade, at present commander of the Military Division of the Atlantic, arrived in Charleston, ‘8. C., on Thursday last, accompanied by General Gill- more and several members of his staff. Jeff. Davis, who has recently been suffering somewhat from @ second attack of erysipelas, is said in our Fort- ress Monroe correspondence to be now considerably re- covered. He took his customary walk outside of the casemate on Thursday last for the first time in four days. Nothing positive is yet publicly known regarding when or where Jeff. is to be tried. Robet E. Lee, late rebel General-in-Chief, one of our Richmond correspondents states, is now engaged in writing a history of the war. He is living.in obscurity with a friend, on a farm in Cumberland county, Virginia. William Allen, of Richmond, said to be the wealthiest man in Virginia, has, it is said, been pardoned by the President. Railroad communication is now complete between ‘Washington and Bristol, in East Tennessee, by way of Staunton and Lynchburg, Va. A coroner's inquest was held on Friday last in relation to the triple tragedy in South Dedham, Massachusetts, early on that morning, wherein Mrs, Susannah Marston, wife of Dr. Marston, while in a fit of insanity, shot dead her husband, her daughter and herself. A full account of the terrible affair appears in another portion of this morning's Henaup. Coal is coming forward heavily from the Schuylkill region. There arrived at Philadelphia from that section, during the week ending on Thursday last, by the Read- ing Railroad and the Schuyikill Navigation, one hundred and thirty-sevon thousand and three hundred tons, being an increase over the corresponding week of last year of over thirty-two thousand tons. The stock market was heavy yesterday, but a sudden rise in Erie took place late in the afternoon. Gold closed at 1445. Saturday was, as usual, a quiet day in mercantile cir- cles, and the disinclination to purchase was rendered more apparent by the recession of gold from the ex- treme rate quoted on Friday. Foreign merchandise, though generally quiet, was very firm, and many articles were held higher. The movement in groceries was fair, and prices were a shade firmer. Cotton was steady. Petroleum was quiet. On 'Change flour and grain were heavy and a shade lower. Pork was dull and lower. Whiskey was higher. Sovurnern Watres anp Biacks—GovERNMENT Rartons.—It seems that at most of the army de- pots of the South there is a much larger pro- portion of poor whites depending upon gov- ernment rations than of the poor blacks. These differences, however, in favor of the blacks may be easily explained. They have been ac- customed to work and to live on a moderate allowance; and comparatively a small propor- tion of the families of the blacks have lost their natural protectors by the war. On the other hand, the Southern “poor whites,” always shiftless set, have been turned completely adrift by the war, and most of their husbands and fathers have been devoured or disabled by that insatiable Moloch, the rebel army. This is ap- parent from the large proportion of South- ern poor white widows, who with their starving children have been driven to the last resort of government rations. To this helpless class of the Southern people we would call the attention of our Nofthern female philanthropists of the abolition school, The Southern blacks have plenty of Northern friends to look after them; but these destitute Southern white wo- men and obildrep have no other resource than government rations. Tux New Excrrement in Watt, Stneet— ‘That in and around the Custom House, among the office holders and office seekers. It eclipses Ketchum. The Financial Disorder—The Remedy and Its Necessity. In surgery there is an axiom to the effect that desperate cases call for dosperate remo dios, This can be applied to the body politic as well as to the body corporate. We have no desire that the American people should earn the reputation throughout the civilized world of being a nation of swindlers and gamblers. Successful in war, as well aa in all the peaceful and productive arta and sciences, we wish America to become no less celebrated for her financial and commeroial system and its opera- tions. And should the tourniquet be promptly and vigorously applied—with a sharp turn of the wrist, if necessary, that should almost am- putate the limb in which the defect existe—this might in due time be all accomplished. The late revelations in Wall street, the Ketoh- um, Windsor and Jenkina cases, and the hun- dreds of other similar instances of financial dis- order and peoulation, which, from their insignifi- cance as regards the sums involved, have never been paraded before the public in the news- papers, are sufficient in themselves to convince the most zealous believer in the virtue of our present financial system that there is actually and truly a wrong to redress, an evil to correct, something rotten to be purified, matter for re- generation, and general fumigation in this city and elsewhere, which will qdmit of no delay, but needs the immediate application of the tourniquet or the soalpel—and both, if neces- sary—to the end of the positive cure of this money scabies which has broken out and is rapidly corrupting the entire continent. The use of spies and detectives is not gene- rally to be commended, excepting in rare and imminent instances. This is one of these in- stances, andif in no other manner can the great frauds daily perpetrated in the matters of insurance and banking be prevented, and their perpetrators circumvented and sacrificed on the altar of justice, let these lesser evils be brought to bear upon them, and we shall sce a conflict which cannot but result in great good to the vitally interested spectators. This higher law has already been brought to bear upon people who insure their perishable pro- perty in any of the insurance companies included within the limits of the metropolitan dis- trict. We have now to recommend its applica- tion in the case of all the banking institutions within the same boundaries. It is unnecessary to enter into the particulars of the proposed remedial institution. They will readily suggest themselves to the intelligent reader. It might be called the Bankers’ Protective Association, or the People’s Protective Association—or it might even go without a name, if it only proved successful and useful. It should have for its end and aim the proper selection of all paying tellers, receiving tellers, bookkeepers and Clerks employed in ajl the banks of the city—a particular branch being included which should carefully watch over and report upon the con- duct, without and within, during business hours and when recreating, of every man and boy engaged in the business of handling the public cash, too much of which now finds its way into unmerited and improper channels for the safety of the people to whom it belongs. Anything were better than criminal inactivi- ty. There is nothing like trying. Torpidity is the next kin of death. It was laziness which brought rebellion and four years of devastat- ing and consuming civil war upon this coun- try. Had James Buchanan possessed the spirit of a man, had he been alert, alive, active, energetic, the war and its deplorable concomi- tants might have been nipped‘in the bud and the confederacy crushed before its birth. Let this financial disorder be probed to the bot- tom. Let the hand be steady, but determined, and the thing may be brought to a sudden ter- mination before we are ruined past redemp- tion. Buchanan slept in fancied security while the secession scorpion was thawing out at his hearthstone. We are threatened with a snake equally destructive. Let us turn upon it in season, that it may not gain strength and eventually die only after having sacrificed the vital interests of the nation. Proper attention to the education of our young men who are intended for the financial profession—tor “as the twig is bent the tree will incline”’—proper attention after entering the banking houses; the payment on the part of the bankers of living salaries, but not ex- orbitantly high ones—for the man who will steal a small sum on asmall salary will steal more upon a large income; and a perfect un- derstanding among the employed that their every action, day and night, is under strict sur yeillance, will soon bring this pervading criminal cycle to a termination, and jnaugurate upon its ashes the era of peace financial and social security, which at present appears only in the dim distance. Distrust, theft and roguery, which for so long a time have held high carnival in the metropolis, will be con- signed to oblivion, it is to be hoped never to hear the trump calling them to resurrection. Tue Movex Sotprmer—Geverat Grant's Vin- pication or Genera Honter.—In the New York Citizen of yesterday, and in Colonel Hal- pine’s interesting and instructive report of “General Hunter's raid up the Shenandoah” Valley last summer, we find a letter from Gene- ral Grant, dated “City Point, Va., July 15, 1864,” to C. A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War, which puts a new face upon the military value of said raid. It will be remembered that at the time, looking simply at the repulse of General Hunter from Lynchburg, and his en- forced retreat across the difficult and provision- less mountains of West Virginia to the Ohio river, that expedition by the general voice of the press was pronounced « blunder and a disastrous failure. General Grant, it now ap- pears, when the facts become known, was not only satisfied with what Hunter had done, but was annoyed at the unjust criticisms from which his subordinate was suffering, and promptly stepped forward to his vindication. Thus, in the letter referred to, General Grant says, “I am sorry to see such a disposition to condemn a brave old soldier, as General Hun- ter is known to be, without a hearing. He is known to have advanced into the enemy's country towards their main army, inflicting » much greater damage upon them than they, with double his force, have inflicted upon us, and they moving directly away from our main army;” and finally, that “I fail to see yet that General Hunter has not acted with great promptness and great success.” That was General Grant’s opinion at the time, and that will do. But in what bold and beautiful relief stands the great champion of the Union, as the model soldier, in this affair, as in evervthing else! What the newspapers were saying to his own prejudice, while busy in the field, nover troubled him; but he could not remain silent when a subordinate officer was, in bis opinion, unjustly prejudged. Gen- eral Grant, too, in these things has always tempored his justice with generosity, and in that delicate way which has never failed of the happiest results, as General’ Meade, General Sherman, General Warren and a host of other distinguished officers oan testify. In all the numerous qualifications of the model soldier the world bas furnished but few examples to compare with General Grant. The Last Now Discovery—Magnoetic Storms im the Ascendant. An ingenious theory has been concocted by the Britishers'to account for thelr last failure to lay an ‘Atlantic cable. It was not another piece of wire thrust into the gutta percha, nor any flaw in the eable itself, that caused the ac- cident. Nothing of the kind. Professor Airy and the big wigs of the Greenwich Observa- tory have discovered that tho loss of insulation was the result, simply and solely, of a mag- netic storm. The idea is so good we wonder it did not occur to somebody before. Now we come to think it over, it is surprising how im- portent a part magnetic storms play, not only in the success of cables, but, in the fate of em- pires. A magnetic storm of considerable. violence seems just now to be raging in Prussia. The pig-headed King and his obstinate hench- man are troubled by a sudden loss of conduc- tivity. The Prussian Chambers strangely re- fuse to respond to the signals from the throne. The most powerful Bismarck batteries have no effect upon them. They won’t pass the esti- mates without knowing what they are for. They won't let the King have his own- way with the army. They won’t give up their no- tions of increased constitutional liberty. In fact, a complete loss of insulation is apparent. There are magnetic currents circulating in Austria. The traditional policy of half a cen- tury and more has been changed in a few days. The Metternichian plan of Germanizing all the ten or twelve nationalities included in the Austrian empire has been suddenly aban- doned. It is no longer the impe- rial policy to trample out every spark of patriotism in Hungarian, Pole or Sclave. Wiser and more liberal counsels have been adopted, and a constitutional reform of the Austrian empire haz been commenced just in time to save it from utter bankruptcy and ruin. A magnetic storm has long occupied the wires in Mexico. The good-humored, well- meaning Archduke, whom French bayonets hoisted into the Halls of the Montezumas, finds himself in a worse plight than his brother, the Kaiser. What little conductivity there was between himself and the people he was thrust upon to govern has been lost by his rupture with the Pope; and the complete severance of the Franco-Mexican cable may be daily’ ex- pected. There are strong magnetic currents at pre- sent in France, where similar phenomena have often been experienced. The French people are beginning to learn that when they changed King Log for Emperor Stork they did not very much mend their position. The slightest move- ment sets the electric needle oscillating. It the Emperor catches a cold in his head violent de- flections ensue; anda rumor that the Prince Imperial has got the measles is sufficient to bring down rentes with a run. Electric currents of dangerous power are quivering through the length and breadth of Spain. Prim, Espartero and other liberal leaders are directing a movement which will shake to the foundations a dynasty built up upon bigotry, foreign intervention and the tra- ditions of the past. England has had a shock or two of the uni- versal storm. The British aristocracy have woke up tothe fact that the “bubble democracy” about which they were so fond of prating has not burst. They find the republic at whose obsequies they hoped to assist, and the institu- tions whose downfall they heralded, more vigorous and powerful than before. Their dreams are troubled by phantom Alabamas and Shenandoahs. Their waking hours are perplexed by demands tor reform and demo- cratic institutions. Canada lies heavy upon them as a nightmare, and confronting them they see a great country whose friendship they scouted with a sham neutrality, and whose in- tegrity they did their utmost to destroy. The effect of the electric current on the rebel sym- pathizing preas has been singularly eccentric. The London Times has changed its réle, and in- stead of sneering at and misrepresenting us, now belards its criticisms with fulsome praise. Even the London Saturday Review, hitherto the coarsest and most unscrupulous enemy of America, next to the tory Herald, now finds it expedient to praise American statesmanship. The papers that have yielded a timid support to our cause daily grow bolder. The London Examiner, one of the ablest of the lot, in a re- cent issue strongly condemned the decision of the English Chancery Court in the case of the rebel cotton, and declared the case to be, what it really was, a barefaced attempt to obtain payment for the rebel cotton bonds. Thus all over Europe the magnetic current has been felt in a greater or less degree. But its full power has yet to be experienced. When President Johnson has got through with the re- construction of the South, when Maximilian has retired quietly from Mexico, and Canada has accepted her manifest destiny and come over the border, there will be such a magnetic storm emanating from this vast republic as will over- throw half the despotisms of Burope and bring many a crowned head to grief. Magnetic storm, forsooth! Magnetic hurricane! Emroration to Brazit.—We learn that the tide of emigration setting towards Brazil is becoming every day more and more deep and general. These emigrants are mostly from the Southern States, who are leaving their deso- lated homes for the rich and fertile regions of South America. Among the number are some fifteen or twenty Southerners, who sail on Monday next in the steamship Montana for Rio Janeiro. One of these gentlemen is the agent of over a thousand families, who propose colonizing in Brazil, should his report be favor- able. This ig a very curious and interesting movement. The pride of many of the South- erners will not brook the social condition of things as the war has left their section of the country. They abhor the idea of political equality with their formor slaves; and rather than submit to it they would expatriate them- selves altogether. Many have come North to dwoll, as they say, among the mastors or the country; while others, as we see, pro- pose to go atill further south, where they can raise cotton, coffee, sugar, indigo, &c., and, at the same time, become the heads of a servile system not unlike that which has been abol- ished by the war. We shall watch the pro- gress of this movement with much iatorost. New Sreausare Loma—Lacx ov Earasreue 1x New Yorx.—We have previously taken 00- casion to call the attention of our commercial men, in order to sustain the honor of New York ' in a maritime point ef view, to the necessity of establishing a line of steamahips of unsurpassed dimensions and accommodations between this oity and some of the principal Buropean aea- ports; and we have also endeavored to impress upon the different railroad corporations that depend upon New York for their existence that it would be to their interest also to aid in the building of ships that would be second to none that now float upon the ocean. The only American line of Atlantic steamers now established, we believe, is that recently started by the- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, which is to comprise four vessels, of twelye hundred tons each, to ply. semi-monthly between Baltimore and Liverpool. There is another line, however, in contemplation by the merchants of Boston. The vessels of this, new enterprise, which will run between the last named city and Liverpool, are to: be three deck propellers, of three thousand tons each, three |: hundred and twenty-five feet long, forty-three feet wide and twenty-nine decp. The contract tor the construction of two of them has, we be- lieve, already been closed. We do not wish to be understood as intimat- ing that the port of New York will be likely to suffer for the want of lines of splendid steam- ships between here and Europe, for there are certainly no finer vessels in the world than those which pass Sandy Hook almost every day in the year loaded with freight and passengers going to or coming from the different commer- cial cities of Europe; but they are all owned and managed by foreigners. And the fleet, large as it is, will soon be augmented, for we see that others are to be constructed, which will even eclipse those now in service. A pros- pectus has been issued in London for a new fortnightly steam line between this city and Southampton, with vessels of four thousand tons each. The title of the corporation is to be the Transatlantic Steamship Company, and it is to have a capital of eight hundred thousand pounds sterling, or nearly four millions of dollars. The prospectus says that the vessels are to be constructed to carry one hundred first class, one hundred and twenty second class, and six hundred steerage passengers, together with two thou- sand tons of freight, and to make the passage in ten days. The designers of the new com- pany also intend to have two subsidiary steamers, of about six hundred tons each, to connect the service at Southampton with Lon- don, Antwerp and Havre. It appears that the enterprise is to be supported by the London and Southwestern Railway, the Southampton Dock Company, the Royal Mail Steamship Com- pany, and the Hampshire Banking Company. Our object in thus calling attention to these movements is to endeavor to awaken the latent enterprise of our commercial men, and to show them that the trade of this port is likely to be monopolized by European capitalists. There is no reason why this should be permitted, and we again call upon our enterprising moneyed men and railroad companies to do something to save the reputation of New York as a mari- time city, and show the world that.we are not to be beaten in enterprise, and that our ship- builders cannot be surpassed in their know- ledge and skill in naval architecture. Atianta Looxixa Ur Acaty.—One of our correspondents in the South, writing from the ruins of Atlanta, Georgia, says that “it seems to be the great centre of attraction tor emigrants from the North,” looking about for a “loca- tion;” that “building lots among the ruins sell now for one-half more than they commanded before the war,” and that “one piece of ground upon which stood a large hotel, which was of- fered, building and all, for fifty thousand dol- lars before the war, is now held by the owner at eighty thousand, with no building, it having shared the fate of many others when Sherman paid his respects to the place.” This only shows that “the Yankees” have discovered the business advantages of Atlanta as a central focus of the railroad system of Georgia. South- ern cities and towns, for trading purposes, will be the first to attract Northern emigrants making haste to be rich; but other men, look- ing to the future and the settlement of their children, under « fine climate and with the solid elements of wealth in their possession, will establish themselves upon some choice farm or plantation of the thousands that may now be secured in the South for a few dollars an acre, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. In this view we would especially urge the ad- vantages of the South in behalf of some joint stock movements between the capitalists and the crowded and suffering population of New York and other great Northern cities. Tae Misswssirri Restoration Evectiox.—On the first Monday in October an election will be held in Mississippi, under her new free State constitution, for a regular Governor and other State officers, &c., a Legislature and members of the federal House of Representatives. On the third Monday in October the Legislature is to meet, and all local officers are to be sworn in. Thus Mississippi, one of the last of the re- bellious States to be subdued, will probably be the first of the cotton region to be fully rein- stated as a loyal member of the Union. Wrz anp His Covunsgt.—It is difficult to see what answer can possibly be made in Wirz’s case to the damning evidence given against him every day. That evidence develops a sys- tematic cruelty so horrible in its circumstances asto be hardly credible, and that is yet well established on the testimony of any number of unimpeachable witnesses, It there is any point of knowledge that is beyond doubt, it is the treatment of our men at Andersonville by this wretch, whose acts remove him from the pale of human sympathy. That the men were tor- tured for months by the disregard on the part of their jailor of all the necessary conditions of human life; that they were wantonly murdered; that they were reduced to such @ condition as to extinguish in the breaste of many even the last spark of manly dignity, and that Wirz gloated over and gloried in all this, is positive and beyond doubt, Is it not very strange, then, to hear counsel endéavor to represent Wirz as an injured innocent? The evident hopeless ness of Wire's case has caused it to be twice given up by counsel ; for, though the counsel pretends that it abandoned the case for oiher reasons, the real one, it seems to os, is that the evidence against him is so terrible that a por tion of the odium must necessarily fall upom whoever attempts to defend such barbarity IMPORTANT FROM ST. DOMINGO. Nows of the Cabral Revolution Confirmed. The Dominicans in Full Possession of Their Territory. THE REPUBLIC TO BE REORGANIZED. he. ae. ke. Later advices Crom St. Domingo, to tho 8th ulti, confirm the previous news of the appointmont of Cabral as Protector. General Gandare has left the island, and the Domini~ cans are now sole masters of their territory. ‘They are engaged in reorganizing. the government. A national convéation will meet at an early date to form @ permanent organization. ‘A new journal, called. the £ Monitor, has been. started at 8t, Domingo City. The Spanish occupation is now . roally aa well as aomé- nally at an end. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Jeff. Davis Rec from His Attack Express to New York City, &c- OUR FORTRKSS MONKOBR CORRESPONDENUE. Fortress Monros, Sept. 1, 1860 JoM. Davis walked out yesterday, Cor the first time im four days. He is laboring under another attack of ery- sipelas, but of alight character and showing no danger- ous symptoms. Anxiety regarding his forthcoming trial, which, it is believed, has now settled itself into a con- clusive fact, is thought to have superinduced the attack. -Moantime there is a goueral and growing desire to get correctly at the place and time of his trial—a desire thus far developing itself principally among hotel keepers aud others expcoting throagh the trial to turm a few honest pennies. Notwithstanding the positive as- surances, however, of 80 many nowspaper paragraphs on the subject, it is clear that there has been no posit ive in- formation received here as to where and when tho trial will bo held—w! it will take place here or at Nor- folk, or claewher-, and whether next week or next year. OVERILAULING THE HOBPITALS. Vague rumors have for «ome time been afloat of sun— dry louse screws in tho past management of the hospi- tais hereabout. No names have thus far been men- tioned in tones sufficiently loud to catch the public car and po specific charges promuigated. It is only known that a_ board of investigation, con- sisting of Major J. S. Baker, Surgeon F. J: Ban- croft and Captain Stephen P, Corlix, has been appointed, pursuant to order received from tho Secretary of War. The hospitals to be examined under the ordor are Hampton, Chesapeake and Fortress Monroo hospitals. Justice to Dr. Frantz, United States Army, a surgeon at present in charge of these hospitals, renders necessary the statement that the proposed investigation has nothing: to do witb his manag:ment; that extends only a short period back, and has given the most porfect satisfaction, ‘THE CITY OF RICHMOND STEAMER. This new and magnificent steamer, of the old line, to run betwoon Norfolk, this place and Richmond, entered this morning ov her first trip. She was built in the city of New York, and in sirongth, elegance and capacity of apeod does credit to the great’ shipbuilding metropolis, ‘A finer steamer for along the coast or river sailing has not come out of New York. She is two hundred and twenty feet long and ninety-two feet wide, with forty-. eight inch cylinder and twelve feet stroke. She is moat apiendidly furnished throughout, Captain George N. Powers is at present in command of her. OPENING OF THK OYSTER SEASON, The grand ‘opening day” in Now York, when tho new fashions come out in all their enticing glory, is tamely exe'ting among devotees to fashion to the opening of the oyster season to oyster dealers here. Elizabeth river has been to-day crowded with dealers after these rich marine bivalves. For three months they have not been allowed to go oystering; but this being the 1st of Sep- tember, the restriction is removed. Oystering hence- forth will be lively until the ushering in again of the months devoid the last liquid consonant of the alphabet. A MYSTERY. ‘As I close my despatch an investigation has been set om foot to develop the mystery surrounding the late send- ing from here of a box, taken to New York by Harnden’s Express. This box, on being shipped, was said to con- tain tools. It is now reported as having contained a hi- man corpse. The object of the inode of course, is to ascertain who shipped the box. the case stands: it looks as though a possible murder had been commlt- ted, The affair will be thoroughly sifted by the authori- ee. The box was addressed, “J. Moulton, Webster, lass.’” Custom House Matters. Aflairs at the Custom House were yesterday monote- nously dull, The office seekers en mdtse paid therr re- spects to him who is supposed to dispense the positions “im the department from his headquarters at the Astor House, while but few called upon Mr, King, who, how- ever, received many visits of personal friends. In any event there are unnumbered applications already on file for the offices m the gift of the “powers that be,” and the Collector and Mr. Weed will have considerable work to glance at the communications of those who are anxious to secure one of the many salaries paid by the United States, DISMISSAL. OF AIDS. Though no new appointments were made yesterday, fourteen of the special aids employed in the Surveyor'’s office as detectives to prevent contraband commerce with tho rebel States and discover frauds in the revenue returns no further occasion for their will expire within a few months. yet been made, but politicians and the well informed generally predict that the work of will be inangurated towards the middle of the coming week. THE NAVAL OFFICER. The new Naval Officer, Mr. Odell, Dea renpematigse’: tha"ttoug tke presen? snpayest hat parent A tion amon; present employes 4 the parlors occupied by the of the government, the Naval Officer will consider that all persons who may be absent from their desks at the regular hours appointed for business have vacated their jive positions. It is presumed that this decree will abolish many a sinecure, the of which has hitherto drawn a heavy salary wi it having performed any services therefor. German Festivals. The singers of the Liederkranz of this city, who were on a visit to the western Saengerfest at Columbus, re- turned to this city yesterday, At the prize singing they secured the second prize. At Jones’ Wood the Teutonia Macnnerchor, a well known German musical organization, will celebrate & summer night’s festival to-morrow, which, how- ever, in case the weather should be unfavorable, will be postponed until Friday. The Toutonia isa very Y popular society, and ite festivities are always extensively patronized by the Germans. The Lieder- Kranz society has made arrangements fora boat excur- sion to Dudley's Grove to-day, which will be postponed to next — in case the weather should be unfavora- ble, On Tu ‘German church picnic will take at Jones’ Wood, under the auspices of the societion or festivals. At levue and suromer night's festival will be held to-morrow, un- der the aui of a German benevolent society, con- nected with the Social Reformers, in several glee clubs are to pate.” A school festival under the auspices of ‘achools is to take place Sitar en ae ant bea id affair, im imit ‘and somethi! Germany and ing quite novel in this country. Last night the German waiters, who, since the wages movement, are ited by an asso- ciation, were to have a summer night’s val ab The festivities were, however, of the rain weather, Al Personal Hon, Daniel § Dickinson, United States District At~ torney, has entirely recovered from his late severe iliness., Ho has resumed the discharge of his official duties, and. looks remarkably healthy and vigorous, Hon. James Knox, late member of Congress from Tinots, left for Burope yesterday by steamer Borussia, to be absont some time. The Wella ° Sr. Catuenins, ©. W., Sept. 2, 1868 ° Navigation of the Welland Capal waa rosumpd at noom, das