The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR dinAtanatapoennonels ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore HeERatp. Letters and packages should be properly ‘sealed, . Rejected communications will not be re- ‘turned, : THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the vear. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. 2 THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five Five Copies. Ten Copies. Any larger number addressed to names of sub- scribers $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten. Twenty copies to one addresss one year, $25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the WEEKLY HERALD the cheapest pub- dcation tn the country. Postage five cents per copy for three months. Volume XXXII AMJSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Luoretta Bongia— DeEMosTUENES' DopGE—ADOPTED CULLD. OLYMPIC THEATRE, B: way.—Humpry Doempry. 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The French Minister in Switzerland is appointed Ministerto Rome. At Marseilles during a military review the French people cried out for peace and against war. An equalization of the duties on the importation of sugar 1s being discussed before a European congress sitting at the Hague. The Danubian Principalities are agitated towards revolutionary outbreak amd Austria prohibits the transit of Mrearms from her territory across the Danube. The American yacht Sappho will engage in an ex- citing race with English yachts on the 21st instant, Consols, 9374 money. Five-twenties 71%, 1n Lon- don and 744 in Frankfort. Cotton easy at a decline, middling uplands closing at 10% pence. Breadstuffs generally unchanged. Provisions slightly lower and downward. By mail from Europe we have interesting special details of our cable telegrams to the 8th of August. MISCELLANEOUS. Advices by the Atlantic cable are received from Paraguay and Rio Janeiro to the 3istof July. The allies had been severely repulsed in an assault on Fort Humaitd, with an estimated loss of three thou- sand men, and also in an assault on the defences in the Gran Chaco, the losses in the latter attempt not being stated. ‘The indications in Washington are that Congress ‘will reassemble on the day appointed at adjournment and probably be in session some time. ‘The Chinese Embassy left Niagara Falls on Tues- day evening, Mr. Burlingame having returned from Chicago sooner than expected., They arrived in Worcester, Masa., last evening, and were received with a hearty welcome by a deputation of the Gov- ernor’s staff, They will be received in Boston to- day. Thaddeus Stevens’ will has been admitted to pro- bate. He donates the bulk of his property to his nephew, Captain Thaddeus Stevens, on condition that he tetally abstains from intoxicating liquors, and in the event of his failing to make the condition good it goes for the erection of a refuge in Lancaster for homeless and indigent orphans, without regard to race, color, religion or descent. On our Triple Sheet this morning will be found a variety of interesting matter—foreign news, speci- men bricks of political literature, a resumé of theatri- al intelligence, an account of the execution of the assassins of Prince Michel at Belgrade, Servia, and other matters, There were fowteen of the assassins of Prince Michel ana they were shot and buried one at @ time, each one puMing his cigar until his turn came. Early on the morning of August 18, New York time, there was, according to scientific astronomers, @ total eclipse of the sun in Africa and Asia. Two parties of savans were sent some time ago from England, two from France and a number from Ger- many to the interior of Africa to view the phe- nomenon. A small herd of diseased cattie arrived at one of the up town drove yards a few days ago, but the sanitary officers already have them under super- vision. Ten other herds here have been stopped on the route. The Canadians are vigilantiy preparing to stop the threatened advances of the pest into the New Dominion. ‘The Indian troubles in Kansas are reported to have suddenly ceased by the withdrawal of the In- dians from Solomon's creek. A list of casualties shows eight persons dead, three missing and five wounded, although it 1s believed the actual numbers are much larger. The settlers are returning to their homes, bat many of them are destitute. The trial of the colored Zouaves who fired into a crowd of citizens in Washington last week was com- menced in Georgetown yesterday, Considerable evidence was taken; a policeman testifying that he saw the occurrence, but was too much afraid of his life to interfere. ' In the South Carolina House of Representatives yesterday a bill was passed repudiating the claims of Baring Brothers against the State, and turning over the assets of the State Bank represented by that firm to the Governor. The republican demonstration tn Atlanta, Ga, on Tuesday night closed with @ serious affray, The negroes and the police became involved in a dim. culty and firearms were frecly used, one negro being killed and two wounded, The police were reinforced by citizens and the negroes dispersed. . ‘The Metropolitan Police bill for New Orleans has passed the Louisiana Legisiatare. It is stated by its opponents that there is no limitation to the ex- penditures permitted by its provisions. General Buchenan, of the Department of Louisi- (ana, as issued instructions to his subordinates rela- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEET. tive to thelr action in case troops are required by them to suppress violence. A party of masked horsemen in Waynesboro, Tenn., ‘Who had been on a visit to a furnace where a party Of negroes had been drilling, were fired upon by & sheriff's posse on their return, No casualties are reported. George H. Pendleton is on his way to Maine to take part in the campaign in that State, He was serenaded at the Parker House in Boston on Tues- day evening. ‘The pi Qf the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Raliréad Company iving within the ‘State of Virginia was taken possession of yesterday by @ receiver at Alexandria, ‘Two members of a publishing firm in Buffalo and former clerk of the Post Office have been held in $10,000 bail in that city on charges of frauds upon the government in the matter of furnishing blanks, envelopes, &C. The operation is said to involve $250,000. The body of Mrs. Margaret J. Gamble, of Brook- lyn, whose death was supposed to have been caused by foul means, was exhumed recently and exam- ined, but no evidence of poison was found, though it was shown that the lady had not died from the disease set forth in the burial certificate. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of her husband, in whose favor shé had apparently willed a vast estate to the discomfiture of her brothers. Vallandigham has been nominated for Congress. The Virginia University at Lexington was consid- erably damaged by fire on ‘Tuesday. A butcher near Terre Haute, Ind., murdered his wife on Tuesday, and a democratic mass meeting which was in progress at the time, hearing of it, dropped politics and started in pursuit of him. 80 far he has escaped capture. Mary Falion, a young girl, died yesterday at the Hospital of injuries received by the fa'ling of a por- tion of the paper box factory Nos. 268 and 270 Canal street, on the 13th mstant. The inquest was com- menced yesterday and will be resumed to-diy. The National Chamber of Life Insurance is in ses- sion in Saratoga. The North German Lloyd's steamship Union, Cap- tain Von Santen, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The malis will close at the Post Ofice at twelve M. The steamship Columbia, Captain Van Sice, will sail from pier No. 4 North river at three o'clock this aiternoon for Havana. The stock market was weak and feverish yester- day. Government securities were firmer. Gold closed at three P. M. at 14534. The Presidential Contest—The Degradation of the Party Press—Some Specimen Bricks. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, who, although a fire-eater, has always been something of a philosopher, once upon a time, on the lower floor of Congress, thanked God that there was not a newspaper in his (the Accomac) district. He had seen enough of the vulgar personali- ties and scandalous accusations of the Richmond party press of that day to be thankful that there was no newspaper within the limits of his bailiwick. Nor, with all our ‘‘ modern improvement since that time, has party journalism, North or South, improved in the matter of decency? It is, as it was, a disgrace ” tothe American press and a scandal to the | country. Appealing to the basest passions and prejudices of the baser sort, it shocks the moral sense of honest thinking men. We give this moraing elsewhere in these columns @ specimen editorial from a leading republican organ apd a sample from a very pretentious democratic organ, and some other exiracis, as illustrations of the reason why the aforesaid Wise, in his Chinese isolation, felt thankful to God that there was, no newspaper in his Con- gressional district. i First we -will glance at a leader from the New York Tribune, headed “ Vallandigham on the Finances,” in which these dainty passages occur to strengthen the argument:—‘‘ Mr. Val- landigham deliberately lies ;” ‘‘ Whoever con- troverts this is a foolish, reckless liar ;” ‘‘ Any villain who now says they (the five-twenties) are payable in greenbacks would as readily say they should never be paid at all;” ‘Mr. Vallandigham says the bondholder paid only five hundred dollars for a bond calling for a thousand. Herein the villain lies no less basely than before.” ‘‘ Mr. Vallandigham says that he is in favor of ‘one currency for all and gold for all.’ In this he lies as usual;” and so on, with ‘‘knavery,” “swindling,” ‘* scoun- drelism,” and ‘‘indelible infamy,” to the end .of the chaptere These are pet phrases with the Tribune humanitarians. It was from the mild and benevolent Greeley that his party contemporary, Raymond, acquired the title of “the Little Villain” and the venerable Thurlow Weed the distinction of ‘‘the Old Villain.” And we think it was to the ‘“ waterfowl” and patriarchal poet of the Post that the Tribune censor called out, ‘‘ You lie, villain, you lie!” Such is the philanthropy of our radical philoso- pher in discussing party politics. He scolds them like a very drab, and ‘‘as the old cock crows the young ones learn.” Hence from the debasing lessons of their leading journals the general demoralization of the party press and the reeking corruption of our political parties. Next we give a leading editorial from a prominent copperhead organ—a great pre- tender to dignity and decorum as well as chop logic—an article headed *‘Insanity in the Sey- mour Family.” In this article a certain state- ment of facts in reference to ‘‘insanity in the Seymour family” is, in a roundabout way, con- sidered ; but the facts are not denied. The advocate of Mr. Seymour undertakes rather to show that the danger of hereditary insanity is leas to be feared in a public man than “beastly intoxication.” urged that “to whatever ancestral tendencies Governor Seymour may be exposed, it will not be disputed that up to the present time he isa man of sound mind;” that ‘this faculties have never onte been clouded or disordered or his self-control lost by beastly intoxica- tion.” Again:—‘‘He was never compelled hy his incorrigible addiction to strong drink to resign a commission in the army to avoid dismissal.” And yet again:— “Between a maa who is not insane and one who is an inebriate it is safer to rely on the mental soundness of the former than of the latter.” Here, as an answer to a presumption of possible lunacy against Seymour from a republican organ, we have a positive charge from a democratic organ of ‘‘an incorrigible addiction to strong drink” against Grant. The same charge, how- ever, in 1863, was brought up from Vicksburg against Grant by a committee of Puritanical Maine law men ‘‘to Honest Old Abe.” And what was his reply? ‘Tell me, gentlemen, the favorite brand of his whiskey, and I will send a barrel of it to every general in the army.” It would be a sorry state of affairs indeed if at this important epoch in our history the American people were reduced in their choice of President to a drunkard or a lunatic, But while it is simply impossible that any man with an intellect in any degree clouded or obscured could have givemus the public record For instance, it is 4 | nence in virtue of great ability and the good of General Grant of the last eight years, in the field and in the Cabinet, we think it morally certain that Horatio Seymour, in com- spite of himself, and on the Pendleton piat- the office-seekers at Washington which was the death of Harrison and Taylor, however, that, as with poor Pierce and Bu- | chanan, Seymour, if elected, will be apt to | fall into the hands of the old school of South- | ern fire-eaters—a misfortune which would be worse to himself and the country than lunacy or intoxication. We are, however, dealing with the degrada- tion of the party press. The extracts we lay before our readers in exposition of this deplo- | rable degradation will account for the rise and | advance into power in this country of the in- dependent press—that class of public journals which have no favors to ask of party polit cians or party juntas and no frowns to fear; journals which do not depend for their exis- tence upon ihe rise or downfall of politicians or parties, but which rest for their support upon the independent thinking masses of the people, | regardless of party. We have shown the de- | moralization of two of the leading party organs of this city. The Sun, the Times and Journal of Commerce deserye to be mentioned as jour- nals, independent or partisan, which pursne the discussion of public affairs and public men with a proper regard to decency and an en- | lightened constitueney, The Hexaup has seen i enough of political parties and party organs, and it has too loag followed the path of an in- dependent public opinion to become the slave | and the follower at this late day of any party | | or any man. We shall watch, therefore, the | drift of this campaign with an eye to its prac- | tical results, regardless of party, and still with | a fixed purpose to avoid the degradation of the party press. | | Indian Atrocities. Again we hear from Missouri of atrocities comunitted by Indians in Kansas as late a’ the 12th instant. The last accounts represent quite a considerable band of roving warriors attacking white people at Spellman’s creek, sixteen miles north of Ellsworth, which is oaly four miles from Fort Harker, beating the males—a very novel mode of Indian warfare— but killing no one, and, of course, taking no scalps. The women, however, are said to have been grossly abused. It is some consola- tion to know that in this case Colonel Benton, the commandant at Fort Harker, went after the perpetrators himself with a force of men strong enough to give them a good thrashing, and that he probably taught these young rowdies a sound lesson, As we have said be- fore, if Indian affairs were in the hands of the War Department, especially now that General Schofield has control of it, all these Indian troubles would soon be settled. The officers and soldiers on the Plains would make short work of the obstreperous gangs of red rascals | that stray away from their villages on these | raids, But as long as the Interior Department has charge of the Indians and will not permit them to be punished by the troops, what can be expected? Itisas much as an_ officer's commission is worth to do this very thing which Colonel Benton is reported to have done, and the Indian Bureau may administer a rebuke to General Schofield on the occasion. Everybody knows by this time that it is not the interest of Iudian traders, contractors or agents that the Indians should be kept quiet. It is not their interest that they should be sent too far back on the reservations, because the cost of transporting the annuities might | lessen the profits of the contracts; | and, least of all, is it their interest to have the frontier posts abandoned and the army removed, It is therefore to the benefit of all these classes of persons, as well as to the department at Washington which employs them, that “Indian troubles” should occur oc- casionally ; but we rarely, if ever, hear of a trader, a contractor or an agent being mo- losted. It is aiways some poor settler who suffers. Reports of Indian atrocities are thus easily accounted for. There are no hostile tribes in the vicinity where the last attacks are said to have been made, neither near Soloman and Salina, nor Elisworth, Spellman’s creek or Fort Harker, The Kaws, Arapahoes, Kiowag, Osages, and even the Comanches, who stray up that way sometimes from the South, are avowedly friendly to our government, and their chiefs get on amicably with our officers. It is clearly, then, not to a state of war that these recent troubles can be attributed, for no such condition exists or is likely to exist just now. They may probably be traced to the discontent among many of the young warriors arising from the orders of the Indian Bureau not to give them the guns aad ammunition promised them on the 10th of July, and which were ac- tually in the agents’ hands at the time. The chiefs, be they ever so friendly, cannot always | control this spirit. If, however, what we hear be true, it is to be hoped that the perpetrators will be severely punished, and, furthermore, that the Department of Indign Affairs will not interfere with the officers in the proper exer- | cise of their judgment as to how to punish them. The fact is, that as long as the man- agement of Indian affairs is left in the hands of contractors, agents, traders and civil officials at Washington there will be no end of this kind of trouble, The sooner the matter is transferred to the War Department the better for both red men and white men. | Covering the Carpet-Baggers, Radical journals come to the rescue and en- | deavor to blunt the point and weaken the foree of the name popularly applied to the shameless adventurers of reconstruction. They try to explain the word away. In their explanation they exhibit that they do not precisely know what a carpet-bagger is. They say that Albert Gallatin was a carpet-bagger from Switzor- land, and that every native of one State who becomes prominent in another is a carpet- bagger. They also talk of ‘‘millions of capi- | tal” taken into Southern States by carpet- ‘paggors. This is very wilful blindness, No- body has uttered a sentence against immigra- tion, North or South, or been wanting in re- spect to men who, wherever born, attain emi- opinions of the men among whom they have made theis home. The complaint is against j | _ tue of the Congre*sional scheme of reeonstruc- ing sound in mind oat of the late Democratic tion. The South repudiates the notion that siut in their endeavors to muddle the question National Convention, after being nominated in these sharpers who claim to represent it in as to whether the five-twenty bonds are pay- form and by the Pendleton Escort, will be | competent, if required, to run that gauntlet of | We fear, | that has fastened itself upon the South in vir- | use its name, and characterizes them in « de- scriptive epithet as fellows without q home or a constituency of which any man Knows—as mere “peddlers in politics.” To confound such fellows with illustrious emigrants or worthy settlers is to despise the common sense of readers, The Appreaching Elections in Ith Homi. apheres, Before the termination of the month of No- vember three of the great peoples of the world— the peoples who more prominently influence the present govermental rale and political destiny of the remainder—will have spoken by general election and the exercise of a tree vote, in Great Britain, France and the United | States, as to the utility of their own existing | institutions—legislative, clerical, imperial and Presidential—how far they are applicable to the development of a still larger amount of — public happiness, a more complete susientation | of social order, more economic plans of the | administration of public affairs; or, if pro- | nounced in any respect unsuitable to the wants of the age, can they be altered, reconstructed | or abolished with safety? | These important considerations and great | public questions will come up in the United Kingdom in the shape of an election of mem- | bers to a new British Parliament; but the franchise being exercised under the provisions of the enlarged Reform bill, some hundreds of / thonsands of the people voting for the first time, the citizen expression may be regarded in anticipation as almost equal to a universal suffrage plebiscite taken on the propriety of upholding or condemning the present system in Church and State in that country. An aristo- democratic monarchy, venerable by its consti- tutional defence of freedom of conscience, its dignified judiciary, its triumphs in war, its creation of a boundless commerce, its attrac- tion of vast wealth and generation of the most squalid poverty, and its jealous guar- dianship both of the rights of the Crown and of the liberties of the people, will be to a great extent placed on trial before and by its subjects; for, notwithstanding the per- sonal devices and many local interests which have been already resorted to and consulted in the British election canvass, it is quite evident that there will be a large infusion of new blood into the House of Com- mons, and that its course of legislation must tend either to a more complete democracy or the “finality” of reform in the creation ofa “one man power” which can stand independent of, but beside, the throne, sympathize with the people and grant them such amount of po- litical freedom as may be deemed healthful and useful to the nation. Mr. Gladstone and John Bright, with some others of what is called the liberal university and Manchester radical schools, are busily en- gaged in casting about for an election lead, olfice and the “‘spoils;” but Gladstone and Bright are, after all, but canting politicians, and do not appear to comprehend the mag- nitude of the crisis. They stick to formula and programme, and already speak of caucuses, clubs, vested interests and patronage. Op- posed to them stands the Premier, Disraeli, in full power of State, yet completely free in opinion. Refusing to obey the voice of an ex- piring Parliament, he has made the Queen the mouthpiece of his promises to the people, and the royal speech of prorogation his election address. Near to the throne, with the memories of the royalties and splendor of Solomon and David upon him, he is naturally supported by a powerful aristocracy ; while, deeply read in the history of the personal sufferings and home difficulties of holy Job, he can sympathize with the masses, from the poorhouse shed upward, without compromising his dignity. Unwed to Church forms, and not much troubled about creeds, Mr. Disraeli can obey the public voice on the Church question to the letter; and if it is¢o willed he will not only give up the Irish Church, but the Church of England also, and come forth as the ‘‘Lion of the Tribe” of dissent- ers, provided that by so doing he can continue to retain his hold on the mane of ‘tho British Lion. We incline, therefore, to the opinion that after the elections in England Mr. Disraeli will direct and guide a peaceful revolution tending to a one man power and ‘‘regulated” In France a conor-trated imperialism, ad- ministered with consummate ability and skill, will appeal to universal suffrage for its really first broad, general endorsement, or other- wise. Napoleon has hitherto ‘‘managed the ballot” with greater success for himself than ever did © Tammany Hall “ring” master; yet the extraordinary result of the incidental elec- tion in the department of the Jura, chronicled in the Hkratp yesterday, portends that the French people, although really safely gov- erned, yearn for a more free participation in the administration of their own affairs, and that the opposition and radicals of the class of M. Grévy are anxious for assurance of what will come after the ‘‘one man power,” to which they have submitted for so many years. It is useless to speculate as to the issue of political events in France, but it is quite safe to say that the result of the general election will be fraught with momentous consequences, The “one man power” will likely be endorsed for the time, but the peop’ will have made a grand constitutional siride towards the tri- bune. As the first result of the American election the people of the United States will have chosen a new President for four years. Many thousands of men of a different race just liberated from slavery will vote, and « farther disturbance of the constitutional equilibrium must follow the election of either of the candi- dates now before the people. How will it eventuate? In a ‘‘one man power” or re- union? The appearances incline to the former. We have entered on a revolutionary era, The coming elections will herald revolu- tionary changes in both hemispheres, How To Restorr Coxrent—Cut off one- half of the five hundred millions annual taxa- tion. . Kuyxore or Nationa, Prosrenrry.—Econ- omy in government expenditures, few taxes and honest men in office, ’ that horde of political sharpers from the North | Tee Contreversy About the Five-Twonties end Greenbacks. The bondholders and their organs are inces- able in legal tenders or not. The law and tho f : i i g E & : i f : i : i g i 3 § | gq i f i Fr E i | iI i : f e Bz 3 F i i | | Fit g f f I; i rT rE 4 : i ¥ the five-twenties should be paid in coin— shows the intention was to pay in legal tenders if the government chose todo so. The first act authorizing an issue of legal tenders was the same as that authorizing the first five hun- act. And what does it say? That ‘such notes (legal tenders) shall be receivable in pay- | ment of all taxes, internal duties, excises, debts and demands of every kind due to the United States, except duties on imports, and of all claims and demands against the United States of every kind whatsoever, except for interest on bonds and notes, which shall be paid In coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as afore- said.” Is it not evident, therefore, that the framers of this law when they said these notes should be received in payment of all debts, public and private, had in view the pay- ment of that very debt which was created by the second section of the same act? Un- doubtedly they had and meant that the gov- ernment, if it chose, and found it convenient to do 80, should pay these five-twenties in green- backs. This is simply the law and the fact, and all the baiderdash of the bondholders and their organs upon the question is unnecessary and amounts to nothing. Another man taken in the midst of s whole- histories of Smedick and Real, Smedick, the policeman, had made himself obnoxious to the ruffianly characters encountered in bis round of duty, and one of these, Real, attempted to assassinate him. Real was arrested and was set at large on bail. He repeated the attempt, was arrested and bailed again. Instructed thus by the machinery of “‘Sustice” that his offence was a trivial one, he persisted, and the familiarity with his weapons that practice gave had the usual result—he succeeded the next time and killed his man. The Alien history begins in the same way and has gotten so far as the failure of the first attempt, We hear of the would-be murderer discharged ‘from ous- tody by a Police Justice and thus put in « fair way to finish the story. When the policeman is murdered who will be to blame? Allen is probably only a ruffian whose instinet it is to kill. He has no higher reason. He simply throws his own worthless life in the balance against the life of one commissioned to pre- serve the peace. Ought society to permit him to weigh the two livesas equal? Whenseuch a creature as this ruffian is hanged for his crimes itisa public benefit, When a policeman is slaughtered it isa public calamity. Nothing, therefore, can be less equal in value than two such lives, and it is as much the duty of jus- tice to restrain villany in its intent as to punish itsacts. The Justice who admitted Allen to bail will be his confederate in the murder he promises.” ‘Tne News From Paraccay.—The special been adroitness with which along led the allies into excite the surprise of his enemies admiration of his friends and those guay. P. Coorsr To H. Srrmovr.—Poter it acquaintance. Not even that he had anything to say, if we may judge by the letter. But the glue business was probably dull, time was hanging heavily on the old gentleman's hands, and he had a great many scraps on his table, cuttings from recent papers that he did not want to throw away and did not know what to do with, and so he put them on paper with his own glue, and wrote little connective notes be- tween, and addressed the composition to the democratic candidate, This is our theory of Poter’s letter; for we would like to give it « reasonable character out of respect to the vete- ran who served the country through the last war with England “by substitute,” and who fn his old age does not want to see the country he thereby helped to save made the ‘‘sport of foreign and domestic Saracens.” But we would advise Peter not to write any more letters, not even “by substitute." He does very well in glue, r . Tae Wi. oF Taappevs Srevens.—The late Thaddeus Stevens was an original and a decided character, and withal an odd fish. His will, which we pub,'ish this morning, how- ever, furnishes stronger yvidence of the fact than perhaps can be found in .his whole career fn Congress. It isa very curlo."8 document, and could be the last testament of o. "ly 8 Very extraordinary man and a thorough bely "Ve" in the doctrine of human equality in every 7 spect—whites, negroes, Indians and all. ‘ How to Revive Busivess—Reduce the enormous load of taxation. How to Kinpie Fraternal FERELING— Equal taxes and less of them. Rattyina Cry For THE Propre—Down with taxation and all corrupt tax-gatherers! “THE GENERAL'S DAY.” Gala Day at the Americus Club Grounde— Reeeption by the Club of the Seventh Regi- GREENWICH, Conn., August 19, 1868. ‘This was indeed a gala day at the Americus Club grounds, the occasion being the third annual cele- bration of the “‘General’s Day.”” Additional éclat was given to the usual celebration by the fact that a re- ception tendered by the members of the club to the officers of the Seventh regiment, National Guard, State of New York, was largely responded to, The programme of the day’s festivities was modelled on general principles, mainly on the tenor of the fol- lowing oficial order, recently promulgated:— GENERAL ‘oRDER—NO. 5, HEADQUARTERS OF “THE STAFF,” INDIAN HARBOR, August 15, 1863, } In accordance with arrangements rece by the Generalissimo and the Board of Control, Wednes August 19, 1868, has been set apart as “The Gener bay,” and will'accordingly be observed with appro- priate ceremonies. ‘The national os will be saluted at sunrise, under direction of the Chief of Artillery. members of “the stat’’ and friends will re- Port at headquarters at nine o’ciock A. M. precisely, when the exercises of the day will be formally in- ongaratea. iy order. CLAUDIUS S. GRAFULLA, Maj. Gen. Eveeng Durnin, Adjutant General. FRaN« VANDERBECK, Colonel and Chief of Staff. In accordance therewith sunrise was ushered in with @ national salute of thirteen guns, fired from the club battery on the Peak, and the national en- sign was unfurled from the headquarters flagstaff. Under a special order issued from “the staff” head- quarters a meeting was held and the order of the day was announced. On the arrival of the half-past ten o'clock train from New York, having the Seventh regiment guests on board, the entire club feet, num- bering twenty-three vessels of all sail, and manned by the staff and “the others,” procecded to the dock and the visitors were received on board “the flagship,’ which immediately headed away for Rocky Neck, the beautiful promontory on which the club buildings are perched, and from whose summit one of the most views on the Sound may be enjoyed. of the squadron took place, were landed and formally introduced William M. Tweed. A collation of and the party em- proceeded on a cruise HH ine Ht : which “The Bum-ja-la’”’ was excellent chorus and i i i i uf i is i 2 5 & 2 = fe ne ii i or F ii Lil E i EF HF # ie iti ze | | f : : i | : > following 1s “the stat” for the ensuing as 7eProsident and Generalissimo of the Army and ¥: the United ‘Grounds of Indian Marvot—Wun BC. = cna Chief of tatt—F. Vanderbeck. ‘Colonel--P. bs Van Arwdaie. D. 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