The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1866, Page 1

Ee WHOLE Ni ’ Pedy 10,081, WASHINGTON. Health Secre%ary Seward’s Impraving. HE VISITS THE PRESIDENT ON SATURDAY The Payment of Bounties Provided by Last Congress Not Stopped. 4)1 Applications to b: Moturned for Ainendment. GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL MATTERS ae ke, Ree ‘Wasarxeron, Sopt, 22, 1866. Improvement in Secretary Seward’s Health, Asan evidence of the continued improvement in Sec- setary Seward’s health, it may be stated tat he this af- ternoon paid a visit to the President No Truth in the Statement thatthe Payment of Bounties Had Been Stopped. ‘There is no truth in the statement that the payment of Bounties provided for by the !ast Congress has been ‘stopped, as the following tolegraphic correspondence, hich has just been received at tho offics of tho Military ‘Telegraph, will show:— + Obio, Sept. 21, 1866, CoLumrvs, To AxnRew Jounson, President :— ‘Tho following is published in Ohio, en? doing an in- jory. We know it is false, but want authority for a positive denial :— Exxconive Derantursr, S718, oF Ono, Gagne Ciaes, hare ok the Milony Uowenina Gilead, Wood counts, Obio:~ carers cubs Dan Sin—Yours of the Sth inst. tx received. You nak, the Paymaster General and second \ud'tor stopped mn pay under the bounty acts passe’ the last Con- ‘he former states thathe t+ wa ruetions by joe higher in authority, The Intter. as inatrucio the of the asury not to nay bouoty lost Congresa, ts the dion “that the Provident dou = Bignod by J. A. Grigor and John G. Thompson, Chair- man of the Democratic Sta 9 Commitico. ‘Treascory Derarrasr, Sept. 22, 1830, To J. H. Grickr and Joy G. Trowesox, Chairman De- mocratic State Committee, Columbus, Olio:— Reports that the President or. e-retary has delayed payment of bounties are unfounded, Payments ‘Will be made under the rules which have just been com- by the War Department. The Paytaaiier Goneral been instructed to commence paymouts at once. re will be no delay on the parts f this Departnent. 1, MeUULLOCH, Secretary. AN Applications for the Additional Bounty to be Returned, All the applications now on file at tho Paymaster Gen- @ral’s office and at the oifice of the Second Auditor of the Treasury for the adititional bounty authorized by the ect of July 28, 1834, avo to bo roturned to tho applicants, @ontaining the endorsement, “Returned for amendmont, fm conformity with the rogatations from the War De- partment of September 16, 1560” Beighborhood of two hundred thousand of these applt- @ations now on fis, very many of which will never be Penewod, since tho publication of the regulations ander which they are to be tpaid excludes thom. A large pro- Portion of them, also, aro not accompanied by the @acharges, and some have been mao by veterans who Gre not entitled under the law. On the backs of those @epies of the regula'ions for paying tule additional Bounty which wore sent to the Assivtan! Adjutant Gen- @rals of the States, Paymaster Geneva! I), M. Hricecaused t be written an endorsement requesting them to givo general publicity throughout the States that no applica- on can be sntertained if notin strict and lit ral con- formity with the regulations, Applications of heir, &0, for ai claims of deceased soldiors, uxt applications for bounties of every class accruing to colored soldiers, ving or dead, must be made direct to tho So.ond Audi- tor of the Treasury, and not to the Payinaeter General. Government Finanelal Matters. ‘The disbursements on account of the several narned Gepartmenis during the woek ending today were as fol- ,—Waer Department, $655,412; Navy Department, =. Inecior Department, $2,223,251. Total, 99,083,203. ryt ‘There were no new national banks an(tiorized during the ‘week. The National Bank of Portland, Oregon, has been @oaignated as a depository of public moueys, National Dank circulation to the amount of $265,110 was lreved ing Comp sollor of the Gur- ef. se aTionat banka ts now ; of tia 214,720, The securities lield by the United Btates ‘Treasury to-day amounted as followe ‘—For circulation, 9892,065,800; for public Sepbslta, $35,700,500. Total, ororraon 309. ° ‘The foliofing statement exhibits the arnoont of funds Je the cash vaults of the Treasury Depsriment at the Goss of to-day’s business :— States notoa, Ie) ° ited States notes, legal tender (medinm, ited Bates notes, legal tender (spall). bank notes lent does not intend that a dollar of addy be paid to a Union soldior or Bi fs AL wal bounty he can Leip RE. ‘The amount of fractional currency printed during the week ending to-day was $432,000. The shipments mate daring tho same period amonnted to $408,077, forty thoueand dollars of which was forwarded to the whet ets peaeipoe and (he remainder y ‘The redemption division of the Treae sy éancelled mutilated fractional currency to the eaount of $443,900, Cleveland Convention-Praceedings to be tg the ident on Tuesday. ‘The delegates Gppotnted by the Inte Cleveland Con- Yention of Soldiers and Sailors to wait on Prosident Joun- and present him with a copy of (be proceedings of Dody are expected to perform that dity on Tues. next. Thoy will arrive on Monday evening, and on Pueeday they will be escorted to the White Hours by the Oonservative Army and Navy Union, of this city, who Bave engaged the Marino Band for the occasion. Commutation of Montence by the President, The President has commuted the sentence of Georgs There aro in the | mini nd Ss =: | | Bishop, of Michigan, sentenced to death for murtor | @ommitted on the Fort Gratiot military revervation in ‘hat State, to Imprisonment bard labor in the State Prison of Michigan. Bishop wns tried and convicted in We United States Court for the Detrict of Michinan, Qud under the United States statutes coud only be wen. teneod to death The Mistrict Attoruey and tne jary then aniied ta a representation of the cave to the Pree Gent, stating the fact that the statutes of Michigan Bot allow of capital ponitiment. Out of deierenes to Gis fact the Prositent commuted the ‘The Antietam National Cemete +. A mecting of the troeteesof the Antietam National Cometory waa held in Baltimore on the evening of tho Sth inet, at which » plan for the cemetery wos ud The work of transferring the bodies of the Ur @ the silo selected will be commenced on the ntence ae above ne nant Colonel J. M. Moore, Assistant Quar ted State Army, in charge of the stern termaster Un Bertal Bareau of the covernment, whose experience in @xtablishing national cemeteries has been vory guce ms fol. Tho number of bodies that will be buried ia thin comotery te estimated = at 000, @nd 2,626 yraves are already = recorded, Of Uite latter number 1,700 have been tdentifed, and 018 eontain the remains of unknown soldiers, These bodies Will bo taken from the batt!s fields of Antietam, Sout Mountain, Shepherdstown, Harnervilic and the neigybor- Rood surrounding the field of Antietam. The plan which Was boon decided apon by the trustees is very similar to that of the Gettysburg National Comoterr. A drive © sive feet in width surrounds 11, and two main walks Intersect each other at right angles tn the cenire, and extend throwghont fie entire length end breath. Two large plats om ekher side of the entrance ere ont apart for Now York and Penmeylvania, and seo- Minas Lave bees appropriated (o the other States in oro. iil bo done under the supervision of | portion to the nrmbor of bodies they areto receive, Be- tween thesg Sections gravelled walke will radiate from the centre of the cometery to the outside drive. In the oenlze & cirowlar space is laid out, on which the monu- ment willbe erected, Near the entrance to the cemetery tance fae rock on which it is said General R. £, Lee stood during the battle of Antietam, and from which he surveyed the movements of the contending hosts. Violations of Agreement by the Whito People with Freedmen, The Assistant Commissioner of freedmen’s affairs in Louisiana, in bis report the Commissioner, states that many complaints come to him from Louisiana and Texas of violations of agreements made by the white poople with the freedmen. These cases, he finds, are where the freedmen had made agreements that wore not sanctioned by the Bureau, Tho Gonoral says tt is yet a difficult matter to control these cases. The monner of proceed. ing at present in the courts of justice is for the negro to bring is euit, which {8 generally supported by negro evidence. The decision is then made, in most cases, against the freedmon, without regard to the nogro testl- mouy; but for thivevil the General hopes soon to find a remedy, Transferra! of the Department of Tennensee, By War Department Genoral Order No. 77 the head- quarters of the Department of Tennossce is transferred from Nashville, Tenn., to Louisville, Ky. Appointments. James R. Hood, of Tennessee, well known in the po- litical circles of that State, was to-day commissioned as Secretary of the Territory of Colorado, Tho President has appointed Androw T. McReynolds United Statee District Attorney for the Westera District of Michivan, and Jacob P, Leese United States Marshal for the District of California. Tho following appointments have recently been made:—George W. Dent, Superintendent of Inalan Afairs for the Territory of Arizona; William Byers, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for tho Southern su- perintendency. E. W. Wynkoff has been appoluted Agent for the Cheyennes,fArapatoes end Apaches, and Seth Kinman as Special Agont of the Indian Bureau in Idaho. John L. Pratt has beon appointed United States Die- trict Attorney for the District of Delaware, A Pioneer of Californin Anpointed Marshal. Colonel Leose, who has beon appointed United States Marshal for the State of California, settled at Los Angeles, California, in 1833. He erected the first house in Yerba Bnena (now San Francisco), and raised tho first Amori- can flag that wae displayed in that city. He received from the Mexican government a grant of titirty-five million acres of land in Lower California, said to contain great mineral wealth, and conveyed the samo to a com- pany of capitalists, who have incorporated under the Jaws of the State of New York with the object of settling the territory with miners and agriculturists. Phe Sehutzonfest. The Schutzenfest, which was in progrees four days, has ended, It was the first ever held in Waehingion, and has proved an eminent success in every way. Although thourands of Germans and Americans wero constantly in attendanee, sharing in tho varied festivities, there ‘were no proceedings whatever of an unpleazant character, nor were the poli? at any time required to {ntorfero for the preservation of ordor. The first prize, a live doer, was awarded to Mr, Lougheim, of Philalelphia, and the second, a maseive silver ladle, to Mr. Klein, of New York, for superiority of ahooting with an unsap- Ported rifle, The former received the frat prize medal, aud the latter the second prize modal for froquent hit- ting of the bull's eye. Intelligence for Office Seckers. It is understood ie President bas decided that in consequence of the preagurs of public business ho will herveatter be obliged to decline receiving any committees or delegations whose principal object ‘@ «69 «present programmes for removals and appointments to ofce, All such business must necessa- rily be referred to the appropriate dopartmonts of the goveroment for attention, Settlement Under the Homestend Law. Tho law requiring a homoatead settler to occupy and cultvate the land for Ove goars Defore he ean acquire a title, the question has boon ralsod whether the Improv mounts made by the setiler within that time bo taxed before Lie tite has boon pasied to lilm. Tho Pom- missioner of tho General Land OMce ps delivered an opinion on the subject, in which bo fay? — Ifa qualified sottler gooe upon the land, resides there and cultivates the tract for tho fall term of Ave years, thé go ervment stipulates that be eball, on paying fee, get a complete title. Tho consideration preys inhar consideration, atipulated uot only for the interest of ths claimant, but for the benefit of the State, The statute, in virine of the sixth article of the consti- Titioll, ts the supreme Jaw of the land. it cannot, thers fore, be ronqered jive or abrit ged by euch an ex- ory) Sat ey would dou privilege éSurerred upon the seth The splint and purppeo of Con; in this reepect fs clearly mauifested in tho fourth seetion of an'd act of May 20, 1862, which declares that no lands acquirea onder the provision of this at uy any become liabls to the faction of a oan debis contracted prict to the issuing of the slopt thereof. it is the cenerons purpom, thea, of the, inited States, through the National Legislature. + tect settlers in their homes under the law gpl tiles reach maturity, ° of Patits Vande. Fates Returns received by mmicsioner of the General Land Office from braneh office at Travers City, Michigan, siow the following dispoeals of public lan dering the month of Avgost:—With bounty land war- rants, 11,420 acres; with agricattural college scrip, 8,040 acres r cath, 9,973 neres; under tue Homestead art, 6,956 acres; total, 56,019 scree. ALONG THE HUDSON. OUR POUGHKEEPSIE CORRESPONDENCE. Vaninectial Fatal Storm— Anual “rep Pooummnerars, Bept. 22, 1866. Tdk sToRM, The edvere #torm whieh provatied along the Hudson Feslerday was more daraaging in ita offect than was at first syppove4. Ln this gity during tho afternoon the wind blew « hurricane, destroying Lrees, awnings, &o. Above Lere, near Cram Kibow, a sohooner, whoxe nadie we could not ascertain, bad her mainmast ebiveted by iiyatning. A sloop, near New Hambarg, waa aleg tiruck by lightuing. The residence of « Mr, Hughzon, at Cold Spring, was struck by lightning, and the building de- siroyed. Th rio Muid struck a tree near Parrot’s Foundry, Cold ng, Knocking down two men, ono named Joho Bo at not seriously injuring either, The storm bugged it er, roports from tho interior ehow!ng that its elect Was not so dixastrous back in the eoopiry The Accident— FATAL ADCEDENT. | have Just received information of a terrible aceident which oovarred in Weetkill, Greene county, The parties concerned were two jcung mon named Jobn Decker and George Angie, both former members of the old Twen- a New York ment, whe had served during the dunseathed. Deeker stood noar the ver, and bh . the plete several tmilitnry pt \ Anwin, appreetating the ng, Kept on bis way; (mex, when it went of, « below the toft the ball ay Mae boweis " tr Corawall, N Y., sui of $2,500 wn y wr 0 th ¢, for tt 4 chy, and alu thelr wher aboota eaty years ot ago, and Soroher wl Sa th 1 Mel. 2 son of » him @ fant THE PACIRG COMET ‘ see ot sdonent Ratified in ifopeetentatives The ca Phootlen Deet@ed by Retataing the Mewthers A Sen Wall be Com- ed in the Harber of San Peanolven « Prasctnco, Sept, 22, 1864 of last night says that the anvendment by eyes 26, val perme beert cow A Satom, Orege Movie passes t noes, 22 The Yeub!i! In favor of the too Hit The steamer ‘ tripe €86, 600. tonanre The Roard of Harbor Commustoners have adopted a ontew 1 ole Won case had been decided | qj08 mombers, ada, from Columbia river, plan (9 Conmtrunt a een wall for the protection of @ por. ‘hon of the harvey of aan Francisco, at & Cost of two ond hall millions of deliars | | } | | | NEW YORK, SUNDAY, CITY POLITICS. ‘The Conlitten of Democrats and Conservative Repubitcans—Tho Bargain Broken—Grent Battle Anticipated—The Last Days of the Tammany Braves-General Aspect of the Coming Politicul Battle, &e. Cut a snake into fifty parts, and for helf an bour or an hour after its death every segment will preserve a sort of nervous motion; the last part that dies will bo the head. The eyes will keep turning and the fangs will keep darting long after all practical powor for injury has departed. The democratic party and particularly the city Portion of it, is achopped snake, formerly a powerful unit and covering the whole Union with its coils; but now the only part of it that preserves vision or semblance of vitality is its headquarters in tho city of New York. Even this has but a languiabing life, with premonitions of its carly aud uvlameated decease crowding in from every side, THE ALUANCK OF THE DEMOCRACY AND CONSERVATIVES AND THE PROBABLE RESULT, The alliance of the Tammany Hall democracy with conservative republicans is felt to have brought no strength in the way of voters, while a racrifice of such principles as were left has rendored the rank and flo almost indifferent to success, Poor As the bargain mado have been olready violated, it ts claimed, on both sides; and the tasidion® altacke of the Times on tho coalition Ueket made at Albany is @ stab mnder the fifth mb and an tnjury received in the houre of afrend. The roazon for this last somerranit of the | Tims te said to bea reluctance manifested by the Tain Many leaders to carry out that portion of their bargain with tho conservatives which was to have tainly two, and the conservatives claim » Congresesional districts to tho representatives of that | party, Mr. Raymond was to have the ‘Tan many Hal! nomination tn tho Sixth district, Mr. William A. Darling was to be ro-elected from tho Ninth district, and if any combination could be mate promising success against James Brooks in the Bighth district, that aleo was to be delivered over to the conser- vative bargainers, Tammany Hall, however, found {tself like a merchant who hud bargained to soll goods which he cannot deliver. ‘THE TRRUIMLE PRNIANS ON TARIR TRUK WATTLE FIELD, The terrible Fenians, whose martial air and heavy (tread have terrified and shook the world, claim twenty five thousand good and trae voters In thie city, and are up in arins against the editor of the Tine, who has not been above polite to them in the columns of his pape: and they vow vengeance avainst the whole Tammany ticket, from Governor down to ponnd-keoper, if such an error ‘as that above stated {# perpetrated. Hence flow tho tears, and henoo the Times, though not having any interest in the success of th radical ticket, is now working most offectively Fenton’s success, In accomplishing this ob- ject, it was furnished with a good weapon the alleged over zealovsness of ex-Judze Edwards Piorre- pont, who took it upon himeelf in the late convention at Albany to withdraw the namo of General Dix from the consideration of that body at a time when, it ia claimed, a clear majority of the conntry momberr were in favor of the Genéral’s nomination, althongh he (Pierrepoint) had no more authority or culor of title for Buch withdrawal than any one é! had for originally making General Dix a candidate THE CONVENTION CONTRO! LED BY TAMYANT MALT. Despite the drawbacks to General Dix's prospeeta, the Tammany Hal! mon all they could do, with the great means at their command, to attain the success they achieved in the nomination of thele man, The Tammany Hall mon cla: they will send over High Bridge a ma- Jority for their exudidates of tho modest feure of 45,000 Votes, whieh will be more than onongh to counterbalance the 20,000 majority which they concede Fenton will receive in the balance of the tate, ‘The old political proverb ways:—It iy mighty hard to tell who Governor until the votes are conted,”? white’ jaa ule for enumeration, ani cortainly more relia the brag and guess work of tho Tammany Hall 2, bray GOVRRNOW FENTON AND 1 or WHT TH VETERANS Ov TH Tae Wal Governor Fenton hay great personal strength with the veterans of the late New York rezimenta, which he geinod by the liberality with which be wioided military | Patronage during the last two yearsof tho war. Scorea and hondreds of eerzoanta have rece! missions as Heatenauts signed by bis hand, @ the oxecutive son), langine over thelr maniel piece former lientepants who are vow captains, and all ohor grades of ofleers Lave simbiarducumont grateful, for which te be FENTON AND TYR PRYIAN RULER Fenton and his friends have aleo tndnstrionsly made capital among the Fenian element, White tho trish jn the | frontier counties near Canada will be mime t solid in hie favor, ho expecta alan to divide the rame vote in Can tral end Weatern New York, andeftect «diversion of semo id of this cit: pet of it even in the democratic st: ho race for Governor will bo a very and as it sidude to-day a good slze it one at best, political pocket hendkerobief will cover elther capditate. =e at sm , QUtbing ts State and tnrniay to the election for conn ty overs sat RMamavigiman, tkes plane uert November, the contorrians “ the democratic happy family become still more perplexing S84 qpuoing lo the dininierested epectator, OUTHIOR ORGANIZATIONS, All the outside democratic orcantzatinas oppoved to Tammany Hall real!ze clearly that this {3 a contvst for thetr ecaips, and ave prepared to oo: goljdate and fyhy a united bare hall tho dese seaurn ayd eaticcy be uate, Cor, comlog such Movert Hall gtron, Failo sonal pockay barga ne) Pen and bl, o ‘ow Grganieation known ns the {ifeo, though formerly eontainny ngine by Femnando Wood, sold cut and y tornit the private tniercate of himeelf brother “Ben,"? that Joat all ite import od the greater portion of fe vitality. Th Thajor: of the mon who now adhere to it a: placenolders under sume of the Tammany departmonia, ard really form only a wing or supplemental brigate of tho anelont Wigwam, though wearing a diferent | uniform to deceive the wowary while others of the strong mon who formerly gave life to the organization, | fick of being weed ax mere counters in Fernando Wood's game of chem, have risen in their seate and ehaken MT the doat frvin their garmonta, avd are now enrolled a9 active and honored members of the Democratic Univa or Cooper Institute democracy, which was reorganized « fow evenings ago by the lection ef John Y. Savaze, of the Fitth ward, as chairmen, ALL THR INDEPENDENT MEN ARR COALRSUND, Another democratic orgenizniion, formorly themselves the National New York Domooracy, known in common parlance as the Meleon faction, ha practically gone out of oxixtouce by the wit diogst of @x-DMatriet Attor Joba MeKeon, ite ro- epected father In politics, wh: misceoded by ex. Al ler. map McSpedon, who claims to hav ‘con's and reepire, He seams to believe that the whole city of New York is twouty-ono ward proviye his own rule and. tala. to bond to hi the Nineteenth ward Me&pedon tsa calling Town inteportd in 6nd Gethen Ho ly os 8 GS weather cock pol tician—first ‘with. pine then with ue art | Hall, avd finally Fueceoded to the defanet MeKoon inittog, warriors and braves tne x have either sutwided into etipendiartes of Commlastoner's ov Comptratier's doparuse:.ts SXder the banner of the Ancient Wigwam, or have car riod over their valor aud their votes to santa of power avd hover ‘hat have been opened for them tu the graud C | temple of the Cooper Institate democracy, THE TAMMANY MEN AND THR PARMENT CAMPATIY. hot be Rupposed, however, that the manag! ny ilall are not fully alive to the +! Importance of the atrugzia, and will not use any and every means (o atrengilien themeolvoa for the hour of tris Thoy have already much abated iv Wigheat pretencio.* Like a wise eee captain, when @ storm is arieing, they havo taken io their sindding-sail booma, cleared ( lomber of thelr decks and bnttened’ down 1h hatches, ia order to bo prepared for the gale which the know ts condng, and wht if they en not wont! they must, nolens eo consent to be en They ate eagerly casting aboot for frees work the pomp, nod ® pew claw able-botiod emameu to help tak charge of tho 1 the hurricane of noxt November, and tbo y A of the olarter contest In ‘oem ber. wie and thelr oncestious prudent ship of the Anclout Wiwam m Tt mw men of Tam r u furvive ti n; bot to do thiy she mort bo raped frum | her preeent wowledy betk, with te heavily expe broadsides, (o an irorclad of the Dictator elana, oc the | nd bid de ean bo dot The « wt tog nyaces Anee 0 alt oF Wheth d potittcad tate’? who em to fool ng interests of the party of dofeat, wbles wae ‘ mpoeat help fom whatever quarier 0 be pocelved, DE ROATEN TO THE PETTANCRN CONVENTION, Information bas been received tn the city from Major Generat Terry that the Connedth deigrates to the Pit t moet to the Aswor House at | OW TERIT W AnD, f tho etixens of the B teenth ward, te wing, for the pu ivocate the nom! Comptighernuip of this city. eel ye) by a large aimber of eidzens, and a yoo spirit «an manifested. Mr. P, W, Suwith ‘wae elected Preeidor Reeolationa complimentary to the Judge were pored The meeting adjourned '¢ meet on @ fatare tiew to Last night & meeting of the fermen veterans took place ot the Germas Awembly Roome io the Bowery, for the porpoes of appotuting delegates to the Soldiers’ and Gallows’ Convention at Priteberg, and to moearures ae may be pecemary to prevent “thet the Valen shoalt bs esein plunged from e hardly pe nh ond war ngelont the alleged for » Governor | =, eriul Propresentative men from the | fe Wife, has born 40 used and abused ax a per bat | drawal ia | 96 tm kyliauttnn 1% t ble Tolivw ~in | his own eatimatiou—and is sharp ior the loaves | oF aot mast be dechied | SEPTEMBER. 23, 1866. | arbitrary power of the planned “ governance "' of traitors and rebels. Exeeut! and = the ‘the meeting was called to order by Dr. Bracning- hanson, and General Kzy zanowaki, on taking the chair, mado a speecb, in which he argued that the present siv- ation of political aairs was similar to that which existed in Germany at tho timo of the revolutionary movements in 1843, when the country was again sur- rendered to the Mreactic The present state of politi cat affairs was also a “reaction,” which ouglt to be opposed in order to provent a iin ‘lar result. Captain George Kenneberg was appointed Secretary, and Colonel Duganno was then introduced to addvens the meciing, which Was full of eloquence regarding the 1 Teuses were delivered by Messrs. Shueta and al other gentlemen, , ‘then resoluitons were passed to the following effect:—That the polley of the Prosident will be of evil results, and Mhat the weasures of restoration of Congress ongut to be carried out, as haved upon the fundamental right of the Deciaration of Independence-—All men are equal,” The nominations and principhaof the Republican Union State tion at Syracuse)’ endorsed, They protest aga mst the pardon a of Jetierson Davis. They are oj posed to a up peace, and rather would fight again in up) ae cowardly compromise with traitorous parites in the rebetlious States, and they will aiways keep in wikht the liberty and interests of their adopted fatherland and the welfare of their defeadera and their widows aud orphans. The following wers appointed delegates to the Pitts. burg Convention:—W. Kzyzanowski, Brovet Brieadior 5 Brevot General, UX sevonth N. Y. V.; Major Major cuaiian outy- Tack, 178th N. ¥. V.; Tof the Forty-fith vt Lieutenant N. ¥. V.; Goo, ighth regiment N. ¥. V. | THE PITTSBURG CONVENTION. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Great Preparations Being Made for the Re- ception of Delegates. Prerasuno, Sept, 22, 1866. Great are the expectations and great the preparations for the mass meeting, or series of mass movtings, to bo held hero next week, which, it is supposed, will run | through five days—from Tuesday until Saturday, Tho citizens of Pittsburg are straining every nerve to make the display a success, and confidently assert that ten or fifteen thousand strangers will be in the city. A large representation of the Sonate and the House of Reprosen- | tatives is expected, and a good share of the leading men of the party. The soldiers will form a moat important itom in the affair, aud a large attendance of officers ts counted upon delegations from the variong | eivistons of thi known 24 the “Grand Army of the Republic.”? to bo a grand display of fire 6 y fous every night In short, Md that can teud to ewell tho nd give detat to the display, City Hall is aiready handsomely decorated with and tinsel, and Ula afternoon a corps of fty or sixty ladies wero at work completing tie embe lish- | menis Enough bas been done up to this time to sow that the hall will present «gay and handsome appear. auce., To the loft of the hall, encircled by evergreen, im | Ja motto—** Honor to tho Heroes of Liboriy, Mumanity al Justice,’ On tho right ts the fullowlng—" Tho or soldiers and rallors—in peace the bulwark of w, in War the stroog arm of tho public defense | Berween the windows, wreathed with overgreens and pinned ap with rovetio# are the various corps bad Boginulog on the loft, and proceeding thence around tho atoge and down on the right they are povted in the following onler:—Second corpe—Nineteonth, First, Six. tomth, Seventeenth, Eleventh and fwelfth rogimenta, On the right of the speaker's stand tthe badge of tho Army of the Cumberland, and on the leit the no vl Army of the Potomac. Then come the deca of the following — corpa:—Fifth—Third, | Fiftecuth, Niwth, Sixth, Fourth and Twenty-second | regiments, The ceiling Is bung with —cracetul fesvoons bedecked with the nations lors, and the or- namenial stucco work in the centre ts encircled with two wreaths, In the centro is large tinsel star, beantt- fally wronght, Over tho platform iva very elaborn's | emblem, not yet completed, and conmquently not yet suseopitble of interpretation.” Tho hat) ts large enough | to hold from tweive to tiftesn hundred persons, ‘The civic authoritios of tho cities of Pittsborg end Alleghany, and tho veterans of 1812, have been for mally nye, The whole al- | far ta under the chief command of Genora) James 8, Nealegy. A public table ts to be provided and attended | by ‘adles and citizons who sympathize wiih tho repubh- can pariy, and aty othort that may feel generously dtis- powd are invited to send provisions to supply the cat ables, Among tho Alrtinguistiad vieitore present will bo the } eagle known ot Old Atny’’ owned by 2 Wistoorls regi- ment, and which aw we of the war thon rome of the cians wh ore w straps duriny the rebel tho © Grand Army of tho each district to rend jemned an ordor, through 4 wo largo attendance from that State 1a an ipated, There ro bot few if any delegates horo at } ' fd it fa not Likely that many will arrive betore Mon- but the ctizona are very busy, and the radicals display a proisoworthy goal In their efforta to mako ther macs menting a sieves, aud to turn it to prac. ical accvant ta their home election, KINGS COUNTY POLITICS. UME NATIONAL ASSRMALY CONVENTIONS, The various awembly conventions were hol yesterday afternoon in Kinge county by the “national” wing of the democratic party for the purpore of making the above nominations, but were subveqnently adjourned for one week. The cause of this adjournment la understood to be for the purpore of making arrangements with the | “regulars,” who refure to endorse any nominations made by them. WEW JERSEY POLITICS. a ar Newans.— firat Ualsey’s nomination for was held on Thursday addromed by the newly Cattell, Horace Greeley, f og rewark wom tho President . Usiom Ratinication Marx ratifieation moeting since Mr. the Fifth Congres*ioual distri evening at Newark, ant ¥ | elected Senator ‘ | Mayor Peddie sud o:hors. made by Senate Mt h © The The fact of ving a policy at ail ja an sot of eurpatt vies of “bear, by ) Later in the evening Benator Cattall was ser calod at the Mayor's residence, Monwovr Cocsty.—Tha Moamouth county coneerva- | tive convention will mest ou the 6th of October to notnt- 0 State Senator Fowrr Cosant@tisas. Disimer.—The friends of the fick. ACJ. Rogers are now convinced they cannot pro- | care Cor hima ununitnons renomination, The divisions among bie friends, the unfagging enercy of hia oppo- desertion of « cousidersble nniwber of Lis re, provent a very Aiscouraging prospect ti] a fow daye aco in which the nts course be a mooting for the § follow ing pasemge occure nm "IT the Prost sustaiwed In the coming elections, (he ¢xtermination or roxaancre Of Union men in the South is The have wot yet agreed upon a cand(date, ano % ” ‘The conservatives Draven | Owenter I ATION cantidate for © sted by fifty-e The Republican Union Co ation bas nated Amon Clark, Je., of Elisabeth, for Binte enater, and Charles B, Hotf for } PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS, | +, Sept, 22, 1808 | thas bee 4 ‘ groms in the Piret 4 ;¢@ be democcate nm | Goorge F. Miller was t f republicans of Ubia distr "y TwE INSURRECTION IN CANDUA ro Tue RDITOM re mm at New Yona, Mept. 21, 1886 which apg out cotumpa this | finn warring a Coo tenra bh with grathade (he f ths hele name I beg to | | thank yous a ; promote vy | the strong ” winid the caune of an opprenned | reso be . « j } etve po 1 dew } encer jn quest } Hres the week a Athe have e ce frewts ian he then of ther brethren in all parts of the « Trova the telograptiie me ‘ would appear Chat the Tarks, aided by the Kgypting hare gxined we hepe thet Cie £ the Greek pop general vind G t therty and wi the ey mpathy of all Chriviendom for the rebt Crote, which had been anjortiy tcrifeod ta 1498 to the egotistical politcal requlrercats of bhore tanes Lromain yout obedient aervent, — Preekdont of the Committee of ive va PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General, err the aster a Resta, Poimenwr ty yesterday, and w stoweies MEXICO The French Flag to Evacuate, but Na- poleon’s Soldiers to Remain. MAXIMILIAN UNDER FRENCH RESTRAINT. A Bait to be Held Out for American Capital. Important Liberal Movements Around Vera Cruz. Mexican Minister to the Hely See. &o. &e. &o. The steamers Evening Star, Captain Knapp, and Tung Shuoy, Captain Hildreth, from Now Orleans, arrived at this port yesterday morning, brivging news from Vera Cruz up to the 12th inst, The Pursers of these vessels will accopt our thanks for the prompt delivery of our files and despatches. QUR VERA CRUZ CORRESPONDENCE. Vaxa Crvz, Sept, 10—10 P.M. FREXCN TRYING TO HOODWINK UNCLE BAM, To-day those who study the changes in the situation with great care exhibited a very considerable degree of Uneasiness in consequence of some strange reports which were received from the interior. To-day it was gencrally said that the Eighty-first French regimont of the line was en route for Vera Cruz to embark at once for Europe, but on investigation it wae found that only one battalion of sald regiment was coming down, and that the remaining portion (from 1,600 to 2,000 men) wero ready to take up the flag of the empire (dropping the fag of France) as soon as the battalion particularly spocifed above left Mexico, We know it to bea fact that France's monoy is being expended In large amounts, In overy direction, to increase the strength of the im- penal army, And we also know that, notwithstanding the several moves already made, there is nothing to show that \t ls the sincere latention of France to leave the country ment OMTANT PROM FRANCE, IF TRUM, In today’s. of La Revista, of thin city, wo find the following : The Inet 1 ‘om Barope relative to Mexican affairs cot oda of the reports received by the ceneh government peryiite the wtoors, and will give to the Mealeo af and munitions of expeditionary corps, nevorthe- has been stated, tied the very latest developments aro asking, What \! lerence will it make to tho United States goverument \hother it fights French regiments, direerly known as euch, of Preneh regiments tu disguies under the colors of tue Empire?” wi, TUS eMrRees Keron? In the Faafete, Auguet 5, we find the fotlowing: — By a which Wags insortod yesterday in ul newspaper wo were given two under. wand that it willnot be long before her Majesty will return to Mexico. General José Lopox Uraga, an aide- de-camp of the Linporor, has received a minsion, In the execution of which be ia to proceed to Europe, and then accompany the Empress to Rexco on her retura voyags. Aryans The retry lows, will take plan Theeo who have MENT OF A MINISTYR FLENIPOTENNARY TO THR HOLY sax. Justappointed bE do Contillo, who ts now in Europe, Miniwier Ment potontiary to the Holy See, The Eq peror says that this Appoluunent Is rendered very neessery on Reovant of the good ubderstanding now existing botween tue Pope and tue imperial government. MAXIMILIAN RETAINED WY THE PHRNCH, It fs true that Maximilian desires to leave Mextoo, bot {t tw also true that the French authority here have, wo far, objected to bin leaving, and it Is understood that this Topeh authority acts upon instructions received fron rance, AXTMIAMING AROUND VERA OBOE. For reveral nights past there has beea some elight tkirmiehing jont outside of tho walle of thy city, At night the hberala come up quite closes and deploy and advance aliitie, The French now keep ap & roguiar picket line, Se ae Puow MICINACu AN Tho imperialists have mot with a most dirastro: feat in Michoacan. It ls aid that the tu Mendez has bad to abandon everything HUANIFICANT. The people and merchants of Vera Crux will not have anything to do with the new Maximilian tamped dot lare, which are coming into eireulation, Parties doing a atoalt burners here openly way that that they will wut take thea Vans Carn, Sept, 11, 1806. ARSIYAL OF MORK FERNCH TROOMW FOR THK TORmGN Lengo. Day before yorterday, In the aftersoon, the French mail steamship Panama arrived at this port from St Nazairo, France. From the steamer there were landed one hundred and Ofty-seven privates of the Freneh For. eign Legion and eleven commistoned ofivers, When tho privaces left St. Nazaire they numbered in all one haudred and sixty men, bat three of thou deesrtod in Havena People generally noked for @ now genornl oMcer to come out from Franca on Mis steamer, for the purpow of relieving Marcha! Bazaine; bet no toch person orrived, BUWaTIVE TO MAXIMILIAN # POTION. It Is not very secretly whispered here that Maximilien fen prisoner in the hands of the Frepoh at the capital. Ha dows not go to any place now who! being mtlh ted by a French gonrd, otherwive and for politeneny eke styled ‘an escort We obmerve that the Aurtrian corvotie Dantalon instead weela the habit at Maer to sea on & fond WFyage ak any nant lately, now Hh fo prepared to moment. wrkel PLAS RAILROAD LING —MPORT Oy PROCRRDTNG. Wr. Lins, haq.. ft bore on the Let inet. for Havans, whence he will go on to New York On the 14h of thin wanth there is to bem which Mr Loyd, G. B, Orne Gti, of the house of Antiy are to be prevent. The obj: duce American eapita:ivin ty mee! y "a CG, 1 4 of the meeting ts ta $11,000,009 inwe 4 the Preaet gore it sa wrvkers of Vera Orar A four biock bonuses on y Art Mache, at thet The marctante, mot Wi knowing what ia Marvhsl 1 Me . rot a gre ‘ aod (haa he ‘ . ' Cute 1 . any ’ ' sinerLatn w + an “a The? Fert ' tal, bax & ‘ A Y i a ght esow “ ootara Wo he ‘ PTT, Pht ar - “ r tor Tire . ar) 1 ° ; # compl ' y taptore (he ernarte ; They grt the Menain quite regaiariy, Rome of them can read Knplivn very well Where Gey get the Northern papere from I rannet tell you. Nevrerthelan they get trie . 7 . - AP ike (ASD AROT ED THE COPY OF TeRe The eothorties of tha ey meet Yom pule'r newepaper wld wae Geigned Ww appoer- one tal 5 oy af mt aan Mtifeetiene Fr CAT Om the ond ade ae he Wheres wow bold Corrl-Fele, Corre * be ee “ P FIVE RICE Puente National and Paso de Ovejas, They also are Almost dally at Antigua, The other evening a couple of Mexicans role out a very short distance, and were cap- tured, One of them had to pay $8,000 (av a coutriba- on to the liberal cause) esate te gst back again. AN IMPORTANT PROCLAMATION, Lule Mier y Toran, who escaped from thie cily afew months past, efter having beea charged with being the leader of a conspiracy designed to involve the and Probable execution of some of the French naval and army officers, if now at Antigua with a considerable armed force. Antigua is only nine miles from Vera Cras, {n & northerly direction. “He has iasned the following i PROCLAMATION, Coton, Lom Mien ¥ Teaay To Tum INMARITANTY ALONG Tux Coast ov Viena Cava .—. Fetiow Crrmexe:—The undersigned having been ap- Pointed to duty on this cosat as aecond in command, Bo herefore appears here for the purpose of opeuing @ campaicn, acting under the orders of General , Ignacio Alatorre, an er who is well known to you for bis skill and brilliant qualtion, The lost knell for the so-called empire which has tried to fasten iteelf opon the Mexican nation haa been fOU! 5 be to remain a od otator at wl time, I have en the feild against that empire, To thia end I, baye abandoned family and basinens interests. I bave abandoved everything Which is dear toa man after this love of country, 1 intend to continue ign in my country’s defence, and that wo may be piccesatul I nak——tndeed I conpt 'upon--the co-operation of all good Mexicans, Tfeol confident that ali mch Mexteana will aid me; some with their arm, othere with their intelligence, and ail to defeat tyranny. Coma, then, my frienda, A ready you know who T am, and know that I will do only that which te oth ing but what ts for tbe rostoration to our ndependonce and ih” LUIS MIER ¥ TERAN Abti.va, August 21, 1008 n country of 1 CANADA. The Uxeeutive ( o*ncll ta Session at © Defence a Vrovinetal Leaal Tend der Discussion, &e. Mowturat, Sept, 22, 1866. The Executive Connetl is pitting at Quebee. Reoma at the St, Louis Hote! are secured for their meetings, ‘The business discussed ts uncotamonty important, First mw defence, and the Adjutant Genere! Is in attendance to re colve instructions and be conferred with; noxt ia the arrangement partly made with the Hank of Montreal he iasue of the Provincial legal tender notes, There lich, and it has to be straightened before the mane can take place By tho last ma'l the Governor Genoral received intelit genes of thy death of big sister, and (he Coumei! site io Quobee for bis oonveulence, ¥ Vigorous Preenotions Agu Every Eoailroad Train « Closely Watched A Night Pat wants &e. the Pentanw amer to be to be Or- Tosnsto, Sept 22, 1800. This evening's Daily Tdegraph rays (hat the govern ment has issued a cireu'ar to county attorneys and po- Neo magistrates instracting them to order the so 2uro of ali arton in posmersion of parties whom they consider dan, 4 to the public peace, and that all per- sons known cted of having conneetion with the Fenians will be vigvrounly pronecuted, ‘Three Fenians were committed to jail today, and « Niet Of Gareral hundred nan foeluding some welt Knowi Pilients of Luis cdiy, if now in the hands of the police, and the r 4 luquitios are being made by the pote es how if tho chy in regard to everything connected with Fen: From this Une forward nor arriv ng it Puspichvns fren) every railrond train and slit bo clowly watched and and arrested, and Mf their Piained (hey will be com- mitted to jail ubder te babeas eorpas act of the baat Variiament, A ep vial season 0! the Maye "4 Holl, now being held at for the purpore of 1 dpeided to swear won, well known atute, and there week In the HoMbEr ery to parrot hole re mag the ity rol ith fty mon fn ane are to be dritied ut } uso of aro, ani a corte Bpeetive wards every nlite The Chief of Pobre tes petitioned (he Poliee Comovie- moners for an Increaw of the polce force The Hank of Upper Canada Uleetlon of Condutor 1 yt, 22, 1866. The Rank of Upper Comada has teeaed a ciroular today notifying partion in od that depooior: «ill be paid tn poten of the bank, wad (hat the bank will receive pays ment for discounted potew in bill of th Of the woepeuted ten ar Ing wt» xty on the doliar The election of Cdjytor nop of Engiand, after a niiover of days’ bw euited a the election of Archdencon ft bourg ARMY BULLETIN INGA OF CRMER\ Deparment 1 Liestenant Geared Won Dn wre For the General" cept that om die cum bulious eet on tye} sho idor stra For the Liew genoral, excrpt thal on tore wail be ieee BY order of the seer Ep. TOWNS bern mns The fotlowing General Steere, of the Colum the India’ tetany J )joten tun @ Lemna phew been iemued by te Milary Department jotetions against 2 Covomms 1, N66. The thanks of (oe Deyartrn dered tw F t f Firm Colle , dotacum mt at the conpany, for the every sod bem whieh they manierod dur eeniaet the hewlie tud wa The conduct of Be Thomas W. Copier and lin pineioen men ta et end UAally pouting » eaperion forte, on the Math le worthy of special eoamodation Corporal Wilttane mf eo galiant a Tianhe ore also de & Lord was kiiet ition ia Anoply roger Vinyl oo Aavern and lowder river v ( Beroant’s por rein “ mh Marys are fan Fiancee, und be J protmbty © wn Vrewemee, Gag whip of Ad qe ready for won BOM, expected by the nthe 21 of Repiember, tion mee Captain Meadow and Navy Yard . rhe w an deriolt misel Thateber, te orton d to t Commetore LT Cre tue et Ban bre atte | Caines dat th MT ART AEE. Mteatimnentdl Inepection. There have beon severe! changes in the various com pony oMeers of the Third which are on foaneed in thee orker eahgen Purteant w the t be © revtremotal Inepection of thie « + mt bea very fogay document # +99 » the meinber aorelione 5 from thoes \aterented, complaining that they A Oh the pleow where defauite oF fase may be The Cremiy Chol, dhe Copety frenmurer, the Re 7 of Tevn the mather, mt tabew they bare wo authoring . the tere fh te onid the County Treasurer, @he ay Pane, will ” pod . tera! no « heetqaneters at the Breede the Goes whee (he et of the ae