The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1867, Page 4

4 NE W YORK HERALD. JAMES ¢ GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR.’ MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Al! business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor Herat, Letters and packages should be properly sealod, Rejected communications will not be returned, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in (he year. Four cents sural (3 Annual subscription price sid. Volume AMUSEMENTS THTS EVENING BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, corner of Broome etreet.—King Lear, WORRELL SISTERS NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo tite New York Hote! —Usoxe rae Gasticet. ‘Br OLYMPIC THEATRE, wdway.—Rip Vay Winkun, FRENCH THEATRE, Four mue.—Fraxceses pa ROoxL hb street and Sixth ave. ' BOWE! Y THF ATRE, Bowery, near Canal street—Swa ov Ice—Buorurn Bint axp Ma, FIFTH A 2 THEATR 2 and 4 Wost Twonty fourth street, —Fra Dravouo— you FoR Goon Natore GPRMAN ST\NT THEATRE, tom's 1 wo-—Zeun ZeGemavenri 45 and 47 Bowery. Marpcnen Unp Kein Mann Rs ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Brooklyn.—Uncre Tom's Canin. 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CENTRAL 1 corner of Fifty- ninth st our Rorg Penrora- RACE, HOOLEY'S Brookivn.—Ermorraw ov Port New York, Friday, beh drat 20, 1867. aa e— = ae S| visdralleed cn EUROPE. t by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- es day evening, S vor 19, Colonel Kelly, 1 R.A, with Deary, a prominent Fenian, tately arrested, were rescued from tne police in Manchester, En jand, during an alarming and fatal riot. Ove policeman «ag kiiled and several persons seriously wounded, At tho latest momen! tho men were still at large. The Prossan Budget exhibit shows that the expenditure of the Berlin governmen! will exceed the annual Income by twenty-two millions of thalers, The Pan Angtican ‘ynod of the Episcopal Church held a second meeting iu London, The flow of bullion to the Bank of ! continues, and the specie iv hand is in Greater excoss over the paper tn circwiation than over before. Consols closed at 94%. for money, in London. Five- twonties were a® 73 in London and 7514 in Frank(ort. ‘The Liverp of co'ton market closed active, but at a Gerling of 4 of a ponny, middiiug uploads rating at 9% pence, Broadstuffs firmer. Provisions without ma- terial change. MISCELLANEOUS Our special despa‘ch from the North Piatto states that Spotted and severat other Indian chiefs held a con- @uttation with the To Commission yesterday, They ‘@omanded as (their ultimatum the withdrawal of the troop t "owder riv jonmeat of the Smoky Hill row 0 of the Pacide Raiir d numer. ous pre aratuuaition, & will give their reply today. Oiher ad Spotted Tail bad returned bis captiy wagons loaded with a1 bean captured by savages near F Advices from Havans and the West ladies by the Cupar 3 are of ) E days’ grace hi grauted to tox payers ia Cuba, an Eng! teatwer was rep Vatres: off the Great inane Sir Frederick 9, the E sior at Washing- ton, died of apoplexy at Boston yesterday morning Py Wirection ef the government the proper honors were paid to the decease’, and the flag over the Siate Department at Wash va alf ine Genera! Sheridan was wartuly weloom Onlo, yortorday, where he arrived at eleven the morning aud took the next train for New In the Constivutior al Convention yesterday the tesa Viton culling npon the Metropolitan Fire Commissioners for information was adopted, A resolyiion was offered providing for a report from a special committee ou the amount of work be done, and it was laid over. ‘The report on Snances and ¢ wae again considered ja Commitioe of the Wt a fourteen was adopied. n @ capitol at New vo forts ction vpon the ationrned ave died of yellow wes were Honge emp Docomiag convalescent, # me of them are able to attend to burners, asp ty is reported a5 MOst desolate. Ther er fiv eaths ia New Orieans on day Gore by was arcenie Werday and required to give A ait on Ceonpticiey in the wed whiekes frouda in Brookly AMifavits were mace yesler: ng that h ' and signed with the name of R. A. Hand th 2on the of which the barrels wei moved from Wile ¢ promineat members of (he Orand Lodge of Old jod by a bowatifel delegation of Indy t to Raadal!’s ‘and Blackwell's islands Registor Colby, of the Treasury Departunent, is 11! be. youd tne hope of recovery: The wort wine of the Wadeworth Houes, ip Buffals, Waa destroyed by fre ye yt 2 doing about ©5000. A wervantg ape fourth story win. dow aod 5 njurod Elder Siocn sud Eider Kimball, of the Utah arty of Saints, we i ip Uaeir atowe of the United States gorer nt for { laws probibiting polyga Kicsbail that he already has seventy chilireo, and in Ofty years probably his family @ill exceed the present aggregate of Maiuts. A steamtug x ploded her er at Detrolt on Wednes- day night, killing #1 persons ead injuring Ove A man pataed Edward Wi) ews was errosted in Ocean county, N. J., on Saturday, on a charge of counterfeit. ing, A search among Nis papore disclosed the fact that he bad served as a rebel! spy d a the war In the Genera! Sessions yesterday Jobn W. Livingston ted with @ Humber ©! alisses) pleaded @ third degree, having obtained 76,000 on the Aith of Jaly at the National City Bank tpon a check purporting to havo been signed by C. Vanderbilt. The prisomer fled to Lilinols, where be purchased a form, He was brought back to this city few aince by a detective, The Recorder postponed wont nce 4 Yesterday Commussioner Jones, ig tho United Statee Dimurict Court, Braoklyn, rendered his decision te the “mawor of tue United States yerows pfichael Bagter, | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1867, Jobn A. Larne, Poter Assa, Thomas McCormick and Henry Rauch, charged before him with the illegal re- moval of a barrel of spirits and some other property that had been seized by the government to a piace other than a bonded warohouse. Baxter, Larne and Assa were held for trial; McCormick and Rauch were dis- charged. The same Commissioner held William H. Ciewley for examination on a similar charge, bail belng taken in the sum of $1,000. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, in ad- miraity, Judge Nelson reversed the decree in the matter of Mott Bedel!, libeliant, against the steamer Potomac, ‘awarding damages to the libeller for injuries sustained by the schooner A. V. Bedell tn a collision with tho steamer on the night of the 7th of July, in Chesapeake Bay, a little below the mouth of the Rappahannock river. Iu the matter of Sarah Adams, administratrix et al. against the steamship Ucean Queen, also an action for damages sustained in a collision, the decree of the Court below in favor of the schooner and cargo against tho steamer was affirmed. Mary Dwyer was brought before Commissioner Stilwell yesterday, charzed with defrauding the government by fa'se personation in representing herself to be the mother of Lieutenant Philip Dwyer, killed in the war, whereby she drew the government pension accruing under such circumstances, The defence set up was that the defend- ant acted through ignorance, she having lost a son of that name in the army, and it being represented to her that Lieutenant Philip Dywer was he. The case is still on. The Inman line steamship City of London, Captain Brooks, will sail from pier No, 45 North river to-morrow (Saturday), at twelve o’clock, for Liverpool, touching at Queenstown. The nails will close at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock. The General Transatlantic Company’s steamship Eu- rope, Captain Lamaire, wiil leave pier 50 North river for Brest and Havre, at ten A. Mf. to-morrow. The mails for France will close at the Post Office at half-past eight o'clock, . The Anchor line steamship Caledonia, Captain Macdon- ald, sails at noon to-morrow (Saturday), from pier 20 North river, for Liverpool and Glasgow, cailing at Lon- donderry to land mails and passengers, Tho railway share market was weak and unsettled yesterday. Gold closed at 14434, The markets were generally quiet yestorday; prices of most commodities, however, were steady and firm. Coffee was quiet but steady. Cotton was dull and heavy. On ’Change flour closed steady at previous prices. Wheat ciosed heavy at an advance of 1c. a2c. Corn was dull and 1c. a 20. lower, while oats were active and 33gc. higher. Pork, beef and lard ruled steady with a moderate demand. Freights were quiet but firm. Naval stores were dull but unchanged. Petroleum was active and again higher. Negro Suffvage in Ohio—The Matin Question with Mr, Cunse, and the Probable Result. The political campaign in Ohio, in view of the coming October election, is becoming very lively and iniensely interesting. From our observing correspondents in that field, and from the discus:ions of the party press on both sides throughout the State, it is abundantly manifest that, while the republicans are con- siderably frightened, the democrats are highly elated with the prospect before them. Chief Justice Chase, we conclude, shares in the apprehensions of his followers; for it ap- pears that he is en rowe to Ohio, and wili remain there till afier the election. And why not, when his inierest in the result is greater than that of any other of our aspiring and scheming politiciaus? He holds now the whip hand of his po for the Presidential succes- sion ; but if his own State, with its republican majority of some torly-three thousand last year, is turned against him, he must be with- drawn, as a horse too badly crippled to be entered for the Presidential sweepstakes. Nata- rally enongh, therefore, Mr. Chase goes to Ohio to do bis best to save himself in laboring to save his party in tis impending October elec- tion. Doubtless he has not only been thought- fully caloulating the bearings of the late Cali- fornia and Maine elections, but has had a call from his friends io como up to the rescu> against the threatening hosts of the Philistines, the Moabites, the Amalekites and the Egyp- tians—a traly alarming coalition of host'le forces. ‘The issue of the great constitutional amend- ment, woon which the republicans last year swept the North as by a whirlwind, has been cast aside by Congress and the party, and the new national issue has been substituted of universal negro suffrage, with all the @engerous consequences which must surely follow the experiment of negro suprema- ey in the rebel States. Various side issaes have also sprung up, including some financial propositions looking to the overthrow of Mr. Chase’s slipshod, unjust, oppressive and cor- rup'ing paper money system, an1 embracing, too, some hostile movements within the repnb- lican lines against those Puritanical liquor laws which interdict the dispensing of lager heer on Sunday. The democrats of Ohio, upon this Sunday loger question alone, expee! Ger- man reinforcements in this figiW to the number of thirty thonsand; and from the vote of this city in our last November election, involving this lager becr intorpolation, we should pot ba surprised at a similar manifestation in Ouio. But the main question upon which the politi- cal fortunes of Mr. Chase are now depending is the question of negro suffrage, which is dis- tiaetly before the people of Ohio in the shapo of an amendment to the State constitution, This may be set down, together with his paper money system, as his whole political capital— a capital stock of formidable strength. But powerful as is the political machinery he moy control through the agen- cies of his finuncial system, espec! “ally his national banks, Mr. Chase must sneceed in i Ohio upon this main issue of negro suffrage, or ils Prestiéntlal pfogramme will fall to the ground, There are, we believe, only some eight or ten thousan! negroes in the State who will be affected by this proposed extension of the suffrage to their race on a footing of equality; but the general principle involved, and the consequences to which it may lead in our political affairs, have awakened such a widespread and active opposition that the result in Ohio may at least be considered ex- tremely doubifal. it is generally conceded that if the republi cans carry the State on their candidate for Gov- ernor, General Hayes, it will be by a greatly reduced majority; but the election of Hayes will not save the Chief Justice. On the sepa- rate proposition of negro equality in the mat- ter of suffrage his fate as a Presidential candi- date depends. The impression seems to prevail, however, that this proposition will be rejected by the people of Ohio, and by a decided ma- jority against it, like that in Connecticut two years ago. If it shall so turn out in the model radical State of Ohio, and in spite of that heavy drawback to the democracy, Vallandig- ham, then we may say that not only may Mr. Chase be considered as thrown out of the Presidential fight, but Congress will be fuirly warned to choose between # return to the con- stitutional amendment, which it has abandoned, and the alternative of an overwhelming defeat in 1868 upon Mr. Chase’s financial system, and upon the equally untenable ground of uni- versal negro suffrage and negro supremacy, General B. F. Butler’s Ideal of a Perfect Government. On Wednesday last twenty thousand people met at the annual festival on Salisbury beach, abont forty miles from Boston. After the various sports and outdoor concerts of the forenoon, speeches were delivered by several orators, including Major Ben Perley Poore, of apple and wheelbarrow notoriety, and ex-Major General Ben F. Butler, Doctor of Laws. The ringing of a large plantation slave bell which General Butler captured in Louisiana, after it had been sent to the foundry to be cast into rebel cannon, was the prelude to his speech. The specch itself was a kind of general con- fession of political faith, and was fully reported in yesterday’s Heraup, Doctor Butler sketched his ideal of a perfect government, The essen- tials of a perfect government he declared to be universal equality of liberty, universal equality of right—* the right of every man to be the equal of every other man if he can” (@ condition adroitly introduced)—auniversal equality of power in the government, universal equality of taxation, and universal equality of punishment for trailors. In developing the latter part of his thesis, the Doctor, of course, waxes eloquently angry. In advocating an equal distribution of the burdens of govern- meat he displays the hard, clear sense with which we lately credited him in reference to his financial views. But his general confession of political faith is, in the main, altogether too general. Its glittering generalities offer a most unsatis‘actory substitute for the practical wis- dom and the statesmanlike tact which are indispensable in the application of political theories to the actual exigencies of our great and complicated system of republi- can representative government. In short, Butler’s ideal of a perfect government is almost as impracticable, shadowy and unsubstantial as the ideal of Plato in his “Re- public,” of Harrington in his “Oceana,” and of Sir Thomas More in his “Utopia.” It must be catalogued with those political romances. Montesquieu accused Harrington of dreaming of an ideal republic when the constitution of his own country was before bim,a model of free government, and says, “He has sought for liberty, but has failed to recognize it when before his eyes.” Might not a similar charge be brought against Ben Butler, and Thad Stevens, and William Lloyd Garrison, ond Wendell Phillips, and all the rest of our Amer- ican political dreamers, who reject and spit upon the constitution of their own country— the model of free government—openly boast- ing that the violence which they have coun- selled and abetted has been done and must be done outside of the constitution, and in defiance of it? General Butler lauds even the ignorance of the negro, and rests the claim of the freedman to an equality of right and an equality of power upon the fact that he is aman, and his claim to a superiority of right and power over his former master upon the assumption that he was loyal during the recent war. But Butler is shrewd enough to admit the negro to the right to be the equal, nay, the suporior, of the white man, only “if he can ;” and this cunuing proviso takes a good deal of wind out of the Doctor's big, swelling words about negro equality. “Full of sound and , Signifying nothing,” they differ but little from the usual rhodomontades of our radical orators. The Autietam Celebration—Graveyard Dem. Peomuen. The graves of our dead heroes made a poli- tical platform—the interior of Antietam Ceme- tery the scene of political animosities—the Siates invited to attend the exhibition—Europe and te Western Continent looking on through the Diplomatic Corps. This is a summary of the Antietam dedication. Upon this hasis we have laid the corner stone of a monument which will chronicle the virtues of the five thous: brave men who at Antietam died to save the nation. If the great men of the republi> sink us so low, degrade us so deeply, what hope have we for the fulure? In a solema gathering of the representatives of the people to honor the dead who fell in our de- fence we have descended to the low passions of party. Instead.of making a national gather- ing, irrespective of politital differences, a few members of the administration and a few of its armest friends gather at Antietam, and dare, in the nation’s consecrated ground, to insult the ashes of its heroes. McClellan, who, we believe, is in the United States, was not there. Grant, evidently aware that the ceremony was to be for partisan glorification, was also absent, All the geucrals who fought at Antictam were absent. They felt littie disposed to assist in the disgrace of what to them were sacred ashes. They had fought to take the stains from the old flag; not by the hands*of any but the political demagozues there assemble: were stains to be put upon it. The great ceremony which was to consecraie before high Heaven this field, from which the people dated their national preservation, was little fitted for the exposition of political platforms, The specch of Governor Bradford, adroitly turned to good use in support of the polic of tho adminis- tration, was out of place, nor was” my speech ere made suited to the hour and the occa- sion. The President, in his remarks, did not fail to make meation of his firm détermination to sustain his policy and the constitution. Then came the discourtesy of Mr. Johnson to the Northern Governors, who, against the wishes of the assembly, had given way to the Executive. This was followed by the speech of Governor Geary, who, warming with the insult, broke into invective and forgot that around him lay buried the Union dead—ibat it waa no place for open resentment. The whole ceremony was unquestionably partisan, but it was most inopportune. The President might insult whom he pleased there; by doing so he only disgraced himself, the nation and the dead whom he ostensibly went there to honor. For any one to take notice of it by public speech on the spot was only to lower the speaker to tho same level to which the President deecended. We are a nation of over thirty millions of people, with wealth, cnergy and rare native intelligence; but our statesmen—our states- ment No! our demagogues—diegrace ws, They do not represent us, In Congress thoy descend—but they cannot descend; for they the lowest | level now as political debaters, and, having reached that level, there is but one direction in which they can move— upwards, As with Congress so with the Executive. Even worse; for the Executive being but a single person, and that, too, at the bead of the pation, he is logked to by all eyes ask. MES GP LEEPER ELE LEN SEE NE OR ETRE. OSES ACTOR as the exponent of what should be manly, gen- tlemanly and courteous, Instead of even ap- proaching the ideal, he allows the petty feel- ings of political passion to enter into all his dealings with those who may oppose his career 8s a statesman, and on every occasion displays the little mind that disgraces us asa people. Even Antie‘am, more than sacred to us, was not sacred to the man whom we call our Presi- dent. How long are these things to be en- dured? How long are we to bow our heads in shame whenover a national event like Antietam calls for the broad minds of real statesmen to give it a tone of which we may be proud? How long are we to entertain the representa- tives of foreign Powers with sights like that which have made Antietam a diszraco, and which have reflected that disgrace thronghout the world as a reproach against the republicanism of which we boast? The evil is already too glaring. The ignorance which has forced its representatives to the sur- fice must give place to the only element which will give us political salvation—that element is the intelligence of the country. We must have a change. Such scenes as An‘ietam has given us are the best proof that nothing but change will save us. Our march to corruption and all the viloness of representation that clings around it, has been in keeping with the pace we have travelled in all that of which we boast, The carcer is a mad one and threatens ruin, Let it not be forgotten that the Roman empire was born when the Roman republic lost all respect for the intelligence and virtue of its rulers. There is still enough intelligence left in the country to overturn the men who degrade us. From the President down we want change. Finding that they have not the capacity to project and carry to a successful issue great measures of statesmanship, they descend to a war for the spoils; they mingle personal and revolutionary animosities in every act; they even in a national graveyard quarrel over the corpses of the men who fell in defence of the country. Let the people rise to an appreciation of this terrible condition of affairs. Let them overturn a man who always forgets his position, and let them bury in the same grave the demagogues who are worse even than the President. As Antistam was the hour trom which the nation dated its cer- tainty of overturning the rebellion, so let it be the moment from which we date our determi- nation to have as rulers men who are gentle- men and statesmen, Sir Frederick Bra Intelligence of the death of Sir Frederick Wil- liam Adolphus Bruce, her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador and Minis‘er Plenipotentiary at Washington, was received at this office yester- day. His death was sudden and unexpected. A full account of the life and labors of Sir Frederick will be found in another column. Sir Frederick has represented the government of Great Britain in this country since April, 1865, In circumstances by no means free from diffi- culty, he has given satisfic'ion to the govern- ment which he represented and made many friends among the citizens of the United States. Sir Frederick was a cadet of tho ancient and well koowa house of Elgin—a house which claims direct descent from King Robert of Scotland, the celebrated Bruce of Bannock- burn. i COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Commencement Exercises at the Academy of Music. The Academy of Music was literally crammed and jammed last evening from the parquet up to the gallery, from the proscenium boxes through every nook and corner of the large amount of accommodation which is provided for the public in this theatre, The occasion of this large gathering was the annual commencement exercises of the College of the City of New York (lately the Free Academy); and the students and their lady friends and relatives, even uvto the third and red strongly to show th» interest they felt in this favorite collegiate institution of our city, The body of the house was like @ briliiant Parterre of exotic flowers, with the protty faces and Doaming toilets of the many ladies that graced the assembly with their presence ; while tier upon ties above the same glittering throng appeared, in private bux, loge and gallery, until naught bat a sea of faces was visible from the stage. The pertame, too, that © from the myriads of bouquets carried by the students’ fair amis filled the atmosphere; and the melting music of Grafulia’s band was equally gratitying to the sonses, was frequent throughout, when the efforts of any special orator were particularly pleasing to the ears Oi the hsteners, who were also not chary of granting more distingt tokens of their approval, [or hundreds, at least, of bouquets most have been thrown upon the stage during the evening. Fortunately the night was cool, not being £0 sultry as several wo have had lately; consequently everything passed off pleasantly and well. At six o'clock precisely the celebration commenved with the performanco of Supp?'s overture, “Post end Peasant,” ‘and after an introductory prayer by the Rev, Dr. Spencer, the order of exercises was continued as fol. lows: Salutatory address and second honorary ora- ton, “National Amusements;" ¢. 0, Kimball, 2, First dissertation, “The Theatre;” L. H. Natting 3 Second dissertation, C. E. Hiscox, 4. Sixth hon- orary dissertation, “Intellectual Tower: W. C. Hoss. 5. sixth dissertation, ‘Public Manners ;"’ Manrice 6. Third honotary (philosophical) orati iy F. Seaman, 7. Fifth disserta: BL. Eiliott. 8, Eighth honorary oral ee "30 far; vex}? E, sue, % FU honorary oration, it P| T tordoet wy F, Chapma: 10. Fourth hovorary oration, “Know Thy» solf; i seni ng. 11, Third dissertation, “Lil's Mowen! P. Smith. dacloat avd Modern; F. M. <cott tation, “Reward of Free Labor; J. M, Farnsworth, Eighth dissfMation, “Love;" 'H. ©. Harding. 15. enth honorary oration, “Six Years; 0, M. Arken! 16. Master's oration, “Th Horote in America Hartt, A. BL 17 aud iast. Valedictory add honorary oration, “Shrough a glass, darkly Many of the orations aud dissertations were highly meritorious, and that of Mr, Maurice Grag, in which Ketcbed the iaflaence rinse ou public morals, wos particulariy well received. such a gathering, how- evor, it would be iovidious to make reflections and com: parisons, where all endeavored, with considerabio succes 1-4 acquit themeeives well. Dr. ‘edster then conferred the degrees as fol- r of Arts.—Joun William Warth. A. B.; Augus- tus Frederick Dohrman, A A. B.; William Weserfield, Jr., A. BL; Willam Heory King, ‘A. B; George Frederick Mayer, A. B; Edward Lauiorbach, A. B,, Stegmand bang A'B., Jobn Peaso Harsen, aK; Cliuton Jones Hat, A. ‘A. B.; Jasper Theodore Kano, A. B. fas'er of Scionces. —-Charies A, Fiauimor, 3. 8. Heary K x "Goadingon 8 B. 8.; James Candler, Jr B. 8; Joa Mlchaot J. Dron, W. 3; Chace E. Oskiey, ie 8. ‘tae McAdam, 8. 8; Henry J. W. Morton Hanks, Will!am James is Kimball, Eugene Louts fushe, Charles Edward Hiscox, Samuel Edmund Seaman, er Fowler Chapman, Bernhard Grunhut, Williaa Moore, Daniel Pheonix K Hiler Eliott. George Washington P. Smith, W: Hindbaugh, Jr. ‘Williaa sommervitte Stoventon, Oliver Marin Ark D, Blondel, Edward B. Dudley, Francis ‘Scott, Martin Ray, Eleazer Goldsmith, Maurice Henry Grau, Louis Fellows, Sciences, —James Mace Farnsworth, Wm. cert tens Prati Tayard Pe Patterson, Fiward Daniel ff Nutting, Hoary Ciay Harding, Wililam Gustavus Simmous, REPORTED DEATH OF ALEXANDER T. STEWART. Yesterday the numerous friends of Mr, Alexander T. Stewart were startled by the announcement of bis teath tm Paris, Upon inquiry at his place of business, corner of Broadway and Chambers street, we were informed that there was not the slightest particle of trath in the stavement, Mr, Stewart was beard from only a few days ago. Hewas then in London, in perfect health, and bad not been in Paris within six weeks previous, ELECTION IN NOVA SCOTIA. Defeat of the Dominion Candidates te All But Two Counties, iiheer B. \. A 4m Tee elections have resulted fo detenk of tho Uasonis inion and local candidates in aoree county save two fa the Proving, House end Tupper were both suc H. Grau, Pent oy the Faith,” tion, Coaniry 12 Fourth dissertation, “Floquenee, 3. Second diwser: ik The Case ef Collector ees | In‘ portant Council with the for the Office. Representative W. E. Robinson, of Brooklyn, is here urging the appointment of a successor to Collector Cal- licott, A, M. Wood, Collector of the Second Brooklyn district, arrived to-night, and will co-operate with Mr. Robinson, The latter had an interview with the Presi- dent to-day upon the subject, but without much success, J. W. Hunter, Edmund Driggs and General Slocum are the prominent candidates for the place, Mr. Robinson is pushing General Slocum’s claims, The Visit of Collector Smythe to Washington. The late visit of the Collector of the port of New York, Mr. Smythe, bas occesioned many surmises, 1 have it from good authority that Sir. Smythe was summoned here by the President to explain why ho persisted in appointing radicals to office to the exclusion of men of the Johnson faith, Ho left, it is said, with an admonition to sin no more, The Affairs of the Farmers’ and Citizens’ k of Broo The question whether it is within the province of the Secretary of the Troasury to allow the officers of the de- funct Farmers’ and Citizens’ Bank of Brookiya, N. Y., to wind up the affairs of that institution upon their filing good and sufficient bonds has been placed in the hands of the Attorney Genera!, and his opinion thereon will be given in a few days, Mloess of Register Colby—Return of Revenue and Treasury Oni se A telegram from Colonel Graham, acting Register of the Treasury, received this morning from a son of Register Colby, announces that his father is ill beyond hope of recovery, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Chandler and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Rollins returned to Washington this morning and are at their respective oe War Cla of New York Against the jovernmen Governor Fenton made little progress to-day in the business for which ho is here—the adjustment of the war claims of New York against the government—owing tothe absence from the city of John L, Wilson, Third Auditor of the Treasury. It appears that the claims for. various purpores remaining unscttled amounts to about $1,000,000, Of this sum there are $250,000 which Gov- ernor Fenton is anxious to have paid at once, s0 as to adjust ceriain accounts to the State Treasurer of New York connected therewith, and which he is anxious to close up a8 soon as possible, The Governor is sanguine of success, though it may take him a day or two to ac- complish it, Ho called to-day upon Genoral Grant, and ‘was present during the laiter’s tuterviow with General Hancock, Political Matters in Virginia-The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention. Despatches from Richmond this evening state that pre- parations are being made for the convention of ex-United States officers and soidiers to bo held there on the 25th instant. Letters have been received by the Executive Committe? from ali portions of the State, and the pros- Pect ts that there will bea full convention. The Hunni- cutts held a meeting last night and appointed two of their most radical men as delegates io the convention. The lines between tho two wings of the republican party in Virginia, it 13 said, are beg sharply drawn, One wing*is in favor of adopting tue constitutional amendment proposed by Congress asa platform of the party, and of going into the canvass at the approaching election on this platform; the other wing coes for vopils- cation and the extremest measures of the radicals in every particular. The A ouching Election in Virginin—Gene- ral schofield’s Order Not Countermanded by General Grant. General Grant authorizes the denial of a statement sent from hero to a Boston paper to the eifect that he is about to countermand the order of General Schofield for holding an election in Vir,inia on the 22d of Ociober, and to extend the time to the lst of Novomber, Geue- ral Graut says he has no desire and no intention of in- terfering with the arrangements already made by Gene- rel Schofield for holding the election, Movements of General Hancock. Major General Hancock, in company with General Grant, calted on the President to-day. Major General Hancock also cal!od on Secretary McCulloch this mora- tug. It is not known when he will leave this city. General Sheridan’s Order on Asstning Come mand of the Department of the Misseurt. The following orders were issued by Major General P. HL Sheridan, commanding Department of the Missouri, on the 12th inst.:— In compliance with General Orders No. 81, current series, Headquarters of the Ariny, Adjatant Geaor oilice, the undersigued hereby assumes command of the Department of the Ail existing orders wili remain in forces. U1 authority from the Geveral-in- Chiet, the undersi:ned beer da transfers the cot Department of the Missouri to Brevet A. J. Stith, Colonel Soventh United ates cavalry. P. H. SHERIDAN, Major General Commanding. The Senatarial Contest in California—Duke Gwin e@ Sell-Constitated Candidate. A letter received here by a California politician imdi- cates an intense rivalry in that State for the Untied States Senatorship among ihe members of both parties, “Dake” Gwyn, disbelieving the statement that the ree publicans have @ majority of two in the Logisiature on joint baltot, soiled for San Francisco in tho last steamer, with the intention of being the democratic candidate, Prominent members of the party say that even if they had a majority in ihe Logistature, Gwin would stand no cliance, It seems to be settled that Couness, whose term expires in rx will not be returaed. The opposition to Lim is be bitter and powerful. Cony an Bidwell, whe “a been generaily settled upon as the successor of Connees, has signified his unwillingness to accept, even if elected. He wanted the Governorstip, and being disappoiuted in that he is not disposed to take any other position, The contest for the Senatorial lonors, it Is sald, wil be between Messrs, Phelps and Sargent, the former of whom was a candidate whea Conness was elected. Phelps has been the lea of the Conness faition in the State every eiuce, aud to Lim is attributed the defeat of the friends of Conue:s in the Jato election, Hiness of Paymasior Genern! Brice. Paymaster General B. W. Brice is serivusiy i! at his residence jn Baltimore, He has been il ior che pact iwo of three days, but at last accounts Lis Lealth was im- roving. The United States Steamer Manuee Fitting Ont for China, The United States s camer Maumee, which has been fitting up at the Navy Yard here, is now nearly ready for sea, Sho is undor orders to sail for China, and her offi- cora have been ordered io join her. The Military District of Mom Brevet Major ‘Terry, commanding the Depart. ment of Dakota, has announced the modificatjon of para. graph four of general field orders No. 2 s0 as to include in the District Of Montana aii that portion of the terri- tory of Montana which is within the department and lies weat of the 107th meridian, to be commended by Colonel J.V. D. Reeve, Yhirieenth United States in- fantry. QUDGE CHASE AND THE PRESIDENCY. {Washington Corresponslonce of the Boston Post, Sept. 18.) Chiof Justice Chase seems determined to be President. He made a bigh bid wo-day for the radioal vote. In alluding to the powers of Congress over the question of weer tevtealt he said Congress possessed the entire including thst of confiscation, aad that, should Tiare boa wip: Up on the prevent reconsiraetion acts, he oe ho doubt a Inw confirenting Southera property =— be passed, This is cortainiy a step forward of the posi n occupied by tho Chief Justice while holding bis Circuit Court in the State of Nort Carolina, Then he recognized the rights of the Southern © the constitution, He now seems to be Stevens’ thunder, and talks onteide of the cor ie Lowe confiscation without trial and conylton. Mr. Chase has evidently the inside track snd he i* deter. mined to hold it A COURT MARTIAL CASE. (Washington Correspondence <' . Puiladeipuia Ledger, A cage bas come up fro, Genoral Ord's command for revision, being the proceedings of a court martial re- conti; y eld in Miseseipp), The facts as proved are (bat w Heutenant commanding in a town in Miesissippi ita disreputable woman to @ hotel In the place to board. The hotel proprietor refused to give The officer remonstrated and threaten: the on keeper to sleld sen i placed the woman to General Ord, and 1@ conrt teund the officer eenty as charged, and sentenced him to dismiseal from ts service, General Grant approves of the sentence. Judge Holt recommended av abatement of the sentesce, ‘and that the offender bo suspended cue montd, on the round that the principal witness wae ance in the Coa- ‘ederate servico, The President to-day approved of the septence of diemiseni. REGISTRATION CLOSED IN CHARLESTOM. Ona 8, ©., Sept 19, 1947 Registration closed in Qui taalority is 1,90, rae anon jy P otear ‘The colored | THE INDIAN COMMISSION. Indian Chiefs. The Withdrvwal of the Troops and the Aban- donment of She Pacific Railroad Demanded. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE RERALD. N Neb. “va Om a 19, I om am Ba Soma The Commission held @ council with Spotted Tatt, Turkey Leg and other chiefs to-day. The Indian wlt- matum is the withdrawal of the troops from the Powder river country and thp abandonment of the Smoty Hilt Pacific Railroad. They also demand guns, ammunition and presents. The Commission will reply to-mostow. War seems inevitable ipa THE PRESS TELE ESS TELEGRAM. “spotted Tail”? and Other © tion with the Commissioners—The Usual Report of Robbing and Seniping—Cholera at Omaha. St. Lovr, Sept, 19, 1867. A telegram from North Plave on the 17th inst. says that the Indian Comunissioners have arrived. Two hundred Indians are there, with Spotted Tail, Standiug Elk, Swift Bear, Pawnee Killer and Turkey Foot and other chiefs, A consultation was to be held yesterday afternoon. The rescued captives, thres white women and three children, were delivered up by Spotted Tail ta the Commissioners, Letters from Fort Dodge say that the Indians are vere numerous in that vicinity. The scouts say that the Cfheyennes, Arapahoes, Comanches and Kiowas have consolidated, and that there are two thousand of them on tho war path. On the 10th inst,, thirty miles from Fort Dodge, a train of forty wagons, laden with Spencer rifle ammu- nition and quartermaster’s stores, en rout: for Fort Dodge, was attacked by Indians and tive wagons cap- tured. On the day following another train was attacked twenty-five miles above Fort Dodge and four men were killed and twelve mules captured, Near Fort Lyon, about the game time, a train bound to New Mexico waa attacked by the savages and sixty mules carried off. ‘The stace company’s station at Cameron’s Crossing was robbed of ten mules on the same night. ‘fhe Montana Volunteers, under Colonel Howell, had a _ with Indians on Boulder river on the 30th of August, The troops afterwards found the outtittis tools and a coat beionging to Captains Weston ant Hodge, who were reported killed on the 24 August. The coat had several bullet and arrow holes through it, Three men were picked up, all se vorely wounded, who report that they fought the Indians all the wav from Fort <mith, and coufirm previous re- ports about the fight at that’ post Ove heutenant and three men were killed, and three wounded, All the hay in that vicinity is burned. Colonel Howell has ben reinforced with eighty men and a piece of artillery. Captain Nelson ts pushing for the Yellowstone against the Upper Sioux and Blackfeet. Ibis stated that the Crows, though professing peace, wero undoubtedly engaged in many depredations throughout that country. The Kepudlican’s correspondent with the Indian Com- missioners, writing from Omaba, says that an officer who ha as just arrived, after traversing the country from Big Horn river, estimates the number of hostile Indians ‘of the North at twenty-two hundred, most of whom are under the sway of Red Cloud, the Chief of the Upper Brule Sioax. Several hostilé trives are now concen- traied about Rose Brule, on the northern slope of the Rocky Mountains, bewweea forts Phil Kearny and C. F. Smith. Red Ctoud is reported by Iron Bull to have said, “We do not want peace, because when we are at peace wa &re poor; now we are rich.” Large humbers of Indians congregated at Fort Rice to meet the Peace Commissioners on their way up the Mussouri river, and were greatly disappointed when they jearned the Commission was obliged to turn back, ‘A letter from Fort Larned gives an accoont of the council between Colonels Murphy, Butter‘eld and Wyn- koop, and Satanti, the head chief of the Kiowas, on the 10th inst. Satanti professed the snes friendabip for the whites and promised to send runners to the dif- ferent Southern tribes, and call them to counoit with Peace Commiasioners in October. Medicine Lodge creek was the point determined upon as the place for the grand council to be held with the Peace Commis- mouers. ‘Two fatal cases of cholera occurred at Omaha yester- day, J. B, Sutton, a ‘was ane of the victims, GENERAL SHERIDAN. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Keception of the General at Columbus, Ohle= He Declines to Make a Speech—Levee at the en yes Couvanes, Ohio, Sept. 19, 1367, pt. 19, ame Oe lock FM } General Sheridan arrived here from Cincinuati om the train at eleven o'clock this morning en row to New York and Wasbington, He was received at the depot by a con@uittee of reception, headed by General D, W. H. Day, of this city. An open chariot was in waiting, and a brags band ina wagon preceded him in proces- sion 10 the Neil House, where a large concourse of citi- zons awaited him. Ho was welcomed at the hotel by a salute of thirteen guns. Loud calls for the General brought him to the window of the parior, Sheridan bowed Lo the crowd and said :— GeNTLYWRS—1 am obliged to you for this kin! reecep- tion. I cannot make @ speech, but my friend, Mr, Day, can make a first rate one. General Day then stepped forward and said :— You are assembled to welcome one of Ohio's noblest sons, Piiil Sh It may be easy to fight a better talker thon Sheridan, but uo statement of mine is neces- sary to convince you thai it ts very bard to find a better This is aa auspicious day io meet bim here. © ago today the battle of Chickamauga was d, though we nearly failed to beat the rebel- we koew that we had another Obio soldier noval Rosecraus—and that Phi! Sheridaa was ready todo lis duty, (Cheers) Three years ago to- day we fought the bale of Winchester, and Sueridan carried the banner of the republic alofi amid a storm of ballets, Every Onto soldier bas a right to participate in this reception, Jt is no political gathering, I = cbmocrats ag well as republicans in this crowd, to da fought well ia figater. honor to a brave Ohio soldier, who bas lui countay's cause, Governor Cox then invited General Sheridan to visit the State House, where he held alevée for about bait an hour in the rotunda, Many old soldiers took him by (be band, stating that they had followed bis track im the Shenandoah vailey, Several negroes also paid their respects to him, fhe General dined in the Neil Howse and took bis de- parture by the next train for Now York. ‘The ovation was entirely spontaneous. Fiags floated frou ali the hotels aud public buildings, THE PRESS TELEGRAM. General Sheridan at Pittsburg, Pirrapenrs, Pa., Sept. 19, 1867. General Sheridan passed through this city this ever- ing en route for the East, He was received at the depot by © large nutaber of citizens, and fireworks were set of daring the few minates he was bere. He left om the hall -past len o'clock train. Polygamy=The Probable Extent of orthe ‘Kies ball Family io Half a Century. Sr, Love, Sept 19, 1867. A violent harangue was delivered at the Tabornacie in Salt Lake on the Sth inet, Brother Sloane, editor of the Deseret News, declared himself a polygamist aod would remain e6, He bad violated and would continue to violate the laws of Congress probibiting polygamy. fie denounced the government as tyrannical and unjust, and as hating vo right to make laws for (he <aiow, He urged upon the Sainte the practices of polygamy as @ necessity for uphoidiog their imstitutions aod (or the enhancement of the'r salvation Elder Kimball followed, ap ments — We Brother Sloane He wae je (Kitnball) bad seventy ebildrea already, and Se that the Kimball family in ifty years would outuumber the present aggregate of saints, . YACHTING, ie of pol, Atlantic Vache Claw. ‘The several vessels previously referred to as having ‘entered for the champion penant in the race of this ctuty harbor of the pee on Saturday will leave the a eloc! foot of Court street, ceed to their anchorage off t) The {nerest mantiested in this race, discermibio among the owners of the ration yet noteworthy, aod indicative of an animated Ne DISCHARGE OF SPAULDING, TI THE ALLEGED FO"«GER. Tonnsro, co. W., oy 5 1867. Spauiting alias Howard, the Chicage fr charged by the police magistrate yestords.y, D0 ficient to warrnat extradiion, eat and tianger bas have boop remanded for q furtbor hearing