The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, ADGVST 12 187, NEW YORK HERA which wor of grest britney end preted « must | maoy in ton States, and the oonsoquont division | the Einar has oo often proposed of adopting | thom emunder, ‘Thoy have 2% aged together, SgNeeNN eppetrncce, of the country on ® worse basis than that | and faithfully out a firm end cozeist- | in the that by thelr nennennnne Nae ‘The race of tho New York yacht squadron for the a hope thereby and JAMES GORDON BENNETT Commodors's pista took pladd on Saturday last, The a deertad erg rebeliion. We fought to froe | ent polloy rae g nullify the powers of| may be preserved « little longer and the FF OPRIETOR. course was from the light boat at Brontom's reef, of | *he nation from party domination guided by | mischief which the Indians must retain so long evil day of annexation be still further put off. were nnn Newport, to a stake boat anchored about one mile east | siayeholders, and we fall undera party domina- | a8 their tribes form's distinct and conflicting | In ce of this plan it sults the purpose JAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR, by norta from Sandy Yoint, Biock Island, the distance | tion based on the votes of the slaves we mado | element in our national system. If bad faith, | of thé politicians for the moment to raise an being forty miles. Tho schooner yacht Palmer, Captain Lopor, wom the race and the plate, having aailed over the course in five hours and seven minutes, the Sappho, Idler, Rambler, Fleotwing and Dauntless following in Ai! business oF news letters and telegraphic despatches | Wick succession, ‘ual el oll New ¥. io Genpaacien Our apecial correspondence from the city of Mexico dressed New Yorx Herat. shows that during the siege of that capital thers was Letters and packages should be properly soals1. ono imperial cbiefieia who dared resist the violences Rejected communications will not be roturasd of Marquez, and that was Goneral Tomas O'Horan. Our = & Syne _—. | correspondent gives the copies of a correspondence be- Volume XXX1 24 | tren that officer and the American Consui, Otterbourg, | 3 Sau ~ | from which it appears that O’Horan was eager to do what ~——~_ | lay in his power to relieve American citizens from the oppressive measures of. Marquez. It also appears from the other documents that Consul Otterbourg, tired and BROADWAY THEATER, Brodwar, corner of Broome dumayed oy Sgibaiactee againsl! which’ HG bea 0 050- leud, was preparing to leave Mexico, and had asked WORRELL § S' NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo- i . : a ee ee Hee Cane tae Ganene °PP® | passports from O'Horan, 60 as to got out of the besieged — mn city. Tho excitement consequent upon the execution of OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—¥ cigs x vis We8— | General Vidaurri was intenso, and the American resident Vis COOK Re 5 Pen nee Sone Boeck, population had hold a mecting to examine into the BOWERY TITEATRE, Bowery.—Tew Niouts tx 4 Bar. | Charge proferred against Mr. Wright of having betrayed moou—Ronr 0’ Mons, the General, who had sought a hiding place under ebeiter PRANVARD'S NEW YORK MUSEUM, Brondway and | of his good faith, Fhirtieth sock Nonopw's Pavan ss, o« Tux Baca” | s cotegraim from Havana, dated onthe 6th inst., states eine that the report that Marquez had been captured by the AS Figzelghth and | Mexican liborais is officially coutradictod in Havana, By the arrival of the steamship Rising Star, from : Aspinwall, we bave the announcement that quiot was "8 MINSTRELS, corner of Broad: ’ cet BrmOFLAN Sowss attaos, | being speedily restored throughout the Slates of Colom- Wuo Can Fino Us Now? bia. Magdalena, however, stilt holds out, Gonerat free. We have set them free to make them our masters, We exchange @ white tyranny for a black tyranny. This was not what the people meant when (hey gave lives without limit and money without stint to prosecute the war. Even those who desired to free the slaves would not have made them masters of the political destinies of any part of the nation; yet some- thing very near to this must be the result of the policy of those radical leaders of whom Mr. Stanton is the type. Actual political domina- tion in ten States is given to the nigger; and what did he do to deserve it? From fiily toa hundred thousand enlisted on our side, out of four millions, and the remainder stayed at home and did what they could against us end our cauce in growing the corn that fed tie rebel armies, Nota single ingurrection—not one organised blow for {reedom—came from these slaves aud sons of slaves during four years of a war that taxed the utmost energies of their masters. They were held in bonds by men at war with the nation, and thoy never added the weight of one little effort from their own side to aid the cause whose success was to make them free. They tamely ploughed and injustice and cruelty have failed to pacify and civilize the red man, why not try the virtue of an entirely opposite course of treatment? The experiment would cost less than the incalcula- ble expense of such a general Indian war as in their desperation the savages may provoke. If pacific counsels cannot prevail, at least let the tactics of war with the Indians be radically changed. Lot light cavalry, for instance, be- come a main auxiliary to troops specially trained to fighting in the most approved Indian style. Let General Pope’s suggestion be heeded, that itis wiser to drive the Indians eastward, within the influence of advancing civilization, than further westward, to he still a barrier to its progress. immense bubbub on irrelevant issues, They have kicked up quite respectable dis- cussion on the nice point as to whether D'Arcy MoGee is sometimes sober or alwaysdrunk. Thoy are violently anxious to know who first originated tho confederation scheme and who opposed it. They interest themselves eagerly in debating how much J. S, Macdonald made when he was in office, and whether George Brown ought or ought not to have been sent to England. In short they take up anything rather than the one solid fasue which lies at the bottom of all the tur- moil. This fasue is, whether the maritime provinces will submit to be taxed for the bene- fit of the Canadas—whother, in fact, what is sauce for Upper and Lower Canada, with stagnant trade, a defenceless border, and 4 heavy debt, is equally sauce for sea-girt Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, whose commerce flourishes and whose public credit is good: When this grave question is put to a practical test there will probably be plenty of emptoy- ment for the British troops now on their way to the new dominion. When it is settled, we expect to see one or more of the provinces MANAGER, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. AMUSEMBNTS THIS EVENING. ‘Tho Disagreeiog Jury in the Surratt Case. All must have been struck by the facts men- tioned by our Washington correspondent as to the nativily of the jury in tho Surratt case. Of the jurors who decided in favor of convic- tion, one was born in Magsachusetts, another in Pennsylvania, a third in Germany, and the fourth in Scotland. Two were Northern men and two were foreigners, Of those who de- TERRACE GARDEN, Third Fifty-ninth stroeis.—Turovons 7 Cor cunts, commencing at 8 o'c 06! GRIFFIN & CHR ‘way anc Twonty thi Dawouc, Kowiesques, &¢ K EON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, oppo. | Guticrres wns expected from Europe by the e : ided in favor of acqui wo W inc adunieal ite? ge York Hotel—In Tasik ‘sosus Dances, | English mail steamer, dus at Aspinwali about | sowed, and meanwhile half a million white cnet t OF: ecgemn 6 © were born in | asking admission into the United States. DORN Re . BURtesquas, &0.—Posxs p'Armiquet at z Virginia, two in Maryland, three in the Distiict cot wwe Macnied, tho 7th or 8th of August, The secret archives | men were maimed in the struggle that was Turkey, the United States and the Cretans. A cable telegram from Paris, pub: yesterday’s Heratp, asserts that the Turkish Admiral had forcibly taken a despatch from a servant of the United States Minister at Con- stantinople, and that Minister Morris had demanded redress for the outrage from the Ottoman rovernment. Some further explana- tion is needed before we accept this statement in its entirety. The captured despatch was probably a communication from the insurgent Cretans, and if so may have been taken posses- sion of by the blockading fleet under the rules of war. The siatement that Minister Morris had demanded redress, it will be observed, rests only on report. Mr. Morris is too sound ® statesman and too sensible a man to act without just grounds to go upon, and we can hardly believe that the Sublime Porte, with so many troubles as it has on hand, can have taken upon itself to deliberately insult the flag of the United States. Such a proceeding would be the essence of sublimated stupidity. Our sympathies are strongly with the Cretans in their effort to free themselves from Turkish tyranny. We have a war steamer, the Swatara, already on the way to Crete, and a very slight exertion on the part of the United States would close up the Cretan rebellion in a way the Turks would scarcely relish, It would be sheer madness, therefore, on the part of the Porte to go out of its way to insult our repre- sentative at such a time. However, the news is curious, and we wait for further devclop- ments. of Columbia and one in New York city. All save one were Southern men. It is obvious thit not the legal merits of the case, but politi- cal sympathies, and, to a certain extent, local prejudices, must have governed the decisions of the jurors, Will it’be any improvement on this state of things if the recent admission of colored men as jurymen in the District of Columbia by Congress be re-enacted at its next session and practically carried out at a new trial of Surratt? Although six negroes upon the jury might secure a different deter- mination of the case, would this be an infalli- ble test that it had been impartially decided according to the law and the testimony? If a packed jury is necessary, either for acquittal or for condemnation, does not a trial become a farce ? The pretext of the alibi that was the import- ant point of the defence was, of course, eagerly seized upon by those jurors who were ready to accept almost any testimony that could justify their inclination to acquit the accused. All the jurors, however, it is rumored, would probably have united in convicting him of conspiracy if the indictment had been confined to that charge. In his next trial, perhaps, the claims of the indictment may be lowered. Or, in view of the useless expense of time and trouble and over a hundred: thousand dollars, in which the trial of Surratt has resulted, and of the apparent impossibility of securing in the District of Columbia either his acquittal or his conviction, is it strange that the question has arisen whether it is worth while to repeat such o farce? of Mosquera are daily belug unearthed, and give continual proofs of hia anti-American scheming. We publish this morning two Interesting and important * letters in this connection. Cholera ssems to have begun 4 g Bah ts ravages once more in the republic of Nicaragua, but WAONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 2M Bowvery.—Conte | tho route of the American Transit Company ig not in- FissMMENT, &C—WiLiiaw pu Ten, fected by this dread scourge. In Pera Congress had paaved a bill conferring a gold modal on President Juarez as a testimonial of their esteemfand gratitude for his ser- 74 | vices in behalf of republicanism in America, President Prado had likewise appointed a Minister Plenipotentiary to the Mexican governtrent, He was to start at once on his mission, The question of foretgu immigration had also occupied the attention of the Peruvian Congress, and an important measure in connection therewith was before them for action. The guano privileges were also voder consideration, and an effort was made by some mombers to induce Congress to pass a bill disposing of these vaiaable privileges once for all, In Chile the opposition has attacked the gorerament vigor- ously on account of its declaration that the war against Spain should be conducted on @ purely defensive plau. The people had become quite indignant, and the govern- mont was forced to show signs of @ disposition to wage an offensive as wel! as defensive war. It hascome to light that organized and extensive frauds bave for some time past been perpetrated on the United States Pay Department, A man named Frank W. Howard was recontly arrested in St. Louis, In whose house was founda large quantity of forged discharge papers and transportation vouchers of soldiors, and two men were arrested in Leavenworth, Kanaas, a fow days since, while attempting to ooliect money on similar papers. It is believed that immense sums have been paid by different disbursing officers on these forged Papers. theirs os well as ours. And of such material we make voters! Into the hands of creatures who continued slaves while there was any one left to hold a whip over them we put such power that thay may become the arbiters of great political questions, ani even balance votes with Northern as well as Southern white men. We degrade and adulterate the national life by introducing into it half a million servile, eomi-brutal voters—all that the supremacy of an arrogant and dangerous faction may be secured and made permanent. And _ this, indeed—this making of nigger voters and driving the white men of the South from the polls—is the whole result of the waras radical leaders see it. But the people are awakening to tho true perception of this great matter, and it needs no exireme prevision to know that the nation will eventually trample under ils feet every vestige of the party that holds such ideas and has led it into this false position. The plain question for Mr. Johnson is whether ho has the courage to take the current of this national tendency and make a bold fight with Congress and the radicals, now that they are in the wrong—to fight when he may have the people on his side, with the same spirit with which he assailed Congress when its acts were in harmony with the national will. If he has, the case is plain be- fore him. He must make a clean sweep-of all the present personnel of reconstruction. He must brash away all the commanders, and if there are no generals to take their places, make some, He must not stop with Stanton‘ even in his Cabinet. Taking thus a new de- parture, pursuing an bonest policy of rocon- struction, never losing sight of the real objects of the war, but breaking up utterly this mis- chievous attempt te secure nigger supremacy, he will merely go before the wishes of the people; and though an attempt at impeach- ment would come as sure as sunrise with the assembling of Congress, the attitude of the nation would awe it into silence. But the indications are that Mr. Johnson has not the metile for this business. He limps far behind it, the political driveller and show of our his- tory, who neither knows when to dare nor when to leave it alone; and the result will be that the people must bear patiently until tho next Presidential election, when they can take the case in their own hands, and by the election of Grant put the national safety on sure ground against all the factions. BLN COTTON AND SAM SHARPLE Fisk Avonue Opera House, Nos. Fourth siveot.—In Cine ano Buucusques—Cingi WS AMERIGAN THEATRE, 472 B: » ance, Pantomime, Buriesguns, e AND SENTIMENTAL VOOALISMS, &¢.—Tux KOURe—N 1OODEMUS, in SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 B. the Meiropolitan Hotol—In tusin bri ments, 51 DANCING AND Boruesgue: Oxon —Junome’s Paws StupENts 7, opposite “NTRTAIN= ux Brack BROADWAY OPRBRA HOUSE, 60 Bronlway.—Tae Oviatt, GuoxGIa Minsrauis, THe GuRat Stove TRovre. GIGUTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, corser Thirticth atroet and Mighth avenue.—Haur & Kruvs’ Combination . Daxcixa, Bunuesqcs ann Paxromtun, ans Pawry. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erntorray Wiwerexcer, BaLtaps any Buuesques.—Covsin Scuxtepar, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— gap avo Rigur Am or Prosst—Tar Wasinaron Wink—Wonpens IN NATURAL History, SCIENCE AND ART. wocunes Dairy. Open from 8A. M, till io P. Mf. ( LEBD'S ART GAGLERIES, 817 and 819 Broadway.— Bxuenrnon or Ow Pacerings, Now York, Monday, Au; THE NEW 38. EUROPE. ‘The nows report by tho Atlantic cable is dated yester- A letter has been addrossed to General Sickles by a ‘ay ovoning, August 11. committee appointed at a republican meeting held in ‘Tho United States Squadron, displaying Admiral Far- | Charleston, 8. C., protesting agaiuat the appointment of Fagut’s flag, remained a wook in the Prussian naval port | Governor Aiken asa registrar of voters, or to any office Of Stein, the Admirat being treated with great Lonors | of trust or honor, on the ground that he sided the re- by tho Prussian officers. The vessels sailed for Saint | bellion by the contribution of arms and ammunition, Potersburg under command of the Admiral. A serious | and that during the war he entertained Jeff Davis at his Bre ooourred at Bordeaux, France, by which eighty | residence, orsons oro Killed or wounded. The boundary and other The funeral of Jeremiah O’Brien, who was executed Jocal negotiations pending between Italy and Austria have | fo the Tombs ou Friday last, took place yesterday, from Jpeen suspended. The tral of a For “general” has } the residence of his mother, in Christopher street. A Secon susponded by the British government. The Turkish | large crowd gathered in tho neighborhood to witness the ®overnmout defends its war action in Candia in an | departure of tho funeral procession for Calvary Ceme- official note addressed to the representatives of the Porte | tery, where the remalns were finally deposited. St tho different Courts, ‘The young git! who jumped from one of the Brooklyn Ira Aldridge, the pogro tragedian, sometimes styled | forryboatson Friday mght and was drowned is supposed the “‘Atrican Roscius,”’ is dead in Poland. During the | to bea Miss Williams, from Northern Goorgia, a person part thirty yoars he was made much of in Europe, grow | of her description having registered her name on the rich, married a Swedish lady of rank and was classod ne | book at Meschutt’s Hotel, Brooklyn, on tho 5th lost. ‘en actor of merit, Mr. Aldridge went to Europe some While a atreet preacher named Simpson was preaching thirty years since as body servant to the elder Wallack, | near Fort Green, Brooklyn, yesterday, he took occasion and, as it were, by that humble association with the | to denounce the Pope and Roman Catholictsm in such an great actor, Imbibed sufficient apirit and skill to come | offensive manner as to excite the indignation of his Out as a performer bimself, playing Othello in England | hearers, when an attack was made upon him with nod frotand. Mr. Aldridge struggled with great perti- | stones, one of which strack and knocked him down, macity against early adversity and died in the enjoyment | and while prostrate he was kicked and roughiy handled ‘of considerable wealth, by the excited crowd, He was shortly rescued by the Fivo-twonties were at 77% in Franktort. police, who promptly quelied the disturbance. Our European files by the steamship Weser contain Two telegraph stations west of Fort Laramie were Additional mail details of our cable despatches to the | burned by the Indians a few days since. 80th of July, which we publish to-day, embracing a re ‘The corner stono of new Catholic monastry was laid pport of the remarkable speech delivered by the Duke de | yosterday in Baltimore, under the auspicies of the Pas- Porsigny in the French Seaate on the responsibility and | sionist Fathers. Between four and five thousand people eccountability of Napoleon to the people for the acts of | were present. Bis Cadiact, The United States steamer Saco was at Aspinwall and MISCELLANEOUS. the Dakota at Panama on the 3d inst. Our iast night’s special telegram from Washington is The health of Key West ts reported good. pt unusnal interest, reporting, as it does, the impending Hf not actual existence of a Cabinet crisis, evolving such | Negre Supremacy and a Counter Revolution— state of rolations between President Johnson and his con- The President’s Position. Mtitational advisers as will probably lead to the dismissal | Tho President hesitates. No practical step resignation not only of Secretary Stanton,but of Secre- at Seward, Mr. MeCulloch and Mr Randall. Mr.Stanton's | &°ems to have been taken in the attempt to ‘removal is delayed, it is said, only in consequence of | relieve the Cabinet of Mr. Stanton, since the ieagrooment in the Cabinet as to the propriety of | receipt of his defiance. Reporters assure us foe sen Mossra, Seward and Thurlow Word oppos> it; | that Mr. Johnson has fortified himself with the ho former no strenously as to irritate Mr. Johnson, who, | opinion of his Cabinet as to his right to purge at 12, 1867, pares aaa Rae es Se A Dangerous Call from Caba. The Diario, of Havana, is a little too zeal- ous in the service of Queen Isabella, in charg- ing the United States with being a party to the indiscriminate slaughter in Mexico by the liberals of their prisoners of war, and in call- ing for a coalition of the European govern- ments against America, in order to cause their common rights to be respected throughout this continent. Now what would bo the first result of such a coalition, if Spain were involved in it? Unquestionably it would be the loss of the island of Cuba. The tenure upon which that “ever faithful island” is held by Spain is peace with the United States, and the first result of s hostile European coalition against us, em- bracing Spain, will be the seizure of the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, and their permanent annexation to the United States. This annexa- tion, coalition or no coalition, is manifest des- tiny in the course of events ; but it will depend upon Spain whether it is to be through the agencies of peace or the instruments of war. Frauds in the Treasury Dopartment. It appears probable that the investigation made some time since into the conduct of the Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department, the results of which investigation were sup- pressed and never properly given to the coun- try, turned up Instances of remarkable mal- feasance in office. It is alleged that the sup- pressed testimony gives the facts of the squandering of public money by hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time ; that in one instance those who should make the returns of printed money failed to account for the sum of fifty millions ; that in other tnstances paper and printed notes were not accounted for, by which it was possible and probable that in bonds, notes and fractional currency, quan- tities of money were surreptitiously put in circulation, the whole amount of which would reach half the figure of the national debt; for which vast sum the government, of course, never reocived any benefit. It is further alleged that the testimony and facts of this astounding fraud were hushed up in the interests of a prominent Presidential can- didate, who is himself millions deep in the defaleations. As all men can see, there isa tremendous power lodged in the hands of our Treasury Department. It controls annually fifty millions of revenue and the currency. Such trust should only be given to men of most tried integrity; for without high prin- ciple and most scrupulous and exact honesty here, we may at any hour have precipi- tated upon us unheard-of disaster. But it appears that this Department is rotten in every branch. We are never without the necessity for investigation into the collection of customs at our ports, and in the collection of internal revenue we have seen and are seeing every day that robberies of gigantic proportions are in constant progress, princi- pally in the articles of whiskey, petroleum and tobacco. Investigation and discovery of fraud have seemed in conspicuous instances to be of little use; for the plunder is in such proportion that it will pay to buy up any number of com- mittees at any price, and the most startling discoveries thus end in the lamest report. The country bas @ most vital interest in knowing the trath as to this alleged fraud in the Printing Bareau; for it is clear that greater robbery could be perpetrated there than at any other point, and such robbery might call it>question the validity of millions of dollars now afloat, pretending to bear upon it the properly affixed pledge of the government responsibility. The moral of all is, that if the people of the United States cannot elect a Congress possessed of the ability and honesty to put the national fiaances on a sound basis, to expose frauds and punish them with rigor, then the national credit is not safe for a day; we stand upon the most precarious footing that ever nation stood upon, and are likely at any time to run into repudiation and general and individual ruin, War on the Plains. Notwithsianding the declarations of certain Indian agents that there are no hostile Indians on the Plains, and that no peace can be made if the military authorities have any band in the negotiations, General Sully and Colonel Parker report a defiant and warlike condition of things among the Northern tribes, and tho telegraphic despatches published in yesterday’s Heratp confirm the evidence previously re- ecived, that there is “war on the Plains.” A despatch from Fort Hayes says all the stock on the railroad beyond there has been driven off by the Indians, who attacked the engineers and contractors and wounded several men. Several Indians were killed. Omaha de- spatches report that of seven men who were surrounded by the Indians at Mud creek three were killed and scalped, one was literally flayed alive, and three escaped. A Topeka despatch says that Governor Crawford, who has just arrived from the Osage Indian reservation, corroborates Gene- ral Keller’s statement, that the Osage Indians had gone on the Plains, stealing and com- mitting other depredations. Little Bear is still in the reservation, and says he knows Indians are on the war path. On the other hand, Colonel Leavenworth, who has been collecting information for over two months on the border, and who met in council a few days ago the hend chiefs of the Cheyennes, the Comanches, the Apaches, the Kiowas, and many other chiefs and braves of different bands, says:—“All expressed great wish for peace with the whites.” The Biack Kettle bands of Cheyennes are divided, some for peace and some for war. Those chiefly engaged in the present Indian war are Cheyennes and Sioux. A recent telegram announced that the Indian Commissioners appointed under Mr. Hender- son's bill “to establish peace with certain hos- tile Indian tribes,” had decided to send out runners to ask a general conference at Fort Laramie in September, and another at Fort Larned in October. These Peace Commissioners are expected to arrive to-day at Leavenworth, where they will meet a large number of agents, traders, interpreters and hangers-on of the Indian Departinent. Doubtless Colonel Taylor, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the other members of the Peace Commission, will do their best to sift and weigh the con- trary reports which will be submitted to them by interested and by disinterested witnesses, the latter, we fear, being far outnumbered by the former. And we earnestly hope that such facte will be elicited as to enable the Commissioners to recommend to government some statesmanlike method of ending speedily and forever the war and romors of war on the Plains. It is gertainly bigh time to try the experiment which The Cotton Crop. We are sorry to hear that the worms are making sad havoc of the growing cotton in Mississippi and Southern Arkansas, and in Louisiana and Eastern Texas, and that the planters in all that region are in a state of do- spair at the gloomy prospect before them, The prospect for the cotton in North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama is better; but im all the Southern States taken together, from our present information, the crop will be below an average yield on the area planted. But then, throughout the South, they have reaped a good wheat crop, and are promised fine crops of corn, peas and potatoes, and a fair yield of tobacco in Lower Virginia and the northern part of North Carolina, Thus, all things considered, the South will be vastly relieved of its material distresses by this year’s crop, while the people of the richest States, from destructive floods and worms, will be the great- est sufferers. The wante of those people, how- ever, must not be overlooked, if they prove to be such as to demand a helping hand from their more fortunate neighbors of the Southeast and the abundantly provided North. While the Union at large is blessed with such fulness of crops as we have this year, there must be no more starvation in any corner of it. The French tn Cochin China. We have despatches which confirm the pre- vious announcement of the occupation of three provinces of Cochin China by the French forces. What this occupation means we cannot exactly conjecture, but it is probably an enterprise which has something in it of Napoleon’s “grand Mexican idea.” If so there is some danger that it will prove another Mexican fiasco, or a very costly whistle, like Algeria. SWINDLING THE GOVERNMENT. Ext Frauds in the Pay Department fone Forged Discharge Papers of Sol- ters. Sr, Loris, August 11, 1967, Tehas come to light here withii afew days that ex+ tensive frauds have been perpetrated on the United States Pay Department, through forged soldiers’ dis- charge papers, The amount paid in this Department ie said to be very large. There appears to be an organized system for the collection of money on forged papers, not only here, but in Washington, Baltimore, New York and other Eastern cities, A man named Frank W. Howard has been arrested here, in whose house s large quantity of forged discharge papers and transportation ‘Vouchers were found, and two men named Bernard and Benedict were arrested at Leavenworth a fow days since, while attempting to collect money om similar papers, Colonel Rogers, United States Marshal of this district, and Deputy Marshal French, of Kansas, teft for Now ‘York and Washington on Friday to ferret the matter out, It js belleved that immense @ums of money have boon paid by different United Staten disbursing oicors on forged pane ‘The New Dominion Troubles. The Canadian correspondence we publish to-day gives some idea of the ferce political struggle now going on in the British American Possessions. But the bitterness of the public men, the rivalry between the Browns and the Macdonalds, the McKenzies and the McDou- galls, and all the other Macs of this Mac-ridden country, are only the foam on the surface, cast up by a deop agitation beneath. The trath is that the new dominion is nothing more than an {ll-assorted “happy family” of provinces, with few Interests ip common, and ¢6n infinite nhmber of prejudices and anisgonisms {9 driyo regrets hitherto followed the coun- oer andy 6 tease ‘90 implicitly, and will that, body of obnoxious elemonts—the body endoavor to regain tho prestige which he bas thus lost | deciding that he has the power. Others tell oy requesting Mr. Seward’s resignation, Mr. Adams, | us that the President's resolution to eject Mr. Waited States Minister to London, ts spoken off as bis | Stanion has undergone no change, but that b eagacenr wage ion igor ban ae be he will have a little “calm deliberation” be- oe ono ine Prosideney ant ft. te rumored that | fore he acts, Te will take counsel of his fears. $e. Randall contempiatos an early resignation. | “Councils of war never fight,” and for a good ic. Johnson, It is reported, entertains the opinion that | reason: they are only called when the case Mer. —_— aa aarp edministration wotiny is desperate, and judgment takes no account te by the appointment improper persons to office, pray hls Baameuad policy bas sea teen. quite upto the | Of the only things that can give success in Pear. The diMoulty between the Executive and Mr. | desperate emergencies. Unimagined inspira- loch i# spokon of as so oxtrome that the name of | tions that defy calculation—bold strokes— ‘Taylor, of New York, is mentioned in Washington | startling acts—these achieve success in cases the successor of the Secretary. Secretary Stanton. It | where councils of war always surrender; and Be tales Seaintes yk sarc A try these, in amoral sense, are now the elements Frith the view of making new assault on the govern. | Of the President's position. He has gone too $noot, and that be boids on to office with the intention of | far to deliberate. Retreat would be ignominy rusteating the conspiracy. and degradation; standing still would be no ‘The shore end*of the Cuban cable was succeasfully | potter, There is but one thing to do: he tho ateoclogheng py em vo pigestnndiar must go forward; and calmness is not the hundred and thirty fathoms of water. The cable| quality that is wanted now, but courage. thon proceeded to the Cuban coast, laid the shore | Some modicum of such resolate energy of pur nd, and commenced paying out on the afternoon of the | pose ag guided the acts of Andrew Jackson and reached the buoy at five o'clock on the Th, | woulg be worth to him all the “calm de- ta pan heey “Aig Seana aha et a liberation” that ever ended in milk and water. While preparing to splice the two ends at the buoy at He has of his own will come to open issue feoven o'clock on the 7th the cable parted halfs mile | with a Secretary; the Secretary hae thrown in from the Narva, and the whole of Thursday and Friday | his face @ sneering defiance, and he “deliber- rage ged spent in grappling od 4 Moen pret ates.” If the Secretary triumphs the Presi- Bae erecta ogee thet hopes wore euteriined | dent will stand before the nation the veriest Phat they would be successful on Satarday. pigmy that ever held eo proud a place. Bat if The alloged plot to manufacture evidence for the im- | the President go to the limit of possible action oer z™ ag rspenen te grote an in the premises—if he show the will to ett in Washington, and public opinion A hea dineh: ena ‘ena Peal. quad rule—the occasion _ to him the promise ‘Phe movemont and its actual promoters, Some radicals | Of @ better fatare than it seemed possible Belleve that the Prosident is endeavoring to turn the | could ever fall to his share. adios on bis personal enemios, and to thus create} The radicals have blundered into » position apital for the next election from the Conover and | that gives the President a golden opportunity— ‘Dunham papers. On the other ha jutler radicals fare confident of thoir case, and assert that revelations | ® chance to redeem his administration--to ob- ‘more startling” will be made in a few days. literate the memory of his groat errors, in ¢ By special telogram through the Atlantic cabie, dated | taking advantage of the greater errors of his ‘at Greenwich Observatory, England, at midnight on | enemies. He can yet convince the radicals Waturday, wo report the astronomical remarks of the | tat ip giving up impeachment, on the ground Peicasteu ann, ion ry aapeias? peas that they could have no man more suitable to ‘imoteora had beon seen, and some of them larger their purposes in his place, they counted with YVhas stars of the third and fourth magnitude, whon our | only @ one-sided view of the possibilitics, feorrespondent closed bis despatch. The radiact point | The country fs justly alarmed at what has Dy hardepraieames: 4 ~ Lape hve become evidentin the realisation of the Pre a cae and palt.past three o'olock yesterday mora- | Fadlcal party programme. It le clear that this ‘a laree nambor of wetoors wore Observed, three of | Programme méans no lese (baa nigger supre- , La WASHINGTON. IMPENDING CABINET CRisis. Reasons for Delaying the Removal of Mr. Stanton. Secretary Seward to bo Called on to Resign. The Postmaster Meneral Anrices to Dent. SECRETARY: M’CULLOCH’S SUCCESSOR, Another Rebellion Organizing in the South. Wasmnarow, Auguat 11, sade @ 1 o'Clook P. M, The Cristie in the Cabinet. - Tam informed to-night that one cause of the delay om the part of the President in comoving Mr. Stanton isa disagreement among his Cabinet members as to the propriety of tho step. You will remember £ tele- graphed last week that Mozers. Seward and Woed wero opposed to the removal of Mr. Stanton, an@ — have reason to believe that gtatemont was correct, 16 is said that Mr, Seward has taken eo decided # stand i tho matter as to have occasioned a bad fooling in the Preai- dont’s breast. Mr. Seward all along has beon the chief adviser of the Cabinet, He has onjoyed the confidense of his master, and haa had nearly everything his owm way in the matter of appointments. The delays an@ conciliations that have eo often disgusted the friends of tho President are supposed to have been the result of Mr, Seward’s anwise counsels, Mr, Johngon now, pere haps, sees his mistakes, and is anxious, even at the eleventh hour, to remedy them by something like de- cision of character and promptaess of action. It ie sal@ that he has resolved to request Mr, Seward to resign im a note of somewhat equal politeness and brevity to thas delivered to Seoretary Stanton, Should this be tree— and I do not pretend it is, for [ cannot make the state- ment on authority—it is believed Mr. Adams will be recalied from England and offered the portfollo of Seore- tary of State, - It ts said, moreover, that Mr. Randall and Mr, MoGal- loch are not altogether to be depended upon in 4hele fidelity to the Jonnsonian policy. People say thatthe former contemplates resigning at an early day, and that he desires to do something that will enable him to regelm: the confidence of his party, As to Mr. McCulloch, there are many ramors, one being that the President believes his Secretary of the Treasury has brought discredit om ~ the administration by appointing improper men to offes, ‘and that his management of the national finances bas not been all that was expected of him. The rumor aste the difficulty between the President and Mr, MoCullesi: places matters at such an extreme point as to mention the name of a probable successor in the person of Moses Tay lor, of New York. Mr. Stanton’s Reasons for Refusing to Re- sign—Another Southern Rebeilion te be Crushed Out. 4 It has been stated here on very good authority that one of the reasons which actuated Mr. Stanton when he refused to resign at the President's request is that he has received information of a scheme which it said is on foot for arming milita ry organizations in the late insurrectionary States, whose ultimate object is am other assault upon the gove rnment, and he has deter- mined to rem ain at bis post to thwart their designs, It is further sald that one of the causes of the late rupture between the President and Secretary of War was the refusal of Secretary Stanton to assign to militia company of Maryland, composed mainly of re- turned rebel officers and soldiers, a battery of light guns for whioh they had applied. The President is sald te have directed him to furnish the battery, but that Mr. Stanton declined, and stil! refuses to do 80. Tho Alleged Piet of the Impeachment Cen- epirators. The absorbing topic of conversation in title city at the present time is the development of the alleged plot te manufacture evidence against the President with a view of securing bis impeachment, As might naturally te expected, public opinion is nearly equally divided as te the real object of the conspiracy, as well as to who are the real conspirators. Many porsons, principally radi- cals, believe that the disclosures just made through the application of Conover for patdon are a part of the opers- tions of a plot between the President and certain of bie friends, with Dunham and his satellites, to create ‘a revulsion of feeling in regara to impeachment, to bring coatempt upon the efforts of the leaders of that movement, and in all probability work very bene- ficially upon the next Presidential election, They say < they cannot believe that a politician so shrewd an@ . crafty as Ben Butler would ever be guilty of so ogregi- ousa blunder as to compromise himself by plotting im company with a criminal convicted of perjury, to con- coct false evidence against the President of the United States, These people are confident that a few days will ‘saffice to clear up these chargesfagainst Ashley, Butler a& Co., when the true character of the plot will be made manifest. On the other hand, the number of those who entertain no doubt whatever of the genuinencss of the revelations is very large, ond it ia claimed by them thas afew days, instead of revealing @ conservative plot, wilt Iny before the country developments still more startling than any hitherto, Extension of Furloughs ef Omcers on Duty ia On account of the apprehensions of yellow fever be- coming an epidemic at Now Oricans it bas been ordered from General Grant’s headquarters that officers on duty in Louisiana and Texas, but who are now absent frem ‘their posts on leave, may, on application to the Adjutant General of the Army, have their leave extended until the 15th of Votober. President Lincoln. Several days ago Major B, B, French, late Com- missioner of Public Buildings, addressed a leterto Judge Davis, of Dinois (an asgociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States), in relation te the stone pre- sented by citizens of Rome, in order that Judge Davis, who is the administrator of the estate of Abraham Lin~ coln, may take suel action in the protmiees as he may deem proper. The following i# ® description of the stone, with a translation of the Latin inscription made by several of the best scholars in Washington, and sub- mitted to and approved by the President of Georgetowe College, The stone is of brown sandsione, The dia- meters of the face are (wo fect three inches by sevem- teon inches, It is eight in io thickoess:— ‘op Tas Amentcax Rerceiic: Citizens of Rome presen: this stone, from the tomb of Servius Tullius, by whicu the memory of each of those brave aeserters of liberty may be associated. Anao 1865. ‘The stone was delivered at iho Executive Mansion im Janoary, 1867, and pi bey, Where it bas « Commissioner Wilson, of the General Land Office, hae received returns from the Surveyor General at Platts- mouth, Nebraska, showing that that officer has closed @ contract for the survey of Iands fm Hall and Buffalo counties, Nebraska, in the vicinity of the Fort Kearny military reservation. The Commissioner has directed the Surveyor General to respect the reservation by caus. ing the lines of the public surveys to be closed upon the ~ Limits of the gamo as surveyed by order of the War De- partment in 1950, embracing an aren of tn aquare miles, ‘and tho islands in the Platte river for Ofveon miles above, ud below (he fort : Loutsiana and Texas. = The Stone from Rome to the Memory of | ;