The New York herald., 1862-08-13

| New Orleans. or course their petition was re-
fused. The correspondence On the subject is pub
| nshcd elsewhere.
/ The Atlanta Commonwealth rebep, of the 2lst
u., says that the rebel ram Georgia date Fingal),
has armament of ten guns.
A letter to the Mobile Tribune of the goth Ut,
from Texas, says:-Food is abundant. The town
OF Bastrop, Texas. was destroyed on the 5th ult.
lastrop is the capital of Bastrop county, Texas,
tlgt y-sx miles east Of Austin on the left bank Of
tie Colorado. In 1865 it contained court house.
several stores, three mills and 6,40o inhabi.
tanr-.-fD. II HEEALD.l
Ihs rebel General Polk and staf arrived at Mo-
bila the 2sth OF July.
va are indebted TO Mr.. NJ. W. Griffin, of Boston.
passenger by the steamship Philadelphia, from
New Orleans for his courtesy in bringing to New
York our dispatches from our special correspon.
dent in that city.
The City of Baltimore aud Scotia, from Queens
town reached this port early yesterday morning,
with our European files and correspondence to
the I'd of August. The news by both vessels
has been anticipated by our telegraphic summa-
res from Saint John's Newfoundland published
after they passed Cape Race. The details will be
found interesting.
Archbishop Hughes delivered two very eloquent
spcSchSS u a bduYutt gwen III MS uoioi a. win.
Ireland, Oh the subject of public education the
war in the United States, and emigration from
Ireland. These addresses are published in the
HERALD to-day.
In the state of New York there are about hye
hundred and sixty thousand men subject 70 DRAFT;
but owing TO the number OF soldiers already in
the field, and the escape of successful dodgers,
ouly three hundred and fifty thousand names have
iled thaca nhai ilx l.y hon. md
viii make out plain cases of incompetency, or
| exemption from other causes, leaving but three
hundred thousand from which to take the States
| quota of sixty thousand men, which win be one
ont Of every five. Il the whole OF The able bodied
militia coud be faithfully enrolled, the draft would
not take more than one in ten In the large cities
| men with families are more likely TO be caught
than single men, because they are always more
easily found, and have fewer facilities for escap-
ing the operations of the militia law. When
young man is enrolled and located in q certain
boarding house or private family all he has to do
is to shoulder MS carpet bag and move further up
town, Or change from one side to the other, and
he becomes Just as secure though he had been
permitted to leave for Canada By this means,
and the practising OF various other lodges which
lay within the reach Of young mon, the operations
with families, who claim to have local habitaton
and name"
From the Cape of Good Hope have news
dated at Table Bay on the Goth Of June A; the
Cape tie Governor had sent down 10 the House Of
Assembly the bill for the annexation of British
Kafrara. This measure, besides incorporating
British KaHraria with the Cape colony, proposes
70 add three members to the Legislative Council
Two Tor the eastern and one for the western pro-
vince, and ten members TO the House OF Assem-
nly-fou. Gcr the west ard six for the east. The
total revenue of the colony for the year ending
March 81, 1862, was 1856 .o2l, ana the eSpendi-
.urc during the same period, 1858 ..Gi leaving
saiplus OF e223, ,757. There was decline in bus;-
ness ard trade was dull.
In tae United States Circuit Court Fernando Di
March,, convicted OF the murder Of Francis Vim
cent, was brought UP yesterday for sentence. Mr.
Edwin james attended as counsel for tho prisoner
and submitted 10 the Court several legal points n
arrest OF Judgment, or the grounds oil defective
! allegations in the Indictment end deficiency Of
proof that The vessel on which the murder
committed W. an American ship. The case is 70
be ar,n,, s,,lay next, and sentence was
thcrci,, led.
The sivcS ,aa,k,l active ard broyal. yesterday,
especially the Afternoon. rose to
par aud railway shares advanced from rer
ira demand sprung IN for the sharcs of the run!;
cords based ihs understanding The, sre.shts
be raised. Money aDlnlant II re. cent Ex-
change about i25. for bankers bils. Sci. ll3. III
Tho ernests rrodace for the ~ 81 CO. 65.
. no eCt;os market hI16 vesieraav ui,h more
! dcins. the NE! purchasers weFe spinlc.s II
'Slos ssn - he snSTges lve aiGent contra IS
nc s-i.s cn ~.d iaco bt,"s, closr. ,he basis
= 80 go. 'or miadImg npards Tie maTker VS.