The New York Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1872, Page 3

ament Payments for Lands in Mississippi—A Clique of Lawyers and Half-broed Dele- gates’ Revolve the Fuiide end Bivide It for Foos and -Bxpensee—The , fogeg 3 TORY, fron, duly 8 10 8, 1872. 2} ‘The Congression: Committee {s stilfhere taking testimony in relation to the frauds practised on the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. The testimony etows that they have been must shamefully treated waren anid even by their own delegates. These ‘were removed here by the government Sorvy years Ago, from Mississippi, under treaty stipu- tations ‘that this Territory should be theirs exclu- eivelyand in perpetuity, and that they would be alowed for the valuc’ of all the improvements and ‘stock which they tiad to abandon, for their losses by the way and for the expenses of those who were eeff-énifgratifg.’ Ih the course of time these indi- ‘vidta) Claims swelled? and magnitied until in 1850 ‘the Beriate of thd United States, determined to clear ‘them all of tid to’ make ‘clean sweep of all the questions then in dispute between the United States andthe Choctaws, adopted a resolution to pay to the Choctaw Nation the net proceeds of the sale of ‘thelr Mississippi lands in full settlement of all de- mands, leaving the Nation to arrange with its indi- vidual members. The amount ascertained to be @ue for these lands was about two million three hundred thousdnd dollars, and Congress therefore appropriated $500,000 of that amount, half in cash an@ half in bonds, The delegates and attorneys, ‘through whom this settlement was made, claimed ‘am@ received one-half of the cash appropriation as their commission, and the other balf passed into the hands of the then Indian agent, to be expended $n the ‘purchase and’'supply of corn, for the want @f ‘which the Choctaws were then ‘suffering, or wapposed to be. That was the last seen of the'Money. One steamboat load of corn was sent wp the Arkansas River, but it never reached the Indians It rotted and waa thrown overboard, and ‘that was the end of that transaction. The Indians ‘were completcly swindled ont of the frst $250,000 appropriated. The $250,000 in bonds were never issued; but to that, and to the remainder of the $2,900,000, the lien of the fifty per cent commission to the delegates and attorneys attached. Tho at- tormeys were a certain Mr. J. T. Cochrane, formefiy a clerk in the Indian Department at Washington, now dead, and another well-known character around Washington in the days before the war, named Albert Pike. THE REBELLION BROKE OUT. ‘The Choctaws and Chickasaws joined the rebels and were brigaded, I believe, under Pike, who made a bad mess of his command and retired in- gloriously from the service. In the meantime all payments to the Indians were stopped, except that ‘the interest on, their trast fand in the hands of the government was diverted to the support of and to the payment of losses supposed to have been sus, tained’ by what were known #6 loyal Choctaws and Chickasaws. This was another vein of robbery and fraud which the committee has not yet opened ap. After the war the Choctaw Nation again spened negotiations with the government at Wash- ington, and for that purpose sent five commisston- ere or dolegates to the capitalto make # new treaty. The first thing they did, under the advice of their former agent, UVooper, was to make an pertement with « Baltimo iaaret, 2 Bs sone B. trig under wi services an sivance, 0 “Ot on oa St ‘8 Which. were, geckred a tothe ee, Out of th Commanion eh iarioge ak Sarath Fa AT gay feo bes fader ot asain surah delogatan AsURY ONE HUNDRED THOU- and pata over o¢ Boopel go is i Latrobe, who ther to W: i be ‘aivided Bi amone t their clerk, which was eae, ns wag the ca yin out of ‘an agrecment by y which half of eaten ‘was to DO besides, and per nancial condition in which the Choctaws are now p! ik THE YINANCIAT EXHIBITION. me ae! lown in figures, as a more convinc- ing demonstration :— Fo b poche of cash Be dom Dedue! begat aud siti cy ewntes jon B' Received into the Choctaw To the amount of bonds to ode deliveres by 0" 280,000 Deduct Cochvai : cent) abo deduct iatrobe's commmissl “al delegates’ so r mes aod Boer ee 280,000 Gombe to the Choctaw treasury.. +, $000,000 bi dye unde: the nett mnt made vi rep alentied Ba nee 8 o $1,800,000 juet ‘an 1,800,000 Toming to the Choctaw treasury.,..........+++ $000,000 Pi the result of this financial manoeuvring on t ofa double set of Indian delegates and a Bout le set of American la io ig to rob the Choc- taw Nation of every cent of }2,300,000 which the Senate found to be due to it os the net proceeds of its surrendered lands in Mississippi. Comment oe ach facts is unnecessary. Perhaps I ought to ‘W. Latrobe the benefit, such as it may be, o! ns ‘own statement to the Choctaw Nation, that all the fee which he received in the matter was $16,000. Even if that was not an exorbitant compensation for such services as he performed—merely draught- inga prey, which the government authorities already formulated—it does not lessen his respon- ‘sibility as party to a trarfsaction by which his clients were to be robbed of one-half of the = coming to them, the other half, asI have loned, having already been secured by another set fet of scoundrels. In connection with this Inst moiety of the spoils I ought to mention here a lttle le, Cochrane, the ex-clerk of the Indian De- ment, and subsequently the attorney who was pote w Wereh per cent on the net proceeds claim, leaving. his mother and widow ‘amie itor who administered ‘eguteck e execu! ‘on his estate sold for $75,000 the interest which the estate had in these commissions, and which amounted to about $00,000, The eae ag od was Mr, Jere Black, cx-Attorney General of the United States. Through tions, which it is neces- sary to mag ty even if it wero easy to explain them (as it is not), the re of Cochrane’s widow dwindled down to 2,000, Of this ohly @ small amount was roe by Ben heed remainder Being eit in railroad stock subject to k's final control, the terest only being paid to the widow. lerstan ratand that Black him- Self exp! the he nang aera to ‘and the withholding by the ——— Seceuent ewer aioueing ste mary, wal ph vetted to the 7 Payment of Any of these course. Mr. or to = the retention of his railroad stock and ponds witoh the The intereat of Goel Goctirane' ental i the he matter, a a ont Ded os, veal more the The Tose r naif may be brichy tod: The Chickasaw Indians were in the game dimicuity as the Chocta: mations were with «which The ike fee of $100,000 was exact from them, and half of it handed over to their ive or ang 7 of the erenaen, ANA the like eommissio: cent was bargained cry on = the moneys tei to ‘the Chickasaw, which a py owaver, t to. more than $400,000, tncredible fee of $200 000 ‘was ‘pala to 18 COMBINATION OF LEGAL SHARKS for a service which could have been 5,00, ame vultures latched pop ine Un ures clutche 2 otedit of pion gd ignorant a A ved the aia ems 4 aicaalans Dt inne ca of the Suc Ouicke: reases Sought so large on inte willag bat atctoun thas Sas ena tee the shall recommend WEW “YORK HERALD i ‘ee | enough to get ons but have not — nity of kyo cule tenmeiven at the Sreante a ie evinoes every ery etermnamtson bn frauds to light, to protect the Indians as as possible and to recommend such cl in the present Tudian system as their observations here may show to be necessary. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. PROFESSOR GIUSEPPE ‘Pires, of Palermo, the learned editor of the“Oanti popolari Sicilian},” of Of ““Studj di Poesia Popolare.”” TUB DEATH 13 ANNOUNOED OF Hann Parorz, the well-known German novelist, dramatist, and lyric poet, He had long been in bad health, A METRICAL TRANSLATION Of Goldsmith's “‘De- shortly, in six or more volumes. Mr. Rougrr Hewrtr, Ir.,' is preparing 9 com- prehensive work on “Coffoo; Ite Cultivation and Uses.” 4 Loxvntovs Eprriow of Ourran's speeches has Just been brought out by Messrs. Callaghan & Co., of Chicago. ‘Mx. RaLston’s “Songs of tho Russian People” is much praised by the Russian critical journals. TuE CREDULIiry of sightacers ts illustrated in the fact that about four thousand quill pens with which Lamartine is declared to have written “Jocelyn” have been sold to travellers at Macon, the former residence of the poet. THE Saturday Review says of Charles Lanman’s “Japanese in America’ that’ “the essays of tho Japanese students are curious, though chiefly as ilustrating the Japanese talontfor mimicry; but the rest of the book, though not exactly worthless, is certainly not worth reading by any English inquirer into the Japanese mind.” MR. GBoncE AUGUSTUS SaLa, that prolific book- maker, has not scrupled to inflict upon us in the midst of these blazing dogdays a book entitled “Under the Sun.” It ig a sort of glorification or apotheosis of heat, which Mr. Sala declares makes the Nubians and the Malays the hardiest and most enduring races in the world. He celebrates the courage of the Caribs under the Equator and the chivalry of the planters of the South, bred among hot lagoons and burning rice swamps, and he com- Plains that “the negro transplanted out of the tropics distinctly loses nerve.’? Tum Revue des Deux Mondesis the only literary review which has been able to live and prosper in France. Started in 1830, it. was not until 1948 that it was able to get along withoot an annual deficit. Then came the golden days of Alfred de Musset, George Sand, Prosper Marimée and other contribu. tors, and the circulation ran up to 20,000 copies, A New “History of Indiana Methodism” has been written by Rev. F.C. Holliday, D.D., and will soon be brought out by J. H. V. Smith, of Indianapolis. A Monograra on “The Magnetic and Mineral Springs of Michigan,” with an essey on the climate of that State, will shortly be published by James &. Webb, of eo ston, Del. from the pen of Stiles Kerii¢ 5 Cirrane CHARLES M. SCakOON, of San Francisco, ‘will soon publish his “Natural History of the Ceta- ceans and other M ae of the Weat Cons of North America.” The book will also contain a fall account of the American Whale Fishery. “Is a b y Mae 9 Grr ue ger. Sapa ean AMONG ek iboal histories of in of hereet is Mr. Alex. Harris’ “Biographical History of Lancas- ter County, Pennsylvania,” to be published bre Barr & Co., of Lancaster. “A Rank Tory” writes to the London Standard, ‘under the head “Liberal Civil Service Economy” :— Tam a first clase clerk in one of Her Majesty's gov- ernment offices, and my allowance for stationary for the current quarter is as follows, viz., twelve remade quill pens, one box steel ditto, six sheets blotting paper, half quire note ditto. If this is not the “last Straw’ of economy I know nog what bs. ay rere Toa pul} ee t OFFICER, IGNAL ONT AaRINGTON, D. O., July 27—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. ‘The area of low barometer and storm in New England on Friday afternoon has moved eastward to the coast, with casterly to southerly winds. The barometer is rising, with northerly and westerly winds, cooler and clear weather on the lower lakes and southward over the Middle States; south- westerly winds and clear weather prevail on the Guif, and northerly winds and clear weather on the upper Mississippi, on the upper lakes and south- ward to the Ohio valley. Probabilities, Clearing and cooler weather with northerly and westerly winds from Lake Erle to Virginia and eastward over the Middie and Eastern States; winds vecring to northeasterly and easterly over Michigan and the Upper Lakes, and westward with cloudy weather on Saturday; southerly to easterly winds, increased temperature and cloudy weather in the Upper Mississippi valley; falling barometer and threatening weather in the Northwest, light variable winds and clear weather in the Gulf and South Atlantic States, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- eters with the corresponding day Of last year, as dicated by the thermometer” at *fuanut’s Phar- 1871, 1872, 73 87 macy, HERALD tanh a — 2 8:30 P. M. 12 is 6 P.M. ”% 87 OP. M. 76 6% perature Yesterday Average Meruperature for last year. No More Bail at Station Houses. The Judges and Aldermen when called upon have obligingly arisen from their beds at all hours in the night, repaired to the station houses and bailed “gomebody’s friend.” This has, for the present, been stopped by the Police Commissioners, Yes- ed the followl ISPS HE BEE te ou one eri "ran 0 Conrzr Covet no as aisle i Precinct — Cartatt oreatter you Will not bermtt ig Judge or an to, to.cpen cont i ia Low 8, be you retin rato, ex except at the usual regia e fave of ‘hold "ion, cet nd regulauens governing (his do- “by order ot ae CAMPBELL, Chief of Police, Another Policeman Assailed and Com. pelled to Shoot. About six o'clock last night Officer Riley, of the Tenth precinot, attempted to arrest 8 man named Buckley, who was drunk and disorderly at the corner of Union street and Fourth avenue. While taking him to the station house he was set upon bya number of iaboring men, who knocked him down and tried to his prisoner. He was nis ind discharged three Shots at thor ) when ier fed. wwmret nati | them they were not shot, ~ WHEELER'S EXPEDITION. WASHINGTON. The War Department Axploration and Tope graphical Survey of the Southwest. aamniiiaallieaoatinn ‘An Astrencmion}, Military Ee pedition to Explore West of the One Hun- dredth Meridian—The Army Mapes To Be Corrected— Plans, Strength, Character and Special Work of the Company— The Start To Bo Made from Utah. In Camp, Crry, July 15; 1872; ‘deutenant aM. r, Of the United States Army, corps of engineers; takes the field ina few days to continue the explorations and surveys prosecuted by him: in-1869; 1670 and 1871, He pro- ceeds under directions of the Secretary of War and in ‘conformity ‘With en act of Congress, which Teads:—“‘An act to establish an astronomical base and to continue the military and geographical sur- ‘veys and explorations west of the one hundredth meridian.” \The. expedition has ita rendezvous in this city, and a camp has been pitched in the sub- urbs; under Fort Dongias, witli an outlook at the snow-covered peaks of the Wahsatch wadge and the picturesque valley of the Jordan, i The frame work or main’ idea of Lieutenant ‘Wheeler's explorations is the reconstruction of the engineer's may of the coantry west of the 100th meridian. His plan for effecting this, at once novel and admirable, has received the sanction of the authorities at Washington, and is briefy as fol- lows:—To lay off the country mentioued into eigh- ty-five rectangles, of equal size, to work up each rectangle with the most rigorous efactness, and ‘with due attemtion to all the details of topography, and to‘publish these’ results from ‘time to time, binding the rectangles; as ‘mapped ont and ‘per- feeted, wittnan index map of the whole region, and throwing up each rectangle to ten times ita size in the index map. ‘Thus a complete relative and ab- solute view of the wholecountry ¢an’ be obtained by reference to the separate rectangles and the index map, . Eight rectangles have’ been ‘siready completed, and by the close of the present season’ the expectation is that thirteen will have been Worked | up fit for publication. ‘This:work, supor- fuous as it may seem to the careless observer, will De of vast importance if éncouraged ‘to a happy completion, in correcting the‘numerons errors that have crept into the: maps of the Western country and in placing the surveys of thé whole region on one comprehensive basis. THE GROUNDWORK OF THE PLAN consists in the correct determination of certain Well established astronomical points, which are to be placed as far as’ possible on thecentral line of travel across the. continent. The following have been selected, subject to correction, a8 ‘necessity may require:—A point near Beaunois, near north- -Western Kansas; the croasing’of: tlie Union Pacific and the western boundary of Nebraska; Cheyenne, the eastern limit of the survey of the’ fortieth parailel under Mr. Clarence King; Sherman, the bignest point on the Union Pacific ; Fort Steele, one of the main topographical stations of the fortieth paral- lel survey; Laramie City, a characteristic point on the Great Plaing; the crossin, and the western ‘boundary of yoming, a tnear Winnemucca, one or more of the north bends of the Central Pacific; the of the Central Pacific and the 120th’ meridian and a point on the western boundary of Nevada. ‘The 0 tale phic con- nection this season will be with the Ob- servatory in this city, in ae le aaa he of Whicn has been oferea to Lieutenant © by pee: Soomes 3 The intention is to et aut this or a ry or near sherman, taking sions as fast as circumstances will allow to more remote points, ndent on the det ment of the telegraphic lines or the advance of jutenant Wheeler's reyes present season will embrace areas in Utah, » Sevada and A and Arizona. The southern and southeast- ern ae of the Salt Lake basin will be Corres and in this connection the mooted the identity of Sevier and Preuss lakes raat be, it possible, nig whether they are tracts 4 draining the one into the ot! Lig wen ins into Great Sait, North an it het ih era a ofthe Virgin. and its tributaries the be te Est sean, ce ape gba cba M e a ietohoal of spose ca fa sorteds arvore fy ry referre hed eastern fiimit of work will be the Wasatch Benge, ae this south until it loses its dis- tinctive features, the line will strike the Colorado platcau and extend by the 112th epitian to the volorado River. e reac vet Rot Fae valley of the Virgin River will have pe and surveyed, and here as elsewhere complete com Ce ia will be established with the surveys already Characteristic lava beds of the great inte- Hor! ‘asin will probably ets he! in the sink of the Sevier River, Coster tong connected with the main ridge of the Cordillera See in. the vicinity of whi mineral dovelonmente Mimost always ocour, 3: am GROLOGICAL EXAMINATION. on the warey will especially Ax the limit within which mineral croppings may reasonably be ex- Footed and beyond which it would not be judicious 0 search for them, Lieutenant Wheeler recognises od vast interest of the mineral possibilities of this ‘egion, both to the national government and to rivate enterprise, aud much of the labor of the Farvey will be directed tosuch considerations as can foster and satisfy this interest. He recognizes that there are vast tracts of our Western country which can be valuable only as their mineral wealti is developed, and at the same time that this wealth will be untold in extent, when once developed. Much of his attention will therefore be turned to this question, THE USUAL COLLECTIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY will be made by a surgeon and naturalist, assisted by a collector. All the departments—astronomical, topographical, meteorological, geological, natural, historical and ethnological—will be full sorte 8 Will be observed in the Rr ich is as follows:—Lieutenant George M. Wuesler United States Ei pepres ioe commanding Lieutenants R. L. Hoxie and iuall, United States Engineers; Acting Masisiae bs Surgeon H. 0. Yarrow, United States Army, 8 and natural- ist, assisted by @ collector; T. V. Brown, United States Army, ital steward and meteorological observer ; Grove ee geologist; E. E. Howell, aasistant, ologist; H, Clark and. E. P. Aus- assistant asi yeaa observers; Louis Net and ar E. veiss, chief topog- raphers; HH. Orueger and G. Thompsoi assistant to) ographetay William W, Ord, aselstang surveyor; Henshaw, collector in natural ory S. severance, ethnologist; Francis Klett, clerk and draughtsman; William Kilp, F. R. Simonton and C. D. Gidney, meteorological ob- servers; William Bell, photographer. ere will be in addition about twenty-five packers, drivers and laborers, and an escort of fifty cavalry, making the party one hundred in round numbers, THE START ‘will be made from camp as soon as the pack trains, escort and other necessary branches of the outtit are ready, which will be about the 26th inst. Already, while preparations for the field are making, barometrical observations = Bae m4 in camp hourly, day and oa Pe examining the geological omens or the borhood, and an token is planned by Gen- Morrow, in command of Camp Douglas, to a series of mounds near Provost, ate miles south, in which he is much interested, and which are sup- sed to hold much that is valuable in a paleonto- Pogicat and ethnological point of view. General Morrow invites several members of the party to ac- company bit ind expects to spend a week in the examinatior ‘the mounds and other sup) Axstec remains about Provost. Dr. Yarrow, of the expedition, while making a carefal CS yop of Great Sait Lake for evidence of animal life, made col- lections of a minute ee, evidently a di oo ous insect, thou; erect : lieved © cee Crustacea specimens, and they have been forwarded to Professor Baird and Dr. Dr. Packard, The Doctor Iseses ofits hooting eugs, ier ewe i inyrage of masses ve whic of small black files hovered.” On too, were the exuvie, evidently of the ‘me insect, aggre- gated In uke Masses. The latter exhibition was fentioned ee ie =| 0 but a far as may be Jud om thetr narra: tion, did not sec the larve state r, nor make any con! between the tion of the same exist. Dy tas denen {tion of Baer ° corrage- ry tions on the bottom of the ment of the water and the an undolatory motion not uni Dr. Yarrow noticed many e ort jomenon. # The expedition will_be in the field until early De- | wa cerns Probably to this city betore dis- DEATH OF AN OLD DIVINE, ~~ “Bostow, Jaly 26, 1812. Rev. Brown Emerson, nearly ninety-five years of f Salem, Mass., died last ge inthe yest ‘rodiouigd ab Daitinouth Cologe inthe year jk —- Uneasiness and Unrest of the See- Yetary of State. ~ Rata as Doings in Egypt Very Disturb- anf Pi Concerning Salt Fish— . Confederate Revelations ‘Wonted—Oustom House Re- ‘Wasuineron, July 26, 1872, Consul Butler's, Actions—Startling Reve- lations for State Department—Secre= tary Fish With a Hook in His Vitals, It appears that General F. A. Starring, our Con- sular Agent, in hia report of the investigation of Consul General Butler’s affairs, does not whitewash or exonerate him, but sustains, by voluminous evi- dence, the many charges deemed official and reveals a frightful atate of affaira,. The report has been at the State Department forgeveral weeks, Secretary Fish found itso interesting that he sat up a whole night in order to finish reading it. It serves as a kind of novel for the State Department clerks and just now furnishes Assistant Secretary Hale, who was Butler's predecessor, with a volume of reading matter. The report proves a sort of elephant, Seoretary Fish does not know what to do with it, and unless Congress should call for it it will remain a dead letter. Gen- eral Butler, however, is very anxious to see it, and demands that a copy be forwarded to him without delay, a request which the State Department has now under consideration. Among the charges sts- tained are ignorance and neglect of ofice, violence, malicious persecution of missionaries and certain Americans in the Egyptian army, appointing con- sular agente without authority for pecuniary and of the Union Pacific | other considerations; dismissal of authorized con- sular officers, retaining money turned over by mis- sionaries belonging to a minor child; abuse of offl- clal power and supposed complicity in the assault on Missionary Strang, by Strologo, his outside man. ‘These are only @ few of the charges made. The missionarics were at ome time resolved to seek the Protection of forefgn consuls, but Strang declared that he would return to the United States before he would submit to such a humiliation. The where- abouts of Butler at present is not known. Fish in the Home Department. Regulations governing the withdrawal of salt to be used in curing fish on shore will be issued from the Treasury Department in a day or two. They enter fully into all the details required by the new tariff law. The Dolly Varden Chief, Spotted Tail and his band had an interview with General Walker, the Commissioner of Indian Af- fairs, at the Interior Department to-day, Secretary Delano being absent in North Carolina. The band being introduced, Spotted Tail proceeded, through the interpreter, to state his special object of the visit, to tell the Great Father that he and his braves had selected a fine location on the White River for @ reservation, and that they would Ieave Nepraska and go upon it. Ha complained that the promises made by General Harney and the stipulations of the treaty of 1868 had not been fulfilled, and hoped that now that they were going on this new reservation the horses, cows and oxen would be furnished, and he appealed to the Commissioner to see that they were delivered. He said that he wanted good American horses, not wild horses, so that they Would be of some use to his people, He also wanted guns and about two hundred rifles. to defend themselves from other Indians if anything happened. There was no danger in giv- ing them to him, he said, for he had made a good peace and shook hands forever, Hq also wanted revolvers for his young men to fun buffaloes with ‘when they go upon their fall hunt, and the neces. sary ammunition. He wanted several more traders appointed, as competition gave more and better Goods at less prices. From this time, he said, he Wanted all the promises made to his people put in flog ened hay ‘was 80 much fraud practiced upon i ny Sat le yey, ey kr teree st? he Spotted Een expressed the satisfaction they felt at the manner in which they hayg been treated here, but said he desired to return to his people as soon as possible, as they were anxious to know the result of his visit to the Great Father. He asked that Jule Coffee might be appointed a trader at once, and said he would name others hereafter. General Walker said he was glad to hear the words of Spotted Tail, and that his tribe had decided to goto the reservation On the White River, where they would never be disturbed and where they could build their homes. He promised thatevery provision of the treaty of 1868-should be carried out. When they got upon their new reservation each man of the tribe should have a deed in black and white of one acre of land that should always be his, The horses, cows and cattle promised should also be sent to them. He also promised to comply with the wish of Spotted Tail and appoint Jule Coffee, a trader. The department knew him and believed him to bea good man. He also promised arms, but said they would be given only to the old braves who were known to be good Indians, as the young war- riors might not make a proper use of them. He praised the White River reservation which they had selected, which had good water and plenty of wood, and urged them to pick out the very best lo- cation there, as they would not be moved again, The conference then ended, with the understanding that Iron Shell and Swift Bear would be heard in relation to certain other matters to-morrow. More Southern Revelations For Sale. Since the recent publication of Jacob Thompson’s letter, the Treasury Department has been applicd to by a number of parties in the South and else- where, offering to furnish to the government, for a pecuniary consideration, other Confederate manu- script documents, representing them to be of im- portance. No further purchases, however, will be made, Naval Change. Rear Admiral Joseph F. Green has been ordered to the command of the North Atlantic station on the 17th of August next, as successor of Rear Ad- miral 8. P. Lee. Custem House Receipts. The following are the customs duties for the week ending, July 26:— ‘The Postmaster General has ordered a mail ser- vice upon the Southwestern Railroaa, from Eufaula, Ala., to Clayton, Ga., twenty-two and a half miles, daily from August 1, the compensation to be at the rate of $1,125 per annum, THE PRESIDENT INVITED TO VISIT OHAT. TANOOGA, CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 26, 1872, Governor Samuel Bard leaves to-night for Wash- ington, bearing an invitation from the Mayor and S SATURDAY, \ JULY’ 27, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. SCHURZ’S CHARGE AGAINST THE PRESIDENT Letter from Carl Schurz. To Tne Eprror Or THE HERALD :— Sin—The statement I made in my speech at St. Louis concerning the patronage in connection with the St. Domingo business has been represented as incorrect in a despatch of the Associated Pressy apparently inspired by the President himself. It is now proper that I should give my authority for what Isaid, The letter quoted in my speech as coming from the gentleman who had with me the conversa- tion referred to, was addresged to me by General Alfred Pleagonton, late Commissioner of Internal Revenue, It was written in. reply to a note from me, of the contents of which J havea memorandum, which reads ag follows: ty ac mane ncaa conte fe said that if I bree sup] Pres. T could have alt the patronage J wanted, 4c. And ask lim whether he was anther ed by Pres, to say 60. General Pleasonton’s letter in reply to this is quoted in my speech, and is as follows :— New York, Jan. 25. 1872. DEAR GENERAL Regarding the ‘Son dreatéon you refer to in your note, kremember it was with the knowledge and consent and after I had @ conversation with him (the President) that I ue Bpon you and had the conversation you ke of. My impression a this time is, that. tne] President desired your euppect for his St. Domingo scheme, and wished be on such terms with you that your support pea be obtained. I do not now remember any pea Jangnage used at my interview with the resident, and would not havard doing him an in- justice by "attempting to quote from memory, but the Sree made upon my mind by the inter- view was fixed and distinct, asm ‘espe in haste, KASONTON, TI have since received from General Pleasonton the following note:— New York, July 25, 1872. DEAR GRNERAL—Of course I have ho objection to your giving my name to the public. In explauation of the facts, I would say that, @ frlend of the President as well as of yourself, I desired youshould be on good terms, and Posie should understand that there was no personal feeling in the way of relations mutually satisfactory. Your statement ia correct that the President wanted ope support for his haa the patronage of the governmout (or giving ie ry Ton: ernment for giv! That was the aistinct i gorarnutent the Oy ‘8 conversation made upon my mind, and I communi- cated it to you at the time. If the President posi- ee denies having had any such conversation I tit. Imay console myself with the reflection that t this is the first time that any statement of mine has been questioned, while the President has had occasion before this to distrust the accuracy of his recollections, Truly yours, A. PLEASONTON. In justice to General Pleasonton I must add that the drift of what he said to me is correctly stated in his note. When he found that I had conscientious objections to the St. Domingo scheme he urged me no further to support it. He desired mé to go and see the President, to which I replied, that if the President wanted to speak with me on public busi- ness, I should consider it my official duty as a Sena- tor to respond toa note from hiin requesting me to call. And that was the end of it. My recollec- tion is that General Pleasonton intimated to me at the time that he spoke with the knowledge and consent of the President. I inquired about it afterward in writing, for the purpose of either strengthening or correcting my impression con- City Council and Board of Trade to the President oo his Cabinet, to visit Chattanooga and Lookout jountain. A BANKRUPT RAILROAD, Kingston, N. Y., July 26, 1872, The Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New York have commenced proceedings looking to a foreclosure of a mortgage against the Rondout and Oswego Railroad—now known as the New York, Kingston and Syracuse Railroad—under first mort- La the company having failed to meet its verest, A $20,000 FIRE IN NEWARK, Yesterday afternoon between three and four o'clock @ fire broke outin the Zino Works on the Passaic River bank, Newark, within Newark city lim- its. The firemen were promptly called out, and their efforts saved the place from entire destruction. ‘The loss is estimated to be about FR a A eee are probably Tully covered by ipsWcBGe, CA}SBY 1D Now York companies. ce cerning that fact. Although the President recently condescended in an interview with a HERALD reporter to say that thy opposition was owing to an unsatisfied desire for patronage, or words to that effect, I had, as will not now be denied, some excellent reasons to think that ifI wanted patronage I had a very good chance to obtain it at the expense of my convic- tions of duty. Truly yours, C. SCHURZ, New York, July 26, 1872. NORTH CAROLINA, Democratic and Republi Calcula- tions—Both Parties Expect Moderate Majorities—Figures from . Merrimon, Pool and Barringer. Raxeton, July 26, 1872, As the day of the election draws near the excite- ment increases, andif there is any change at all it is favorable to the democrats. They.are working with desperate earnestness, and for the past week have had much the advantage of the republicans in the efficacy of their speakers. Judge Merrimon, democratic candidate for Governor, spent a few hours im the city to-day. I bad a lengthy conversa- tion with him, and he expresses himself very san- fruine that he will be elected by a majority of from ten to fifteen thousand. He has been west of here, where the democrats have much more cause for en- suey than in the eastern section of the State, jeneral Barringer, Chairman of the State Committee, estimates the majority at from five to eight thou: eae He says Merrimon is a sanguine man and et the figure too high if ‘anyehing. None of ing democrats place the expected majority giiese howe than four thousand, and from that upwards, mn the other hand, the republicans are ney. hopeful. Senator Pool told me to- night. advices from every county in the State, and that the eis majority would not be less than eight usand, He has the best means of knowing the political sentiment of the State of C4 man in it, being in constant correspondence with parties in every civil district. Secretary Delano is here, and leaves for Washing- ton in the morning. Like Secretary Boutwell, his mission cannot be said to have been very successful. PLASHES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, Boutwell'’s Greensboro speech is pronounced by the Lynchburg Republican “infamous.” Colonel William E. Cameron, late of the Peters- burg (Va.) Progress, is stumping North Carolina for Greeley. Hiram Price, a noted Grant politician of Iowa, has gone to Europe. A Western paper says the Greeley movement is death on Hi. Prices, Galusha A. Grow, republican ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, goes for Greeley. He has swallowed that terrible dose without G.A.G-ing. A St. Louis philosopher and linguist suggests that one of the ancestors of Horace Grecley was, per- haps, distinguished as a farmer, who kept his flelds fresh, blooming and green. He, therefore, got the name of Green-lea-man, contracted to Green-lea. softened to Greelea and polished into Greeley, ac- cording to a habit of some German and Danish, as well as English words, to drop a letter simply for brevity. The Buffalo Courter says:—~'The letter of tne venerable William Qulien Bryant declining all nominations to the Presidency, irresistibly calls to mind the old Scotchman who, realizing the perils and temptations of high position, nightly prayed that he might never be made aking. His petition was granted,” ‘The Richmond Enquirer says one of the charges against Mr. Greeley is that he has written so much against the South, and suggests that Mr. Greeley has not got much the advantage of the South on that score. The New Orleans Picayune, which codid not swal- low Greeley, and suggested Dan Bryant (or some other man with a similar surname) for the Presi- dency, lias come out for Greeley and Browm The St. Louis Glode is @ finely printed sheet, and 1s working like @ beaver for Grant and Wilson. ‘The Cincinnati Enqutrer (Greeley) publishes the wana Be ken of as the liberal-demo- cyatie-retey eandidae for Congress in the Second District of ‘The Baltimore American (Grant) terms Reverdy Johnson a “chronic letter writer.” His nome has become identified with the chronicles of the days we live Im, ‘ GONE OVER TO GRANT. Burrato, N. Y., July 26, 1872. The Buffalo Bvening Post, which has been for twenty-five years a democratic paper, with George J, Bryan as editor, hoisted the Grant and Wilson es this iarhoos, J he an editorial OHILDREN OARRIED OVER NIAGARA FALLS, NiaGaRa FALss, N. Y., July 26, 1872, A boy and girl, children of 4 fisherman, named Lescor, were on the river in a boat to-day, and the high wind drove the boat into the rapide and both olflaren were carried over the fulle, = A ROUNDSMAN ASSAULTED BY AN OFFICER. Roundsman Patrick Melly, of the Thirteenth peodaey ‘wan aasauited by OMcer James Van Ranst, wards Wards ofan he hour, pee temiy caved two devez nal | corn Wounds, which ‘were atiynied to hy Police Waterman, The Effect of Benito Juarez’s Untimely Death. Tribate of Respect to the Memory of the Twe Term President of Mexico, TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch has been rée | ceived from our special correspondent: — Maramonas, July 26, 1872, The death of Benito Juarez, President of the republic of Mexico, has thrown a pallor of sadness over the distracted States of the Mona tezumas. Everywhere where telegraphs and railroads extend the news has been spread, and the unfortunate people, accustomed ta early-morning revolutions and midday risingsy are shivering in apprehension for what my follow: — CIVIC MOURNING. The public buildings here are draped im black, excited crowds fill the streets, flags =< at half-mast, and the principal places of busi ness are closed. Minute guns are being fired, and every pos« sible mark of respect is being paid to the memory of the dead President. POLITICAL: ‘REACTION. Banished revolutionists aro already return<. ing, but whether for peace or war remains ta be seen. Telegraphic communication will be opened to the City of Moxico in afew days. A LET US HAVE A PEACE CONFERENOR, | ; Rocha and his revolutionary assistants willf have a meeting at Monterey on the 28th to diy cuss the situation. The revolution is: now vine tually at an end. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. eee stare aay The Geneva Arbitration Court Again in Recess— Summer Attractions and Tourist Joy. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, GENEVA, July 26—P. M, Nosession of the Board of Arbitration was hel@ to-day. Sir Roundell Palmer and family have goné on a excursion to the other end of the lake. FRANCE. President Thiers’ Precaution Against the Labor Agitation—Alleged Presence of an Agita- tor from America—The Tariff Triumph. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. = « * Panis, July 26, 1872. President Thiers has sent a despatch to. the Pree fects of the Northern Departments, where tha miners are on strike, praising thode officials for the energetic measures they have taken to prevent djsorder and excesses. He tells them they cam have ahundrea thousand men, if necessary, to re< press disturbances, especially where they are a duced by foreign instigators. It is reported that an International agent front Chicago is among the fomenters of disorder, and that he seeks to induce the miners to emigrate ta ‘America. Cavairy pursued and dispersed a large body of rioters near Denain, taking 100 prisoners, Strong military cordong have been drawn around the disaffected districts, and the aspect of affairs is improving. Thiers’ Tariff Triumph. VERSAILLES, July 26, 1872, ‘The Assembly this afternoon passed the entire Tariff bill by a vote of 266 yeas to 84 nays. ” FLOW OF BULLION FBOM THE BANK. The specie in the Bank of France decreased dum ing the week 4,000,000 francs, SPAIN. Rumor Relative to the United States Diplomacy, TELEGRAM TO THE REW YORK HERALD, Paris, July 26, 1872, i The Mémorial Diplomatique publishes a rumow that the Minister of the United States at Madrid has withdrawn his resignation, the differences be« tween him and Sefior Sagasta having been settled; through the intervention of Sefior Zorilla; and that the Spanish Cabinet undertakes to carry into effect the liberal measures promised long ago in favor of the colored race in Cuba, M SWITZERLAND. Don Carlos’ Arrival in the Republican Domain, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Genzgva, July 26, 1872, Don Carlos has arrived in Lausanne. HONOR TO THE NATIONAL SHARPSHOOTERS. Geneva was illuminated last night to celebrate the return of the riflemen of this canton from the National Schutzenfest at Zurich, IRELAND. Political Differences and the National Grievances, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALB, Lonpon, July 26, 1872, ; ‘There was some debate in the House of Commong last night on the contested Galway election an@ Judge Keogh’s disposition of the case; but without action on the subjéct the debate was adjourned. The House was well filled, as an MK i. duet sion of Irish topic ‘Was apticipated, UTAH AFFAIRS, d Acall has been issued for a convention of thé people of Utah to be held in this city to-morrow evening to nominate & delegate to Congress, The call was issued by order of the Democratic Terria torial Convention. Great interest is taken in the forthcoming Pr. Fines J election, The Mormons generally are ‘An extensive alum mine bas been discove: near the town of Centreville. rou, ley Johnson was alsg dagen E-overngt 4, Hons seriously i THE WILLIAMSPORT STRIKERS. “ _ Wipuramspont, Pa., July 26, 1872. Henry LitAcker, Chairman of the Labor Committee, af&ived here to-day, and has John 0. Byrne, OMPhiladelphia, and 0. H. Retchardy of this place, to defend imprisoned stri! én effort will be made before Judgé to a in the cases of ittan e on a writ of Sorpes town is ‘and the necessity for has ‘away. There is wida sprend aympathy felt the OTe