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8 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. ——————E aaa Department of the Columbia.—Oregon, Washing- of England or by the of ton Territory “and Idaho; heacquarters. Po CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE. Tuciah emia hia aot oa ee “5 prety ray i South the pgp en A _ propositiol Es —s U —No Interesting Lett: adian t n as I have wi Carolina, Georma, Alabama, and Florkla; headquar- ee or ag oom Nence of | gested Would, no doubt, be laughed to scorn. » ters Atlanta, Ga,; Blevet Major General Alfrea H, Preuder—T' at may still require more moral courage than can be yen gg Leescen teniaage nt 4, | Sennen an, Stee” | eaten is hesene ene acess | na.— i ‘oul kanes head of fi of Irtlsasion to tho United Stace sense and the logic of paseng events, Buch a step, ander (8. G.), William F. Reynolds (B. G.), Charles S. Stewart, Charles B, Biunt (Co!.), Jonn G, Foster (M. G.), James C. Duane (B. G.) ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. Chief of Ordnance—Brigadier General, Alexander B. nyee i, G.) Colonels, William Maynadier (B, G.), Robert H. K. Whiteley (B, G.). Peter V. Hagner B G.) Nender ganization, as well as in the personne? of the army, nder the present register sel eee eer te vasual 3 shows some of the personal changes; for the fom toe eee o saemee a a i ist ¥ , #869, pu 5 han; Digest of the OMcial Army Registers for Reeieter for Jon e potion be Ge January and June, 1869—The Reor- as follows:— been re- Lieutenant Colonels, Frank D.C B. @.), quarters New Orleans; Brevet Major 7 ie a ~~ bs mbes of eelanGien. gupersle Tig the death | Charies P, Rroaeel 1B. ao emomas fA foaman General Joseph A. Mower (temporal yi. ‘ ppt Mire Gitadatene. however, would be regarded by future generations) ganization and Consolidation of iced to eight. The vacancies coumentof General | (B..), Theodore T. &. Latdiey (Col) Department of Alaska.—The Territory of Alaska; ollowing letter was written by Canadian, @ | a3 a masterly act of statesmanship, and ity immes._ i 7a ermave therefore Bot been filled. » office of ENGINEER BATTALION. headquarters Sitka; Brevet Major General Jeff. C. | resident of this city, to Mr. Gladstone, the Prime diate effect would be to “checkmate” all the plotters! Infantry Regiments—Military {inter orstadrto the General of te Army, vacant by the | Major Henry L. AbbotE (8. @) in command. Davis. seat Military district has been added to the | Minister of Great Britain, It explains iteelt:— SY DRO COLDIIES GARE Hie ReAQetL: FRONOND, Divisions and Depart- Fesapation ofciaueral Nawltas hae veen Gheuts of | ‘There are twenty-seven post chaplains, nine of | Division of the Atianuc, and the Department of New York, May 20, 1869. ‘There is one other thing to whivi I shall take the, * the i my has been provided for by the act of March | Whom were hespital chapiains in the voluateer torce. Frasingion (Maryland, Delaware and tne District of | To the Right Hon. Witiiam L. GuapsTone, &c., kc. | liberty to allude in reply to the argument urged by ments—List of Officers i {seo, which protiibits, until otherwise ordered by | First Cavalry Colona George A. H. Blake {B G.); | Columbia) has been merged in the Department of | Six—Beneving that information and mugaestions Sir John Pakington, a8 to what rngland would i aout jaws aay, new "appolutinents or promotions in the | Lieutenant Colonel,.W nL kiliote (M. G.); | the East, from ‘privayp sources are sometimes valuable t0 | doing on the American seaboard while the armiea; in Active Service. Awatant Generals, Inspector General’s, Quarter- | Majors, Elmer Otis (Col); Caries E. Norris, John MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, statesmen, Mtake the liberty of addressing you some | of the Union were conquering Canada. I must cans, inaster's, Subsistence, Medical and Ordnance De- | Green (L. ©.) ‘The following have been added to the list of bat- remarks on the American question, You must | didiy admit that the United States are weak in) 869 partments and the Corps of Engineers, Wnder the amons Casawy Caley Sea ig Poe (B. a bay Head Hills,—Texas, September 12, 1868; draw ui sane aE wich, nema 1a But ane has m1 bee Fr Sate an that me ed. I R GIs 'e jeu tel voionel UE ( H = FOX! a 4 “ ARUY REGISTER FOR JANUARY, 1 OpEERLION of this act the following vacancies are left | [eutenant Colonel, ib. G0; ‘ames S. Brigbin (Col.), | companies C, F and K, Ninth cavaury, engaged. courts in respect to the textimony of witnesses who | defend her principal seaports, and she can as effece; ICUS aS aN In the Adjutant General’s Department one colonelcy | Eugene M. Baker (L. C.) Washita River.—In ‘Territory, November 2, | are strangers to the } and jury—namely, the in- | tually break up British as England can American) The Army Register for January, 1869, kas been | vice Nichols deceased; In the Quartermaster’s De- | | Third Cavairy—Colone), William N. Grier (B. G.); | 1868; Seventh cava'ry engaged. insie RMN CE SHR aTiOenOC,, Commerce, by means. of swarms Of privateers puolisned—five months after date—and is ready for | partment, three coloneicies vice Swords, Donaldson | Lieutenant Colonel, in 8. Roberts (B. G.); ‘There were 443 hospital stewards, 117 ordnance an a Cani of Angio-saxon origin, but have | Therefore let no vaunting Englishman rest his ho} stribution. Like all the isters, general orders, | and Clair, Deputy Quartermasters General, retired; paca i ora, &C. a ae Hes the Adjutant | im the Medica! Department, two Heutenant colonel- special orders, &¢., promulgated Dy cles and one majority, vice Satterlee, McDougal! and Majors, William B, gine ( .@.); Andrew W. Bvaus (L.C.); Joun V. Duviols, Fourth Cavairy—OColonel, Lawrence P. Graham sergeants, and 366 Indian gcouts in the service on | resided here steadily for tne last six years, aud have | of humiliating Us country on such a line of per = i. had the fullest opportunity of making myself ac- | ment. This country, in less than four years of civ! Seveity-two national cemeteries have been | quainted with the private as well a8 public senti- | war, rose to the rank of a first class military Power.4 neneral ¢ 3 1 or three years, it was ¥ ‘ ineers one | (B. G.); Lieutenant Color ‘James H, Carleton (M. | established. The number given in the register for ment of country m respect to its | In two years of war with England, at @ quarter of; SENCER OC eR Oe ee ea ein ite Wood wosired Gea ee af he U5 ivajors, Foun. P Haten (Be di); George A. Gordon ust 1868 was sixty-twb, policy and. Felatious " with England. Hav- | tne cost of the great civil war, she would become &| gotten up in the printing office ce ‘The unlantry reaiments, have been. cut down, by | (L. 0.); JolineK. Migner (li, 0.) e term of enlistment nag again been fixed at previously resided, for about the same | first class naval power. But higher considerations Adjutant General’s Department, the typos belag ed- | tation trom forty-five to twenty-tive, and no | Fifth Caralvy—Colonel, William H. Emory (M. @.); | five years. Period in England, I think I also know womething | than the probable result of a military and naval con] listed men of the general service, ‘Ihe following more appointments or promotions can be made un- | Lieutenant Colonel, Thomas Duncan (B. G.); Major: All mihtary bands, except the one at West Point, | oft oe © feeling there, in respeet to this | test between two great nations should govern the SATURES til Congress so orders. Vacancies will be tilled by | Eugene A. Carr (N. G.); William B. Royall (Ool.); | have been discharged. . country. nn, therefore, | say that although there | policy of modern statesmeu. ‘The reasons in favor, pengndasiesic the assizninent of oiteers left out in the cold by con. | Eugene W. Crittenden, Applications are being made, glmost every Cay, by } existe among the influential classes of both countries | of an early establishinent of the Dominion of Canada, subalterns, to be placed on waiting orders. a strong desire for peace and to have all causes of | into an independent nationality do not necessarily Congress having closed the engineer and ord- | irritaton, which might by some untoward cir- | apply to any other British colony. It is the pecustar,| nance corps, and the infantry arm of the service, | cumstance lead to the calamity of war removed, | geographical position of that country in Feapoct td. against promotions or appointments, the thirty- | there nevertneiess co-exists with sucn desire acon- | the United States and the fact that even British | nine cadets just graduated will have to go into | tinual appreiension that something may at any | statesmen have long treated it as a question only of. artillery and’ cavairy regiments, The practice has | Moment Mappen to disturb the triendiy retauious | time when that event will ensue that renders its been to put the best cadets ito the engineer and | between the two countries. This apprehension | early or immediate socom piithnans an object of ordnance corps, the next best into the artillery, and | arises in the minds of Englishmen, from the opinion | parafhount unportance to ali the Lens of milons of the rest into the cavalry and infanjry. they entertain, and [ must say, not without reason, ba directly interested, + be the crowing, waninon Ane power on the eae When this abana cause of irritation shall be forg hs = aces must sooner Or later lead to tue absorpuloa of | ever removed the three great Anglo-Saxon nations TRE KELLY HOMICIDE CASE. the British provinces in America or their detach- | England, the United ‘States ‘an Canada—will be’ ment from the empire, even at the risk of a bloody | bound by every motive of interest to cultivate the} Sucth Cavairy—Colonel, James Oakes ita Lien- tenant Colonel, Charies J, Whiting; Majors, Robert M. Morris (L, C.), Samuel . Starr (Col.), William W, Lowe B, G.) ath Caxairy—Colonel, Samuel D. Sturgis (M. G.); Lieutenant Colonel, George A. Custer (M. Majors, Joseph G,. Tieford, (L. C.), Lewis Merrit, (Cof.), Marcus A. Reno (Cot) bighth Cavairy—Colonel, John J. Gregg (B. G.); Lieutenant Colonel, Thomas ©. Devin (B, G.); Majors, Andrew J, Alexander (B, G.); William R. Price (L. C.); David R. Clendenin. are noteworthy. prevet commissions that have Holutetinn. “Many of the supernumerary omicers been conferred on officers since their entry Into the | pave been assigned to duty as Indian superintend- as all volunteer commissions ever | ents and agents, others have been placed on signal » original ent registration duty im Virginia, civil held by them, are recorded; also the original entry i duty, regiscravion at the actual number of Into the service, and all subsequent commissions, by cers at home awaiting orders is not large, on or ise, in the regular army. For he number of judge advocates has been fixed at Ul ; eight—the number actively in the service when the , opposite the name of Ulysses S. ¢ under the head breves and volt bill passed. Major Edgar W. Denuis has since re- f - | signed, and the vacancy has been filled by tue ap- t heutenant, brevet, Septem- | pointment of Captain 1 H, Simca, Thirteenth In- brevet, September 13, | Jantry. RECENT PROMOTIONS. Ninth Cavairy—Colone}, Edward Hatch (M. G.); mann rs,?? un- 2 ena Jolon ver i a 1 protracted war, which would be followed by au | most friendly sentiments towards each other. Al- volunteers, and ub The following promotions, among others of lesser tenant Colonel, Wesley Merrité (M. 6 Majors, by er and . entry into ser- | note, have beet, made since dantary 1, and are Wade (Col.); George A. Forsyth (LB. G.); | MVestigntion Before Coronor Schirmer—The | indetinite period of mutuai hatred and resentumevt, | though ours is a republic aud yours @ limited Verdict. In severai conversations | had the honor to have | monarchy, there are so many similarities in the tw@ ‘At last the ease of Hugh Kelly, whose dead boay — richer espera Gonden, af ene arene 188 systems and in the minor details of administration! Morrow. therefore not indicated tn the regisver for January, : . : avalry—-Colonel, Benjamin H. Grierson issions, ** Brevet pone uy T si voner e 2 % e. r y, as to leave no rational grounds f{ i nec i 1 y 3s nig General W. T. Sherman to be general, LENS OR oraveN (a U5, aerate has been lying at the Morgue for some days past, | alluded, on more than one occasion, to what I be- | opinion on repented Rune Aeeataoe of tia peas feneval Philip H, Sheridan to be eutenant | H. Kidd, John E. Yard. a i has been disposed of, at least as far as the authori- | Leved to be the feeling in Enuland KA ais sepece of education and cayuelty to Judge aright, walle they, | ae. ios: teanatecred go) Boards: fuk overs r General P BE: : J erry terdiy 7, . Gs ‘ . ita e American ques . He sald e cided | claim that their form of government is the best for! 0, sigiasiartisrunsheteate ra}, view Sherman, promoted. | | he Eocene ra cuae voce Bes ties of this county are concerned. Kelly was beaten | With me, and hence had not hesitated in arriving at | Americas are {ree to adtnit that the British system 1s. | ber 16, f unt, Sex 3 Gen ; al sana as Bes eld to be majo: Jenn Me Uirenean’ (ae John Hami (Col) by some rowdies in the upper part of the city, on | the conclusion that the true poicy of England con- | the bé@st adapted to England. \ 184 oheridan, Praith infantry, to be briga- | Clermont L. Best Col.) ” | the 24 ult., and partially recovering from the effects | sisted i paving the way to un early dissolutton of | Under the admirable training and the liberal and 4, 18 Schofield, promoted, Second artitery—Colonel, William F. Barry (M. | ofthe violence, proceeded with his laporg. at a | te political connection between Great Britain and | enlightened policy of England’ towards her colonies sponges S aga eee G.); Lieutenant Colonel, Wiliam H. French (A. her North American provinces. This, he argued, | during the last turty years the transition of the, ® foo! a esatcgeeaie 1D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutans Veo” | Majors, Aiden A. Harney, Edward G. Beckwith (i | !@ter day Kelly was taken sick and went to | and, as | think, with unanswerable force, would re- | Dominion of Canada from a colonial to @ national 1854 nsed major jatant general, x mae, | Gi john C. Tidball (8. @.) a his sister's, in Newark, N. J., where ne grew bad all causes of beaten which, ater als are the | state of existence would be nearly imperceptible. hess atopy Oe : tenant Colonel Richard C, Dram to be colonel), | | Third Arcitery—Colonel, Thomas W. Sherman, (M. | worse and died. While the investigation | Fowerful nations, especially where there is conti | the end of tye, hore meat dilied With this countay! the outl each officers! mailtiary Naenys, Gxvenit: | vibe OE ee recy Weare Er Foe ee a a iieos loan relative to the cause of his death was pending before | guity of territory, and lay the foundation of per- | than with England; and wlule her trade woula nog! the register to 223 pages, ip largest vice Scaeaaieeny ae . Cee | WLW. Howard (L. C.)’ Sate is the Coroner of Newark, the body was brought to | Petual peace between the two reat ations of Anglo im consequence of the change be lessened with the! publisued. C ae Captain James P. Martin, Seventh Loe to be Pedr ped epa boty parece een ee )} | this city for burial, accompanied by certificates from oath ee se eanonat Maha uroeiines tO bine ee Te Tanner ar Soa ea ee t solumn ** ved from,’ the initials M, A. sista . Bt p rank wajor, utel ol |, Josep ert . Gi.) Ma YY r ery it i} In the column “appointed from,” the initial assistant adjutant gen with the rank of major, ‘Albion P. Howe (M. G.), Joseph. Stewart, Charles i, | ¢ Physician who attended him previous to his | United States? He said “that was a matter that | tant subject is very great, but 1 shall add only @ few) graduate of West Point, | vice Williams, promoted bs : Lieutenant Samuei D. Sturgis, Sixth cavairy, to be denote that death, and also the Coroner before whom the inqui- | Would have to be left entirely to the people of British | words more, Tus was the plan in vogue prior to 1854, In the reg- Morgan (B. G.) America.” Iwould not weaken my arguments and #1 colonel Seventh cavalry, vi J. Smith, resigned. Fish Arviteru—Colonel, Henry J. Hunt; Lieuten- | gition had been commenced. These certificates, it th a ° ch the ome Sharles r cava x ni a, ajors a * A few days after this last conversation with Mr. | tions by having you think fora moment that th Satck fore AS veRD ie yare a. neon omen toe a a ier oe Cree te tay corens George F. aes pentane Poa however, did not satisfy Dr. Harris, of the Health | Cobden, I had tue honor of a private interview with | concession of Sctiependence to Canada should @ permanent resident was first given, as the State Heutenant colonel Sixth cavalry, viee Sturgis, pro- | Hays (B. G.), » 2 5 Sey Board, who declined giving @ permit for burial on | the Kight Honorable sr Joun Paxington, then Secre- | considered as a sutis{action for the claims set up b: gra: of the Millitary Academy were indicated } major Fourth cavair, e Crame, resigned. dated)—Colonel, Robert C. (M. G. mew Koike Osronets. OR 1 Ce re a ca eeea vo Ro | eras) arom. Shee Alana ane cee ee ae tenant Colonel, Pimckney Lugenbeel; Major, D. Hardin (B. G. Captain Eugene M. Baxer, First cavalry, to be ma- arin jor Second cavairy, vice Howland, retired. by an asterisk. Coroner Schirmer, who was applied to, at first de- | had to say on the special object of my interview, Sir | so far as they are common causes Of Uritation on thé, The names of shies ers mae aay ih ech eneett Captain Joun V. Du Bows, Third cavalry, to be ma- hint paenraiter er ‘osent BPN rea clined to take the case, belleving, as he did, that he puny Paes PCTS Hy onan st Te Cee pablo OF bil coun fala a ea "i a r,t a a y resi i 4 Jf joutenaut Colowel Henry oe ne Tutrd artillery, | Thomas C. English; Major, Peter 'f, Swaine (Col.)’ | Bad not jurisdiction, inasmuch as the death occurred | States. ai furan “nti 5 sag coamitiegnttel elton ta) RS OF SSeS OME Nee cee aha to be colonel Fitth artillery, vice Burton, deceased. | _ Thérd Infantry—(Third-and hait of Thirty-seventh)— | in another State, the proper authorities of which had | ,,1 teplied, “Ifa war should un orn occur, 10 DOWNING STREET, APPOINT Major Augustus A. Gibson, Third artillery, to be | Colonel, George W. Getty (M.G.); Lieutenant Colonel, | the matter under mvestigation. Yesterday morn- the best thing for England to do would be not to WuitetaLt, June 7, 1869. Daring year 1868 92 appointments were | licuténant colonel same regiment, vice Hunt, pro- | John R. Brooke (B.G.); Major, Richard J. Dodge | ing, however, the Coroner, for merely sanitary rea- | @ttempt a defence at ail.” en Str—I am directed by Mr. Gladstone to acknows 3 One miltary storekeeper Qt moted. (Col.) sons, made a private examination and gave a certt- | _ “Will you be kind enough,” he asked, “to explain | ledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th ult. om mad ne military storekeeper Quar- | MOlO |p obert v, W. Howard, Fourth artillery, to | _ Fourth Inftntry—(Fourth and Thirtieth)—Colone!, | ficate, which doubtless was acceptable to Dr. Harris, | Your Teasons lor offering such udvice”. the, American question, which he has read with termas rtment, 14 assistant surgeons | pe major Third artillery, vice Gibson, promoted. Franklin F. Flint; Lieutenant Colonel, Joseph H. Below will be found a copy of the testimony My reply was, IStnDy beranee: Canada would be | much iierest, and jor which he desires me to thank’ (first lie , one paymaster, 3 first and 5 sec- Lieutenant Colonel Henry B. Clitz, Sixth infantry, | Potter (B. G.); Major, Willtam McE. Dye (Col.) elicited before tue Coroner:— wholly indefensible se - overwhelming ake you. 1am, sir, your obedient servant, : ntfs z to be colonel Tenth infautry, vice Alexander, re: | — Fifeh Jayantry—(Fitth and half of shirty-seventh)— TESTIMONY OF THOMAS KELLY. tary resources of the United States, available at al ALGERNON WEST. end hie nts of engineers, 1 second Heutenant | ht z Colonel, Neison A. Miles ( ; Lieutenant Colonel, | Thomas Kelly, being duly sworn, deposes and | Po!nts along a frontier over 1,500 mules m extent. A of ordnance, 2 post chaplains, 25 second Lieutenants | "TSatenant Colonel William H. Wood, First infan- | Carles’ R. Woods (M. G.); Major, Hugh B. Flemming. | says:—I reside at Fort Washington; i recognize the | hundred thousand men concentrated on Montreal | qa GERMANS AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. of cavalry, ery and 25 of infantry. Of to be colonel Seventeenth infantry, vice ilcintz- ‘Sixth Infantry—(sixth and Forty-second)—Colone:, | body of the deceased as that of my brother, Hugh | Would cut the Province in two, and Quebec woul William B, Hazen 3 Kelly, whom I brought to this city irom Newark, N. | fall ima fortnight vefore the heavy guns now in use G.);_ Lieutenant Colonel, these 54 were West Poi! ers, 5 were appointed from a, retired. | Nal 1 5 aud a victorious army i the fleid. “eutenant Colonel Samuel W. Crawford, Second | Daniel Huston, Jr. (Col.); Major, James P. Roy. J., where he died last rhursday; I went to Dr. Har- 75 Call for a Central Organization of Germanes the army, 11 from the volunteers and the rest from | yufintry to be colonel Sixteenth infantry, vice Siv- | Seventh Injantry—(Seventh and Thirty-sixth)—Col- | ris for a permit, but he refused fo grant it ana sent But,” replied Sir John, a Bae Sper at m, Ward pebi silinighedins civil life; 13 of them were of foreign birth. iey, retired. onel, John Gibbon (M. G.); Lieutenant Colonel, Chas. | the body to the Morgue; accompaning the remains, | frank and candid reply, so different from Canadian of- | ‘eu le Thad a certificate from ‘Dr. Dodd, of Newark, N. J., ficial reports, “what should we be doing all this time? A number of the foremost citizens of New York, of s Our navy would sweep American commerce from at eal a eos rOntue: a frites . ae Hoey the ocean, and New Orleans, Charleston, New York | G¢rman nativity, have issued a call to all the Ger aiso a certificate from Coroner Chase that he had | ad Boston would be blockaded 1n Jess than a month | mans, without the distinction of party or aa apt C. Guibert (Col.); Major, W. H. Lewis (L. C.) Eighth Infantry—(eighth and Thirty-third)—Col- onel, James V. Bomford (M. G.); Lieutenant Colonel, John R. Edie (Col.); Major, Join D. Wilkins (L. C.) Ninth Infantry—(Ninth and Twenty-seventh)—Col- one), John H. King (M. Lieutenant Colonel, Lu- ther P. Bradley (B. G,); Major, Edwin F. Towosend CASUALTI Major Danie! Huston, Jr., Twenty-third infantry, t c 3 try, vice Cilt Under this caption are recorded 28 resignations, 2 EE paar ante Bixth infanmry, vice Cilts, declined commissions, 21 died, 1 wholly retired, 5 Major Thomas R. Neill, Twentieth infantry, to be dismissed, 5 cas! ed and 14 volunteer officers hon- ceperpees colonel First infautry, vice Wood, pro- orably mustered oat. Among those who died were | ™Sajsr Thomas C, Enghsh, Fifth infantry, to be Generals Gates, mmer, J. R. Smith and Alfred | lMeutenant colonel Second imfautry, vice Craw- Git 3 were killed ction with Indians, and 1 | ford, promoted. patie ha esicien — Captain Henry A, Hambright, Twenty-ninth in- viewed the body with a jury and had postponed the | after a declaration of war, so close that @ jollyboat | other cause, to firmly organize by wards, and Yelocl could neither get in or out.” i . inquest tll this flees LL eee Phat,’ said 1, “is another matter. Ihave answer- | Po!t from each ward a delegation of five, whi Thomas C. Finnell, M. D., being duly sworn, de- | 4 your questions from a personal knowledge of the | shall form a central organization, for the purpose of! 3 and says:—I have viewed ne Dedy ‘of Hugh | topography of the various lines on which military | agitating and influencing the elevation and improves, eily, now lying dead at the Morgue; I fond a post | Operations would be conducted, and also of the im- | ment of our public schocls as educational institu L. C.) ' Tenth Infantry—(Tenth and Twenty-sixth)—Colo- nel, Henry B. Clitz (B,G.); Lieutenant Colonel, Alexan- de in Alaska, Those who deciined | antty to be major Thirty-second infantry, vice | der McD: McCook (M. G.); Major, Alexander Cuam- | mortém examination had been inade on said body; | mediately available means of attack and defence. 3 eant of marines, who refused a sec- Chapid, retired. i“ i! ws bers (Col.) is the remains were in such a decomposed condition | The United States can collect 100, en at Detroit, | and algo to guard and promote the interests of Gere’ ond ileutenancy in a Veteran Reserve regiment, and Captain Alexander J. Dallas, Thirtieth infantry, | Evecenth Infantry—Twenty-fourth and Twenty- | that it is impossible to form a medical opinion as to | 8nd, as they own nearly all the commercial marine | man-Americans in relation to these schools, by, Lieutenant ‘Col ut 1 W. Woo: 1, as de lined a to be major Twenty-third infantry, vice Hustoa, | ninth)—Colonel, Alvan U, Gillem (M. G.); Lieutenant | the cause of death, on the lakes, can send them down stream to Toronto which is probably meant the inttoduction of thé promoted. Captain Henry R. Misner, Thirty-sixth infantry, to os major Twentieth infantry, vice Neill, pro- moted. Captain Henry R. Rathbone, Twelfth infantry, to = major Fifth infantry, vice English, pro- moted. (the numbers of the infantry regiments given’ above are the old numbers. In the consolidation some of the —, omicers were left out, as will be seen on referring to our register for June, 1809.) Major Gibson, Third art » Was ordered before the Retiring Board March 30. The action of the board in his case has not been made public, in the meantime the death of General Burton entities him to the lieutenant fsa dl of his regiment, vice Hant, promoted. Shoud he be retired. General Willam Hays, Fifth artillery, will become lieutenant colonel of the Third, and Captain James M. Kobert- son, Second artillery, will succeed General Hays as major of the Filth. RECENT CASUALTIES. Since January 1 there have been nineteen aeaths, fifty-five resignations, five dismissals and three wholly retired on account of chronic alcoholism. Generals Rousseau, Burton, Nichols, McAlister and R, C, Wood died; Lieutenant Casey, Fourth artillery, was accidentaily killed by @ private; Lieutenant W S. Alexander, Eighth infantry, was shot by a sentry; Lieutenant B. H. Herkners, Thi fth infantry, was killed by deserters; Captain Jrane, Commissary of Subsistence, was killed by an ex-rebel oficer; two Officers committed suicide and two died of apoplexy. The resignations include Generals Kawlins, Parker and A.J. smith, and MajorGeorge C. Cram, Fourth cavalry. Twelve out of fourteen volunteer pay- . hh Cusht dey and Kingston, to meet other forces sent from ain toae ta Koy and * fully po DRM Me abe Oswego and Ogdensburg to co-operate, 1n as many | German language as an object of teaching in alk mony of Dr. Fiinell. The evidence at hand being | hours as it took days in 1812 and 1813, to move 5,000; | clases and gchools and not in the higher while another army of equal numbers can mean- ail in the Coroner delivered the following aidress'0 | Wine he concentrated on Montreal itis true,” 1 | Srades only. They say in this all thag A . RENTLE! ad . | observed, “such armies would be wanting inskilland | however praiseworthy it was that school Be ier 4 et poo yer’ ruin Us knowledge of war; but so would the Canadians, and | societies and private teachers had founded, Dr. Harris, of the Board of Health, 1 concluded | 8 forthe handful of British troops scattered along a |'in this city @ | number of German-English at once, ” tor sanitary reasons ‘only, to per- | thousand miles and more of frontier, they would | schools and academies, they benfietted but a compar-; form my duty as @ coroner and to ‘act in this | Simply become prisoners of war. ‘The Provinces | atively small number, the great majority being de- matter as well as I could under the circumstances. | Would be immediately organized as independent na- | pendent on the public schools. In many States ane You have heard the testimony of two regular | tonallties, and, whatever might be the result of a muncipalities of the Union, especially in the West; physicians, and their evidence compels me to pass protracted naval warfare, England will thenceforth | this matter has been agitated and the just wr re this case over to you for a verdict in an unsat- | Cease to own or control the policy of a square mile | of the German citizens tn regard to it were cordially, istactory condition; but I hope that the authorities | Of territory on the North American Continent. east | acceded Dy the authorities. One-fourth of the pop-t of New Jersey, who have taken charge of the case in | Of the Rocky Mountains,” ulation of this city is of Gerthan origin, and as al a legal and proper manner, will be able not only to Sir John terminated the interview by saying, ‘I | this time, by the organization of a new Board of ascertain the cause of death, but also to learn the | differ with you about our ability to defend Canada, | School Commissioners, the opportunity Is offered for; circumstances under which deceased 1s said to have | but hope it may never be necessary.” thorough and searching reforins in the entire pub-! been beaten, with the view of bringing the guilty Thave brit detailed these couversations with | lic school system they request speedy action, so; arties to justice. With these remarks, gentlemen, | two dist British statesmen because they | that both the ward and the central organization: leave the case in your hands. embody two sets of sentiments and suggest two lines | may be fully perfected and ready for effective wor! ‘The following verdict was returned:—“That the | Of policy for such statesmen wee The events | by the beginning of next July. It is but proper to deceased came to his death by causes unknown to | Of the late civil. war in the United States have not | say, in this connection, that this movement had this jury.”? beg ranty the Fearn “y a seo gee savers already bee ashen creat ta Galion tiny last e eased was twenty-four years of n years ago in support of each. ink .even Sir | winter, The Twentieth ward 1s fully organized, an‘ thea Ireland. The Seer eee Seco cane John Pakington must by this time admit that I aid | was the first to form a “German-American Citizens’ at the ciose of the investigation took charge of the | Not overstate the power of the United States to de- | Societ, .” of which Mr. Edward Schiichttng is prest-, remalns for interment. tach British America from the empire whenever it | dent, having this Awd obj€ctin view. The Ninth ward may suit their purpose to pick a quarrel. When | was also organized some weeks ago, under the once detached, however much the Americans might | leadership ot Mr. Hermann Schroeter, The Four- ANOTHER PROBABLE HOMICIDE. be beaten on the sea, the Provinces would be revo. | teenth,Seventeenth and Nineteenth wards will shortly Jutionized and be placed under the control of a new | have meetings, while the preliminary steps for such aa! a element and a new set of men, who would be sup- | organization have already been had tn the Twenty>' Attack Upon a Tenement—A Watchman Shot. | ported, morally and physicully, by the whole Ameri- | second ward, where a ng will be held next ‘The usual Sunday quietude of Downing street was | can people. No articles of peace could ever restore | Saturday evening, at Unger’s Hall, eg oe George P. Buell (B. G.); Major, Lyman Bis- sell. Tinelfth Infantry—organization unchanged)—Col- onel, Orlando B, Wilcox (M. G.); Lieutenant Colonel, George W. Wallace; Major, Henry &. Mitzuer (L, C.) Thirteenth Infantry—(organization unchanged) Colonel, Phillp Rk. de Trobriand (M. G,); Lieutenant Colonel, Henry A. Morrow; Major, R. 3. La Motte. Fourteenth Infantry (Fourtecath and Forty-fifth)— Colonel, Charles S$, Lovell (B. G.); Lieutenant Colonel, George A. Woodward (Col.); Major, Matthew M. Blunt (Col.). Pywenth Infantry (Fitteenth and Thirty-Afth— Colonel, Oliver L. Shepherd (B. G.); Lieutenant Coionel, August V. Kauta (M. Major, John 8. Mason (B. G., Sirewuth Infantry (Eleventh and Thirty-foarth— Colonel, Galusha Pennypacker (M. G.); Lieutenant Colonel, Robert S. Granger (M. G.); Major, William P. Carin (M. G. ngentry (Seventeenth and Farty- brevet coioneicy. He is nowa fuil colonel, and is one of half a dozen old officers whose record under “brevets and volunteer rank’ is biank. The actual Joss by casuaities in 1868, omitting caucelled and re- Voked appointments and vacated regimental com- Missions, was 165, vi Resigned, 81; died, 51; droped, 6; dismissed, 7; cashiered, 9; wholly re- tured 1. THE RETIRED LIST, as given in the register numbers 161 officers, viz:— Mujor generais, 6; brigadier gen oloneis, 30; lieutenant colonels, 12; majors, captains, 42; first Meulenants, 24; second lieutenants, 5; post chap- Jains, $; but since January 1 the lst has been in- creased by making @ total of 186. The most promuent of the officers retired this year are Gener- B. Alexander, S. P. Heintzelman, C. C, Sivley, Sickles and J.'C. Robertson, colonels of infan- S. S. Carroll, Heutenant colonel of infantry; R. Satterlee, Charles MeDougait and R. C. Wood (sin cad), of the Medical Department; T. J. Leslie, Pay Department; Thomas Swords, James L. Donald- gon and Kobert 'E. Clary, Quartermaster’s Depart- ment; Lorenzo Thomas, adjutant general; also Gen- eral Adam Badeau, first Weutenant of infantry. With the exception of Geverais Sickles, Carroll, Robinson, Donaldson and Badeau, the avove named officers were retired by President Johnson, under the act of July 17, General Heintzieman was originally he rank of colonel only, but Congress authorized President Grant to retire him with the fuli rank of major general, Sickles, Robinson and Carroll have each the rank of major general, and ba- deau has the rank of captain, Eighteen ofticers have been ordered before rettr- ‘Seventeenth 1) fourth—Colonef, Thomas L. Crittenden (M. G.); Lieutenant Colonel, Samuel B. Hayman (Col.); Ma- Jor, Robert E. A. Crofton (L. C, Kighteenth Invantry Eighteenth and Twenry-Mfth— Colonel, Thomas H. Ruger (B. G,); Lieutenant — Emory Upton (M. G.); Major, James Van Voasi Nineteenth Infantry (Sineteenta and Twenty- eighth—Colonel, Charles H. Smith (M. G.); Lieuten- ant Colonel, Romeyn B. Ayres (M. G.); Major, Henry A. Hambright (Col.). Tirentieth Infantry (organization unchanged)— Colonel, George Sykes (M. G.); Lieutenant Colonel, Lewis C. Hant (B. G.); Major, George A. Williams ©. ing boards this year, but the result in several cases | Masters have been mustered out. General Grant | | Zicenty-first JnJantry (Twenty-first and Thirty-sec. | yesterday afternoon disturbed by an affray bebween See ena bouante Ghmomaromen Riey 66 | ee pee aare Benge age Donte gee 3s not yet kuoWwn.' Major and Brevet Licatenant | Vacated his commission when he removed to the | on) Colonel, Coarge Stomernan i oi ete yua: | Parties that i» likely to result in tne death of anin- | "tne views embodied in these statements were | of all political’ suades and of the very ‘ive Se Meat iinesd Oa tas tise Wie the toll rac J — well (Coi.) hai hocent spectator of the disgraceful proceedings, formed from Canadian and English standpoints. | religious views, and those aiso of no religious view of colonel under the act of July 28, 186 Twenty-secona Infantry (Twenty-second and Thir- Under No. 163, Downing street runs a long ailey My more recent experience here not oniy coufirms | whatever, are uniting to furtner it, And an ap their absolute correctness, but goes further—it estab- | has also been made to the women of German birth, known as “Jackson’s,” and somewhat noted in the | jishes a conviction that most oi the unfriendly feel- | the mothers of the children to be taught in the publ past for domestic {brotls and fights. This alleyway } ing, rag Aye ig element” betel “ (sere apd lie Lament A vn the ata or Rou yer! which continually ‘outcrops’? againat England im | posed agitation, and this appeal, jur Opens into a large court, whose four sides are | tix country, is the result of jealousy of British | ent appearance’, will be well adoabon a. bounded by tenement houses, some of the occupants | power and influence on tis Continent. “This feeling of which do not sustain the highest reputation for | Was greativ enhanced by the unfortunate policy of MYSTERIOUS AND FATAL POISONING. ‘the vritish government during Ue war. peaceiuiness and honesty. About ten minutes be- T arrived in Liverpool the day after the escape of fore six an old man, named Lawrence Gavigan, re- | the Alabama, and was in Englund. for nine months, | St*Piclons Against a Physician—Aute-Mortem ce Statement. idl irty-third street, was shot dange and as a strictly Impartial spectator of events, could rs preteen by a ball trom a jevelver chen not disguise from myself the apparent apathy of the A somewhat mysterious case of poisoning was hands of James Lynch, tet omerships. then, novoriously building for the | brows to the attention of Coroner Keenan on Set- ‘The facts, as ascertained from witnesses of the | Confederate service, Ithen knew that the effect of | Urday evening last, at which time he was called to . this policy would sink deep into the American mind | Bellevue Hospital to take the ante-mortem statement Occurrence, are these:—Lynch, who 18 agent | ang” ve made the pretext for all the good | of James Strappe, a young man, twenty-two years for the landlord of the premises, lives on | haters, of England in America for em- . * the second floor, om the right of the | broiling the two countries in war at @ of age, born in Ireland, are. In the remises resid ia future ime unless England should make timely re- From the statement made to Coroner Keenan by — Lg des an old | aration, and | so wrote to friends on this side. “The | strappe it appears that he lived at 416 Seventh ave- woman named Stringer, who has two sons, | result of this policy of the British authorities is now named Wilham and Henry. The boys are repre- | developing iiself in the rejection of the late treaty | nue. Having been sick for some time past Strappo sented to be very quarrelsome, and only a tew days | by Ue Senate of the Unit States, Although there | on Saturday afternoon consulted with Dr. Desire Nearly all retired oMcers have been ordered to their he This will reduce their income very conside , a3, When off duty, they cam receive ouly the pay proper of their grade, four rations per day, aud one extra ration daily for every tive years’ service. The pay and allowances of retired officers as fixed by existing laws 1s as follows for a month of thirty days—to which must be added thirty cents per day ior the longevity ration for every five years’ service:— General Offcers.—Major general, $256; brigadier general, $150. ‘Siag, Cavairy and Neutenant colonel, $ leutenant, $ Heacy ry and Ir lieutenant colonel, $ first lieutenant, $9 ‘Those olficers Wi OUR REGISTER FOR JUVE, 1569, ty-first)—Colonel, David S. Stanley (M. G.); Lieu- tenant Colonel, Elwell 8. Otis (Col.); Major, Joseph N..G. Whistler (Col.) Twenty-third Insantry (organization unchanged)— Colonel, Jefferson C. Davis (M. G.); Lieutenant Col- onel, George Crook (M. Major, 4. J. Dallas. Twenty-fourth Infantry (Thirly-eighth aad Forty- first, colored)—Colonel, Ronald 8. Muckenzfe (B. G.); Lieutenant Colonel, Wiliam R. Shafter (Col.); Major, Henry ©. Merriam (Col.) TwentyfNih Infantry (Thirty-ninth and Fortieth, colored)—Colonel, Joseph A. Mower (M. G.): Lieu- tenant Colonel, Edward W. Hincks (B, G.); Major, Zenas R, Bliss (L. ©.) Those regiments the organization of which re- mains unchanged (Iwelfth, Thirteenth, Twentieth and ‘Iwenty-tiurd) will be filed up to the maximam legal standard by surplus men from consolidated regiinents or by recruits. Grevet rank ia indicated by the tnitials in paren- theses after the officers’ names. ‘The following is a list of the feld officers thrown out by consolidation: ENERAL OFPICERS. General—William T. Sherman. Lieutenant General—Philip H. Sheridan. Major Generals—Henry W. Halleck, George G. Meade, George H. Thomas, Winfield S. Hancock, Jonn M. Schofield. Brigadier Generals. Cooke, John Pope, Terry, Edward v. Irvin McDowell, Philfp St. G. iver O. Howard, Alfred H. Ord, Edward R. S. Canby, ght artitlery major, $11 Colonel, $146; ptain, $108; Christopner C. Augur (all Major Generals by brevet), ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. Adjutant General—Brigadier General Edward v. Townsend, (B. G). Assistant Adjutant Generais—Colonel Richard C. jor, $169; ugevity ration addiuonal colouel, ieutenant ¢ y captain nd the Keltore, (B. G.), and twelve mayors, of whom William | Hy. B. Carrington, John tT ¢p ago one of them committed an assault upon one of | are a great many persons in this country of the type | Amand, of 142 BI er street. After listening ) i. Whine, (Mc Sik ate wa Bema atringtom: Jot ere te Emme es, | the Workmen employed on a new building in course | of Senator Chandler, who Would like to see England | statement of the cose, Df. Atnand prepared a . pw: sxteheae “ Sidney Bur’ Abner Doubles of erection in the yard. The Jandlord ordered | humihated from pure feelings of resentment, 1 be- | of medicine for his patient, who forthwith took @ r brevets were con- 7, to uber, Seven hundred and 1 ferred from Septem!» INS TOR GENERALS. Colonels Randolph B. Marcy, Delos B. Lynch to eject the Stringer family, and he gave | lieve the main cause of irritavion arses from are- | dose of it and went home. Later in the them notice to find otner quarters. This exas- | vival of the ola jealousy of British power and day Strappe called upongianother physician, Daniel Butter Wm. 8. Ket jacket, Fa- v Major generais brigadi Isaac V. D. ~ perated the boys, one of whom (William) on Satur-_| fluence in Canada, So jong as the union jack float: in Thirty-second street, for medicine to relieve him: 45; leuten coloneis, 100; ia mund Schriver and Jas, A. Hardie—all brevet Major | wi. gidell, “ an DickeneonWoodrur, | day night entered the yard, abused Lynch, and | from the fagstaily at Quebec, Kingston and other | from a terrible pain and burning sensation hits 255; tirst lteutenan Ss de to au on wo | generals; Lieutenant Colonels Nelson H. Davis (B. G.), | Geo. L. Andrews, 4 . Henry M. Black, threatened him. Aboutiour o'clock yesterday Pat- | forufications of the Dominion, and a British soldier | stomach, Another prescription was made out for din be w ais ~lecg ge me James Totton (B. G.), Roger Jones; Majors Absolm H ry w ¥ . é bert Ames, Fomee 8. BD, . rick pony e Thirteenth Ps 3 called | remains on Canadian wa, will this feeling last | Strappe, Who haa 1 filled at the drug store, corner at the majority of the: e ren. J * jenry D. Wailea, | And jowman, Alexander $. Wabb, 5 ci . ye . dered nugatory by tne se ction of an act of | Baird (M.G.), Elisha H. Luddington (Col.) Julius Hay: Mal " aon Be. Mcintosh, upon Lyne! jo make @ vendly —- visit. among @ large Class of the American people. They | of Thirty-second street and Seventh avenue. After A table was drawn out from the wall, some beer | will regard these emblems of foreign power as a | taking the medicine ordered by the Thirty-second and cards produced, and Lynch, his wife and guest | standing menace to democratic institutions and the | street physician Strappe became very sick engaged in several games of euchre. About aquar- | sovereignty of the United States until they are finally | at the stomach and vomited freely in or ter before six Mra. Lynch, who sat close to the win- | removed from the American Coutinent. near the drug store Being unable to dow that Pann. into the yard, wae asked by Bill ‘There exists no positive desire in this country, ex- | go home, Strappe, by advice of the druggist, was Stringer if his mother was to be ejected, and on _re- | cept among we Fenians, to annex the provinces, | conveyed to Bellevue Hospital, apparently in a dan- ceiving an affirmative answer, commenced hurling | and if England would take the wise and really | gerous condition, when it was deemed highly neces~ stones Into the windows, Several passed into the | statesmantike step of declaring the Dominton an | sary to cali in the Coroner. Previous to his arrival, room where Lynch and his family were sitting. He | independent nationality the United States would cer- | however, a portion of the matter emitted from the sprang to his fect, seized @ revolver and rush- | tainly never initiate a movement for its annexation. | stomach of the patient was analyzed and found to ing to the window was seized by Hagan | There can be no doubt that the Canadiaus would be | contain quantities of ‘“Sheels’ green, an ac- and disarmed. In the scuffle between them | left free to govern themselves in the way they think | tive poison, The statement of Strappes revealed for the possession of the weapon the table | best, and under such form of government as they | the above facts, and when Coroner Keenan left was overiurned, and the glasses and beer een may choose to adopt. This country would then | the hospital the ceeding Been considered the broken. Mrs. Lynch threw the pieces of broken | promptly enter into a treaty with tie government of | suiferer out of danger. me hours suhsequently, glass at Stringer through the open portion of the prance caren the people of the two countries oa | however, Strappe was seized with convulsions. and, window, When he returned the volley with stones. | terms of reciprocity, If not entire freedom of trade, row Ing Worse, died at half-past two o'clock yester- Meanwhile Lynch by some means regained posses. | The abrogation of the old treaty was a blow almed morning. j sion of the revolver, reached the window, took atm | at Hngland, not Canada, which became the sufferer. The case will be thoroughly investigated to-day be- at Stringer, and was in the act of firing upon him If the feeble hold #tit maintained by England on | fore Coroner Keenan, When the mystery posstbiy when his Wile struck his arm, and the ball took | the Nort American provinces 1s, therefore, a stum- | may be satifactorily explained. In the meantimg anower direction, entering the body of Gavigan, | biing block between the two nations why | Coroner Keenan lias issued a warrant for the arrest the watchman on the new building, Who stood about | not remove it and make all America an aily | of Dr, Amand, and placed it in the hands of Captain Ofty leet to the right of Stringer. instead of an enemy .of Engiana’ Suppose | Jourdan, of the Sixth precinct, for execution. March 1, isu9, wich decls thereafter com- Aare San Missions by brevet shall only be conlerred In time of War aud for distingusied conduct and pupile wervice in the presence of the euemy. Atiorney General Hoar having decided that brevets for tinguished service m Indian ein orde Commissions lave been Issued to r thes conduct in recent Indian operauons. are the following Captain Henry head, Fifth infantry, to be brigadier geveral prowpt, energetic and 1 torious services, especially in the prompt r jonel Forayth's beleagured party in September, Akos. Major George A. Forsyth, Ninth cavalry, to be brigadier general for gailaut conduct aud wieritori us services in Seprember, 1868, Yo be co\oneis—Captains Eugene M. Baker, Seventh cavairy, and John Coppinger, Twenty-third infantry, for | and energy;” Captain Albert Har. nits, Seventh cavairy, for “distinguished gallantry ;” Capiaia Frederick W, Beyteen, Seventh cavairy; Major Andrew W. Evans, Third ‘cavaliy; Major Wil- BURBAU OF MILITARY JUSTICE, Judge Advocate Gener ai— Brigadier General Joseph Holt (M. G.) Assistant Judge Advocate Generat—Colonel Wil- Mam McK. Dunn (B. and eight judge advocates, with the rank of maj CHIRF SIGNAL OFFICER OF THB ARMY. Colonel Albert J. Myer (B. G.) QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. Quartermaster General—Brigadier General Mont- gomery C. Meigs (M. G.) Assistant Quartermaster Generals—Colonels Rob- ert Allen (M. » Daniel MH. Rucker (M. G.), Rufus Ingalls (M. G.), three vacancies. Deyuty Quartermaster Generals—Lieutenant Colo- Deis Morris 8. Miller (B.G.), Langdon ©. Easton (M. G.), Stewart Van Vilet (M. G.), Ralph W. Kirkham Joseph B. Kidduo, Hugh B. Fleming, Ebenezer ny, Henry Dongiass, ‘Thos M. Atv inion,” Benj. P. Ri Sarnuel Ross, , Join M, Goolhne, Levi ©. Boo on, ong them The following is a corrected list of the MILITARY DIVISIONS, DEPARTMENTS AND DISTRICTS, Dwision of the Missourt.—the Departments of Dakota, Missourt and the Platte; headquarters St. Louis, Mo.; Lieutenant General Philnp H. Sheridan. Invision of the South. ibe Departments of the South and Louisiana and the Fourth Military dis- trict, also the Department of the Cumberland; head- — Louisville, Ky.; Major General Henry W. alieck. Division of the Pacific.—The Departments of Call- fornia, Alaska and Columbia; headquarters San Francisco; Major General George H. Thomas, Dreision of the Atantic.—The Departments of the diam K. Price, Eighth cavairy, aud Captain Louis | (B. G.), Jobo C. McFerran (B. G.), Samuel B. Hola- | Bast, the Lakes and First Military district; head ‘Th . on D a for « - " Wier tee hee monn 3 y ere Was an immense commotion amon, the case reversed, and the United States heid rem Mi. Caspent nul cavalry, for « gallant and tere peice th noo tO. Tyler (M. os Charles H. quarters Philadelphia; Major General George G. | the occupants of the tenement houses at ‘once, Scotiand, Ireland, and the small islands along the ARREST OF A SUPPOSED MURDERER. assistant quartermaster, for “meritorious services,” | Myers (B. G.) . - and several rushed into the street crying “murder | coast a$ provinces, and England possessed the F Military District.—The State ot Virginia; headquarters Richmond; Brevet Major General B. kK, 8. Canby. a lice!’ OMcer Edward Barbalett, of the Twenty- ower to expel the foreigner. What would be the {From the Buffalo Courter, June bay | hth precinct, promptly responded, hurried into | feelings and action of Englishmen on the subject of On the sd of June a man, caillt Patrick the entered Lynch’s room aud took him into | sach occupation’ Furthermore, why should Bng- | McGrath, was arrested for havin OsSeSEIOD ol ys land cling 80 tenaciously to what after all isthe | @ pigce of cloth for which he was unable to account ‘ghe wounded man was conveyed to a drugstore | greatest source of weakness to herempirer Why iy, and was locked up to awalt develop- on the corner of Bedford and Carmine streets, jould slie desire to make Canada the base of opera. picion of larceny. le remained incar- where ex-Deputy Coroner Knox proved the wound, | tons in a War growing out of imperial interests and yesterday, A day or two since a you but was unable to find the ball, The sufferer was | against the ouly other great nation veya} the in, named Lizzie aiaged, trom Detroit, call conveyed in a coach to the Greenwich street station | same language, and which bas inherited and is en- rintendent of Police olds, and stated house and from thence to Bellevue Hospital in an | deavoring to improve and work out laws and instl- | that about @ month since het brother Thomas and ambulance, tutions similar to her own? Why not establish | @ man named Patrick McGrath, alias Maheny, Gavigan is an old and inoffensive man, oa pro- | another Anglo-Saxon nation or empire, and let the | wentdown the Detroit river together in @ small boat Dably #ixty-nine or seventy years, and the father of | three endeavor to solve the great problem of free | and that her brother had on his person money to five adult children. resides in Thirty-third | government, and by example induce the rest of the | the amount of $200. Nothing more was heard of and Captain David Perry, First cavalry, for ‘gale Jantry.” For “conspicuous gal ed:—Liew SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT. Commissary General—Brigadier General Amos B, Eaton (M. G.) Assistant Commissary Gensrals—Colonels Alexy ander E. Shiras (M.G.), Charies L. Kilburn (B. Lieutenant Colonels Marcus D. L, Simpson (M. Henry F. Clarke, (M. G.) MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, Surgeon General—Brigadier General Joseph K. Barnes (M. G.) Assistants Surgeon General—Colonel Charies H. Crane (B, G.) Chief Medical Purveyor—(Vacancy). Asastant Medical Purveyors—Lieutenant Colonels Robert Murray (Col.), Charles Sutherland (Vol. ), Jede- diab H, Baxter (Col.), (vacancy). PAY DEPARTMENT. Paymaster General—brigadier General Benjamin W. Brice (M. G.) ty” the following oMcers nant Wilda KR. Parnell, in James M. Williains, Eighth cavairy, to be majors; Lieutenant Patrick Cusac Ninth cavalry; Lieutenant Kichard J. Eskridge, Twenty-third infantry, and Join Mad n, late Lieutenant, First cavairy, to be captains, (‘1ue latter officer was killed.) On the recommendation of the Secretary of War, endorsed by General Grant, the jaw relating to brevets was amended so that vrevet rank does not entitle au officer to precedence or command except by special assignment by the President, but auch as- Signinent does not entitie an oficer to additional ay or allowances, In this connection we may state hat no brevet pay, charged since March 3, 1866, has been ailowed by the accounting of f the Treas- ury Department, Witary Distriet, ~The State of Mississtppl; headquarters Jacksun, Miss; Brevet Major General G. Pennypacker. ruth Miviary District—The state of Texas: head- quarters Austin, Texas; Brevet Major General J. J, Reynolda, _ Department of the Bast—The New England States, New York, New Jersey, Penn: a, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Coluinbia; headquarters Rope city; Brevet Major General Irvin Mo- Department of the Lakes—Ohio, Michigan, Wiscon- gin and Indiana; headquarters Detroit, Mich.; brevet Major General John Pope. i Departinent of the Cumbertand—Kentuekey, Ten neasee and West Virginia; headquarters Louisville, Ky.; Brevet Major General Philip St. George Cooke. le street, between Seventh and Kighth avenues, but for | world to adopt and maintain like free institutions? her brother tilla couple of weeks after, when his dead floating in the river with a bullet gome time has been the watchman in the alley above The declaration of Goldwin Smith and other emi- stated, The ball entered about two and a half inches | nent Englishmen that England is even now pre- above and to the right of the right nipple, and from my to concede independence to the Canadians if the ape rance of the man when sent to hospital, | they desire it, if founded in fact, cannot pe accepted and the fact that there was considerable imernal | as av! hia head. ‘i any force, Any party in the Dominio Assistant Paymaster Generals—Colonela Nathan Department of the Missourt—}ilino! issourt jorrh it slight hopes entertained of | no odds how powerful—t hould at! nae Ceo nan Seymiont ‘eg Zealoua -~ Tower W. Brown (B. G.), Daniel MeClure (B. G.) Kansas, Indian Territory, Coloradoana Mexico} Rorenvey. ocean ment for the purpore “th taking: civantage Of these jim for larceny, the former receivea two’ —" , gia nt each; Deputy Paymaster Generais—Lieutenant Colonels, nena Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Major Gen- Lynch expresses his that the old man | liberal assurances would at once be encountered by | 84} murderer PY, 7a. (frst Heuteoapt and | Hiram Leonard (B. G.), Vary H. Fry (B. G.) eral J. M. Schotield, should have been stra: the bullet, but regrets | such hostile demonstrations on the part of the pro- exactly with th of Sao quar). for Fort ‘banter, was nett pnd A tin nonad theft of the cloth, and di Department of the Platte.—lowa, Nebraska Uta! hy el 0. ir. ‘Department of the Dukotiu.-<M invest, oa Dakota, part of Montana; headquarters Minn.; Brevet Major General Wingeid 8, Hancock. a Arizona; hesdquavers san Fr arevet an ona; he an Hi Major General Eaward GO, Ord epicciets which he stated he wished blic to know) that | Brith party, who hold possession of the govern: was arraigned for the feta not killed hs claims that during | ment? that civil war would certainly and | charged, no one appearing against him, when entire! the de- | then, let ine ask, on which side would the po' of | informed that he was under arrest as the i had threatenca nis life. The | England be cast? Would she look quie with. | murderer of Thomas Hayes, at Detroit, he turned” latter, during the pantie that followed the ag drawing her troops and allow the con! ing fac. | deathly pale, and gave other Ky So gay made it convenient to escape. The Coroner wi i Vions te fight it out, or would not those troops be | conagience. le was again lock itho~ Probably hold an anti-mortem examination to-day to | the fi hands in Canad ood? | rities at Detroit telographed to. fe understand ascertain the particulars aad the condition of the | No. If ever Canada beco dent | that Mise Hayes has also seco MoUrath and fully watchman. government it will be either by the Voluntary sot | identifies oi. Chief of Engineers—Brigadier General, A. A. 5 ant colonel and colonel) in 1862 and two (brigadier | phreys (M. Goi Colonels, John ge tr at ar nd major, general) 1b 1506. The latter received three | George W. Cullum (M. G.) Henry W. Benham (iM. G.)} for Mexico and five during *he reveliion, Generais | John N. Macomb, James H. Simpson (B. G.), (var ‘oater and Gordon Granger received seven each, two | vancy.) i Mexico and five for services during the reveilion. Lieutenant Colonels, Zealous B. Tower (M. G.); Ho- IMPORTANT ONANGES. ratio G. Wright (M. G.), Jolin Newton (M. G.); George Tbe Lumerous aud importaut changes iy the or- | Thow (B, G.), Joun D. Kurtz (Col), Barton S Alex