The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1866, Page 4

4 NE Ww YORK HE RALD. JAMES HDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XXXI “AMUSEM 7s 3 THIS | AFTERNOON AND ‘EVENING, WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St, Nicholas Hotel.—Tiw Fae Onk Wirt tax Goupes Loces—Tur Mai Wow tax Muxina Pan. « ATION TROUPE, ‘at CHARLEY WHITE'S COM Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—ty a Varuety or Liont 4nD Lavcnaaie Enreorarsxents, Conrs pe Baccet, 4c. fum Joviat Contuananns, Matluce ai 2), o'clock. BLEECKER STREET CIRCUS, between Perry aad Charles sireets.—Riminc, Vacuena, &c. TRRRACE, betweon Vitty- GARDEN, eighth and Fifty-ni ots GaapEx Concunts, ‘Tuomas’ ORCURSTRAG BELVIDERE LION PARK, Fighth aven’ strent—Cant Runcuan’s Gren dim Concenre, co 4 o'cloc! HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Ermoriax Mts wrmetsy—HaLtaps, BUnLesgues ANp PANTOMiMes. ANATOMY, G18 Brondway.— ypROGAN Microscors twice WPM. RTE RIS dally, “Open frome A. M x OnICE 0 ADVERTISERS, a in until half past nine All advertisements o'elock in the evening will be classitied under appro- priate headings ; but propor clascidcation cannot be neured after that hour. THS NEWS. CONGRESS: In the Senate, ", a second Conference Commit- te on the new Tari! bill was ordered, The bill refund- ing overpaid ta’ was passed. The bill amending the noutrality laws was referred to the Committee on Foreign Rotations. The bill distributing the awards for the arrest of Jet Pavis aud the Assassination Conspirators, was imlil December. The House bill, | amending ie Iaws, was passed. The report of the Committee of t ry in the case of Mr, Pat- terson, member elect from Tennessee, was read. The report suys that Mr. Patierson aceepted office under the rebel governmont at the earnest solicitation of Union men, that he might protect Union interests, and that as judge he had never euforced any Confederate iaws, They therefore resoived that he is entitled to take his feat, Some discussion ensued on his being able to take the test oath, when a resolution wasjolfered, which being modified and amended, declared that he might omit the clause in the oath stating that he had never held office under the Confederate government. Thia resolution being a joint one was sent to the House. It passd by a vote of 25 against 2—Messrs. Chandler and Wade-—Mr. Sumner not voting. The bill for the admission of Nebraska was then considered and passed by 24 yeas aga’nst 18 nays, In the evening session the joint resolution to continue in force all laws releting to the regular afmy enacted since July, 1861, was amended and passed. Tho House bille extending the benefits of the Court of Cloims to loyat citizons of Tennesseo, alzo extending the jurisdic. tion of the Commissioners of the Circuit Courts of the United States were passed. Further and important busi- ness was dono, the Senate remaining in sesayon until the wee smali hours this morning. I the Honse the bi!l providing for increased revenue from imported wool was passed. The Civil Appropria- tion bill was received from the committee with the Senate amendments, but the House insisted on its disa- greoments and requested a Committee of Conference, The Conference Committee on the Army bill was discharged and «a new one appointed. The conferees could not agree on the question of the Veteran Reserve corps. The Air Line Railroad bill, establishing a national railway between Washington and New York, was passed, A conference committee was asked for on the Deficiency bill. The report of a con- ference committce on the Revised Tariff bill was agreed to. More important business was trausacted in the course of the evening session, the House rewaining bard at work nearly all night The Judiciary Committee mage their revert fn the : on tne sunyect of the alleged complicity of Jon Dav’ ia in ‘the assassination of President Lincoin. The report im full is published in our Congressional columns this morning. The committee fool justilied in aaying that there is probable caure to believe that Davis was privy to the measures which led tothe doed, but all the facts mn the case are not yet in the banda ot the government. Two resolutions accompany the report; one declaring (hat no further legislation ts necessary to secure (he trial of Davis, and the other re- questing the President to proceed without delay to an investigation into the alleged complicity in the aesae- ination. THE CITY. ‘The usual meeting of the Health Board took piac torday, and a largo amount of business was transacted, ‘Tho cholera was reportgd on the decrease in the city, Only Bix cases were given, of which four were new. Of fifisen pationts in the Battery Barracks four havi dicd, and the remainder stand a feir chance of recovery. The hospital is said to be well conducted and in excellent condition. In Brooklyn the cholera had neither in cragged nor decrvased, about the same number of casos being reported ax on previous dave, Later intelligence from the islands reports the epicomie as still provaiting among the troops to come extent, There were twelve deaths and fut new cases reported on Tybee Island yes- terday. One cave proved fatal in Philadetphia yesterday aut of five reportey In the United States Commisst Conunissioner Osborn committed Richard Weekes, Wil fiam Garnendt and William H. Bartlett, alias Billy Huck, for trial on the charge of having dealt in counter. yoney. Other counterfeiting cases will be pro. ted with this inorving ude MeCann, sitting im Chambers of the Saperior Court, bas changed his decision granting absolute ingune- tions in the Sef the bone boiling ostablishm®nts, He now issues orders to show cause why permanent injunctions should not be granted. The Sudgo has writ- ten an opinion laying down the principal points on which be bases his decree, aud also the points on which bo refuses to grant absolute injanetions. several important robberies (ook piace in the city yee. terday. The broker's office of White, Morris & Co., on Wail otreet, was racked to the amount of $3,200; bat the oxility of one of the clerks ‘ved to overtake the raud recover the money, Another party impli- tied in the Higging Porty-third streot robbery was and identified, ther smaller affairs are er'y ollie yesterday: nw reported. Two youths named Bonocam and Dngan ware also arrested, charged with robbing registered let tors to the amount of $1,400, On Thursday night the house No. 14% Washington stroai was partially blown up by gunpowder. It adjoins the clothing house of Abram Harria, and there is $1,900 insurance on the latter prem Mr, Warris was ar. rested, charged with being concerned in the affair. ‘There were families asleep ia the upper part of the house at the time of the explorion ‘The steamship England, Captain Grace, of the National Steam Navigation Company's line, will sail at noon to. day from pier No. 47, North river, for Qu@enstown and Liverpool. The steamship Allemannia, Captain Trautman, will sail from Hoboken, at twelve M. to-day, for Cowes and Hamburg. The mails will close at the Post Office at half. pet ton AM. The steamship Ariatne, Captain Crary, of C. HL Mal toy & Co.'s line, will.aai! for Galveeton, Texos, at three M. to-day, from pier No, 20, Bast river, Burling altp. he new steamehip ¢ ral Grant, Captain Holmes, ‘romvwell's line, will «ai! at three PM. to day, for vOrioane direct, from pier No. 9, North river, ‘ve s(@amship Alabama, Captain Limburner, of the ' ne, will eal! for Savannah direet, at three P. +o from pier Ne. 13, North river, foot of Cedar tore was a steadier feeling in trade citcles yesterday a fo ww considered. Cotton was qniet hut firm, Coffee also quiet but firm. On ‘Change there was quite a vo im broadetams, and though business was light « were better, Medium floor advanced 10c, a 20e a others were more steady. Wheat was held Se. 0 ghor. Corn closed quiet and easier, Oats irregn- lac, Pork eneler, Beet steady, Tard onohanged some days past, and business wes frir—all | — Whiskey du!l and uominal, Petroloum firm and fairly active, | m 3 MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Harian offered his resignation as Secrotary of the Interior yesterday, to take effect on the Ist day in Sep- tember, and Mr, 0, B. Browning, of Ilinois, was: im- mediately nominated to the Senate for the positioa, Tho Prosident also nominated Daniel Clark, now Senator from New Hampshire, to be Judge of the United States District Court of that State. ‘The President yesterday nominated Colonel Ludlow to be Naval Officer of the Port of New York. ‘News from tho allied armies in Parsguay was received yesterday, under date of July 2, by the steamship Sonth America, from Rio Janeiro. No further active opera tions aro noted in rolation to the war on the Piate river; but interesting details of the late battle before Humaita are given, among which isa letter from General Mitre, giving a succinct account of the affair, Despatches from Rio Janeiro, dated July 2, give intel- ligence of the lost Spanish fleet, as well as the impor. tant news that the war against ihe allied South American republics on the part of Spain isat an end. The fleet had arrived at Rio Janciro on thelr way home, By the steamship Corsica, at this port, yesterday, we have files from the Bahamas, dated at Nasaau, N. P., on the 18th of July, The news {s of a local character. The weather. after very heavy storms, was favorable for the fruit and vegetable crops. The British gunboat Nimble had arrived at Nassau from Jamaica. The Nassau Guardian, speaking of the religious condition of the colonists, says:—“* We were shocked to hear from the lips of one who has proved himsolf a sincere friend that there is less vital Christianity in the Bahamas now than thore was thirty years ago.” ‘The commercia} advices from Barbadoes, West Indies, of the 20th of July, report :—Little local demand for leat tobaceo, except indifferent quality, and at low figures. Good flour sti! wanted, favorite extra brands, at $10 50 a $11. Kerosene oi) bas declined, Molasses has been freely sold at 30¢., including casks, Sugar, first quality muscovado not to be had under $4 per hundred weight. Exchange, sixty day bills on London, $489 per cent. Rain wanted in mest parts of the island. The encampment at Long Branch broke up yesterday, and the members of the Rifle Corps have returned to civil life. Everything went of pleasantly during their term of holiday service, and no accidents or disagreeable affairs have occurred to mar a pleasant memory of the oceasion. Lieutenant General Sherman is at Niagara Falls. Chief Justice Chase is on a visit to his old place of res'dence, Keene, N. H. The bay filly Plue Flag won the first race at Saratoga yes- terday. Tt was a dash of a mile and a half for all ages, and the tims was 2:43%, The second race was three me beats for a purse of $1,000, Beacon and Onward being the only entries, It was won by Beacon in 6:38, Onward having bolted completely when he had nearly won the race, by crossing the track and coming to a dead halt. Oae hundred to twenty had been offered on him, and ho was the universal favorite. The third race was won by the bay colt Julius, being a dash of one mile and three-quarters, and the time being 3:10%. Geo. P, Chase, the murderer of Josoph F, Clark, a warden of the Jotiet, I'l, penitentiary, was hung at that Place yesterday, He had murdered Clark while a con- vict in the penitentiary. He declared his innocence to the last aud died without fear. John Kennedy, the last of the trio who committed the murder of Mr. Molonoy at Sand Ridge, It, was also hung at Waukegan yester- day. The murder was a most horrible affair und two men. had already been executed for its commission, Kennedy being the third. The Great Convention at Philadelphin—Pro- ares of the Counter Revolution, In the papers, during the hot days in the city and at all the watering places, the principal topic of discussion is the Philadelphia National Union Convention. Wherever two or three persons are gathered together this subject is sure to be ventilated. As a standard matter of conversation it has quite superseded the weather. Our exchanges are full of it. Calls for State conventions to elect delegates to it are being issued. Everybody is going to ai- tend it. An immense wigwam for it is in course of erection. The railroads will run extra trains to accommodate the crowd. The old proverb tells us that it is better to be out of the world than out of the fashion, and decidedly it will be the fashion to go to the Convention. No politician of any importance can afford to stay away, unless he be a radical doomed to the wrath to come. In that case he may reserve himself for Jack Hamilton’s negro-worshipping convention in September. But while everybody is preparing to, go to the National Union gathering, it is singular that each of the cliques and factions wants to kecp all the rest out. Weed and Raymond promise to be there; but they turn up their noses at the Wood Brothers, and at Marble and Belmont, the shent-per-shent twins, and at Vallandigham and his tail, and insist that all these notorious people must be excluded. We should like to know why. The terms’ of the call for. the Convention do not exclude them, and nothing else can. What is“ there about the Wood Brothers, for instance, that unfits them to sit in the big wig- wam with Weed and Raymond? We pre- sume that the latter gentlemen will not insist too strongly upon a comparison of personal records or of general jobs. Is it, then, that the Woods, and Vallandigham, and Belmont and Marble sympath'zed with the rebels during the war and are a little tainted that way still? Mr. Belmont will not admit this soft impeach- ment, and Mr. Marble indignantly denies it and calls for pistols and coffee, as if he had purchased some of the Warlike spirit of the Chevalier Webb when he bought in the old duellisi’s paper. Bul, even in the notorious cases of the Woods and Vallandigham, how can Weed and Raymond refuse to associate with these worthies, when they are willing to act with the repentant rebels of the South? A copperhead may be as bad as, or even worse than, a traiior; that is a mere maiter of opinion. But certainly when a copperhead becomes converted to the Union canse he is just as good as a converted rebel, and those who are anxious to meet with reformed rebels cannot, with any sort of grace or consistency, refuse to admit reformed copperheads to the coalition. No political church can undertake to shut out a single class of sinners who really and honestly desire to avail themeelves of the benefits of saving grace. The continual discussion about the Philadel- phia Convention has drifted away from first principles, To keep themselves straight, the parties concerned ought to publish the original call every othgrday. That call recognizes the great ixsue between the President and Con- gress, and invites all who support the Preei- dent and his policy of reunion to take part in the Convention. It says nothing about the Woods, or Vallandigham, or Belmont, or Mar- ble, or any other obnoxiows individual. It lays down a broad, solid platform, upon which all may stand withont crowding each other off. ‘The war is over now; old things have passed away; everything is to begin de nouveau. It makes no differenee what a man's position was aq to other issues, now dead and buried; the only vital question ix as to his position in re- gard to this great new issue between the Presi- dent and Congress. We know the Woods thoroughly; we have no more confidence in them at present than we had while they were welling themselves to both sides during the war; but If they etate that they are ready to sustain the President's poticy and the Union, | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY, 26, 1866. ‘hey cannot be turned out of the Philadelphia Convention under the terms of its call, Messrs. Weed and Raymond, who are clearly not with- out gin, should not throw the first stone in this rude and unjustifiable manner. Somebody may retalinte before long by opposing the ad- mission of lobbyists. It is much better to take the only true ground and advocate the admission of all comers, One clique will then neutralize another, and we 11 get a moral force from the combined infltence of the Convention that will work most powerfully in the fall elections. These equabbles beforehand over Mr. Ben Wood’s dirty linen or Mr. Weed’s dirty linen can amount to nothing. All the linen will be made pure and spoiless by the Convention. Those whose sins were as scarlet will come forth white as snow. The issues between the President and Congress will absorb all other issues, and every politician will be judged, not by what he has done, but by what he is doing. Let us have a general political amnesty, and the people will scoomplist all the rest. The Muddie Among the Mexican Liberals, Speaking of the quarrelling emong | the Mexican liberal leaders in the United States as well as in Mexico, wo are reminded, os the good and jocular, Abraham Lincoln would have said, of a little story:—A couple of sportamen started ont one day in pursuit of game. In due time they both eapied at the same moment a fine, large, enmy- looking bird sitting on a stump. Each claimed priority of discovery, tussled awhile for the first shot, and finally both banged aw: together. The bird dropped dead, and the sportsmen went to work cudgelling each other sonndly about the right of possession. One eleimed the gome as his, the other perempto- rily and hbelligerently denied the claim, and after pounding each other to their hearts’ con- tent they mutually agreed to an armistice and proceeded to examine the character of the game they had brought down. It proyed ‘o be nothing but a dean and tongh old crow. It isso with the leaders of the Mexican Iib- erals both in the United States and in Mexico. They are wrangling and abusing each other most roundly about game the value or worth- lessness of which they cannot at this time form any approximate idea. They are ready tocut each other’s tlroats io be first in at the death of what they suppose may be a glittering b'rd of brilliant plumage, and yet they may be doomed to find the prize nothing but a tough old crow. Both Juarez and Ortega have their respec- tive retinues of @ame-masters, and while the leaders are firing for the game of the retainers are poaching on every manor and bagging all the game, in the way of silver mines and gun and steamboat contracts, they ean lay their hands ov. At one time there was the game of plundering the town of Bag- ‘lad, in which some of Uncle Sam’s blue-birds took part. Then there was the game of taking Matamoros, by which several of the old Mexi- ean guerilla sports bagged some heavy plunder. ‘Then there was the game of capturing condue- tas loaded with specie—a game that was emi- nently successful. But the biggest, fattest, most tempting game of all, ‘is the anticipated fifty million loan by the Uniied States to the Mexican liberals, Juarez and Ortega are now blazing away at this rich and luscious prize, and their several adherents are eagerly watch- ing to catch the juicy droppings as the game is being roasted. Meanwhile, that acute old sportsman, Santa Anna, ié sitting perched like a bald-headed cagle upon a limb in a quiet grove in the preity little city of Elizabeth, watching for the game to drop, whon, with “lightning sweep, he will pounce upon the prey and bear it elofi to bis own inaccessible eyrie. Even Santa Anna may, however, find his game, for ‘which he has been so long ant patiently lying in wait, prove to be, like that about which Juarez and Ortega have been breaking each other’s heads and bruising each other's reputations, nothing but a tough old crow; but he can afford to bear the expense of delay and the mortification of disappoint- ment more philosophically than either of his sporting rivals for liberal supremacy in Mexico. Seriously, the leaders of the liberal cause in Mexico, as well as iheir several representatives and retainers, must cither cease this silly wrangling and personal biiterness and vitupe- ration, or surrender all hopes of ever secing republicanism re-established in their country, except asa province under the especial wing and protection of the United States, Tar Fixaxce “Meastnes ww Cononees.—Ii is encouraging to find that public exposure of the provisions of the Sherman Finance bill and Morrill Tariff bill has not been withort effect upon Congress, and that they have heen amended by striking out their most objection- able features. It is no longer proposed to add to the dutiable value of imported merchandise the cost of packing, freight, brokerage, foreivn export duty and other general charges, nor to | break faith with the holders of seven-thirty notes by depriving them of four months of the option of converting the same into six per cent bonds, which they are entitled to under the act anthor- izing their isane; but there are still provisions remaining in both bills which are at the best useless and uncalled for. That, for instance, which provides that no part of the reserve of | the national banksshall, after the Ist of January next, consist of interest-bearing notes, This of conrse includes compound interest notes, which are a legal tender to the extent of their face, and therefore available for all the uses of ordinary currency. For Congress, then, to legislate away the right of their holders to em- ploy them as legal tenders, is to commit a breach of faith and perpetrate an act of con- ditional repudiation. This proposition origi- nated with Mr. Hooper, of Massachusette, in the interest of the banks there, which are jeal- ous of those of this city because they attract deposits from Eastern cities by reason of allow- ing interest thereupon; and the Boston bank managers contend that if the New York banks in interest-bearing notes they could not afford to pay interest to depositors, and that they would therefore cease to attract capital from other cities. Hence the motive for this measure is a very petty one, and, in view of its involving a breach of taith, it should not be permitted to become a law. But for even the partial defeat of Messrs, Sherman and Morrill in their infamous designs upon the country there is reason to be glad. Waere @ Wexvent, Puraarst—We have not yet seen any manifesto from Wendell Phillips eadorsing thé negro-worshipping convention Presidential chair of Mexico, their | were not allowed to hold a part of their reserve, to be held at Philadelphia, in September, under Jack Hamilton’s auspices This will never do. Ifthe shepherd grows weary end faints by the way, what will become of the flock? Defenceless Conditton of Our Sea Coast. While Congress has been squandering mil- lions of the public treasure upon private schemes and jobs, scarcely a word ‘has ,been said about the defenceless condition of oar sea coast. “It is true we have some fine for- tifications, but most of them unfinished, for the defence of the principal seaports; yet the fact has been established that stone masonry affords but feeble resistance to the powerful missiles now used in military and naval warfare. This was witnessed during the rebellion at Charles- ton, Mobile, New Orleans, Fort Pulaski, and at a few other points on the Western and Southern rivers and sounds. The most formidable of the works upon the sea coast, as well as in the interior waters, were, however, constructed of sand, mud, or palmetto logs, against which the shells and solid shorof our heaviest artillery and naval pieces fell comparatively harmless. But most of our great naval victories were not gained by point blank shot upon the sea- walls of fortifications, but by obtaining posi- tion by land or through some insignificant inlet or tidal water-courst, Iu the rear of the works, end selecting at will the point at which a breach could be easily effected. Take the entire line of our extended Atlantic sea coast, and there are but few. fortifications capable of repelling the attacks of monitors and iron- clads, while the latter are engaged in demol- ishing the stone walls before them. This is not ihe only advantage a foreign naval Power like England or France would have over us in case of war. They could do as our navy did during the rebellion, quietly slip up some un- protected inlet, and pour upon a defenceless or weak point the heaviest guns that could be brought to bear. This is not all. While their iron-clads are bombarding a city, cavalry can be landed at convenient points and devas- tate a large tract of country before a sufficient land force can be collected to repel them. For this service the French have instituted an ad- mirable system of cavalry tactics. Man, horse and equipments go on board transports with the utmost regularity, and on arriving at the point of destination disembark with the same precision, and enter immediately upon a raid or foray. For these operations our unpro- tected inlets furnish excellent facilitits. There are thousands of these inlets upon our sea coast, and new channels are formed every year or two by the displacement of sand bars and shoals, Not one in a hundred of these inlets is protected against a foreign foe, Four years of blockade running have greatly in- structed foreign seamen in regard to our coast, in other words have raised’ a crop of foreign coast pilots whose experience will prove of infinite damage to us in case we have a conflict with a foreign naval Power. They can pilot vessels of light draught, but carrying guns of heavy eclibre, as well as infantry, artillery and cavalry troops, through many channels now entirely defenceless, because they do not hap- pen to be ports of entry. It is to these weak points on our sea coast that we especially desire at this time to direct the atiention of Congress. It would be mnch more to the ad- vantage of the country to have defences erected at these points, or, at least, at the most im- portant of them, than to have the people’s money profligately squandered in the manner it has been by the present Congress. The publie treasuve could be much hetier used in this manner than in establishimg hnge clee- mosynary institutions like the Freedmen’s Bu- reau, increasing the tariff snd internal revenue tax, and appropriating millions for the benefit of private parties and lobby cormoranis. Tur Kier Kinp or Dirrowacr.—Lord Stan- ley, the new English Minister of Forcicn Affaire, recently siated that “a proper and. friendly understanding with the United States ix atiooet the firel “requisite of English diplo- macy.” To which we bave only to add that the payment of the Alabama claims is the first | requisiie of a proper and friendly understand- | ing with the United States. PERSOHAL ITELLIGENCE. Major General Stoedman aud Brigadier General Fatier ton, who wero recently in the South on matters com ed with the Freedmon's Bureau, arrived in tl « city on ‘Thursday last and proceeded to the St, Nieho < Hotel. General Fullerton left the st, Nicholas yesterday (or Bos- ton and ie expected to retarn to-day, when he and General Sterdinan will proceed to Washington fordhwith, Mr. W. BE. Gleason, lately appointed United Btates Consul at Borteant, France, arrived from Dacotah Terri tory last evening, and te Stopping at the Metropolitan Hoiel. He sails to-day by the Havre steamer, Mr. Tewieht Mori ied States Con France, also ~atis today for his destination, MOVEMENTS OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERMAN. Berraro, July 27, 1986, Lieutenant General Sherman arrived at Niagara Fgits yerterday, and is expected in Buflalo to-morrow, Ho ts the quest of General Barry. MOVEMENTS GF CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE. Keene, N. HL, July Chief Justice Chase arrived in town yesterday after. | noon, Mr. Chase in hie youth was a resident of Keene, and now receives a cordial welcome from the citizens, both young and old, He was serenaded Inst night, and replied in a epeseh, briefly alluding to his carly tile, He remains here aatil tomorrow morning. AMUSEMENTS. The Muntinees Toeday. Cuancey Wines Mixateens and combination troupe will perform ina fine matinée entertainment at No. 472 Broadway, today, commaneing at balf-past two o'clock, A very comprehensive bill gmbraces the services of the trio of comedians engaged at the house. Cmaris’s Rovat srayiau Creve, exhibiting in Bleecker street, between Perry and Charles, will perform thie afternoon, from half-past two o'clock. A very fine troupe—riders, clowns and horses—will be engaged. Toxy Qasron. aided by a very strong company, will open hie opera honse, in the Bowery, next Monday, July 30, His Saturday and Wednesday matinees will be resumed during the week, Wood's Theatre. Tur Wornrit. Sietsns.—The crowded wudiences at | Wood’s for the last wo months compared with the sparseness of ithe attendanes at other places of amosement in the o) fally attests the high apprecia- tion in which these charming young aetresser, the Worrell sisters, are held hy the theatre-going public, ‘They came here almost strangers, and have at once taken a high position in the rank of popular favor, Last evening was tho orcasion of the first benefit of Miss Jennie, the youngest of the trio, and, a8 on previous evenings, the house was crowded, Mise egg corned in the coinedtetta, “Milly, Oe ae Maid ——. king at Havre, | Paul,’ apace of Doane Nd mene hy Rep pon Sant artleen aes style and the cass tna raterel proce with which she performed ber part. The ime coneluded with the fairy extrava- va, the Fair ‘Oun with the Saat im which ree of the sisters appeared and received the highest marks of appreciation. THE PARAG Uay WAR. | =: Further Details of aX Great Battle Before Huma\ta. ~ OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF PRESICENT MITRE. TOTAL LOSSES OVER 12,000 MEN. Paraguayans Bombarding the Allied - Position of the Allies in the Marshes. Reo Unfavor: hee ke. ‘The steamship South America, from Rio Janeiro, with Gatos to July 2, reached Sandy Hook at five minutes to three P. M. yesterday, and anchored in the Lower Quar- antine. Her mails forwarded to the city: By them wo have interesting details of the movements of the allied armies in Paraguay. Professor Agassiz and lady came by the steamer South America, Exohango at Rio Janeiro was nominal at 233¢d. Flour higher. Coffee dull, and stock increasing. Freights nominal at 30s. a 40s. OUR RIO JANEIRO CORRESPONDENCE. i Rio Janemo, July 2, 1866. Nothing of interest from the seat of war bas reached here. No active operations have been performed on Gither side, The papers hereby transmitted are full of the details of the battle of the 24th of May. The fol- lowing, however, said to be an extract from a letter of General Mitre to his wife may not be devoid of inter- est:— GPNERAL MITRE TO TS WIPR. “The enemy attacked us, having assembled all his forces from Asuncion, Humaita and from his fleet, Some dezerters and prisoners affirm that the Paraguayan army amounted to thirty thousand, others to even forty thousand men. I beliove, however, that the attacking force did not exceed twenty-five thousand. The enemy was routed along the whole line, Jeaving four thousand killed on the fleid."* It was said, moreover, that the allied were preparing for a grand attack on Curupaiti, in which they expected to bave the co-operation of the fleet. It is almost cer- tain, howevor, that the fleet will not be able to take any part in the affair, for it is known that some of their best vessels are grounded in the mud below the fortress, and that thore is no prospect of the water rising euflicigntly to allow of their ascending the river. Persons who came down from Bolivia a few weeks ago, report that very little snow fell on the Andes last season, and that conse- quently thore will be no freshet in the river before pext season. WHAT THR PARAGUAYANS ARE DOING, ‘Tho Paragvayans are reported to be incessantly ocou- pied harrassiog the ailies with their sharpsbooters, and in fortifying themselves in thelr weak poluts. Lopez, it is said, withdraws his advanced posts at sunset, in order to prevent the desertion of his troops to the enemy. ‘This looks bad for Lopez, - 108SKS ON OTH SIDES. It is now ascertained that the losses by the beiligerents in the battle’ of the 24th of May were about 10,000, hors dé combat; of which the allies lost 4,500, and the Paraguayans 5,500. The Varaguayans are also re- ported to have lost four pisces of artillery, three flags and some small arms. The lose of the allies is not stated, The little squadron of three guuboats sent up the Pa- rana river to help the crossing of the Baron Porio Alegre’s division, left on the Sth of May, but had not arrived. . General Mitre’s Oficial Report ef the Battle of May 24 pay av Teae! Caur ov To the Vice Preston Ihave the honor to inform you that to-day the alliod arms achieved a complete victory over the enemy, who having made a sally from their fortified lines, attacked our positions in such a manner that Iwas enabled to attack thelrs, The result has been a complete répulve of the enemy in all their line, leaving dead on the battle-field four thousand mepv, and taking back « Inrge number of wounded, according to the declaration of the ranaways and prisoners. Remaining in our possession gans, arroa- ments and prisoners, the nuinber it is at thi moment im- possible to say, not having as yet received the official reports of the generals of divisions, aud there being no time to obtain them previous to the departure of the mail, Our loss has been comparatively small. The enemy has again shat bimeelf up in his fortitied camp, and escaped being totally rented owing to the nature of the ground, which prohibited pursuit, T shall shortly send you the army bulletin, which shall BP newer when I get the reports reepecting this 4 ons Viclory; meanwhile I congratulate you and the allied nations on the victory, which guarantees the re- suit of the campnrign, complying #! the same time with my duty to bear testimony to the valor of General Plores and Marshal Osorio, who distinguished themselves in the first lives, and also all We officers aad men of the three arms who nobly did their duty. God preserve your Excellency. X vx, May 24, 1866, RTOLOME MITRE. Newspaper Accounts. LOSSES IN THE BATTLE OF MAY 24, ‘The Opinien of Montevideo guarantees tue following as a correct return of the losses of friends and foes in the Jast eventfal battie of May Brazilian ofiieers. Brazilian soldiers Argentines. | Orientais. .. ane killed. prisoners 03 (wounded) taken Parag Total. , + ¥y 85 Srazitians tise Ng, 156; niso sore Argentines miesing, in’ luded abov MOVEMENTS OF THR ARMIES APR yeh THe narrie, ‘The Nar ion corres wives the following imterest- ing news, under date Cor | Roth aemies in Cy | tines aro parsing over hors tre-itios. ‘The Brazihans have not fifteen hundred eav- alry altogether, but expect eight thousand horses soon. | The allies are withons oxen or males to convey artillery aud bagge ze. Yesterday flotilia. of five steamers up over Baron Port Alegre’s men thousand, mostly cavalry, with planted a battery twenty-eight lee qaera de Loreto, whieh Capiam Alvim will have to con: tend with, Tamandare keeps ie veasels below Curmpai- ti; this fort ‘s weil manned and imounted by the giaewes; they have the river acrow®, and sunk vessels om channel. The inactivity of the fleet is commented on here. and it ie said Marshall Osorio morning Captain Alvim took a Brazilian to Parana to carry hese neimber ten jae guns. Loper has nes below the Tran. enemy, a8 we con see by our staked the el with the T learn that Loper extin yon tee oan at three thousand men Our sick and wounded amount to six thousand five hundred men; bat twelve hundred cured have already retarned to the camp, Dysentery and fever carry off victims evory day. General Netto has arrived sick; and we learn the enemy suflers frou the same epidemic. The Cyne le: day for Buenos Ayres with more wounded.” Civil war threatens room to break out in Corrientes. The Paraguayane began firiag | © day at dawn, One lose on the 26th is now ascertained to be over four | thonsand five hundsed mon ‘The citizens of Asuncion have subscribed fifty dono. Joous Co present an album to Copex for the recent battle, POMRAROWENT OF THE ALLIRD COMP WE THR PARACIAY ANS, [Correspondence of the Buenos Ayres Standard. Jase 21. | Parman, erero Beuaco, Jime 4—S P.M. The allied lines have suffered to-day # terrible bom bardinent, ‘The first shot by the enemy was fired at noon, © ogee for all their batteries to open fire epon us, and this they did instantaneousiy, At first their shots went rather wide, but they gradually mended their and threw au immenen quantity of shot and with such precision that mest of them ‘watieries of in the foremost ire was ineeewant til after dusk, again opened on ns with sharp Set tim to some tents in the Argent Brasilien and Oriental lines, bat mot tr large umber, and it is ‘eae wonderful that eur powder maga. hower of bombs hurting all present iinpossible to extamate our ‘Ove artillery attemy for ® fow moment= to pe hee then céared, perhaps owing to the wind be: ut, Lievoral Misre Inust take some decisive at hand, shell barst within our nea tp pon onty ‘ged kitted and wounded, Lopez bed aliing re from the fleet say® the veneis are thes lagen stant from tho ie ‘snp, bate pct succeeded in three hours in cialig al way ural the Yor Barn Pot received with jul Another slates the enemy's Sipsien seca mca meet mn 2, for we cannot be suffering the enemy's fire — There Le now no longer, spy. sant the River Paraguay and Curapaiti. pw the canal form a poh ad ey clean over it, and the > roariag of the falls can be heard at the ‘Trea Bocas, SPANISH-CHILEAN WAR OVER. - poh init aaen re Abandonment of the Contest by Spain—The Fleet of Admiral Nunev at Rio Janeiro ow i Weer Roo Saxemo, July 2, 1968. Three Spanish steamers have arrived from Callao, and the whole fleet is expected here; all onthe way home. The scurvy is very bad on board. CITY INTELLIGENCE, Concunt ax tae Pank.—Tho Park Commiasioners au- nounce that if the weather is fine there will be music on tho Mall at the Park to-day, commencing at oe emer PM. The following is the progruinme:— PART I. 1, March Der Nebenmann. . Overture to Fra Diavolo. 3. Ballad—“suneet’’... Polka—‘‘Great Eastern”. ~ Oberon. . S8t. Pat's’ —Quadriil . Grand Selection from YART 1, March Aspinwall......... laap Year (Bissextiie) Waltz. from Don Sebastian A New Batt ror tae Post Orrice: Towsn.—The old bell of the Post Office tower,: whose sharp, clear tones have done good service in giving many a timely warn- ing, was lately taken down and re-cast, and the new beit was yestepday hoisted from the street toite appointed place. Every movemeut was watched with interest by a large number of persons, The present bell was made West Troy, weirhs thirty-three cwt., and it took eight men nearly twelve hours to put it in his ‘geitad It will probably be more used than any other in the cit as its district is one of tho largest, and has gonerally Jargest number of fires. It is expected that its tones will be distinctly heard within a radras of four miles, ‘Tue Crry RaitRoaps, Taxes ano Fanes.—The city rail- roads are likely to lose the seven-cighths of a cent they have enjoyed s0 long at the expense of the public, an@ by the permission given to them by the revenue law. Section 103 of the Revenue law, as amended July 13, 1866, compels them to keep for sale at convenient points ben of tickets of not less than twenty, which must e sold for only such an amount above the fare as will revenue tax to be paid by the company. by tien poy the Eregent custom of charging one cent for a tax of one-eighth of one cent will cease, As the act takes offect on the Ist of August next on that day all of the New York city railroad companies must soll of twenty tickets at five und one-eighth cents each, or one doliar two and a half centa for the package. While the sum saved will not be a large one to Lagy Some ina its Joss will greatly reduce the incomes of the com- panies, Tax Skxate axp New Yorx Comartee.—Tho State Senate Committee, which was appointed, with the Mayor, State Eogineer and the Engineer of the Croton Aqueduct. Board, to asccrtain the mos’ advantageous routes ie railwaya suited to the rnpid transition of passengers the lower portion of this city, beld a rheniits e ig iat Stay and June, and invited persons to submit plans of the samo by the tiret of Augusi. The time is now extended to the first of October. Bor Drownxb.—Charles Mulreau, a lad five years of age, whose parents reside at No. 422 Fast Tenth street, while at play on the pier at the foot of Tenth street yesterday morning, accidentally fell overvoard and was drowned, The body was subsequently .recovered and delivered to the pareuts. An inquest will be held over the remains. Sewerack Acomxnt,—Yesterday afternoon, at about half-past one o'clock, two mon, named respectively Ar- thar Wallony aad Denis Quinn, were engaged at work at No. 47 Carmine street, It appears that they were en- gaged in putting in @ sewer for a water closet, and on 5. 9. 0. 1. — foams Dy privy they Were #0 quickly enfforated that into the cesspool, With considerable difficulty ier men were from thei¢ dangcreus position, the feat being accomplished only by the aid of ropes which were attached to the bodies of the unfortunates. Waliony was taken to Rellevue Hospital and Quinn to his residence, 115 Hammoud street, where he was attended to by a physician ‘THe WorKinauen’s Usrox.—A special of the Workingmon’s Union was held last ane at wate 27 louse carpenters, ar fe a sending of sealer to the tinore: rounen. pages Trades—after being considerably discussed, was, on motion, referred Agr different Tocal trades’ associa - tions, stver which the meeting adjourned MUSICAL. Theodore Thowas’ Concert at Terrace Gare den. To say that a large audience gathored at Terrace Gardew on Thoraday evening would not be giving a proper idea of the numbers of new Yorkers, young and old; who, leaving their heated houses, crowded the Third aveuue cars to have the pleasure of listeaing to the music dis- pensed without parrimouy by Mr. Tuomas and his or- chestra. This was not all, for the good people present generally seemed to consider that the wants of the inner man were not to be despised, but, on the contrary, to par- take of refreshments for “theirstomach’s sake" was the most sensible course to bo adopted. Accordingly, lager flowed freely, and good hemor was the order of the evening, #0 much eo, indeed, tliat the good selections of morte wero not listoned to as reverently as they deserved. Mr. Thomas took all in good part, and did not in the-least abate his zeal, but went on to the end and until he x 4 secured the attention of his arene sagt tte Tigh ¢ programine, good, although tl t music was a little in excess of what good might moat fanitiess in execution ; as wanted Was a little more entrain. A ‘Tranmbilder,”’ by Lanner, was encored, The object of this ploce ts eftect, and the comporer succeeded in accomplighing what he wanted; for the way in whieh he brings in a German stringed instrument called the zitter, ts cert nite cheering. The modulation from loud to soft i cellent, and altogether the execution i« bighly creditable; bw such pieces are too numerous steady, it ts not the king of neice which i¢ wanted in New York. In almost ever private dwelling scores of suet pieces may Be Dat i# wanted is good, sonnd, classical music, by whieh the people at large mizht beve thoir taste ‘improved. Soveral such pleces were performed during the evening, seemingly to the intense gratification of the audience. The terzett and Gnale to Lucrezia Borgia, the over- tare to the Domine Noir, and the overture to Othello by Rossini were in better taste, The concert closed with a descriptive piece by Bailint “ Panorama of Vieana”” The Arion Wideuwmmer Night's Festival. Poul Falk’s Belvidere Mark was on Thinreday might ther seene of the fextivities of the Arion Society. Smiling Teutonic Beauties were there by thousands, and ther danghters of America Were aiso represented. On enter- ing the park the firet thine that stroek the visitor was) the almost fairy-like appearance of tue building, witieh wae gorgeously decorated and ilinminated, Lights were: apparently hanging between loaven and earth; fer the, dark night prevented anything but the Innternw thetnselves be seem. The hum of busy voices soon. destroyed the iNusion, andthe ehartiing of raspy feet, keeping time to music, brought back the reality.” ‘The novelty, however, of a midouht dance in Sofas air was pleasent, and, judging from the all sides, every one was bent on passing & Urns sore eyes and weery limbs on themorrow were not thought of The music was coed and suitable in @haracter to the occasion, wudritles, waltaes, polkas, galope, other in amen varety. Tho ‘pleasure of the evening over, then there came ine inp home. Faces that a few minates before were rippled with «miles ciew eudslenly serious, Pg walk to town from Tolls street was ot of, qnestion; ant certainly the Fighth Avenue ‘rat road Company & to he commended for tts strict attention to the wanty of those who wished to arrive home before morning, There was “— ar Ch ag and a lalf, and this te accommodate the hui were leaving hearly, Not only ¢ bat when the car did foully start it wend al the rte of a tile a ese h it jg on record that a fumily whe left the mets ALM. sri Bruin a pight. Men, worn aad children, io attitades, and all Gata Bes woman uv amusing comfunson. appearance me sented by the haterior of that car ‘Veseen bat once Ine Ufetime., Bo for thie inconvenience the memory of Thareday nigiav® pleature would remain green inAhe memory of many. WEAVY STORM AND LOSS OF LIFF. Lovumern ae, =>, 1808 Monday in Owen count, ‘the line ot eather, nwaitea the stream eters tore ‘rowing hit, ie ina Se per sons of hie family. hosees and stock ware drowned, and the outa a Chat lorat ite fm very great An