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stop at the Fifth Avenue Hotel or the Gilsey House, at an expendc of ten dollars a day. ‘phia matter deserves serious consideration. he government, when {t charyes a citizen wwith crime, is bound to give him the speediest dpportunity of answering the accusation, and tainly it does not look well to have calendar stuffed with cases where, in some instances, the indictments were found or three years ago, At present we donot, ‘ further inquiry, lay the blame in any =. but we shall look closely into tho atter and report accordingly, TwaNKsGIvINe.—Governor Hoffman has is- Wued his proclamation designating Thursday, November 23, as a day of thanksgiving in this State. This recommendation should be appro- oly recognized by all the people of the tate; and in the midst of their rejoicings and erry-makings let them remember their suffer- ing fellow citizens in other and sorely stricken States. Let the day be one. of thanksgiving for the bounteous aid sent from all parts of the yrorld to the sufferers in the city of Chicago and in the burning forest districts of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and wherever else the hearts of good people have been touched and. have responded to the appeal for sympathy And assistance. Let our people return thanks that in their abundance they are enabled relieve distressed humanity wherever may languish. The 23d of November ould be recognized by the people.of New ‘ork State for a grand triumph of donations for the benefit of the poor all over the State d in the impoverished districts of our sister Btates, SrvaviaR Puase or 1HE CoAL QuESTION.— Jt has been usual at this time of year to expect an advance in the retail price of coal. But fow we find the contrary to be the case, as éoal is being furnished at some yards at prices ot far above summer rates—say seven dollars ton. This is the result of a large supply sbove the demands of present consumption, end the lack of orders from local dealers, The prevailing mildness of the weather has robably influenced consumers against pure asing ; yet we advise families to take advan- ‘age of the present low scale of prices to lay in their winter supply. There is no knowing what a biting frost and the cold hearts of coal Monopolists may in a few weeks accomplish toward raising the price of coal to its exacting Winter standard. taaetanetacinc Tue Tartar of Rosenzwelg got fairly under Way yesterday, and the whole dismal story of ‘Alice Bowlsby, as it was told at the first by the reporters, was again recounted, Nothing per was advanced. No light was thrown on The subject of her partner in guilt, nor on the Identity of the woman who bargained for the femoval of the trank, All these points of the tase remain as dark as ever. While the evidence so far taken fully corroborates the news account of the day and highly commends the astuteness with which the reporters developed the facts of the case, it is little Complimentary to the shrewdness of our detec- tive police, who have, after all, permitted at least one important witness—the woman with the trunk—to slip out of their net. “Sray Not Upon tHE OrpDER or Your Goine, sur Go ar Oncz,” is the advice of Lady Macbeth to her guests at dinner, when her guilty spouse, confronted by Banquo’s ghost, begins to find himself exceedingly un- comfortable. Garvey, acting upon this judi- pious advice, stayed not upon the order of his going, but “left for parts unknown.” And aow it appears that magnificent deputy clerk of the Great Mogul, that enterprising Deputy Woodward, has disposed of his numerous houses and town lots, &c., at a great sacrifice, and has gone in search of Garvey! A pre- wium for the Spiritualist who can now sing— Tee them on their winding ways Swartwovut, as a defaulter, was a great vensation in his day, and the Galphin and the Gardner claims were bold strokes of swin- dling the public Treasury on a grand scale, The shoddy speculators of the war, under ‘Honest Old Abe,” and the whiskey rings, under Jobn- son's administration, with their immense hauls of plunder, astonished the World; but the official financiering of Tweed, Woodward, Garvey, Ingersoll & Co. is positively sublime. And yet, under the arithmetical arrangement of Mr. Tilden, it is reduced to plain stealing. FOREIGN PERSOVAL GOSSIP, —The Emperor Alexander has founded « new aniversity in Commemoration of his visit to Cau. cnsta. He has also ordcred the speedy completion of the Caucasian Raliway, whic is said to be of great strategic importance. — Prince Louts Alphonse Victor de Brogite, oldest gon of the Duke de Broglie, the French Ambassador lo Engiand, was married on September 26 to Jacque- line Armande, Countess a’Armaillé, Prince de Broghe is the grandson of the celebrated Mme, de Statl. —-The Khedive of Egypt, says the Corvespondauce Européenne, 18 threatonet wiih a new difficulty with Turkey. The weath of Ali Pacha, his best ana almost his sole friend at the Divan, is a serous blow tolum, The newly appointed Ministers are dissatis- fled at the ideas of prox matitred by the Khe. dive, and are devising plans to dethrone hiu, and give the Pachalic vi Keypt to Halem Pacha, or another of their friends, —M, Thiers, observes the Correspondance Euro. péenne, gives dinners every day, and great liberty of speech is allowed. The iresident, who Is # good whist player, asks men of all shades Of parties to play with fim, winout feartng that they will devour one auother. Geneva! Hour, M. Jules Simon, M, de Lancy—republicans, Bonaparusts and legitunists— fare to be seen, Orleanists swarm at the Presi- dency. M. ‘Thiers smiles upon all; nothing can dis- concert him, —The Marquis de Lavalette, Generai Fleury and M. dela Guéronuiére are Mm apeck of trouble. It appears that during their mints erial residences at London, St. Petersburg and Constantmople they nt too Much Moncy, ant the Committee on the uager msists on restitution, Many and many vials have they pait to M. Thiers and M. de Rémusat in the hope of obtaining some relief; but what can those respeciable parties do? The anes- Vion appears to be, is it worse toapend tov mucit Of one's Own Money OF that of others’ A Very per- plexing one for French republicans. ——The Emperor of Germany is not expected in Berlin before tho begiuning of October, Imme- diately on his return the royal dag, which has bith. erto veut residouces of His waved on the dite Majesty, will be replaced by the imperial German banner. A drawing of wie imperial arms has been forwarded to Gastein for the approbation of the Emperor. The Imperial eagie ts represented on a goiden field, and the crown is that of Conrad Il, ——Prince Napoicon has pubtished @ pamphlet entitled “Tho Trath to my Caiumniators.”’ He says he was a perfect stranger to tie declaration of war, and that he only left the srmy on August 8, 1870, by Order of the Emperor on 2 diplomaile mission to italy. ‘The Emperor, he says, voned to draw Italy and Germany into a war against Prussia. He (ihe Had Napoleon) had offerc : 19 share the caplivity of the, Emperor aster sedan, but the Kmveror ‘the Eastern Budget states tiat the Servi v “¢ t st a Servian gov ernment RoW busiiy emptoved with the Weorent iS gation of tts army. In the otner branches ot ihe State expenditure great anvings have been made of late years, and the military huaget hag been spondingly Increased. ‘Vie army is now. pr Wiih 6,000 ries converted acedrding to the Pea- body system, and 16.000 ma ders are lo bo Blvon with breech incenainism, Aig to the “Rouka” (2ussiam system, ee . whW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 187]—TRIPLE SHEET, IMPORTANT. FROM Herald Special Report from St. Petersburg. RUSSIA. Imperial Call of the Adult Male Population to Arms. One Million Six Hundred and Fifty Thou- sand Men to Make Ready for War. An Immense Reserve Held Against Invasion. One Thousand Guns To Be Added to the National Batteries, a The Movement Partially Masked by Cabinet Strategy. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, The following special despatch to the HERAtp has been received from our corre. spondent in the Russian capital :— St, Pererssure, Oct. 26, 1871. A general order of the Russian War Office, duly approved by His Majesty the Czar, directs an entire and complete reorganization of the imperial army and the calling and training to arms of the whole adult male popu- lation of the country in their respective dis- tricts, The order, which has just been issued, creates the numerical strength of tho ficld and landwebr forces of the empire to a total of one million, six hundred thousand men when required for ‘‘war purposes.” This force is to be commanded by fifty-one thousand commissioned officers, The sixty-six regiments of Cossacks, of which a portion is now employed in the ser- vice and the remainder liable to duty, are not included in the enumeration. The general order creates also a further thilitary force of reserve to be employed in the event of an invasion of the imperial territory. The terms of the order are equivalent to a mobilization of the population of the entire nation for army purposes. It makes every. man in the country capable of bearing arms a soldier on a peace footing. This reserve will be commanded by 35,000 officers, and foot up a total of 750,000 men, Reinforcements are ordered to the artillery. The new addition will adda strength of 1,000 guns to the batteriés almaody im the service, This enormous military change is masked in the words of the War Office order, under the cover of a mere creation of a national land- webr, called ‘‘local forces,” which, nominally, leaves the old army of Russia intact and unaf- fected by its operation. The Russian Army As It Was. ‘The latest muster roll of the Russian army, pul- lished in St. Petersnurg previous to the issne of the general order which we report specially oy cable in the HERALD to-day, announced the forces then at the disposal of the Czar for war purposes to be made up as follows, viz. :— Eastern Siberia. Staff of the mititary establisument Making a total of........ sence ed 173,879 It was then alleged that the totals given above would be “enormously increased” when the new military law of the empire was put in operation. The correctness of the statement is verified by the contents of the HERALD telegram to-day. Previous to the issuance of the present order two Propositions were under discussion in the St. Peters- burg War Oilice, the one to develop the existing system as it was; the other on the basis of universal liability to serve, exemotions to be left to the deci- sion of spectai courts. The leading authorities were in favor of the latter course, being generally agreed that the system of drawing army “lots” leads in practice to great hardships. injustice and decep- tion, while special courts are far less likely to be ewayed by personal motives, and are better able to judge fairly the claims for exemption latd before them, Hence the decision which induced the order, Army Oftvets in Earope aud the East. From Ausirian sources we are enavled to present aseries of tables, showing the military resources with which some of the neighboring Powers may offset Russia should tne Czar attempt to use his huge force for aggressive purposes either in Europe or the East. The Vienna War Ofice makes the following army returns, viz:— AUSTRIA, 13 corps, Including 40 divisions of infantry and 5 of cavalry and 205 batteries of artillery aud mitrail- leuses. ‘The total force is 733,926 men and 58,125 horses, with 1,600 guns and 190 mitrailleuses, ITALY. 4corps, with 40 infantry and 6 cavalry brigades and 90 vatterles. Total foree—#15,200 men, 12,868 horses aud 720 guns, TURKEY. 6 corps of Nizam (regulars), 12 corps of redils (re- serves) and 152 batteries, making 263,289 men, 94,836 horses and 732 guns, ROUMANTA, 106,000 men, 15,675 horaes and 96 guns, SERVIA. 107,000 men, 4,000 horses and 194 guns, OREROR. 126,000 men, 1,000 horses and 48 guns, GERMANY, 18 corps, mcludng 87 divisions of infantry aud 10 of cavalry and 337 batteries of artillery. ‘This force numbers 624,990 men, 95,724 horses and oer Sere ENGLAND. The Vienna authority says:—“Army in proctes of reorgauization."” CUBA, The Captain General's jour, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO, HAVANA, Oct, 26, 1971, Wapran General Vaimaseda leaves this city on # Bainrday aot for tie cagtorn Cad Of Vue igland, ENGLAND. Frightful and Fatal Explosion in a Colliery. Relief @ the American Sufferers by the Great Fires—Flow of Bullion. TELEGHAM TO THE NEW YORK HEPALO. LONDON, Oct, 26, 187]. Another frightfal colliery disaster 1s reported. An explosion took place this afternoon in the Seaham mine, near Newcastle, Thirty-three men were in the pit ac the time, none of whom have yet been reached. There is scarcely @ hope of saving a single life from the number. ‘The families of the victims, with large numbers of people. are gathered around the month of the pit, and former scenes of excitement and distress are renewea, THE AMERICAN FIRES SUFTRBRERS, The contributions to the Chicago relief fund re- ceived at the Mansion House up to last evening amounted to £41,200, ‘Tne town of Bradford has subscribed £4,250 to the fund. The London Times this morning editorially urges ‘the despatch of prompt and liberal ald for the settlers‘in Wisconsin and Michigan, who have been burned out by the forest fires.’ The writer says, “If such heip is not afforded to these unfortunate people the ultimate suffering which will result from the Northwestern tires will be greater than can [ol- low the Chicago conflagration.’ THE FLOW OF BULLION, The weekly return of the Bank of England shows that the bullion in the bank has Lacreased £1, 302,000 during the term, ~ IRELAND. Preparations for an Importaut Trial. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORX HERALD. DUBLIN Oct. 26, 1871. Tha trial of Kelley, who murdered Head Constable Talbot some time ago, will commence on Monday next, AUSTRIA. Ministerial Resignation and a Cabinet Crisis, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. VIENNA, Oct. 23, 1871. The members of the Hohenwar Ministry tendered the resignations of their portfolios to the Emperor to-day, headed by the Premier, Little doubt is entertained but that His Majesty wiilaccept the change and take measures for the formation of a new Cabinet. YON BEUSY MASTER OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION, The resignation of the Ministry has not surprised the people, for morning journal, inspired, it is said, from a high source, expressed the opinion that “the political questions pending before the Emperor will be decided acvording to the views of the Imperial Chanceijlor Von Beust and the resignation of the Hohenwart Ministry is immu- hent even at the moment of writing.” RELIEF FOR CHICAGO. ‘The city journals of this moraing publish an ap- peal in aid of the sufferers by the Chicago fire, signed by Von Beust, Erlanger, Todesco, Kiusky and others, United States Minister Jay is active in furtheriug the relief movement, ROME. Teahan Reyaity a Dacvice Ageiney TmAugtrial Union, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Rowe, Oct, 25, 1871. The workingmen’s societies of Rome and Naples have refused to participate in the Congress of Workingmen, which is shortly to be held at Rome, on the ground that “That assembly will be a mere republican demonstration, and, as such, unfriendly to Italy.” CONTEMPT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL, ‘The Italian government has relaxed the vigor of its precautions against the International and the partisans of republican agitation, believing that their principles have no hola upon the minds of the Tiallan people. SPAIN. National Tranquillity and Loyalty to the Crown. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. MADRID, Oct. 26, 1871. Rumors have been circulated lately, both in Spain and in foreign countries, to the eect that conspiracies are on foot against the government by partisans of the Duke of Montpensier and the Infant Alfonso, Such rumors are without a shadow of foundation for truth. Tie entire kingdom is perfectly quiet and no demonstration of any kind against the dynasty of Savoy is apprehended, Communists’ Liberation by the Courts, TELEGHAIR TO THE KEW YORK HERALD, Paris, Oct, 26, 1871. ‘The judicial returps go to show that the number of Communists who have been released by the Courts is not less than ten thousand CORSICA, Bonaparte Exile from the Fountainhead. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Parts, Oct. 26, 1871. Is ts sald“that Prince Napoleon has left Ajaccto and taken his departure from the Istand, FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, Orders have boen given to replant the Bois de Boulogne and Meudon with trees ffteca or ftwenty years of age. The Bonapartist organs tell as that thirty now papers, advocating a plédiscife, with the view, of course, of priuging about an imperialist restoration, are about to be started, There ts a defictt of 16,000,000 florins in the Danish budget, which the Finance Minister By poses to meet by an income tax of two per cen! Phere will also be a loan for the national defences. The exports from Great Britain to the United States during the month of Augdst were unprece- dented. The value of the goods was £22,221,245. thirty per cent more than the same month of 1870, It is arranged to present a memorial of the citt- zens of Dubiia in favor of the holding of races in the Phoenix Park, at which, tf atlowed, the plans and arrangements at present carricd out on the Cork Park course will be adopted, As regards partridges, reports from the West of England are unanimous in deploring, the scarcity of sport. In Dorsetshire in parucular the accounts are very unfavorable, and the season-ts pronounced the most uasatistactory experienced for many years past, ‘The Prussian government is said to be pressing for the trial by court martial of 143 officers, who, released on parole, afterwards served against the Germans. {tis now some time since General Le Flo, in answer toa deputy of the Right, promised that the guilty parties snould be brougat to justice, ‘The monument to the memory ot the forty-five intérnes ot General Bourbagi’s arniy, who died in the communes of St. Gall and Toblait, will be erected on the Ist of November, at wie sete of Alt Saints, in the cemetory at St, Pidem. Tie monu- ment will be ta the form of aa oveltss, tWwentyone wud a all tock Maat |WASHINGTON. | Tae SOUTHERN RU RLU See 1 MEXICO. More Dishouest OMeiuls Brooskt | fmporlaat Information Oblained by the} Herald Speetal Report from to Grief. Congressional Committee. Arrest of Ex-Congressman Stokes ON | treasonable Designs of tho Order of the Lavisible Iharge of Embezzlement. UTAH WOMEN FAVORING POLYGAMY, WAsutnarton, D, C., Oct. 26, 1871. Arrest of Ex-Congressmnn Stokes, of Tennennee—A Treasury Official in Trouble, Ex-Congressman Willlam B. Stokes, Supervisor of Internal Revenue for Tennessee, was arrosted here to-day on Lis arrival from that State, He 13 charged with defrauding the government to the amount of $60,000. On being arraigned before Com: missioner J. J, Jonnson he waived a preliminary examination, and gave bail in the sum of $15,000 for his appearance before the Criminal Court, Victor J. Powell, clerk in the Second Auditor’s office for the last eizht years, was arrested nero by Deputy United States Marshal Phillips on Tuesday last, charged with frauds on the government in con- nection with bounty claims, The amount specified 18 $10,000, but it is rumored that an investigation ‘will show the amount to be over one hundred thou- sand dollars. It 1@ rumored that ex-Congressman Stokes and Powell were concerned in the same alleged fraudulent transactions, Utah Won in Favor of Polygamy. The character of the petition from Utah, filty feet long and signed by about twenty-five hundred wo- mnen of that Territory, was recently unintentionally misstated, Instead of being agatnst it is im favor of polygamy, and was seut to the Execulive Man- sion by Delegate Hooper. The petitioners say that their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers are now being exposed to the murderous policy of a clique Of federal oficers, intent on the destruction of an honest, Nappy, industrious and prosperous people, and they therefore ask for the removal of the federal disturbers of the peace, or at least to stop the disgraceful proceedings or send candid and reliable men to Utah to investigate the ques- tion of the constitutional rights and liberty of the people, The petitioners express their approbation of polygamy, asserting that it was sanctioned by Christ's teachings and that the iastitution ts being perverted by federai oMcers. Scarcity of Small Bills nt the Seuth. Treasurer Spinner has received a letter from the Vice President of a Southern Bank and Trust Com- pany, saying:— We receive our currency from New York, and of lute we have only been able to obtain $1,000 and $500 notes. With these denoml- nations the cotton crop cannot be moveil, as planters and country people require small cur- rency and cannot do without t. ‘There is an error somewhe:e, Eliner the government, the national banks, Or both, have issued too much large cur- rency for the wants of the people. There should be aremedy, and that speedily. Please give the sub- Ject your prompt attention, % Tue Treasurer's response is:— I beg to say that this off commencement of th 1869, and is now, prepa of the deuomimations from one may be required and small notes 1s not general is evuie that itis now receiving as an accommodation to banks large amounts of small notes, which they claim are a burden to them 1 that shape, and pay- ing there‘or In large notes, For notes of the old issue received at this oflice new notes wiil be furnished, the charges of oriation both Ways af the ex- pease of the dep ent, ‘Ihe clause in a copy of a Treasury circular giving the terms upon which new nt are furnished, which Treasurer Spinner endor. returns are made im the new note of 1869 they will be forwarded from whom the ol notes have t rece! made necessary by the tact that bankers and others in different parts of country before this regulation was adopted caused their pondents in New York to send here old notes, pa for Witokt were to be made to th a wg Bangen ante ‘uma age pense for WANns/Poriation Of Las deparument, and saving to themselves the expense of expr ‘om New York. The express company with which the government has a contract for the transportation of its funds complained that the transportation, at the contract rates, of funds m the cases reierred to was not legiimaiely within the contract stipulations, and the company's claim must be admitted to be just. Forall notes ot the issnes prior to that of 1869, or fractional currency sent to this oftice, I will furnish new notes of any denomination specified, the department paying the expense of transportation bo.h ways if sent in ac- cordance With tustructions in the circular herewith, For notes of the issue of 1869 that are sufficiently good for circalation I will also furnish other notes of any dencmination, but in this case the cost of transportation must be pald by the perty asking the accommodation. Montaly Report of the Burean of Agriculture, ‘The report of the Department of Agriculture for October says the influence of drongnt and of the unusually low temperature of September has been unfavorable to the ripening of fruits and to the ma- turing of corn and other crops. No general or serious damage las resulted to corn, 8 large por- tion of the crop being well advanced by the hign temperature of August before the frost appeared. The drought of midsummer has been almost unbro- ken in the West up to the time of these ecturns, in- terfering greatly with tho seeding of grain, and with the germination and growth of what the farmers have been abie to plant, ‘The present condiuion of corn expressed as a per centage, 100 representing a good crop, is as tol- Jows:—About an average in New Hampshire of 111; in Massachusetts of 103; im Rhode Island of 101; in Connecticut of 105; ta New Jersey of 10: Delaware of 103; 1a Maryland of 103; In Arkansas of 102; In Missouri of 112; in Ohio of 108; in Wia- consia of 103; in Minnesota of 110; in Towa of 114; in Kansas of 119; and in Nebraska of 112, The product of wieat, as calculated from county estimates, appears to be about seven per cent less than Inst year. The percentage of last year's crop in the several States is a3 follows:— Maine, 87; New Hampshire, 10 Vermont, 4; Massachusetts, 104; Connecticut, 100; New York, 109; New Jersey, 109; Penn- sylvania, Delaware, 100; Maryland, 120; Vir- ginia, 85; North Carolina, 65; South Carolina, 60; Georgia, 65; Alabama, 71; Mississippi, 86; Texas, Arkansas, 85; Tennessee, 69; Vest Virginia, Kentucky, 75; Missourl, 102; Ilmnols, 93; Indiana, 90; Ohto, 99; Michigan, 110; Wis. consin, 90; Mimnesota, 75; Lowa, 90; Kansas, 113; Nebraska, 93; California, 90; Oregon, 101, The quality 1s generally superior. It is placed above an average in all the Western States except Kentucky, Jowa and Nebraska. The product of oats will be about as large as the ovop of last year. Asa whole the qualily of barley may be sald to be fully medium, and the quantity very nearly an average. The buck- wheat crop 1s comparatively a poor one, the ave- rage condition being low iu nearly all the States, ‘The potato crop falls below an average, The nuim- ver of beeves reported is greater than usual in most of the States, Texas reports a reduction of 21 per cent from last year; Kentucky, 2; Iitinois, 2; Indiana, Jalifornia, 6, Iron Revenue Cutters on the Lakes. ‘yhe government has accepted the two iron reve- nue cutrers built by David Bell, of Buffalo, N. The contract stipulated they shonld make eleven miles an hour, but the Hamilton made thirteen and a half on her trial trip. Sne has been ordered to sea and?placed in commission. The Galatia will re- main ot Puffalo during the winter. Appointments by the President. ‘The President to-day made the following appoint- ments:— A. H, Wilson, Collector of Internal Revenue, and Alvin B. Clark, Assessor of the First district of Georgia; Willlam Gray, Collector of the Second dis- trict of Georgia; George B, Chamberlain, Collector of che Fourta district of Georgia; Caleb B. Lord, Assessor of tho First district of Maine, GW. Guthric, Edward pha i P. Bell and vie David Wilson are contitmed at the Treasury. a8 in spectors of Customs at New York, New Modical Director. Modical Director William M, Wood has resigned, and Medical Director Jonaliau M, Foltz bas been appointed in nis place, as Chief of the Barcau of Medicine and Surgery, Consult Recognized, Tho President has recognized Don Andres Spring na Consul Of th® Gxrvental Revubite of Uruguay ab Potiiand, Bam . 103; Empire—Half a Million of Membors Ea- rollet-Horrible Ouxtrages and Maimings—Contumacious Wit- nesses To Be Arrested. WASHINGTON, Oct, 26, 1871, The Ku Klux Joint Committee of Snvestigation Meet in this clty om the 7th prox., but a sub-com- mitteo, charged with making a digest of the fnan- ¢ial condition of the Southern States, of which Sen- ater Poole is chafrmau, will meet on the Ist prox. This sul committee have arranged a plam under which; if tne State authorities respond, the public Will be able to obtuin 4 fuk exhibit of the several State dedts, kc. WHAT THE COMMITIRE WANT TO KNOW, Mr. Poole's circular makes the following inquiries As to State indebtedness tn July, 1861; at the surren, der in 1865, when the present governments were inaugurated, snd on the 1st of January, 1371:— For bow much was the State responsible, as en- dorser or otherwise, in 1861? For what was tt then prospectively liable? Also, what part of ne increase of the indebtedness since 1865 arose from the collat- eral esponsibility of 1:61? What irony the contine gent or prospective ability of 18617 What from accrued intere t unpaid upon the old dept? What from tho necessities created by the loss auring the rebellion of public tunds dedicated to specific pur- poses, aud of which the State or tis authorized agents had the managoment? ‘The committee ask thar items be given separately with the laws under which they were incurred and the political composition of Legislature passing the same; also, as vo What specific public funds, if any, were Jost to the State through the rebellion and how. Whether any considerable losses have been incurred since 1866 by detalcations, frauds and otherwise? Aiso, what was the county taxation in 1860 and in 1870? What the State expenses were in 1958, 59 aud '60, and in 1863, '69, '70, and if any in- crease, what are the reasons therefor? Other ques- tions are propounded relative to the manner of holding elections at the several periods named, the object being to ascertain the condition in 1860-61; the condition at the surrender in 1865; the condl+ tion at the inauguration of the present government under the reconstruction acts, ana to compare cach with the other and with the conditton at present. ‘The answers are hemg sent to the several members of the sub-committee, upd In general are quite full ob the poinis su, sted, ‘Thus digest will be one of the most vaitabie documents in the voluminous Te- port to be made to Congress. CONTUN ACIOUS WITNESSES, At the meeting of the full committee the neces- hesses, among them being GENERAL FORREST, OF TRNNESSER, and W, A. Saunder, of North Carolina, the Jattor beig well Kuown to be Chief of the Inyistole Hm- pire, of that State, There are a dozen of tose witnesses 1D ail, most of them having absented them- seives irom the city alter being siunmoned and re- porting here. One of the runaways is reported tobe | living at Catherines, Canada. The testimony | already taken by the Ka Klux Comunittee 1s in general of the most startling character. This evi- dence alone will ull about fourteen hundred octavo pages, and covers the testuneny of more than four huadred witnesses, calefy trom the States of North and South Carolina, Mississippi aod Alubaina, with a few from Georgia aud Tennessee, A suc-com- mittee 1s now at work im the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, while a second 1s investigating Ten- nessee, Alabama and Mississippi. Probably these two sub-committees will examine at least tiree hundred witnesses, Whose evidence, When printed, wil cover 1,000 more printed pages, ‘The evidence taken Defore the United States Cir- cuit Court at Raleigh in tho recent triats there 1s now being transeribed from — phonographic notes for the Department of Justice. There is very iitiie doubt but that Congiess will call jor this and print) it with) the reports to be made by their investigating committee, Those who are famiilar with the pature Oi the testimony taken by the Ku Klux Committee declare that, much as has been said im the press on the subject, the country will not realize the MORRIBLE CONDITION OF ‘iLE SOUTH aud the terrivie nature of the Ku Klux or Invisible z t 3 Dread olan ite ALL AAR HAHA ARP Ben Sea ned and abundant proof afforded by the open acknowledgment of it members as well 2s by the evasions and even juries of those who are among its leaders to prove that It isa FORMIDABLE, WIDE-SPREAD ORGANIZATION, existing in every Southern State from the Potomac to the Kio Grande, thoagh most active in the States of North and South Carvina, The ceatral paris of Georgia, Alabama, the middic and northern poruions of = Mississippi, | and the central and western. counties of Tennessee, — Vir- inia, Arkgusas and Louisiana are comparatt Tee from Ms active operations, though proot is in the hands of the Executive to show tiat it only needs an occasion to put in active appearance in the States named. Florida hes occasional manifestions, while Texas shows many prools of ifs activity. The testimony taken by the investigating comuitice is, mucn of it, of a horrible caaracter, The CRUEL OUTRAGES PERPETRATED by these bands are diversijied by acts which would shame the Apache Indians. Instances by tne hundred of maiming and mutilating before and after death are sworn to. Especial hos- tility 1g shown by the Ku Klux toward Northern Methodist Mininisters, to — school teachers and school houses, In South Caroima their efforts have been directed especially against the officials, mostiy colored, and m all places the large majority of oatrages have been tafiicied on colored people, The percentage of DIRECT MURDER cannot be less than ten In & hundred, while as man, die afterwards from the abuse received. It is sel- dom that the Wiippings Were unaccompanied hy some bestial act or matming of the assailed per- sons. All the evidence taken establishes the politt- cat character of the conspiracy, and it 1s made clear its purpose 18 to cestroy the reconsiructed State governments and crush out the political party | which sustains them. ‘This 1s the resuit of the Congressional Inveatiga- tion, bat the facts Im possession of the Executive Departinents prove & more dangerous design thaw this os being pursued by the as yet unknown Su- preme Chie!s and Councils of this order, It 18 cs tablished beyoad all doubt, accordmg to this evi- dence, that no one who served in the federal army or civil service, no matier what his politics may now be, is admitted. The great body of Ku Klux membership is but a REORGANIZATION OF THE CONFRDERATE ARMY, reinforced by the young men and boys who have grown up to a serviceable age since the surrender of Tee. The testimony iu possession of the govern. ment establishes & membership of from four to five hundred thousand, of whom one-half may be reiled upon to carry out the treasonable plans of the leaders, 6 President thoroughly comprenenas the designs and Workings of this organization, and ‘eagon to expect that even the secrets ofits Supr e Council wilt be lald before Lim, as have been those of its most powerlul State ausil- larles. = The Effect of the Suspension of the Habeus Corp South Carolina, AvGusTa, Ga,, Oct, 26, 1871. Advices from York county, South Carolina, where the habeas corpus has been suspended, state that arrests have been made and the parties lodged in the County Jail, Numbers of men are leaving the couniry, their deserted {amuilles sudering. Business of atl Kinds ts suspended, It is reported that one-nalf of the male popuiation of Chester county have left, leaving women and cil dren unprotected. In Spartansburg and Union counties the stampede and suffering 1s even greater than in York and Chester counties, and it 1s im. possible to conceive the terror and excitement that prevails. | WEATHER REPORT. WAR DRPARTMSNT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHinaTon, D. C., Oct, 27-1 A. M, s Synopsts sor the Past Twenty-four Hours. The barometer has fallen stace Wednesday night in the Midate and Eastern States, The area of lowest pressure is now uorth of Lake Ontarto. The pressure has risen im the Ohio and Mississippt Valleys, and ts lightest in the South-West, partially cloudy and clear weather ia now reported from [t+ dlana to Georgia and Kansas, light snow tn Minme. sota, and rain from Lake Ontarlo to Marytand and to Mame, Brisk southwesterly winds have prevailed for @ short time on the lakes, light easterly winds on the Atyuntic coast, veering tosouth, ‘The tempevature has risen on Lake Ontario and tn Northera Sew York, and in Yew Engiand it has risen, but ig now Tatling from Lake Erie to Lake Superior, ag to Noh Carolina and westward. Probar slities. The barometer Will prybably wise very generally west of the Apaiachina range on Friday, with falling temperature, and pardy cloudy or clear weather from Tho Gulf coast to Lakes Ontario and Mirfigan; cloudy weather west of Wis- consin; Ught aia to-night in the Middle and Kaat+ eru States, “oliowed by cloudy aud clearing weather on Friday, sary steps will be authorized for the presentation | tothe senate of a number of contumacious wit- | i Matamoros. Juavist Successes Against the Revolutionary Forces. mene SALTILLO HOLDS QUT AT MONTEREY. . pnnnnnaNennnnnne Trevino: Denounced at Nuevo Leon. aye Cttineu Exo dus to the State of ¥ Texas. TELEGRAM TD THE X "Ww YORK HERALG. The ftoHowing special’ dospatch to the Hurarp has been receiv, 4 from our corre spondent in Matamoros, Mea ‘co :— Maramonos,: Oct. 25, 1871. Saltillo still folds out again | the Montoroy revolutionists, Hight hundred\men of the'govy ‘tment army havo arrived as veinforcements'ts the dotach- ment under his command, General Escobedo; commanderA chief of the Juarist troops, is marcting . i? force vies and against the rebels under Sefiors’ Mon Hamato. The inhabitants of the smallir cia “4 of Nuevo Leon have pronounced against Ger eral ‘Trevino, Two thousand Mexican citizeng, haveorom ‘ed into the State of Texas in order tw escaped '¢ rebel proscription and rebel violency: at hone = YACHTING. Coumedore Ashbury’s Last Epirate® and’ cia New York Yacht Club Commicted’s Ffantl Answer. In answer to Commodore Ashbury’s cont mantoa~ tion of the 24th inst., claiming a continustian of ther yacht races, inthe hope or possibility of fis wit- ning two others, and thus taking posses tor: of the- Cup, there is nothing else to state or giv publtct than the following:— OFrice SecrETARY New York Yach ples No, 22 BroaD STRERT, NEW Yor«, (ct. 26, 18Tl. Taupe ‘Asnury, Lsq., Commodore Koyal -Harwied> yacnt Clut DEAR StR—The Commodore 13 in recetpt +of yours of yesterday. In-reply Lam instructed to st Bte thaw the New York Yacht Club having won a ma Yortty of the seven stipulated races, the committee « eusider that (with the exception of making thelr final ‘re t) their functions have ceased, and consequent 't ho point remaining upon which they ‘ ofiicially correspond with you. I remain, tru fours, &C., * Ys Yours, (fon MINTON, Secretary Ny ¥. 1 ~Oe For the committeo, No, 801 SEVENTH AVENUE, } New YorK, Oct, 25, 187! b To tHE Rviror OF THE HERALD:-— DeAR StR— Please inform mo, through you Da per, if bets made on last Wednesday's race sk Okt be paid in favor of the Columbia, or considert Mire draw, asa dispate has arisen, ana oblige, LT &e- malin yours, truly, YACHTING & THE OHOLERA IN PERSIA. At the present time epidemic cholera is pravalomt in the pachallk of Bagdad, tn the central and jnorth- western provinces of Persia, in the cranscaut asian provinces of Russia, tz several of the Russian ports of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azof, throu ghout Russia in Europe and in the provinces of Ger mous on the Baltic and North Sea. The disease 1s ex tend Ing trom the pachalik of Bagdad into the He :djas, from the Black Sea to the Bosphorus, and fram (ae seavoard provinces of Germany to the central prc w- incesof theempjre. In presence of a widely apre a@ extending epidemic of cholera, which has effecte: & a lodgment in the westernmost ports of Europe g ag is increasing there, the danger of the epidemic ta~ are i vading Great Britain can hardly be held tobe eee mote or the precautionary measures premat erat which are now being so strongly urged upon Weak, authorities, ‘The holders of Confederate cotton bonds re enerally sending them {n to Messrs. Spain mu drews, in order to have agreements prepa: tte, the genticman who will represent their case pb Washivgton. pee a Seen ‘ EUROPEAN MARKETS, . ONDON MONEY MARKET.—LONDON, Oct. 36-—4:90 P, ie sole closed, mt 9214 for bath money and. the, socoum. ted States five-twenty bon 6+ 18858, 91; 18675, 9274; ten-forties, #94. ye = igs Bours®.—Panis, Oct. 26--P, M.—Rentes closed t S71. 75e. UP RANKEORT Bourss.—Frankronrt, Oct 26-A. M.— Uniled States five-wenty bonds opened at 9614 for the issue of 1882. LIvERVOOL COTTON *MARKET.—LIVEBPOOL, Oct. Ie 4:20 P. 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