The New York Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1865, Page 4

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Advertisements in- sorted in the Waexty Hrazp will thus be acen by a large portion of the active and onergetic people of the United States. THE NEWS. General Terry, commander of the Department of Virginia, has just given the people of that State a very forciblo reminder that martial law still prevails there by the issuance of two orders making provision for loyal Proprietors to recover their property confiscated by the rebel government and by putting a stop to all legal pro- ‘Coodings instituted against national officers for acts done -in the performance of their official duties, Hereafter, while martial law continues to provail, the General Announces, any person connected with the institution of suite of this character will be arrested. A mocting of the Board of Regents of the Virginia Miltary Institute, at Lexington, was held on Thursday last, when 6x-General Custis Lee, son of Robert E. Lee, and formerly a member of Joff. Davis’ staff, was elected to the professorship of Applied Mechanics and Military and Civil Engineering, and Major Blair, another rebcl ex-officer, was chosen Professor of Natural Philosophy. At the recent meeting in Richmond of the Diocesan Council of the Episcopal Church in Virginia resolutions strongly urging reunion with thelr Northern brethren Wore offered, but, it appears, not acted upon. Mr. Azambuja, the new Brazilian Minister in Washing ton, presented his credentials to President Johnéon on last Saturday, on which occasion speeches were made by both of the distinguished individuals, The President, in the course of his remarks, said:—“All the nations of America, if they would continue to exist, inust aspire to absolute self-sustaining Independence, and to a perfect political equality with the other nations of the earth. If Brazil shall agree with us in this policy, we shall here- aftot be not only close friends, but practically we shall become firm and fast allies."" A correspondent at St. Albans, Vermont, in a commu- nication which he has sent us, contradicts a report which has beon generally circulated, to the effect that the banks ‘of that place have had refunded to them by the Canadian authorities all the money stolon from them on the 19th of last October by the rebel raiders. He says that the total amount stolen was over two hundred ond ten thou- sand dollars, and that of this only ninety thousand dol- lars have been returned by the Canadians. It ts said that Secretary Seward has made a demand on the British government for the restitution of the remainder, on the ground that before the raid took place some of the Canadian officials wore aware that It was contemplated, and that they assisted the scoundrels in making their eecape, and threw all possible obstacles in the way of their arrest and punishment. Our correspondent com- Plains of the bad faith generally of the Canadian govern- ment in the matter. ‘The diMculty arising out of the arrest in Prussia of Germans who had become American citizens for the non- performance of the military service required by the Prussian laws continues to excite attention in that country. Von Bismark’s organ declares that the con. stitution imperatively requires every subject of Prossia to porform military duty, and cannot be altered at plea- sure by the executive authorities, Assuming this state. ‘ment to be correct, the only way to relieve naturalized American ¢itizons from the obligations which they are Considered to be under towards the land of their birth ‘would be the conclusion of @ treaty between the United ‘States and Prussia to that offect. Hitherto such per- ons have goneraily bocm released from the compul- gory mi service to which they are subjected, but only after a great deal of trouble and out of special regard for the United States government on its repre- @entation, and not in virtue of their ‘rights a& American vltizens. Otr Berlin ccrrespondent believes that if a convention to this efect were submitted to the Prussian Logislature ft world be parsed by an immense majority, as the liberal party aro extremely desirous of being on friendly terms vith the great transatlantic republic. In to-do vO print the official reply of Comp- trotler Bick o Le charges against him pending vite The day of hearing in regard & Moyen comping ins Hye lige doe o-mguay, polere understood thet counsel _weithdeny the jurisdiction of the Goyeraor, a8 the statute in regard to the removal of sherifly, £e., provides ® trial to be had before the county judge and Dy the district attorney. The matter must, in this view, take the form of a litigated and technical proceeding, which may carry the question to the Court of and extend beyond the terms of office of the inoambents before a decision can be had. ‘Meantime the Comptrolter's statement, which had been reserved for the hearing bofore the Governor, is pub- lished for the information of the public, to avoid further delay, “It'answers in detail the various assertions and charges about the Blunt testimonial, the street cleaning contract, the judgments, pay rolls, riot claims, &0. The answer is full, emphatic and unqualified in ite denial of all the specifications and charges. Ava meoting of the Republican State Central Commit- teo, held at the Astor House on last Saturday evening, Mr, ‘W. R. Stewart was chosen chairman and Mr. J. H Ketchum secretary. Both of these gentlemen belong to the Weed wing of the party. The steamera Winooski and Algonquin kept puffing away all through yesterday on their ninety-six hours dack race at the foot of Delancey street, It is estimated that twelve thousand persons visited the locality during the day to witness the trial, about which the uninitiated observer could tell but little; for the two flerce marine racers continued neck and neck, and the pier kept up with them all the while. Asa matter of interest to our’ readers, however, we. may state that in regard to the number of revolutions. made, which is the test in the present trial, the Algonquin, which on Saturday-was far Dehind her competitor, was yesterday evening coneide- mably ahead. We have already noticed the presence in the metropo-. is of a delegation from the city. government of Chicago, “Om Saturday night we were favored with the arrivel of other Wostern official visitors, consisting of members of the City Council and heads of departments of St, Louis, who, like the Chicagoans, are on a tour of inspection of the institutions of Eastern cities, with the object of in- troducing in theirown municipality any modern tm- provement which may be observed, Our Chicago visitors will leave to-day for Philadelphia. ‘The Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the nationa! House of Representatives, who has been for several months engaged in an exploration of the mineral and other wealth of the Pacific slope of our territory, was among the passengers by the steamship New York, which arrived at this port on last Saturday from Aspin- . "the Third New York Provisional cavalry regiment, which is composed of the old Thirteenth and’ Sixtoenth ‘New York cavalry, arrived in this city last evoning, and will have a formal reception and. parade this forenoon. It wasa portion of this regiment that rendered such efficient service in the pursuit and capture of Wilkes Booth, and to it belonged Boston Corbett, who shot the assassin. The Spiritualiats held thetr usual discussion last even- ing at Metropolitan Hall, Sixth avonue, The subject was miracles, the spiritualistic fraternity contending that the miracles of spiritualism and those of the Bible were analogous and rested on the same foundation. Their antagonists, while claiming that the Bible miracles are real, contend that those of spiritualism are a delusion or animposture. The subject isto be continued. In con- nection with spiritualism, the decision in full, of Judge Hall, of tho United States District Court at Buffalo, in the Colchester case, which we publish this morning, will be found interesting. Colchester, as heretofore stated in the Hxratp, was fined forty dollars and the coats of ‘suit | for practising the profession of a spiritualist, or juggler, without having taken out a license under the Internal Revenue laws, An aceount of the ascension om Saturday last, in Pro- fessor Lowe's balloon Quaker City, by our aerial corres- pondent, appears in our columns this morning. It con- tains.a number of intoresting facts relative to the condi- Hon of the atmosphere. 3 ‘The European capitalists’ returned on Saturday night from Buffalo to Niagara Falls, where a splendid ball in their honor was given at the International Hotel, They remained at the Falls yesterday, continuing their inspec- tion of ‘the objects of interest there and in the vicinity, This morning they will leave for Cleveland. Mrs. Augusta Beach, who shot her husband in the greonroom of the Chicago Museum on last Tuesday evening, was admitted to bail in three thousand dollars on Thursday. Mr. Beach’s wound has not yet proved mortal, and there is little doubt that he will recover. By the breaking of a crank pin of a locomotive on tho Richmond and Danville (Va.) Railroad on last Thursday, the engine was thrown directly across the track, and some of the cars were completely wrecked; but no per- son was injnrod. The President’s Forthcoming Message and Our Foreign Relations—Emphatic Declaration of American Policy Ex- pected. The time is near at hand whey the President must begin to prepare his message to Congress. Within three months he will have to review the state of the country, with all the great and various interests involved in our domestic and foreign relations and policy, and to lay all this before Congress and the people. And never has such an official document been published since the foundation of the government under circumstances so extraordinary as those of the present time. The events of the last four years have given new form and life to the republic. In that short period we bave bounded through half a century in the ordinary life of nations. And we stand at the verge of a new era—of a new career and mighty future—braced up in every nerve and inspired with the highest ambition. Our domestic affairs, which were thrown into a chaotic state by the action of the rebellion, and which appeared almost inextricable « short time ago, are coming out of the volcanic ordeal readjusted and with the best promise of future stability. The progress of restoration under the statesmanlike policy and able man- agement of the President, is so rapid, and yet sure, that we may expect to see the next Con- gress a full one—every State being represented, and there being a complete reunion of all the members of this former happy family of States. All that the head of the family, President John- son, will have to say in his message will be to advert to the measures adopted, and point to the happy results. We apprehend no serious difficulty in the sottlement of our domestic affairs, The radicals may rave and factions plot, but the conservative masses of the people will sustain the President in bringing about a speedy restoration of the Southern States, and the harmonious action of all, and we do not doubt that Congress will act in conformity to the recommendations of the President and sen- timent of the people. But while our home affairs look so promis- ingly we must not neglect giving due atten- tion to our foreign relations. We must not follow the trimming policy of Secretary Seward, putting off or covering up with vol- umes of words and diplomatic platitudes the great and inevitable issues of the time. The laissez faire policy cannot be pursued without danger. It is just what France and England want; they expect to gain by delay. To dofer the settlement of international qnestions on which we differ with these European Pow- ors, or to treat them timidly, would be very unwise, would not comport with the dignity of the country and qf the people, and would lend to in the fature, Now is the time to settle them. L¢? fhe Presi- dent in this matter be governed only hy his own strong mind and praotical views, not per mitting the Secretaty of State, with his volu- minous red tape diplomacy, to interfere. Mr. Johnson in clear in his views of things, aud he is terse and direct to the purpose in giving expression to them. We call upon him, then, 40 follow fhe digtaton of bia own vowerful in- spiritualists did not and could not discover the nssassins of President Lincoln, . Finally, he is astonished, as we were, that none of the spirits: when a single in the coprt room, would have brought him off triumphantly and | established the reality of spiritualism beyond doubt Judge Hall’s opinion is very read-/ able, and we commend it to the public gene- rally and. our friend exJudge Edmonds in par ticular, Spiritualism is now jugglery by solemn judtolal decision. Important Developments im China— ‘Work for Our Government. J The intelligence which we published a few -{ days sinee in our Buropean news revealed the fact that an earnest appeal was being made to the English and French vents to Inter’ guidance and control of the commerce of that nation. It was urged that unless some: such’ step is taken and protection given to the pro- vinces in the Chinese empire, the Rusefans will intervene, they having a powerful fleet in the. Yellow Sea -and -movesble artillery on the “Amoor, There is far more significance in this than. would. appear om the surines, “The! aT See “Fe ott < for W. & Stephen Casey, who paid his money, wants to know why he does not get his paper. The reagon is that he paid his money toa swindler— @ man who had no connection with this paper, and-no right or authority to collect money on our account, We have exposed this dodge a a i life. by — bis continually stayed by the guards set over hin. day, the seasion of the court being very brief evidence of an exciting nature being given, he stood he is passing in tolerable freedom from excitement ‘and somewhat under the influence of opiates. As another day intervenes before the trial is resumed it Is probable i E i people will. be swindled, after all our attempts to prevent it, they must accept it as the fruits of their'own credulous folly. Tam Tamatars To-miont.—All of the re- spectable places of amusement in this city are now open, and the’ season has been brilliantly foreign war st the time our bands were’ fall’ in, suppressing the rebellion, there is no necessi- ty for reticence now. If it be prudent not to/ aggravate a dangerous animal when his grip ia, upon & person, we should take care to draw his- teeth or otherwise disable him from injuring any one afterward, as soon as his victim should be released. This is precisely our case’ with | TELEGRAPHIC Major Eckert, Assistant Secretary of War, has gives permission in special cases for the regular transmission of press despatches not exceeding one hundred words » war, We understand the animus or motive that’! inner life of that nation has not, until within: | ‘ A ‘the repatring force to teapal ssa recognized: the rebels as belligerents, why France atiempt- ed to erect s monarchy on. our border, why Spain made the effort to reconquer her former colonies, and why all the monarchs of the Old World favored these movements. The success- ful experiment of free republican institutions in America, which were a standing reproach to monarchy and aristocracy, made them: fear.: The wondertul growth and rapidly increasing power of the United States created apprehen-. sions of the future position and influence of America in the world. This was the prime motive with all, though as regards England there was undoubtedly another powerful one, and that was her desire to weaken a commer- cial and maritime rival. We have suffered greatly in the destruction of our commerce and otherwise from this hostile conduct of the European Powers. But we are on our feet again stronger than ever. . And, now, what do wesay? What does common sense, @ proper respect for our position, and a necessary guarantee for the future, call upon us to aay? Simply this, that we want and must have security against such hostile interference hereafter. There is the question of indemnity for pecuniary losses to be settled; but the main question is more important, for it concerns ovr dignity, national life and destiny. We require guarantees for the future. The Monroe-Oan- ning doctrine has tenfold more force now than ever it had. We have been taught the neces- sity of enforcing it. Europe, during the war, made ‘us comprehend its importance. It is clear now that the destiny of this continent— every State, colony snd portion of it—is, and must be, identified with that of the United States. The history of the older continents, particu- larly of Burope, teaches us that the jealousies and rivalries of contiguous States under sepa- rate and. different governments are the cause of nearly all the wars that occur. And it was knowing this fact which led the people of the United States to wage a terrible and costly war to prevent the dismemberment of the Union amd the consequent establishment of separate governments. : The same motive leads us to demand the withdrawal of European and monarchical influ- ences fromthe American continent. They are portion of our cosmopolitan population. The ) theatre-goer can make out his list of engage- ments for the week’ by glancing over our amusement columns, and if he determines to see everything worth seeing he will have very ‘few evenings’ to spare to fourth-rate singers whom nobody cares to hear, | F , |At.the Broadway this evening the famous ‘Madame Celeste makes her first appearance jn. a drams called “The Woman in Red,” which ‘appeard.to. be another and better version of the French_play upon which “Games, the Jewish Mother,” was founded. At Wallack’s Mr. E. L. Davenport, one of our finest American actors, continues his capital: impersonation of the hero of Tom Taylor's ‘new play, “The Serf,” which is not-an abolition drama, since. the slaye of »the ‘first and: sem ond acts’ ‘becomes @ ,slaveowner in the third. At Niblo’s the inimitable. Ravels, ‘at once pantomimists and’ comedians of the highest order, play Jeannette and Jeannot, and Young America, 9 wonderful gymnast, fills up @ most attractive programme. At the Olympic Mrs. Wood ‘presents London Assurance, with herself as Lady Gay Spanker. At the Winter Garden Mr. Clarke, the best American come- dian after Jefferson, offers his Major de Boots and his Toodles, which the public. will not _allow him to withdraw. «At the New Bowery, | along the coasts, the Chinese were reganded'as an inferior race of beings, a sort of semi-barba- riang, whom it was: the duty of the’ Christian world to civilize through: the agency of mis- tionaries._ Since-the admittance-of-the foreign representativés ‘to. the, city of Pekin, where they can come in contact with the ruling clasn, 8 new light has-been thrown upon the whole affair. Instead of an ignorant and semt-savage. people, they are found to be one of the best educated, most intellectual and. moral people ‘on the face of the earth. The facts commiunicated by the United States Minister, Mr. Burlingame, to our government since his sojourn at Pekin, have shown the im- portance, in a commercial point of view, of ‘our establishingamicable relations, commer- cially and otherwise, with these people. The Chinese empire is probably the oldest govern- ment on the globe, and if anything, more demo- cratic than our own, merit being the sole test for promotion in all departments, With a population of nearly four hundred» millions, they have maintained their form of govern- ment through centuries undisturbed and with less internal convulsions than any other nation. Their system of education is more per- fect than our own—the inducements held out to the students furnishing the real stimulant to gratify on encourage thetr smbition to excel. ‘To surpass in intellectual knowledge and power the During the coming autumn ee will afforded which at resent are out = ARRIVAL OF A STATE ‘Garrison, Winder’s Richmond: attorney, lately arrested at Norfdlk with the watches of the Andersonville pris- ‘onets in bis possession, reached Washington to-night im custody of a Norfolk provost marshal. THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. THE COMMISSARY AND QUARTERMASTER’S DEPART- MENTS. ‘The continued press of labor that hag ocourred in the commissary and quartermaster’s departments since the close of ‘the war is now beginning to subside, and the large accessions those departments have beon compelled to make'to their clerical forces during the last two months will soon. be disposed of. To this end it ts’being care- fully ascertained how large a force of clerks will be neéded horeafter, and rolis: are boing ciroulated among the employes to distinguish those of them who bave foryed in tho late war preferment of place, as far.as Prapticable, to be given to the latter. | PORTHER RETRENCHMENTS. ‘The government bakories.and issuing commissary os- tablishments on I street, near Twonty-fourth street, and the bakeries and stores at G stroot wharf, are all dl removed and consolidated on the monument Jot, ‘gurpassed ta popularity as an-east. side come- dian, appears in mejodrama and pantomime. / No. one can‘ bestow @ moment's attention upon this brief panoramic view of the attrac- ns. of our theatres. without. admitting: that they have never béen excelled fn this city or elsewhere. Every theatre bas at least one, artist of acknowledged ability fame, and the stock companies are all very strong, and. in most instances contain actors and actfesses who would-be accepted as stars anywhere outalde -of this metropolis, London not accepted. Be- aides this, évery theatre now bestows unusual care and expense upon those details of scenery ‘With a climate as diversified as our own, rang- ing from near the tropics to the colder lati- tades, they have all the facilities for a great and powerful nation. Being of a far more dense population, the development in agriculture has been, through necessity, carried to.» more per- fectstate, until science has developed the effect of lights and shades upon vegetation. The cold and broken regions, which in this country sre left barren and untouched, are there made fer- tile and productive, With broad, navigable rivers and fertile plains, they have all the féa- tures for an extensive commercial people, and inimical to our institutions and destiny, and | present one of the richest fiolds for American | and costanie which go to make up a perfoct | %% your confidence, | This task will bo so much the leas must be swept away. If this cannot be done | commerce. dramatic picture, and all the Poet of amuse- the’ United States and ray actions to win toe Penoetully it will be by the eword. “And it is | 4, ig impomlble to estimate tho. influence | mont are in the best possible order, having | ZohyZcodmended vo je wo do. ‘On’ tite solemn oo- to avold war.and perpetuate peace between | upon the nationa of the world which a full} heen repainted and refurnished for the fall sea- rig ton Pie geo erage this great controlling Power of Americs snd | knowledge snd afree ‘intercourse with this re] din, ‘For those who, from some reason or | Sweriean Union weise your wise, samiuistration, let It the Powers of Europe that we call for the im- | markablo people will have. We are just on the | other, are not- permitted or do not wish to, at- | be,sllowed to me ts express to you dieects On the past of mediate settloment of the questions that would | ¢hroghold of the ‘exchange of national eourté- | tend the theatre, the minstreley and comicall- | &* april which "pinced the ‘whole oation im sooner or later provoke war. We expect, | stes, yot the facts revealed and the statements | ties of Bryant’, Wood’s and the San Francisco pared ei ipery, Pemmenaensl semseae therefore, that the President will lay down in | made to our government by its representative the Varieties, the Amorican and Tony caused It only to rejolee, forcible language in his mcsesge to Congress ‘To which the President repliod as tollows:— there during the past four years ere not only of | Pastor’s Hall, the circus and ballet pantomime the future policy of this country in its relations | tyeij interest, but bordering a Asamavsa—The letter of crodence which with the Old World. ines bh Me. routin~+-06 the’ Hippotientron, whieh rs0Fens. Crhighly | yee rae Neue creme ed eretcined ie ieiae a ful. Here is a people rich ip all that makes them peaceful and happy, intellectually in many respects our superiors, and, although with a dense population, more democratic than and the @iableries of Herrmann, every Thure- day and Saturday, and of Blitz every evening, faynish sufficient and enjoyable entertainment. No New Yorkerand no visitor to New York i : i We see by the late news from Europe that our proposition for a Congress of the Great Powers to settle these American difficulties is ee ‘Ht i : ay tee i favorably received in some quarters. Let the | America, their gévernment being an empire | can, therefore, be ate loss to know where to go, | the ckrnouts wich enable her to become a finder moog. Emperor Napoleon take it up, and give to the | omy in name. Theft, robbery and crime are | slthough he may. find it diffloult to choose | (Re nsons. jt rogra thal in Woes post, te, clogel, rele United States that prominent position ip sucha | aimost unknown 80 thoroughly are all classes | among #6 interesting = i dh Holding quita similar positions on the two Congress we are entitled to, and he will re- | tained in the riiles of morality ‘snd virtue, Se Tray got geittbom, et egw hea lieve himself from his Mexican embarrassment, | we doubt not but that the forthcoming volume | ScoNsTaucTioN mv Viromiu—Revensal or in political aswell as in commercial intercourse. restore the ancient friendship that existed be- | of aiplomatic correspondence with that gov- | CONFEDERATE Conrmscarions.—We print else | Gur" fr cy i ove whick a timpe” and ually a be tween France and this country, and compel | genmont will reveal an important influence on where-two important orders from General We Promote the progross of civili- England to acquiesce in whatever terms France | tn» part of the rulers there exercised in behalf Terry, commander of the Department of Vir- ihe Rape et a te epeaechons La hey an and the United States propose together. Wo do not desire to interfere with Great Britain in India, with France in Algiers or Morocco, with the progress of Russia in the East and toward ginia, One of these extends the jurisdiction of the Court of Conciliation of Richmond city over the whole department, and enables that court to render judgment in cases where the of the United States in our late strug- gle Almost entirely unvers:d and un- skilled in the art of war, ‘the Chinese resort to the moral arbitrament in tho settle- ie i li the Golden Horn, nor with any of the ambitious fall trou! governing classes | Property of Union men had: been confiscated | administered. Above all, we w'sh to improas them wit schemes of monarchs in Europe, and we require real ye mean enade a by “the pretended Confederate government.” the conviction that all the nations of if tney there early appreciated the issue at stake be- ‘would continue to exist, must aspire to te sett. the same of them with rogard to America. We | ween freedom and slavery in this country, and, | The other probibite, “during the continuance of | fumtalting sa oer Te Brasil Shell wish them to withdraw peacoably and amicably, | under thetr edacation and code, could sympa. | martial law,” all sults against United States | fy with ae ne poloy. we shall beroafter be. not and leave the New World to work out its own - officers and agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau | °!; close friends, but practically we shall become firm thize with but one side, and that side was free- dom. Living within themselves, and only sending to the outer world for a market those products which were not to be obtained in any other quarter, the Chinese empire has long been the receptacle of a vast amount of the gold and silver of the other portion of the world, where it has remained. But while we may have much to learn of her in moral and intellectual point of view, and in the practical application of the natural sciences to the cultivation of the soil, her people have much to learn of us in the application of steam to machinery, inven- tions of all kinds, and the use of electricity in the telegraph. This is the field to which the lead- ing men there are directing their attention at the present time. Already American steamers are ploughing the waters of her rivers and re- volutionizing her internal trade. Thus far the preference has been given to the American built vessels, as the experience of the crafte- men in navigating our rivers has enabled them to construct vensela better adapted to the rivers in that country. Rapid progress is now being made in all this; the doors to the Internal traffic are gradually being opened wider and wider to the outside world, and the Earopean grand future untrammeled by their influence. Let us have the Congress of Nations to accom- plish this object. Tas Democratic Prarrorm—Lerren rrom Mr. Catvert Comstoce.—We published a few days since a letter from Mr. John B. Heskin, the boss carpenter of the late Democratic State Convention, explaining how the platform was constructed, of what timber it was composed, who framed it, and, what was still more inter- esting, whose work was refused. We now pub- lish a letter from Mr. Calvert Comstock, who, it appears, was one of the journeymen carpenters of the same remarkable constraction, throwing additional light on the way it -was built. In the effort to correct Mr. Haskin’s statements it confirms them as to the rejection of the defec- tive work of the impertinent outside clique— Tilden, Mantilini Marble and Confidence Ons- sidy—who attempted to take a hand in the labor as volunteer apprentices. These imper- tinent outsiders unwittingly built their own gibbet, on which Haskin and Comstock have hung them aa high a4 Basen, for acts done in their official capacity. The latter order is timely and wise, and its effect will undoubtedly be to prevent collision be- tween the civil and military authorities over questions gotten up by the factious politicians who did most to cause the war. If two ride a horse one must ride bebind; and so long as the government judges that the condition of Virginia requires the continuance of martial law so long the military power must be eu- preme in ite sphere, and the tactious suite against officers for their official acts must be rendered impossible. The public peace re- quires this. The government must sustain the army in what it requires it to do, or it must withdraw it. The order giving power to the Conrt of Conciliation is « satisfactory evidence that, however rapidly reconstruction may go on, it can take time by the way to undo the many evils done by the rebellion. Obituary. MAJOR ALEXANDER CAROLIN, OF THE FOURTH REGIMENT UNITED STATES INFANTRY. Died, in this city, om the 234 inst., Brevet Major Alex. andor Cafolin, of the Fourth regiment United States infantry. Decensed was a son of ex-Aldermae Carolin, of the Fourteeath ward, and wae born im the city of RETURN OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR. Secretary Stanton returned on Saturday evening, and regumes his accustomed place to-morrow. NEW FRACTIONAS, CURRENCY. A new Iasue of fractional currency of the denomination of fifty cents will shortly be made to replace, as far ae possible, the last issue of half dollar greenbacks, whieh have been extensively countorfeited, The engravers have been at work for seme time upow the head of Gen- eral Spinner, which will adorn the new mote in place of the figure of Justice, #0 familiar to holdew of the last fesne. The artist has succeeded in prodesing a picture of the onergetic old Troasurer, with « bemign and pleas- ‘ant expression of countenance, which will. be hard to counterfeit. The new temcent currency of the mme general form as other new fractional notes will shortly ‘be ready. They are printed oncommén baak.note paper. THE COUNTERFRIT ONB HUNDRED DOLLAR NOTES. As various conjectures ase-efloat concerning the method of producing the lately detected one huadred dollar counterfeit Treasury note,. and statemeutsare in circu- lation that attempts have been made by Treasury off- cials to reproduce them by electgotyping, i shonid be generally known that ne clectrotypes of Breasury note plates have ever been taken with the knowledge or com- sent of the Treasury Department. Unsuccessful attempts have been made on government bonds, batnot on any denomination of Treasury notes. MOVEMENTS AND CONDITION OF TROOPS. another column we publish the decision ef tions ate alteady stoused New York December 81, 1688, and hea been taken off in pion Sai ts Gur | mtr tay eaten | tania anaes | eae sae es case, It will be seen that, as we’ predicted, Lpapeiseniy Joba's Cottege, county,M ¥. After leaving | waioh have been sent to. the South and tothe Pacific Indgo Hall tistains the verdict of thé, jory | CU SoverMment and people be behind, then. Tt ‘coast, ‘The Toth United Sates, intaitry and Fifth, pgainst Colchester, and upom the very grounds | ##{mportant that our Minister, Mr. Burlingame, Vajed Staten cavalry, now on duty in thin city, have should return to his post at Pekin a8 soon as pomible and attend to the interests of this conntry at the Chinese capital, that the ‘bonds between the two nations may be made stronger and no advantage which we now bave be lost, but increased day by day. It isan important field, and it is the duty of the government to develop it to the fullest extent. Swievtixa Aguwts.—We print below, and for about the five bundrodth time. a oretended | foreshadowed in the Hzaato, If Colchester’s lawyers had taken our advice they would have soved their client the additional of thls appeal. The lonrded fnige regards oplat- | e in uclista in a ve rtgimenis have heen mustered out. ‘The remain- Sar deo are very snxious to be mustered out, an@ ‘aro cirvulating petivens for thet purpose. Thetr officers are opposed to these petitions, PREPARING FOR THR MEETING OF CONGRESS, the approsching sesrion of Congress ts boing puntiod for~ ward vigorously, Manone and plasterors, in view of the Hy practical light He’ asks why Colchester did not enrich himeclf, if he poe- powers, instead of pondering to the oredulity of the public by juggling seances. He calls attention to the fect that. with all their boasted knowledge, tho