The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ‘AMES GORDON BENNETT PROPRIETOR. \MES CORDON BENNETT, JR., MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STRBET. Al! business or gews letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Henao. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communicativas will vot be returaed. Volume XXXII BROADWAY THEATRE, Uroadway, coruer of Broome wiroet.—Casra. WORRKI.L SISTERS' NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo- ete Now York Hotel —Urosx tue Gastigur, FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- Hue. —Evmassra, Quan or Enguan. OLYMPIC THEA12E, Broadway.—Doussy 4x Son. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery,—Mazerra—Staseee AND Ceasaxa. BANVARD'S NEW YORK MUSEUM, end ‘Thiriiote strect—Nopoor's Davenrer, on aLLaD Sivans OF Warring. a Fifty-eighth aad JARDEN, Third Aven ciyrutats suse, tusonoee tmouast wily. streets, Porucan Garvex Cowounts, commencivg at 3 O'clock. SAN FBANCISCO MINSTRELS, the Meiropoliian Hotel—In zamin’ Eq mers, Sivgixna, Danou@ amp Boru Meuwonr. , Opposite INTRRTALN - jURS.—CASTE From KBLLY & LEON'S MINSTREL! aio the Now York Hotel.—In Keoantacrres, = Buaiasques, Twos ED. 720 Broadway, oppo- IR Sons. DANces, &0.—Poses p’Arsique— BEN COTTON AND SAM SHARPLEY'S MINSTRELS, Fifth Avenue Opera House, Nos. 2 and 4 West ‘Twenty: fourth stroot.—In Turia Nagno Eccenrriciite, BaLcars an BoRUesques—Tux Covrisu Anistocaacy. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio Vocatiam, Naoko Mingrazusy, BuRLesquas, BaLcer Diver- wisskuest, &0.—Tae Peace Suagrsuoorers. GRIFFIN & CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, corner of Broad- way and Twenty third street.—ErmoriaN Sowas, Bantaps, Danowe, Buuresques, &0.—Nosopr's Sox BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadwi Barcet, Farce, Paxtomma: Bourixsques, Erni ee AND Sayrimeytal Vocacisus, &c.—Tus Bius REAM. BROADWAY OPERA HOUSE, 60) Broadway.—Taa GIN AL GuOnGgia MiNsTRALS, THE Great Stave TRours. BIGHTA AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, corner Thirty-tourth and Kighth aveuue.—Haagt & Kexxs’ Combination Troupe,—singine, Dancixa, Buucesque aNo Pantowins. A Nigaua uw 4 Bansxr Suor. 00: ‘Mrerni Dvuroun an. OPERA HOUS. Brooklyn.—Ermoriay ALLADS AND Buwiesques.—Tus NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, Science xp Agr, Cantwst or Natunat History ayo Pocrrecanic In- Ss. Rroadway.—Lecruass Dany. 0) ft . |. Ut 10 o'clock Ti ‘id scam: New York, Thursday. August 22, 1867, ——————————— EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- ay ovening, August 21. * ‘The session of tho British Parliament was prorogueé by royal commission. Queon Victoria has no apprehea- ston of a European war, rejoices that Fentanism proved “futile” ta Irelané, ts satisfied with the mew postal treaty with the United States, and congratulates ber People on the passage of the Reform Bill and the con- federation of the Domiuion of Canada, Peacoful assurances are repeated from Salzburg, and the Imperial Congress is expected in the town, and it is thought that the Queen of England and Emperor of Aus- ‘tia will meet Napoleon in Paris subsequently. The Sut- tan is to appoint a mixed council of Grecks and Turks, Garibaldi bas suspended his movement against Rome, and the Catalonian revolution has been suppressed by Spain. The Italien Parliament is prorogued. One hundred and thirty thousand pounds sterling bave ‘been assossed in Liverpool as damages in the case of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company against Messrs. Guion & Williams for damages done to the property of the Platatiffs at Aspinwall the explosion of nitro-glycer- fae shipped by the to that point in April, 3066. The question of liability for payment is to be de corded by another court. ‘Trade in the crop of tea ia very active in China. Pros Gia Georees a free trade in salt. ‘The Ebor Oake stakes at the York, England, races ‘wore won by Iaes. Consols closed at 9417-16, for money, in London. Five.cweaties were at 735; in Londoa and 77} in Fraok- fort. ‘Tho Liverpool cotton market wae quiet and steady, with middling uplands at 10%4. Breadstoffe and pro- ‘visoas were withowt important changes. THE CITY. Commissioner Rollias, Chief of the Iniernal Revenae Department, was present at the secret meeting of the Metropolitan Board on Monday, and great excitement Prevailed among the inspectors in consequence, as it ‘waa genorally supposed that his presence was for the purpose of ordering a wholesale decapitation among them. Notning of the sort is known, however, to have been the result as yet. ‘The leading gamblers of the city held a private meet- fog yesterday for the purpose of taking measures to Protect themseives against the eneroachménts of the Anti-Gambling Society. It was (nally agreed, after some preliminary discussion, to tax each establishment $100 to raise a fund for the employment of lawyers and other purposes. Thomas McCauley, who was arrested recently in Kings county on a charge of being concerned in a series of bur- Gtaries at Coney Island, Bath and elsewhere, appears to bave been a mode! burglar (if a burglar at all), of most exquisite tastes, He is a married man, and bis resi- @once bas been fitted up with elegant furniture, paint- ings of great merit, a library of the works of the best aathors, and his cellars contained the choicest wines and liquors, all reputed to be the result of daring mid- night explorations, He is reported to be decidedly social and gentlemanly in bis personal bearing. ‘The steamebip James T. Brady was run into off Barne- @at on Tussday night by some unknown ¢teamer and soriously damaged. The stock market was weak and unsettled yesterday. Governments were also weak. Goid closed at 1414. The North German Licyd's steamship Weeer, Captain @. Wenko, will eave her pier at Hoboken to-day (Thure- day), at noon, for Bremen viaSouthampton. The mails for the United Kingdom aad the Continent wil! close at the Post Office at half-past ten this morning. The elegant sidewheel steamship South America, ‘Captain Tinklepaugh, will sail to-day (Thereday) at three P.M, from pier No. 43 North river, for Rio Janeiro, touching at St. Thomas, Para, Pernambuco aad Babia. ‘The mails will close ai,the Post Office at two o'clock. ‘Tilia steamer takes out a large sumber of passengers and fail freight, ue. ‘The lost Gulf_cable was recovered on Sunday and the wires between Havana and Key West are now in perfect working order. Communications are passing Detwoon the two points, but the mevements of the tel- vegraphic party between Punta Rosa and Key West are © @iknown. om Te the Constitutional Convention yesterday the Com. |, Malttee on the Militip and the Public Defence made a te- port providing, among other things, for s division of the militia into active and reserve forces, The vote refer- Wing the report of the Banking and Corporations Com- ¢miites to the Committes on Revision was reconsidered cand the article was adopted, The article on the powers and dutics of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of afi the members elected to both houses to pass a bill over the Governor's veto and the Governor shall mot sigh any bill after the adjournment of the Legisia- ture, was adopted. Senators Wade and Sherman made their first political Speeches of the campaign in Ohio yesterday, Wade claimed negro suffrage as the result of republican prin. ciples, aod Shorman declared that the national bank aystom vas a blessing to the country, and the failure to collect the whiskey tax was ® blot om the prevailing — method of taxation ‘Tite cormte-stone of « railroad bridge aero the Mis. agar riyor at Gansas City, | Missouri, wae laid Wisp im ee ‘ <n _ NEW YDRK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUG poring Ceremonies at that point yesterday. The Dridge is tobe one thousand four hundred foot omg and wil ‘be comploted ia one year. Gevera! Thomas left Lou:sville for New Orleans yeater- day to relieve General Sheridan. Tho City Council of New Orleans have recommended the removal of thg City Comptrotier, Surveyor, Atioraey ‘and Coroner at the hands of the military, In the Natioual Labor Congress at Chicago yesterday @ motion was made to form a political party on the basis of the rights of workingmen, and great excitemont pre- vailed in consequence among the members, The eag- gestion met with some objection, but has not yet been fully diaoussed, The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad h aa become a bone of contention between rival claimants for the directory, and 1s throatemed with « long course of Litiga- tion, A totter of Judge Frederick Hai!, of Califoraia, will be found eleewhero in our columns this morning, detail- ing his experience as one of the Emperor Maximilian’s ‘eounsel during the court martial trial at Quordtaro. Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Savin has been to 309 Bridgot Dergao, and expresses her opinion that sho waa bora without moral responsibility, being on the lowest tovel im the ecale of humaa intelligence. The wonder is, sho @aye, that any housekeeper would be willing to ongage euch eeorvant. A fire occurred in Plattaburg, N. ¥., on Tuosday aight, which destroyed Ofty-four bu Jdings, involving a tose of: $750,000. General Pope haa directed that jurors in future shall be ohesen only from among these porsans whaheve registered. The Crisis and tho Remedy. Over thirty millions of people to bo ruled by Puritanism and the negro! This is tho result of four years of terrible war; the sacrifice of two hundred thousand lives; the sinking of national morality ; the wrecking of commerce ; the ruin of our agricultural interests; the im- posing upon our country a debt of three thou- sand millions of dollars, Tho mad revolution- ary element that blindly urges the nation to ruin still continues ita race. To halt is death to them; and yet they must be halted. True to their ideas, and true to revolutionary rules, they begin now to approach the second phase in the overthrow of all governmont. Hereto- foro they have followed a single idea to its wildest extreme ; they now reduce themselves to upholding men instead of principles. They now strike the name of Sheridan aa the loud- est note upon their political harp, and would make the country believe that the transfor of that officer to other duties is an assault upon them. In the transfer of Sheridan we see nothing outside of the simple military right which exists in the hands of the President to carry out the duty devolving upon him as Commander-in-Chiof of our army and Executive of the nation. If he thinks that a change of officers is desirable in any command, he is act- ing properly in making that change. General Grant, as a soldier, shows his good sense, in obeying the order to assign Sheridan to otber duty. It alters ao law that Congress has mado and effects no principle. of reconatruction, as {s proven by Grant’s order to Thomas, which is virtually a simple change of executives to carry out the eamegeneral plan. The relative merits of Thomas aad Sheridan to fill the po- sition are scarcely worth arguing. Sheridan is a bold, dashing eoldier, with a statesmanlike mind that leaps to a conclusion and an exor- cise of rigid justice. What is overturned ia the leap sometimes wounds when the sensi- bilities arekeen. Thomas, comprehensive and great in solid military genius, moves slower, but with not less of certainty and justice ; but in his exercise of power he will wound less than the brilliant cavalry officer who has—first on the field, and next in tho most difficult of the five military reconstruction districts—chal- lenged our admiration. The country loses nothing in the change ; the law is not altered ; reconstruction goes on as before and in the same channel. The removal of Sheridan will perhaps ele- vate him. .I¢ almost places a Presidential nomination in his grasp. The great radical element of the country, looking for an exponent of its will, may turn to Sheridan. General Grant, who feels somewhat disposed to remain in position which makes him the focus of power, will throw his influence in the ecale of bis favorite. The reconstruction problem, however, in its present phase, is bringing daily new elements to the surface; and until we know if Mr. Johnson will play his great trump card or not there can be but little certainty about the next Presidency. That trump ca-d it is now time that Mr. Johnson should play. The moment has come; the revolutionary wave which freed the negro is now dashing him against the common sense of the country, to the rain of its present interests and its future greatness. We are now threatened with a Regro representative from each Congressional district in the South, and the code which is to govern the United States may receive laws based upon ignorance instead of educa- tion. The wave must be siopped; it has broken from the control of those who first gave itimpulse. The national revulsion of feeling demands that it be halted, and de- mands, too, that Mr. Johnson balt it. Lot him strike the blow ; let him now give the country universal amnesty. The negro will then take his proper place, and in the light of a freedom which {s his right he may emerge from mental darkness. With universal amnosty the recon- struction problem will be finished at a stroke ; intelligence will replace ignorance, and Puri- tanism and the negro may take position second to the common sense of the country. A New Fi of Gover re After the election of John Quincy Adams, in 1824, through the influence of Henry Clay in the House of Representatives, John Randolph, of Virginia, denounced the combination by which it was effected as a “coalition of the Puritan and the blackleg.” From that mo- ment a revulsion took place in the feelings and policy of the country, and at the next election Jackson was chosen over Adams by a latge majority. A combination is now being formed similar in character, but more disgraceful and humiliating in some of its features, for the purpose of forcing a new form of government upon the country. The laws of Congress are giving us @ union of the two elements of Puritanism and negroism. Whatis to be the fate of this modern coalition of the Puritan and the nigger? Greeley qn Grant. Greeley is very severe on General Grant for taking the post of Minister of War and ro- moving Sheridan from his military district. Grant never went bail for Jeff Davis, however, nor did he ever make a pilgrimage to Niagara Falls and attempt to negotiate with Jake Thompson and the rest of the rebols thore by offering them four handred millions for their niggers. Greeley should clear his own skirts from mud before he attempts to bespatter others. Tho Treasury Department in Danger. It is necessary that President Johnson should turn his attention at once to the condition of the Treasury Department. The recent lotter of McCulloch does not meet the case. The enormous frauds that have been committed upon the revenue—in whiskey, tobacco, petroleum and other things—amount, as far es they have been discovered, to little less than @ hundred million of dollars, What the undiscovered frauds amount to we cannot gay; but, judging from the grosa mismanagement of the Treasury in all its braaches, the losses of the goveramont are much greater, probably, than those that have been brought to light. Thon there are the startling revelations of deflclencies ant irregularities, involving stupendous sums, which we have ref.reod to before, and which the extracts of secret and suppressed investi- gations in our hands seem to confirm. The aggtegate amount ia aald to be hundreds of millions ; so enormous, indeed, that we have been afraid to publish the evidence, This was brought ‘out by @ committee of the House, not yet published. ‘The specific amounts: named, about whieh there appoars little doubt, is im ene case over fifty millions, ta’ anothor twenty millions, and 40 on ot other sums. Some of these deficiencies and irregularities date back to the timo when Mr. Chage loft the Treasury Department. But although the extracts we hold, taken from tho investigations secrotly made inthe committee, show a fearful state of things, the evidence has boen Bo oaretully withheld from the pablio, or suppressed, that (here ia reason to believe tho whole truta haa not yet been obtained. Wo want more light upon tho subject. Tho bond- holdors and the people generally witt feel uncasy until the Treasury Department be thoroughly overhauled. Ii devolves upon the President to see that this be done without delay, He must uot be satisfied with what this or that official may tell him; but ho must 4coow and must let the public know the true condition of ths Treasury as investigated by a committee of the House. Mr. Chase, when Secretary, organized the Department in all its dotails; but he was not much of an organizer, as we have seen from the looseness of the whole system, from tho opportuntties afforded for frauds, and from the accumulation of a stupendous debt for which there was no necessity. Had the Treasury heen properly managed by him, and the amount of revenue raised at that time which we now raise, instead of borrowing and issulag bonds at a ruinous rate, the debt would not have been more than half or a third as large. He was utterly incompetent for the position be held. He had but one idea, and that was to create a bondholding clasa,a monoyod oligarchy, and the. powerful’ national bank system, for the purpose of reachiag the Presidency through their influence, He left tho Treasury in such a condition. that President Lincoln had great difficulty in fladiag « maa to take his place, Finally Mr. Fessenden accepted the- position ; but he was ao disgusted that he soon resignad. Then a creature and finanoial disciple of Mr. Chase, a small country banker from Indiana and the Comptroller of the Curreacy, was made Secretary. Through the Chase influence, and because no statesman could be found willing to take charge of the Department in its condition at that time, Mr. McCulloch was, unfortunately, elovated to the position. Sinco he became Secretary our flaanclal affairs have been going feom @ bad to a worse condition. He has been floundering about in ignorance of where he was or what to do. At ono time he raised the ory of on to specie payments, in chorus with the same radical organs which nearly ruined the country with their “on to Richmond” cries, and at another time he stops the con- traction of the currency because he sees the revenue going and ruin staring him in the face, Had it not been for the wonderful resources of this great country the Treasury would bave been before now, under bis misman- agement Should he remain Secretary two or three years longer there will be reason to foar a bankrupt Troasury, notwithstanding all our natural resources and the surprising industry of the people. No people or government can stand long such incapacity as he exhibits and the stupendous frauds and losses that are the consequences. To save the Treasury from bankruptcy, the republic from great financial disasters and himself from blame, the Presi- dent should suspend Mr. McCulloch at once, and appoint some experienced financier and able statesman as Secretary of the Treasury. This only can save the Department from im- pending danger. The Prince of Cocagno Coming to Yankee- land. The newspapers announce the arrival of an agent of Charles Dickens to prepare the way for a second visit of the Prince of Cocagne to this country. Dickens made his first visit to America about twenty years ago as a young literary adventurer from Cockneydom. He had already been quite successful in lifting into literature the kind of police reports with which le began bis careor. And he has really devel- oped great genius in this peculiar line. His reports, for instance, of the case of Bardell va, Pickwick, in the “ Pickwick Papers,” of that of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in “ Bleak House,” and of more or less similar cases in many of his other works, as well as his descriptions of the varieties of life in the lowest grades of so- clety, attest his prodigious cleverness as a re- porter, although some of the numerous vol- umes which he bas written are by no means free from prolixity and tediousness. During his first visit to the United States he was so much disgusted at the toadyiem which féted him everywhere with balls and dinnersand Ovations of all sorts, that on his return to~ London he took his revenge by publishing « lam- poon on American society. This work, faith- fally reporting in true reporter's style many of the least favorable features of life in Yankee- land, provoked a great deal of angry com- ment at the time of its publication, and has not yet been wholly forgotten. Eghausted at length ass police reporter and delineator of low life, Mr. Dickens is finishing his career as a reader and reciter in public of his owf reports. And it is said that he reads admirably. Indeed, as an actor in private theatricals he has acquired such distinction that his friends have often been tempted to think that he mistook his vocation, and should have gone upon the stage. He proposes now to come over and “make his pile,” like old Kean, Fanny Kemble, Ristori, and so many other foreign actors and actresses. There is little doubt that he will be satisfied } with the pecaniary rosult of bis tour through. .of Wales should exhibit egal onthusisam on ‘the country for a quarter of a century to a T 22, 1867, out the United States. If bis cards are well managed he may expect to net at least two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ho will find that although vast changes, end, without flatiering ourselves, wé may say improvements, have taken place aince he published his severo strictures upon America, still the race of toad- ics is not extinct among us. In fact that race has multiplied to an enormous extent ; and it will not be surprising if all those who came out in the gayeat colors to welcome the Prince f The Probabie Komoval of Goneral Sickles. ‘The aigns peinting to the probable removal of Sickles are tmoreasing. It is understood that hit recent acts will be rescinded by the President, and that should be (Sickles) persist in his course he will be unduubledly re- lieved at amearly day. The Presidential Campaigu—Couservative Movements. A fow days ago a curiously mixed story was published ia the Constitutional Union of this city about meeting of prominent conservative politicians, to make arrange- ments for the next Presidential! campaign Among other things contained in the story was @ statomeut ‘that the aforesaid politicians, after grave deliveration, bad agreed upon Andrew Johnson and Genoral Sherman as the most available candidates for President and Vice President, and had separated with the un- dorstanding (that every offert should be made to seoure the nomination of these two distiaguisied per- Sonages by the conservative leaders of tha counuwy, The story was curiously put together, contained a few absurdities, and was goneraily, laughed at aa a neat littie wonsation concocted by the portly Tom Fiorénee, or re garded as a bad seli on the enterprising editor, who haa, recently become somewhat famous for alarming and extraordinary. discoveries, Aftor come litte imquicy,. however, I. atm:.sexiafied there was sometuing-in' the affair, It appears that.a mootiag of somo. promi. the arrival of the Prince of Cocagne. Say the word, and they will escort him up Broadway with such @ procession as can-be witnessed in no other city in the world. The toadyism of certain people in this country is inexhaustible, and there will still be enough left to give similar dvations to the two other literary princes, Bulwer and Disraeli, should they also visit our shores. : 3 Grand Mevement of the War Demecracy of New York, . r Tho war domocracy of New York —that is say, those domoorata who refused to co-operate with their old party ia obetruoting the war and rebellion—are beginning to take aa active in- terest in the grave political movements now going on at Washington and elsewhore, and have determined upon a thorough organiza- tion, in order to be prepared for united action in tQe crisis that is ‘evidently approaching. We undorstand that there will shortly be a gencral movement of their numbers in this city, where they have already shown that tlfay possess a posilive strength atthe polls, and where the nucleus for general organization should of right be located. The object of this important movement will bo twofold :—First, to secure to the country in the national and Stato ‘elections the fruits of the victory secured over those who attempted the destruction of the Union ; and, next, to ac- complish such a change in our local govern- meat as can be made in our noxt charter elec- tion, with a view toa subsequent thorongh municipal reform. In relation to our municipal affairs, there is a very general sentiment in favor of placing a new order of men in power, At the close of last yoar it was supposed, by the olection of Connolly for Compirollor, the-unexpected con- firmation of George MoLean for Streot Com- missioner, and the abandonment of the field by Brennan, that a gratifying progress had been made in city reform, and that the Corporation “cing” had been brokea up and destroyed. But it is now seen looming up again in more threatening proportions than ever, and, backed by two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year ia the Chamberiaia’s office, is boldly avowing its determination to force ita moat: offensive leadors back into power. So far as tho State election of noxt fall ia concerned, there will be no question of can- didates-raised on either side. It is immaterial what individuals may be in the Held for thig or that office. Tho great dasa to be decided will ba one of principle alone—whether we are to have 4 restored Union under a broad policy of general amnosty and universal suffrage, re- constructing the Southern States by giving all mon, black and white, the right to vote, or whether, after squandesing three or four thou- sand millions of dollars to get rid of the rule of the megro owners and negro drivers of the South, we are to give up the government of sorvalive wing of the republican party as well asthe maseos of the demooracy, did take piace hore a short timo ago, but met at Crystal Spring,.es stated by the Union. One of the primo movers in the’ aMaic waa ox-Atiorney Genera! Black. The best course to be pursued iu tho present condition of partios was discussed at length, and it was actually agreed to support Johnson aud Sberman aa two of the strongest and most available mon im the couatry, A plan of action was decided dpon for working up this Programme, and for setting tho nocessary machinery in motion to unite the conservative masses a3 ono party.on this ticket. Iv was decided that tho operationa should ‘be conducted quietly and without avy public show, and that oach momber of the meoting should devote himself in hia speciai district to the furthorance of the pro- gramme agreed upon. Black bas liad frequeat and pro- tracted interviows with ths President lately, and it is known that there has been quite a gathering here re- cently of so-called conservatives from every part of the country. Lt ia perhaps only on» of the many comtiaations that are being formed to outgousral the [rivads of Grant. Radical Mevements. {a connection with (ha above, U may state tliat there area fow additional facts about political movements which have come to me through some of the prominent radicals, and which may 00 worthy your notice. First.—Gencral Thomas is being accrotiy but strongly pushed for the radicai nomination to the Presidency, and he is at present Mr. Greoloy'’s candidate, although he glands no chance of success ia the convontion. Ho will be opposed om ths ground that ho comes from a slave Slate. Mr. Grecloy chooses him for that very reason—on the same priaciple that he bailed Joi Davis. Seoond.—Ia a recent conversation Gonoral Grant de- olared that ho would not be a Presidential candidate, and- added, “If you want a candidate, why don’t you take Sheridan? He is not only a goueral, but he is also a statesman.”’ These were Grant's words, addressed to a radical politician. Third. —Ia connection with this a strong radical clique is backing Sheridan forthe nomination. The teedors say that nothing cén prevent bis nomina'ion, which Grant will openly endorse, They claim that (hs radical party will split wpon Grant, the Wendel! Phillips achoot going against him, and that Bhor:dan ia the candidate, Retreachmont lu the War Department. Genoral Grant to-day, as Acting Seoretary of War, is- aued an order musiering Out of servige tho afditiesal programme seems to be to dispense with at officers who are not ia the regular army. a It isstated this evening that Brigadier General &. A. Hitchcock, Commissary General of Prisoners, has been relieved from dutyin that bureau of the War Depart- mont, The reason given for the removal is that che business for which this bureau was Organised is now 60 nearly comploted that a very few clerks may, in a short tims, ontirely ofose it up, This bureau is one of the largest in the War Dopartment, easpioymg sixty-nine olerks and fivo measengors. ‘Tho Presidont and the Baltimere Schuctzen- foot. . ‘The President to-night is not certaia whether he will or will not attend the Baltimore Sohuotzenfest to-morrow. , The pressure of oficial Guties will probably prevent him from going. Health of Secretary Brownilag. Secretary Browning ts improving in health. His friends expect that he will be able to resume the duties coalition of Puritans and niggers. It is to settle both these issues, national and focal, that the war ddémocracy of Now York are about to move and to perfect their organi- gation ; and as they materially contributed to put down the slaveowners’ rebellion, there is Bo doubt they will do good service in securing & thorough Ohange in our municipal affairs and ia rescuing the government of the nation from the control of New England Puritans and Southern negroes, ‘The Motrepelitaa Revenue Beard and the Visit of Commissioner Rollias. The visit of Commissioner Rollins to New York, and his meeting in session with the Metropolitan Revenue Board for two days past, have attracted public attention. Before the creation of this Board there was no system observed in the collection of the tax on whiskey and tobacco. Tho new organization, however, has. already demonstrated its useful- ness by facts and figures. We seo that the total tax collected on distilled spirits with- drawn from bond in Juno was only $51,336, while the amount received in July (on the firat day of which the Board inaugurated its opera- tions) was $134,810—being a balance of $83,474 in favor of the new system—far more than was the total amount collected during the preceding month under the old order of things. Judging from pres°nt indications, the amount of tax on whiskey that will be paid when this month of August shall have closed will not fall far short of $175,000—more than three times as much as was the average monthly receipts before the Board was in being. This, too, with ® number of legitimate distilleries closed and others running at halt their capacity. A meeting was held a fow weeks since by the assessors and collectors of the various districts, at which it was resolved that an sddress should be prepared for presentation to the next Congress, asking for amendments to the present internal revenuo law and for the abolition of the system under which it is-being executed. This movement may be intended for the best; but, coming as it does from those only who by the creation of the Metropolitan Board have been shorn of their enormous per- quisites, it appears to be, to say the least, suspicious. GREAT FIRE AT PLATTSBURG, W. Y. Over Fifty Bulldings Destroved—Less Eetima ated at $750,000. . PLatrasvna, August 21, 1867. Laat night Platteburg was visited with a terrible con’ Volunteors, bas been mustered out of service. Post Chaplains Joseph Hurlbart and E.G. Gree have been retired from active service. Second Lieutenaat Joha T. Dewease, Eighth infantry, has resigned. Colonel A. 8. Myer, chief signal officer of the United States Army, bas been ordered to Washington to take charge of the |. Signal Corps. FROM THE EVENING TELEGRAM OF YESTERDAY. The Rumors Regarding General Howard. ‘Wastunoron, D. C., August 21, 1967. It bas beon widely circulated within the past few days that the removal of Major General 0. 0. Howard, as Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, is contem plated. Thore seems aa yet to be no authontic ground for the report, as it appears that General Howard has administered the affairs of the Bureau in a satisfactory manner, and no saving in the matter of expense would be effected by his remova! and the sppoin:meat of an officer of lower rank, as his salary of brigadier general ‘Will still have to be paid, whatever the duty may be towhich ho is assigned. The only change probabie is (hat General Howard may be mustered out of service as ‘major general of volunteers, which would leave him his rank of brigadier general in the regular army and stil! in charge of the Freedmen's Buroau, THE PARK. The charming weather yestorday, aud the no less powerful attraction of music on the lake crowded the Mall, Terrace and adjoining grounds in the Park. There could have been no less than Afton thousand people congregated in the vicinity of the Iake at half-past four o'clock P, M., when Me, Dodworth’s fifteen musicians, huddled together in their little barge, left the landing. The scone was picturesque in the extreme. The goufa- Jon, emblazoned with the arms of the State, nodded lazily in the light breeze; the iake was alive with boats _ amid the sieepy-looking swans, aed rom mysterious nooks and creeks; heavily freighted with homanity, in every variety of toilet; the fountain glistened and flang its crystal drops apee the KO Cae — end J were dovied with ps of picnicers, bo exhum from plethoric Saakets everything were fajl- jome"’ an- ‘“Capilia”” ss The shades of evenin; ing wher last notes of ‘Home, sweet conelt the concert, 4 programme of rare excelieace is promised for Saturday. METROPOLITAN FIRE DEPARTMENT. Tne Board of Fire Commissioners convened yosterday fiagration. One church, one bank, two printing offices, | in regular session at the hall in Mercer streot, with the \wenty-ve, residences and, tweniy-tve Sore Were | President, Goneral Shaler, in the obair. After » large The logs i eetimated at $750,000, WOVEMENTS OF GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS. Lovisvitia, August 21, 1867. Major General George H. Thomas having received amount of routine matter had been disposed of a request was made by the Committee on Apparatus asking for | Sebad to employ a sufficient number of men to ope official notification of his serigumont oo the comenand of the Fitth Mi for New Orleans on the ihr o'clock this afternoon, accompanied by his TWE SANDWICH ISLANDS. alsing of Sen Isinnd Cotton in Profitable=The Volcan: ‘ae reguiati San Francisco, August 21, 1867. ‘nthe ovent of The bark Comet hee arrived from the Sandwich Islands and brings dates to Juiy 23, Eleven thousands pounds of chotee Sea Istand cotton has been received from Honolulu. The cultivation of the samme has been very profitable. and is extending, , The voicgag ta auite active egaln WASHINGTON. THE AOA nd ‘neat and inGuontial politicians, copressating the. coe: |” ronveriaia are ings ~“\ ~~ Telegraphic Comavanication Estab- lished by Key West aud Havaga. FROM THE EVENING TELEGRAM OF YESTERDAY. Kar Wasr, Fia., Amgust 16; 2007, Altor many disneartoning difoultios gad perntstont but for @ time uarewarded tabors, the lilgt Cuba cable has been recovered. ‘ The cable atoamer, atter having been engaged for sovoral days in dragging with grapaeis in the vistalky of ‘the place where the cable parted, which was mnarke@ out by buoys placed immogiately after parting, was lealty rewarded 0-day by fantebing to 1. Tt waa dragged to the murface amard the oheers of those being favorable, @ perfect splice was made and the stout line was again commitied to the deep. On boing tented it was Cound pervect throughout ite Commuatcations are Row paneing (arough it betwoea, * THE PRESS TELEGRAM. 3 Punta Rosa, Morida, August 2; 186v. Tho ‘sudaisrine telegraph cabl> between ‘Key wvoe and Havana was succossfully spliced of Sunday ‘test, 18th inat,, and is working well, . ‘Tho movements of the tolographio party betwoon this place and Key West are at prosont unknown. THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN 1% 04:0, SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALO. Specches of Ben Wade and Senator Shor. man—Wado Avoiding his Fourrorite Decktrus Gons—Sherman Favoring the National Bank Systou. Omotwmary August 26, FL 19 o' Clock P Hon. Bon. Wado made bia first speech of the cam- paiga af Mariotta, yostorday. [i was one of bisjold- fashioned orations, aud he did aot Introduce ang of his Kansas eccontricities, He sald that for thirty years he had advocated the rights of all mony withont regard (0 race, color and poaettiahs and that was still the burden of his argument. je declared Valigadigham’s doctrines are ia all ‘a ideatical with those of the democratic party im frago, ho. argued, is the legitimate result of principles, and the terms for reconstruction’ south aro both just and genorous. Senator John Shorman algo made bis frat spect of the campaign at Canton, He advocated the negro suffrage amendment AI portion of his argument was-de- voted to a defence of our aationel floancial system. . Our national oy he Leer pp ne woes end be Kpiained supported: prosent aye! amation. Peal the failure to colicct (ha whiskey tax is theene great blot on our meihod of taxation. THE WATIOWAL LASOR COVURESS, © SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. ‘The Rights of Capital and Laber—A Motion to Form w Political Party on the Basis of Workingmen'’n Rights—Excitowcat in the Conveation on the Subject. Cont, Sree Lg ‘The Nationat Labor Cougross 1s still In session in this city, but has eccomplished little or de actual business, A draft of a constrtution hes boom presonted, mainly 7 Mr. Soblager, ‘acbelier Vi i of this city. THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT. The Union Store Company. About two woeks since &@ society was organized: under the mame of the Co-operative Union Store Compeay, the object of which was to furniab, at the first or whole walo cost, groceries and provisions, with the addition of vision of the document Dished at a rate original cost, - the enterprive ars to dened basi ne pe ne ng pS prone dnd which, it 18 estimated, will amount to twenty or thirty percent. A board of audit ts to be appoigied every ge Bl pg men yt society cortaia measures 4 treasurer, Mr. Porter, wee called. that every member, on admission, initiation the “rat Wednesday in September wa ropention o q = — wv nopelot ® committee to. oat ¢ at submitted a and, on motion, the committees appointed vious meeting were authorized to cootinue The meeting then adjourned. Colored People’s Co-operative Association. The People’s Cheap Labor aud Trade Prole live Agso ciation is the name of an organization just olfected among the colored peopie of this city, sittough it is de~ ‘eersal in it8 memborship. signed to be uate walexender Wyukorp, Vice Prew- dent; Pp L e hattbews, Seureiary, WG. nn, is special agent. oe ef the Corner Stone of the Caumprot, LAS ieldae at Kanes Cian Ma. AS Coty, VG, August 21, 186T, The corner stoue of the Cawerin Railroad deidf zo across the Missouri river ot thas jolnt was tald thiwar- bernoon With Masonic coremoryies, unter the immed! ate direotion of Joby [ Vinc!l, Grand Master, amia great onthusiagm. Over fre tho card poeple, inciudit gates from Leavenworth. “Avandote, lade other towns ju the vicuny, were assembled of the banks of We riger w wiwess the . Assurance ts given by “Mr Chainvete, Ohier 4 that the structure will be ied in one year. The be fourteem-hundied poy nbd be mada uf jor of the river threey feet jong, With a demw in [he handred aga Pixtyawo feo: will be six store lors Wits spans two buudred and Ofty fest, and » 4111 ave & carriage Way as well as « raliroad track. “hig dridya, with the one now building across the Miss! Aippt oa oy, will give th connection, Witho t the breaking of bulk, with New York and Boston, making ‘Kanaag city a distributing point of considerable bommer- cial importance. One hundred track layers “Ammenced work on the Cameron road on M , ant, the trom le ‘being iaid at the rate of one mile daily. Arrangemente relative to the work om the Kansas cl!) and Fort Stott road have beon brought toa feel ,tilement, ensuring on carly completion of thay sot, | tions,