The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1868, Page 4

owas opted pes es 4 NEW YORK HERALD,.FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1868. NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS BYENING. PIRE’S OPERA HOUSE, 234 st, coruer Eighth ave Soma. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Faust, NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite Now York Hotel. Uxpxe me Gasuicur, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—A Mrpsumuxe Nour's Dawau. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Lith street — Ouves Twist, . THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street.—Maace An- PoixerrE. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Maay Srvarr. ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—A Lira's Reyencu— Raine Tux Winn, STEINWAY HALL.—Cx fives Dioxens' Reapinas. BANVARD'S OPERA HO AND MUSEUM, B: way and Thirtieth street. —O eOM, Bieet- uTUAL FRi NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth strect.—Grusasrios, Equssraianism, 40, THEATRE COMIQUI, 514 Broadway.—Ilaxcow Compt Narion TROUPE. KELLY & LRON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. —Sonas, Dances, Koventmicrries, Buanesques, dc. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Broadway.—Ernio- Piax ENTRUTALNMENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND BURLESQUES TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Oomic Vocaiism, NeGao MINSTRELST, &0. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway. — Bacurt, Faunce, Pawtosime, £0, BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street—Tux LOM. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 4 Brooklyn,—Eraroriax Minstaxusr, Bauiavs aso Buxvesques. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— aRD Ant, New Yerk, Friday, January 10. 1868. EUROPE. ‘Tho news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, January 9, Count Bi rok deciares there is no probability of a war between France and Germany this year, Maxi- milian’s body had reached Corfu. Fenian prosecutions for ‘reason felony” and sedition wore still maintained fn England and Ireland. The new Cabinet of Portugas will lovy the objectionable taxes Favorable advices bad beep received {rom the English expedition in Abyssinia. Consols were at 92. 9234 for mopey in London. Five- ‘twenties were at 7174 072 in London, and 763% in Frank- fort, The Paris Bourse was improved. Cotton declined one-eighth of a penny in Liverpool, Breadatuffs quiet, Provisions firm, By the steamships from Europe we have an interest- ing mail report in detail of our cable despatohes to the 26th of December, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the House bill to prevent frauds in the collection of the revenue’ from distilled epirite was passed, The resolution to instruct the Judiciary Committee to report a bill abrogating the State governments in the South was under considera. ‘ion whon the morning hour expired, and the bill to prevent the further reductioa of tho currency was taken up. A geueral debate ensued, but no vote was taken, In the House the joint resolution requesting the Presi. ent to intercede for . © release of McMahon, the Fenian prisoner in Cavads, was taken up and passed unanimously, after some debate, as weil as similar joint resolutions ia refcrence to Robert Lynch and Colocels Warren and Nagie. The joint resolution for the appoini- ment of a commission on whiskey metres was taken up, and along and exciting debate ensued, at the oud & which the rezolution was postponed until to-day. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yésterday notices were given of bills to rebulld Washington Marke: and toborrow $1,000,000 tor the support of the poor in New York city, Tho usual ading commlitees were aanounced, and the Sauaio adjourned until Tuceday, In the Assombly Dilis were introduced to incroase the powers of the Exatse Commissioners, to abolish the Board of Health apd to repeai the Excise law, ‘The aunual report of the State Troasnror was presected, an’ the Assembly adjourned until Tuesday, : MISCLLLANEODS. ‘The Cites’ Associgasen publish a lotter to Promdont MeLean this morning inquiring {ato the reasons for the iucreased expense of supporting the public schoois, The inquest to the Jate Williamsburg homicide was concluded iast night, Tt ry, iF protracted del.ber- tion, found that the daceased, Henry Shear, came to bis doath from wounds tnflicted by Otto Schade ou the dub inat, Two prisoners tn the Memphis Juil fell to fighting on Wodnosday night, and one of them gouged the oiber’s eyesout. Shoriff Parkinson, in Dyersburg, East Tennosses, at- tempted to arrest an old man named Duncan, on Tues day, when Duncan fired a: Parkioson. Parkinson's son fired at and killed Duncan, Duncan's son fired and killed Parkinson's sou, and old Parkinson fired and killed young Dancan, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have refused to ¢o- eperate in the establishment of an lotercoionial Board of Trade, i The deadlock in the Pennsy!vania Assen.bly is atff! on. { Stream ta reported by expe- rienced navigators to recently been greatly in- ercased, and the currents along the Florida reefs are eaid to be so sirong as almost to draw a steam vessel wpon the reefa This phenomenon is suppored to be the result of the recent convulatons of the earth, Hunvicutt was called a “liar by a copservative dele- gate in the Virgiaia Convention yosterday, Considora- vie confasion but no fight ensued, In the United S:ates Commissioners’ Court, Brooklyn, | yesterday, the case of John ©. Braine was adjourned ever until the 27th inst, when an argument will be heard in reteresce to bis being admitted to ball. In tho Court of Genera) Sessions yesterday, Cliy Judue Russel presidiog, the cases of the following samed ac- oused were disposed of:—William Lodiman, having ity to an indictment charging him with bav- representations carried away an overcont it House, was ventonced to the State Prison for fve yeara Jobo Orr and Barney Winns, having pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny, wore eentenced to the Stave Prison for five years, William Schmidi, having pleaded guilty to burglary im the third sentenced to the State prison for four years, looney ploade: sentenced to the ‘hs, James Primrose o y ton charge of having att coat and were remanded for s . The siook mar d excited yesterday. Goverument securities were trong atd wciive, Gold wan irregviar end closed at 10 In t o yesterday & resvitton woe offered & r that the per diem of members cea . wale wae laid on the table, Tho balance of the day was devoled to the any ve f the 20th im len body adoption of articles 5 tt Robart Fowlor was yesve wror by the two houses of the Maryland I pavention, Joimte At WIT THR Tio sit John Morrissey’ * bravely t has the radical 69 successfully july none vonture to fight : had hold of the for nearly throe years, has hung on to him lik im death, and bas just about finished do to bet against the fonorable John’s animal td fe ty gate to bet on Andy Johason. him, whi! wiup. hw an attempt at burglary | or two years and | No desperndo | ce, too—that Morrissey's | Breaking Gronr } fer the Next Presidency— The Groat West in Motion. On Wednesday last, the eighth of January, sacred to the momory of. General Jackson (not Stonewall, but Old Hickory), there wore beyond the Alleghanies: three very significant political conventions—one at Wheeling, West Virginia, one at Columbus, Obio, and.one at Indianapolis, Indiana, At each of these State Conventions the democracy in council broke ground on the Presidential question, and from their proceedings, as given in yesterday’s Heraup, our readers have doubtless seen enough to be satisfied as to the issues upon which the democratic and other conservative elements of the country in opposition to the republicans will fight their batile for the suc- cession. The West Virginin Convention declared itself in favor of the bond taxation and the Pondle- ton plan of redemption of the national debt, and received with enthusiasm the name of Pendleton as the Presidential champion of the Ohio Convention, The resolutions of the Ohio and the Indiana Conventions are substantially the same; but as those of the Indiana democ- racy are more emphatically expressed they may, we think, be taken as more clearly fore- shadowing than any others from any quarter of the oountry the ‘Presidential plat form of the democrats and oconserva- tives of all parties against the ob- noxious radical party in power. And what say the Indiana democracy? They say, first, that “ language is not adequate to express out abborrence and condemnation of the radical reconstruction policy of Bongress ;” and they “demand the unconditional repeal of the acts of Congress conterring exclusive righ‘s or privileges upon any class or classes of citizens at the expense of other classes.” In other words, the Indiana democracy are cordially in favor of the Southern restoration programme of Andrew Johnson. They next declare “that the national bank system, organized in the interest of tho bond- holders, ought to be abolished and United States notes (greenbacks) substituted in liou of the national bank currency;” that tho bonds and other securities of the United States, &c., should be taxed as other property for na- tional, State, county and municipal purposes; that the national bonds ought to be paid in greenbacks, except where gold is exprossly re- quired by law; that, considering the monstrous extravagances of the party in power, they ought to be displaced, so that a thorough course of retrenchment and reform may be adopted, This is the fnancial platform of the Indiana democracy, and from all the signa of the times it will sweep tho groat West, from the Alleghanies to the Pacific, like a fire in the prairies under a nor’west wind. On the suffrage question the Indiana de- mocrats declare that “we are opposed to ¢on- ferring the right of suffrage upon nogroes,”’ an1_ “we deny the right of the general govern- ment to interfere with the question of suffrage in any of the States of the Union.” They are also opposed to Paritanioal legislation on moral ideas, lager beer and such things, and are in favor of the repeal of the existing un- just and iniquitous tariff and the adoption of a new tariff system looking to. revenue only, Bat the last three of these In liana resolutions are more significant than all the rest, consider ing the order in which they stand—tho first being a hearty endorsem»nt of President John- son, the second an enthusiastic approval of the course of General Hancock at New Orleans, and the third a splendid puff of Ohio and George H. Pendleton. He, in fact, by the In- diana democracy, is specially commended to the National Democratic Convention as “a true and consistent democrat, and one who has our entire confidence and preference; but expe- diency among politicians very often plays the mschief with preferences, and Mr. Pendleton, we apprehend, when it comes to the test, will have to be sacrificed to exnediency. General McClellan would bave made a much Dotter run than he did in 18¢4 but for the dead- weights of Vallandigham ani Pendleton. Tho latter gentleman, not léss than the former, represented in his own record in Congress the Vallandigham-Chicago peace-at-any-price plat- form. This record will still make Pendleton and all of his school of peace democrats daring the war unavailable for tho Presidency. Andrew Johnson, on the other hand, basa record against the rebellion, from its inception to its collaps>, whica places him among the first, the most zealous and tho most efficient leaders of the Union party of the war. Tho Indiana democrats, therefore, in putting John- son first and Hancock second in their resolu- tions, evidently intend to throw out the hint that for the national democracy and all the other political elements of the country opposed to the perpetuation of the radicals in power the true Union conservative ticket is this :— For President—Andrew Johnson, of Tennesseo, Por aq President—W infleid Scovs Hancock, of Pennayl- van A resolution of half a dozen lines from our Assembly at Albany looking in this direction would settle the question at onee; and why not? Seymour and Pendleton, pitted against each other in the national party convention, will both be knocked on the ‘head, and at last some obscurity who has no record, or Andrew Johnson, an old Jackson democrat, whose record will stand tho fire, will have to be nominated. If tie democrats of New York, therefore,” desire the honor of naming their party ticket for the Presidency, they have | only in the Logisla ure now in session to | proclaim the ticket of Johnson and Hancock on the platform of the outspoken domocracy of the West, John Van Buren’s nomination of Ms. Jonson in 1965 now stands proved by recent and passing events as the inspiration of a prophet. ft. JOUNSO! Presents To Straws Inptoare } toe Cornmwt.—Thero ts an extroordinary rash | of in uals and delegations just now to the | | White Hous> with presents to Mr. Johnson. Gold-h ed canes from charter oaks and all { nds of consecrated wood, gold modals | } ornamented with “nightingale trills,” old rye | over proof whiskey of the finest qnality, and | other things, enough to st & museum, are pouring in upon the Preside A year or #0 fo Hone Was 60 poor, and no one was found Straws on the sur‘ace show The politicians and to do him honor. the course of the current, office eeckers and office holders, who are always on the lookout for the rising star, are waking up with wonderful alacrity. Washing- ton is full of such needy and hungry fellows, who watch tho future more intently than the astronomor does the motions of "the heavenly bodies. Evidently Andrew Johnson is the coming maa. | one of these disappointed and s | Naturallzed Citizenship, In the United States and in Great Britain at the preseat moment the tople of discussion which is putting Fenianism and the Alabama claims completely into the shade is that of nataralized citizenship. A telegram which we published in yesterday’s Hematp intimates that the leading journals of Great Britain are full of the subject, and that the tendency is to conform to the views in favor on this side. For two days the subject has been prominently before the United States Congress, and yester- day the House adopted joint resolutions re- questing the President to intercede with the Queen of Great Britain to secure the release of our adopted citizens now confined in fore'gn prisons. The question is also creating an interest over the entire Union; meetings have been held, addresses have been got up, and it is manifest that there is about to be brought to bear upon the gov- ernment an amount of pressure which shall determine the question for all time to come what is meant by an American citizen, There is, no. doubt, a certain amount of difficulty in connection with the subject; but the difficulty, whatever it may be, is less a difficulty of the government than of the individual citizen. It is for the government to say and make ‘known to the world what consti- tutes an American citizen, and to defend such citizenship against all unjust attacks, come from what quarter they may. It is for the alien to elect whether he shall become a citizen of the United States on the terms which we prescribe, and under the conditions which we impose. The difficulties are by ne means in- surmountable, and the course of the govern- ment is clear. It is all tho more desirable that the question be settled at once, that the government and people of Great Britain aro disposed to be reasonable on the matter, and that the settlement of the question with Great Britain will virtually settle the question with all the nations of Europe, and therefore with the world and forever. | To us, however, the settlement of the Ala- bama claims fs of infinitely greater import- anoe. It will be well, indeed, for our govern- ment to be on its guard lest the astute states- men on the other ‘side are using tho ques- tion of citizenship as a stalking horse to get over the Alabama difficulty. We want the money paid down to the last farthing due to us on account of the depredations of the Alabama and kindred vessels. We must not allow our- selves to be biinded to the real question at issue between us. It is the money wo want, and if it is not paid down we know where and how to find an equivalent. The Pulpit in a New Attitude. The pulpit has had a great success in the auction sale of pews at Henry Ward Beecher’s church. They brought magnificent prices. No boxes at the opera nor seats at the Dickens’ readings could make any show against the Plymouth church auction; from which we infor that religion is going up in the market as represented in Beecher’s tabernacle, where, like the religion of the ancient Greeks, piety and the drama are strangely mixed. In olden times the gods were brought upon the stage, and men laughed in the theatre at what they worshipped in the temple. Beecher has brought us back to the simplicity of thoso primitive days; but he is more brilliant than his predecessors of ® thousand years ago ; for while they clumsily connected politics and caricature with religion, he skilfully inter- weaves them and makes an ensemble which, if it does not increase the piety of his congrega- tion, helps the auctioneer materially in tho sale of the pews of Plymouth church. If he is more of an Aristophanes than an Eschylus it is because he knows that tho comic réle “draws” better than the tragic, and he ap- preciates the laughter which his jokes pro- voke quite as well as tho plaudits that his political points call forth. Then his style suits the well dressed ladies that the pulpit nowa days invites to worship, for in Plymouth church Beecher shines more brilliantly than the me- teors which Professor Loomis tried to suppress | by the power of prophecy, but could not; and women, we know, follow the “ garish flame.” But Beecler has @ rival in his pupil—the Rey. Charles B. (Black Crook) Smyth—who is about to lecture on the New York Press D, D.’s (whatever that means)—Demons, Dollars and the Dickens—on Sunday next, He is going to give us a sermon wich @ text from the six- teeath chapter of St. Luke, proving that «the children of this world, in their generation, are wiser than the children of light;” that New York is the wonder of the world, because it sustains 40 many newspapers ; how the HeraLp ought to be edited and a good many other useful things, according to Smyth. Now, if Beecher will preach one of his original sermons on Sunday we will send reporters to both places, 80 that the public can see on Monday which is the best preacher of the two. Tuer Insurrection mv Perv.—In the Henatp of yesterday we published a number of letters from our special correspondents in Pern. To those who have hope that the Spanish race on this Continent are capable of self-govern- ment those letters would be a gource of grati- fication, as showing that the insurrection which has for some time been raging in Peru was on the point of being crushed out. Ut is con- fidently expected that the next mail will bring us intelligence of the complete discomfiture of the rebels and the triump of law and order. Both north and south, at the date of our last letters, civil war was raging; but Arequipa, the beadquarters‘of tho rebellion in the south, was supposed to be already in the bands of the government, and fn the north the rebel caus? was considered desperate. Let ua hope that better times are coming to the fouth American republics. Meanwiile we cannot help saying that their past has Leon full of blunders and that their future is not partion- | larly promising. Ovr Apvice to Newsparer Mery Wasrine Exrtoruunr.—We are overrun wilh applica for employment on the Henarp, Our ¢ lisbmont being full of geniuses of every quality—more, in fact, than wo know what to do with—and our contemporaries having no need of goniuses at all, we recommend every Tering men ‘8 abe of the press to start a new r Nothing will pay better. For example, see how well the new Beecher religion pays, The world is ripe for any number of new religions, and it does not require much telent to Invent one, Let the unemployed newspaper men take our advice, then; and by all means let them begin wiih the women, for they rule in such matters end the men follow with the needful cash, Another Attempt to Establish Itallan Opera. Italian opera in this city was revived last night under the most favorable auspices, and received in the commencement of its new career very encouraging guarantees of success. First, thero was a magnificent home prepared for it, one far surpassing the fondest expecta- tions of {ts most ardent ‘devotecs ; then an audience both fashionable and brilliant attended its birth, and a superb company, with La Grange as its chief atiraction, appeared in the most popular of the popular Verdi’s operas, One very curious circumstance is that this latest enterprise in Italian opera follows close on the heels of a lamentable fiasco in the same branch of lyric art at another esiablishment. For twenty-five years numerous trials have been made to establish Italian opera in the metropolis, all of which have, sooner or later, failed. The causes of these constant failures may be attributed to incompetent managers in the first place, and in the case of the Academy of Music to the interference and domineering course of a clique of stock- holders. Of all those who undertook the dangerous experiment of localizing opera in Gotham Maretzek made the best beginning. He got along very well at first, and might have succeeded had he not fallen a victim to the lords of the Academy. They ruined him by making him attack his best friends, reducing him to the condition of a slave, dictating to him who should be prima donna and who should play first fidijle, and then leaving him to shift for himself in his sorest need. In the internal revenne returns of the theatres which we published this week the extraordinary success of the “Black Crook” contrasts very sirangely with the receipts of the opera. Undoubtedly in the days of Baby- lon, Sodom and Gomorrah the “Black Crook” would be considered one of the “big things” of the day, and it seems as if his- tory repeats itself in New York in the nineteenth century. It is a cheoring thing, however, to find that Wallack’s, where the legitimate drama is at home, returns the next receipts to Niblo’s. These returns show that our amusement public are not forgetful of the drama, in spite of their penchant for legs and transformation scenes. The opera at Piko’s new Opera House commenced well last night, but the management ought not to be content with that, Unless the opera is kept up to a first class standard and such artistes as Ade- lina Patti, Pauline Lucca, Tietjens and Chris- tine Nilson be imported to fill the place of the great La Grange, and everything kept up to the highest standard, this attempt to establish Italian opera will be a failure, like the others. The impresario will have to follow up this commencement ofthe season, which was really an artistic as well as pecuniary success, with novelties in either operas or sing-rs; and as he has no stockholders there is no excuse for neglect on his part. According to present in- dications, however, the result of the experi- ment is extremely favorable. {ndian Trenty Commissioners’? Report. We have received a copy of the long but interesting and important report of the Com- miseioners appointed under the act of Con- gress approved on the 20th of July, 1867, “to establish peaco with certain hostile Indian tribes.” By that act. the Commis- siovers were authorized to call together the chiefs and head men of such bands of In- dians as were then waging war, to ascertain their reasons for hostility,and, should it be found advisable, to make treaties with them having the following objocts:—First, to re- move, if possible, the causes of war; second, to secure, so far as practicable, our frontier settlements and tho safe building of our rail- roads towards the Pacific; and, third, to sug- gest or inaugurate some plan for the tiviliza- tion of the Indians. Tho full account which the Commissioners give of their councils and “talks” with most of the principal Indian chiefs, and of the investi- gations which, according to fastractions, they made relative to districts suitable for reserva- tions of sufficient arca to receive all the hostile tribes east of the Rocky Mountains, and of the recent Indian war, its causes and ils thrilling incidents, has already been anticipated by the correspondents of the Naw York Huratp. But the information which it presents in official form will thus bring again to the attention of Congress and the country the momentous question, in which both national honor and interests are involyed—What shall be done with the Indians? Tho history of the Indian war, which has beon rather suspended than terminated, is but a continuation of the sad record of the wrongs to which the red man has been subjected for two hundred years by the white invader of his hunting grounds. The Commissioners unite in attributing the late Indian outbreak to a viola- tion of treaties on our part. They discover, for instance, that, in the burning of the Cheyenne village by General Hancock, he acted on reports by Major Douglass, which subsequently turned out to be entirely false. The Commissioners recommend that two re- servations bo exclusively set apart for Indian occupation, One of these they would assign to the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chicka- saws, Seminoles, Osages, Wachitaa, Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes, Arspahovs, Apaches, Pottowotomies, the various tribes of Kansas Indians, and the Nayajoes of New Mexico, num- bering in al! 86,455. This reservation should be bounded north by Kansas, east by Arkansas and Missouri, south by Texas and west by the 100th or 101st meridian. The other, bounded north by tho 46th parallel, east by the Missis- sippi river, south by Nebraska and weet by tho 104th moridian, they would assign to the Yane- ton Sioux, Poneas, Lower Brules, Lower Yane- } tonais, Two Kettles, Black Fect, Minneconyons, pqaas, Ogallulas, Upper Yanctonais, Sans | Ur Aros, Arickarces, os 6V. ,» Man. | dana, Assiniboins, Flatheada, Upper Pend | a’Orciliee, Kootenoys, Piogans, Bloods, Crows, Ww oes, Owahas, Brale ani Ogallula é , Novthorn Cheyennes, Northern Arapa- hoes and Santee Sioux, numbering 64,126, ‘The Kansas tribes, however, and the Winne- bagoes, Omahas, Ottoes, Santee Sioux, end perhaps other tribes, the Commissioners think fT it may be advisablo to let remain where they ace and finally become incorporated, the former with the cilizons of Kansas end the lat- ter with those of Nebraska. They leo recommend that heaceforth the stipulated annuities +siall be paid to the Tndians, not in money, but fa ogricultural implomonts, food and clothing; that as, aside from nobler considerations, “it is choaper to civilize than to kill,” redoubled efforts should be made to promote civilization among the various tribes ; that, in view of the conflict of authority and responsibility between the War Department and the Department of the In- terior, the Indian Bureau be reorganized as a special, separate department, leaving it to Congress and the President whether the head of the Burean shall be a member of the Cabinet or not; that all dealings with tribes con- tinually hostile or those in actual war againet the United States should be entrusted to the War Department, but that all other Indians should be controlled and, dealt with through the new department by the civil arm of tho government; that the intercourse laws with the Indian tribes be thoroughly revised ; that, in view of the flagrant corruptions of which 80 many and so just compiaints have been made against officials connected with the administra- tion of Indian affairs, Congress should pass an act fixing a day not later than the Ist of February, 1869, when the offices of all super- intendents, agents and special agents shall be vacated, when such persons as have proved competent and faithful may be retained, but those who have proved unfit shall find them- selves removed without an opportunity to divert attention from their own unworthiness by professions of party zeal ; that no Governor or Legislature of States or Territories be permitted to cail out and equip troops for the purpose of carrying on war against the Indians; that new provisions should be made authoriz- ing and positively direoting the military au- thorities to remove white persons who persist in trespassing on Indian reservations and un- ceded Indian lands; that o special treaty be made with the Navajoe Indians in New Mexico with a view to their removal to the southern district selected by the Commissioners; that the President may at times appoint some per- son or persons in the distant territories, either civilians or military men, to make inspection of Indian affairs and report to him; and, finally, that the present Commission, or another one with similar powers, be authorized to meet, according to agreement, with the Sioux next spring and to arrange for the removal of the Navajoes. The Commissioners add that, in case their suggestions are adopted in regard to selecting Indian ieservations, it might be well to extend their powers in order to enable them to conclude treaties with tribes con- fessedly at peace looking to their concentra- tion upon those reservations ; and also, in view of the fact that the Union Pacific Railroad will soon have reached the country claimed by the Snakes, Bannocks and other tribos, to see them and make satisfactory arrangements with them. On the whole, this report is not only credit- able to the heads and hearts of the Comm‘s- sionors, but encourages the hope that the Indian question is at length approaching o satisfactory conclusion. Behind the Age. A lot of twaddling old democrats, fissils of & bygone age, and little spouting Washington politicians and office seekers, who always manage to make a fuss just about tho time a Presidential election is coming on, got up o meeting or banquet the day before yosterday on protence of celebrating tho anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, but really to make thomselves conspicuous. Of course President Jobnson was invited, and out of politeness he made his appearance. They tried to get a speech out of him, and probably this was their main object, hoping thereby to identify them- selves in some sort of way with the glorious fight he is making in defence of the constitu- tion and best interests of the country. But Mr. Johnson had nothing to say, He simply re- ferred to what he had often said before and to his acts. It was unnecessary for him to say more, and it is quite likely he had a proper estimate of most of the fussy and useless little politicians who were endeavoring to glorify themselves by his presence. The batile of Now Orleans! Why, glorious as it was, it is over- shadowed by the battles of late times and by the greater batile the President is now fighting. These mon are behind the age... There never was such a grand military event as the crush- ing out of the rebellion by General Grant ; and there never has been in political history such tremendous and successful war as Andrew Johnson has fonght against tho radi- cals and in defence of the constitution. The Washington politicians may find a grander theme, and one with the grandest resulta, in tho President’s conduct with regard to the issue now before the country, CITY POLITICS. © Rep mittee. The newly elected members of the Conservative Re- publican General Committee tor this year, whose head~ quarters are at the corner of Broadway and [wenty-third Street, mot in large numbers ast evening to effect a per- manent organization, ‘The following wore the officers chosen for the ensuing year:—Presidont, Thomas Murphy; Vice Presidents, E, Delafleld Smith and k. ©, Benedict; Secreta- ties, A. Jackson Plumb and Michael Halioban; Treasurer, Joseph Wb. Taylor; Ber; t- at- Arms, Jobn Brady. On taking the chair the newly elected Prosident made a 4 h roviewing™the his- tory of the organization and strongly animadvorting upon the opposition organization, which he deciared te be a bogus one, for its refusal to harmonize with them, Rufus ¥. Andrews submitted the folowing resolu wae which were adopted wih only one dissenting VOLO im Resolved, That this General Committee will tmitate the example of the cominittos of iast year and continue thele oiforts to harmonize the coufioing elements in the repub- Hean party in this city. Resolvs at the diminished republican vote shown at the late election should convince ‘hose o to us that thore ie.m necasaity for us ong all republicans, and that we trust chat they will mediate measures to ef- fect a sett 1 diff Reaolved, That in confc Couservative General Com- at of ‘0 (he spirit of these reso. Motions the ehatrm: mmitwoe of five, whowe duty ft shall be to tai arly ae possible harmo- nize all differences among republicans in the wity. ‘The moeting then adjourned to next Thursday evening. Radical Republican General Commiitee. Tho radical Union Republican General Committee, whose place of meeting {s at the corner of Twonty-r00- ond street and Broadway, turned out ia goodly nambors Jast evoning for che like purpose of effecting a perma. ont organization. General John Cochrane was the temporary chairman, Tt was slow work s*oomplishing the object of tho meeting, oa account of the number of candidates iu the field and grequency of Lailots required Ja euch cas® After some three hora’ soesion the fol- were eleciod esident, F. J, Fythian; Leggett, % Strong: Treasurer, en V, dil epuen Merritt, # boing called for mate a speech, apd the moating thereupon adjourned sub,ect to tie call of the chair, Annnal Meeting of the U ‘Tho Union League, on aevonadi! Informed of the sudden death yesterday of o Executive Committee, Colonel George F. Noyes, late of oral Wadaworth's stall, and, on motion, deferred ail bow news Until next mesting except the © The following ticket was leo jay; Vice Presidencs, Kdward Jattray, Wil ©, Bryant, Ruggles, Alexander 7, ry Cyrus W. Mield, Ww. 3. Hoppin, Franklin H. Delano, biliot ©, Cowdin, George . Blont, Wiliam HH, Secret J, Langdon Ward; George Cabot W. Troasurot, Executive Commitioa, George Griswold, Le Grand B, Gsnnon, Joba A. Weoks eran B. Keaton, Good jostrand, ‘iomag - ¥. Noyes (deceased), David Dale, Roos H. Foam, Danis N yreit, Watiiam heir | q s i somata crepe Sf"Tcle Winn Frat f Judge 0! Howe, “Professor Lieber, tT. £ Lathrop, » Tuckerman and F, K. Howe and Presitieut Jay, was ap- panes to draft resolutions relat\vo to the death of Colonel Noves. ‘he committee repused and the club sdjoarned until the 234 instant, THE AMERICUS CLUB, TOOTSIE Aauunl Ball at the Academy of Munts. On the southerly coast of Connecticut, beautifully” situated near tho city of Greenwich, commanding am extonsive view of the soued, combining within its pre- cincts the peculiarities of both city and country lif, numbering among ita inbebitants, from time to time, during the summer season, many Of the lending lights of the political world, stamds a pretty little piece of land known as Tweed’s Island. Sarmounted by a com- fortabte and handsome building, from the. flag- staff above which, during its oceupancy, floats # handsome banner bearing the sembiance of a tiger's head, and on the side of which in large lotters are the words “Americus Club,” the island sands a pretty yet pecutiar token of the tasie possessed by some of the men who manage our municipal affairs From the house above alluded to come the edicis regarding the management of our mumcipal political machiuery, end within its walls are concocted and porfected the plans according to which the political fabric of the metropolis ia to be constructed. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that a place witbin the home circlo of the Amerious Club should be eagerly sought for by political aspirants, and that once guined it should be guarded with a jealous and untiring care. Democrats and republicans there commune in social circles, and, amid the curing smoke from fragrant Ha- vanas and the foaming vintag’s of the Old World, ex- change thetr views, adjum their local feuds, plan their fall campaigns, give to the gvorid at large @ beaut fub idea of how handsomely business can be made to join with pleasure, aud'how bours of recreation may be use fully and profitably emvlored, But the summers at Greenwich are not the only times of harpy reun on one Jjoyed by the club and its friends, After thesall, with its trials and tribulations to office seekers, comoa the winter, and this festive season is never allowed (0 pass without some substantial evidence of the status of the bo a imporiant position 1+ holds ia the com- munity. THE PALL. Year after year bave the winter reunions of the Americus Club been the occasions for the gathering of the beauty and fashion as well as the tact and tal-nt of the metropolis. The reunion of 168, which took place last evening at the Academy of Music, affirmed beyond. a doubt theclaim that the ball-of the Americus Club ts par excellence the ball of the ecason. Ji doctors, lawyers, actors, officers of the army and navy, Senators and Assemblymeno, Aldermen and officials of ali grades were present in large force, 18M ARRANGRMENTS in every respect admirable. There was no clash- ing, no confusion body who had a duty to per- form was so placed he could/tulfil tne functions of his office without in! g With bis neighbor, Captain Brackett, with his force, was on hand at the entrance and arranged so that the coaches, after depo-iting their Occupants at the Acudemy, should immediately muke room for others, Commissioner Brenoan. ag chairman of the Recopiion Commities, was at his poss Inside car- og for the guests; Supervisor Roche, chairman of the Floor Committee, together with hia oorps of gentle toanly asaistante, arranged for the dancers in admirable le, and Judge Shandiey, toget! with bis tehow feat anything should occur to mar tl their wateh was needless), and Grafulla, with his duplex band, animated the hearts and fovt of the thousands present by the sweet and sparkling strains which they ‘80 well know how to create, DEOORATIONS differed but little from the description fA dary in the Heraup of yesterday. The rear wail of the Academy ‘wes covered by 8 masterpiece of wcene painuing, as re- od u acouracy of detail and exquisite nish, representing the house ant gri of the olub at Greenwich, Conn, witn a hendsome view of the Sound, dotted’ here and there with club boats, yachts and craft of various kinds. In the forezround of the “drop’’ 18 painted a bandsome balcony rail, across which, in a beautifully manner, is thrown a dDand-ome Agerican flag, aud the entire ~cene was so finely executed thet a p rsop standing at the main extrance, opposi‘e the centre of the # and looking down the lengta of tho ball room, woul imagine the assembly being held fous espiant on some spac! which bordered on « beau- tifal sheet of water, At ashort distance in front of the picture hung the fusignia of the club, a golden uger’s head, surrounded by a garter, bearing the words, “Americes Club" in jets of gns, and at eithor side insignia «6a =6flaming corkserew told. in an enigmatical, manner of of the practice if t of the purposes of tho olub, At the loft en the picture on seme miniature roc! stood a very handsome uy harmless, ho: ever, as may be surmised, but addmg groatly to Deauty and appropriat ness of the deovrations At t! of the columns between tho proscenium boxes stood urns tilled with flowers of such fae workmanship ‘that several times during the night parites uttered ex- clamations of delight at tho fragrance whioh the: posed the flowers emitted; but they were und aa non them hoa satiated by the odor Imaginations created, tout appronoBed: the bouquets te et more, and of course got much lese, Throughout the Soy of ibe house there wore no other decorations ex Cept those imparted by ‘THR COMPANY, which filled {t almost to overflowing and made @ picture almost dazz'ing to bonold. There were many who came only to look on, and these filled the boxes and crcles, even to the amphi- Wieaire, There wore-othe s who came to dance many of whom came apparently determined to al that thay could dance, after some fashion, and went Beligiously through the programme, taking barely time enough to perform the necessary punishmens of masti- eating or swallowing # supper. General Grant with staf, was expected to be Present, but he did not arrive up io midnight, and then all hopes of bis appears ere dispolicd, THe De 8sr8, in many casea were roma:kabiy line; Dut thero was @ noticeable absence of enormous diuinonds and flashy trinkets, The gentlemen, of course, wore for the most Part tho traditional swaliow-tail coats and white ci but the ladies seemed to vie with each o:her—as, fact, they always do—to dress splendidiy, yet tastefully. Here 14 a lady of a governinent officer weariog a dress of rich orimson sitk, with a bodice and overskirt of point lace, hair powdered and irimmed a la Marie Antoine te, and ‘studded with metallic globules representing grapes. Hero is tho Indy of an official city reporter dressed im ® beautiful corn colored silk, with long square trail, caged with » fluting of white satio, and wearing over all arich point lace shawl. Here ia a police justice’s lady, dressed in rich black silk, with heavy Greek sleeves facod with white satin, and underwaist and sleeves ot Valenciennes, ed, their ad in Hero, in fact, are dresses of all kinds and colors and Jewels of rare and costiy styles. Pearls aud Etruscan ‘seta predominate, and altogether the die, is one of ‘more tastefulness than gavdines, and one which will Jong remain as a brilliaat mark on the revords of the Americus Club, RESIGNATION OF THE CHAMBERLAIN OF TROY. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE DF THE HERALD. Tnor, Jan. 7, 1868, Mr Derrick Lage, the recently appointed Chamber- lain of this city in place of Mr, James M, Browor, tow day tendered his resignation of that office to the chair man of the proper committee of the Common Council, It ie stated that some —. has sprung up between the Comptrolier of the , Inances and the Mayor in reference to the paying of bills certified to wr Lane ae Chamboriain by the Mayor alone, The departing officer has bold that all bills against the city need approval of the Finance Committes of the Common Counc! as well as that of the Mayor, and without such comple e ap- proval he declines to pay any bills nt city. Upon the refusal the Mayor t city bonds, some coofusion arose in Comptroiler's office which led to the in signation, The custom boretofore has been to pay bilis upon the sign manual approval of the city chick magistrate, The investigation into the accounts of the tate Chamberlain, Mr. James M. Brewer, ts still in prow gress, THE REWARD FOR THE ARAEST OF SURRATT. [Washington corrospondenco , Tne War’ Depa 6 bi papers, showing & giving the information ou which Jovy H, arrested. It appears that he wrote to General © from Montreal iast October, and urged his cisim on ive ground that he could gat 10«mployment, ax he was ean rounded by numerous ene #ies and livvle to suffer at any taoment from the vengewice of Surratt’s ry mpachizers, ‘The letter was rat ton board of officers consisting of 8) Boston Advertinor. ) at to Cone Jadge Advocate General Holt, Genorat Rawlins and Adjutant General Townsend, who flusliy reported in <t Marie's favor, Thoy sy that the formal ofer of $25,000 reward for tho arrest of Surrat withdrawn ia Avril, 1868; bui the offer to pay tits for intormesion waa St it wanding, vod the facts communica ed by St Mare Jad direotiy to vis arrest They add that the odiam ana peril to which St, Marie ts subject by reme Appeared as aw $15,000, General Groat Krona, Which mast pass ® the money cau ve party ARMREST FOR ALLEME (From the Evonmng GF GOVEANMEKT anAlios. jegtam of, yesterday. } Horo, Jan. 9, 1868, Goorge W. Willinma was arresiad bore doday ara und over for in the ain ef $6,000: for Lerying Is alleged, that hy is the park ed the “eveuue srencliy w hic fo Bate and sostoy whiskey frauds vome monthe % 10 the Philadiphin Bute the meu ge of Gover Pruesrivanis.——Acoord swt interosing ry-whica, by lagiatature, alihor, ia that the Stave dob!y is now pa ond My $34,700,431 2: with @agors in the ‘Trowsury, in thy, suena of Taiirond, Ddands, worth a 1,857 GL; 80 iat the real debs of Stato ts on 642,073'31. “Th 18 not ts { f