The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1865, Page 1

W YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 10,606, <== Marshal Bazaino’s Announcement of the Capture of Chihuahua and Hermosillo. The News Sent to Paris by Special Steamer. Rejoicings at Vera Cruz and the Capital Over the Events. Iasignificance of the Victories Com- pared with the Reverse to the Imperial Arms at Tehuacan. RebDery and Murder of the Work- ing Parties on the Rail- road to the Capital. &. de. &. By the Englieh pecket ship Eider to Havana, and ‘thence by the Liberty to this port, we have Vera Cruz @orrespondence to September 1. We are indebted to Pumver Gillis, of the Eider, fora copy of La Revista, of ‘Vera Crus, September 1, and to the purser of the Liberty fer Havana dates to the 6th inst. Our Vera Crus Correspond: 'e Vara Cavs, Sept. 1, 1865, {WO BLOODLESS VICTORIES YOR THE IMPERIAL ARM. Emperialiem and the embryo empire are exultant to- @ay. Two wonderful achiovements are reported—two ‘magnificent, bloodless victories—and the news is hurried ‘@wo thousand mules, from the northern frontier of Mexico te the capital, by the Meetest of couriers, and then the eapital ts all ablaze with colebrating these same bloodless Wictories. The old grim warrior, Marshal Bazaine, ‘ereuses from the love reverie of his honeymoon and @ends the following to Vera Cruz, which comes to the eensored press in the exact form given here. The first fs from the alcance of the Monitor Vera Crusana, issued qm the evening of the 29th ult. :— PREPEcTO:— Thave the honor to translaté for you a telegraphic @eapatch from his Excellency Marshal Bazaine. MARSHAL (espera mnmespiog oa “1008, ‘Banon Comandante SUPERIOR = antes 8 General Brincourt entered Chihuahua on the 16th inst. Jearez has fled to Paso del Norte. We captured Cds cannon. Recents Superior Kuarac:— ‘The other, which calls for the thunder of salutes from @astle San Juan and the shipping at the island, is even ef greater import. Vera Cavs, August 29, 1865. T have the honor to translate f legram f ) jonor to translate for you a tel rom Fe ahd mag adh meriey bi Mexico, August 29, 1865. CoMMANDANTS SEPERIOR :— You will please transmit to the Minister of War, in Paris, the followi ch :—Hermosillo had been oc- by Colonel ieron the 20th of July without Bilas a toce shot All is well in Sonora. Commandante Superior Kuanac. BAZAINE. ‘UMIMPORTANCR OF THE CAPTURED CITY. Bermosilio bas been evacuated, and Colonel Garnier @eoupies it. A town of 8,500 inhabitants, and the great Marshal orders the nows to be transmitted to Paris, that Barope may learn of this great and bloodless success ! ‘The Mexican loan must have encouragement, and the fatal accident at Tehuacan must be silenced by an official seport of a mere insignificant nothing, as far as the con- q@pest of Mexico is concerned by French and Austrian, Martinique and Egyptian, Algerian and traitorous Mexi- ean troops, some 18,000 to 15,000° in number, scattered from one end to the other, north, south, east and west, of a country that has 776,482 equare miles, and a popu- Jation’ of 8,283,088. ‘Fhe twenty-four gun steamship of the French navy, ‘that only arrived here from France Monday evening, ‘Deing the fleetest vessel in port, was despatched at once on the reception of the telegram for Paris. There should ge at the same time the fact of the capture of Tehuacan end its garrison and ammunition and commissary sup- plies by the republicans, Tehuacan isa city of nearly twelve thousand inhabitants, and Hermosillo a town of eight thousand five hundred. The liberals evacuated the ene for their own reasons and fought for and captured the other, and jeft it when their object was accomplished, end we have no doubt that they are in Hermosillo ere ‘this time; for the occupation of the town by the forces ‘under Colonel Garnier occurred more than a month pre- ‘vious to the time that the courier arrived in Mexico with the tidings. And we are told that ‘all is well in Sonora,” @win’s land-of doubtful promise. And Bazaine will tell the winds with better hope of making the untamed ele- ts comprehend than us the story that ‘‘all is well in "'—a State of untold wealth, with one hundred and -geven thousand one hundred and thirty-three in- scattered over a tract of eighty-six thousand sand five hundred mixed troops only, under foreign com- mand, are in the territory. The faced impudence ‘with which royalty wears authority here is too ridiculous for comment. COMMENTS OF THE IMPERIAL ORGAN AT VERA CRUZ. ‘The Monitor Vera Crusana, commenting on the defeat General Juarez, says that ‘We think that Senor Juarez will have to make haste and get into his n \- or’s country, the United States—the representative ‘de 7] ‘We do not believe that government will eupport his principles, and he will have to renounce them and take up his residence either in that country or Bis own. For the benefit of our unhappy country we regret his delay in #0 doing.” But the majority have fei Teor Fl in the verance and capability of chieftain Juarez, and certainly while the empire is than the ed ry towns of the sea coast and or three towns of note in the interior, there is not ‘oause for hension. What the imperial jour. ‘towns by the liberal party is only a of contributing to tl ral cause. A certain coll n is captured—the take-their spoils, and th sroeported 12 th coseretiog: ir-spoile, and the , in thus cont ting, ere only robbed, and why should any suspicion fall on engaged in organizing eon the roads are once the government is not pre- ; and when it comes (and that iny season is over—say towards ‘is empire of usurpetion will be ‘not, with all his command in who would dare offer to totheGulf. You may hear es this of the flight or cap- in our effort to give the ut 2. § i a LES ESE elite ee Ty ent to the diligence for the city of Mexi- of becoming a prey to ‘highway of the nation ; he very entrance of towns Amperialista, and those garrisons hour!: or Dias, or some ether mountain chief, the Contributoass Sud ir contri , am and similar conquesta. QMPBROR OW ANOTHER TOUR. I time of the infant empire Maxi. country excursion in the district of Nar pt ty oom hi tranaport Var we have ta th ue Tt is Uoiraportan 8 8 # i i 2 z 5 i moras nawe up to the with Stoole, Browa and jad been invited to a in Matamorog by there, and toasts were given vy American gencrais oxprossive of their friend! ent here. At the us b ong sal Bheridan writes to New ork thet “Max. i roment is only @ of the Southern con- omar d the Jatter is i leuaned when the former is obliged (0 leave abe continent.” Some inconsistoncy ae WELCOME TO RERET the Major B. B. Bumont, of the First ‘Toxas teenth, i Hl BE #? : 5 i Rs it al 3. Ere ase similar outrage on the part of Mojia’s men. Expected Change in Jeff. Davis? Quar- ters and About His Trial—Another Col- Msion—General Price on an Inspecting Tour—The Naval School Ship Mace- denian—Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment, é&e. OUR FORTRESS MONROE CORRESPONDENCE. Forrnsss Mownos, Sept. 10, 1865. The southeast room of the second story of Carroll Hall, reported as undergoing alterations for the occupancy of Jeff. Davis, is said to be nearly in readiness for this pur- pose. A correspondent whose ambition is only excelled by his imagination placed Jeff. Davis in Carroll Hall last Thursday, and enlarged in a most lacrymose vein upon “the condensed vapor trickling from wall and ceiling of the casemate” Jeff. had been occupying. It is hardly necessary to state that there is not a word of truth either in the statement of the removal of Davis or the vapor trickling down the casemate. He may be removed to Carroll Hall and he may not be. It will be time to say so when the change is made, if it is made at all, of which, notwithstanding all the rumors and alleged preparations to this end, there is no itive assurance as yet. Iam assured of this much, owever, that Jeff. isin excellent health, and that his casemate, as well as those of Clay and Mitchel, is as healthy as most in the fortress which are occupied mainly by the officers, their wives and families. There has been so much talk and countertalk about the time and place of his trial that the subject is rapidly ceasing to evoke either interest or conjecture. As to the interest he may be supposed to take personally in the trial and the scope he gives to individual conjecture in the mat- ter, I am told that, from remarks he has let drop within the past few days, tho trial of ain Wirz has made him more sensibly anxious and apprehensive on the subject, and that he does not talk as glibly, as bope- poo ig as defiantly as heretofore. Who knows but in this trial,’ in the fearful revelations of fiendish barbarity to our prisoners, in their wholesale starvation and" murder, he sees the handwriting on the wall proclaming his fate? Ladies may write appealing lotters of sympathy, friends may contribute means for his defence, and all the quibbles of the law may be resorted to in his behalf; but they cannot erase this handwriting—this verdict of the great Arbiter of destinies. THE COLLISION CHAPTER. Collisions on the’water are becoming quite as plentiful in this latitude as railway slaughters on land. Beginning with the George Leary and Sea Gull collision, two weeks in whioh three lives were lost, there have been five ince. Last in the chapter is the running of the Creole last evening into the Thomas Collyer. The hurricane deck of the Collyer was swept away and considerable other damage in! ‘but lly no one was burt, and probably no one to one ae fe larly enough, is usually the fact fn such cases. Richmond steamer, bound for New York, escaped uninjured. ON AN'INSPEOTING TOUR. Brigadier General Price, Chief of the Cavalry Bureau at Washington, touched here to- in the course of his inspection tour. He came from Richmond here, and expects to remain but two days. This being Sunday Major General Torbert gave him a eail down to the capes in that splendid little eC. P. Smith, in Ryers, wo as making the best speed, and hav- ing the best captain of any steamer in these waters. They made along call on Major General Miles, and also tood a look at the Rip Raps, General Torbert, by the way, tier! Mw: J to-morrow on thirty days leave. Brigadier Ger ©. L. Mann, and not eral Warren, ‘a8 Wrongly printed in a recent letter of mine, will com: mand his department in his absence. VISIT PROM A NAVAL ACHOOL AIP. The naval school ship Macedonian, Captain Croseman, is now anchored in Hampton Roads, having arrived last evening. Ite three months cruise is now nearly ended, and the and its one hundred and twenty-four middies go from here direct to Annapolis. Captain Fair- fax is commandant of the youthful aspirants for national ition and fame, and if bon have not established the relationship of mutual admiration, there is cer- tainly f me? grounds for mutual congratulation. That is to say, the Captain is @ good man in his present place, and the middies give good promise for the future. A CRACK REGIMENT. A splendid appearing regiment, and one whose actions in the field have not belied its appearance, the Second Massachusetts heavy artillery, Colonel Frorhle, passed through here yesterday on its way home. The regiment came Fort Fisher, and numbers eleven hundred mep. They arrived on the transports Eagle and Escort. Owing to these steamers being #0 crowded, two compa nies went to Baltimore in the old line steamer Adelaide. City Intelligence, Lecture ny 4 Cotorsy Girt at THe ABysaINtAN Bar. TT mcn.—Miss Rosamonis Richards, an intelligent colored girl, lectured Inst evening at the abovenamed Place, before a large audience of both white and black, who listened attentively throughout the interesting ac count whieb Miss Richards gave of her early life at the South, her residence in Liberia, her return to her former home in Richmond, Va., and her arrest and tmprison- ment at that place as a runaway slave, her trial, eventual release from prison, and recounting numei mterest- ing incidents in connection with the famous Union League of Richmond, she having been a prominent agent, ac cording to her own statement, of that organization during the late rebellion. The lecturer claimed to be the first organizer of colored schools in Richmond after its capture, when whe had many difficulties to overcome, both on account of her color and of her mission, from the residente of that city, even when. the nat.onal’ colors were floating over its capitol. She paid high tribute to the intell gence of the colored children under her care, and cited man: cases of their proficiency in the acquirement of know! edge. Her remarks were decidedly vindictive in every allusion to the Southern people, and evidently she en- joys the same feeling for the ‘pale faces’’ in general—as she alluded to the white people, on one oceasion, as such. The colored go were by no means of the in- ferior race, but they should adhere to education. She felt the right of suffrage would never be granted them until they were educated. With a few goneral remarks on the of the fashions—although the lady herself wore ‘that abominable waterfall’’—which wore well re- ceived by the colored portion of the audience, the lec: ture ended. Tue Amsnican Ixertors Farr.—The thirty-sixth an nual oxbibition will take place this day, General Sickles Cy Souprmns’ anv SatLons’ Pronto.—The line of procession of the soldiers and sailors will be formedghis morning at nine o'clock, at the corner of Bowery and Canal streot, in front of the offee of the Metropolitan Employment and will be accompanied the band of the Hin Gaived “Beaten artillery, whieh” bas boon kindly tendered for the occasion by Colonel Burton. It in ex pected that prominent generals and officers of the army and militia will join the procession. Friends of the veterans who wish to participate in the festival will find tickets for sale at the gate at Jones’ Wood, Custom House Marrzrs.—The only event of impor- tance which has oceurred throughout the week has been the appointment of Mr. James Terwilliger as private secretary to Collector King. Mr. Torwilliger's appoint- ment has long been foreshadowed by shrewd politicians, and the announcement of the Collector's choice has therefore caused but little astonishment and no excite. ment whateyer. Mr. Prone will act temporarily probably till the Ist of Doce when his duties as lerk of the Henate 10 doubt, call him to Albany, Mr. F. J, Phillips, the former incumbent, who was secre- and retained the tary t0 Collector y © under Collector Draper, will remain in the departme! Cnicaco, Sept. 11, 1866, Thd National Telegraphic Union met this afternoon at the Convert Hall of the Opera House, and was called to order by President Hammond. The reports of the Pre- sident, Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary were read. After some other preliminary business the Convention adjourned unt to-morrow morning, to await the arrival Of several delegates now en route, All pho Northern Bales are rapresoujed ip the eonvensioe NEW YORK, TUESDAY, ‘Wassinetow, Sept. 11, 1865. . BXCURSION TO RICHMOND. Secretary Seward’s family, consisting of bimeelf, Miss Fannie, Clarence, Fred, W. Seward and wife and Dr. ‘Welson, arrived at Richmond by the River Queen, Capt. Bradford, at one o'clock yesterday, spent am hour or two im driving through the principal streets of the city, started on the return trip at three o’clock, and arrived here at noon to-day. The party was metat the Rich- mond wharf by Governor Pierpoint and ‘Terry, ‘and escorted to various points of interest. ¢ anxiety is manifested there to have the President pay his con- templated visit, and arrangements are nearly completed for giving him a flattering reception. ANOTHER MILITARY COMMISSION. General Augur, under date of the 9th inst, bas issued an order for the formation of a military commission, with Colonel John Mansfield as president, aad Captain A. H. Wande as judge advocate, The members of the commission are Lieutenant Colone) A. ¥. Randall, Major R. H. Hall, Captain J. G. Turnbull and: in W. C. Cuyler. This body met in the Old Capito) mn this morning, and adjourned over till to-morrow. It willtry, by the terms of the order, such prisoners as may be Drought before it, and as the court is composed of regu- lar officers, will probably remain in seesion for a pro- tracted period. AFFAIRS OF THE FREBDMEN’S BUREAU. By a report just made at the Freedmen’s Bureau, it appears that the average number of daily rations issued to the colored people of this city at the cost of the gov- ernment js about one hundred and thirty. MURDEROUS MANIFESTATIONS. ‘The same bureau is in receipt of intelligence that on several occasions recently the soldiers standing guard over government property on the Maryland shore, oppo- site Loudon Heights, bave been fired upon by concealed in the rocks upon the opposite side of the river, As yet no one has been wounded by thistreacher- ous and unexpected warfare, but its continuance will be checked most summarily with the apprehension of one or more of the perpetrators. THE EXTRA COMPENSATION. The War Department bas decided in the matter of volunteer aids, alluded to in the Herap, that when such officers are no longer needed by the exigencies of the eervice and are honorably mustered out by order of the department in consequence, that they are entitled to and will receive the extra compensation provided by act of Congress. ARRIVAL OF CAPTURED TREASURE. Captain J. B. Jones, of the Nineteenth United States "infantry, arrived here to-day, from Augusta, Ga., by tho way of New York, bringing with him about one thousand one hundred pounds of gold and silver bullion, with a small amount of coin, of the aggregate value of perhaps two hundred thousand dollars. This wealth was recover- ed by the Treasury Agent, and is said to be a parti of the spoil captured from Jefferson Davis, Captain Jones has delivered the money to the Treasurer of the United States. INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS. The receipts atthe Internal Revenue Bureau to-day amounted to two millions two hundred and thirty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars, TRAVEL TO RICHMOND. The tide of travel setting from this city towards Rich- mond is beginning to be very considerable, and has al- ready compelled the managers of the Orange and Alex- andria Railroad to place an evening passenger train upon that route, in addition to the train that has been leaving here at anearly hour in the morning. We are assured that on the first day this route was turned over to the company that now have its management, its passenger receipts amounted to only twenty-seven dollars, Wat- terly receipts from travel have averaged in the peigh- borhood of twenty-two hundred dollars daily, The. >m- mercial interests of Richmond ought to revive undegthis invigorating injectmont of Northern capital and specula- tors. APPOINTMENTS. William Akie, of Newport, Rhode Island, and B. L. Hovey, of Rochester, New York, have received the ap- pointments of Examining Surgeons to the Pension Bureau. The President has appointed Jno. Ferris Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fourth district of Indiana, Ino. Gregnor, of New Mexico, has been appointed Re: ceiver of Public Moneys for the district of lands subject to public sale at Santa Fe, New Mexico. POSTAL SERVICE FOR THE SOUTH. Circulare inviting bide for postal service over a large number of routes in all the Southern States aro being circulated by the Post Office Department. A few months hence these States will all have reasonable mail facilities. RE SANTA FE LAND OFFICE. John Greiner, of Ohio, was to-day re-appointed Re- ceiver of the Land Office at Santa Fe, New Mexico, vice Collins, removed ; and he is again designated Depositary, ‘as previously appointed by Secretary Chase. SALES® OF WINNEBAGO LANDS. The cash sales of Winnebago Indian lands made during the month of August at St. Paul, Minnesota, amounted to three thousand and ninety-two dollars, PERSONAL. The venerable ex-United States Senator W. ©, from Virginia, and Duff Green, are in the city. Mr. Chandler, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, started to Concord this morning, and will probably be absent a week. Rives, CORRECTION, The telegraphic statement from New York, under date of 10th instant, that Mr. Cutler has been appointed Trea- sury agent at New Orleans, vice Flanders, removod, ts incorrect, Mr. Cutler was placed temporarily in charge of the State of Texas and a portion of Mr. Flanders’ agency; but his operations are now confined to the southern haif of Texas, and Mr. Flanders resumes charge of the entire territory, comprising the third special Treasury Agency. Breckinridge in Quebec. Qvesxc, Sept. 11, 1865. John ©. Breckinridge arrived here this morning, per steamer Hibernian, from Liverpool. He proceeds to Montreul this afternoon by rai Arrival of Ge M le im Richm Ricumonn, Sept. 10, 1865, General Meade and staff arrived here this afternoon at half-past five o'clock, in a special train from Danville, and took quarters with General Terry at the Davies House, ‘The Late New London Railroad Accident. Norwicu, Conn., Sept. 11, 1865, The railroad commissioners met at Montville to-day, to investigate the late accident on the New London and Northern Railroad, between Norwich and New London, bo came to no decision, aud adjourned to some future ay. —— rrogate’s Cou: WILL OF MARY 0. Da Before Gideon J. Tueker, Surrogate. This will was on trial before the Surrogate yesterday.” It leaves the entire property of the decedent in the hands of Courtland Palmer and Chauncey Gould and subject to their discretion, A codicil to the will sub- stitutes one of the sons of Mra. Dakin for one of the al- ledged executors above named. This codicil is contested. The testimony taken was wot of any public interest, The Court reserved its decision. The Case of Henry Ward Poole, TO THE EDITOR OF THA HERALD. © Mextoo, August 22, 1806. In the columns of your Hanatp of July 19 ult, there is a lotter dated at Mexico on the 29th of Juno, I bog leave to correct an erroneous statement which has been bgp halons yah the release of Henry Ward Poole, ny . an Am citizen, lately imprisoned in this city. Mr. Poole was imprisoned last April on the ‘yr of having defamed ee (mesg J + a r. eas l 2 Lp ay signature of a young gi longing 8 circus troupe, In the defenee which Mr. Poole made on the occasion he pleaded that he had only sought to defend the girl inst the machinations and abure of ethers, I merely state the facta without dweiling upon tl of the case, At the repeated instance of Mr. Poole, our re- spected American Consul, Marcus Otterbourg, sought an fnterview with the Empresa, not in his capaeity, but as 8 sim) itizen of the United States, and he finally ‘a great deal of trouble in obtaining the eS ‘and release of Mr. Poole as a personal favor. No jettor was written on this subject by the Department of Stato to Maxicuilian or any other of their Imperial high- Neasen. oe my duty to make the above state- ment, I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient wrvat SBNRY W. SPENGER, Jr, SEPTEMBER 12, 1865. THE RAILWAY PRINCES. Special Correspondence of the Herald. Muapvae, Pa, Bept. 10, 1865. COMPLIMENTARY TESTIMONIAL TO MR. T. W. KIN- NAIRD. During the banquet to Sir Morton Peto last evening very handsome device, in gold and silver, as a token of esteem and regard, and also in commemoration of his energetic and untiring exertions in getting the road built, wag presented to T. W. Kinnaird by the members of hie engineering staff, with Mr, J. H. H. Rose at their head. THE BANQUET did not conclude until between two and three o’clock this morning. The occasion was enlivened by the pres- ence of an excellent band of music. THE PITHOLB EXPEDITION laid out for to-day has been abandoned in consequence of the threatening aspect of the weather. An extra train ‘was prepared, and Mr. Geggie, at Oil City, had prepared horses and wagons for the party. THE TOUR OF INSPECTION AND INVESTIGATION will be resumed to-morrow, and the party proceed on their way to Cincinnati, where a dinner will be given to Sir Morton Peto and James McHenry, Esq., at the St. Nicholas, House, on Tuesday. Election. Porrianp, Me., Sept. 11, 1865. ‘The State election took place to-day, and passed off very quietly. Up to this hour (six P. M.) very few re- turns have come in, but they indicate that the State vote will probably not exceed 75,000, against 112,000 last year, and that the republican majority will be about 15,000, against 19,000 last year. ‘The official vote of Portland foots up for Governor— Cony, republican, 1,711; Howard, democrat, 768, East year Portland gave Cony 2,769, and Howard 1,786. Re- publican majority this year 943, against 983 last year, with a falfing off in the aggregate vote of 2,876, SECOND DESPATCH. Year. Dem. 701 334 164 - 88 163 — — 8 give oy. 17,246; Howard, 9,313, against last year Cony 22,616; Howard 15,879. THIRD DESPATCH. Porianp, Sept. 11—11:30 P. M. So little interest is felt in this election that many towns have failed to send their returns to the nearest telegraph qffice. We have, however, returns from ninety- nine towns, which gave last year an aggregate vote of 47,211, while the aggrogate vote of the State was 111,986, 80 that we have returns from about three-sevenths of the State, ‘ The vote in ninety-nine towns gives Cony 22,421, Howard 11,765; against last year, Cony 28,104, Howard 19,107. The republican majority this year im these towns is 10,656, against last year 8,907. Republican net gain 1,659; relative gain about 4,000. The majority in the State last year, exclusive of the soldiers, was 16,242. If the same relative gain continue throughout the State the republican majority will nearly reach 20,000. ‘The aggregate vote of the State will reach nearly 80,000, of which Cony will bave about 50,000, against 62,529 ast year, and Howard about 30,000, against 46,287 last year, These calculations are made exclusive of the sol diers’ vote, which last year gave Coney 3,064, Howard 116, and swelled Coney’s majority to 19,180. The repub- licans have made a gain in representatives, of whom, however, they had all but about thirty last year, with the entire Senate. The Pe: m Office in this City. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘Unirep States Paxwon AGENCY, New Yoru, Sept. 11, 1865. My attention bag been called to cortain paragraphs which have recently gone the rounds of the daily papets with reference to the manner in which the business of the Pension Agency in this city is conducted; com menting thereon, in some instances, in severe terms, and by implication attaching Diame either to me, as the officer having charge of the agency, or the government. For the purpose of refuting these charges, and putting the general poblic in possession of the real facts of the case, I append the following statement, and beg to avail myself of the columns of your journal for publication of the same:— There are upwards of three thousand five hundred pensioners of all clasges—including invalids, widows and mothers—on the roll of this agency. The army pensions are payable March 4 and September in each year, and the navy pensions on January 1 and July 1. The invya- lids have ip most cases to undergo a biennial examina- tion, and thie September payment ts the time for that purpose, It is the duty of the ponsioner when he comes for payment to bring with bim bis pension certificate and a voucher properly signed and sworn to, containing a copy of hie certifieate, and, in the case of an invalid requiring medical examination, the certificate of the examinin, surgeon attached thereto. © papers ‘examin by me, and, if correct, duplicate receipts are made and signed by the pensioner, and no fee whatever is charged. 1 am instructed by the department at Washington that it is no part of my duty to prepare this voucher. In cases whero the pensioner comes to the office with- out having provided himself with the voucher, properly made out, he has either to go away and get the same prepared by a lawyer (at an expense of two to five dol jars, as I ain informed), or have the same prepared in my office by clerks under my supervision, The voucher is seldom brought, and the general custom is for it to be Prepared in my office, and the oath to be administered there. The charge made by me for this service is from twenty-five to fifly cents only. A similar fee for this service is charged by all the pension agents in the United States, and, so far as I am concerned, it is done with the knowledge’ of the department at Washington, This charge is no innovation, but has been customary ever since the pension agencies were established by the governmen I believe. The mac! for prot ting the government against fraud is made as sim possible; but it will be seen that it is still somewhat complicated, but necessarily 80. The utmost care has to be observed in the examination of the papers to sce that the requisitions of the depart. ment are vomplied with, the forms varying im cach class of pensions. Fach recipient is re towsign his name threé times, and has to be instrneted where to sign; and this alone decupies a considerable time, as all are pot ex peditious penmen. ‘The large proportion of the pensioners are poor and jn actual need of the money as soon as it is payable, which occasions @ great rush and crowding on pay day and the first week thereafter, To meet this demand my office is open at seven A. M., and from that time until six P. M. After the 4th inst. 1 paid on each day all wio presented themeelyes; and in the six days last past I paid seventeen hundred and thirty pensioners, and disbursed, in sume vai ing. from $12 to $300 each, the aggregate sum of $80, 1s There is not so much delay in the payment of pen. sioners as there is in the payment at the Sub-Treasury of holders of interest coupons, ‘when the preparation and ox amination of the vouchers in the case of ponsionors is taken into consideration, The line of pensioners waiting for payment has never ‘at any time beon so long as that of the people waitin for the same purpose at the Sub-Treasury on May 1 an November 1. It js as unreasonable to expect that all the | see | should be paid in one day as to expect that all the holders of interest coupons or the soldiers of the United army recently di ded should have their claims attended to in the same od of time. My office consists of three siaed rooms, reason. ably well lighted, and having five large windows opening as with ventilators at the top, and is sufficiently comimodious for the business of the agency, except on the occasions of the few days of pressure above referred to. This last week the office has certainly been close, ‘but it was the same clsewhere in the city, owing to the unusually hot weather. ly I may naan ly Va have bag en- voring to induce the ent arrange y widows in one month and invalids the next, and I bellows that this plan wil be ado If so, it will do much to- wards remedying the evil complained of, amd will be a great accommodation to all parties, 1 yield to none in - sympathy with the soldier dis. abled jn the service of the country, or in sympathy with those widows and ers whe have been called upon by the exigencies ir to part with those so dear to them. And duringthe whole of the period of my hold. ing the office of Pension Agent I have steadfastly devoted my whole time to the furtherance of the interests of the pensioners, and with that object have been in attendance at my office from half-past eight A. M. until half-past five P, M. the year round, and was absent theréfrom but four business days during the three years. Complaints from the pensioners bave not only been Tew—not more than one in @ thousand—but as a body they express themselves phoased and grateful for the at. tention they feceive at a, hands. Iam, air, respectfully yours, ALPHEUS FOBES, Pension Agent. The Vermont Judiciary. Bentrsoton, Vt., Sept, 11, 1865. Tho vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon Aaa 0. Akiis, recently appointed Consul to Nice, aa Asso- Giate Justice of the Buprome Court of this State, bas deen filled by Governor Smith by the appointment of ‘Higo. Herman Baarsalov, pf fk Albans PRICE FOUR CENTS. YACHTING. THE FIRST OCEAN YACHT RACE. THE FLEETWING VERSUS THE HENRIETTA. THE CONDITIONS OF THE MATCH. THE BENDEZVOUS AND PRELIMINARIES. MUSTERING OF THE YACHTS. THE SIGNAL AND THE START. ae, ao. de. The era of ocean races in the United States was inaugu- Fated yesterday Morning, when the gallant yachts Fleet- wing and Henrietta, manned by @ picked orew of expe- rienced officers, set sail from off the Sandy Hook light- ship, for the purpose of definitely settling a long mooted question of speed. The stakes wore, of course, compara- tively nominal; but from the fact that the proprietors of both vessels were members of the New York Yacht Club, that the yachts were among the largest of the kind, and, above all, it being generally known that the series of ocean races in America was tobe commenced by the trial, the interest and excitement attendant upon the match were intense. As heavy bets aré ponding, all the prin- cipals in the transactions are unusually anxious as to the result, THE MATOH. The match was made some time since, between George A. Osgood, Esq., owner of the Fleetwing, and Mr. James Gordon Bennett, Jr., proprietor of the Henriotta, tho conditions to be complied with being as followa:— “It is agreed that the Henrietta and Fleetwing shall be towed out to the lightship at Sandy Hook, and at a given signal, on the morning of the eleventh day of September, ‘shall cast off from the tugboat, start on the race, proceed to the lightehip off Cape May and sail around It, the Fleetwing showing blue and the Henrietta red lights. On their return they will, on passing the Sandy Hook light- ship to the southward and eastward, throw up, the Fleet- wing two rockets and the Henrietta three, at intervals of ‘one minute each, and hail the lightship and report their arrival.’” By theso regulations it will be seen that the distance to be sailed over is about two hundred and twelve nau- tical miles, and it is expected that the race will occupy some twenty-four hours. In aecordance with the time of departure, the yachts wore to arrive at the Horse- shoe on Sunday night, and the crew to have all things in readiness the ensuing morning, LEAVING NEW YORK. A smail party, comprising one of the owners and seve- ral friends, left the city on Sunday afternoon, on board the steamtug Only Son, which was to convey the guests to the rendezvous and tow the rival vessels to the etart- img point. Tho tug received its passengers at the foot of Thirty-cighth street, North river, being anchored at a pier which, if extreme filth bean @lement of excellence, Js cortainly likely to stand Oretamong-institutions of the kind. Steam was at once gotten @p, and the towboat, slowly at first, and then contintially gaining in velocity, shot forth into the stream, and, ‘spidly rushing past hniks and wharves, docks and. storage buildings, soon reached tho waters of the Horseshoe. THE RENDEZVOUS. When the Only Son reached the rendezvous—which owes its distinctive anti-witch title to the fact of its being hommed in on three sides by the Highlands of Navesink and Sandy Hook—it was fully five o’clock in the after- noon, and the sun, whose cheerful face had not been seen throughout the day, still respectfully declined all invita- tions to peep forth from between his cloudy bed curtains. The skies were overcast, and so dark was the distant horizon that the most experienced sailor would have been likely to err in supposing land to be within sight east, west, north and eouth, Nota breath of wind ruffigd the glassy surface of the waves, Not the slightest breeze flaunted the gaudy little pennants of the squad- ron in midair, The several yachts and sloops ancbored for the purpore of witnessing the morrow’s sport stood out upon a sombre background, while their images were reflected in the tide below without a ripple disturbing the truthfulness of the resemblance. The Hen- rietta sate motionless, with decks cleared and sails furled ready for immediate action. On the larboard side of this vessel was the little sloop Bonita, of some forty tons bur- den, owned by Mr. Center—a tiny craft, which once made the rough voyage from New York to Portland. Almost be- side the Bonita lay a second sloop of like microscopic di- mensions, one of the Brooklyn yacht squadron, Some dis. tance off stood the Phantom, aboat built some two years since, and near by the Widgeon, a beautiful craft, owned by Mr. Frank Osgood; while Mr. Henry Bache’s Calypeo was being anchored within gunshot. But the centre of the attraction for discriminative yachtmen lay in the pres ence of the Fleetwing and the Henrietta, the former versel having arrived at the rendezvous about an hour after the appearance of the tug, which had cast anchor for the night. Both competing yachts had been fitted up, trimmed and pot leaded for the occasion, and their gallant appearance was such as to call for special notice on our part, and much comment from the critical though amateur mariners, n THE FLEETWING was docked off Hunter's Point, She is a bran new ves. sel, built by Joseph Van Dusan, the well known builder of the Alarm, the Gipsy and other yachts that have made their mark in yachting history. She is owned by Mr. G. A. Osgood, son-in-law of Commodore Vanderbilt, Her length on deck is one hundred and six feet, beam nearly twenty-four feet, gepth of hold about ten feet, and tonnage about two hundred tons, She has greater length ot bottom than the Henrietta; her entrance is not so sharp, and she has nine inches less dead rise. All the resources of the shipbuilder’s art have been lavished upon her. Both externally and internally the Fleetwing is rigged in the same manner as her rival, and her very spars are about the same length. There is some trifling difference in their booms, but go slight as to be scarce worthy of mention. The crew comprised some twenty-five men. The yacht was sailed by Captain Harris, aided by Daniel Chapman, Neleon Cometock and another experienced pilot. THE HENRIETTA is a fore and aft rigged yacht, of something over two hundred tons burthen. She was built three years since for the owner, Mr. J. G. Bennett, Jr., by Wm. Tucker, a rising shipwright of this city, who has built already one or more winning yachts. During the present season she has been lengthened fifteen or sixteen feet, to the mani- fest improvement of her sailing qualities. Her dimen. sions now are; length one hundred and eight feot, beam twenty-three feet, depth of hold about ten feet. She was prepared for the contest in the screw (or bydrostatic) docks, at the foot of Pike street. As she lay on the slips on Saturday morning her appearance was strongly sug- gestive of strength and endurance. Her water |i are fine, if auythin, f- & trifle too much #; her keel deep, and or epirance equal to that of the or any other ya#tnt in America the Alarm, With a little more beam and a Nttle ides dead rise, it is said that no vessel of the squadron coyld compete with her. The crew of the Henrietta comprised twenty-cight men, including in Richard Brown, who took thre yacht America to England for the express purpose of astonishing the Britishers; Bri in Brown, his brother; Charfos Brown, hig son, and ain Lyman Beebe, all experienced pilots, besides two quartermasters, A RAINY NIGHT. No sooner was tho entire foot safely ensconced within the limits of the Horseshoe than the rain came pattering down upon the decks; gently at first, then in larger drops, and Gnally in a grand shower worthy the month of April, when the presiding deity chanced to be in hie very worst humor, Rolors wore hauled down, brilliant miniature cannon carefully swaddled in snowy canvass, awnings improvired on all sides, wilins Tose im uublie estimation, while officers and For the questionable enjoyingnt of awet night. As even- ing closed in, red, white and bine lights were affixed to the masta, and the crews of the several yachts gathered fors and aft, eafely sheltered, to revel in a pipe A rong. Rgpecially on beard the two competing yeanele wag soa, its of the weather, and all even the ininterested, being apparently venieaeiee well aus fer a8 to the measyres to be taken, aud ready for avy Gency ore the day fairly dawned. However, toward night the shower ceased, the decks were cl tlonce of nights dea like ‘stllaom Interest tot night—a like int but by the roar of the breakers on the distant coast, AT DAWN. Before five o'clock all hands were astir onsthe two com, {ane Figen ‘The crews were at work alt ; pee lensing the sails, so a8 to be ae ngth of every, mast, pulley and rope. The old sailin, masters Hy baz and + thoughtfully tar batine | paced now and then ten Ged in the distance, and id blow, The vorrenia paw pa Binacd frow wou. . ‘The esta were their sare oe, invited to “ihare ‘a nautical offered was Suggested, ag a preventi would call te wat de mer. inevitable ee ae, by their side. course the inquiries as to t were unnumbered and u 10 aged ‘wes doge’® of the party, rich in experience and nce, were many oracles whence jad 29" gesaedapiom were ex) to proceed. Little aprious rod ay jem se, like, fom Bee words w! 5 at whatever may have been then and ex. pressed, ly one Loe mmy ol for—a good, stiff breese, emyey "a gla speed and of endurance of the te might os Ki Be the are aa wish calmly await further developments. THE WEATHER. At dearn the weether prveonted 8. Gaited more ee ee what lifted, and. the sandbenks dense foliage of the woods of Navesink stood out rominence upon @ less Prete dey oe Hook, promise jes Just beyond the ve day. The whiteness tae’ menoline by a roseate hue, and, As the golden disk slowly rose in heavens, the faintest’ breeze listening with the dazsling lasses were in instant EF H : H id tt aegiei i f i i pe, se py cheered by this good the’ je y crew fell to work with a will; the anchors were the steamtug gotten in readiness, hawsers cast ou yachts secured in the wake of the towboat, and, cheer which spontaneously burst forth from every wits ness of the scene, the Fleetwing and the bravely and silently moved onward, while th was loudly puffing ahead, towing them out into the restless waters of Old Ocean. OUT AT SEA. Under certain circumstances peculiarly unpleasant for landsmen yachting on the ocean is not thé most delight- ful of the many pastimes which the God of Games has* bestowed on us. Those gentlemen who are inured to the singular smoothness of a cauvass wea, such as may visited at any of our metropolitan theatres, would find their experience to be singularly unavailable were they to ‘sail afew miles beyond the Hook. The what I beings denominate ‘a. most disagreeable roll,” by the wind aeting in connivance with the waves, which production has the effect of persuasivel of evil to your lips, and supper or br z ‘Thus several gentlemanly gacsts on board the tug, who hadon the previous evening boasted of Gee pete ae the attacks of seasickness, ws silenced by the assertion of the mogarch’s might. Ong sportsman, who had crossed the Atlantic no loss thai, four times and escaped unscathed, was reduced to eli ing to a paddle-box in a condition of utter helplessness: and two or three others, whose nautical adventures mf astonished the natives of distant climes, were ol in very suspicions altitudes Meantime, spite of this, the crews of the yachts, not in the lest affec the rolling, tossing or pitchin, fray, and the Only Son, in manner, was breasting the billows and making The orders which had been tated mariners internally prayed for a speed: the tranquil waters of the river, and the ol profited every minute to inhale the pure sea breeze which now blew strongly and geve good promise of a speedy decision of the race, Atlongih the parting hour struck, The the Henrietta had started from the Hi at q o'clock, and at eighteen minutes to eight tile desired spot’ was reached. e two jiagt yachta were ‘ the sea foam flying over their bows, the flags ing in the morning air, ick! yard of snowy canvass and reeves tone | neath the load. Mr. W. R. Travers, standing on the tng, gave the signal, and responsive to it the udly on the as 4 been enthralled by th bonds which had anited 0. the tug, and fairly epee | rom crest to crest. The crews, guests and all gave vent to a final cheer as tw buoyant boats flew outward. It mattered little wheth- erail the beholders knew the difference between a “ ”, ora “tack,” a “ bowsprit it” ora ” all shared ‘enthusiasm attendant upon the ' and shouted their viva/s quite as heartily and lustil heaviest better on the race. Nor was there of vindicating the glorious sport in the eyes of approciated nautical beauties claewhere on low they marked the line, and rig and trim of vessel, and how sadly they on them as they appeared! How anxiously they conned the points of horizon and ascertained the precise whereabouts Eolus as he sent forth one of his n crew! the guests look on the fast-fleeing yachts us they faded away in the distance, uw onwards wy, a slight breeze from the south: the Henrietta slight! the Fleetwing rather more to windward, and at full speed, growing more and more tom-like in the haze of thé summer morn. Forty minutes had scarce elapsed when both were ont of sight; and the tug put about, and the elated spectatora were once more being wafted to- wards Gotham and a warmer clime. HOMEWARD BOUND. The return homeward was delightful. then—thanks to the clerk of the ‘weather—could the delights of a sea voyage be appreciated by 4 seamen and all. Animated with a sudden feeling of con- descension, the sun showed his rubicund countenance on the horizon, and brought about a hasty scattering of the clouds. The sandbanks of the Hook, tho blue ex- panse of waters, the dense foliage of the trees on the 8 jands, alike welcomed his ra The gentleman wi! clung to the rigging, and had been attentively looki or appearing to look—upon the greon sea, as well am' handsome gentleman, of romantic appearance, who had suddenly forges something in the cabin, just as the billows were tossing about the boat in their most ap- roved style, “came out” again under its vevivisvang is. uence. The very man at the wheel, who ry the self-same panorama unrolled before him time apd again, actually waxed ecstatic over the gifts of nature lavished on the shores of Long Island. And sig: bay <A was delighted—the more so, because on looking far, far away, the clouds on the horizon were apparently liftin, giving promise of a clear day for the yacht race. A then the vessels having vanished in the distance, the tugboat conveyed back to New York—the city of dust and heat—the guests of as ae, all delighted with the pleasant incidents and ly gloriodl excur awaiting the recurrence of another su sion. News from Mississippi. REPORTED RESIGNATION OF GENERAL 8LOCUM— RAILROAD ACCIDENT, ETC. New Onieans, Sept. 11, 1865, The Times Jackson special says :—It is credibly rumored that Major General Slocum has tendered bis resignatlon in consequence of the President's endorsement of Sharkey's action. The News predicts that the colored troops will be marched out of the State for muster out or transfor to another locality. An engine and one passenger car were precipitated down a high embankment near Clinton, Miss., recently. Fortunately po one was hurt. HL ? £25F Then and only Cairo, Sept. 11, 1868, ‘Tho Mobile and Ohio Railroad was opened the entire length, and mails for Mobile and intermediate points for- warded today by the newly established steamers be- tween here and Columbus, Kentucky, Major General Grierson, is here bound South. ‘The steamor General Bragg, known before the war ar the Mexico, left here to-day take her place on the lino between Mew Orleans and Galveston. 1,700 bales of eetton have passed for Evansville and Cincinnati, 960 for Sf. Louis and 300 discharged hero, The Memphig cotton market has advanced 38¢. a 45c. for middling. 1,465 bales; shipments, 1,100 bales, Stock on hand estimated at 6,575 bales. Some of the new crop has been received frega Vicksburg. The receipts are mainly of inferior grades, and are not inuich vought after, The Great Indian C oil at Fort Smith. Font Suirm, Ark., Sept. 8, 1865. Jndge Cooley read an address to the Indians in council to-day, wilich was responded to by the Cherokees, to the offect that they had no power to treat, but would refer any proposition the government would make to their national council. Responses from other tribes of a sim!- lar character were made, Tho Indians now kere only represent a minority of those expected, But those who went with the South wilt be here in a day of two, when it is expected amicable ar- rangements will be made betwoen themeelves, as well ae with the government, Definite plane will be proposed to-morrow, 10 Which @ decided angwer will be demanded,