The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1867, Page 4

ay JAMES GORDON BENNETT PROPRIETOR. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR, MANAGER. AARARAANR NN RR De BROADWAY AND ANN STRBET. Ail business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henaco. Lotions and packages should be properly sealed Rejected communications will not be returaed. exes —— <= Volume XXXII.... . Ne. 226 setae = New York, Wednesday, August 14, 1867, ‘een o s THE NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Ailautic cabls is dated yos erday evening, August 13. Denmark and Prussia are likely to settle the North Schleswig question. Garibaldi continues bis prepara- tions for an assault on Rome. Conaols closed at 94% for money in London. Five- twonties were at 743, in London. Iu Frankfort the markes for five-twenties was flat, aud uo sales were effected during the day. ‘The Liverpoot cotton market was firmer, with an @dvance on all qualities middling uplands closing at 1034, Breadstufts quiet. Provisions frm. By the Frevohjmail eteamship Pereire, at this port, we hhave files of Europoan journals, im detail of our cable espatohos, to the 3d of August, Tho mail reports are quite interesting. The Prussian Preparations for war are described as incessant, uvi- vorsal, aad of the most effective character. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mexican advices by way of Hayana, August 5, rate that Marquez had been found in the capital and Saute Aun had been conveyed to Vern Cruz. Our lotters from the city of Moxico are dated July 29, The reception of Juarez at his capital was a grand ovation, Ho issued a proclamation congratulat- fag the people on the retura of peace and the great victory “won by the good sons of Moxico battling Slone without resources or the assistance of auy one,” ‘Tejada, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a speech at a banquet oa the occasion, highly eulogized the example of the United States, and spoke of the war in Mexico as @ lasting lesson to two classes, the clergy and the great proprietors. Madame Juarez and hor party ar- rived at the capitalon the 25h ult, Strong efforts are being made to save General O'Horan from the sentence of death, as he had been uniformly kind to Americans in the city and to the citizens generally during tho fo- Fooious reign of Marquez. Salm Salm was in prison at the capttal and would probably be shot, as he had incau- tiously shown a commission as general, although he only served ag a colonel. General Escobedo’s doctor has heavy claim for embalming Maximilian’s body, and it is said to be held for payment. By tho Atlantic cable intelligence is received of a severe action which took piace in the month of June ‘between a United States force from the amers Hart- ford and Wyoming and the pirates on the Island of Formosa, China, in consequence of the murder of the crow of the bark Rover by the natives. A demand was raado by our officers for the surrender of the murderers. In reply th islanders prepared for a fight, when the shore was bombarded from both vessels, after which ™ nunaber of sailors and marines were landed. A sharp Aght, lasting five hours, ensued, The heat of tho ‘woathor was intense, and it {is said that fifteen oMcers and men of the American party were sen a@truck. Lieutenant Slidell Mackenzie was shot, and died of bis wounds. The United States party retired al nightfall, whon the bombardment was renewed and ‘tho natives disappeared. From the eame source we lgarn that (he Chinese merchants refuse, it is receive Mexican dollars coined by Maximilian. American commercial marine difficulty with the J: @20 roiative to the seizure of the Lark Anna Kimbal! pottied. Nothing further has been developed im Washington relative to the proposed changes in the Cabiast, Gene- ral Grant was inthe Cabinet meeting as Geesstary of War yesterday, and promptly favored cortaim qtepe to- wards @ more liberal policy in the reconsirastion Of tho South. Orders were issued to Sickles instructing him not to interfere wich federat courts. In his letter to stanton General Grant took occasion to expressa high appreciation of his zeal and patriotism as Secretary of War. Amoog (he Washington rumors afloat yesterday was ono that Congressman Ashiey is to be prosecuted ou the obargé 07 conspiracy and complicity in fan attempt to @uborn witnesses. General Pope has issued an order declaring that the advertising patronage in tho hands of the clvi of bis district shall be given only to journals that fi reconstruction under the acts of Congress, Tho il offcers hitherto, he alleges, have been supporting revel papers by their official patronage and thus indirectly uaing their influence against the reconstruction myoasuros Now Market, N. J., which was the scene of the Coriell tragedy some time ago, was the scene of another attompted one on Monday night. An old man, seventy- four years of age, named Jobn Harris, and his wife, wore severely beaten by their son-in-law, William Roantree, and the old man was slabbed so soriously that no hopes are entertained of his recovery, Roantree was arrested. The difflculty grew out of some family mat- ters concerning money, The ‘ork Yacht Club, after a review before Fort Trumbull and the schoolship Sabine, | London for Newport on Friday, The grand ocean ‘was won by the Palmer, On Sunday the squadron broke ‘up, fome of them retarning to their homes and others continuing the cruise to Nantucket. . Prominent republicans in Nashville are, it is said, en- deavoriag to have the franchise law so modified as to admit to sufirage a much larger proportion of whiies. ‘The coolie ship which reeently landed a cargo in Louisiana has been libelled and her captain beld in $1,000 to answer for a violation of the law. ‘The coroner's jury in the alleged abortion case at Springfield, Mass, yesterday rendered a verdict impli- cating Dr. William H, White, and he was commitied in default of $8,000 bail. Rov. H. Wendt, the superintendent of the Orphan Asyjum, st Germantown, Ps., was examined in the police court, at Philadelphia yesterday, on charges of syotematically debauching young girls under his charge, ‘and was held to bail in $5,000 to answer. By the arrival of the American echooner Pilot's Bride, Captain ZF. Brewister, from Curacoa, on the 26th uli. we have the intelligence that Soulouque had prepared to eave Curacoa with bis family to take up bis residence to Bayt! again. ‘The National Academy of Scieuce commenced its pub- fic seastons at Hartford yesterday. A ship's company bas been arrested in San Francisco 0 suspicion of having purposely wrecked their vessel in order to obtaia the insurance, and to smuggle her cargo, consisting Of $25,000 worth of alcobel into tbe oountry. Aboase in North Wrentham, Mass., was robbed of Over $6,500 yesterday in midday, and the house was ‘thon Gred. ‘Thore wore 708 deaths in New York and 269 in Brook- Iya, toctuding the public institutions attached to both citios, last week. In the Constitutional Convention, yesterday, discussion @nsued on the report of the Committee on Town and County Officers, in Commitioe of the Whole, A resolu- ‘The case of Waterbury vs. Rosset n!., an action brought for the appointment of a receiver and dissolution of the Merohants’ Union Express Company, came before Cham. bore of the Supreme Court yesterday on ® motion to vacate obstructive steps as the nullification of the reconstruction law by Stanbery’s opinion. He must render it impossible that this step shall be classified in that category of obstructive acts which irritated the country and gavo all its power against. him to Congress and made the clamor of impeachment what it was. He will have only reawakened that dormant spirit if he does not now show distinctly that he moves to counteract, to control, to checkmate, if pos- aible, that particular tendency of the republi- can pariy which threatens to throw the desti- nies of the country into the hands of the nigger; to give a dominant voice in the coun- cils of the nation to those nowly made voters that have just come oul of a barbarous condi- tion and in their ignorance are the tools of in behalf of the rights of white voters North and South—the removal of Stanton is signifi- cant; for he was, during the war, tho great leader of the negro clamor—the man who spent an undue amount of the national money in putting into the national uniform some Cabinet—oust Seward, Welles, Randall, and, more than all haps, more likely thaa any other to compro- * NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1067, ‘The President and His Cabinet—What Dees the Emergency Require ¢ x Mr. Stanton, in retiring, takes care to make up his case, evidently with a view to the future action of Congress. He seems, indeed, to have bad the double pyrpose to fix his own position ‘and at the same time the position of General Grant; trying, of course, in the latter to hold the General responsible in some part for what he esteetis & tiolation of his rights, and this even while exchanging with the straightforward soldior expressions, hollow enough on his part, of admiration and respect. This will recall characteristic conduct ofa like nature memora- ble in the earlier history of Mr. Stanion’s official life. He is careful not to assent to any step in the President’s course; to protest that it is all wrong, and that he does not yield of his free will, but only retires because assured that General Grant has accepted the appointment to his position, and that this implies “superior force.” Doubtless all will agree that the retir- ing Secretary should save hia wounded dignity and cover ignominious dismissal from a high position with this poor plea. As to ulti- mate right, we suspect that here, as in many other great cases, tho act -will be judged in relation to its results; in other words, if the President carries his movement so far as to pepe it to the people—to make it a popu- Jar“success—it will be right; while otherwise, if he halts and fails, he will be held as having been desperately in the wrong. His fate before the nation is now in his own hands, and the result of the steps already taken will depend upon what is in the future. If Mr. Johnson stops with the mere removal of Mr. Stanton he will have taken no ‘advan- tageous step. He may get secretaries quite as efficient and quite as acceptable to the country; but that is not enough. Mr. Stanton had a definite position in this case, as representing the policy of the nation, and with this has also done so welt in the proper digcharge of his duties as to call from a man of such unques- tionable candor as General Grant an expression of appreciation for his “zeal, patriotism, firm- ness and ability.” Mr. Johnson must therefore make the case so clear that it cannot possibly be supposed that he acts against Stanton merely, whose position is respectable as an efficient official and upholder of the national policy of reconstruction in its broader sense. The Presi- dent must show that his action does not intend amere reopening of his former issues with Congress, and that this present action is not to be classed and confounded with such former the dangerous extremists, the theorists and demagogues who stand as their peculiar friends in virtue of the extravagant promises made— promises that caa only be fulfilled at the ex- pense of the rights of the white man. As a blow against the negro policy—a blow thousands of niggers who never fired a abot and who were only intended to be used as capital for future nigger legislation, to pave the way to this very supremacy of nigger voters. He was, therefore, a good man to begin with ; but the President must not stop with him. He must go through the entire anbery, the man who is, per- mise the President before the nation; the man Sricn the case. did make the remark (which I am inclined to doubt) he has been guilty of an impertinence beneath his breeding.” on both these points, Mr. Fillmore, with our correspondent in the premises, had been in- dulging in “Widow Clicquot,” and “when the wine is in the wit is out.” circumstances, and with the “sober second thought,” the funny allusion of Mr. Fillmore to the “O. P. I.” was not only perfectly natural, but ought to be considored perfectly inoffensive. Next, it appears that while ex- President Fillmore’s custom, in the case of a friend, is to sit down with bim and partake of the smiles of the Widow Clicquot, the “custom at Wheatland has been and is (and long may it be!) to conduct the visitor to the sideboard, place him in the hands of the servant, and leave him there.” This was Old Hiokory’s custom, and he was pronounced by Davy Crockett the politest man he ever saw; “for,” anid Davy, “when he set out the old Bourbon before me he turned his back on me, go as not to sce how much I would, take.” custom has its merits, too. What is the oustom. of poor Pierce, the third of our ox-Presidents who “still Hve/? we have yet to learn. Wo know, however, that when called upon to drink any peculiar water to which he is not accustomed he likes “a little brandy in it, to kill the animaloule.” although living like philosophers, more or lesa, in their retiremont from the cares of public life, are awfally bebindhand in regard to the political situation and the progress of public events. We have, therefore, to suggest that if they will appoint a day for @ joint visi: to Washington Heights, or a visit each for bim- self, they will not only be entertained accord- ing toe custom which we guess will satisfy them, but they will be posted up on public affairs down to Secretary Stanton’s suspension from office and the cause thereof, and tho probablo results, Wo will satisfy poor Pierce that Jeff Davis isout of the way, prove to Mr. Fillmore that “Old Blair” is not “the greatest man in the world,” and convinoe oven “Old Buck” that the fight is not yet over between “Old Thad Stevens” and Andy Johoson. person tell us the amount of income tax that is paid by Jay Cooke in this State or olsewhore? Our Next Charter Election—Fern city politicians in view of the fact evident to large a democratic wave that it is very doubt- | upon whom his choice may ultimately fall. ful whether they will ever be able to set it | The liquor lew, the police spy system, and the down agaio. The “Old Public Funetionary” on Old Rye. We have received the following letter in the regular course of mail from Philadelphia, pur- porting to come from that“Old Public Fune- tionary,” James Buchanan, “per J, D.”; — PaILaDELpma, August 12, 1867. Dean Sin—The Herstp of August 10 3 j as I was leaving Cape Island this morning, to reply to your Buffalo correspondent, wi President Fillmore say, ‘£ am not the Old tiot of Pennsylvania who has killed nearly ail his with old rye.’ Mr, Editor, if Mr, Fillmore did make this remari has been guilty of a1 At Wheatiaud the y always obtain whiskey, brandy, gio, sherry, Madeira, claret and carte d’or or Roederer champagne. | never recommend any particular beverage to my friends, always leaving the choice to them. Oug custom has been, and is, to conduct the visitor to the sideboard, place him in the hands of the servant, and leave him there, Iam not aware tbat [ ever aided in tho death of a human being. The insinua. tion that Ihave tried to destroy any one 13 wholly timore’s views of the Biair family, of and of what he might havedone if he had been at the heim, are tor ¢ ublic, of which {aim but an humble part. —— iy. K AMES BUCHANAN, per J. D. We are inclined to believe this letter gen- uine. First, because the accusation, as from ex-President Fillmore, is sufficiently provoking at the first glance to suggeat the. necersity of an answer from the “O. P. F.” Secondly, because we know that ho was at Cape. Island the other day. Thirdly, because from a cloud of witnesses the truth of this letter in reference to Mr. Buchanan’s sideboard can be substantiated. And lastly, because, although a good many dead men in these latter days have come from Wheatland, thoy were dead when they went there. So much for the letter. Now for the merits of Mr. Buchanan gays, “If Mr. Fillmore Woe think differently Under these And yet Mr. Fillmore’s All three of these ex-Presidents, -howavor, Important Inrormation Wantzp.—Will some lo Wood Master of the Situation. There {s considerable fluttering among the there doth sin much more abound.” casionod, directly and indirectly, more arrests statute books, unless wo except the Dog law— which, according to the report of the City Mar- shal, had counted up to last Saturday night a0 le:s than six thousand three hundred and never before been destroyed in asingle season, The Dog law is fun to the dog catchers, but death to tke doga. There is plenty of “law,” if not too much of it, in the motropolis, and happily more “ order” than there might seem to be, judging by the-unuaual numbor of re- cent arrests, Pope:— oivi! officers in this military district are ouly observing bis ordor prohibiting thom from using any influence to doter or dissuade reco! ing the State wvornmonts undor the recent acta of Congress, 80 far as oir own \veraation ts concern dare at tmilltary distri commandors in the for their offictal acts. offices is simply an evasion, the provisions of the gen all who are initiated in our municipal affairs, that Fernando Wood has made himself master of the situation in our next charter election, and will possess the power to control the result and to secure the success of whatever party can- didate he may select. The strength of Tammany consists of the Corporation rings and officehold- ers, with such old rut democrats as still believe in the existence of the old democratic organiza- tion and are willing to shut their eyes and vote the “regular ticket,” whoever the candi- date may be, in accordance with the principle once enunciated by John Cochrane, These can muster, at the most, twenty thousand olectors, or less than one-fourth of the probable vote of the city, and will be powerless to elect a mayor without the aid of outside combinations. The republicans, with the patronage of the Police, the Fire Department, tbe Board of Health and other political commissions, can poll s vote of about twenty-three or twenty-four thousand, and will also be in a hopeless minority if com- pelled to stand alone. The Mozart organiza- tion proper is all broken to pieces, The Miles O'Reilly, or Cooper Union fac. tion, comprises many solid democrats, who hold themselves independent of the iron rule of their party, and, denouncing its corruptions and backsliding, strive to redeem democracy from the degraded condition {nto which it has fallen; but they are not oumerically strong enough to carry the city unaided by outside influences. The Citizens’ Association is made up of some very honest gentlemen and 4 sprinkling of jobbers and adventurers ; but their numbers are not sufficient to enable them to do more than skirmish in two or three wards. The McKeon democracy consists of a very select party of citizens, with respectable characters and sore heads, and is of no material importance in « general fight. Outside of all these organizations, assooia- tions and factions stand the great mass of Irish whiskey and German lager beer democrats, who belong to no particuler cliqne and care potbing for regularity or irregularity of nomi- nations, seeking only to make the best market they d to cast their votes wherever they will ott he largest amount of profit. It is this element, outnumbering any single peliti- ca} organization fp thé city, that Fersando Wood, with much ingenuity ond skill, bes to wader bis of control, 4 with is be mf make te fa ql Wee Cia epadisete whose interpretations of laws and whose decla- ration in the Supreme Court of democratic sympathies make him a political millstone. All these must be driven out ; and the Presi- dent must then reorganize his Cabinet with men whose very names will convince the country of the honesty of his purpose—will show that he is fighting the dangerous tenden- cies of a faction, not opposing the will ot the people. He must reorganize with men whose history, and, more) especially, recent career show thom to be in sympathy with the great national movement ; who were fn for the war, beart and soul; who cannot be suspected of any disposition to betray the great principles for which the people fought ; but who have the wisdom and the courage to oppose a firm front against that evil and dangerous policy of ex- treme republicans that can only end in giving the political balance of the nation into the hands of half a million negro voters. This is the issue. If the President meets the necessity boldly he will have the sympathy and support of the nation; if he goes half way and stops he will only have made matters worse. Isrormation Wantev.—Can any one inform us what amount of income tax is paid by Chief Justice Chase? Britieh Reform=The I Settlement. The reform question in England seems at last to bave been finally setilod. On the amended bill coming back into the upper house from the Commons, on Tuesday night, the Lords receded from all their attempted modifications of the measure, except on one clause, which provided for the representation of minorities, which the Commons had accepted, and then passed the bill. Thus this great measure becomes law in the same way as Catholic emancipation was carried by the re- ceding of the tories under the Duke of Welling- ton, and in the same way as the repeal of the corn laws was perfected by tbe receding of the tories under Sir Robert Peel. The higtory of the tory party in England for the last thirty years has been an incessant repetition of the King Canute story of historical memory. They have been perpetually setting do obair, cod declaring bat thas fay the wee lar progress should be n0 on ees 7 We chao one way tags, od both at a op neged policy of the dominant party all tend to bring these voters together and to enlist them beneath the standard of the man who hes always stood their friend and been recognized as their champion. It looks at present very much as if Fernando Wood would have all these aubsivate at his gommand, to use as he may think proper in the next election; and hence the uncertainty, suspense and consterna- tion which have been evident for the past few days in the neighborhood of the Pewter Mug, the City Hall and other haunts of the regular eut and dried city politicians. Law and Order in the Metropolis, The records of the police department show the unprecedented number of one hundred and four arrests during the week ending last Sa‘ur- day; and it is feared that, atthe rate at which arrests continue to be made, even this number will be surpassed during the present week. The overzeal of certain policomon, in making arresis for trivial causes, partially accounts for such a telling record against the prevalence of “law and order” ia the metropolis. The fightidg mania, inflamed by this dog-day weather, and breaking out now in the more or leas “ seientific” exhibitions of the prize ring, and now in the most brutal rough and tumble knock down and drag out encounters, is alleged to be one cauze of the extraordinary multipli- cation of arrests. It is likewise ascribed to a variety of other causes, from the green moteors whioh Professor Loomis failed to predict, and the vival claims for Foo-Choo-Mata and Ring- Keo-Chee, alias Little All Right, to the Jersey mosquitoes which lately invaded New York, including tho rather blundering, if well moant, efforts of those pious citizens who have formod socioties for the suppression of gambling and prostitution and intemperance and other social evils, and who prowl about nightly in squads of three in the moat uncomfortable and suapl- cious manner, Some of these very good people have oven exposed themselves to arrest by the mysterious ways in which they move, their wonders to perform, in plying their voluntarily chosen and irresponsible vocation of secret grand inquisitors, The anti-gambling frater- nity might spare themselves a deal of time and trouble hanting in out of the way nooks for the haunts of petty gamblers, if they would boldly walk straight up to the well known palaces of “King Pharaoh” in our finest streets. The Excise law most emphatically illustrates the Scriptural truth that “where the law is It haa o0- than the violation of any other law on tho twenty-eight victims So many dogs have RECONSTRUCTION 1H SEWERAL POPE'S DISTRICT. © Civil OMicers of the Si Jeurnals Alone Authorized to Public Printing. Avavera, Ga, August 13, 1907. The following ordor was issued to-day by Gonoral GENERAL ORDERS—NO. 40. Hs.vqvarraza Tarp Mitrtart Disraor, GmonGiA, ALABAMA AND Fronipa, meng ee August 12, 1667. The Commanding General has become satisfied shat by the ice of thoir ea, by denunciation and threats of future penalties Sach use of patronage of their unintentional, of, order above roterred to, and is, ia fact, an employmont of the machinery of the Provisional State government to defeat the execution of the reconstruction acia It is thorefore orderod :-— First,—That all advertisements or other official publi- cations heretofore or to be hereafter provided fordy the Btato, of municipal laws or ordinances, be given by the Proper civil officers whose duty it is to bave auch publi- cation made, to such newspapers, and such ovly, as 4 do not oppose reconstruction under rr of violence of prosecution or other penalty, a8 soon as sige protection is withdrawa, for acts in tnair official capacity. Second—All_ oMicors in this military district and ail officers of the Freedmen's Bureau, apd all boards of regis- tration or other persons 1m the emptoy ment of the United States under ita military jurisdiction, are directed “ee Gate iametiate report to" thoes beadquarters’ot aay make immedi uarters of any civil oMosrs whe vtolave its Provisions. By command of Brovet Major Genoral POPE. A COMPLICATED CASE (N LOUISIANA. Another Complatat Against Goneral Shert- dan-A Deputy Marshal Riected by His Or- dor—Tho Attorney Gonoral Referred to. Naw Oncaans, La, August 13, 1867. It appears that General Sheridan ts wrong in the Premises taken ia Special Order No. 110, ejecting James Condon from the possession of Kittona plantation, St. Charles parisb, and installing Merk Hoyt, on the ground that Condon still remains in possession, although the court, havi! juried has dismissed the injnnc- Woo ved we te reetrate ing Hoyt y coul Attorney General, COOLIES IN LOUISIANA. Libet of the Brig William Anderson tatn Bonded to Answer. New Oniaans, August 13, 1967, ‘The brig William Anderson, which broaght « load of cooties from Havena, has been libelied, and the captain and mon tn charge of the eae wie we a Setreaccucn of coolies tnt the United pe twenty-three oases of yellow fever ote New Terie, Ta. esterday, but no deaths ‘The disease is aesuming & SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLAGE AT HARTFORD. Hantronp, Conn,, August 13, 1867. ‘The Nationa! Academy of Science commenced its pub- tic sessions here this morning, in the Representatives’ Hall of the State House, at eleven o'clock, About fif- teen members were in attendance, including Professors he Coast orton on Freesat Sosy veo ba wes ul . selereeed a Tee ars eee ‘. oy 4 oun wor A provened against the ire from nan nomenciatere, which re- Bames together and under WASHINGTON. He Favors a Liberal Folicy Towards the South. Slight Sympathy Manifested fer Mr. Stanton. Wasarvarox, Auguat 18, 1867, ) 11:30 o'Clook P, M. Rupture—Very Litie Sympathy er Mr. Si jou—General Grant at the Cabinet Meeth The excitement about President Johnson's last coup d'état bas not subsided in tho loast. To-day the subject was pretty thoroughly discussed ai! over Washington, ia oficial as well as private circles, One striking feature devetoped by the conversations on the subject is the real friends Stanton seems to have. While many people are-met who denounce the President's act as merely another attempt to throw obstructions in the way of Congressional reconstruction, fow indeed are found who express any sympathy for the Secrotary a0 _iguominiously thrust out of oMce. This, perhaps, wasto have been expected, for Stanton was a man of small sympathy himaelf, and as often slighted friends as foes by hia overbearing mannor and reckloss disregard of and contempt for other people's opinions and feelings; but it was hardly to be expected that this alienation would have gone to such an extent, Stanton seems now, in- deod, to be‘without any friends, without any party, and without any to regret his fall from power. Even those who have been with bim in oMicial relations about the war office for years eeem in no wise grioved, but, on the contrary, appear like emancipated spirits, and breathe easier now that Grant has assumed control. Public opinion, could tt speak with one voics, would doubtiess now gay, ‘Stanton was a bear; he was@proud, tyrannical, overbearing, unjust, cruel, and intolerant, We are glad he fallen, and hope he will never come to the political gurface again."’ I hoard a gentleman high in office here express himself thus to- day :—T have always looked upon Stanton as I would regard the big mean boy at sohool. The big boy glories to wallopping all the little boys that come in his way, but avoids boys of his own size. So with Stanton. With tnferiors and subordinates he was tyrannical and exacting—he would buliy them uoill they became almost mad—but with his poors and superiors he was cringing apd obsequious, Morally and physically he was coward, and only dared play the réle of a courageous man when he had, or fcit he had, « party at his back and power to succeed. In leas than a month this lofty Stanton will be as dead as mackerel.” It is gurprising to find how many people here express them- eelves in similar terms. Some discharged soldiers and gailors bavo calied @ meeting for Saturday next to express condomaation of the President ia removing Mr. Stanton. Tho following are the letters that passed between Genoral Grant and Mr. Stanton yesterday :— GRNERAL GRANT TO MR. BTANTON. ——, ARMIES OF = Lierd States, fasuINGTON, August 12, 1867. The Hon. E. M, Srarron, Secretary of War. Sm—tinoclosed herewith I have to transmit to you.a copy of a lotter just received from the President of the United States notifying mo of my . assigament as Acting Secretary of War, and directing mo to assume those datics at once. Ia ~ eg you of my acosptance I cannot. let the opportunity pass withont oxpreasing to rou my appreciation of the zeal, patriotiam, firmness ind bop Swe whioh you have ever discharged the duty of of War, With great respect, your obedient servant, U. 8. GRANT, \. MR, GTANTON TO GENERAL GRANT, War Darantuxy7, Wasmnoron City, August 12, 1867. Gawmnat—Your note of this date, Sooompanted by a copy of a letter addressed to you August 12 by the Prosi- der you Secretary of War ad interim, and 7 acceptance of the appointment, has been receiv. Under a sense of public duty lam led to deny the President's ‘under the laws of the United States to suspend me office as Becre- tary of War, or to authorize any other person to enter upon the yharge of the duties of that office, or to re- Sa eo ga person 4 re. papers other yin my of War, but inasmuch as the ident bas assumed to suspend mo from office as Bec- rotary of War, and you have notified me Capped ance of the appointment of Secretary of War ad T have no alternative but to submit, under protest, to the superior force of the President. You will please ac- cept my acknowledgment of the kind terms tn which you have notified me of your of the Prosi- dent’s appointment, and my cordial reciprocation of the timent |. Yam, with sincere regard, truly yours, DWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. To Genoral U. 8, Grant. ‘These letters bave been dwelt upon by certain radicals here to prove that Grant sympathizes with Staaton, and only accepts the President’s appointment as a good officer who obeys his superiors, I have good reason for stating that the complimentary allusions in General Grant's letter were only intendod to bave the same effect as the sugar coating to a bitter pill, The truth fs, as! telegraphed last night, Stanton was much put out to Gnd Grant accept the Seeretaryship so promptiy, and Grant, in his good natured way, dashed off his lotter with the only intent of making the dose as palatable aa possible to the patient, That this is the true explanation is further borne out by the'procoedings of the regular Cabinet meeting to-day. The first step towards the de- velopment of the new liberal policy for Soathern recon- struction was brought forward, and Grant, who attended as Secretary of War, favored it promptly. This step was the adoption of an order to Gonoral Sickles, commanding bim to rescind his order suspending the payment of debts, and also his other order by which (he execution of process of the United States Court in Wilmington, N. C., wae impeded, It was agreed in the Cabinet meot- ing to instruct Genera! Sickles that he was in no case to interfere with the mandates of the federal courts, It is believed by the President that reconstruction cam goon without abolishing every trace of civil government. In matters of local legislation mot opposing the theory of reconstruction it ia considered that the State Legisia- tures should be allowed to have their own way. This new order is, thorefere, the result of these views, and may be regarded as the firm check to despotic adminis- tration in the South since the suspension of Stanton. It ie believed that Sickles will resign in consequence; but others assert that he will do mo such bing. Thore is nothing further to-day as to the rumored other changes to oecur in the Cabinet. The probability is that the President will wait a while, in the hope that certain hints will be taken and resigaations tendered volantarily, The National Intelligencer says it Bas authority for steting that the report telezraphed hence that the Postmaster General entertains or has expressed ‘an intention of resigning is without the least founda- toa. The rumor that Judge Advocate General Holt bas been suspended is premature. Judge Holl way from the city just now, and no action will be taken tn his case until bis return. I have no doubt that be will be kicked out ef office at the proper time. Apropes of resignations, Iam informed that the policy likely to be adopted towards the present military com- manders will be one of gradual decapitation. Sheridan will probably be the first victim, and Pope the next. ‘Then there will bea pacse, Should the other command. ors profit by the fate of these two and fall grace. fully im with the Johasonian policy, they will be al. lowed to remain in office for a long time, and may not be sitrred at all if their support is given heartily aad {m real earnest; but if, when Sheridan is removed, the rest tender their resignations, I have no doubt no obstacte will be thrown in the way of their rot\rement, The Cabinet meeting to-day was brio! harmonious. General Grant as Secretary of War. Genoral Grant appeared at the War Department about @even o'clock this morning, and entered upon his duties as Acting Secretary of War. Soon after bis arrival in looking ov the Depariment requiring imm: and im making the transfer of ths public property of the War Office. It i¢ understood that no change will be made im the headquarters of the army, It qill re tain in the building at the corner of Seventeenth and @ street, The headquarters of the army isseclose to the War Department that General Grant can be in atten- ance at beth offices in the regular hours to transact the ution of coch. The War Department orders will be is- ued by Assistant Adjutant General Townsend, by order of the Acting Seeretary of War, and the orders from army headquarters will be sowed by Assistant Adjutant General Leet, by order of the Goneral-ta-Onief. All com~ vanicapions WU) bo eedcvened Jo cnet offce 00 bervie- fore, {+ bas been stated that the Genera! dees mot tomptace making aay changes in the deteled Guty in the War Office, but that come few changes be looked for among the officers in the different reaus of the department. ‘The Plot Againet the President. Among the rumors floating about the city to-day, which camnot be traced to any reliable source, is one to the effect that legal proceedings are about to be ig. stituted against Mr, Ashley on the charge of conspiracy, in view of his alleged complicity in the Conover plot for suborning evidence to procure the impeachment of the President. On the other band, there is another state. ich if true will go along way to explainaway aged complicity, 16 is said that Conover, ta a cbance conversation one day, soon after his conviction and sentence for perjury, told one of the officers of the jail that what he had done was for the benefit of Jeff. Davis, to cast doubt upon anything and everything which might be asserted against bim in testimony, but that as Davis’ friends had now.abandoned him, doing nothing to be- frieud him and not even visiting him, he did not com- sider himself uader any obligations to them, and he was, therefore, at liberty to divuige something of great importance, which could be well substantiated toby re- songht an interview with Conover aud asked names of the parties alleged to be was forthwith taken in and done for. alleged, is the whole story in brief, and the pre- tended “conspiracy” is‘ only # figment of Conover’s tying brain, I give this as the statement of friends of Ashley, without at all vouching for its trath in any par- ticular, There are other people who assert that other revelations are preparing which will exhibit the com spiracy in still blacker colors. ‘The Frauds on tho Pay Department. The recent reports of frauds on the Pay by the presentation of spurious discharge papers, emé the supposition that some officers of the Dopartment may have lost sight of orders from the Pay Department of long standing, bave {educed the Paymaster Goneral to issue the subjoined cireular:— CIRCULAR NO, 58, Paymasine GENBRAL'S Wasarmaron, Au Information has been received at this extensive forgeries of soldiers’ discha: it ia ramored ‘that large E vida acy have by tho officers of this partment on lent vouchers. This latter statement is not cause this office has received no official it aif Fee! P 385 3 3 til ! such raymenta, and because it is impossible to under- stand how any paymaster can have becn so imposed upon uniess through a culpable disregard of the standing orders of this office. The following circular order, Ne. 40, dated September 23, 1865, nearly two years ago, repeated for the information of all — Paymasters are cautioned to guard carefalty last attempts now extensively prevalent to pase Scat Gah crane oy te scrutiny. Tt iis ordered; thereto - TY norséfier ne uel ‘exoept AZ soldier himself, when that is at ail. practicable, whose identity shall be established to the is R *, Oth known third parties master, either by known, th s ma fact, dion fi th °. ‘cannot present other causa de to'ule skiorney, upon power 4 Dut in all such cases tho attorney must be roresbee character, Ce cues. required w Shook feat the papers’s guarant nutneness, ages, wheth Tanied. to principal or euorney, : Gite, Tayable to tho order of the former. Paymasters caunot fail to understand that they are liable on their ofMfeial bonds for the amount of bag h ments made by them on spurious vouchers, The ges E af ll : claimant is the person algo that me = porter ger wo in not for charged aa therein BW. BRICE, Paymaster General. Tho Conversion of Soven-Thirtice—The Time Extended. ‘Tho following notice has beon tesued by the Secretary of the Treasury :— . \ ‘Tenasvay Deranruent, August 18, 1867. ‘The privilege of converting seven-thi Calling due on the 15th inst, into five-twenty a the 1st day of July, 1867, will be to tho 16th day of September next, AM notre of this teeue seated euloe paid on presentation atthe fraasesy on ion Of the United States and at the oficos of the Assistant Treasurers at Boston, New York and Philadel currency. HUGH MoCU! Progress of the Union Pacific Rallrond.- The government commissioners having submitted te the Secretary of the Interior a favorable report om the ninth section of twenty-four mites of the road and tele~ graph line of the Union Pacific Ratlroad Company, east- ft with a recommendation tbat the bonds and pateute for“ lands be issued to the company upom sald seotion of the road, and the President has issued his order to effect. This road is now completed as required by for 234 miles west of the eastern line of the State of Kansas, and bas in uso 25 locomotives, 16 passenger coaches, § baggage, mail and express cars; 118 box cars, 222 flat cars, 31 cattle cars, 46 band cars and ¥ boarding Tho Malis to Russian America. Poptmaster General Randall has directed the Post- master of San Francisco to make up and forward the mails from San Francisoo to Sitka, Russian America, a8 the rate of $50 per round trip—the service mot to ex- ceed once a week. This order will remain in offect until the meeting of Congress, when a regular postal route will be established between the above mamed Receipts from Internal Revenue. The receipts ternal Revenue to-day amounted to TTT. a Cruise of the Penebscet. Tne Navy Department to-day received information that United States steamer Penobscot had arrived at Cayenne on the 13th of Juno, after a passage of four fraud the Revenne. San Francico, Cal., August 12, 1667, Captain Swan and bis crew, of the schooner Sarah, have beon arrested on & charge of purposely ing the vessel, with revenue department and i intent to 1 i} ize wid ti ina dita B rsted sede amend the franchise law, 00 08 to eonfer suffrage on all white moles, with certain exceptions. WEWS FROM CANADA. (From the Evening Telegram.) Orrawa, 0. W., August 18, 1667. correspondence