The New York Herald Newspaper, October 1, 1866, Page 4

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Bal AMONG CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Wall, 472 Broadway—tx a Variery oy Ligatt amp LavaaasLe Ewrertainaeyts, Cones oe BALurT, race Stavex Cuaunemmat MRS. F. B. CONWAY" ‘Tioxer or Leave Man. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn —FEraiorian Mey SresistT, Baciaps, BuRiesques ano Pavtowrmes. THRATRE, Brookyla.— NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. GIR Brondway.— wire tae Oxy-(Irpnoces Micnoscore twice TEE NIW ss. By the Atlantic cable we have a spocial telegram, fated in yesterday, September 30, which reports the initiation of @ difficulty between the United Siates Minister in Constantinople and the Turkish government which may assume @ serious aspect. In consequence of the violation of the American Consulate in the island of Cyprus, by the Turkish authorities, Hon. Mr, Morris de- mands complete satisfaction from the Sultan; aud at bis e@quest, pending the negotiations, the United staves war ship Ticonderoga has been despatched from Venice to the land of Cyprus. Our special correspondence from St. Petersburg snd Vienna is interesting and important, showing, as it doos, the Russian situation in Siberia and the Caucasus during the insurrection and late revolt, as well as the attempts which Austria is making to reconstruct the empire on the basis of enfranchised Hungary, and the difficulties which are presented to ber advance. MISCELLANEOUS. Oficial despatches to Romero, the Mexican Minister at Washington, from Chihuahua, Mexico, state that a com- biaed movement had boen ordered upon Darango by the Hiverals, Despatches from Marshal Bazaine tad been captured, in which be shows the difficult situation of the French in Mexico. In this city, or rather at his head. quarters on Staten Island, Genera! Santa Anne is untir. tng in his efforts for the cause of Mextcou independeara, He has received depatehes from the chiefs in that cown- try to be prompt and assist them, and his presence thore is desired in communications from a quarter wnlooked for. An expedition has already started, consisting of about two thousand men, who ere the imperial authorities wili receive the pews of their departure will have landed on the const. About one handred and sixteen commissions have been issued to Americans who have smelt powder. An envoy from the Coart of France arrived recently in this city and has had several interviews with the Genoral, bul the recent action of the veteran shows that the Freach diplomat did not influence him mach. The President, it 8 understood, is devoting every mo- ment he Gan spare to the preparation of his aunaal mes sage. It is believed that he will adhere rigidly to bis present line of policy, and will take the ground that in the preparation of new amendments to the constitution, all the States that claim and are willing to exercise the it shall be represented. He will a) gost to Con- gress @ proposition for an amendment to proportion re presentation among the States according to the number of qualified male voters, as prescribed by cach State, the amendment to take effect when the census of 1870 has bdeon taken. It is stated that the monthly report of the public debt for September will show a decrease of about fifteen mil. lion dollars in the indebtedness and a large increase in the apecie on hand, ‘The Secretary of War has issued an order felative to the payment of bounties, in which he says that no action or interference of the Presideat has delayed it, and al! stories to that effect are misrepresentations. The delay has been occasioned entirely by the necessarily slow mo- tions of the Board autnorised by Congress to prepare rales and regulations for such payment. These regula. tions are intended solely 1o provide against the soldier being cheated and swindled ov: of his bounty by fraudu- lent agents of assignees. There wore six fresh cases of cholera reported fa this City yesterday. Mulberry sire: was the principal centre of cholera last ween. Twenty-five deaths from cholera ovvnrred im Memphis on Saturday, and twenty-iwo occurred iy Nashville on ‘The religious services in the various chorhes of this city and Brooklyn were not #0 well attended as weaal, yemerday, owing to the threatening state of the weather. ‘The Roman Catholic Protectory for Bovs st Westenester was dedicated during the day by Archbishop McCiouey, About four thousand persons were present. 1a another column is published the correspondence he. tween Mr. Samuel G. Courtney, United States District Attorney ; Mr. Jobn McKeon, and the Attorney General's office at Washington, relative to the indictment of Wm R. Roberta, President of the Fenian Brotherhood, for s Draach of the Neatrality laws. By this correspondence i wil! be eoen that a nelle prepeaws is to be entered ot - NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, OCTUBEX 1, 1866, the October term of the Circmit Court in the case of Mr. Roberts. Several mombers of the Metropolitan Fire Department bave within the last.few days been called upon to do- nate «certain sum for the expenses to be incurred by the republican party in the coming political campaign, The assessment for privates is $10 exch. About thirty mombers bave declined to pay the tax demanded, how. ‘over, and at a private meeting, on Saturday night, they resolved that should the amount be takea Out of their salaries they would resign. Jacob Buxbaum was so severely wounded by two men who hada grudge against him yesterday, while sitting on the steps of bis house in Seventh avenue, that his life is despaired of, Tho men who committed the assault were remanded to await the result. A young Englishman, who has been eking out a wretched existence in this city by begging from door to door and sleeping on the City Hall steps or among the docks, was a few days since informed of the death of a titled relative in the old Country by which he is left heir to nearly $50,000. Aaron Jones bas challenged Mike McCool, the recent victor in the prize fight at St, Louis, to fight for the belt and a large sum Of money, in case Joe Coburn does not offer to enter the arena for the championship. Mary Pinckney, ® servant girl employed in the house of ill fame at 156 Greenwich strect, was so badly beaten by Michael Hoey, the proprietor, on Saturday night that itis alleged she died yesterday, Hoey, his bartender and cight female occupants of the house wore érrested. It is further alleged that a fraudulent burial certificate wag given by Dr. Shine, who attended the woman be- fore her death. Coroner Naumaun is investigéting the ir. ba inqnest was held yesterday over the body of Pat- rick McDonough, who died from a fracture of the skull received on the 16th of September. The jury rendered a verdict that death was caused by a fracture regeived at the hands of some person unknown. A fire occurred last night in the premised No. 444 Broomo street, near Broadway. The loss will amount to about $1,600. The cause of the fire is unknown, the pro- prietor of the bairdressing saloon in the lower story, wuere it originated, having left the promises shortly before the fire broke out. Fire Marshal Baker has the matter under consideration. The floods in Ohioare not yet abated. The Miskingum river is higher than it was during the fresbet of 1360, and the Sandusky river is also flooded, the trains 0@ railroads crossing it being unable to run. ‘The boiler of a brass factory in Cincinnall exploded yesterday, wrecking the building aud fatally iajuring the engineer and wounding others. The three story building known as the Commercial College, at Hillsdale, Mich., fell on Friday morning, burying a family named Dudiey in the ruins. The father, wife and one son were killed, and another son had his leg broken. Relations and Our Financint System. We have the information from Washington that the official statement of the public debt will be issued on the 5th of October, that it will show a considerable reduction of the debt and that the coin balance has increased to the same extent that it did during August, namely, about fifteen millions. Other facts are also mentioned, showing a healthy condition of the ‘Treasury, and that, all things considered, we are getting along under Mr. McCulloch’s finen- cial tactics as wellas could be expected. Ac- cording to his monthly report of September there was a net reduction of the public debt for the month of August last of $37,416,108, a reduction since the first of June last of $74,605,199, and since Augnst, 1865, when the debt had reached its highest, there has been total reduction of $161,570,108. At the rate of the last three months it is estimated that the whole debt can be paid off in nine years, and that at the average of the pagt year it can be ve ttled in sixteen years. It 1s thus apparent that with the continuance of peace our aoational debt, which, at the close of the war was accepted as a burden that would rest upon the shoulders of the people for per- haps a hundred years to come, may be removed without any extraordinary efforts within the next ten years, But here the question recurs, if this thing may be achieved under the present Joose and makeshift management of our outional finances and under out present heavy aud wasteful system of internal taxations aad tax collections, could not the same result, under some easy reforms, be reached as soon, while lightening at the same time our general schedule of taxations, internal and external ? It is to the solution of this question that we would now invite the special attention of President Jobnson. He haa it now within bis power, by carefully digested measures of reform and re- trenchment in expenditures and in taxes and in the management of the national T: easury, to open the way for the payment ef our national debt within fifteen years, with a reduction of our taxes as we go on, beginning say at twenty per cent, and still cutting them down from year to year till they reach the standard of a peace establishment, relieved of debt, interest and principal. Something is due to that great body of the people who have borne the immediate burdens of the war, and the lessening of their present taxations, especially on the necessaries of life, may be profitably undertaken, even in view of some extension of the time, when from the present rate of the quarterly or yearly surplus of the Treasury the whole burden of our na- tional debt willbe removed. Ig thia view a reconstruction bill reported trom the Committee of Fifteen at the last session of Congress, giving to the lately rebellious States a margin of ten years for the payment of their proportion of this debt, woulil be a good thing ; for in ope- rating to the rapid development of the industry and commercial products of the South, this measure would in every way operate to strengthen the hands of the North and to in- crease the resources of the Treasury. This bill, as « part ¢f the reconstruction plan of Con- gress, should not be overlooked by the South. Let them conje in at once under the amend- ment, and they will get their ten years’ credit; for this Congtess, after proposing this induce- ment, cannot gafely deny it. But leaving the reconstruction plan of Con- gress to take its course, we would urge upon President Johnson the financial reforms and retrenchments suggested as affording bim a broad field for the greatest results to his ad- ministration and the country. We have from time to time indicated some of the specific measures of reform called for, including the saving of the item of twenty-five or thirty mil- lions now absorbed in the perquisites of the national banks. Then, again, the boundless resources of the government mineral lands of our new States and Territories from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, in some way, not to the prejudice of miners and settlers, but to their advantage, might be made to relieve ma- terially the burden of taxes of every taxpayer in the land, In all these suggestions there is a field for such an executive message to Con- gtess in December as will electrify the coun. try with new inspiration of confidence in President Jobnson. Equally inviting and not less to the credit and glory of bis administration is the policy Suggested in the present state of things touch- ing oar relations with England, France and Spain, Wextoo aud the Soath States; Our Forcign indemnities for Anglo-rebel spoliations on our Commerce during our late civil war; the Mon- roe doctrine, in its broad and comprehensive application; a stable republican government for Mexico, with the assistance of the Usited States; 9 system looking to the enlargement of our commercial exchanges everywhere, and especially with the independent States of this continent, are subjects which may well command the prompt aad earnest attention of President Johnson, as among the practical measures of his foreign policy. In the broad, inviting fields of our financial system and our foreign affairs he may not only recover the ground he hag lost in his conflict with Con- gress on Southern restoration, but make his administration one of the most successful and popular since the time of Andrew Jackson. Santa Apnn’s Designs—What is to Follow Maximillan’s Retreat From Mexico. ‘The movements of General Santa Anna in this country have been for some months at- tracting attention. If we are to fully credit the latest statements emanating from his head- quarters on Staten Island, his operations are soon to be transferred to the soil of the Mexi- can republic, It seems that he has already despatched an expeditionary force of two thousand Cuban and Spanish and about six hun- dred American soldiers to make a descent upon the Mexican Gulf coast, and that before this news can have reached Mexico the expedition will have landed and raised the banner of Santa Anna as the “Liberator of the Repub- lic.” Three Mexican generals have already been despatched with this expedition. Gene- ral Santa Anna remains behind to complete the organization of another large expe- dition, to be composed of discharged United States volunteers. Over one hundred ex-United States officers for this force have been commissioned, and five thousand men are said to have been enlisted. With this force added to that already sailed, and combined with such Fenians as may be in- duced to go and such Mexicans as will- rally round the standard of Santa Anna, he will have sufficient force to hasten the inevitable retreat of Maximilien and the French. The most interesting fact stated in the article which we published on Saturday morning on the subject is that relative to the correspond- ence which is said to have been carried on between Sania Anna and the authorities at Washington, Are we to infer that Santa Anna goes out backed by the moral supvort of the United States to save Mexico from the confu- sion and anarchy which threaten to follow Maximilian’s retreat? Has the government wisely concluded to take some positive steps to save our neighboring republic from the ravages of contending factions of her own people? We have for some time been urging the President to take such steps as would aid the people in peaceably establish- ing their republican “form of govern ment; and we are not certain that this mode is not the best that could be devised. At any rate some action ought to be taken. The President should either give moral, and for that matter actual, support to some one of the recognized chiefs of the republic, or else send into Mexico some peacemaker as formid- able and sensible as Phil Sheridan, who would insure that no blood should be uselessly shed while the country is in its anticipated state of transition from an empire to a republic. Let the President either send Sheridan or give to Santa Anna or Ortega or Juarez such re- cognition and support as would insure the respect and submission of the rival chicfiains. We should thus be enabled, at little expense and with great credit to ourselves as a nation, to save a sister republic which has always been unhappy in her domestic affairs, from internal strife and destruction. By all means the Presi- dent should take the steps indicated and abandon at once the do-nothing policy which Mr. Seward bas unwisely persuaded him to pursue for more active and more statesmanlike measures in foreign matters. Exzcrorat, Corruprion tv Exoiann.—On the passing of the last Reform bill most of the rot- ten family boroughs were extinguished, and the class of demoralized and purchaseable voters, known as freemen, were almost uni- versally disfranchised. It then became the boast of those who bad fathered the bill that they had strack a death blow at the corruption which had disgraced the English electoral sys- tem ; but some facts have lately come to light which show that their anticipations have been grievously disappointed. The general election of 1865 gave rise to more petitions on the ground of bribery against the members returned to Parliament than have characterized any other since that system of appeal was instituted. So common was the’ practice of bribery found to be that both houses concurred in the advisability of appointing royal commissioners to be sent to the places where the most flagrant acts had been committed, aad invested with full power to force from the unwilling lips of those who were guilty in the matter an unabridged avowal of their doings. The extraordinary disclosures which have followed at Totnes, Reigate, Lancas- ter and Great Yarmouth, have surprised even those who were prepared to admit the common existence of bribery and intimidation, and have exhibited to the world at large the existence of a system which places the assembly, whore members are exalted to their positions by such means, in anything but a favorable light. At Great Yarmouth, which is but a type of the others, the election cost over ten thonsand pounds. The liberal candidates, finding them- selves in a minority of promises, determined to make up their leeway by bringing in the all powerful influence of money, and their agent, a has been clearly proved ia the inves- tigation, managed to dispense to two hundred and thirty-six electors the enormous sum of five thousand five hundred and eighty-four pounds, while the tories, finding out what was going on, secured an almost equal namber of supporters by the outlay of a nearly equal sum. The investigation has brought out some most amusing instances of electoral honesty and impartiality, several of the voters having confessed to taking twenty pounds from each side, and to baving voted for one candidate of each party to make it right with their con- aciences. Here, then, by the facts brought before Tho Speculators and the Poor Indinas Again. We learn from our Washington correspond- ence, published on Saturday, that Ex-Secretary of the Interior Harlan made a contract, two days before ho left the department, on the part of the government, by which the enor- mous amount of eight bundred thousand acres of land of the finest description belonging to the Cherokee reserve in the State of Kansas, were sold to a New England company for a dollar an scre. The purchasing party is said to be the American Emigrant Society of Con- necticut, The lands are known by the vame of the “Neutral Land,” for which the Cherokee Indians paid the United States in 1835 half a million of dollars in gold. It appears that these lands were ceded to the United States again by the late treaty, in which it was stipu- lated that they were to be appraised, that not less than a dollar and a quarter an acre, exclu- sive of improvements, was to be accepted for them; that they should be advertised, sealed bids to be made, and awarded to the highest bidder for cash, and that they were to be sold in parcels not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, Improvements were to be taken into account in the estimate and sale of the different portions, This was the spirit and tenor of the treaty; but there was a little clause, @ proviso, put in the end—evidently with a yiew to favor these speculators, as the result shows— by which the whole could be sold to “ responsi- ble parties” for eight hundred thousand dollars in cash. Of course it wes not long before this “ re- sponsible party” appeared in s company of Mr. Harlan’s New England fellow citizens and friends. The “Down Easters” have always a remarkable facility for sympathizing with and operating in favor of one another when in power, and the Secretary of the Interior did not forget that in the last hours otf his official existence. We do not say that he will pocket any of the proceeds of this profitable transaction; but ho has cer tainly made a magnificent bargain for the company, contrary to the tenor and object of the treaty and the general land policy of our government. The company will be ungrate- ful if it does not reward him handsomely. But what is the use speaking of these gouging operations on the poor Indians? They have been all alofg the instruments of un- principled speculators for getting lands from the government or money out of the Treasury. Nearly all the wars with the Indian tribes have been fomented by these unscrupulous white men, who have gone out to the West for the purpose, in order to make money out of army contracts and to get possession of Indian territory. The Indian Bureau of the Interior Department at Washingjon has been and isa ‘rich mine for Eastern contractors and specula- tors, The people generally kuow nothing of all this; for few think of or cars about the Indians. But such transactions as we have noticed above ought to arouse public indigna- tion. If the President has the power—and it has not passed beyond his control—we think he will upset the nice little contract of ex-Sccre- tary Harlan with the American Emigrant Com- pany of Connecticut. Such monstrous land monopolies and gross speculations can meet with no favor from him; for he has been in- flexibly hostile to them all his life. At all events let us have the matter well ventilated. If nothing else it may open the eyes of our people to the practices of speculators using the poor Indians to put their hands into the Treasury and to monopolize the public lands. Wrangles Between the Republican Com- mittees. The radical element in the republican organi- zation has heretofore been unable to control the local nominations of the party in this city, owing to the superior skill of the other wing of the party in manipulating the machinery. They however found themselves master of ceremonies at the recent Syracuse Conven- tion, and there secured an order to organize another committee in this metropolis for the purpose of heading off the anti-radical ele- ment and nominating their own men for Con- gress, the Legislature and the county offices. This committee was organized, and everything, as they supposed, moved along with high feather, when they were notified by the regular committee that they could no longer hold their meetings at the old republican headquarters. This notice was like a bombshell among them, and they rallied at s meeting of the regular Twenty-third Street Committee to vote their opponents down and the new radical com- mittee in. But no sooner had they made their appearance there than they found that they were refused admittance, on the ground that they bad seceded from the regular committee and set up an antagonistic organization. This action created an intense excitement, and the radical and republican camps are just now wonderfully exercised. In the meantime the seats of all those members of the regular com- mittee who have joined the new organization have been declared vacant and will be imme- diately filled. The regular organization hold the old headquarters, will fill all the vacan- cies and are retaining the men who have here- totore managed the republican party in this city. The radical commitice retaliate by refusing toallow any of those who have heretofore been known as Seward or Weed men to enroll themselves in their organization. Even those who manifest a desire to back out of the conservative movement are rejected by the radicals, for fear they will upset the arrangements already made for local nomina- tions, The fact that the men who have hereto- fore managed the republican party in this city still adhere to the old committee has cre- Raymond has imitated the tactics of Greeley and sent s communication to the senior mem- WASHINGTON. The President Collecting Points for His Annual Message HIS PRESENT POLICY TO BE ADHERED TO, The Immediate Admission of Loyal Represea- latives from the South to be Ursed. All the States Entitled to a Voice ir the Preparation of Constitutional Amendments. THE PAYMENT OF BOUNTIES. a. de. do, Wasnincros, Sept. 3% 1866, The President Collating the Points of His Forthcoming Annual Message. It ia understood that the President is employing every leisure moment he can obtain, in view of the swarm of people who bosiege bim so constantly, in considering ‘and preparing the political points of his forthcoming annual message to Congress, on which more than usual care will be expended. It is stated by those competent to know, that some of these points have already.been made the subject of Cabinet consideration. The President will adhere most strenuously to the line of policy that has characterized his administration. It is believed that ho will take the ground that, while the constisation leaves it an open question for the courts whether ordi- nary legislation is or is not binding while States are re- fused representation, that instrument is emphatic in tts requirement that in the preparation of amendments to the constitution, all the States that claim and are willing to exercise the right shail be represented, Tho President will, therefore, urge the immediate admission of the loyal and qualified Senators and Representatives from all the now unrepresented States, in order that Congress may be enabled to prepare such amondments as the present con- dition of the country demands. He will also recom mend that when Congress is organized according to hie views of the constitutional requirement, amendments be prepared adjusting the questions of representation and taxation to meet the changed condition of the country. It is probable that the President will embody in his message, as a suggestion to Congress, the two propositions for amendment submitted last winter in his reported convorsatiow with a prominent Senator. These Propositions were somewhat mutilated in their trans- mission at the time, and a corracted version is therefore sent herewith, as follows :— Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States which may be incinded within this Union according to the number of qualified male voters as pre+ scribed by cach State Direct taxes shal! be seorrucoes among the several States which may be included within this Unioa accurd- ing to the value of all property subject to taxation iu ouch tate. ‘This amondment not to take effect until the centas of 1870 shal! have been taken. General Dix and the French Mission. It is positively ascertained that Genera! Dix bas not, as yot, signified either his acoaptance or refusal of the French Mission. As heretofore stated, it remains sulyect to his pleasure, The Payment of Bounties. The following circular in relation to the payment of bounties, has just been issued, namely :— Wan Drraaruunt, Apsotast Ganenai’s Oreics, ) Wasuinaron, Sept. 29, 1960. '§ In order to correct misrepresentations in respect to the payment of bounties authorized at the last session of the Secretary of War directs the {oll owing statement to be publiahed :— The payment of bounties to soldiers under the Act of Congress has not been delayed by any action or inter- ference of the President. Soon after the adjournment of Congress a Board, with General Canby as President, was organized to propare rules and regulations for the pay- ment of the authorized bounties, This duty invoived the Caan nae gmp of ape yrs — Set ms 2 and v7 regulations and pract! several bureaus, and upon il depends the per disbursement of over $50,000,000 among more & million claimants. The Board de- voted themselves diligently to their work, and when it made the Secretary of ° regu! lations, and, havit ‘aoubes aving doul points detertaioed by the Board, Attorney Goneral, who, ko tions to rovise and amend the regulations. This was done, and the amended regulations, being approved by whe Al were prompt; lished, and SPT ase into rood In the whole procedure there was no interference by ~ pyd as much sae phd ulties of tI gala aes magnit' the rae ments would admit. i” sae we Tespect to the order temporarily suspending pay- ment of bounties to colored , Congress had maai- F he @ public ireaskey, rpose of a wight be done by care: Fegulations aguiust being cheated out of LJ a order of the Secretary of War. 7 K. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant (eneral. fa the Monthly Public Debt Statement. ‘The issue of the usual monthly statement of the puniic debt for September will be delayed several days beyond Kt is stated, how. ever, on competent authority, that t wilt exhibit not only an unusually large accumuiation of specie in the treasury, but a reduction of the pabtie debt during last month to the amount of about fifteen millions of dollars Stamped Envelopes. ‘The Post Office Department will next week be prepared to supply the pablic with stamped envelopes at the re- daced rate of $32 80 per thousand, or $3 24 per handred, and in this proportion for smatier quantities Instruc- tions for the letters to be returned to any busines house which may de designated, if not calied for witbin ten days, will be gratuitously printed on the envelopes when the latter are ordered in amounts not below five hun- dred. Many of the letters returned to the Dead Letter Office show that the fact is not generaily known that Revenue stamps are not recognized for postage, The stamped envelopes will, on this account, serve to renter more certain the conveyance of all letters. Treasary Clerks Asking for Additional Pay. The chiefs of bureaus in the Treasury Department held & meeting last week, it is said, for the purpose of con- sidering the propriety of petitioning the Secretary to Tecommence the payment of additional compensation to such of the clerks as may be recommended, and a com- mittee was appointed to cali upon Mr. MeCulloch to pre- sent the petition. Internal Revense Decisions. The Commissioner of the Internal Revenue bas just decided that pit and cross cut saws are not exempt from taxation as hand saws, that bank note and card paper is ot exempt from taxation as printing paper, that printed envelopes are taxable five per cent on their full value, and that deduction of bottles, barrels, boxes, cases, spools, &c., used im putting up goods for sale, and here. tofore allowed to manufacturers as an expense of sales, cannot be allowed under the act of June 13, 1964 Receipts from Internal Revenue. ‘The receipts from internal revenue during the week ending yesterday were $5,829,148, and the total reveipts from the commencement of the five year are (908,837,162. Special Public Depesitory iu Richmond. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has designated the First National Bank of Richmond 8 special depesitory for the safe keeping of public money, under the act of June 14, ys ‘The Storm Seath. ‘The severe storm of yesterday and iast night hes caused come damage to the railroeds south of thie pornt. A telegram received here this evening states that the rafiroed at Aquia Creek Bas sustained sach injury from the Good that waine capact run, A jacce Cores of work: , Deceased has loft a . ~e eer men are employed in making repairs, and it is expecte® ‘that travel will be resumed to-morrow. The Exchange of Five-Twenty Bonds. The Treasury Department having reached the lim of eight huadred millions of five-twenty bonds exchanged for séven-thirty notes, with interest payable if May and November, the coupons of those to be hereafter issued under a like conversion will be paid on the Lat of Jam- wary and July next. CITY INTELLIGENCE. rneiniinih tein Tus PowricaL Tax ON THe MeMneRs oF THE Fine De- varrueyt,—During the past week the members of the several companies in the Metropolitan Fire Department have beon waited upon by their superior officers and re- quested to douste various sums out of their galery for the benefit of the repubiican election expenses for No- vember, Moat of them ont of foar of removal consented to the tax, about $6,000 being raised throughout the de- partment, The privates were compelled to pay an as- sessment of $10 each, allof which will be to-day takes out of their month's salary and paid over to Com- missioners Pinckney and Brown, of the 1t appears, however, that some thirty odd membersof the decent declined to the assessment, and on Sat- urday eveuing they held a private meeting to take some of companies, who strong! aries for any political pany, that, should the amount Pinckney and Brown be taken out of their salaries, they would resign their positions in the dey ent. There will, no doubt, be quite a little stir about the head- quarters to-day. Tuwees ov Daniss Devers, Creer Cmamnentain, At about three o’clock on last Saturday afternoon, Daniel Devlio, City Chamberlain, was seiged with am apoplectic fit while atthe Astor House. Medical aid was immediately summoned, and everything the ‘sician's fel shag i te of Said it ev 10 was m0 yt his condition was wah considered critical: ne Fiocrvarioss or Forruxe.—An interesting instance of ‘We capricious manner in which Dame Fortune dispenses her smiles and frowns has just happened in this city. A young Englishman of first rate family was compolled ‘some months ago, by unpleasant circumstances, to leave his gative country, and, not caring where he went, took ie Aig snip that came across bis path, which happens | one the National Steam Navigation Com| ‘* vessels bound for this country. area. ib Naw Yorks he soon squandered al] the money which he had bro with him iu tiotous living, and being of too aristocratic = cast of mind to be inclined to turn his hand to any Psi ae lett in an entire state of destitu- ight, with bis cloth iy K from his back, he gaiued his bread by, eeing fiom oe Hi, to door, making the Meps of the City the barges floating on the river, bis nightly places of repose. having been reduced to » wrevehod state of cree gg this irregular mode of living, he succeeded in gaining ouployment a3 porier in 4 grocery store. He was not, however, long to be thus employed, for a mail or two since he received information trom England of tho death of a titled relative, who had left him heir to property to nearly the value of £10.00; the letter bringing the wol- come ingelligence also contained @ draft which should pay bis p&ssage home, It need scarcely be added that he ix now on the way to take posvession of his pew! acquired wealth, and doubtiess will make his New York experiences the subject of many a strange story and hearty Jaugh. Tax Mary Powstt.—The damage done (o the steam- boat Mary Powell's wheel in the fog on Saturday mora- ing, Was Dot serious, The steamboat Armenia will rum in her place, leaving at the same hours, until Wednes- day, When (he Maury Vowoll will resume her place on the route. OrexING or rae Borsav oy Mxpical axp Sonutcat Rewer vor raz Oct Door Poor at Bettever Hosertan. — The new Bureau for Medical aad Surgical Relief for the Out Door Poor will be opened at Bellevue Hospital to- day. Patients will be treated only at the department, and nono will be visited at their houses. Cases not ad- mitting of proper treaiment at the Bureau may be trans- ferred to the Bellevue or Charity hospitals throagh the proper channels. Feu ty a Frr,—On Saturday night, shortly after nine o'clock. a young mun named George Treadwell, aged about eighteen years. fell down in a fit on the corner of Bleecker street ond Broadway. He was at once coa- veyed to the Bellevue hospital, where tue unfortunate suiferer yet lies in a precarious condition, Boxy Amove Stravonns.—On Saturday evening « youvg woman was observed by the sergeant in charge of the Second district police station making her way along Broadway, at the corner of Amity street, with the great. est difficulty and evidently sulering much io. The officer at once tendered his aid ‘and supported her to the Fifveenth precinct station house, and thence to Bellevue Hospital, where she was the same night delivered of a healthy fomale child. The mother, who gave her name ag Bric Colby “is « stranger in the city. Fooxn Drowsxo.—The body of a drowned man was found, about eight o'viock yestetday morning by rounds- man No. 484, of the Ninth precinet, lying in the water at the foot of Hammon@street. It was at ounce takew {rom the water and conveyed to the station house. The appearance of the corpse indicated the deceased to have been about thirty-two years of age. The body was clothed in a blue shirt and light pants, with heavy boots. The hair was of light sandy color, with whiskers of the The body'was evidentiy’ tet of 8 laboring’ masa end ‘was evident at of a man boon Dave short Lime ia the water. fo marks of were 1. Coroner Gover held an inquest yester- day, a verdict of accidental death being rendered. Reovuso rrow Drowsixc.—A man named Timothy McGrath fel! into the Hariem river yesterday morning from the Harlem dock. He was sinking for the third time when he was rescued by officer Browne, whe wag on duty on the oridge at the time. Arraurt at Svictpe.—At nine o'clock on last Sat evening a young map named Thomas A. Davis auempted to commit suicide by j:mping from pier No, 11 into the North river. A man observing the affair rescued the would-be suicide. Davis is married man, at No, 86 Weet Forty-sixth street. His reason for this boid atlompt at self-destraction was that he was out of em- ployment aad out of money. Taxown From 4 Cakr ano Faratty Issvneo.—EKarly ou Friday evening, Mr. Murtin Ryan attempted to drive his ‘spring cart across the Bowery at Prince street, when am upward bound car of the Third avenue line came ia col- lence to the pavement. He was takea up and to bis residence, No. 47 -ixth street, where death ea. sued about half past three o'clock yeswerda: The enuse of death was fracture of the Fatat Accipest.—On Seturday morning, about tom o'clock, as two little boys ‘were playing om the third floor of house No. 21 Boorman plare, one of them, Thee dore Rdgar, son of Alexander 8. Edgar, fell from the window to the sidewalk below and was imstantiy killed, Coroner Gover held an inquest, whea a vi of aewle dental death was rendered A Domestic Faratcy Baaven uy Mor Rerioven—Arsy near ov Tae AssaiLaxt—Cores®e's Lequeer.—Ou Satur. day afternoon Michet Hoey, proprisior of a howe of jll-tame at No. 196 Greeawith street, quarretied with Maty Pinkney, and finally wrved upon Seed her dow! Neat beat knocked do kicked her in shocking manuer das hi she died, it is al the aes. is Hi 2 rena Fine ix Broome Srener.—Shortly after eight 0° last evening « fire was divcovered im the basement of No, 444 Broome sireet, just west of Broadway, occupied by A. Lemer, hairdresser. The alarm of the fre was sent to the Insurance Patro! station in Elm street, near Broome, when Captain |.acour aod bis men hurried © i i the taking with (bem a jumper ere~ ral lengths of hose On iberr arr ‘al at the’ the flamee hed insuran ies pay 7, mach ane i i i 5 3 i r H i Hi Hi i- Hf Hi bY zs) # i