The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1868, Page 3

CO | | SPECIAL CORRESPOWDENCE OF THE HERALD. General Crook’a Campaign Against the In- ‘dians in Southern Oregon—Hard Marching and Hard Fighting—List of Killed and Wounded in the Engagements—Character of the Country—The Oregon Railroad. Suver Crry, I, T., Dec, 1, 1867. ‘Tho sudden and overwhelming character of the rush to Washoo on the south and Boise on the north of ‘the Snake and Piute grounds daring the years inclusive of 1860 and 1862 reduced the status of those tribes to the ofinite dilemma of immediate surrender or extermina- ‘tion, sooner or later, The Piutes were a powerful! nation ‘end ono resolved to mske tho most of the situation, ‘Their distinguishing traits were a love for war and treachery in their dealings with the white adventurers im their country, A treaty with them followed the set- ement of Washoe, but the wary villains have managed to plunder and rob to their hearts’ content, and consti- tute the Truckee reservation, near Pyramid Lake, Neyada—a rendezvous for protection and a chief source of supply for arms and ammunition. ‘The Snakes are not a distinct tribe, but & make-up of several—tho Nez Perces, Bannocks, &c., whose huntin, and fishing grounds were confined to the Upper Snake river or Lewis Fork of the Columbia, They ranged at ‘will over the lands watered by the streams putting into ‘@e river from the Rocky, Salmon river and Bluo Range @f mountains, and the scene of their horrible work for ears was the emigrant road to Oregon, running along ‘Snake river severat hundred miles, The great rush to ‘Idaho in 1863 and 1863 was the death knell of the Snakes; Bundreds of them gave themselves up or were killed off tm driblets by the invincible gold hunters, or were Griven eastwardly, where they concentrated in conve- mient proximity to General Connor, who slaughtered ‘several hundred of them, and thus paved the way for a Jasting poace with the bulk of the remainder, The es- tablishment of Fort Boise in 1863 afforded an asylum Tor a goodly number inclined to bury the hatchet from Policy, Uf course a share of the depredations commit- ‘ted on the borders of the Idaho mines and the thorough. fares leading thereto is justly attributed to scattering @quade of the Snakes; but the great trouble has been ‘with the Piutes, who, when overawed oi their favorite ‘@amping grounds, turned their attention northward to the Humbolds and Owyhee settlements, the weaker eommunities of Nevada and Idaho, The people North, Fetaining a lively recollection of the trying ordeal of passing through Snakedom, came to look upon that ‘tribe as the sole cause of all their woe, and for soveral Years past the Piutes have been doing the greater por tlon of the deviltry in Idaho and Southeastern Oregon, ‘the Snakes getting all the blame, The character of the ‘@arlior military affairs but completed the aggravating picture of border life in keoping up a show of protec- tion by government, while it was being robbed and dis- graced every day by acoriain set of shoulder-strapped gentry remained in the country, The ever to be re. ‘membered ‘Oregon war” farce, dramatized and per- formed by as complete a gang of thieves as ever went ‘wnbung, generated an influence over the minds of too ‘Many Oregonians, tending to the belief that goverament @wes them a living and that it is a legitimate source of plander, and so long as Indian depredations lasted on ‘the borders they could have their checks on Uncle Sam Promptly honored. It seemed to be the entire study of @ficers and citizens combined to see how Jong the sav- ‘ages could kill and steal at the expense of the honest getter and get away unharmod. To kill an Indian was to diminish by so much the revenue regularly extorted matters worried along, and ‘the savages came to hav Pope ggg eng peoed General Crook, late in th of 1866, This officer’s timely arrival in Idaho, close ‘en the heels of Governor Ballard, seemed to be proof positive of a Providential interposition t @rvil and military cursed Territory. An entire strang ‘to everybody, and in a land little known to for hast alighted from the vehicie which ied him to Fort Boise, till he became disgusted with it and its sur- roundings, took a saddle bianket and @ sack of nard tack, and the company of cavalry that was there in win- tor and started across the jee into a snow @torm and the Indians, saying to sycophants in the rear ‘that he would be back in a week; but he managed never @ return, Hi made a handso: ng thelr horses and arms and competi into Boise, When this company of cavairy became weil exhausted he sent it back to winter quarters, and ‘went to Camp Se te ad another was snugly housed, Crossing the Owy! higher wy he surprised a ‘band ty warriors near fountain, and killed thom all. He had been greatly ‘amnoyod for want of reliable scouts, or rather by 100 many worthless bummers in buckskin who had existed or ag \ppropriating govern! Fesolved to apply Led aes making one portion of the enemy fight t! Indians, or in other words, perhaps, fire,” in the organization of the ight the joise or Snake In- EEE He Sok Bee Bes i af is € 2 3 H ‘Atter a pretty thorough employés he settled on Archy helntosh, a offanoot, and the result of that choice has . Those literaliy wid Snake Indians are ‘aid in the way of scouts, guides and nord- ers; they are a superior Indian as to natural intelligence and yaique, are perfectly contented in the service ow ting the Piutes, and the success of the tactics is ve of great saving to government by the einpl ment of savages elsewhero on the frontiers for the sa The General continued the campaign throug! ‘winter, which was unusuaily severe. Atone time he pe his little command nearly perished in a snow s.orm. ion obtained from captured Indians fully con- Brmed his suspicions that the perpetrators of the dopre- @ations in Idnbo came from Nevada and California, > ll aa possessing a knowl- el al eee 4 of the most valuable time, and the expedition to go after the Piutes “where they lived’’ did not get fairly ‘started until the latver partof A In the meantime the General recommended a civision of the district of Owyhee, in the Department o: Columbia, and giving Bim the section which embraced pretty much all of the enemy's country—that is, where they retreated to with their Le agg mag obtained the rate their = “4 vegetables. His request was promptly complied wi General Halleck, who created the ‘District of Lakes,” This district contained but one Prominent military post, Fort Kinmath, and it @ovolved wpon the General to select the sles and baild two other posts by the timo he returned from the summer campaign. He made the locations and neces- wary details for establishing Camps Warner ana Har- , aud kept up a continual scouting of the country, ing in about seventy-five Piutes between Camps Smith and Warner io July and August. The two new posts are for operating against the Piutes on the South and the remnants of Snakes north, and both are Mt once a protection for those who desire to prospect the weountry adjacent for precious metals or adapt it to agri- cuture or grazing. Camp Warner constituted the ren- dezvous for completing the organization for the final summer campaign of 1867, Tho expedition consisted of oempany F, First United States cavalry, commanded by Major David Perry; company M, First cavalry, Captain Moses Harris; Company H, First cavalry, Lieutenant W. R. Parnell; Company D, Twenty-third (mounted) tafantry—the companies: ing about forty men each; the band of twenty-five Suake Indians under MelIntosh ; two companies of Indians from the reserva. tons on the Lower Columbia, about the Dalles, in com- mand of Captain Jobn Darragh and Onptain William C. MeKay, the two companies numbering about thirty eact Altogether command which left Camp Wainer onthe B0th of Ai numbered about two hundred and fifty ‘men. Crook's style of fighting Tadians is to march the main command through the country ax quietly as pos ‘sible and camping in out of the way places—in canons of timber—and have his scouts ahead tem to thirty ‘miles, who are to kill or capture all small parties they ome to and report the larger ones to headquarters, when the command makes night marches and surprises ‘them at Gay tight, He does a good deal of night marci. fag with all bis mon, and that accounts for his uninter- rupted success. He is a thorough mountaineer himeelt, and Provably better posted on the Indian charactor than any man in the service. Al- though be bas been dosth on hundreds of the aborigines who insist on fighting ft out, yet he hasa Detter iden of justice to the doomed race than ail th milk and water philanthropists extant; and were the Indian business entirely left to the War Department, ‘with men Jike Crook to administer the affairs of the di ferent districts, (here would soon bean end to indian hostilities, milliovs avnually saved the government aud the condition of the Indian race vastly benetived, ocated at the extreme north end of (Warner) range, on the west side of ‘which and in its spurs i# nostied Goore Lake, the head of Pitt river, which is the largest branch of the Secramonto. The different bands of scouts bad obtained information during the summor suMcient to satisfy the Genoral that n back tewards Goose Lake; but it ‘wan yet jovermined whethor a goodly number of them had not retreated into the mountains nerthwost of the Jake, so the main command was marched under co of the darkness Umber, and several days’ scouting done to nscertain mnefal course of retreat, Some foriy or Ofty of the wily wes were killed near Abert Lake as (he result of a week or ton de: aufiicient data collected to show that nal idea of timding their main stamping grounds south of Govse Lake must yet bo acted upou. But to insure © thorough solution of the vexed pro- diem he seperated bis command in the mountaius woat of Abert Lake and siaried the larger portion north, ‘with instructions to scout the country far and wide be- fore bringing ap at Cawp Harney, located at the ex- treme south end of the Blue Range, ia Eastern Uregon Major Derry was in command of expedition, The General then started south through ¢ ntains west of Goose Lake, tho objective point being the South Fork nell and sad pedition quietly encamped werubby timber near the north baok of the Fiver, wheu a most unfortunate biunder on the part of & white man, temporarily employed a8 scout, in a mad Ber fuined the most promising campaigo against In- diane in Crook's bistory. Fhe reeulk of ib Was the coug- } bands of the savayen, a NEW: YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1868 make the most of one, give him but balf ashow. As @ last effort ta befool the natives he marched the com- mand down Pitt river along an old emigrant road in day- light, as if he were going tothe Sacramento. Where the mountatns come into the river from the south side he crossed the stream and again took to the timber, follow- ing it to the southeast and hich upon the south fork. But the Indiana were watching the ground, andwhen the soldiers appeared on the baid bluffs or foot-bills over- u would a peace commissioner or missionary, The saga- cious savages bad been “‘spoiit’’ by their intercourse with: the soldiers under Stoughton bottle commanders betora Crook took comimund, and bad come to look upon the repulse of reguiar troops as a matter of course, On the west side of the South Fork, and about twenty miles south of the main streain, ia where the following de- scribed Indian Gibraltar can be found:—The high tablo- land terminates at this point in @ perpendicular wall of basaltic or volcanic rock between turee and four hundred feet high, and down to the valley ; tal this wall and from tho north end, runoing down to the valley, isa rocky ridge with scrubby tree#; from the south end there is @ ravine or caiion, the north side of which is Jagged with points of rocks, running east tothe river level; the summit of the upper bench on the east side is an ridge atudded with loose boulders. The inte- rior of this outline has a basin-like appearance, from the southeast side of which, and runuig into it and lel with each other, are two prowontories rock one hundred any and forty high, on of wi and at the extreme ends are artificial forts built with the loose rocks round about; they are from fifteen to thirty feat in diameter, breast high and have portholes, All para- pots and other approaches to these forts wi by smail semi-circular breastworks, so that it session of them it was necessary to storm them by scal- g the almost perpendicular walls of tho around three sides of either is a natural ditch hatchway holes running caverns beneath to an unknown depth. Between the forts and the high wall to the west and the cafon and rocky ridge on south and north is a mass of great Joose boulders and strata of lava, throughout which is a network of artificial breastworks, and altogether a place where thousands of men could be secreted on a moment’s notice, and the outsider could not disco: a head. Here is where General Crook, on the 26th of September, inaugurated a three days’ fight with a large band of weil armed and defiant savages; and although the result was not as expected, the affair was a curious one in Indian warfare and the most important since the success of General Connor north of Salt Lake, The scouts tracked the Indians into the rocky retreat about noon, and ried to the General something of their discovery. He was at the head of column, which had just reached the valley and turned north along the foot of the bluffs, ately dismounted half of Parnell’s men, and ord them to go up and form a line parallel with the cafon on the south side, and Madigan’s men to proceed to the north side and do the same without regard to the ridge, and both lines to connect on the east side or ridge, the soonts to oceupy the edge of the high wall overlooking tne scene, The men were to advance and reconnoitre; in other words, crawl up towards the forts and get posi- tions behind Boulders, &c., and conmmence thé siege, Lieutenant R, J, Eseridge, acting quartermaster, was ordered to put the horses and muies belonging to the expediuon into camp im the valiey, and thus et every man on duty, by making the pro details About one o'clock, as some of Par- pell’s men were advancing over the ridge from the canon four of them were killed and wounded by a volley from the east tort, which checked any further advance that afternoon, In the meantime a constant volley was poured into and around the forts by the soldiers and scouts, and the General was engaged in reconnoitering on hisown hook and putting in a shot now and then with a long Spencer rifle which be has resighied to suit, By tho time he could get atthe Prospect from every side it was five P. ordered the men to have their regular rations, lines kept up and « regular siege inaugurated. He had over t days’ rations left, and he thought by that time the condition of “Lo! the poor Indian” could ve rendered quite low. But those artificial birds’ nest forte must be taken at sunrise of the 27th—next morn- ing—at all hazards; it would give the soldiers great ad- vantages over their present position, and the storming would have a superstitious effect on the minds of the gentle savages; it would be new to them, and they wouldn't know what to next expect. So thought the General, and he was right, as usual, "Bat somebody would get hurt, of course; but accidents hap- pen in the best regulated human afiairs, and especially do they occur in war—even with uniutored savages, About daylight the Geveral organized a siorming party, under shelter of the ridge on the east side of the pro- montories, consisting of twenty men from exch com- pany— on the left, Parnell on the right, At the word “Forward” the men were to rise“ up, start with a yoll and keep going and yelling until the ditch was crossed, walls scaled, the forts captured, &c, About sunrise the word was given and obeyed to the letter, but it was a hard road to travei (as your correspondent ‘will always vividly bear in mind), Cele Sa short one, Eight of Madigan’s men, including himself ae were knocked out of time, and two of Parnell’s killed. The General stood on the ridge where Madigan fell, and put in several shots at the indians in the forts, over the heads of the men when crossing the ditch. He cannot let an opportunity pass, howover great the danger, to pull trigger on an Indian. The slippery flends in the oast fort dropped their guns and slid down into the gorge between the Promontories; | ike 80 many lizards, ‘and thence into caverns beneath. But they were badly demoralized, and from the fissures and shelves in and around the promontories they returned a few volleys and scattering shot, and by noon ere silent as the grave. They had resolved on a of tactica, but what could only be surmised, Every precaution was taken to allow none to escape. Detatchments of men occupied the forts and the picket lines were closed “round the circle’ with unusual care, and everything looked toa satisfactory settiement of the Indian quos- tion in thas case; but alas, the Indians knew those rocky exits and entrances better than the soldiers, and on the night of the 27th wormed out under the feet of the pickets on the southwest side, through sub- terrapean passages many {eet deep and Jeading to the canon. They left their squaws and pappooses to shift for themselves, besides the wounded ones, in the caverns, Is waw not ascertained that such was the case until late in the forenoon of the 23th, when all bands want into an examination of the crater-fortress, One man was killed by a wounded Indian, which deterred the men from making a thorough exploration of tho caverns, but some fifteen dead bucks were found, including an im- portant chief and many bows and arrows, guns, cans Of powder, caps, &¢., showing how well they had been supplied \brough the vill of white men in Nevada and California, 5o 4 or ten horses were saved ous of the fight. Wi saucy flonds saw the des- nature of the affair they bad invited, they turned joose their horses, which they bad corralled between the promontories, It was noi the desire of tue General, after the escapo of the bucks was definitely ascer- tained, to stay and starve or kill the squaws and pappooses, so oo the 28th things were got in order again for the march. pie squaws told many interesting tales regarding their ‘“peopie’’— one item, that they had within six months captured scores of horses and tnules, which they had kilied and eaten or exchanged for ammunition on the borders of the Nevada and California reservations, and that the band in the Nght was composed or Piute and Pitt river Indians combined, numbering at least‘one hundred well armed warriors, The General's preconceived notions were found remarkably correct. Perry's part of the expedition did not discover a single fresh “sign” of Indians on their round to the northeast. The following are the names of some of the men killed :—Com; H, First United States cavalry, Lieutenant John Madigan (temporarily commanding Company D, Twenty-third infantry) was a native of Jor- sey City, N. J., Sergeant Charies Barchet, a Geri formerly with the -eventh Vermont Voiuntecrs; sergeant Michael Meara, born in Gaiway, Ireiand, brought up in Boston, Sess., and tue United States Army, in which he served eighteen years; Willouguby Sawyer, native of Canada West; James ‘Lyons, bas a father and brother living in Place Dale, R, I.; James Carey, lived several years in New Orleans; Carl Bross, German, Com- pany D, Twenty-third lutaniry, bas a wife in Newark, N. z; he was accidentally killoq in the fight, There were nineteen soldiers killed and wounded. The six privates wore buried ta the valiey north of the ight half a mile. Lieutenant Madigan's body waa taken to ‘the north bank of Pitt river and buried a few rods be- low the junction of the south Fork, After scouring the country round the east of Goose Lake it was demonstrated that the ane tains and that the campaign was o The commaod returned io Camp Warner, General is busily at work preparing for an winter campaign, which must but prove untisually suc- coasful, as he las now jood knowledge of the topography of his district and the exact pians of the enemy and thelr winter retreats all down to a soratca. No man in any business studies harder or works with more determiuation than does General George (rook in operating against the savages, and the sk before him 1s no “ninety days” aifair, The number of Indian fortifications already found in ti of Idaly jon. California amounts to hunureda, of greater or lessor End Mountain, a bigh, rocky r.dge of the 5: ie" by d Uregon ling, 14 extensively 4 loga—a terrible place, and noted through the opera- eral Crook, Mclatosh and bis Snake scouts narrowly escaped wholesale siaughter thera on ine mura. ing of Auguat 25, They expected to reach the summit of the mountain by daylight, but wero detained two hours on account of the underbrush; and wien thay reached ‘tue heights they found the hostile occupants to greatly exceed their own mumber, and were compailod to b ; and that any of them shout up to all the dodges of their @ rd positions that are pateraily sirong, whether catoas or mountains, are rendered doubly so by the inge: determined savages, Genar s 4 as Low don a ans ing Speen at the experiouce of the past suminer sug gene anipply of band grenades of leas 3 The charactor of tho public domain which General Crook’ is s0 earnestly endeavoring to roclaim consists in every yatiety comion to the Great Basin and its moun- tainousaurroundings, Runoing ¢ast and west from ihe head of the Desdiiuies river to the Owynee river, and widely separating the Cascade and Aigo ranges. in Oregon from the siecra Nevada in California, ina high, Dieak, volcanic tableiand, much of whiclt is purely desori, and the only redeoming vegetation. i tho sic ng tage brush and scrubby juniper. 1, Harney, Abort, Summer and made to produce excellent crops of wuoat, bw and the hardier vegetables, But there is & most valna- bie section of interior grazing and agripuitural land eaab and routh of Goose Lake which bas been int what there in Wnporiant | party ini v a "7 portion of the Sierra Nevada (Warner) range unpros- | ha oe mn eeee certain. Should the Oregon the jifornia and Pacific Railroad, Intely projected to start from the head of the ilamette valloy, cross the North Sierras at the qewe Pass and connect with the main line on the lumboldi, be carried through, it will bisect the ground 80 long in dispute between whites and Indians and bring into market millions of acres of valuable agricultural and mineral ands now dormant and almost unknown, The sluggish mind of the Oregonian is finally aroused to the necessity of « railroad outlet, and this {3 @ scheme ‘that on the face of it presentsa practical solution of the protien, From tho heal of pavigation on the Wile jamette to where the road would sinke the Humboldt the distaace is no greater than that from Saeramento to the same ye, and the grades will average much lighter; and, the road once built, Oregon will be equally Deneflicd with California by the great continental tho~ roughfare, But while General Sherman expects the railroad ‘o setile the Indian question in his jurisdiction, General Crook will settle it on bis ena of the string before the necessary surveys are mado, He is the right man in the right piace, POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Constituttonality of the Reconstruction Laws to be Tested. The case of Colonel MoCardie, editor of a Mississippi paper, who was arreated by General Ord for seditious language, is to be brought before the United States Supreme Court, and from the fact that it will be the first cage that has come before this court involving the con- stitutionality of the Reconstruction laws, will doubtless prove interesting, It ie expected that the necessary documents will be here with very little delay, and that the case will be taken up out of its order, titutional Union Association of Philadel- phia. The annual meeting of this association was held om Monday evening, 234 ult, Nelson OC, Swann was chosen president and Colonel John 8. Warner, William Schollenberger, William Millward and ex- Governor William F. Johnston vice presidents, Resolu- tons eulogistic of Genera! Hancock for bis eourse in ree establishing the supremacy of civil law in New Orleans ‘were adopted, although the association disclaims being Identified with any poiltical party, cy Connecticut. Republican State Convent! ‘The Republican State Conven..on has been called to meet at Hartford on the 25th January, Ex-Gov- ernor Hawley having declined a renomination, it is ox- pected an entirely new republican ticket will bo set up for the democrats to knock down next April, Hofer. ring to the Convention, the New Haven Palladium re- marks:— It meets on the anniversary of the capture of Fort Fisher, and as all loyal men rejoiced at the defeat of the rebels then, 60 will they rejoice if the Convention shall select for us a standard bearer who will lead us to vic- tory against the rebels’ allies now. That it will do this the Palladium bas strong expectations, There can be no use, hor in ignoring tho fact that tl tic party, encouraged by its success last spring, anxious to secure a United States Senator im the place ot Mr. Dixon, will put forth every exertion to carry the State, It will, therefore, be essential that the delibera- tions and the choice of the Convention shall be charac- terized by the soundest discretion, The Issues of 1NGS—From a Repnblican Stand- point=—Speech of Senator Morton, of Indiana, iu Washington. On Monday evening, 30th ult., Senator Morton, of Indiana, addressed the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Union, in Union League Hall, Washington city, We make the fol- lowing extracts from bis remarks touching the issues of 1868, ag reported in the Jntelligencer:— I sald in the commencement of my remarks that there are two ideas uppermost in the minds of the people, The first of these will, asi have already said, enter into the issues of the coming campaign, If thé idea prevails that the government was right in putting dowa the rebellion; if it was rght in putting forth every ‘energy that could be suggesied for the accomplishmont of this purpose, then you, soldiers and sailors who bore @ part in the ai le for the preservation of our Bational existence, will certainly feel that you have not only acted wey. but that you have borne an honorable part in the services rendered your country in the hour of ite peril, But, on the other hand, should the demo- cratic party succeed, and I trust in God that it may Bot—that the peop! f this great nation will avert such a calamity by their votes in that campaign—then will it be to you & disgrace anda dishonor to have been © member of the Union army, and the places of trust will revert to the rebels, a history. One question a ig the manner in ‘which the Southern States shall fully restored with all their political mghts and privileges as States, and the manner in which these biessings may be fully enjoyed by The questio: is not whether that power shail be divided between loyal and disloyal men; whether it shall be conierred upon blacks and whites or upon whites alone, fourteen fifteenths of whom are rebels, and bore a minent part in the war against the Union; but we jist that the power, when it is conferred, should be so divided that ite hgh po derauce shail not be on the side of disloyal men, Nor dowe ask all we should even in ranting this, for it does not exclude those who have rne arms in the late war against the country, but do demand that the power shali be conferred in such manner that blacks and whites may ha State government and on the question of reconstruction, It is trae the present law of Congress disfranchises only & small number of those who engaged in the rebellion, It does not disfranchise the petty vilicers or soldiers, but that class of men who bad once sworn allegiance to tho constitution in offices of trust, and this class cannot exceed forty-five thousand persons, Wheo President Johnson issued his prociamation disfran- chising those who had participated in the rebellion, it included not less than tourtéen classes, numbering be- tween 250,000 and 280,000 men; but the Congressional system of disfrauchisement will apply to ouly 45,000, and not to exceed 50,000 men. We have heard of iate much about an oppressed people. We are told by demo- cratic orators and by the newspapers of the democratic party in all parts of the country that the people of the South are downtrodden and oppressed. Do they who prate about oppression bear in mind that these are the very people who but a few yeara since arrayed the: selves in arms against the nation—whose actions have cost us over Lalf a million of lives, the very people who developed the war that has loft us as a legacy ot of thousands ef millions of doliars, with an almost incal- culab ount yet to liquidate, not to speak of the un- told suifering and sorrow that bas been thrust upon the people of the North? * * * Yet those are the People whose agovy i# in the throats ef the democratic party, and I take it upon myself to say there ‘is neither senso nor justice in it When they talk about oppressi they «forget they are favoring those who brought on the trouble and bathed the land m blood, The law prevails in ali well regulated communities that crimo should be punished, and a sense of justice demands ‘that outrages upon the laws and the rights of the peopic shall be severely punished. We talk about the present State governments that have been ignored in Con- ressional acta. Can you teil me by whom they were formed, if not by the proclamation of the President of the United States? And if you will recur to the elections in Virgsuia, North and South Carolina, you will find that less thin one-third of the white voters took part ia forming the constitutions of the present States, The delegates formed them, and they have never bi mitted for ratification to the people, Nor bi half the moral right that the constitutions have been more recently formed. ‘Those formed in 1865 contained certain conditions, euch as probibiting slavery, probibiting the payment of the debt contracted during the lave war; provisions that were required by the proclamation of President Johnson, But yet tbey have never boen ratified, and were tue Senators and Rep. Teseutatives of these States admitted iuto our Congr sioual halls they would be cast asiae and ignored, ag they had never been ratilied—and that I know would be the course pursued. ‘The struggle, therefore, on the part of the democratic party, North and South, as I have sho will be in 1965 for the resturation of these States into rebel de, ‘and the adininiatration of the aflars of these States on It you are prepared vo way that blacks and turned over to the tender the democratic ucket, Bub if you are in favor of impartial suilrage, and giving rights to black and white, then vote the republican ticket, There are numerous other questions wrappod up ju these leading ideas | have aggouuced, fue frst one I shall mention is the payment for slates emancipated during the war, And though this has not been declared as yet to be a question of tue issue, | amas firmly con- viticed that it Is to be as though I read it {nthe written piatiorm of the democratic pariy, The States of Mary. land and Kentucky have already provided for this in auticipation of the si of the democratic party at the next election. (Here Mr. Morton read from tue con- stitution of the State of Marviand, and from a report of she proceedings of the Keutucky Layisiatura wo sub. Stantiate the statement made.) Georgia has also pro- vided for this, and although other Southera Scates may be silent on this subject tuoy will be ready to moet the question when it is tims, The democratic party of tho South will be a mit on that question; and now let me show that the democratic party of the North are ready to meet thom, [ base my assertion on the fact that the members of this party voted without A single exception against the amendments when they were before Congress, aud democratic newspapers have denousced those amendments with one voice; $0 it 8 safe to say that in the issues tbe Northern wing will concede to (he Sourh everything claimed by them, and | it they do not their action will be very different (rom ‘what \t has been in yo j for I never know of & by tin (iat Was not readily con. orthern portion ef that purty. Sho: party come in Congress to abolish sia’ the demo. cratic members in both houses were thon uniled in favor of paying for every eiave emancipated, and it was de- nowveed «4 morally wrong to tak» asiave even from a rebel and not fairy compensate th owner for the loas; and Tsay again, this question is inevitably involved in the gonoral issues of 1863, Auother question involved, that will follow just as certain, and that is the assump: tion and payment of the revel war devi. Lask you, as feasoning and thinking mon, when the ropresonta tives of the South are admitted to Congress, and Upon to vote upon appropriation you think they would vole to tax thomeeives “for our devt .and not provide for their own? — ‘The Northern states staked their flaancial Power in the government boods, and the South ed [she bad im the prosecution of the wat aud lost all, nd You may expect in the advent of the democratic power, that provision will be made for the Sarma oo tet dae; but Iam glad to say that not un- then will it be thought of, The democratic party ‘were opposed to our debt being coatracted in its in- cipiency, and you may remember that @ prominent member of that party warned the people not bonds, as they ‘would prove worthless on their bi They were hostile then to the debt, as the Southera wing of the democratic party are now to bemg com. pelled to help pay it, So that the demand on their part to tax the people for the payment of the debt of the South will be assuredly conceded as the demand is made, I come to another issuo that is also involved in the contest—the pensioniag of rebel goldiers and the widows and orphans ot those who fell fighting for the rebellion. Does nob the present state of affairs in Maryland {ndicate the feeling which prevails against the soldiers who were members of regiments in the Union army? Can a Union soldier be elected to any office? 1s he not proscribed in business and in society ? I ask if Union men, who are lawyers or physicians, find any suc- eas in the practice of their profession? Are they not pro- scribed on account of their sentiments? Does not the same condition of affairs exist in Kentucky? Rebel: and only rebels, are elected to oltice. The presence 0! Union men is nowhere tolerated, aud their position made uncomfortable, and, if possible, to rid the Stato of their presence, So, if you give tho power of recon- struction into the hands of rebels you may expect the same conditiun of affairs in all the Southern States. And, you may ask, what do I argue (rom all this? 1 will tell you. When the democratic party again gets into pag do you suppose the representatives from the ath will vote for pensioning the soldiers and widows of the Nortb, and not provide for their own in the South? Js it human nature, I ask, for men to do such things? And when you bring them into power their rebel soldiers Willas surely be placed on the same footing with tho Union soldiers of the North, This question, then, 1 say, isinvolved in the issues of the coming campaign, ‘The point I make here to-night is the inevitable conso- oe of the democratic party coming into power, me men may like the financial policy of the pariy, and vote for it solely on that account; but let him re- member that he is voting to elevate the rebel soldier to the same position ag that of thoso who fought to pre- serve the Union, The military policy of the party is foreshadowed in the order promulgated by General Hancock on assum- ing command of the Fifth Military District; and as it has been presented to Congress by the President for its admiration, I thiok that criticism’ upon it is perfectly fair, I willread the order, ‘ne order was read, as bas been published), This idea is, like the apples of the Dead fair to the eye, but crumble to powder if but touched to the lip. The noticeable teature of this order is that it does not mention the subject of reconstruc- tion, for which, by authority of Congress, he is sent there and empowered to carry out. He goes on to say that the civil rights of the people must not be in fered with by military rule, and openly declares this order that the very purpose for which he was sent there ts to be superseded and ignored, Mr, Morton then ad from acts of Congress defining the authority and duties of commanders of the military districts. By these I show tbat this order is in contradiction and do- fiance of the laws enacted by Congress. The very State jovernments which by these acts are abrogated and jeclared illegal are the ones which Genoral Hancock, by his advent, has regarded asa general order. Congress, to be explicit, has, at later day, defined itself on this subject, and declared, if these State governments were allowed to exist, illegal and unauthorized as they are, it would only be through the suf. ference of the military commanders, But General Han- cock expresses open contempt tor Congressional author- ity, and bows allegiance to the civil authority of the State of Louisiana, aud implies thereby the recognition of a State government that has been declared iliegal and upauthorized expressly by Congress, What does he mean when he expresses himself about civil liberty? It Jooks very well, bat what does it mean in this connec- tion? It means that loyal men abali be tried and col demned by rebel Juries. But it is said they will have Justice done them, Who has ever heard of the murder ‘of a.single Union man in the South having been ferreted out, or the guilty one punished? I aamit tho habeas corpus is a right to the people of the country, and should not be interiered with excopt in time of war, ‘when its force would be antagonistic to the interests of the government. But what does the writ of habeas cor- pus mean as seen in the eyes of General Hancock and expressed in thisorder? What doos it mean, if it does not say to the rebel judge, you are clothed with full power to demand the rejease of every man arrested by military authority, applied, of course, to the oppression of the loyal men of that State, And all this in the name of law and justice and rignt. Do you believe that it is meted out to them? Let the massacre at Memphis and the horrible tragedy at New Orleans answer that; and think of it, that order was written on the very spot where that bi tragedy was enacted, an account of which sent athrill of horror into the heart of every being in Christondom—that order which declares that this power shall be directed only to sustam their laws and govern. ment. 1 read tbat order with mingled sorrow aud con- tempt. General Hancock was a noble member of the Union army, and his record one that any man might well be proud of. He was wounded in the service of his country, and justly earned the laurels borne by him from many a battle field; but I saw that when he lent his powers to the cause ‘of the enemies of his country, apd to those who ought still to be his enemies, that his laurels would wither and his name go down amid the condemnations of a people whose honor he has insulted ‘The great questious of the campaiga in 1863 are, then, I repeat, the maintenance of this government, the jus- tice of the war or the right of the rebellion. And these &re tho questions which are to be decided; 1868 is to determine whether this government is to remain in the bands of Union men, or to be allowed to pass into 4) hands of Southern men, The Fitness of the Negro for Self-Gov- ernment. The Savanoah News and Herald, commenting upon the savage assassination of Montez by order of Saluave in Hayti, romarks:— ? From the beginning to tho present time, the fitness of tho African race for self-government has never been have been made to establish a negro republic in Hayti, This government was planted under the fostering care of English and American philanthropy, and though its founders were not blessed with the guardianship of a Freedmen’s Bureau, they nevertheless had the benefits of the teaching and material support of the professed friends of the African race in Europe and America, All that missionary effort could accomplish, all that Exeter Hall im Kngland and Faneuii Hail in America could do to enlighten and instruct the colonists m the science of government, has been done, and after an ex- periment of many years, what a spectacle does a present; what but @ continuous succession of revoly- tions, discord, imbecuity, poverty and semi-barbarism. The Albany Argus pronounces tho system of Recon- struction proposed for the Southern States a failure, and adds:— The military despotisms are not strong enough to carry them through. The double machinery the standing army and the Freedmen’s Bureau, of bayonets and brives, 15 insuificient. That mast be «:andoned and the work becun anew. A system of negro supremacy can never succeed. It is alike abborentto the con tions and feelin, the American people. No ot people over tolerated tt, Our barbarian biacks are bat fraction compared with the hundred million of subjects of inferior races which Engiand governs. Sho admits nove of these negroes, Indians, Hottentots or Caflirs to bare of goverument. France does not consent to liston to the voice of her Arabs, except in pet They take no share in representative goverumer Jamaica, it is truc, has a negro Legislature of its own; but the Governor Is appointed and the great questions o: administration are settled by the mother country, Re- coding prosperity and conilict of races, rendering pecos- sary @ recourse to martial law, is the commentary upon this experiment. How the Political Debt Hes Been Reduced, In ap article vpou the national indebiednoss the Utica Obeerver tomarks :-— Tho republican party has attempted to account for the re it has drawn from the people since t ning that the national debt has been re. ‘There 18 an apparent reduction, but how has it been effected + Wi by selling off and conver ing public property into money. ‘he taxos the peopie have been paying hi been squandered by a epond- thrift policy and touched the bulk of the ional debt. The pretence that the republican ty has effected an improvement in our flaancial condition equal to (be ostensible reduction of the national debt is us dolusive as is would be ior a farmer to think be was getting rich because he had applied his personal property to pay off a mortgage, The Eighth Congress! The Washington Star states : The remains of the late Hon. (, 8. Hamilton, who re- Presented (iis district in Congress, bad not been con- signed to the tomb when the politicians iateresied began to canvass toe question of his successor, and Richland county Las slready furnished two prospective candidates on each side of the political house, These are ail that have as yet come to our notice, though we take it for granted eacu county in the district will be on hand with its favorites in time for the election. fhose now named are Judge G. des and Colonel B, Burns, op the jemocrauic de, both yood Iawyers and men of decided ability ; whi lonel Roelof Brinkerho! and Henry ©. Hedges st@ named by the republicana Colonel Hrinkerhot bas beeu editor of the republican paper at Mansfield, and wasn quartermaster duriug tho war, aud a duty a while im this are popular with their highly esteemed person- Tho Fighth district lies neat the centre of the 4 and ‘8 composed of Richland, Marion, Morrow, Detaware aud Union, [t gave Mr, Hamilton 1,362 ma- jority in 1869, and at the last election it gave the repub- lican candidate for Governor a majority of 247, The republicans claim the district aa certain, but the small margia ju {heir favor mdi¢aies & warm contest at the spo- cia) Gieetiva to fil the vacancy, when it shall take place, 1 District of Ohle. Political Miscellany. Hon. R. P. Spalding declines being a candidate for the Forty-lret Congress from the Kightoouth district of Ohio, The St Lowta Democrat (radical), says. it is time to uudersiaad that people have done voting about the war, and havo begun voting about their pockets, A Rare Turse ron a Ramaoan Comrany.—The Cleve- Jad and Toledo Railroad during the recent snow storm good example, Travel was suspended for twonty- four hour’. The order of suspension found some of the passengers provided with scamty means for bearing the increased suspense of delay, and ail felt that it was a bardabip; bus What was theif surprise and pleasure om being advised that the company would assume the pay. ment of the bilis of al! thors who had sought the shel tor of a hotel; that refreshments would be passed who choso to remain there; 4 their famiiidm and fronds of their be at liberty to do #0 free of char; mfortably warm, and quilts hed Lo L086 Who docided to remein in them during edelay. Who shall say that al corporations are with- Out souls? FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. ‘Waorsspay, Jan. 1, 1868, ‘This being New Year’s Day, business in Wall street and all the markets has been entirely suspended, and the brokers generally turned their attention from “puts!” on Erle to calls on their lady friends, leaving their offices deserted, although the weather waa decidedly against them in their new sphere of operations, We repeat the quotations for the leading speculative stocks at the close of business on Tuesday, namely:— New York Central, 117 4 1173¢; Erie, 723 a 1254 ; Read- ing, 9134 a 92; Michigan Southern, 843¢ a 84%; Cleve- Jand and Pittaburg, 8634 a 87; Rook Island, 03'¢ a 033¢; Fort Wayne, 974, a 9734; Northwestern proferred, 70%¢ 8 7034; Pacific Mail, 1113¢ a 11124; Ohio and Mississippt Certificates, 28% a 29, For government securities, the market for which was firm, the quotations were as tollowa:—Registered, 1881, 1083¢ a 108%;; coupon, 1881, 112% a 1124; 5-20’s, registered, 1862, 105 a 10534; 5-20's, coupon, 1862, 108; a 108%; do., 1864, 105% a 105%; do, 1865, 105% a 106; do., 1865, January and July, 103} @ 108%; do., 1867, 108% a 108%; 10-40's, registered, 1015, 9 101%; 10-40’s, coupon, 10174 a 1u2; June 7.30's, 10494 a 104%; July do., 104% a 104%; May compounds, 1865, 1173 a 117%; August do., 116% 116%; September do,, 116 @116%; October do., 1153¢ all6. Gold was steady at 1333, Mr. E. G, Spaulding, of Buffalo, has recontly written a letter to Senator Morgan, criticising Senator Shermal bill for funding the national debt and for the conversion of the notes of the United States into bonds, wherein he takes ground in favor of the principal of the five-twenty loan being payable in coin. He says that while the bonds were boing advertised for sale many persons who were desirous of subscribing to the loan wanted to know authoritatively whether tho princtpal was payable in coin ‘as well as the interest, and that in order to satisfy people Fisk & Hatch, at the very time they were negotiating large amounts of this loan, addressed a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury on the 3d of August, 1863, and received from him an offical reply, signed by the As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury, which was immediately published, as follows :— v2 We are res numerous inquiries as to whether the United states five-twenty bonds are redeomable in gold, We have received a letter from the Treasury De- jartment most satisfactorily answering thie question (as it was orice before answered by Mr, Chase), a copy of which wo hand you horewith. The popular character of this loan and its wide distribution among the people renders the subject one of universal pave interest and importance, FISK & TCH, Bankera, ‘Treasuky DeraRTMent, Wasmnaton, D. C., August 5, 1863. GuntiEmen—Your letter of the 3d inst., relative to the redemption of six per cent five-twenty bonds of the loan of February 25, 1862, has been received. The following is the decision of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury in regard to the redemption of the public debt:—All coupon and registered bonds et A part of the permanent loan of the United States will be re- deemed in gold, The five-twenty sixes, being redoema- ble at any time within twenty years after the lapse of five years, belong to the permanent loan, and so also do the ,twenty year sixes of July 1¥, 1861, into which the three years seven-thirties aré convertible, All obliga- tions and noves forming a part of the temporary loan will be paid at maturity in United States notes, unless before such maturity payment fm specie shall have been generally resumed. The seven-thirty three year bonds ‘or notes form part of the temporary loan, with the privi- lege of conversion into twenty year sixes, in sums not less than $600. They will thorefore be paid, if the holders prefer payment to conversion in United Staves notes, GEORGE HARRINGTON, Acting Secretary of the Treasury. To Messrs, Fisk & Hatou, Bankers, New York. He also quotes a letter to the same effect from Mr. McCulloch ; but as individual opinions are of very littie importance jn thia connection, and as, furthermore, Sen- ator Sherman’s bill is certain of the dofeat it deserves, itis unnecessary to borrow trouble by discussing this question, Even supposing five-twenties to be ultimately redoomable in legal tender notes thoy are a good invest- mont at present prices, considering that they bear six per cent interest in gold, for, at the worst, under any cir- cumstances, they would be worth par in currency after deducting the accumulated interest, A Boston journal publishes the following respecting interest and dividends payable in that city in January :— ‘The amount of dividends payable in Boston in January is larger than {a any previous six months, notwith- standing the reduction of nearly $1,000,000 in manu. faciuring dividends. The deficiency is more than made up by the incroased capital of several railroads, the pay- ments by government and the city of Boston and the ‘unusual number of miscelianeovs companies, The total footing is $10,320,965, and with the - paymeats reduced to currency would bo $12,140, 15' The railroad dividends aro precisely the samo as the previous six months—quite an unusual feature—and they pay well on the average, ranging from three to five percent, Tne Boston and Worcester and Wostern roads have been consolidated, and hereafter will be known as the Boston and Albany Railroad Company. The stock- holders in the Worcester will receive an extra dividend of $10 per share February 1 in final settlement of the union. Manufacturing divideads make a poor show, and though many were reduced in July last, a still further shrinkage has been inevitable at this time. This is ono ‘of the periodical lean periods of manufacturing, aud those companies which were eo lavish in their pay- ments in the remarkably prosperous times of a fow years past now seo that a moderate reserve then would have prevented many of the t this time, The changes for the six Inonths are:—Chicopee, 8 to 10 per cent; Cocheco, $50 to $40 per share; Douglas Axe, 8 to 5 per cent; Hill Mill, 12 to 6; Jackson, 6to 3; Lancas. ter, 25 to 10; Langdon, 20 to 10; Manchester Print, 4 to 0; Merrimac, 10 to 744; Nashua, 6 to 3; Naumkeag, 8 'to 5; Pacific, 12 to 6, and Washington, 6 to 0 per cent. ‘The following havo passed twice:—Bates, Dwight, Great Falls, Hamiiton Cotton and Salmon Falls. And these pay the same as last time:—Androscoggin. Auiantic, Appleton, Contocook, Franklin, Lowell Bloachery, Mid: dlesex, Nowmarket, Salisbury and Stark Mills. The amount of interest to be paid in gold atthe United States Sub-Treasury in Boston, January 1, will be fully $4,500,000—being materially increased by the largo issue of July (1865-1967) five-tweuty bonds. The pay- ments will be on the following classes of securities :—-Six percent bonds, due December 31, 1867, 1465 and 1331, Orogan war loan sixes of 1831; five per cent bonds o! 1871 and 1874; and ihe new issue of July (1505-1867) nve- twenties. The principal of the sixes of 1867 will be due December 51, and pay: in gold, making a total of some $20,750,000. Tuterest in currency wil! also be duo January 15 on $18,601,000 sixes of 1895, issued to the several Pacific railirouds, In addition to ‘the $4,500,000 gold payments by government, the State of Massachusetis Will disburse $157,175; city ot Boston, $824,875; city #f Cambridge, $8,1: pekiegs total of $5,480,175, or, re- duced to curroncy, $7,513,567, with gold at 133, adding nearly two millions to the footings as given, A Burlington ve ) journal of the 27th ult, says:— The Farfers’ and Mechanics’ Bank of this city has ceased to be, The directors held their last n Wednesday last, and the property and institution having ail been disposed of, a pal dividend was declared to the stockholders of $7 40 a share, or twenty-two per centaud a fraction. One hundred and five por cent having been previou turns to the stockholders their entire capital, and a sur- plus of a little over twenty-seven per ceut, ‘Phe State of Virginia will pay the interest vpon all bonds issued before the war, upto and including those of January, 1861, as follows:—Two per cent in cash and one percent in scrip, and this only at Richmond. No provision has been made for ‘the interest on bonds issued since that date, ‘The following is the report of the Treaaurer of Pono~ sylvania of the revenue and expenditures*of that State for the year 1867:— RRVENUE, Lands. sense Auction commissions. ‘Tax on corporation Btook®. «t porsoual estate. (ax ou not earnings Tax on groas receipts... ‘Tax on enrollment of laws. Tax ow tonne ps Tax ou coal, per act of March 22, 1867, ‘Tax on national bank stock, per act of Apri Ketaliers’ licenses. Sample licensow Theaire, circus and menagerie licenses... ... 4,003 Hilliard’ room, bowling saloon and tea pi ‘alley licenses... uy es 4,204 Eauing house, beer house and restaurant i + : ve 32,970 4,254 8,102 1,690 8417 ign insurance agencies Prewiuma on charters Pampliet iaws Premiums on Lnteress on loa: Loan for the mption of the overdus bonds ++ 28,000,000 Eacheats 10 159 . 3,728 Dividenda on bridge stocks. ... 231 Peunsyivania Railroad Company bond No, 10 redeemed, 100,000 Annuity for 30 000 Refunded cas 4779 Fines and forfeivares. ” Feea of the public offices... $104 Cases of consciences Bales of public propery Accrued Luterest,. 16, Military expenses, per act of April 16, 1862 Military expenses, por act of Apri! 22. 1863, . Military expenses, per act of May 4, 1864 Mulitary expenses, per act March 23, 1865. Military expenses, per act of April 11, 1840. Military expenses, per act of March 8, 186) Military expenses, per act of April 10, 1867. Military expenses, per act of Apri{ 11, 1867 Military expenses, per act of April 17, 1867 Pensions and gratuities . Charitable {natitution: Ponnsylvania State Agricultural Society. Common schools,....... Commissioners of the Siu! Loans, &¢., redeemed, Other payments....... 20,928,829 + 2,257,033 i ir Interest on loans Domestic creditors. ‘ Gettysburg Battlefield Memoria! Assoc: Relief of Chambersburg sufferers. Houses of Refuge. ++ 949,750 Penitentiaries....... 40,004 Escheats. ; Freo bankil Counsel fees and commissions. . Mercantile appraisers, Amendments to the constitution... Special commissioners, 3 Miscellaneous......... +++ $25,502,526 From this report it will be observed that the public debt has hoe decreased $1,794,045 60 withim the last year. . Tur Late Congressman Hamivron, or On10,—General Brinkerboff, of Mansfeld, Onio, had received a letter from the late Hon, C, 8. Hamilton, of the Ohio Eighth Gistriet, bearing date December 21, In a postecript Mr. Hamilton wrote as follows in regard to his gon, at-whose hands be on the next day lost his lif As Thave named above the cause of my being at home, ft 1s proper L should bea little moro explicit, My wife wrote me that my oldest boy, Tom, eighteen years old, was threat. ened with insanity, have’ found oa my arrival that her fears had areal foundation; but { hoped that it would be but 7 trouble until yesterday, when h despaired of managing the case al ter cure, and I have made arran take him to the asylum at Columbus, He has the most quiet, industrious and exemplary boys I ever Knew, and my’ chief reliance for the management of my alfairy and the control of iy other cbildren ww my nee. DEATHS. ANDERSON,—On ,Wednesday morning, January 1, Louisa, wife of John A, Anderson, si Notice of funeral hereafter, Baltimore and Providence (R. I.) papers please copy. ‘Avpart.—On Wednesday morning, January 1, [1aso Anuatt, Secretary of the Mutual Lite Iugurance Com- any, Pen relatives and friends of the family are invited to attond the funeral, from the Church of the Holy Com- munion, corner of Sixth avenue and Twentieth atreet, on Friday afternoon, at one o'clock, Barnert.—On Tuesday, December 31, Faxste, wifo of William H, Barrett, and daughter of P,N. Haughwout, Esq. The relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, this (Thursday) morning, at half-past ten o’clocls from the Reformed Dutch church, Port Richmond, Staten Island. Braik.—On Sunday night, December 20, at Ottawa, Canada, the Hon, Avam Jounston Ferausson Buate, Presi- dent of the Executive Council of the Dominion of connie eldest brother of Robert C, Fergusson, Esq., of 8 city. Casstpy, —On Tuesday, December 31, Patrice Cassivy, in the 29th year of his age. His friends and the friends of the family, and the members of Good Will Fire Company, No. 4, are re- spectfuily nvited to attend the funeral, this ('hursday) momning, at half-past nine o'clock, from St. Joseph’s church, Brooklyn, where a requiem mass will be said tor the repose of his soul. Caxnox—In Brooklyn, on Tuesday, December 31 Connsiivs CANNON, a native of Mount Charles, parish of Taver, county Donegal, Ireland, in the 34th yoar of his age, ‘The relatives and friends oft he family are invited to attend the funeral, from his laie residence, 200 Front Sireet , this (Thursday) afternoon, at two o’ciock, to Cal- Cemetery. Consvm--Gn Tucsday, December 31, at Belleville, N.J., Jonny G. A., only’ son of W.W. 'M. and Gussie Cornish, aged 5 years, 3 months and 10 days, Funeral this (Thureday) atternoon, at two o'clock, from the residence of John G. Auton, ‘No, 140,Fort Greene place, near Fulton avenue, Brooklyn. Pay.—Oa Monday, December 30, Euza, wife of Samuel W. Day, and daughter of the Iate William Gib- d_ friends of the family are invited to from the Reformed Dutch chure first street, near Sixth avenue, this (fuursday) morning, at eleven o'clock Diaren.—At Fordham, N, Y., on Wednesday, January 1, AMetsa AroiNetre, wife of Frederick Dixpor, and daughter of the late Joseph Strong, in the Gd year of r ARO. The funeral services will take place at the Church of the Holy irinity, corner of Madison avenue and Furty- second street, on Friday. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend without further notice, Dowsy.—In Brooklyn, on Tuesday, December 31, Mrs. M. Downy, aged 26 years and 6 months The friends of the family aro invited to atvend tho funeral from St. Peter's & C, Church, corner of Hicks and West Warren streets. There will be a requim mass offered for the repose of her soul at nine o’clock A. M., from thence at one o'clock the Cemetery of the Holy Cross, Flatbush. Hanns —On Wednesday, January 1, of paralysis, Francis E, Hannis, in the 4st year of his age, The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from bis late residence, No. 6 Delan- coy, streat, on Friday afternoon, at one o'clock. RGRMAN.~-On Tuesday, ‘December 31, Lymrira P. A., wife of Joseph Hegeman, and daughter of Ellen and the late Francis McMenomy, in the 33d year of her ago. The friends of the family are respectful y invited to attend the funeral, on Friday morning, at hajf-past nine o'clock, trom St. Mary’s church, Brookiyn, D. Hr On dnesday, January 1, of consumption, Wituiaw Hitt, aged 29 yeara, 5 months and 8 days, Tho friends of the family, also the members of the Eighteenth precinct police, are respectfully invited to atteud the funeral, from nis late residence, No. 492 Sec- ond aveoud, On Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Boston papers please copy. . idence, Fordham, on Tuesday, De- Kenr.—At his 1 comber 31, THomas Kear, in the 6Stu year of his age, The relatives and friends of the tatily are invited to attend the funeral, from 208 East Twenty-aixth sirect, i (Thursday) afternoon, at one o'clock, without fur- ther notice, McGarry.—On Tuesday night, December 31, alter » severe illness, which she bore with Christian fortitude, Mary McGarry, the beloved wife of Micuael McGarry, in the 80th year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral, from her late ro: deuce, 42 East Tweaty-third streot,’ this (Thursday) ternoon, av one o'clock. MoKay,—At Harlem, on Tuesday, December 31, Ma- Rios, wife of James McKay, Friends and relatives are respectfully invited toauend the funeral, from her late reside: 113th street aud Third avenue, on Friday morning, at ten o'clock, Giasgow (Scotiand) papers please copy. No.ty.—Oo Wednesday morning, January 1, aftera long and painful ilinoss, Axwe Neuty, in the 40th year of her age. Her friends and acquaintances, and those of her brother, ck Nulty, and of her brother-in-law, Thomas Britton, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, this (Thursday) afternoon, at haif-past ono o'clock, from the residence of ber brotber, No, 201 Madison atr&et, . r a a a! Pavor.—At Harlem, on Tuesday, Decemver 31, of cancer in the breast, Mrs. Carmenive Panos, aged 63 yeare and 6 months, The frionds and relatives of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, from her son's resi- dence, 121st streot, between Second and Third avenues, Harlem, this (Thursday NOON, at three o'cloc! Ressei,—On Sunday morning, December 29, after » short tilness, ALexanoga Russsit, in the 43d year of bis age. Hie friends aro rospectfully invited to attend tho funeral, from bis: ate residet No, 650 Pitth sireet, this (Thursday) afternoon, at one o'clock. Hudson and (atskill papers will please copy. Daniel Carponier Lodge, No, 645, F. aad A. M., are hereby notified to meet at their rooms, No, 300 Kast Broadway, this (Thursda: the purpose of attending the funeral of Alexauder Russel, member of Hudeoa Lod, M., of Hudson, N. The memb y nvited to attend. By order. LiAM Hk JAHNE, Master. Muses Cuarreit, Secretary Rrerson.—Un Tuesday, Decomber 31, Peter F. Ryen- sox, son of Samuel and Ano Ryorsou, of Pompton , in the 37h year of his aga, vices Will be held at tue residence of his aunt, Mrs, Charles Bussell, No, 156 West Houston wreot, this (Thureday) evening, at balf-vast seven o'clock, Toe remains will be taken to Yompton Plains for interment. Saarrotr.—On Tuesday night, December 31, at St. Luke's Hospital, Tuomas §, SHannory, a mative of Bug: jand, aged 35 years, Friends ure invited to attend the funeral, on Friday morning, at eleven o'clock, from Si corner of Fifty-fourt!) street and Fifth Birmingham (Eugiahd) papers pi Sexit,—At her residence, No, 112 Brooklyn, on Monday eventag, Mecoinber 30, Hays aren wife of Rob Jr, and daughter of the The relatives and fry nds of the family, and of her son, Dr, 8, Fleot Spe! ro respoctfntiy invited to attend the funeral, from the First Prosbyterian church, corner of Remsen and Clinton sireets, Brooklyn, on Friday afternoon, at half-paat two o'clock ; pwrer.—On Tuesday, December 31, EuwsS., wife of Edwin &, Sweet, in her 260h year, Relatives aad friends aro respectfully invited to at- | tend the funeral, from the residence of ber falter, Goo, | W. Smith, South Sixth, corner of Fifth streot, Brooklyn B. D,, th Thursday) afternoon, at one o'clock. Texvy.—ia Hrookiyo, &. D, om Tuesday, Decembe: 31, Jou Tesxy i yoar, } ral Will take place on Friday afternoon, at ono jock, from his endence, N. Brookiyn, kD, K and fri | tavited to atiend, w wacx.—-On Sunday, December 29, Jawus A, Tarn. bie, agod 22 years, S mouths and 6 days, The relatives aud friends are respéctfuliy invited to Qitond the funeral, this (Thursday) morning, at ten o'clock, (rom the residence of his brother-in-law, J. Bel+ + lows, 49 S\antou street, without farther nove