The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1866, Page 8

ta | i NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OUTOBER 6, “1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. —— ——— —- ten o'clock A.M. proetscly; nial Une wilt be formed THE GENTREVILLE TRAGEDY. «=~ | at quarter tovightorciook A. Me ut Nyark, A) members nn nnn not reporting at that hour mut be returned to the Adjutant oaananned betore W the ranks te prevent wi ration of Whe Inquest Resumed-Ne Farther Develops | companies. The feld and stail—mounted—wi! torr te the ments—Tardiness of the Anthorities—Inquest Adjourned. ‘The inquest in this case was resumed yesterday at Qemnaica, L. 1, without, nowever, throwing any addi- Menal light on ihe matter. In the previous report of the @treumstances attending the assassination the fact was ‘mentioned that somo parties who were Ip the immediate vicinity of the race track about the time Mr, Walker was woerdered had stated that they mot two men, one some- what tailor than the other, running from the direction of the race course in an excited manner, The examination ‘of whe persons who were alleged to have made these statemonts was the only direct business relating to the tearing up of the affair, ‘The following is the EVIDRNCE ELICITED, James Higbee, being duly sworn, testified as follows:— ¥ was on the Centreville avenue on the morning of Mon- @ay, October 1, 1866; nearly opposite Van Wicken’s I saw two men walking in a very rapid manner; this was between six and seven o'clock in the morning; these men went acrocs the road and were coming from the Moction of the trotting course; they were dressed in ark clothing. ‘Jacob Van Brunt (colored), being sworn, deposed fthai:—On Monday morning I was working in the field, 1aaw two men coming from the woods near the fwotmg course; they were ranning when I first saw them; they stop) rupning when they saw me: they ‘were about twenty or thirty yards from me; they wore dark clothes, and one was taller than the other; I am pretty certain I could recognize them if I saw them mgan; they were clean shaved men,. without beards ‘TIM ONJKCT OF THR MURDER evn! shrouded in mystery, as it is now settled almost ond a doubt that no considerable sum of money was fm the possession of the murdered man. There is @ pos- sibilky that be may have had more money on his person when atiacked than was found when the body was dis- covered, but no one can say to acertainty; his wife being atthe time of bis death on a visit among relatives in port, L 1, has no knowl on this point. Tho which were in bis sere et were folded closely, and might have been mi: by the plundorers if the; find made any attempt to rifle his pockets. It is con- widered highly improbable also that reven: @ould have been the object, an he was widely known as a very quiet, peacable man, care- fui to avoid a personal difficulty with any one; and tho only threat known to bave been made against Dien was that of some parties who said some time in aly last, that they would ‘have gatisfaction’’ concern- tug some siicht disagreement in regard to some horses whieh be bad in training at the time. ‘SUSPICION ae most conclusively totwo men who were employed +t his stables for a shogt time and discharged rather ‘wurmmarily by him, without assicning avy partictlar rea- ‘fon for #0 doing. They were dismissed about ten days Before the term of engagement had expired and were paid the full amount of salary. Here was no apparent @aure for feeling on their part. They left his Premises and it was thought the locality also; one of them at least went to Williamsburg. Within ® short time however they obtained temporary ment at some of the stables in the vicinity ef the Union Course. One of them a short time before Qhe morder had his trunk sent to Williamsburg, and on Qhe morning on whioh the tragedy was consummated gafled on the ee who bad forwarded bis trunk and stated that he had ot it hack to the Union Course, ap he was going East in charge of some horses tor a gen- ‘Geman. He asked whether ‘‘Mr, Walker was dead ” and then went to the house of the deceased and Soke sonte inquiries regarding him from men who were mout theatabies, While hero it was observed that he Booked as though he had been running or exerting him- @elf violentiy, the veins in bis neck being much awollen, ‘afterward: left, it is suppoved, to go Rast-with the ‘The slight description as given by witnesses of the two mon who were seen running across the fields g@eems to correspond with these two men in every re- @pect. One was taller than the otber, neitber of them ‘wore a beard, and both of them wore dark clothing, with @euched hats, There is an evident LACK OF ENERGY @oplayed throughout tho entire ease by the authorities of Queen’s county. A reward of $500 being the only esti: easure resorted to by them for the apprehension @ the guilty perties, and numbers of persons in tue meinity openly express the opinion that the matter is @ot being pressed with that prompiitude which an aTair @ such terrible importance demoods. As yet nota @ingie arrest baz beon made, and but four witnesses have ‘been examined by the Coronor during two sittings of the . Aconsiderablo number of persons living in the ate locality of the asseseination profess to know facts wh: ft ts bigbly essential should have presented to the jury at their first session, and these parties are not to be examined uptil Saturday, the 13:h instant; and though five days bave since the murder was perpetrated, no detectives yet been placed on the track of the miscreants. a means of procutiug the urrest of one of the sus- parties, who ts now in a neigbboring state, It is to write for him, and eecure his attendance as witness, tly with’ the intention of avoiding any @xpense which may be attendant on the sending of Sea) detective and precuring « writ of extraditios is man is the one upon whom, in the opinion of a weight of the surpicion ing further spontangous djourued ti! Saturday, HI Hy ty of the jurymen, th the meantime,’ a te, the inquest @etober 13, at ten o'clock A. M. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Befory Recorder Hackett. SENTENCES, Bho Grand Jury brought in a number of todictmenta esterday for various offences, to which the prisoners on ‘Seing arraigned pleaded not guilty, The Recorder pro- ‘eneded to sentence the prisoners who were remanded G@aring the week. ‘enry Soller, who was convicted of grand larceny, was @unt to the State Prison for four years, his Honor remark- tag that there were three additional obarges of a siroilar aatare on file against him. ‘Braneis Peilissier and Joseph Wall, guilty of an att-inpt @ burglary, were each sent to the State Prison for iwo years and 11 ix months. J it was nded im the case of John Noonan aed MoGloin, charged with an attempt at larceny. John Gilmore, guilty of an attempt at petty larceny, ‘was sent to the City Prison for fourteen days, ‘The was then called, aud Mr. Hutchings dis posed of a large a eal $200 of wearing apparel, to the charg. ‘The wife of the com- the prisones in the room. It appears Hy aE rH a fi E ( ll ilis 000, from the residence of Michael tg eo avenue, on the 23d of At to the Indictment, When arrested he admitted quilt, and told where he had disposed of « portion of She property. His Previous Teputation was not good, eo the my the highest penalty, which wan ive in the Prison. plented , Tilden, alias Anderson .. Lote bey cl to lareeny in et the room ‘or Chariee i. fiat, “a the St Nicholas Hotel, on ‘the It inst, $50 worth of Ser was found in the room. Sine Prison for three John Collins and John wearing apparel. He was sent to the Sing and wiz months rent him to the Ponitentiary for one year, Catharine Dolan, charged with stealing $40 from Mor. Powers, No. § Muiberry street, on the 22d of Sepiem- ' {nee Guilty to petty larceny. She war sent to the for thirty days Woolsey, who wae indicted for stealing » emerald ring, worth $175, from Mary L. Karle, avenue, on the i8th of September, pleaded guilt; wom pt at grand iarceny. She was remand te order to afford her an opportunity of restor. the ring. map tried and convicted of keeping was tried and convh « Fy Worth street (the Fyre Poin ein ett Soreves pane commandant. at the York House, in, the vi f hall-past seven o'clock A. M., and the non-commission stait, band, drnm corps and commandants of companies to the Adjutant, at the seme hour and piace. The command: apt expects the occasion of this parade will induce all t! members of this command (o make every possible endeay to be present, that tiey may net be by any regi. ment at the \" meey lho mat ave their regimental tata ‘sustal 0 geese egg’ neds By OVAMES 8, HARING, Colonel commending Fifty-seventh regiment N. We, Cuacsony Mest, Adjutant Thirty-seventh Regiment Nattenal Guard. DI Heapquanrens THixte sAVENTH ms 26, 1866, Im complianes with bi ‘orders: this regiment wil Ade on Monday, Octobe. for the annual Inspection, on Rompkins svusts, Line will be formed in Thirty-fourth wreak 1 Fifth and Sixth avenues, at twelve o'c.ock uM ‘all at ® quarter before twelve o'clock. : dismounted. Non comrai ps will report to the Adju commandant annouier thet ve aptalns of compaiiies muisition on Qnarter- 1} be heid at pen ‘Tuend: iscaaaoe, a wi on Tuesday evening, ir ar cish: o'clock, for the. tial of dslinquems, Major Geo. Mf, Dusenbury Brediding. Elections—First Lieutenant Alexander D. Shaw, Captain 1D Company, vice Dusenbury, promoted alert Corporal Manderitie, nt Lieutenant D mpany, vice rick, Sergeant Major; John avid M. Dusenbury, Gommis- ; Harry R. McCready, Sergeant of the Guard; uubel, Left General duide, The adove will be dbeyed and respected. By order of WM. Il. FARRAR, Colonel. Gzorgs Dupiay Waxina, Adjutant. The New Parade Ground, GIROULAR TO BRIGADE AND REGIMENTAL COMMANDRRS, ‘A copy of the following ciroular has been forwarded to each of the Brigade and Regimental Commanders of the First Division National Guard :— Heaquaurens Finst Division, N. G. 8. N. ¥., New York, Oct, 1, 1856, In order to nt confusion in the ocou Division Parade Ground, Tompkins aquare, T ral “Aspinwall to prepare and Keep record of the days upon which the ground may for the use of the various regiments of the division, Betore, ‘therefore, ordering any dni of your command, you are invited to’ consult this record of the days upon which drills may bave been ordered to record your sommend ig! ay e gy ae Ao FoR — desire, I lonel, r4 ally, your obedient servant 7 TOUHARLES H. TOMES, Major and Acting Division Commander. ne Appolniments—Churle: E. Ginna, hb Rater aon Jolin C, Covorri— of the First am ordered by Gene |, and POLICE FOR RICHMOND COUNTY, The Motion for 2 Mandamus Against the Board of Supervisore—Judge Sutherland’s Opinion—He De the Motion, SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERA, Before Judge Sutherland, The People ex vel. John G. Bergen, &c., vs. the Board Of Supervisors of Richmond Coun'y.—It will be recol- lected that an ect was paased at the last Legislature authorizing the Beard of Supervisors of Richmong county w raise funds for the payment of @ police force for that district, This the board refused to do, and a motion was mude to the court on the part of the Police Commissioners to compel them to raise such money. Judge Sutherland, in deciding the case, delivered the following opinion: ~ The right of the relator to the mandamus asked for is not sufficient!y clear to justify me in granting It. ‘Though the estiraste mentioned in the section of the act of April 14 1866 (chap. 590), is to be made and certified, and delivered immediately after the 6 of the act, yet that section declares that it shall be not only an estimate “of the amount of money which will be re- quired to pay the alaries and compensation of the cap- trolmen authorized to be appointed for said county by chapter eighty-four of the liquor laws of 1866, together with cost of a station house or station houses, but also of the cost of such number of houses and thoir care and keeping a8 shall be aythoriaed and approved by the Board of Supervisors of Raid county of Richmond,” & By section 2 of the said act of April 14 “the Board of Supervisors of the said county of Richmond shall cacse the amount and estimate by the Board of Metropolitan Police and certified to be levied and coliscted,"’ &c ; and by section 2 of the same act “the Board of S:pervisors of Richmond county are hereby suthorizeé to borrow, om the credit a y, the sum of money #0 ag aforesaid estimated, &e. It is not pretended by the rolator that the Board of Stpervisors of Richmond county have authorized and approved of any ouses or any namber of houses to be used s#u house for patrol, or that they have ever acted or met to acton tbat subject, It appears affirmativel: ob the part of tho Supervirora'that they have not. This application is nol for a mandamus to compel the of Supervisers to moet and act on that subject, but to com- pel them to borrow the money required by the estimate mentioned in tho flest section, and yet it is clear that the estimate required to be made, certifed and delivered to the Board of supervisors by the first section has not been made, certified or delivered, and could not be so made, cartitied or delivered until the Board of Super- visors had exercised their discretionary authority and approval as tothe pumber of houses to be used as fora houre patrol. it ia very clear upon he ht wae of the third seotion of the act that the of Super- visors canuot be compelied to borrow the money until the estimate mentioned in the first section has been made, certified and delivered, as required by that sec- tion, Moreover, th fact that the estimate required by the first section ts to contain an estimate of the cost of houses, the numiver of which is left to the discretionary determination of ths Board of Su; tends forcibly to show that the authority to borrow the money, given by the third section, is discretionary, The mandamus is denied, but without coats, POPULAR EA. Gas for New York City from the Coal Regions. A project is now on foot for the construction of gas works in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, for the pur- pose of supplying New York city with gas at more rea- sonable rates than those now charged by the city gas companies. The plan 1s a good one, and if feasible will prove a great relief to this city. It bas already received the endorsement of some of the most eminent and prac- tical ongiueors in the country, and it is thought that the few slight diMiculties in the way of the enterprise €an eas!ly be overcome and the price of light cheapened. The conducting of gas from the mines to the city by pipes, the mines being much higher than the city, is an obstacle which was thought could not be overcome; but it is proposed to obviate this difficulty by receiving the gas in New York by suction instead of by pressure mt the mines, and this will enable the work to be performed with small pipes ‘The expense of laying two sete of pipes s distance of one hundred and fifty miles wi!) not, it ts said, be much greater than the construction of a railroad of the same length. A capital of $10,000,000 will complete the works, including gas reservoirs in this city, and will, in the end, bea saving of millions to the inhabitants, inasmuch as it will do away with the immense expense and labor connected with the transportation of coal from the mines, Fire Eacapes. The late calamitous firein avenue A, at which so many lives were lost and so many persons injured, has had the effect of again reviving the question of having every house provided with the means of escape in case of @ fire, so that persons living upon the upper floors can reach the ground in safety, even after the steir- ways had been destroyed. One correspondent suggests that we adopt the English plan of keeping Gre escapes always ready for use in various central localities, and favors the English fre escapes as being the best, and the one most easily worked. It consists of a long funnol- ghaped apparatus of canvas, with @ ladder running up one side, the whole mounted on wheels and Teadily worked by one or two men, The escape man brings the apparatus in » very short time to the burning house, elevates tt against the windows, ascends the lad- dor and brings childrea down in his arms or allows them tostide down the fonnel without injury, while adults can escape by the same means. Another one suggests that every fainity should Keep a strong rope thirty or forty foot lovg, with a bight on one end and a piece of Joist on the other to piace acrons the window in case of need. ‘With a pulley made fast to the Joist the persons boiow could lower from above and a sack or strong bag would enabie children to come to the ground in safety, A Car Nuisance. A correspondent complains of an abominable nuisance that is tolerated along the route of the avenue B care, Hie rides every day io those cars, and says that ho very weldom makes the trip through Clinton street but that either sticks, stones of mud are thrown through the windows at the passengers by fraggedjurchina and loafers, and mentions one of two instances +. bere porsons riding im these care have sustained other injuries than the spoiling of thetr clothes, The company should took to it that thelr route is not ruined by @ continuance of this Intolerable practice. Nuleances at the Central Park. A lady complains of @ vory serioas and outrageous practice which i# carried on every Baturday afternoon during the concert season at the Central Park. Our fair correspondent says that ‘professed gentiemen have re- sorted to the tow habit of arranging themselves along the Mall in two lines. Every lady is obliged to pass through there two lines of staring, inquisitive loafers somewhat after the style of ¢ regiment of soldiers before a review- ing offtcer.”” She ferther adds:—‘'This habit hae become ‘A mulsance, end 8 mow so obnoxious thet many ladies mnet dispense with « promenade on the Mall.” Ehe calle upon the Park Commissioners to take the matter in hand immediately, and compel these hotel and corner loafers to behave themecives; but seeme to ignore the fact that if the ladies do not like to pass in review down the double-breasted lines of ingulsttive narere they could, 'f they 00 Gesived, avoid them by walking on the velvet fem of tha /oommen.' TEXAS. QUR TEXAS CORRESPONDENCE, in Want ef White Labor—Interesting Review of the Commercial Relations with the East—Harmony and Good Feeling— Freedmen’s Burean and the Nesroes, &c. Mowxtgowsry, Montgomery Co., Sept. 25, 1866. SOUTH WANTS TO EXTEND UNCLE AAM’B DOMINION. ‘Woll, the war is over and we have survived the wreck; but, with shattered fortunes. We are matisfied with the results. If Heaven took rides, it was qgainst us, Now we don’t want to cut off Uncle Sam’s chief treasury—the cotton flolis of Texas—but we desire to add to his terri- tory; we want Mexico. It is @ most charming country to live in; the name labor there gives fur fold what it does here; whilst tho uplands or elevated portion is as healthy aselysiam, I have viewed the country. CHARACTER OF THE FREEDIEN. ‘The frosdmen out hore are Inzy; {hey take care of Bothing, and it takes three of them to do the light work of two, They are well cared for; they get a third share, and are well found; they work well, however, for the Bureau, Some plantations are doing remarkably well after having changed their hands, |A frieud of mine bas acotton plantation of nineteen hundred acres; he will make nine hundred bales of colton this vear, and will probab'y elear abont forty thounnd dollars. His nevroes all left him after the war; he got others who worked well for him, Now, hands want 10 come bark, but he had enough of them. A¥Yhouzh he showed them every indulgence, he could get but little work out of them, ANXIRTY TO HAVE WHITR LA ‘We are very desirous to get white neero go to farm for himself, Wecan never become manufacturers ontil we have an exces of labor. Agri- culture is a simple, and more natural mode of life; it is not complicated with the restrainis of partnerships, And so long as there ia chean, fertild land, upon which to employ Iahor withont complicate business connec- tions we will mot become afactnrers, The more labor we the more shall make, and the larger our trade with you will be. You of the North—especially of New York—ar¢ deeply interested in our being speedily supplied wit} efficient, relinble labor We need also practical Noghern and Westera farmers and mechanics to setile ammg us and teach us the practical use of labor-raving jagricuitural imple- ments and mechanical adaptations genorally, as well as the economies of farm life. There is a great opening for them here. and wo desire them wo are very quiet and peaceable; ¥fe and property are seoure in every respect. The don’t steal much, for the country 18 too plentiful, jIn this connection, don’t believe the statements of néwepapers generally; they emanate from interested offic holders who desire Agitation that they may continue tofatien in office. OR, labor, and let the THE BUREAU has made a good thing of it here inmumerons instances. Large farmers find it their interest purchase its peace. perros it is — an ee agents oddle the negrocs amazingly, whip and scourge aving been emancipated from sgngble contact, 4 THX SOUTH RUCONCILED TO FATR, ‘Wo accept our situation mech to the storm; we have duly set about mending or shattered fortunes, and will do our best to advance oufown and the interest of the while Union, peri pacu, If memory does not gild the past, hope still brightem days to come; we could not get out of the leaky boyse, now wo want to build a new roof and restore the ofiginal foundations. VALSE RRPORTS ANOCT THE STATES OF WHITD LABOR, are current in Kurope, and perhaps with you, that we seek white Iabor to take the former servile posi- tion of the negro, This fs not so, nor will it be thus, We could not, out of self-respect, in fact for our self- preservation, wish to reduce the white man to the level of the ney Nor could we seek fo put the latter on a level with them or ourselves. The probability is that we shall spoil our first stock or supply of white labor with too much deference, but that will be an error on the Bey side, So, send us your surplus citizens of native TRIAS WOULD RATHER KREP TRADING WITH THE RAST. A good deal is done on paper here, but little in fact. Direct trade with Europe has been advocated, hut Now York is nearer home; we aro familiar with that trade, and we will still continue to trade East. We still buy ‘Yankee brooms, hats, shoes and everything The more Iabor we get, the more we shall make, and the larger our trade with you will be, Condition of the Eastern Northwestern Portions of Texns—The Confederate Prison of the Trans-Mississippi Department—In- dian Troubles en the Frontier. Texas Frontier, Sept. 27, 1866. Since my last letter to the Henitn I have travelled quite extensively through the eastern and northwostern part of ‘Texas, visiting both the more civilized and settled por- jo ns of the State, as well as that section of the State which is leas advanced, and known as the frontier. A chort time since Brevet Major B. T. Hutchins, Sixth ‘United States cavalry (then stationed at Sherman), was ordered to proceed to Tylor, Smith county, for the pur- pose of erecting headboards over the graves of United States soldiers, who died while confined at Camp Ford, during tho war, The confederate prison of the trans- Missisetpp! department was located here during the en- tire rebellion, and the record of this place will hereafter prove an interesting chapter in the history of confoderate Our journey from Sherman to Tyler occupied five days, and the whole country through which we paseed ‘was well settied and fincly cultivated. The peoplo, as a general thing, through Grayson, Hunt and Van Zandt counties, seemed well contented with the existing state of political affairs, and wero industriously engaged in the cultivation of their crops, which promise to yield an abundant harvest. Eastern Texas is, without doubt, the finest grain-growing section of the State. Pine, cedar, oak and walnut forests are scattered through every por- tion of this country, Fruit of all kinds yields plentifully, while water and prairie lands are abundant. Tylor, the county seat of Smith county, is one of the largest and most flourishing towns of the State, Should the State be divided into three States, as was proposed port has been put in running order, and regular trains now pass over the road daily. Camp Ford is situated four miles from the town, and the morning efter our arrival at Tyler wo visited the {han three hundred dled b thus showing a very small ere, a of mortality. There were but two ofMecrs buried at this Over ove of the graves there was erected a very neat board, bearing Masonic embiem and marked thue:—Captain fifty-five years, The other was fy Mason Sunnott, died May 2, 1! iy nese |. Reeimontal Quartermaster 176th New York, P. A Wee (acy War wet iaee hee tie ny vy, Wm, Co. 1, 1184 New York; H. Rowden, Co. H and Henry Fanner, Co. B, 165th New York; J. Decher, Co. E and © C. Mathewn, Co. F, 176th Now York; A. F. Kimball, i Go, ©, 1634 New York. & great many eraves which could uot be neat board was erected over all. |. Blaisdell, of First New cavalry; x of Nia Maine; and Fredene paatea, Co, fy Forty-seventh vanta, were buried here, and their SFr he Weacorh Bustos were represented than fester were more an; yn RA Union. ban a Ee Beventy-seventh Obio suffered greatly their Afow ere of many to the men were ie Or hy B a ‘the ry yard sal nt tea neon Ebarad "full hi of ater ‘aie fee spot I tarnel my direcs wen, tora te font porn te un 4 re gist ‘Sime ‘tire wera eto, whey oe t tf i aie enst of Barve, = belvings | at bar) are very m are in the mort wretehed condition. Toe around: Bek: is entirely pe ge ede fsa ung county, regen had rou wi four or five hundred families before the war, docs not contain more than twenty, and Jack coun! only cast some sixty votes in the last election, All this is attributed to the Indian raids, which are becoming more and more bold and troublesome. The Indians have not been so troublesome for several years ag they are now, Nearly every wight their robberies and mur- ders are heard of in this section. Only list week two children were shot while playing around a cabin near Jackshoro, and two others were captured and carried off, Of course the citizens and a few troops pursued them, but soon log: their trail, and further pursuit was useless, One thing 1s certain, unless the government gives speedy and strong protec'ton to this frontier, the counties of Jack, Parker and Palo Pinto will be entirely deserted The people cannot live ander the prosent state of afin’ mueh tonger. Over twenty thousand head of stock been driven off the frontier during the past year, an Mabie authority has reached the g-ttlements that the Prairie Ayaches, Northern Camanches and Kickapoos are now march'ng in strong foree through Kansas and the Indian Nation towards the frontier of Texas. Unies some notice is taken of this movement I cannot but believe that before epring the Indian troubles wail be as terrible as those of the Sioux in '62 and °63. NEPOTISM IN THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS—HOW THE VETERANS OF THE WAR ARE TREATED. TO THR EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘The resolution of Hon, Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky, adopted by the House of Representatives in the last session of Congress, to call on the heads of the different departments of the government to farnish a list of the clerks, designating those who served in the Union army or navy, thetr former occupation, the States they are appomted from, also of those who served in the rebel army, on whose recommendation they were appointed, &c., was a step in the right direction; but it did not go far enough to afford a thorough investigation of the state and condition of the clerks employed in the bureaus of all the government departments, In order to achiove a perfect view it is essential that the heads of burea should be named also (as they are the only promoting power), and the States from which they were appointed, the number of chief, fourth, third, second and first class clerks who have not served in the army or navy during the recent war, the period el between the promo- tions ag the same of those who served 1n the military or naval service, and were discharged on account of wounds received, the State of every promoted clerk especially, and the names of those who passed an examination and of those who have never been examined. A list of this kind would show a nepotism not to be imagined by out- siders and convince every impartial cit'zen that a strict investigation and a thorough reform is necessary in order todo justice to merit and especially to our honorably discharged and disabled heroes, who fulfil their duties more faithfully but are kept on the back seats and have no fair chance of promotion. ‘The heads of thefbureaus in the different departments have never served in the army or navy durinz the war, neither their chief clerks, and this ciroumstance induces: the most of these gentlemen to promote young men who have not served in the military or naval service in pre- ference to honorably discharged and disabled soldiers and sailors, because they do not see nor wish to acknowledge real merit and sacrifices bronght in the country’s defence in their offices A chief clerx was heard to say the other dav, government office, it was no merit whatsoever to have gone through the war and have been wounded, for promotion in his bureau; and a head of a bureau of the Treasury Department said to a gentleman who handed in a request for promotion on account of meritin his office and in the war, that he never considered a pe- tition of any elerk for promotion, nor would he read any, nor had he time to converse with clerk. Consider the dignity of a chief ofa bureau, and compare it with the poor, abject position ofa first class clerk, who, it is true, fought three or four years the country’s battles, lost all he possessed in the war, was dangerously wonnded, and saved nothing bnt bis bare life and his sacred honor! Now he is working for two years alreadyin a govern- ment office, and In a very responsible positron, where he eaves the government many thousands of dollars, works conscientiously during the whole business hours, with- out lollmg abont or reading newspapers; but he does not fawn, and he objects to many subecriptions for magnificent presents to his superiors, and therefore he is considered a nuixence. I Know one instance a disabled soldier, who had just le& the hospital afier five months of tedious sickness and dangerous wounds, where be had had to spend bis last dollar, and was scarcely one month in one ot the Andi- tor's offices (Treasury Department) as a first class clerk, was asked on* and the saine day @ dollar subscription for 8 present fur the chief of his room,’ which he paid; then another dollar for the chief of the division, two dollars for the chief clerk. and five dollars for the present to the Ayditor, These last three subscriptions were too much for his means, and be refused to subscribe on this ac- count. The conseqnence was that he was vilified by the favoring superior clerks without any reasen and recom- mended for dismissal, although he had worked up three months’ arrears 0” bis predecessor in seven weeks, ides his daily taska. He was transferred, and happity, toa division where the chief as well as the head of the room were just and real gentlemen. But he was nearly a year in this division, when he received a letter of his ais- miesal, althouch he had been recommended for tion by his immediate superiors on account of ful and honorable Secretary, ority as a clerk, and the order of dismiseal was revoked, fow it must be considered that many clerks who were a thorough classical educa- ed rapidly when they clerkeity the Fenian Vote, &c. Bostox, Oct. 3, 1806, TER ANWEIATION LEAGUB is now a permanent institution, Unlike Fenianism they ask ho money, but offer a bounty of £100 and two hun- of the prominent merchants of this city, who conversed freely with him on the subject of annexation and seemed to be in the movement heart and soul. It excites not only their sympathy, but, it is well known, that of the provinctalists, PENIANION seems to be at a standstill in the department of Shaw- mut, One who knows states that since the resignation of Goneral Sweeny tho organization throughout the country is demoralized. The best officers have resigned all connection with it, and as for Lo bgp B.. £1 be seen daily at the headquarters of Anneration Mr, J, P. Maxwet!, ‘The Earl of Ainslie, of Scotland; kt. W, 7, of Halfar, N. 8.5 g # TH id gis ik bi ij if mi i : te sf »& a: CAUTION TO OF¥ICERS AGAINST FORGED Faure, ‘The following general orders have been issued :— Was Darartugxt, Apsvtant Gaverat’s Orrice, ‘ASUINGTON, Sept, 21, 1866. _eemenseit ottenns ng the army woes Oe may be Prepare papers and pay accounts preset persons Tepresenting themselves to be offers or pd my to ed from the service are cautioned to be carefully on ir guard against the numerous papers bearing forged signatures of officers of the army which there is reuxon to believe will be presented by im| ali cases where it is possible to detect such impostors they wil be immediately handed over to the civil authorities tor prosecution, together with the evi- (onen against wpiered Meri such cage, with the at- nding ¢ircume: w romplly reported to the Adju'ant General, ei ‘rte Third—Requisitions will hereafter be made direct to the Adjutant General by company, regimental and ober commanders, to whom blanks are furnished by the Adjutant General, and the required receipts will be sicned and returned as soon as the bianks come te hand. Monthiy returns of all such banks, like other public property, will be made to the Adjutant General, in which the num- ber received, on hand and expended will be strictly arma for, and also the manner in which they are expende Fowih—Official blanks are sometimes surreptitiously red, which are falsely and fraudulently tilled up and the signatures of officers forged. Officers to whom blanks are furnished from the Adjatant General's oflice will therefore be required to re under their pee care to guard against their being stolen or mis- a \ ¥ order of the Secretary of War. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General, PAY OF EXTRA DUTY MEN. ‘Wan Daragraent, Anjorant Gexenat’s Orrice, ‘W sarnctos, Sept. 22, 1866. In accordance with section 7 of the act approved July 13, 1866, the following are substituted for paragraphs 902 and’ 908, article 99, of the Revised Regulations of 902. —When it is neceseary to employ soldiers as arti- ficers or laborers in the construction of permanent mili- tary works or public roads, or other constant labor of not Jess than ten days duration, in any case they shall re- ceive, in addition to their regutar pay, the following compensation therefor:—Enlisted men working as arti- ficers, and non-commissioned officers employed as overseers of such work, not exceeding one overseer for every twenty men, thirty-five cents day, and en- listed men employed as laborers twenty cents per day. ‘The non-commissioned officers and soldiers so employed are to be mustered as extra duty men. The allowance of thirty five cents per day is to those employed as me- chanics, overseers and clerks in the bureau of the War Department, at the headquarters of the army and at mil divisions or department headquarters; but no man shall be rated or paid as a clerk, overseer or me- chanic who is not acwally employed as such. Com- manding officers will particularly aee to this, Nor shall any ier be rated at higher pay than twenty cents per day, except by the order 903. Enlisted men of the Ordnance and Engineer departments, drtificers of artil- Jery, hospital stewards and ordnanco sergeants are not eniitied to this allowance. By order of the Secretary ef War. E. D, TOWNSEND, Assietant Adjutant General. INSTRUCTIONS VROM THE QUARTERMASTER GENESAL'S DR- PARTMENT. The following memorandum of orders and instructions terued by the Quartermaster General have just been pub- iabed :— Cotonel G. W. Bradley, Quartermaster’a Department, is hereby authored to delay reporting at Fort Riley, ‘as directed in special orders No. 388, paragraph see, Anco 8, 1866, from this office, until September 20, Leave of absence is hereby granted the following of- ficers:—Brevet Brigadier General J. J. Dana, Quarter- master’s Deparment, for twenty days; Captain J. H. Belcher, Assistant Quartermaster United States jrmy, for twenty days, to date from tember 2, 1866; Brevet Brigadier General A. J. Perry, Quartermaster's Depart- ment for twenty days, to take efiect September 7, . Captain Henry Inman, Acting Quartermaster, U. 8. A. having reported at these headquarters, in conformity with Special Order No, 11, Comwissary of Subsistence Headquarters, Miritary Division of the Missouri, will proceed immediately and retieve Captain H. J. Farns- worth, Acting Quartermaster, U. 5. Vols., at Fort Union, New Mexico, and report bis arrival, by letter, to the Chief Quariermaster's rtment the Missouri and Brevet Brigadier Genera! J. H Carleton, commanding District of New Mexico, santa Fe. Captain H. J. Farns- worth, Acting Quartermaster, U. 8. Vols, will, on the ar- rival of Captain Henry Inman, Acting Quartermaster, U. 8. A, at Fort Union, New Mexico, turn over to him all governme t property, funds and employés in his pos- ses-ion page 3 to the Quartermasters Department. On completing this duty he will proceed to his place of residence, and report by letter to the Adjutant General of the army for further orders, First Lieutenant J. L. Church'll, Second battalion Fif- teenth United States Infantry, commanding post of Natchez, will, in addition to his other duties, assume the duties of Acting Aasistant Quartermaster of the post, and will receipt to Captain J, W. Souliy, Assistant Quar- termaster, for the public property on hand, ARSIGNED TO DUTY IN NEW YORK HARTOR, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. F. Randolph, Surgeon rams States Army, to duty at Fort Weod, New York arbor. Assistant Sui J. H. Bill, De Witt C. Peters, Chas, Alder, Warren Webster and John Vansandt have been appointed surgeons in the United States Army, LEAVE OF ABE ‘ENCE, Assistant Surgoon A W. Smith has beon granted thirt; days leave of absence, with leave for an extension. . APPOINTMENTS, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel RS. Satterlee, Surgeon ted Chief Medical and stationed at Fraocts 2 5 af z i i bern. Serr. 19—, Enginoers Leopol ‘Cattaway and Resnca; First 3 sistant Eng? to experimental duty at the Novolty Lieu! \° =i 3 | rd if EF Bi r af 4B) i ie I 2 = Fs i hamrock, Commander’ William E, Hop®ins, at the lates: dates imines 4 arrived safe at the port of Funchal, in thut island, well on board. UNITED STATRS STRAMEN SARANAC, United States steamer Saranac, Commander G. HL Scott, sailed trom Sau Francisco tor the Mexican coass August 28, THE UNITED STATES REVENUE CUTTER WAYANDA AP RIO, The United Siates revenue cutter Wayanda arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 7th inst. in fifty days from Baltimore, ‘The Wayanda so badly sprung one of her masts that 1s had to be taken ont and a new one stepped in its pl Sho was to leave on Monday, September 3, for San cisco, through the Straits of Mazellan. ‘The following Lieuter E. L. Cowton; Second Lieutenant, Halley; ‘Third Lfeutenante 4, K Kewo and A. Hornsby; Surgeon, B. Sernig; Chief Engineer, Jamea A. Doyle; TgeOn, First Assistant Bugineer, J.B. F. Hawkins; Second A» sistant Engineers, J, B, Lucas and F. McCarthy. BRAZIL EQUA DKON, The United States steamer Wasp, Lieutenant Com- mander Kirkland, arrived at Montevideo on Sunday, July 29, from New Palmyra, ina thick fog, She par rowly escaped going on the Parla rock, BOOK NOTICES, Avram CLreMENceay, Memoire de VY’ Aecuné, eae Dumas fils, Charles Lassalle, New ork. This reprint of the younger Dumas’ latest and most effective novel is probably more judicious than its pro: mised translation will be. It will enable those already familiar with the language and habits of thought of the French to admire the story-telling faculty which, by » rare excep'ion to the law of intelieetua! inheritance, has been transmitted from Alexandre pire to Alexandre fils, and, moreover, the superior insigtt of the son into thy philosophy of actual life ip Paris, ‘ ‘The story itself is painfully interesting, It is told té M. Rollinet, advocate at the royal court, in a written confession from Pierre Clemenceau, self-accused of the murder of his wife, and awaiting in acell his trial, Hie reminiscences of infancy and childhood, inoluding the tormonts he endured at a great Parisian boarding school, @ hell full of little devils, permit the novelist to intro- duce us into the humble and busy home of a love chil® and his fond mother, who, unaided and alone, devotes her life to him. These and other by no means uncommoa phases of Parigiam life are uncommonly well depioted, Only one mistake is made in the picture of the juvenile pandemonium to which, with great sacrtfices and thy purest ambition, the mother of Pierre unwittingly con: signs him until he escapes by an almost fatal fit of sick- ness, The mistake, however. is such a one aa often seemp inevitable when a Fr'nch writer brings tn an English or an American character. If you can beHeve our author, André Minatl, who mysteriously prefigures a sister @ his, destined to be the heroine of the story, is a Boston boy. “I am from Boston.” ‘Where’s that?” “Ip America.” Such is the dalogue between Pierre and André when first they meet, and fight, of coursa The latter was beaten, but rose to his feet the implacable foe of Pierre, and remained so as long as be lived happily not long, M. Dumas finds the source of André's bitter and persistent porsecutton of his schoo fellow “in the humillation of his defeat, im the con- sciousness of his destiny, in his vitiated nature, in hie American blood, perhaps in the recollection of tortures which he had seen inflicted by his father upon men of another complexion !’’ Obviously, Mr. George H. Moorp has not yet favored M. Damas the younger with a pre. sentation copy of the “History of Slavery in Massachu- seta,” and he 1s not aware that ttre *“pouliar institution’® has recently been abolished in Boston, the home of Chartox Sumner and Wendell Phillips and William Iloye Garrigon. Upon leaving school Pierre becomes 4 favorite papi! & M. Ritz, a fashionable sculptor, whose som had been onp of his school fellows. M. Ritz rejoices tn the opportanity of assisting the development of a genius superior to bis own, and factlitates by ali means at hia commang Pierre's rapid advancement towards fame and wealth Here artist Iie in Paris ia portrayed by M. Dumas fib with a minutenees and fulness not cowortby of Balaac He takes occasion, moreover, to paniah severely thd “ Bohemians,’ whose idievess and irregularities have in- volved in unjust reproach those real artists who have never entered Bohemia or who have safely traversed and escaped from that perilous but enchanted territory. He stigmatizes the Bohemians as impotent wretches whe die and leave naught bebind them but their unpaid bills aad the sinoke of their pipes, At a brilliant masquerade party in the house of M Ritz, Pierre falls desperately in love with Iza, a gir thirteen or fourteen years of age, an exquisitely lovely specimen of the sex which Alfred de Musset thus apor trophised: ‘Sere adorable, absurde, execrable et charmant!” Tza is an angel of beauty who is afterwards transformed into @ demon of vice, thanks to Minati, her father, an@ the Countess Dobronowska, her mother, The latter is e- Becky Kharp en grande, and admirably is she delineated by the French Thackeray.- The scenes shitt rapidly im the progress of the story—from France to Poland ané Russia, from Paris to St, Petersburg, from a dismal Rus sian country seat to the chateau near Fontainebleas where Pierre and [za passed a delicious honeymoon; then again to Paris, with ite ambitions and’ its disap. pointments, its gaieties and its crue! deceptions; after o- fatal disclosure and a duel with one of Iza's half dozen lovers, to Rome, and back again to Paris, and to amon der which is described as powerfully as the doubie suicide in Eug?ne Sue's “* Wandering Jew.” . But deeper than the interest of the story is !ts scien tif'e and moral purpose, The author has undertaken te trace in Pierre and Iza, and incidentally in André, the physiological and psychological problem involved im the cages of natural and adulterine children, And he bas Bo leas boldly attacked, and has invoked legislative aid in repressing the social customs which leave womaa unprotected and lead to infanticide or to the foundling boepital, entailing wretchedpess, shame and prostite- tion upon abandoned mothers and incalculable woes upoa generations of tilegitimate children. He would risk even the possible abuses of s repeal of the French law which at present prohibits la recherche de la paterwilé. By legal protection for young women, and by educating young men to chastity, he would hope to check the rav- ages of the great social evil which has bitherio bafied the winest legisiatore, Lofty as the moral parpose of this novel undoubtedly. fa, ite gubtle analysis of characters to which the polsoa: of vice has been bereditarily transmitted, and in which its symptoms have been aggravated by circumstances, might, in English, to those anfamiliar with the subject, prove a hazardous experiment. Some of the scenes of passion through which our author hae felt it necessary to carry Pierre and Isa in order to diagnose properiy thoir casa and to prescribe eflectnally for the treatment. of all similar cases, might, as in English versions of his Dame auz Camélias, be apt rather to tempt than te warn. Our or rae Darras. Tas Story or s Woxay'e Lirs. T. B. Peterson & Brother, Philadelphia. This ie a reprint of an English novel which hae the fame moral purpose as the “Affaire Clemenceau” of Alexandre Dumas the younger. But the story—‘‘the old terrible tale of suffering, sin and shame'’—is here written: down professediy by « falien girl, Mary Smith, who bas been rescued from the depth: of degradation end woe by Christian handa strong hands, too, are those of the Hon, and Rev. Alberie Berkeiry,'a muscular Christian of the best and rarest type, Mary is rescued, bat oaly to die on the eve of her marriage to a kind hearted farmer, who, knowing her whole history, is ready and eager to make her bis wife, But courageous as the writer shows hereeif to be she has still too much fear of Mra Grundy before her eyes to let Mary live to be married. Some parts of the work are a little too highly favored with the ‘The Orst match this morning was between the Pacifie and Arctic clubs, and resulted in victory for the for. eerie ee tm @ victory for tae by a score