The New York Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1865, Page 4

4 JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Orrick N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volame XXX........+ .-No. 249 =i = —= ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. PRigNo— WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Evanrooor's Fi Toopuss. —_—— BARNUM'’S NEW MUSEUM, 539 and $i? Broadway.— RES . B. om. Omrcana.ADPMESS OF NY Day and Evening. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—vouus Casan Tax Vasrine—Hinax Dove NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Agead wa Pogue; on, tux Wicktow Wepvina. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Macsets. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mysrenies or Cas- Rov Appsy—Dice or Datu. IRVING HALL, Irving place—Artewos Warp Amona tax Monwons. D'S MINSTREL HALI, 514 Rroadway.—Eratortax onan Danaus jee Cuattencs Dance—TaLent AP- SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Fe erscO MIN Oras SINGING, ‘DANGwNOy t= CzLiar. TONY 18 OFERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sina- ING, aco enpeauss, &0.—Et "Nino, Boba Sen: VANTS By Lrcacy. SAN THEATRE, No, 444 Broadway.—Eratoriay fomrecist~ ites, Paxiomines, BuRLESQUES, &c.—Tus Tuavstmious Smanri. NEW HALL, 720 Brondway.—Pauaoe or Iutg- RETA NED AASint Binoe—Venraivoguian, 40 VANNUCHTS MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movixa Wax Figures or Paesipent Lixcotn, &e. NEW YORC MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open from 1A. M. till 10 P.M. — New York, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1865. ‘ ASVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertizoments for the WesKty Heracp must be handed im befere ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- ulation among the enterprising mechanica, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the coustry is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- served in the Weeki Hgranp wiil thus be seen by a latge portion of the active and energetic people of the United Bates TRIAL OF WIRZ. After an adjournment from Saturday last the military Oommission, assembled at Washington for the trial of Wirz, mot again yesterday. The evidence given was very much of the same revolting character as on pre- vious days. J. Wilson Clarke stated that he counted a hundred and fifty-foue dead men in the stockade one day He caw six men shot at different times, and of them he knew diced. To this Joseph RB. Achuff, of the Twonty-fourth Obto, added that he had seen Wirz kill one boy himself by knocking him on the head with his re- volver, and heard him tell the guard to shoot another man, which they did and killed him. Frank Mat- tox, a colored soldier, gave evidence of cruelties practised upon the colored prisoners. One negro weceived two hundred Jasbes and was afterwards ironed. A white man who blacked his face in order {0 escape was told by Wirz, as he bad made bimself a nigger he should have nigger law, and thirty-nine lah were served out to him, - This treatment was of frequent ocourrence to the colored soldiers. On one occasion Wirz and the doctors were in the graveyard, and on the doctors referring to the effect of the vaccination, Wirz replied, “Yee, God damn them, ‘wo have givon them the land they came to fight fo¥,”’ referring to the graves. At the conclusion of this wit- ness’ testimony the Court adjourned till to-day. The government, it is stated, have only thirty or forty more witnesses to examine; and it 1s supposed the trial will close about the Ist of October. EUROPE. The Cunard steamship Scotia arrived at this port yes- Virday, with two days later news from Europe. The political intelligence is singularly destitute of interest. The Austrian and Prussian Convention still caased com- fo last’ year, two motion among continental politicans, and a minor stir had been raised by the aseassination of a servant of Princo Arthur of England, by Count Eulenburg, nephew of a Prassian min'ster. In China stirring events were in progress The demand made by the United States Minister for the surrender of the American citizen, Burgweine, arrested by the im- Perialists had been refused, and it was feared a rupture between this country and China would be the result. ‘Two telegrams, of a strangely contradictory character, announce at one and the same time that the Taeping re- bellion is at an end and that the rebels have captured ‘Taoping, the capital of the country. American five-twenties remained nearly stationary in London at 68% a 69. British consols were quoted at 8054 0 8955. THE NEWS. Important news has been received from Mex‘co by way of Denver City. Chihuahua, the refuge of President Suarez and his Cabinet, had been occupied by the French. Juarez bad fled to El Paso; but indications were strong ‘that he would soon be drivon even from this last foot- hold and compelled to take refuge in the United States. ‘The Haytien despatch boat Goffrard put into Beaufort, North Carolina, on the 1st instant for coal and water. ‘The captain is the boarer of despatches to Washington, which it is presumed have some reference: to aid for the quelling of the.rebellion with which President Goffrard Just now finds his hands full. As the steamer is to come on to New York to be cantked and refitted, we Shall probably be put in possession of faller information On the subject in a day or two. A negro mass meeting—a strange and significant fea- ture im Alabama politics—was held at Hunisville, Ala., ‘Angust 23. About two thousand former slaves wero pres- ent. They were addressed by General Fisk, of the Freed- men’s Bureau, who told them that whatover was detri- mental to the black man was detrimenial alike to the white man, Ho had hoped to b> abie to lease some aban- doned plantations to them; but as President John- son, he believed, “was going to pardon all the robels,”’ their prospects were not so good in this respect ‘as they had been. He advised them to live morally, to work on shares, and to disabuse their minds of the notion that their old masiers’ estates were going to be cut up amongst them. He told them they should have jusiice and fairplay, but otherwise they must “work out their own salvation.” The conduct of the assemblage Is stated to have been unexceptionable, and the General’s speech Produced a good effect on ali present. Major Genoral Howard, Commissioner of the Freed- Purpose of establishing in that department with regard to the confiscation of land. He seta forth the conditions under which tands shall be considered confiscated, and the mode by which valid tities can be obtained to lands thus forfeited, Our Richmont despatches mention that Bishop Lay, of North Carolina, who was arrested and taken to Wash- ington on the supposition that he had information re- Specting State prisoners now waiting trial, has been re- Teasod, and that Alexander Dudley, whose pardon waa taken away from him on account of his disloyal language has had the dooument restored to bin. Our Fortress Monroe correspondent states that Jeff, Davis, who hitherto has been denied permission to com- ‘Municato with his farilyy is now allowed to write to bis ‘wife. With this new concession, and tho privilege of fending the Henao daily, the arch rebel saye he has no- thing loft to compinin of except the loss of liberty and fhe delay of bringing him to trial. +4 The New York Democratic State Convention meets at Albany, and the Wisconsin Republican State Convention ‘at Madison (the respective capitals of the two States), to. | @ay. Tho following political conventions will also be held this month:;— The Vermont election for State and county oftleers and Livexe CURIOSITIES — NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1865, members of the Logistature took place yesterday. The vote was very hight, being not more than three-fourths as large as last year; but on all points the State has gone republican, Twenty-five towns have given Paul Dil- lingham, the republican candidate for Governor, a majority of 8,522 over C. N. Davenport, his democratic opponent—a majority very much greater than that ob- tained by the republican candidate last year. In the election for tatives, vo far as the voting has gone, every town, except five, has returned republican Yepresentatives. ‘At the mocting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday the Committeo on Annual Taxes reported an ordinance im tayor of refunding to the banks and insurance com. abies ;no amount of taxes collected in 1863 on United States seo-ejties constituting part of their capital, and which were ftex from tax. The amonnt of taxes to be thus refunded Is $2,051,335 65, to which is to be added $41,259 28 for interest au e09,529 13 costs of court in- curred in contesting tho question veto legality of the tax in the vourts. The bill of A. A. Bestman for damages incurred during the riots of 1868, amounting to $34,602 50, was ordered to be paid. Bills for work on the new Court House, amounting to $44,375, were next ordered to be paid, after some opposition from Mr. Ely. A lettor from Mr, Depew, in reply to one from Mr. Tweed, on the subject of errors in tho census, was read, from which it appeared that the Secrotary of State has no power to order another census to bo taken, but that whore errors are pointed out the census can be amend- ed. The correspondence was referred to the Committee on County Officers. The Board then adjourned to Tues- day next. The reply of Recorder Hoffman to Governor Fenton respecting the charges made against him have been fol. lowed up by communications from Mayor Gunther in! Inspector Boole. Mayor Gunther urges that the charges against himself should be brought to trial at once, so that he should not havo to rest under the imputation, ‘a cruel and unnatural length of time.” Inspector Boole weives the Constitutional quostion as to the powers of the Governor, but asserts that the charges made against him are falso and malicious, and that his conduct has been wholly irre- proachable, He declines to waste any more money de- fending himself from malicious persecution, but justifies his conduct at considerable length in this letter. A fire occurred last evening in Fulton street, resulting in the partial destruction of the oilcloth factory and ware- house No. 8 Fulton street, as also in severe injury to a tea warehouse and tobacco store adjoining. There wasa good deal of excitement on the ground, as it was feared that explosive packages were in the building. The loss will be from $80,000 to $40,000; ‘fully insured in various companies, ‘The investigation into the origin of the fire at Niblo’s Theatre, which took place last May, was to have been j proceeded with yesterday before Justice Dowling at the Tombs, but at the request of Fire Marshal Baker it was postponed until Tuesday next. ‘The Grand Jury were empannelled yesterday in the Gencral Sessions, Mr. Charles J. Livingston being selected as foreman, Judgo Russel, in bis brief charge, alluded to the recent Wall street forgeries, and said that neither wealth nor family influence should shield the criminal. His Honor also intimated that the owners of the steam- boat Arrow might be indicted for manslaughter in the fourth degree. The attention of the Grand Jury will be directed at once to an investigation of these important matters. The tenants and visitors of two alleged disorderly houses were brought before tho police authorities yestor- day. In the first case Captain Speight and officers of his force made a descent upon the house No. 1,171 Broad- ‘way, which was alleged by Mr. Silas Lounsbury, the next door neighbor, to be a house devoted to gambling and disorderly conduct. The police seized a faro table and arrested Joseph Lewis and his dealer, John Eustace. Justice Dodge yesterday committed Lewis in default of finding bail, and discharged Eustace. In the second case, Matilda Smith, keeper of a house in Wost Wash- ington place, and fifteen men and women found on the premises were arrested and Igcked up for oxamination. Justice Dodge yesterday committed two men, named John Fagan and John Mulhgan, on the charge of aszault- ing Mr. Anthony Springman, near Eightecnth street and avonue A, attempting to rob him of his watch. A pretended carrier of the United States Telegraph Company, who is said to have been doing a large busi- neas by presenting fictitious telegrams to the large mer- cantile firms tn this city, and recording payment for al- leged tolograph charges, was yestorday brought before Justice Hogan charged with defrauding Messrs. Claflin & Co. of $4 26, and was committed for trial, An interesting meeting of the Farwers’ Club was hold yesterday afternoon at the American Institute, A curious melon was shown, the seed of which was im- ported from Japan by Commodore Perry, when on his trip t that land. Michigan was found to be a most suc- cessful grain and freit region. Chicory and “ginseng” are being extensively raised and used as substitutes for coffee in Minnesota and Iowa, Ginseng grows wild there and is transporied to New York, whence large quantities are shipped to China, Various varieties of fruits, flowers, &c., and models of improvements wore ex- hibited, and the club adjourned for four weeks in con- sequence of the approaching fair. Professor Lowe and the gentlemen who accompanicd him in his balloon ascension of Monday last descended safcly near Hackensack creek the same evening, alter a journey of nearly one hundred miles, accomplished in an hour and thirteen minutes, Acoroner’s jury yesterday found August Berghold, a returned soldier, criminally guilty for firing a pistol in the public street and thereby killing a child named Julius Hoppel, under circumstances already mentioned in the Heravp, On this verdict Berghold was sent to the Tombs, In the case of a German woman named Burghord, who died lately from puerperal fever, it was elicited before Coronor Gover yosterday that Dr. Raffel, a physician of 64 Pitt strect, had given a certificate of death of a child of the deceased without having seen it within an hour of its death. The Jury censured him for this conduct, The Forman will case, which raises the important qu’stions as to whether a will is logally destroyed when the pieces remain and can be joined together again, and whether a person of unsound mind: can cancel a will, is set down for hearing at the Surrogate’s Court ina day or two. A heavy rainstorm at Philadelphia on the 4th instant flooded the cellars and basements in the lower portions of the city, flowed into the street cars, burst several cul- vorts, and did considerable damage. Only two railroad “accidents” wero reported yestor- day. On the Pennsylvania Railroad a boiler exploded, killing the engineer, injuring in all probability fatally the fireman, and also disposing of a stranger who was rding on the engine at the time of tho disaster, A col- lision on the Illinois Central Railway, on Monday night, smashod up twelve cars and a locomotive, but failed to kill any one. Details of the explosion of the propeller Molleson at Trenton show the terrible power of steam. Barrels, boxes and fragments of machinery wero hurled a great height into the air. The column of steam arising from ‘the explosion was seen a mile and a half off, and the report was heard for several miles. One lady passenger is missing and is supposed to have been drowned. The 1086 's estimated at forty thousand dollars. Paymaster General Marvin has disbursed twenty mil- | tious of dollars up to the presont time in repayment of | Now York State bounties. ‘Three million men's Barean, has issued rales and regulations for the | dante duareie Me mane required to discharge the claims made. Thirty millions were appropriated for this purpose by the Legislature. During the examination, on Monday, of W. H. Harris, a Philadelphia sailors’ boarding house keeper, on the charge of embezziing $1,200 worth of copper belonging to the government, it was elicited that the property was sold to Messrs. Hendricks, of Now York. Mr. Ed. Hen- dricks was placed upon the stand and stated that Harris told him he got the copper from a Dutch friend. Additional rumors of crueities to negroes reach us from Raleigh, North Carolina. Judge Cnrter, who bas tra- volied through the South, states that the killing and ill- using freedmen by whites is increasing to a fearful ex- tent, ospecially where tho troops have been withdrawn, ‘The gathering Of the cotton crop in North Carolina has Deen commenced in the eastern portion of the Stato, ‘The yield is good. A fleet of vessols left Newborn on the 2d inst., bound northwards, heavily laden with cotton, tobacco and stores. The reported trouble in the Danbury Bank, Connecti- cut, Is contradicted by a telegram from that city. Fiftecn surplus naval vessels were advertised for sale at the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday, Eight only were sold, They brought prices amounting In some cases to two-thirds of the amounts the government originally gave for them, The stock market was active but feverish yosterday morning, but weak in the afternoon. Governments were Steady. Gold was firm and closed at 14454. Thore was @ good deal of activity in business places yesterday, and the markets wore, asa general thing, wite buoyant, owing in part to the enhancement of gold. Both foreign and domestic produce sold more freely, and quite generally at higher prices, Groceries were firmer. Cotton was weaker, and 3g¢. lower on mid- dling grades. Potroloum was decidedly higher, the sup- ply not being equal to the demand, On ’Change flour and wheat advanced, Corn and oats were heavy. Pork was excited, and mess $2 a barrel higher, Whiskey was beavy. The Great © Credit to General Halicck Disputed by General Buell, It -is very common in the history of human achievements for the world to be assured that it has given the praise to the wrong man. There is a common human desire to keep an equili- brium in fame by detracting from those likely to become over illustrious, and bestowing what ts wus detracted upon those likely to remain forever obscure. Mediocrity thus keeps nearer to the general surface, and is not so utterly be- littled as it otherwise would be. In this spirit attempts have been made to withdraw some portion of the credit for his vietories from every great soldier. Alexander was not with- out critics, who declared that he was not the real head of the Greeks in Persis, and all the victories of Napoleon have been attributed to an aid-de-camp. We shall hear somo day that it was not Sheridan who restored the lost battle in the Shenandoah valley. It was some subor- dinate who rode at his heels, or a part of the credit is due to somebody who happened to be at Winchester and told the General he had bet- ter go to the front, and perhaps even sub- mitted a “plan” by which he eould ride up the turnpike. One of these discussions is now in progress in relation to certain of the achievements of General Grant. General Grant was the first man of the war in the West. He captured Forts Henry and Donelson, and by that means the city of Nashville. He won the battle of Shiloh, that any other man in the West would have lost. He destroyed the immense rebel stronghold on the Mississippi, and gave the re- bellion its coup de grace so far as its existence on that river went. He achieved in front of Chattanooga the magnificent success that eventually enabled Sherman to go to Atlanta and to promenade thence to the sea coast. This is the list of our successes in the West— the whole record in which we can take any especial pride—and General Grant is the man who accomplished all. He commanded the troops and fought the battles. We consider it of exceedingly little consequence who may have talked over any “plans” of these move- ments in cities distant hygdreds of miles from the scene; and we consider that a claim to share the credit of these successes merely based upon such gabble about plans, hundreds of miles away, is a piece of preposterous impu- dence; and this impudence is all the worse when the plan in question is, as it is in the present case, one that it requires no genius to originate—one that flows inevitably from tho situation, and one.that would be obvious to the merest tyro in strategy. : But. General Sherman is of opinion that to talk over plans in this way may entitle a maa to some of the credit of victory, though the man may never win a battle nor be near. one; and he therefore sets up the claim of General Hal- leck as the originator of “the great centre movement which terminated the war.”’ He de- clares that General Halleck waa “the author,” that he “began” that movement, and says, “I give him credit for it with pleasure.” Accept- ing General Sherman’s estimate of the import- ance of such an agency as he claims for General Halleck, and examining the evidence, it looks very much as if General Sherman had in this credit given something that was not his to give, and as ifhe had publicly spoken on a subject that he was not fully acquainted with. His statement has drawn a letter on the subject from General Buell, who commanded in Ken- tucky at the time when General Gratit won the firat of the series of battles that made the centre movement a success. General Buell’s letier must certainly shake General Sherman’s faith as to Halleck’s formation of the plan, and ought also to give him some new ideas as to who first suggested and urged that very beginning with which he credits that General. General Sherman repeats the substance of « conversation with General Halleck in St. Louis, in which there was apparently an examination of the line then held by the rebels in Kentucky, and which was ended wiih the conclusion that the Tennessee river was the perpendicular of the line held by the rebels, and was the line that must be taken by us in offensive operations. . This conversation is the whole basis upon which General Sherman gives his liberal credit to General Halleck. He does not give us a date, but the conversation seems to have been held immediately before Grant’s movement against Fort Henry—that is, when Halleck was considering all the possibilities of that movement. General Buell’s letter shows that Halleck did not consider that movement at all until after the middle of January, 1862, and that weeks before the whole plan had been sketched out by Buell and laid before Generals McClellan and Halleck. Thus, in that very conversation, Halleck, in all probability, used Buell’s thunder. Holleck assumed command in Missouri November 20, 1861, and was very busy with the troubles in his own department, so that he naturally gave no thought to movements in the department of a neighboring commander. Buell assumed command in Kentucky rather earlier, and at the end of November submitted to Gen- eral McClellan a plan of operations against the forces under A. 8, Johnston, then in Kentucky, which was identical with the plan really carried out. General Buell was eventually ordered to communicate his plan to General Halleck, with a view to the co-operation of that general’s forces. He did so in a letter dated January 3, 1862. He said in that letter:—“The great power of the rebellion in the West is arranged ona front the flanks of which are Columbus and Bowling Green, and the centre where the rail- road between these points crosses the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, including Nashville and the fortified points below.” This is ‘the line to which the Tennessee river is perpendicular, General Buell alee showed the necessity of car rying the fortified points at the centre of this line, and that it was to be done just exactly as Grant and Foote did it—by the movement up the rivers. Did General Halleck talk this plan over with General Sherman before he received this letter? Clearly not; for in reply to General Buell he wrote, on January 6 :—“ I know nothing of the plan of campaign, never having received any information on the subject ;” and in the same letter he argues that whatever the plan might be he could not vossibly narticivate in it then, but showing of General Buell, it appears that Gen- eral Halleck is not entitled to the credit of hav- ing begun the centre movement in any sense; for neither did he lead the troops that made it, nor originate the idea, nor form the plan. This little circumstance should indicate to General Sherman that he cannot make a thing true by stating it, and that he cannot caery into the do- main of history the same impatience and arro- gance of spirit that once made him so terrible to army correspondents. Sovraern Resroration—Sourasry Corroy.— Exhausted and prostrated as the Southern States have been by the war, the trade which has sprung up between them and the city of New York since the return of peace is a matter of much surprise as pleasure to our mer- chants. Itis the cotton of the South, hidden away in holes and corners during the war, that is finding its way to market up the Mississippi and up the seaboard. These reserves of cotton have been estimated at two million bales in all; but a million and a half will probably be nearer the aggregate in. the South at the time of Lee’s surrender, This aggregate, however, will goa great way to put the cotton States upon their legs again, if disorganizing politi- cians can only be kept from any serious inter- meddling with the practical Southern restora- tion policy of President Johnson. What we have urged heretofore we here re- peat—that the question of the most pressing and vital importance to the country, people, government and Treasury, is the speediest pos- sible development of the agricultural staples of the South to aid us in settling our commer- cial deficiencies, in sustaining the burden of our taxations and meeting the obligations of our national debt.. The question of negro suf- frage can be postponed; but our financial obli- gations must be met, and without the rich re- sources of the South we shall be puzzled and sorely tried to meet them. Herein lies the wisdom of President Jobnson’s restoration policy. Let us take, for instance, the single article of cotton. In 1860, the year just before the war, the export valge of the cotton crop of the United States swelled up to the splendid figure of $22,000,000. Now, if the cotton States can be fully restored as members of tho Union in good standing during the coming winter, we shall probably get from them next year as much as one-half the cotton crop of 1860, which, at three times the prices of that year under a glutted market, will be equal to the addition of $348,000,000° to the substantial wealth of the country in our commercial ex- ports, and this on the single article of cotton. At the same rate of development we shall gain two or three hundred millions more in Southern sugar, rice and tobacco, pitch, tar and turpentine, lumber and minerals, The sooner, therefore, we can restore to the late rebellious States the working machinery of law and order, industry and trade, under their State governments, the better it will be for the ‘eountry, North and South, for all taxpayers, for the Treasury and for the sottlemont of our national debt. There is no necessity for any hurry in regard to negro suffrage; but the necessity of bringing forih all our resources to lighten the burdens of our taxations and the pressure of our national debt is felt on every hand. Hence the confidence of the masses of the people of all parties in the wisdom of the Southern restoration policy of President Jobnson. Democratic State Convention.—The political campaign in this State will be inaugurated by the democracy, who-assemble in convention at Albany to-day. What will be done there, who will be nominated, and the principles enun- ciated, it is impossible to tel. We notice that several of the old political hacks have turned up as delegates from different sections of the Siate, which does not augur anything too favorable in reference to their deliberations. The fear is that these men will cling to their old ideas and load the party down with the dead weight of the old issues, political rubbish and the clap- trap of cardinal principles long since obsolete, settled and buried by the war; that they will show to the world that they have learned nothing by their former disaster; and, added to 7; Seed ene the load which they will have to carry, the nomination of old political hacks appears alto- gether probable. Among the candidates men- tioned are some of the members of ex-Governor Seymour’s staff who were at Chicago laboring with Vailandigham in forcing his ideas upon that convention, and aided in declaring the war a failure. The nomination of any such men will surely bring defeat. If they wish to succeed they must honor some of those men who have been in the field and labored to make the war successful by their deeds of bravery and military bearing, and give all those miserable politicians who were engaged in trying to prove the wara failure the cold shoulder, Another day will throw some light upon the intentions and motives of the poli- ticians who compose the convention. Governor Hatton or Texas—A Copprr- HEAD CompLaint.—A copperhead organ of this city wonders how President Johnson could have appointed such « man as “Jack Hamilton” Provisional Governor of Texas, when, “unlike the other provisional gov- ernors, he has been a fugitive from his State since the beginning of the war,” and “in open hostility toward the people of the State,” and so on to the end of the chapter. We have to say, however, that herein lies the secret of Hamilton’s appointment. It was because of his hostility to Texas in rebellion that he be- came a fugitive from the State ; it was because of his loyalty to the Union that he is returned as Provisional Governor, the rebellion being put down. The same considerations that in- duced President Lincoln to make Andrew Johnson Provisional Governor of Tennessee have influenced President Johnson in making A. J, Hamilton Provisional Governor of Texas. This is the whole case. Tne Bows Boro Nursaxce any Toe New York Prees.—We notice that several of the city journals have all of a sudden become alarmed over the fat and bone boiling establisliiments in this city. They now profess great fear that they will hasten the appearance of the Asiatic | cholera in our midst, and materially aggravate its ravages when it does visit this metropolis. Why did not these journals appreciate the evil of these nuisances and their effect upon the health of the city when an effort was being made to abate them? Phe City Inspector, under the suggestion of the Hanan, zealously labored during the enjige summer of 1864 ta convene but he did not receive even a word of support trom those journals which are now so greatly alarmed over their evil effects upon the health of the metropolis, Had they then taken hold of the matter with energy and united their efforts with the Hepanp and the City Inspector the feelings of our oltizens would have been so thoroughly aroused that Mayor would have been forced by public opinion to convene the Board of Health, and the nuisance would have been abated long before the cholera started out from its home in the far East. If the appearance of this disease is hastened and its ravages in our midst aggravated by these bone boiling establishments, those journals which were then silent must share the responsi- bility with Mayor Gunthor in neglecting their duty in urging their abatement at a time when their appeals would have had practical effect. TWEEDLEDUM ap TweepLEpEs.—Richard H. Wilmer, the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama, in o letter to hia clergy and laity, recognizes with the. lapse or collapse “of the Confederate. government” the necessity of stopping “the prayers for the Président of the Confederate States and all in civil authority ;” but he contends that his flock cannot pray yet awhile for the President of she United States, inasmuch as his authority in Alabama is purely military. If this is not straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel we don’t know what is. This is ome of those delectable secesh clergy- men who can beat any political disciple of Cal- houn in whipping the devil around the stump. We turn over this retractory Bishop of Alabama to Brother Beecher. A Diswat Gatarrina.—Our latest news of the rebel cotton loan in England is in an adver- tisement of the London Times, calling a meet- ing of the bondholders on the 4th of September, “at the London Tavern, at one o’clock pre- cisely, to consider their altered position, now that the government of the United States has become the de facto government of the Confede- rate States, and, if deemed expedient, to ap- point a committee to protect their rights and interests.” The “rights and interests” in the Trensury of the United States of a set of silly John Bulls loaning money to Jeff. Davis! Do let us have that committee. The Late Balloon Ascent. SAPE RETURN OF THE VOYAGRRS—WHERE THEY WENT, AND WHAT THRY SAW, ETC. f rising party who started on Monday on their ion veturned safe to the earth on the same pizbt. Ou starting, at forty-seven minutes past four on Monday-—an account of which appeared in yesterday's Hevary —the earth disappeared from their view almost As quickly as they did from that of the spectators. About half 9 mile up lay a stratum of fleecy clouds, into which the balloon quickly passed. Here the occupants of the balloon were in a state of comparative darkness; but only for a few moments, as, soaring high above them, they came into a clearer and brighter atmosphere, which atforded a betier medium for the passage of the sun's rays. Here. the balloon expanded to its full dimensions, owing to the rarity of the. air, and they soared wp about @ mile “and a fit further, in a northeasterly direction” Having ~ attained this clevation’ thoy came in with a current) which cnrried the balloon due east, over the Sound, and thenco in a sonthwesterly, course: almost over the city, iting ngh tie carth is shut out from thelr view by the Tolde, the din of the city reached their cars, and they were wble to hear the of the steamers on the rivers and the crios of the sailors in the harbor with reinarsable distinctness. The next ion of the bal- Joon was a northwesterly one, bringihg the Voyagers over the North river, whore the noise of the ferryboats was ctoxrly heard by them, At this time the party had been ‘up about an hour; andas Professor Lowo was anxious to «feet a tnnding before dark: he let out a small quantity of gas, and the balloon deecended through the layer of clouds, (hereby enabling them to perceive that they were over some river. The people below gathered in large numbers to witness the descent, Professor Lowe having discovered on heiling the landsmen that they were over Hackensack creek, he allowed the balloon to drift towards a ow, ‘where, amid lo:d cheering, the grap- ying ivons were thrown and the party landed. Professor Lowe estimates distance travelled over as clove on one “iundred miles, in one hour and thirteen minutes—it being exactly six P. M. when they reached tern erie firme. ‘This vovage, so sneqgssfully managed as it was, reflects considerable credit on the aeronautic skill of the Profes- ser; aud not oniy that, but it will show to Europeans that heve auch acconsions may be made without any of those fearful ac ident: happening which have, caused an onaut in’ the Old World to be looked on as little loss than a wadman. ‘The gentlemen who accompanied Professor Lowe, 1) unable to perform the acientific experiments they ended, expressed the greatest satisfaction wit! trip, and have chartered the balloon for another ex- cursion at an early day, Protessor Jowe nekes another detached voyage to-day, when donbtiess a large crowd will be present to witness the ascension, 70 THE BPLTOR OF THE HERALD. In noticing editorially this new excitement you say, “But your charges are too high, Mr. Lowe; come down to a dollar a tvip.”’ Will you permit one who has made censions with Mr. Lowe, and who feels indebted or hig intelligent courtesy, to saya word in oF his ch g@ Ballooning {s aluxury. It ad- dvesces #8 patrons comparatively few, from necessity. The expenses attending it preciude cheap prices, For a jarge portion of the time the balloon, from unfavorable weather, remains idle, while heavy expenses are running on. Ti costs seventy-five dollars for the gus for one in- lation, and it is constantly changed. Only three pas- sengers can ascend at once, and fifteen doll does not me too tauch for iP; ‘but when it comes to stion of value recoived, I have seen no one who has been v ‘ho would sell his experience and what he hoe econ for what it cost. There are so many things on which we spend five dollars, with little to show for it or to remember, that it appears to me that this ular greenback isthe best investment that can made. Five dollars a day will not cover travelling expenses; but where can you travel in one day and see so much as Professor Lowe shows you from his floating car? If the Fema 4 high—were accidents probable, or even poasi- vle--there is this consoling fact: that no poor man will leave a dependent family by venturing on aeronautics, on this scale of prices, When Professor Lowe can uso ‘wo or three balloons at once, drawn down by steam power, a he hopes to do, he will be able to accommo- date ail who wish to soe the city from the clouds without too Leavy « drata on their pockets, Mu. hi the Wivren Ganoe, il open for tho sea- son to-mo ht, with Mr. J. 8. Clarke as Major de Boots in ‘yhody’s Friend. His personation of this part is a sterling piece of comedy, and a first rate attrac- tion for the opening night. Some names have been added to the company that will tend it great strength. It now includes Mises Rose Eytinge, Effie Germon, Mre. €. Walco Ir, Chester, Miss Kate Connel, Duoll, Osborne, inley, C, Wal ir, J. Dyout, W. 8. Andrews, W. i:dwards, 8. K. Chester, J. Duell, J. Sut- ton, W. F. Burroughs, N. Decker, H. Hogan and C. p Evelyn. 11 will be noticed that this company is espe- cially strong in the female part—indeed, without an equal in the city in this respect, Misa Eyting ANCES here during the summer have givon her a high reputa- tion with the pubiic, Mis Germon will be remembered in connection with the part so well played by her at this theatre last season in the Grey Lady of Penarvon. Lavxcu,—At ninefo’clock this morning there will be launched from the Westervelt shipyard the now side- waeel steamer Niagara, and some time next week the new sidewhee! steamer Saratoga. These two vessels were designed by Captain Wm. Skiddy, superintended by Nelson Spratt, and belong to the original United States Mail New York and Virginia Steamship Company, and are intended to take the piace of the Yorktown and Jamestown, destroyed in Richmond, They will be fitted up w the best style for and owing to the novelty of their construction extra large sized staterooms. The following are the dimensions of each yeesol:—L ngth on deck, two hundred and thirty fect; beam, amidships thirty-three fect, and abaft the wheeis thirty-nine Toot, hold, fifteen feet; tonnage about eleven hundred. vessel has four water tight bolkheads; Each has single beam | engines, cylinders sixty inch with eleven feet stroke, and is fitted with Barnum’s bilge pu which will discharge one hundred and fifty tons of when ere, donkey isting 4 Cugines wore bail by Becor & Co, Allaire Works, the superintendence of W. W. Vanderbilt, e under ‘eaceidaerintbeaaetiaataninenereneete Conatitational Election at Denver. Denver, Sept. 6, 1865. | The constitutional election took place to-day, The re- turns are sufficient to indicate that the constitution is | carried by & large majority, Ovituary. Higsny Corr, of the woll known shipping firm of Co) Brothers, Piilndojphia, died at Germagtowa, Pa., on the ath fe NEW YORK HERALD. . mist «wma Th ne pis | ie Sed of Hoh ad eb te ain: TMUPORTANT FROM HAYTL Geffrard at Beaufort, N. Rumors that She Comes with Despatches from Prosidont Geffrard Asking for Ald to Quell the Rebellion. A Fine Chance for the Colored Veterans. d THE GEFFRARD TO VISIT NEW YORK. &. &. &. Our Beaufort, N. C., Correspondence. Buavrorr, N. C., Sept. 2, 1608. Yesterday the Haytion despatch steamer Geffrard put | into this port for coal, water, &o., and, as the littlo efhir | may be fraught with ovents of vital import, to this cow try, I hasten to give you such items as I could gather. ‘The Goffrard is manned by negroes, with the exception of the captain and chief engineer, who:are French. The captain is bearer of despatches to. Washington, asking, & {a presumed, for aid to quell the rebellion in Haytt What a glorious opportunity to get rid of a large number of nigger troops; and no doubt Mr. Johnson won't re- fuse such aid to our sister republic, as we have a large surplus of colored veterans on hand. It is to be hoped those gentlomen of color belonging to the Geffrard, com- ing on such an errand, will be politely treated by New Yorkers. The vessel proceeds to New York to be cauliked, Fefitted, &0., when sho is coaled. SMALLPOX AND YELLOW FEVER AT BEAUFORT. Tho smallpox and yellow fever are showing themseives here on board some of the morchant vessels. Two are infected. Bilious and malarious fevers are prevalent, but not very fatal. The city is comparatively healthy, si¢k- ness being confined to the vessels. VESSELS AT BRAUFORT, ‘The United States steamers Chicopee and Corwin are here. The bark Release sailed for New York yesterday. Several merchant vessels are laying in the stream, amoug them the Ben. Adams and Vanguard. THE NAVAL STATION here is about to be broken up, and Captain West, ite gentlomanly commandant, is making preparations to go North in the handsome. schooner Arietta. Captaly Arnold, of the Chicopee, remains with his vessel. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Mcsio 1x tae Parg.—The Park Commissioners an- nounce that the Park Cornet Band will play on the jake to day, ftom threo until stx o'clock in the afternoon, Bosrp or Tax Commisgionens.—A committee of the Board of Supervisors yesterday reported to the Tax Com- miszionerz in favor of refunding the amount of the taxes paid a year ortwo since om the capital stock of banks and insurance companies of this city. A part of this capital stock consisted of United States scouritien, and 15, ihatefore exempt from taxation by law of Qon- stated to be 855; $41,250, and ihe Seale oman ihe amount’ being about $1, For FS i eg Ma a og 3 tifcates to be called the “New York J for the rej ee wong “BH and to matt ayy n terest, © ordinance W ye ae Mere ane Soy rsd fa Bhan the Peper aa over by the Commissioners for future adoption. sy, City Tax SALe.—It has been customary to hold, ot ie tervals of three years, an auction of all property oe which taxes have been allowed to ‘socumulate.. Under Comptrolier Hawes this was neglected, and on ‘the sale for the years 1856-7-8 was commenced, unde the divection af:James’ J. Gumbleton, acting clerk ef arrears, The manner in which the sale is conducted is aa follows:—‘‘Tho property is gold for the loweat torm years for which any person offers to take the considoration of advancing. the amount of the taxes, lar rents of Croton water, interest, and charges Certificates are given ag s00n as they can be made ‘out - the purchasers, and at the end bie! a lease given for the term the property was for, Should be redeemed within that me; in which: the purchasers have thelr money returned, interest at tho rate of fourteen per cent per Under tho act of April 18, 1843, the title of the purchaser absol " notice to until six months’ deenpshall have been fi ; battle n under the provisions of eai@ act, Tho whole of the property sold, is sold subject to any assessments or other .iens that the Corporation of the city may have on the same." Up to yeste: 4d ing as many as eleven wards wero gone roa. ding in all cases being remarkably brisk. sale is conducted in room 1! rt of Common Pleas, and there {a little doubt but that many bargains will be picked ep In some cases the amount due on t ts diMoult [3 iber to be able to proceed with 859 and 1860, and by that means the Bureau will not be left be hind. had GRaxo Pioxic oF THE ToTaL ABstiNexce Socery.—The third annual picnic of this society, which is attached to the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in East Fif- teonth street, was held yesterday at Jones’ Wood. The object of the festival was to aid in the completion of the ae parochial free school attached to the Church of the immaculate Conception, which is now in course of com struction, The building is an admirable one, and ie capable of holding upwards of a thousand children, five stories an and forty-five by one hundred and 4 feet. The sale of tickets for the Fm has real something in the geighborhood of three ‘noumnnd de> lars. Mr. Schidknocht, the proprietor of Jones’ with his accustomed _ lil free use of the groun share in me of the commendable object of the affair. Total Abstinence Benevolent Society, Dy 9 one thousand men, accompanied by thi Tenlers of organization, the Temperance Cadets, a society of three hundred in pu@ber, formed in line on street, and, headed by Uonner’s brass band, and drum corps of the jets, marched down Fifteenth street to avenuo B, to Fourteenth street to nue, to Shictg shied street, and up Second is society 18 the largest and one indin this city, The Rev. Dr. Mc h; Vieo \- retary, Charles’ Boyle; Ae McLoon I i f mort benevolent of the are as follows:—President dent, George Stevenson ; sistal , John ; Treasurer, Thomas Kane James Sullivan. The soci in member full pearance, green silk scarf, on which was elogamt- the cross, star, shamrock ‘Th and also carried a fsae eae eae and red caps, amusement and barmony prevailed nrg otwiae was entire dav; tbe attendance being vel , slanting the threatening aspect of the bung thick and leaden oes the festivities. not drink, than water present had few ts to make. The of dancing included twenty-eight sets, all ich were duly gone through with till the enjoyments of the occasion were brought to a close. A Suir Loan or Homayny, ~The new British steamebip Queen, which reached this port yesterday from Liver- pool, brought one of the largest, if not the very largest freight of human beings that ever crossed the Atlantic in one vessel, having on upwards of fifteen hua- dred steerage passengers. Cuansy.—The managers of the Home for Destitute Children of Seamon, situated on Staten Island, acknow!- edge with pleasure the generous donation of one hundred and two dollars from the the Persia, on hor last voyage from Ew throngh more cqoeatly eeetve the aid of the travelling public. Surrosep Baota Mcnosa sy 4 Hvsnaxo.—On Mon- day night Hugh Gallagher boat his wife Catharine, at their residence, in the roar of 100 Mulberry street, and then turned her into the street, Yesterday she dled, and Coroner Gover was notified to ad an inquest, x proceeded to the above found on the deceased’ ditinet marke of stab wound was plainly visible on the there wore black and blue marks about the head Demin bed been seo sonaee yk 4 amination at the time; it wi be tnade a Bince the death of the woman her —s has not been - of the Fourteen inet, a im a a = Tnqitost will be held Weay, Fink 1¢ Foutox Sreest—Loss Eerruatap at Anovr $25,000,—Shortly after seven o’clock last evening a fire broke out in the top foot or attic of No. 8 Fulton street, occupied by Lewis cna he Ps harms reiar hm occ" je wi tied wate aanutectory wns ou the top floor, » The firemen th mises and succeeded the domes! 0 the tas building, burning off the roof 3. groater part of the top floor. The stock 18 a Wniben ‘at about es, incase? for $30,000 y “¢ 1e er estate an tamed bo. No. 10 «4 ra . sree aseoanee | Oy eset tald 10 bo. about Sieured, Ne. te su ore Beary Faily insured. the lied clothing, and is supposed to