The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1867, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD.|™ JAMES CORDON BENNETT, _ PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Al! business or aews letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Naw Yorx Hunat.o. Lotters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. Volume XXXII Ne. 219 New York, Wednesday. August 7, 1867. ‘Tao news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yoster- day ovoning, August 6. ‘The House of Lords passed the Derby-Disraeli >Reform Dill. Lord Stanley is to present the Alabama olaims cor- fespondence to Parliament, Kossuth declines # seat in 4he Hungarian Parliament, Napoleon and the King of Prussia are not to moot at special interview, Austria is , Mogotiating @ new concordat with the Holy See, Mou- @gnor Dupanioup, Bishop of Orleans, is urged, with French interest, for the succession to the Popedom. Watted States Minister Bancroit has arrived in Berliv. A large number of Fenians bave deen convicted of treason in Ireland. Consols elosed at 94, for money, in London. Five- twonties were at 75 1-16 in London and 77 in Frankfort. The Liverpoot cotton market closed dull with middling uplands at 103¢ pence, Breadstuffs and pro- visions without marked change. By the steamship Russia at this port, yesterday, we Dave special and newspaper details of our cable des- patches to the 27th of July. ‘The visit of the Empress of France to the Queen of England gave rise to a great number of conjectures as to Its object. Napoleon is expected to arrive in Exgland ‘at an carly day. * Queen Victoria’s memoirs of Prince Albert produced qaite a sensation, Hor Majesty relates all the circum- @tances attending her first introduction to her tuture Thusband, describes his appearance and manner at that time, and repeats her declaration of love, The extsacts from the book which we publish to-day are of special Laterest THE CITY. The boards of health and excise held their regular ‘meotings posterday. No business of much importance was transacted by either board.’ The weekly mortality statement shows that there were six hundred and forty-seven deaths in New York city during the past ‘week and two hundred and seventy-six in Brooklyn, all toca! public institutions being included in the estimate. ‘The jury investigating the case of the woman and obild who were drowned recently in one of the Williams- barg ferry slips by walking off the bridge, rendered a ‘vordiot yosterday recommending the necessity of com- Pelling the Houston Street Ferry Company to place safe. guards on the bridge. lsaiah Rynders in a card this morning denies that he ‘was ougaged ina prize Aight near Philadelphia recently or that he ever was s prize fighter, y The atgument on the motion to dissolve the injunction agtinst the Board of Audit,took place yesterday at Cham- bers of the Supreme Court, and occupied nearly the entice day, The Court reserved its decision. MISCELLANEOUS. Secretary Stanton has briefly and curtly declined to Tesiga at the invitation of the President, He was not present at the Cabinet meeting yesterday. Mr. Johnson will probably notify him that he is no longer Secretary of War, and must vacate his office. It is stated that Secretary Seward and Thurlow Weed propose to make an effort in Stanton’s bebalf, Seward being not altogether {in favor of his removal. Our Vera Cruz correspondence, dated July 2, states that before proceeding to Mexico city Admiral Palmer ‘obtained all the information he could from the captain Of tho Virginia relative to the seizure of Santa Ana and the depth of water, bearings, &c., in the roadstead at Bisal. Our Mexico city correspondence gives a detailed eccount of the execution of General Vidaurri. Mr. James Wright, an American, was in prison for having concealed him. The protest of Maximilian denying the Jurisdiction of the court martial convened te try him bs published in full. Im the Constitutional Convention, yesterday, Presi- out Whesler decided that all proceedings under the @all of the Convention on Monday were null and void. The Standing Committee oa Town and County Officers other shan Judicial submitted a report. It provides for the appointment of District Attorneys by the Governor aad Senate, and confers upon Boards of Supervisors power to dispose of local questions now submitted to the Legisiatare. Debate was then resumed in Committee of the Whole on the Organization of the Legislature, and the amendment providing for thirty-two sevatorial dis- tricts was carried. Mr. Pierrepont closed his argument in the Surratt ase yeaiorday. In the course of it he stated that the fecommendation im the case of Mrs. Surratt was at- tached to the proceedings of the military commission whioh tried her, and was laid with the proceedings be- fore the President when he approved of the sentences. At the conclusion Judge Fisher ordered a recess until this morning. The August statement of the public debt shows the total debt at present to be $2,886,685,896, a decrease of $83,730,710 since a corresponding date last year. The amoant of coin and currency in the Treasury ‘s $176,379,470 at present, which is an increase during the taat twelve months of $38,062,138, By the latest secounts from China it is said that the Chinese are anxiously inquisitive about the increase of ‘the United States squadron in their waters, The Sart- Ford, Wachusett and Wyoming were at Shan yhae, Work in the Springfield armory has been considerably Feduced, and two bundred and fifty workmen have been recently discharged. A convocation of the State institutions of learning subject to the visitation of the Board of Regents met io albany yesterday. General Sickles bas postpomed the ned August sresion of the North Carolina Legisiature antil further Orders, end suspended jury trials until the jury lists have ‘deen revised. + The previows reports of the Kentucky election are con- firmed by later returns. J. 8 Gallody was elected to Congress from the Third district to Mill the vacancy occa- @oned by the death of Elijah Hise. Lroatenant Colones! McGill, at Fort Lyon; Dr. Squires, @t Fort Larned, and the wife of Major Douglass, at Fort Dodge recently died of cholera Lieutenant Colonel ‘MoGill's wife died of the same disease not long ago. Despatches frot Fort Hayes state that there are so few troops im that country that the government wil! ave to increase the force or give up the plains aito- gether. ‘A wretehed lookiag women and her two children were Drought tnto the Tembe Police Court yesterday for beg- Ging im the street, When placed in the dock it was Giecovered that her youngest child, oaly twenty months Old, wae gee chetere infantum. The mother was committed as a vagrant, and her |i ttle chit drea were given in charge of the matron of the prison. | The investigation of alleged crueities in the Paterson @®. J.) Almshouse was continued yesterday. Chief Justice Chase’s Fortune. Rumor has it that Chief Justice Chase within @ few yours has increased his fortune from $10,000 to $700,000 ; whereupon the venerable ‘Thurlow Weed betrays some curiosity touch- fing these suggestive statistic, But if the old Lobby King were to give us the clear profits NEW YORK HERALD, WEUNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1867. — ~~ dout’s Invitation to Resigs- Mr. Stanton has declined the President's invi- tation to retire from office.” Grave public con- siderations,” be writes, in reply to the Presi- dent's letter, “constrain mo to continue in the position of Secretary of War until the next meeting of Congress.” [0 some ciroum- stances it would seem a mere matter of pro- priety and personal dignity that « member of a ministry should retire when his views of publio policy were no longer in harmony with the views of his official associates, and more particularly when he held.a position of direct antagonism with the constitutional Executive. In this view, therefore—which is indeed the true view of the courtesies and propriecties of the relations of a Cabinet officer in their natural state—a letter should hardly be called for; 4 man’s own perceptions should carry him out of office. But this would be a narrow view of the case to take at the present time, and the country must regretfully acknowledge that this delicacy would be worse than wasted on Mr. Johnson. He would oot only misundorstand this conduct, but he would dangerously abuse the position in which aych a course would plaice him; for, we are of opinion that thy sugges- tion of devolving Mr, Stanton’s duties on Gene- ral Grant does not indicate the President’s pur- pose. That is an idea aritully thrown out te soothe the public mind in view af possible chunge—to render the people lesa dissatisfied with the notion of getting Stanton out of tho way; for since Grant is accepted as the stanchest champion of popular rights, the hint that he will succeed to the Secretary's duties is expected to spread the idea that the present irreconcilable trouble between Jahn- son and Stanton is not owing to any differenco in principle relating to reconstruction, but rather to such smaller matters as personal pique. This is the purpose of the statement that Stanton will give way to Grant. [tia to com- mond the change to the country ; while behind it, no doubt, is a real intention to put in Mr. Stanton’s place a man who oan be used as aa easy tool in anew game tor thd obstruction of the Congressional plaa for the restoration of the States. Mr. Stanton haa held to hia placo through many storms with peouliar tenacity, and ho must now take his cue in his relations wiih the Executive from the course of Con- greas. In passing the Tenure of Office hill Congress declared ita want of confidence in the President. It declared that the safoty of the country would not permit that be ahould retain the power which usage and tho law had alike assigned to his office, and it tied his hands by 8 law against which n0 respectable protest was heard. That law was intonded to cover. just such # case as this, and Mr. Stanton must stand upon it now. His resignation would be just what tbe President and his party most dosire; for they have so little confidence ia their case that they fear to push it.to a direct isaue. Lot Mr. Stanton rest distinctly on the law, that we may see and know what thore is init, and have nothing covered up. In view of tho threaten- ings that have been fulminated against Stanton and Sheriday, we doubt if the President will dare to follow up his game if he finds the Secre tary resolute and dotermined to test bis right. But if he has the courage, let the issue be fairly made. He proposes, it is said, if Mr. Stanton will not resign, to remove him, and depend for his justification upon the clause of the law that retains a Secretary of War in office for the term of the President by whom he is @ppointed, unless sooner removed, with the consent of the Senate, and calling attention to the fact that Mr. Stanton was appointed by Mr. Lincoln. We see hore that the President proposes to rest his case upon a quibble, and has probe- | bly had advice on the subject from that illus- trious quibbier, Mr. Stanbery. Doubtless Mr. Stanbery could argue all around the law, and could even prove it “unconstitutional” if called upon ; but people have taken the law in its plain meaning, and they cannot see how Mr. Lincoln could form Mr. Johnson’s Cabinet If it suited Mr. Johnson to accept the Cabinet left by Mr. Lincola, such acceptation was a practical reappointment, and cannot be other- wise regarded. Koutucky and Tonacssce—Twoodiodum and Tweedledec. Following close upon the heels of Tennessse, they have had a State election in Kentucky, and the results in the one State, alongside the other, present a remarkable contrast. In Ten- nessee Brownlow and the radicals swoep tho board by some forty thousand majority, and in the adjoining State of Kentucky Helm and the pro-rebel State rights democracy walk over the course to the tune of forty or fifty thousand majority. ‘Tis strange there should such difference de 'Twixt twoediedam and twoedledes. How are we to account for it? In the good old times of Henry Clay and the whig party these two States generally went together. In 1852, in the last fight of the old line whigs, they were eut down to four States for General Scott—two in the North, Massachusetts and Vermont—and two in the South, Kentucky and Tennessee. Poor Pierce carried all the rest on Heury Clay's great peace measures of 1850 ; but with poor Pierce, in th e repeal of the basis of that adjustment, the Missouri compromise of 1820, the break up of the triumphant democracy commenced, and that succession of stupendous events from which we find Kentucky and Ten- nessce to-day as widely separated as Vallan- digham and Wendell Phillips. Kentucky neutrality during the war, which was tho neutrality of Lord John Russell, saved her from the penalty of Abrabem Lincoln’s Emancipation proclamation, until the ratifica- tion of the constitutional amendment abolish- ing slavery. Kentucky loyalty, such as it was, saved her frem the pains and penalties of the reconstruction bills of Congress. Thus her State administration, as a loyal member of the Union, has remained untouched by the general government; and thus, though some- what fishy daring the war, Kentuoky, with the return of her—say fifty thousand—anrecon- structed rebel soldiers from the disbanded .| armies of Jef Davis, is, as fares she can be in ber State government to-day, what South Carolina was in 1860. Her returned rebel soldiers, fusing with their sympathizing stay- ing-at-bome democracy, have given color and character to the Legislature and the laws ofthe Btate end the principles of ber dominant party. Thus, holding as far as they can to the old Dred Goott decision that oe gdh fights whigh « white man is to geapect,” he remaids disfranohised in Kentucky and subject to the blagk code of the old régime of Goorotary of War Decitace the Prosi- | negro slavery. So it is, that- with forty thou- sand negro men cut off from the ballot box, and fifty thousand, more or less, returned white rebel soldiers readmitted at once to the polis, we have this rousing Kentucky pro-rebel democratic majority of forty, fifty or sixty thou- sand for Governor. Tennessee, having plunged over head and ears into the rebellion, had to be drawn out by main strength. President Lincola, after expelling the rebel armies and State govern- ment, proceeded to reconstruct her under his provisional military Governor, Andrew Johnson; and Mr. Johnson inaugurated the work on the platform that “rebela and traitors must take back seats,” and that the rights of the emancipated blacks must be respected. The plan of reconstruction .thus set on foot resulted, in the course of events, in the election of Brownlow as Governor, and a radical anti-rebel Logislature to back him. Thua, in following up the original programme of Andrew Johnson, with the disfranchisement of forty or fifty thousand rebels in Tennessee, and the onfran- chisement of forty or fifty thousand blacks, Brownlow and the radicals, with the solid negro vote, carry tho State by soma forty thousand majority. In raversing this ordoar of thinga, the pro-rebel democracy, ia power in Kentucky, carcy the State by a majority whica | eclipses Brownlow. The rosult in Teanosses settles the quostion of the drift of the negro vote in all the uore- constructed rebel States, and turns them over into the bands of the republican party ander the reconstruction bills of Congress; the result in Kentucky gives us a pretty clear tdoa of what would now be the political condition of all the other Southern States had President Johnson’s general policy of reconstruction been accepted by Congress. Tennessee, hewoever, will never be quiet until the mass of her dis- franchised rebols are restored to their political rights as citizens, and Kentucky will never bo at peace or take a new start on the road of prosperity until she falls into line on this now doctrine of equal rights to the negro, including the right of suffrage. This judgment will apply more or less to all the States in which the right of auffrage to the negro is denied or re- siricted; for, whether the two houses of Congress interpogg gr aot, there must be a uniforma aystem ou this right of auffrage through- out tho Union before its agitation will cease. Coercion of Voters—A Sulcidal Policy. Freedmon who voted the radical ticket in tho late Tennessse election are being di» charged in auch large numbers, by their so- called conservative employers as to, suggest & suspicion that this is the result of collusion on the part of the latter. This proscription is recommenied by some, of the journals of Ten- nessee, and it is intimated that in ether South- orn States there exists a general disposition to inflict. like .penalties on the freedmon who shall dare to commit a similar offence in tho exercise of their newly acquired rights of citi- zenship. Now, coercion used to be considered ® very ugly word throughout the South, and applied in this mew fashioned way it bids fair to become uglier still; for the proscription which it represents will not only lead, as it already has led in Tonnossce, to such a deportation of laborers as no antici- pated influx of coolies can well supply, but also to such an additional turn of the screw as will soon convince the most obstinate déppo- nents of reconstruction that the radical party of the North, duly represented in Congress, aro determined to oarry out their plans and secure to the negro voters in the South the unrestricted exercise of their rights. {n plain words, unless coercion of this kind ia wisely abandoned in time even Old Thad Stevens’ “ mild confisca- tion” will have to borrow a more terrible aspeot. If the suicidal policy recommended by certain Southern journals is pursued it will roault in confiscation, and the freedmen will be made landholders, if only to atrongthen their hands as voters. Tho Reform Bill ia the English Parliament. By eur cable despatches it will be seen that Mr. Diaraeli’s Reform bill has passed the House of Lords unaltered and unmodified. Nothing now is wanting but the assent of the Queen— which will be given, a6 a matter of course—to constitute this measure the law of the land. We shall watch with much curiosity the effect of the movement on the institutions of the country. The Lords bave acted wisely in giving way to the sentiments of the people. They have thereby averted a revolution, and have placed the institutions of the countey on @ far more secure footing than has hitherto been known. Joan Mrvor Borrs.—It appears that the famous John Minor Botte has been getting into hot water with a Mr. Hawkshurst, a lead- ing Virginia radical, on some political com- plaint connected with the late Richmond Republican Convention. Can’t Mr. Botts keep quiet for a little while? Hunnicutt has been too much for him, as Captain Tyler was, aad why not acknowledge it and be quiet? WEWS FROM CHMIA AND JAPAN. Libelling ef the Amorican Ship Aana Kim- ball—The Chinese Inquisitive About the In- crease of the United States Sqeadren in Thoir Waters. ‘The American ship Anna Kimball, of Beverly, Wil- liams, master, was towed iato the port of Nagasaki, Ja. pan, by the United States corvette Wyoming, about the Sist of May, heavily laden with rice obtained at the non- CITY INTELLIGENCE. Mono at Tax Pang To-Dav.—The Park Commissioners announce that If the weather be fine there will be music on the lake at the Park to-day, commencing at haif-past four P. M Taw Sreser Ciaastxg CoMstission.—The commis- sion for cleaning the streets met at the Mayor's Office yesterday. business was before it, but in consequence of the absence of Messrs. Schultz ead O'Gorman it adjourned until to-day. Taw Morgue. —Warden Brennan reports that there was brought to the Morgue yesterday, from pier twenty, North river, the body of am unknown man, aged about twenty-seven years, Give feet eight inches bigh, with biaok bair, mustache and goatee, and biack coat and vest, brown pants, white abirts and The hedy. see too much decomposed to be placed in the Coniovs Case oF Asayponmerr,—About midnight on Tuesday last an officer of the Eighteenth precinct no- ticed « man end woman lurking about Sixteenth street, near University piace, and suspecting they were travel- atreets at that late bour for no geod purpose, @ watchful uponthem. The East Sixteenth atrost. The obild was of the Commissioners of man aud woman norsvas Lannoration ov Mosquitoms.—Many « person must have wondered at the ewarm of mosquitoes which suddonly appeared in the city yesterday. ‘They were everywhere—in the estroete, ia the cars, in the omni- im tho houses, The presence of these phicbotom:- ttle insects was owing (o the southeasterly winds Foororiay, which wafted them like 60 many thistio downa from tho awat districts of Long Island, Our boring city of Brooklyo was oven more annoyed by their forced extle from theie favorite ta, Deowna Caana.—The body of an unknown man, sup- posed to be that of a hand employed on board a lighter, who fell overboard on Saturday im Spuyten Duyvil creek, was recovered yesterday in the North river, near Tubby Hook. Tho remains of another unknown man wore also found yesterday floating in the North river, near Twentieth street, Both bodies were removed to the Morgue by order of Coroner Gatuble for identifica. tion, Iu the moantime inquoste will be held in each onse, A Heartisss Swivore.—A man giving the name of Robert Mack waa arrested yesterday by officer Croker, of the First distriot Potice Court squad, on a warrant issued by Judge Dowling, ona charge of having swindled cer- tain parties by means of the advertising dodge. It ap- peared from the affidavits of Henry Mings, of No, 173 Washington street, Hoboken; Harold Wendelive, of No. 15 Chrystie street, and Henry Steenson, of No, 415 fost ~Twenty-fifth street, made before tbe magistrate this morning, that they all noticed the advertisement, which stated that situations of all descriptions could be obtained by persons out of employ ment by early application at room No. 3 of No. 81 Nassau street, Each of the complainants had to the place so designated and met the prisoner, ~ who stated in each and every case that he could furnis! tho situation desired on payment of the sum of two doi The unsuspecting victims paid money, but failed to receive any visible benefit of the investment, as ven into the care Charities and Correction. The the man Mack did not seem to pay any attention to their interests or procure agituation of any kind, using all sorts of aubterfuges, aa it ia allegod, (9 pat ion of the mon gf his vic. tims amd retain them, Justice ited. face tor tela at the Court of 9; THE RECENT OROWRING CASUALTY tH WILLIAMSBURG. A Ferry Company Genoured by the Coroner’s Jury—A Stravse Story About a Woman in Black. The protracted inquest before Coroner Smith aad a jury in relation to the case of Mra. Merritt and babe, whose bodies were found in the Houston eros ferry lip on Monday, the 20th ult, wes brought to a conclu. sion at a late hour tast aight; Tho following ta the clos ing evidence :-— Rose Goff depoaed—f reaide at No. 21 Grand street; was in tho hotet nodr the ferry on Sunday night; I was ine tack room between nine and toa o'clock that night; while looking out the window [ saw ¢qo ladies standing on the bridge; there was no boat ia; one of the ladies was dressed in black; I know that the ladies went 3 33 3 Hd zg “4 ; Bar bt Hh | 8 g i : li ! g ef i E H | il i Ey £ = i} =| ist g He i] j : li : igs ia 23 Ht g-38 3588. Hf 3 i H g | i i d § 3 4 H : el f g i E i 4 i # & i : e ; a af iF "te i i Ly F H Q z i : i & Hy & zt i i i i e i ull aFtiie EE i g i : j : & Bo Beit: Pra a | by a mod, and garrowly escaped with ORS. JEFFERSON DAVIS IN BALTIMORE. jasetuonn, August 6, 1967 Mra, Soterson Davis serived ta this easy on the @teamer from rr) to-morrow to Jota bor hushaad ta Re WASHIN Secretary Stanton Refuses to Resign His Office. GTON. Prolonged Cabinet Discussion on the Subject, Probable Summary Dismissal of the Secretary. Waseanaros, D. C., Ar 6, 1867,) 11 o'Ctook P.M. ‘5 The Cabiuet Rapture—Secretary Stanton Re- fuses te Resign—Moeting of the Other Mem- bers of the Cabinet—Probable Course of the Prenideat. . The Secretary of War bas refused the President's polite invitation to retiro from, office. The President's note (s very brief, only four Knes in length, and simply eiates that “grave public considerations constrain him {the President) to reqties: Mr. Stanton’s resiguation.” Mr, Stanten’s answer is also very brief, and intended to be severe and outting. The Seorelary acknowledges the féceipt of the President’s note requosting his resignation, and answors that ‘‘grave public considerations constrain him to continue in the position of Secretary of War until the next moeting of Congress." At the Cabinet meeting to-day Secretary Stanton was not present. The subject was discussed at much length, and the geasion was quite protracted. Ic ig not decided what step Mr. Johnsoft will noxt take, but [think ne will notify Mr. Stanton that he is n0 longer Secretary of War, and must vacate forthwith. After the adjournment of the Cabinot meeting the President was closeted with his secretaries, Colonel W. @. Moore and Colonel Robort Morrow, unti! ten o'clock to-night. It ia supposed that this unusually (ato ooafor- ence with his excretaries tad reference to the Stanton tmbroglio. ‘The subject of Mr. Stanton’s removal haa deen the absorbing topic of conversation to-day in every circle, and there has been much speculation to leara what will next transpire. Io fact few events that have occurred {to the affairs of government within the past year hava Created #0 profound a sensation here as this impending removal of the Secretary of War. For some us = 17 able coason the prospect of Mr. Staaton's carly retirement to the shades of Private life woms to have awakened a0 interest among elt classes of Washington society, from the heads of departments, who have tong been expooting crisis in the relations between the President and the Secretary of War, te the humbiest civilians, who appear as much astonished at the announcement as if they had believed ‘thet the War-Minister was in office for the period éf his ustural Itfe. Among prominent officials, T may edd, i seems to be the genera! opinion that the President ne power to remove Mr. Stanton under the provision of the first section of the Tenure of Office bill, to whioh I altuded in my despatches yesterday, Mr. Stanton kept himaclf almost completely shut ap im his private office to-day. By express orders ao visitors except special favorites were granted ‘en eudience. All applicauts for an interview were pre- @ented to General Pelouse, a Chesterflcldiam atyle of official, who expressed the Secretary's instructions in the mildest and politest manner. Genoral Pelouse asked each applicant the nature of his business, but all except im very few cases wore unable to give any satisfactory answer, andthe epplicants were bowed out as politely as they were bowed ia, but without much fruit from their labor. Many of the visitors, indeed, at the War Depart- ment and White House were newspaper men fe search of information, which of course contd not de afforded by eabordinates. Tt Is said that Secretary Seward is not altogether ia favor of the President's action im this matter, and that he and Thurlow Weed are about to strive to save Stan- ton’s head again. A year ago, when there was serious thought of removing Stanton, Weed’s and Raymoad’s influence, coupied with Seward’s entreaties, induced the President to abandon the ides. Seward at that time argued that Stanton bad been a very badly abused maa, and that, though he might have committed emall offences, still, in view of his great services, uch trifies should be overlooked. It is sow said by the friends of the Presdeat that ‘Stanton's offences are uot mere trifles, but amount toa deliberate system of thwarting the President, ob- structing his policy in every way, and insulting him re- peatedly in his official intercourse. The President, it is claimed, has determined to tolerate thie no longer, ad bas put his foot down firm(y. The Correspondence in Full Between Presi dont Johnsee and Mr. Stanton. Without assuming to give the exact words, I may state that the correspondence between the President aad Gecretary Stantoa is substantially as (oliows :— ‘TES PREeDENT's Nors. Exscorrva Mansion, Wasatwotom, August 5, 1967. To Eowur M. Sramvon, Secretary of War :— Srm—Grave public considerations constrain me to re- quest your resignation as Secretary of War. ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States. SECRETARY STANTON'S Avewan, Waa Daranrusrt, W asaimoton, August 6, 1967. Te His Excellency Axonew Jounson, President of the ‘United States: — ‘Sra—Your note informing me that grave public con- siderations constrain you to request my resignation as Secretary of War hae been received. In answer I heave to state that grave public consideratioas constrain me to comtinue in the office of Secretary of Wer uati! the next meeting of Congres EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of Wer. ‘The correspondence has been refused to the press, Doth at the White House and War Office; but I got the above from 6 reliable source. Retura ef Secretary Seward. Secretary Seward returned to Washington to-day, im- proved in health, after his two weeks’ sojourn at Auburn. His son Frederick, who met with » serious accident « few days ago in the State of New York, is recovering from his injuries, and will return to Washington. Secretary McCullech at Hie Peat. Secretary McCulloch'ie again at his post afer several days’ absence with bis family at Norfolk. Decision in a Treasury Claim. Chief Justice Carter, sitting tm equity, has given decree on the motion to dissolve an injuaction resirain- ing the defendant from drawing certain funds standing to his credit in the Treasury of the United States. Tne complainant im this case bad advanced the respond- ent $1,000 for the purpose of prosecuting & claim, and ia consideration of this advance the respoad- ont assigned te him five thousand doliazs out of the Claim when recovered. The counsel for defendant in- sisted that the Court of Claims posssssed by statute complete jurisdiction in this case, that ite judgments wore complete aed final and reached ali parties. As the Court of Claims had already taken /juristiction of the subject matter ao court of concurreat junsdiction would take cognizance of it and attemp', to restrain partics to the suit after the jurisdiction ‘sf that court Bed once ‘deen attached. Judge Carter suid the stat dte prevented plaintiff trom amorting bis claim either <q the Court of Claims or before the Department, This ratate was mereiy intended to re- lieve these tribunals “4 the trouble of adjudicating claims Devwoon orivate in,dividuala, leaviga thas mattor for the ———— ees, ordinary trig, 818 Of Justice to settle. The statute making vod m '' S2MonLe Of claims, tho Cour) thought, wae mon #7 intended to make void the P| mout as a legal \ “28for of interest in tho claima, to leave the equith 2 the contract untouched this view this Court ‘bought it had jurisdictioa, accordivgty held that\ Tulle the one thoufand dolians orginally advanced was, *4¥anced on such risk to juatiry 2 mesh larger profit on th ° Sdvance than legal interest, | it did not justify 90 large , * Predt as the four huadrea per cemt involved in the “® thousand dollars cfaimod_ ‘The Court accordingly gave © ‘e0ree in favor of the comptamant fortwo thouseng dollars, with interest ou one thousand dollars thereof , (om the date of its ag. vance. Preparaiions fer the Dopm ‘tuFe of tho Ram Stonewall for Js ‘Pas. ‘The ram Stonewall bas been placed 12 Commission, ang the Japanese fing ia now displayed @ Vt and the Union fing from the fore, She has been *adled out in the atream and wili probably leave thie w ¢* for Japan. Captain Brown takes out with him « ma, ifoeat golg Chronometer, made in this city for Prends @* Jobasos, which is to be presented to the Tycoon of Jum 82; cleo a, magnificent silver mounted album of very »'*rge sce ead Giled with photographs of the late Presi& ‘4 Lin- coin, President Johnsoa and Cabinet and a awa ‘Der of, other statesmen, military heroes, scientific men, && Muster Out of Colored Treeps. ‘The Forty-neventh United States colored: infest, %. now in Texas, is about to be mustered out of the servion - ‘This is the tae} of the Twonty-Atth army corps, Genoral Weitzel (ook into that State in 1806. ‘The Schutzenfest of the Washingtou Schatz= envereja. The Schutzenfeat continues to attract thousands of spectators, day and aight, and the interest’ im the ae- merous enjoymenta is unabated. The best order is ob served, To-day alt'the members of the Weshingtoa: Schutaonversin contended for the first great prize— “Tne Crown of the Ring.” The honor was won by Romanus Rudhardt, and he was goon after duly inatatod ia tho royal position, with the customary ceremonies, SECRETARY STANTON. ‘From the Washington Lae ag i August 6] wt! the present Secretary of War were governed, {m his official or social intercourse, by any of the inatincta which have characterized lemen whe bave heretofore heid positions of like importance and distinction, we should have Pr iy the exampics lost upon him. But if we apply to him the rules which prevail among gentlemen, we must ir of hie ap- of the examples set by those two distim quisned pale aoe, scorned to ocoupy the ene quivocal position hostility to the Executive, which has rendered him the recognized agent of the radical ine ir. Johngon ot the him to retire from the we are sure that it will require a Presidential om for his absence from the Cabinet councils, ore he canuot but have been an unwelcome visitor fer aoverai months past. Such a request would be C got tying to every trae lover of bis country throughout the lend. THE TURF. pee ae SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Trotting Matoh at Saratega—The Entries for tho Firet Day of the Raciag Wook. Samatoaa, N. ¥., Auguat 6, 1867, art ee } A trotting matoh for $600 came off this afternoon, be- tween Stephon Duan's bay getfing Tom Hammond and, E4. Ellis’ gray mare White Lily, mile heats, best three fm five, in barncsa, Tom Hammond won in thrpestraight: heats, 140, 2:48, 8:45. 5 Bboy Eat dig SOP be followed by a race of two mile the race aix horses will start, viz: Ruthless, 4 Motver, ‘Morrissey and Connolly. | National Horse Fair at Hechester. Rooazstaa, N. Y., August 6, L667. The Nations! Horse Fair opened yesterday. Dexter was entered for to-day to go for a purse of $5,600, buf owing to a misunderstanding between the maaagers en, Mr. Fawoott, the owner of Dexter, the horse was with« it oct sates the second by bw] hoat by M aD 2:35! pre Re 2:37, imer took oS we —- years old, and fately beem put upom tae neat in 2 fe 2:83. ted for In night at Oongrees Hall, Faweett, owner of ama Sree oft eb tee ties heats, eet Fage witt probably be bad. mitt THE NATIONAL GAMB. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERAL. Match Betwoen the Eurckas, of Newark. N. J., and the Unions, of Lausingburg, N. Y. ‘The tong ewticipated match between the Eurekas, of Nowark, N.J., and the Unions, of Lansingburg, took place on the grounds of the latter club to-dey, and re- EXCITING FOOT RACE AT PATERSON. Quite an exeiting foot race came off yesterday sfter- nooa, at Paterson, N. J., between James Quiva eed Pas Both were weil matched ead have run maay eo contest before. Theptakes were $250 ajpide; distance, three milea, Both had been training for the occasion, i | : \ ‘ i i hy ams i i ie eee Sse « | , 5 *) Racwoa NC, . canerel Gickien tan erterea the pak euagy a semen erteticee at mee ‘openpees ‘entil further orders. Suspoesion of Jury Trials ta Weswartos, N. ©, a Orders er es 70d trom enernt ina te 8 O@ account Orders No. 32, ‘ercoriag 0 avian et the Jury Wete. All jary triate upon receipt of this oriue were SUICIDE OF AN INSANE SOUTH CAROLINA PLANTER. eee ee seyiam at lay