The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1865, Page 1

“ ‘ ki WHE NEW YORK HERALD. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, = WHOLE NO. 10,597. - THE SLAUGHTER, Verdict of the Coroners’ Juries on the Long Island and Oil Creek Railroad Collisions, ~— “Qensure of Presidente, Direc- tors and Employes. Ba the Oi} Creek Disaster They are De- dared Criminally Liable, Aceldent on the New York ‘Central Railroad. @ne Ferson Milled and Three Injured. “ ANOTHER COLLISION IN OHIO. A NUMBER OF PERSONS I Twenty-seven Bodies Extricated from the Debris of the Smash Up on the Nashville and Decatur Road. MORE &e. IN THE RUINS. &e. &e. ‘The Coroner’s jury, at fifteen minutes past three o'clock yesterday morning, delivered the following ver- dict :— Stale of New York, Queens county, s.—An inquisi- tion indented and taken for the people of the State of New York at the house of James 8. Remsen, in ‘the town of Jamaica, in the said county of Queens, on the 28th, 29th and 30th days of August, 1865, and the ‘Ast day of September, A. D., 1865, before me, William E. Hendrickson, one of the coroners in and for said county, upon the viewing of the bodies of William Ganley, William Walker, Joseph Wilson, John G. Laul and Sheldon Crocker, then and there lying: dead, upon the oaths of ‘Alexander Hagner, George ©. McKee, P. W. Pearsall, William McGee, A. Delmas Joknson, John A. Snedeker, Geo. 8. Silvey, J. A. Andrew, Oliver Dunham, George L. Konam, Daniel Robinson, J. Demott Bergen and Samuel Baylis, who ‘Sworn to inquire’on the part of the people of the ‘of New York into all the circumstances attend- b> Fhe death of said persons above named, and by ‘the same was produced, and in what manner, and and where the said above named persons came to deaths, do say, upon their oaths aforesaid, that the said Wm. Walker, Wm. Ganley, Joseph Wilson, Jno. Geo. Laul and Sheldon Crooker came to their deaths from mjuries received by thein respectively while on board the passenger carsof the Long Island Railroad Company, on Monday, the 28th day of August, A. D. md that said injuries were produced by the express train from Greenport coming into colliston with ‘the mail train irom Hunter's Point, and the said collision eccurred and was produced by the carelesaness of R. J. ‘Race, the conductor of the mail train, and James White, tho engineer of the express train. ‘And the said jurors do further say that they do not ‘eonsider Louis C. Sands and Daniel F. Chase are respon- sible for said collision. Savruunen 1, 1866. ALEX. HAGNER, Forewen P. W. PEARSALL, SAML. H. ROBINSON, P. A. ANDREWS, DUNHAM, GEO. L. KNAM, DANIEL BAYLIS. And the undersigned jarors do further find that the ‘rains op tho Long Island Railroad are not run upon time, and that there is Pages mism: ment of tbe said yy censure Oliver Churlick, the it of the railroad, for the careless and irregui manner in which the (rains are run, and consider that 46 indirectly respourible for the above mentioned catus- trophe. Oe HAGNER, Foreman. #. H. ROBINSON, 8. L. KNAM, A. DUNHAM JOHN D. BERGEN, iM. MAGE) we. G. 8. SILVEY. And the said J. De Mott Bergen, one of the jurore Surrewaen 1, 1865. aforesaid, upon his oath aforesaid, does dnd t the ‘above named William Ganley, Shelden Crooker, Jom George Lau, Joseph Wilson and William Walker came ilision between 4 Railroad ng Is] pany on Monday, the 28th day of that the said collision was produced by the and criminal neglect of L. C. Sands, conductor of the express train; James White, the engin the said train; R. J. Race, conductor of the mail train, and Daniel . Chase, enginver of the mail train. Serremmen 1, 1865, JOHN D. BERGEN. And the said A. D. Johnson, one of the jurors afo said, upon his oath atoresaid, does find that the above named Wm. Ganley, Shelden Crooker, Joun George Joxeph Wilson and Wm. Walker, came to their train and mail train of the Long Isiand Railroad Com: pauy, on Monday, the 28th day of August, 1865; and that | said collision was produced by the carelessness of one the said railroad company—to wit, A. D, JOHNSON, ‘Smrrempen 1, 1965. And the said William Magee, one of the jurors afore- gaid, upon his oath aforesaid, does find that the above wamed William Ganley, Sheldon Crooker, John Lani, Joseph Wilson, and William Walker, came to their death from injuries received by a collision between the express train and mail train of the Long Island Railroad Company, on Monday, the 28th day of August, 1865; that said col- ‘was produced by the carelessness of Louis © Sands, juctor of the express train, and James White, engi of said train; and that 1 exonorate from all blame F. ouas, ong ° riper! “eg WILLiat qacke. f neer train. AGE! Sarreunse 1, 1565. Mate of New York, Queens County, «.—Auv tqnisition and taken for the poopie of the State of Y ihe house of James §. Remsen, in in said county of Queens, on days of Augnst and the Ist ber of our Lord 1866, before ©. Hendrickson, one of the coroners in county, spon, view of the bodies of William ny Williain Walker, Joseph Wilson, Sheldon Crook oe John George Laul, then and there tying dead, = the oaths of the undersigned e-} lag men of the said county, who being duly sworn to fh- rt of the people of the State of New circumstances attending the death of iMiam Ganley, William Walker, ih Wilson, Crooker and John George Laul, rs by whom ‘was produced, and in what manner and when to their death, do say upon their ‘dhe persons aforesaid, came to their the collision of the mail and express the Long Island Railroad, near Van the town of Jamaica, on Monday, the of August, A. D., 1866, and that such collision through the carelessness and matten- their duties of Richard J. Race, conductor, Daniel F. Chase, engineer, of the mail train said company. ‘And we further find and vp recommend that some more definite ‘and decisive rule should be adopted by the leading oM. eaals of the company relative to the running of irregular trains, of of trains becoming irregular by meane of start ing behind time, whereby they may be required not to Jeave any station at which they may be unless they ean reach the next turn-out station at least ten minutes in ad. ‘vance of the time designated by the time table for the ar- rival at euch station for the regular train In witners whereof as well the said jurors as the said have hereunto set theif respective hands and weals, the let aay of September, A. D. 1866. WILLIAM ©, HENDRICKSON, Coroner, J. 8. SNEDEKER. GEO. ©. MCKEE, GRO. 3, SILVEY. 1, Jobo S. Snedcker, one of the jurors emypancled herein, do hereby decline voting upow the question of the Neral Management of the departare and arrival of the Gains of care tnd the. acvomurodations for the travelin lic on the Long Island Railroad, upon the ground thi itisan improper question for this jury to determine, ‘The only question proper in that point of view for this Jury to consider is, was the rond mismanaged on the day ‘of the said calamity, and if so, by whom? I therefore doctine voting on the question of i J, 8. SNEDBKER, ‘wlsmanagement? Tconcui he abor . @. 6, MCKRE, Sreveanen 1, 1808.” ij a Hee 23 aw 3 F LeenatqHttt g| Amant, Sept. 2, 1865. oiaaeie meee eta over the Central road which was due here at seven o'clock this evening by the breaking of an axle. ‘The baggage car was thrown off the track, and the Daggage master, named Smith, belonging in this city, was instantly killed, The express messenger and two others were also slightly burt, but none of the passengers were injured. The Late Disaster om the Oil Creek Ral VERDICT OF THR SECOND CORONER'S JURY—THE PRESIDENT, DIRECTORS, MANAGERS, CONDUCTO: AND ENGINEER DECLARED CRIMINALLY LLABLE Commonwealth ford County, #.— Avan ition, fade and, taken at Cat Crea. in the county of. Crawford, ust, ta tie year of our Lord 1865, before me, B, §. McAllister, Tuakiog of the Pence in-and foptke county aforesaid, acting pats agente Pood view. of pers eee et en a > hisdeath from’ severe injuries at the township of Oil Creek, in the coun’ ore ee gy mg ay rick Carey, conductor, ap by the evidence, shown, said Funk and Carey having the control of the extra freight train, and having neglected to properly flag the lino when the said express passenger train was then and there due and approaching. And further, that the ovidence shows that the and directors ¢ SP acced h ode Oe heirpertior Rete tee te O- said E. Steele Greene by refusin, neglecting reasonable and ordinary a: = Se cccommadasion for passengers travelling ovr said road, and particularly, as in ‘evidence shown, that said E. Steele Greene was compelled to stand on the ‘platform of a passenger car, where he was crushed and injured and came to his death by the collision as before described, which would not have hap- pened but for the refusal and neglect of the said president and directors of the said Oil Creek Railroad aforesaid to comply with the requisitions for reasonable and ordinary uecommodation made by the conductors and superintendent of the said Oil Creek Railroad, at differ- ‘ont times, for the passengers travelling over said road; and we, the Jury aforesaid, therefore request the Coraner 0 iasue his warrant fos the apprehension and trial of said Jeseph Punk and Patric Carey, togrther with the presi- dent, directors and managers «f the said Oil Oreck Rail- road, who, by their culpable negligence, as proved by the evidenc», have caused the death of said deceased E. Btecie Greene, We farther find, from the evidence, facts and information which have come before this jury, that the equipment of the Oil Creek Railroad, its insuf- ficient passenger accommodation, inability to bring the passenger cars and baggage to a platform, want of facili- ties for loading or unloading freight, creates unnecessary risk, loss of time and property, all of which evils a rea- sonable outlay woud remedy, and be not only true econo- my bnt tend to save life and limp, as well as property. COMMENTS UPON THE ABOVE VERDICT. {From the Titusville (Pa.) Herald, August 30.) Scarcely had one coroner’s jury concluded its painful dnties, when the death of another victim of the railroad massacre required another to be summoned. The unfor- tunate subject of the second inquest was poor Greene, of Hydetown, a returned soldicr, who had his right leg badly crushed, with a fracture of the right thigh, also a mpound fracture of the left leg. Ho survived ‘bis 1 juries twenty-four hours, suffering excruciating misery, ‘and expiring at one o’clock on Friday. There seems to be a spocial Providence in the circumstance of Greene’s outliving the rest in order that the culpability and the criminality of the railroad directors might stand out ip a more striking and unmistakable manner. In a former verdict the jury contented itself “with e: pressing ind'gnation that passengers were compelled to risk their lives on the Qil Crock ilroad for the want of accommodation in the cars, in proof of which ries and deaths were confined to those persons we ee — ts find seats in ee passenger Shean 1 the second inquest developed the gross and it negligence of the company in this regard so palpably aud pointedly that the jury wonld have been guilty of an un- pardonable dereliction of their sworn duty had they not, view of the testimony bofore them of Greene’s anxiety and inability to obtain a seat in the cars, solemnly held that at least this one man’s death would never have happened had not the president and directors of the Oil Creek Railroad refused and neglected to provide sufficient cars for passengers. It further appears tha! those officers had been appealed to repeatedly by the superintendent and the ecnductor to supply more cars. This exculpates these subordinates, while it imposes a fearful responsibility upon those high officials who direct and contro! the affairs of this corporation. Nor did the moral courage of the jury stop half way in the discharge of their invidious duty ; but with a firmness that cannot be too highly commended, they followed out the legitimate consequences of their conclusions of fact, and demanded of the Coroner that ho issue his warrant for the apprehension and trial of the president, directors and managers of the Oil Creek Railroad, as well as of Joseph Funk, the engineer, and Patrick Carey, the con- ductor of the freight train. ‘The jury also condemn, in emphatic terms, the want of facilities On this road in ‘loading and unloading freight as creating unnecessary risk, nes of time and property, & judgment in which the entire community wil! concur. 'o B.S. McAllister, the acting Coroner, to George M. Mowbray, the foreman, and to each and ail of their assp- ciates their fellow citizens owe a debt of gratitude. They have collected the evidence with patient diligence, and sifted it with judicial care. They ha (oman hen the innocent nor spared the guilty. Justice wilPlways seem harsh to those who suffer the penalty of negligence or crime; but a violated law and a despised public opinion must be vindicated at whatever hazard and cost, or there ix no protection to life or property in society. Collision on the Lake Shore Railread. BKVEKAL PERSONS — IN. ANOTHER SHORT © ’ {From the Conneaut (Ohio) Reporter, August 31. A sion occurred On the Lake Shore Railroad aboot nix o'clock on Tuesday evening last. The accommoda- tion train collided with No. 1 freight, doing considerable age to property, besides injuring several pessengers and men on the accommodation. The freight train, going west, numbered some seventy cars and was drawn by two powerful engines, the Conneaut and the Ocelot, the Conneaut be: pead. It is customary for this train, t mmodation and express—up, to meet at Conneaut, Getting in a little ahead of the accommoda- and being le r than the switch, the freight train ny to the main track when the whis commodation sounded, the other side of the wooded curve. give warning, bit owing f i Was not seco until it was too late to materially k the headway of the .train, and its | engine, the ele, ren the Conneaut angine with considerable for disabling both aud scattering broken {rons and timbers promis- enously on each side of the urack. The head of the Guzelle was nearly on top of that of the Conneaut, and the iron monsters gave a fearful embrace, the steam issuing from the fractured flues, The mai! and baggage ear was pretty badly stoven up, and the passenger car had # good many seats broken and displaced. The per- sons injurea were Loren Gould, A. W. Colman, Kellogg, a brother-in-law of Dr. Fifleld; a German woman, Page, newsboy; George Humphrey, bageage master; the fireman, and several others whose names we did uot learn. None of the above are dangerously burt. the ar TWENTY-AEVEN BODIRS RECOVERE! . NUMBER STILL AMONG THE RU [From the Nashville Despatch, August 29.) We learn, from parties who atrived yesterday after- noon from the scene of the late terrible accident, that » to Sunday night twenty-seven dead bodies had been extricated from debris. It was supposed that @ con- | siderable number of bodies were still smong the ruins, | as @ couple of cara wore still in the bottom of the creek, apd it was known they were partially filled with refu gees and contrabands, The Smash-Up o tL ca and Dee a LARGE ALABAMA. Preclamation of @overnor—The » Oath—The ieee oe Courts= Panishment of Criminals, * Exrourrvs Deranrmest, Moxvaoweny, Ala, August 19, 1865. To tHe Prorie OF ALABAMA AND Crvm. Orricers oF THE Srare:— sclamotion of general amnesty and pardon lesued. bY prool ion al 'y don issued the President of the United Stater ‘on the ‘29th of May, pone —_ to To: deans gan of the ein thereby granted, must take the oath preseribed \¢ Secretary of State before some commissioned officer of the United States (military, naval or civil), or some officer of a loyal State or Territory, authorized to administer Serond—Atter this be of ami aa above described, if the person gal voter, under the laws of Alabama on the 1ith of January, 1861, then to qualify himself to vote at the ensuing election, he must go before an officer of the coupty io which he pro- pokes to vote (judge of probate, juatice of the peace or special commissioner, of other of ant to ad- Minister an oath), and take and register the same oath, otherwise he will not be allowed to vote, Third—No one is eligible to a seat in the Convention who is not a loyal citizen of the United States, and who has not been a resident of the State two years, and of the county one year next eding the election, The Judge of the Sheriff, and the Clork of the Ciroait Court of each county, wi |, immedi. ately after the Slet of August, destroy the old jury lists and make up a new one from the names of those loyal citizens who have taken the oath and been Sete [r} required by my proclamation of July 20, 1865, and who are otherwise qualified as jurors, and from these liste juries will be drawn in the mode prescribed by law on the 11th January, 1861. Fiyfth—The’ Judges of directed and required to State cases only, in each county w! for the fall term has not beon held suebrepiosn ir ‘may ire. Crimes of all kind appear to be alert om the in- crease, but especially stealing and toalit Men go in large bands, armed and ied, ind 1a to night. Individuals come isa oun Te. dregs of injurice, real or {ancied—taking aw into their own hands. Reporte to this effect como to me from \pbllow-citiaens, al thie wast be stopped; if we cannot 5 it wo. do it ourwelves, oF if you will not ald Ir as ee the civil) tribunals of php couptry, thore is a force at hand to aid all loyal citizens, that ts abundantly abie todo it. I have already called on Major General Wood to send a military force to one county, to arrest bands of men who go armed and disguised, in order steal cotton and other property. ‘When crime becomes 80 bold and daring that the ord) Lary means are insufficient to arrest it, more vigorous measures will be promptly employed. ‘To the lawless men who engage in the commission of these disorders and crimes, it 18 announced that justice will quickly and surely overtake them. Seventh—The Circuit Judges will instruct the grand juries to inquire particularly of the offences before enu- merated, and to ask of every witness who appears before them this question :—"De yon know of any person who has been engaged in stealing cotton, horses, mules or other property?” If so, they will be required to stato the names of those persons, and all the facts within the knowledge of the witness. ‘He will be informed that hie answers will not be used against himself; but he will be compelled to testify as to all others, and will be ixoprié- oned if «eben gerd Until he consents Koray Gs Kighth—All citizens-are entreated attempt redress of past injuries by violent means, but to sppeal to the law. A. just administration of the laws will soon ae, all that the law | aSirde. suarie, proectons well as the most satisfactory redreas of grieva wh! pr tas oes ee the peace and good of a weir State, oe . ‘prdviioual Governor of Alabauis VIRGINIA. . Rebert E. Lee Playing the Historian— The Wealthicat Rebel in the State Par- doned. “4 OUR RICHMOND CORRKSPONDENOR. Ricumonn, Va., Sept. 1, 1865. GENERAL B. 8. LAB RNGAGED UPON A HISTORY OF THE WAR. General Robert KE. Lee, the rebel chieftain, has ‘within a few days practically set about the task of writ- ing a history of the war. The forthcoming work will doubtless be written from the rebel standpoint, and in this view will constitute an exceedingly vabuable con- tribution to the historical literature of the century. General Lee is living in great quiet and humility on an ‘obscure and well nigh inaccesible farm, the property of a friend, in Cumberland county, Va. His sons and a nephew, with slight aid comparatively, have raised magnificent crop of corn on the White House farm. THE WRALTIIRST MAN. IN VIRGINIA PARDONED. William Allen, Exq., of this city, returned from Wash- ington iast evening, having with him his pardon papers, granted to him by the President of the United States, Mr. Allen is confessedly the wealthiest man to-day in the State of Virginia, as he was before and during the war. MISSISSIPPI. Governor Sharkey’s Order for the Organ- ization of a State Militia—General Slo- cum Puts a Complete Stop to the Move- ment, &. {From the Chicago Republican, August 30.) Governor Sharkey has fallen into trouble. Though no longer a young maa, he is decidedly too fast. He travels out of the record. He transcends his authority. He fancies himself a greater potentate than he is. He haa already got himself snubbed by the military authorities in theState. He will be reprimanded by his superiors at Washington. He ought to be removed, and aman of common sense, as well as of patriotiem—a man who has some practical’ judgment and knows what he is about should be made provisional governor in his place. Governor Sharkey bas thought proper to appoint courts and sheriffs, and to set on foot a system of his own for the administration of justice. His commission and his instructions give him no power to estabjish such institutions. The people of Mississippi have had no jus- tice, except of the military kind, since they rebelled and attempted to destroy the government of the United States. Under the rebel rule this military justice was of the worst description; since the con- quest of the State it has been immensely im- proved in its quality. However, they have not got on very well with this military system, and we dare say Sharkey hates it as much asx Horace Greeley does. But ‘that does not empower him to rush ahead with his new cts, like a steam engine without a balance wheel. ¢ Mississippians can have civil justice, and that only, just as soon as they are out of rebellion and in the Union} ‘but Sharkey might as well not try to precipitate its bene- fits upon them by his own autocratic decree. He has also undertaken to raise a military establish. ment. He has ordered that two companies of soldiers of the State of bayer 7 shall be organized and armed in every county. On this subject a decisive counter order will be likety soon to reach him from Washington, Meanwhile, however, General Slocum, the military com mander of the State, has taken the matter in hand, as was his duty, and has directed that no such miktary or- | cory seg shall take place anywhere in the State. He as also ordered that all persons in the State shall at once surrender to the United States officers all arms in their possession. This will check the military ardor of Governor Sharkey, but it will, in the end, we think, prove beneficial to the people of’ Miseissippi. Indictment of Mary’ a Rebels. [et the Baltimore American, Sept. 1.) The Grand Jury of the United States District Court yesterday morning returned into court indictments for treason against Bradley ''. Johngon, Henry G. Gilmor alias Harry Gilmor, George Freauer, John G. Howard and Thomas Fitzhugh. The indictment agai Johnson is for levying war, with others, against the United States, especially on the 18th June, 1863, in Washington county, Maryland, and in capturing and taking posses- sion of Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania leo, that ‘on the 10th of July he, with others, on hostile intent, invaded and szed through Baltimore county. Against Harry Gilmor there are two indictments—one charging him with having on the Lith July, 1864, set fire to the railroad bridge in Harford county, over the Gunpowder river, with intent to impede and prevent the transportation of military supplies of the United States, and the other on the same day, at lia, aseaulting Mareus Hook, a carrier of maile of the United States, and with pistols and swords putting him in jeo- way of his life, and thereby obstracting the mails, &c. ‘he indictment against Freaner charges that on the 10th September, 1862, he appeared with other rebels in Wash ington county, capturing Hagerstown, in which place he acted as Provost Marshal. Against Howard, as also Fitz- hugb, there are two indictments, one charging that on the 4th of April, 1865, in Fair Haven Bay, otherwise known as Herring Bay, he with others in arms did seize the steamer Harriet De Ford, with intent to convert and apply the steamer to the service and assistance of the re bellion. The other charges tim with having aseaulted Albert H. League, master of the steamer, and feloniously and piratically stealing a suit of clothes,” including a pair of boots, valued in all at $36: also ten hogsheads of to- bacco valued at $100, with $50 in United states Treasury notes, $686 in legal tender notes, and $185 in bank notes —ip all $920. Destructive Fire in Boston. LOSS SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAKS. {From the. Boston Advertiser, September 2. Last evening, just before ten o'clock, fire broke out in the furniture and upholstery manufactory of Messrs. Buckley & Bancroft, over the inward paasonger station ‘of the Boston and Worcester Railroad. By great efforts, the flames were confined to the premises of Messrs. Buckley & Bancroft, whose large stock of furniture was almost entirely ruined by fire, water or smoke. The roof was burned ont in several places for an extent of near! a bundred feet, and the water poured in torrente}throug! the floor to the passenger rooms beneath. The western part of the building, containing the offices of the corpo- Fation, was uninjured. The loss of Messrs. Bucl a Bancroft cannot fall far short of $76,000, on which they — mye of _—_ $50,000, in ‘Sener 1 property railway corporation is insured on a general policy. Police Intellige: RKERPER, CHARGED WITH ho! RIS EMELOYER. Officer Sands, of the Ninth precinct police, yesterday arrested John Tiotjon, young German, twenty years of age, charged with stealing two hundred dollars in cash from his employer, Peter Culkin, for whom he was act- ARKBAT OF A fm Bodin may 4 of bartender. The money wae in a Py wd) under the counter, and the prisoner was seen to open the box and remove the cash therefrom. ‘When arrested denied all knowledgo of the trans. ection. He was taken before Justice with and com- mitted for trial in default of bail, A SOLDIER SHOT IN MERCER STRERT. Atalate hour on Friday night York Mootnie, alias William Norton, a man twenty-two years of age, was arrested on the charge of having shot William Hubbard, a soldier, in the foot, while standing of the corner of Mercer and Howard streets, The ballet from the prison- er’s pistol carried away one of Hubbard's toes, Mootnie, in explanation, said the pistol was accidentally dis- charged, and disclaimed any intention of shooting any one. Justice Ledwith, however, committed the accused for ‘trial in default of $1,600 bail, A NUMBER OF WATOHR® RECOVERED BY THE POLIOR. Detective Slowey, while passing through Baxter street yesterday, saw two negroes going into the establishment of a well known receiver of stolen goods. Ho arrested them on their leaving the place and took them to police headquarters, where they gave the names of John Mar- ghall and Charies Smith. In their posseasion were found fifteen silver watches. They refused to tell where they got them, but they are’rupposed to be a part of the pro- ceeds of some robbery in the vicinity of thiselty. ‘The Property. may be seon by applying to Ohief John 3. foung, at the detective office. Obituary. b nengenl md i to Me Ra of AS Revoln- (onary in Waterford, on at aged ninety'stx years, i . are Dr_ Moses Swear, of North . died on the 25th ult., aged seventy-seven years, deceared tensively known profession the ‘nowt aki ) nnadominte ot hie day. ‘de "whe ‘he Salwer of Hon, 1, M. Byoat, of SEPTEMBER 3, 1865. WASHINGTON. THE PUBLIC DEBT. Official Statement to the Ist of September. Total Amount Outstanding $2,757,689,571. Over Forty-five Millions of Coin in the Treasury. The Fractional Corrency to be Printed op Paper that Cannot be Counterfeited. Order from the Secretary of the Treasury in Relation to the Transportation of Goods into the Southern States. Reduction in the Staffs of Gene- ral Officers. ae, Wasmnoron, Sept. 2, 1865, STATEMENT OF THR PUBLIC DEBT. Secretary McCulloch to-day publishes a statement of the public debt as it appears from the books, treasurers’ returns and requisitions in the department on the 3ist of August, 1965. The recapitulation is as follows:— AMOUNT OUTBTANBING. Debt bearing interest in comm: Interest. ae, ae 1, 108,810,191 2” 64,600,600 1,274,478, 103 In Redichemvess Debt bearing interest in lawtul mon¢ terest 531, ' Int Jeane sbeeescteesnessawesen Debt on which interest has ceased. + 1,608,020 Debt bearing no imterest,........ 378,398,256 Total debt... cv ++: $2,757,689,571 Total interest. . 188,081,620 Legal tender notes in circulation, one and two year five per cent notes. 83,954,290 United States notes, old insue 402,968 United States notes, new ixsue. 492,757,601 Sent interest notes, act of March 3, ‘Total... ary see As contrasted with the statement of the public debt, published on the 1st of Juty, the principal has been in- creased only $205,000 within the last month, while the intereat on the debt has decreased nearly $231,000. ‘The legal tender notes have been reduced $1,087,000, The amount of coin now in the Treasury is nearly forty-five millions aud a half, or aboat ten millions more than a month ago. ‘The currency now in the Treasury is nearly forty-three millions, as against eighty-one und a half millions, show- ing a reduction of currency in the Treasury for the paat ith of thifty-cight millions and a half. ‘The suspended requisitions amount to a httle over two millions. THE FRACTIONAL CURRENCY. ‘The printing of fractional currency notes upon the new membrane paper bas been temporarily checked by a slight disagreement between the inventor and the de- partment, in reference to the production and cost of the paper. Eventually, when » decision }s arrived at by the Secretary, the public will be supplied with a fractional currency the successful imitation of which will baffle the skill of the oldest counterfeiter. It will be well nigh impossible to produce the paper outside of the Treasury building, and from its texture and finish the least expert in money will be able to distinguish the genuine note. Not the least among the many excellen ces of the new currency is the fact that it will wash, THE REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES—ORDER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury to-day promulgated the President’s proclamation of the 29th ult. for the infor- mation and guidance of officers of the Treasury Depart- ment, and says:— In conformity with its terms, articles heretofore re. garded as prohibited may be transported to places in States heretofore declared in insurrection, without any restrictions, except guns, pistols and ammanition. Ap plications for the shipment of these should be made in writing to the proper officers of customs, who will for- ward them to the department for its decision, accom panied with such recommendations as they may be dis- posed to make, H. McCULLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury. INTERNAL REVENUE DECISION. ‘The Commissioner of Internal Revenue this morning dovided ns follows:—“A party who holds a license as a retail liquor dealer and wishes to retire from the busi- ness may sell his entire stock to another person without procuring a wholesale liquor dealer's lieense.”” REDUCTION OF THE STAPFS OF GENERAL OFFICERS. In obedience to orders from the War Department, the work of reducing the number of staff officers on the staffs of commanding generals ix still progressing. Yes terday four were detached from the sia! of General Angur, of this department Captain A. R. Cotler, Assistant Quartermaster, former. ly on duty with Colonel Alexander, Chief of the Engi- neer Department, and Captain J. M. Reno, Quartermas ter of De Russey’s division, have been relieved from fur- ther duty in this department LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO GENERAL SPINNER. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, | Wasmiverox, August 25, 1865. 5 My Dear Sin—Your note of the 24th instant, asking for a leave of absence for four weeks from the 4th Fresime, ig received. You inform me that during the and a half years you have field the very importent ‘and responsible office of Treasurer of the United States you have been absent but nineteen daye—one day by an ‘accident and eighteen by reason of sickness. I Knew you had served the government with remarka- ‘die devotion, but I was not aware, until I received your note, that you had given yourself so little relaxation. ‘The nation is greatly indebted to you for that official tinest which has made your name a synonym of Nity, for the admirable manuer in which you have formed your arduous and difficult duties, and for t unflinching zeal with which you have sustained the cause of the Union, during the trying periods you have been in Your req is cheerfully granted, with the hope that your furlough will be a pleasant one, and that at its ex- fa you will return to your duties greatly benefited the rest to which youre 40 fairly entitled. 1 om, very respectfully, your lent SOG nocu Goneral F. BE. Srrvwen, Treasurer United States, RAILROAD COMMUNICATION WITH THE SOUTH. ‘The Superintendent of Construction of the Orange and Alexandria Railroxa vaye the road to Lynchburg is now in full working order for freight a8 well as.tor passenger trains, and that the route from Lynchburg, via Gordons- ville, is the only one by rail from the former place to Richmond. Communication by rail is now complete to Staunton and to Lynchburg, and beyond Lynchburg to Bristol, in Southwestern Virginia, or Kast Tennessee. In a few weeks the road beyond Bristol will ve finished, when the railroad communication will be com- plote to Now Orleans, Some freight is taken hence over the Orange and Alex andria Rajiroad, which was brought hither from New York by steamshipe. ADVANGE OF THR CHOLERA, The United States Coneul at Port Mabon, in a letter to the State Department, dated August 12, saye:—Should the advance of the cholera continue for the next twenty days it must be looked for in England, PERSONAL, General Biair and Horace Greeley are among the ar- Tivals to-day. The advent of the Tribune philowe®F 0¢- casions much speculation in dertain cir-* ‘The statement that Mr, K==-t¥ bad been condition ally offered the nx--eoncy of the United States Telegraph Company was made on what was supposed to be good authority. It now turns oat that the election is yet to come Of; eppecquently the apnounyeMeD} Was prema- ture. It is probable that Mr. Kennedy will it Prosi, dential and Congressional action on census affairs before engaging in other pr suite, RECOVERY OF MR. FREDERICK #BWARD. Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Seeretary of Stato, has #o far recovered his health ag to be able to attend to business of a private character, and intends © resume ‘the dutios of his office in a few days. THE FREBDMEN’B BURBAU. ‘The total number of freedmen in the District of Cotum- Dia ip the charge of the Freedmen’s Bureau is nearly twenty-six thousand, of whom five hundred and nine- teen are receiving rations from the government without rendering any equivalent, THE COLORED SCHOOLS IN WASHINGTON, From letters ocgasionally received at the Freedmen’s Bureau, from teachers employed in the management of colored schools im Washington, it would sppear that there are quite a number of its citizens loth to reconcile their prejudices to the establishment of ap educational: |’ system such as i¢ now being developed under the aur- pices of the above bureaus for the benefit of the negroes. A number of instances have already been egmmaunicated to the local Superintendent of Freedmen’s#’ Affaire where parties of various stations in life have applied the most abusive epithets to the teachers of colored schools, and havo occasionally threatened their lives, The bureau is taking proper and summary measurea 10 protect ite teachers in undisturbed application to their labors ip this regard. THE MANUFACTURE OF FLOUR AND MBAL IN THE SOUTHERN STATES IN 1860. By the census returns of 1860 the interest of the South ern States in the manufacture of flour and meal is thus sot forth:—Number of establishments, 3,806; number of employes, 5,943 males and 21 females; capita! invested, $14,059,911; cost of labor, $1,484,736; cost of grain con- sumed, $32,083,045; annual value of product, $37,906,470. THE ACCUSED CITY OFFICIALS. Meeting of the Street Cleaning Commis- sioners in the Mayor’s Office—Payment of the Contractors—Interesting Discus- sion Regarding the Action to be Taken in Relation ‘to the Trial Before the Governor—No Definite Action yet Agreed On, &c. The operations of that institution known as the Street Cleaning Commission, and composed of Messrs. Mayor Gunther, Comptroller Brennan, Inspector Boole, Corpo- ration Counsel Develin and Recorder Hoffman, are not looked upon by our citizens as of much importance, par- ticularly since the awarding of the contract a few months since. Once or twice since that time the Commissioners met, voted some money, away and subsided again for the time being. On yesterday another convocation of the commission was held, and on this occasion their délibe- rations were of a graver nature. The receipt by each member of the official notification from the Governor of the charges and specifications of Mr. ee (already published in the Hrraup), and alleging corruption against thaCommussioners, and fivally praying for their removal from oftive, occasioned a feeling of uneasiness which promptly determined the gentlemen to take counsel together. ‘The Mayor's office was most appropriately selected for the purpose, and here the meeting was accordingly held. ‘The first business transacted was the passing of a reso- lution ordering the payment of the contractors’ bills for the fifteen days ending August 31, A member then introduced the ent matter. He.thought that the question was one requiring imme- diate and decisive action on the part of the Commission- ers. A combination of unscrupulous journalsand mor- bid aspirants for power bad been at work evoking @ - ing among our citizens of hostility to 18, and now they were to be arraigned as an official elected by that party than whom nom,.ouid pos- sidly have w Dlacker record for arrant corruption and public profligacy. The venomous moutht of these Fevolutionary Jacobins had been for weeks chuckling over a coming coup d'etat, and a guillotine was at once to be get in motion. No epithets were too foul to be ap- plied to them, and he believed that it bespoke neither wisdom nor self-respect on the part of the slan- dered and persecuted public officers of this city to rest longer im silence beneath the aspersions of these scurrilous and unprincipled men. He advocated prompt action i this matter, They should combine and call upon the earnest, straightforward masses of this great community to sustain them in vindicating their character a8 men, as well as the rights and dignity of the metropolis. Another member saw in this ‘“notification’’ simply a repetition, or rather pverile imitation, of the cclebrated bellringing exploits of another distinguished character of the dominant party. It was simply a bold aesump tion of arbitrary power, and 4 wanton aggression upon the municipal rights of this city, which he hoped would be met in a pany and proper spirit. Was there in all the records of all the States of this Union a single prece- deut for proceedings of this Kind? Clearly not. Here was aGovernor of a State summoning a Judge of the city of New York to appear before him on ti an- swer charges preferred by some misguided tool of the conspirators, residing somewhere in one of the up-town streets of this city. Why, this proceeding was worthy of the most eccentric “squire” that ever held forth in our primeval police courte. Recorder Hoffinan, being a judge, could not be tried except before the Senate of New York apon recommen dation of the Governor. He that the whole mat ter was purely inspired by the centralization ideas a tendencies of the party whose role was fast blighting the country. The people should be given to unde the true state of the case, A the cli and wi pullers taught that the American people are no longer in Atemper to tolerate aggression on the most cherished privil ges of freemen, Another deprecated any basty action on the joners, and believed that the matter t that the Gover ; nen, and possibly had take iMlaily and week y. “When th Excellency he believed that would at once, and thus silence these factious partisans. In the meantime he deemed \t eminently wise to avoid all precipitancy, and would be favor of responding to the charges before the Governor. For the rest. public sentiment in the city and State was still, thank God, potent enough, notwithstanding the banerul influence of certain publications, to secure the repré- sentatives of the people from all injustice and aggression at the hands of power. There was further disoc from the elaborate precantionary measures of the parties concerned our reporter was unable to obtain all the facts The deliberations, however, did not result in any decis ive aggregate action of the accused officials. In the meantime “the opportunity of defence will be given at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the 26th day of Xeptem- ber, 1865, at the Executive Chamber,” &c., and we shall see what’ we shall see n upon the matter, but SUPKEME COURT—CHAMBERS, Before Judge Sutherland. The Beaver street murder case came up yesterday morning before Judge Sutherland. The facts of the case are well known to the readers of the Herat, Jamos F, Oram was formerly employed in the service of Mr. Van Doren; but, havin his service, started in business for himself. Mr. Van Doren, it is alleged, took various opportunities of maligning his former clerk, who, on tl of June last, discharged a pistol at him, baa im causing his death, Application was made some time since to admit the prisoner to bail, and yesterday morning the Judge re Jered a decision on the application, admitting Jamew Oram to bail in the amount of $25,000. Coroner's Inquest. Fartat FaLt prom 2 Honse.—Coroner Collin yeratday held an inquest at the stables of the Dry Dock and East Broadway Railroad Company, corner of aes atreet and avenue B, over the remains of Job» Murphy, « man forty-two years of age, whose death ¥4® the result of in- juries received by falling head remost from 4 horse, corner of avenue D and Sixteesh street. Deceased was riding a horse and leading three others, when he fell and track his bead en the pevement with great violence, He was taken up ineewstole and expired soon afterwards Deceased was in 14¢ employ of the railroad company and wan acting ascoreman of the stables, We wax a naive of Ireland jartford Defalenation. } Mr, Callender having necessarily A his po as cashier of the State Bank, Geo. F , the toll was this morning appointed to Ail his place, and J 4 Palmer, Jr., was nted seller, The bank will not probably pay its anticipated fall dividend, so that the stockholders will not get the usual income upon their shares. But the assurances are very positive that the capital stock i# not impaired—the surplus alone bang absorbed, We have fothing further to add ment of losses «stained by the bank, whi lished in the Timer of Inet evening. We um Mr. Callender claimed Inst evening that the debted to hinr, but that idea does not provatl a the officers of the bank, and those who have I and thia investigated ith wfnira Tt in evident « that the iustitution youst lose at least $100,000 Callender. Gene + ir Meade at Charleston, Crancaston, 8. C., August 31, 1865, General George @. Meade, now visiting this depart. ment, arrived here this morning Ho is accompanied by his son, Colonel George Monde, Major General A. 8, Wobb, Brigadier General BR. H. Batchelder, Genorals Gil. more, Beal, Hartwell and their various #off, They are sopping at the Charleston Hote), PRICE FIVE CEN THE OPERA. The Libel Saits of Max Maretzek and the Sunday Press. The Compiaints and Answers and Special Pleadings. dec. THE FIRST suit. de. de. Superior Court of the City of New York. THE COMPLAINT. Maz Mardzck againd William Cauldwell aid Horace P. Whitney, ‘The complaint of the plaintiff against the defendant shows to the court that the plaintilf isa gobd, true, honest, just and faithful citizen of the State, of New York, aud as such has always conducted himself, aud bas been so reputed, accepted and esteemed among his neighbors and other good and worthy: citizens of this State, to whom he was in anywise known, to be a person of good name, fame and credit; that he is and has been for more than fifteen years last past in business as a ductor or manager of a troupe or company of opera singers, musicians and performers, aud in said business has been and has acquired a great reputation and erodit, good name and fame, and has conducted his business: at all times with credit, skill and respectability, aud good faith towards the public and those who atteuded or were in the habit of frequenting the performances given by the said plaintit and his said company. And the plaintiff further says thet he has never cow mitted or been guilty of the matters, or any of them, alleged or intended to be charged by the defendant ip the libellous matter hereinalt Fr set out. ‘And the plaintiff furthef says be has for many years past—to for fourteon years last past—at divers times, les demised and hired, for the purpose of giving representations of operas, spectacles and other performances, by and with his said, tvoupe and company, various public buildings in the city of New York, and other cities, among others, the building or opera house in the city of NeW York known as the Aca demy of Music, and has given such representations with credit and @ good name, and to many numerous large and respectable audiences and persons, and with groat gains and receipts of money theresor. And Ue plaintiff turther says that the costs and expenses of the maintenance and carrying on of the said busines# and payment of the expenses of his aaid business is and wax very great, and that his sole dependence for the carrying on of the same, and for his livelihood, and that of his family, was and is 1n the profitable and succesful result of saig business. And the plaintiff further says bis ability’to perform his engagements under the lease and each demise, hiring or lease of sald Academy of Music by him, was and is dependent on the succese of the pre- vious hiring or performances given therein, ‘And tim plaintiff further says that before the com mencement of this action—to wit, on or about the 18th day of May, 1863—he leased and hired the su. Academy of for the term of five months, said term to be ex if the performances given by the plaintii! sho it aweful and pay the expenses of the performancer, ble him to pay for the Academy and maintain i nd family. i And the plaintiff showa, that for the purpose of carry ing on his said business during the said term, and du: sueh further terms as he might be able to curry on same, and to give good and respectable performances of operas and other performances and spectacles connected with his said basiness, he lad ont aud expended, and became, and was Hable for a large sum of ihoney—to wit, the sam of thirty thousand dollars and upwards, in and about the engaging and paying of numerous -ingers, performers, scenery, dresses and other necessaries 1m aud about the getting up aud performing of said operas tacles, aud the said Acadomy of Music and bin foresaid. pinintif says that the said defendanisare pub lishers, editors and proprictors of a pubhe mowspaper, printed and published in tho city of New York, known i called the Sunday Mercury, which said newspaper, as the defendants allege, “has the largest cireulation of any Sunday newspaper in the country”—to wit, the United States, and that three editions thereof are issued and published by them. ri And the plaintiff further says he is informed and be Vieyes that one hundred thousand copies of suid newspu per are printed, published, sold or circulated in and among the public. ‘And the plaintif furtber says that the said defendants, contriving and wickedly and tnuliciously intending to in- jure the plain iff in bis good name, fame and credit, and injure him as manager and conductor of the opera as aforesaid, and to deprive bim of all beuetit of the Academy of Music and his lease and future leases thereof, and to injure and destroy his said business as aforesaid, and to bring bim and ‘bis suid business inte | public eeandal, infamy and disgrace with and among all his neighbors and the id to prevent him trom carrying on his said. b and to vex, harass, op press, impoverish and y ruin him and his awd business, did falsely, wickedly and malicious ¥, 11th day of October, 1863, at the city of New York, per mit and pabli«h and cause and procure to be priuted and published in their eaid public newspaper, entitled the Sunday Merew y, of aud concerning the plaintit, and of y's #aid business and t ame a cert libel a d | other things, the false, se: aad libellous matte plaintitt, | 8, “The Disgrac to the. pul he ont A sacrifice of hoth t the risk of comin rm now nake it the »pera and performer aforesaid, conducted, i lic by the plaintitt fer or thay | and that if wich of ‘he plaintiff, forthe ime with persons of improp ch persons of bad and Aaproy ail opera of the plaintyy their place of meeting), . oi | “And for another and separgé Cause of action “against | dhe said det shows that on the [8th | Pndauts falsely, wi day of € ) ma unjustly printe I to be | lishe | lished'in the fulse, seandal libel of and con and defamatory art iaintiM, and of al © ae Lucie, heading the said article w : aid a Stusic under a Cloud Sin Places”’ (meaning Aereby that the opera of t And. hia’ busines! Wasa faiture and hon public, and also Apt crime or some sinful matt Paid on at the sid opera), viz:-—“All thera deficiencies saree discovered jast_weason by the public, yet «til! the Tranagement mint have drawn fair houses, as to go to the opera is fastpnable, and that consideration covers « multitude of in our so called best circles. but whispers begay ® circulate that the Academy of Music War hardly the ple for modest and respectable wornen Jeane sud that 6 fll up the house, dead head vickets Hel tech, furniate to people whom no decent citizen v it beside his wife or daughter’ (mean could wish of the plaintift was ing thereby That the upers ¢ ple, particularly decent roputyy® place for re Md that the plaiotift had in patable wenn | SMdueed bad and disreputable people into the said | SEademy of Music at by dead bead or frve admissions to fill house); Sand certa that the scarlet wom inged forth in glory and shame from wcirele and box” {meaning that by the disreputable women and their fall characters, se conspicuons places in the the performance of the ope “the lobbies have become from the worst of the city ¢ cketbooks and watches are Bok out for their valuables, One fof the most consyyicuous patrons of the preset opera, 1 a Tombs lawyer, known the public as the hustund of @ notorious courter: jauely deere ad This percon nightly occapies « posit in the dress circle, in full view of the whole hous Irmale companions after his kind” (meaning aforesaid matter that by the managoment of the plaintin, and with his knowledge or ¢ he gamblers, pick Huckets, notorious strumpets and bad characte vightly od the performances of the said opera of the ho most | tre plaintiff, and the | | pichoas pla incensed the de ybies and dress circle, at therein), “Bug what pv t patrons of the opera, was the report that one of the female artister, who was given & prominent. place on the bille, was the m Inale member of the troupe—a woman who character was such, that it was an insuit t riuous woman in the houre to allow her on the stage (meaning thereby that the plaintiff admitted aud allowed {woman on the stags of the said opera, of a character go bad as to insnit the audience, and that the decent persons of the respectable public who were in the habit of frequenting the opera, were incensed thereat). “Whether this story was trae or not it had tts elfects upon the receipts of the treasury” (meaning thereby that waid jassened the sale of tickets of ad- r of the Cae Lewy ainess, and that bis business was thereby a failure). vote ‘old opera goers ate anything but pleased, and wis is the last season reizek” (meaning the | song “will be given a lease of tho house. (tusending Oe public to believe that 80 bad had been the conde ~4 management of the plaintif’ in respect to the et on Above sot out in said libel, tbat after this ecason, W fo the season of 1963, the plaintitt would not ion nt et coutd obtain from the proprietors or owners ven further or any lease at any time of the sald adem | rj haracter mau aad ‘And the plaintiff shows, in his ol are wa waeath conductor qud lessee ‘a4 Paforesaid, and 1